____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 30 October 2007 14:20 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 29 October 2007 14:42 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ Doug Mentohl on Monday 29 October 2007 12:27 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> "A computer glitch caused travel chaos when it failed to put clocks back
>>>>> at Britain's second-busiest airport"
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/29/nfly129.xml
>>>>
>>>> They should now know that Genuine Advantage was nothing but trouble.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh gawd... I'm off to Dallas next week... from Gatwick. I hope it's
>>> all working by then.
>>>
>>> Back to lecturing :-)
>>
>> Maybe the projector is tied to a WGA-ridden PC. There are stories that I've
>> read about people's whose presentation was cut short by forced reboots.
>>
>> BadVista.
>>
>
> I present from PDFs these days. They look much better than powerpoints,
> and openoffice makes good presentations. It's not bug-free, but it has
> some good drawing capabilities, and the export-to-pdf capability is
> wonderful.
I guess these are also *static*. For good. You will not, for example, find that
your bulletpoints jump off page when you 'upgrade' (well, you must) to the
latest version of some Certain Office Suite.
DoBulletsLikeWordPerfect4
DoBulletsLikeWord95
DoBulletsLikeWord97
Heck... let's just call it a 'standard'. It might require some bribing
though... and phonecalls to US authorities by 'charitable' people like
Bill "Inestments4Us" Gates and 'persuasive' people like Stephen "I'm a loose
cannon" Ballmer.
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