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From: Thomas R. Kettler on 31 Mar 2010 11:22 In article <0001HW.C7D8492F000D309BF01846D8(a)news.giganews.com>, Fa-groon <fa-groon(a)mad.com> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:19:06 -0700, Wes Groleau wrote > (in article <houm0a$qdf$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>): > > > Mocassin joe wrote: > >> "Keynote on iPad is the most powerful presentation application ever made . > >> for a mobile device." (Ellipses added.) Without those last four words, you > >> would think Apple had never heard of Microsoft (MSFT) PowerPoint. > > > > I don't know anything about Keynote, but there's GOT TO be something > > better than powerpoint out there! > > > > > > Yes there is and it IS Keynote. It's MUCH better than Powerpoint. Problem is, > it's Mac only (although you can output a file from Keynote that a Windows > version of Powerpoint CAN read and "play"). Being Mac only doesn't bother we > who have chosen the correct platform, but the rest of you are gonna have to > stick with Microsoft's "vision" of presentation technology (or Open Office's > version of that "vision"). Microsoft's "vision" isn't even worthy of being classified as Braille for the blind. -- Remove blown from email address to reply.
From: James Hopone on 31 Mar 2010 11:30 On 2010-03-31 00:19:06 -0500, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> said: > Mocassin joe wrote: >> "Keynote on iPad is the most powerful presentation application ever >> made . for a mobile device." (Ellipses added.) Without those last four >> words, you would think Apple had never heard of Microsoft (MSFT) >> PowerPoint. > > I don't know anything about Keynote, but there's GOT TO be something > better than powerpoint out there! Amen!!!!
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 31 Mar 2010 11:33 Hadron wrote: > Fa-groon <fa-groon(a)mad.com> writes: > >> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:19:06 -0700, Wes Groleau wrote >> (in article <houm0a$qdf$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>): >>> I don't know anything about Keynote, but there's GOT TO be something >>> better than powerpoint out there! >> Yes there is and it IS Keynote. It's MUCH better than Powerpoint. Problem is, >> it's Mac only [...] > Beamer. I have to concur with the trolls on this one. I had used prosper for a while (which was fairly clunky), but over the past few months, I used beamer (a LaTeX class). I love it. Of course if you don't already use TeX/LaTeX you will find beamer incomprehensible. Keynote with MathType at least lets me get tolerable mathematics in Keynote, but nothing beats TeX/LaTeX. Note that TeX/LaTeX is a fundamentally different approach to document preparation than typical word processors. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid
From: Fa-groon on 31 Mar 2010 14:01 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:07:02 -0700, Peter Köhlmann wrote (in article <hov6s6$cii$03$1(a)news.t-online.com>): > Fa-groon wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:19:06 -0700, Wes Groleau wrote >> (in article <houm0a$qdf$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>): >> >>> Mocassin joe wrote: >>>> "Keynote on iPad is the most powerful presentation application ever >>>> made . for a mobile device." (Ellipses added.) Without those last four >>>> words, you would think Apple had never heard of Microsoft (MSFT) >>>> PowerPoint. >>> >>> I don't know anything about Keynote, but there's GOT TO be something >>> better than powerpoint out there! >>> >>> >> >> Yes there is and it IS Keynote. It's MUCH better than Powerpoint. > > Because a cargo cult member says so? > The translation of your tripe reads as "Keynote is shitty beyond belief, > but as it comes with OSX it is apple shite. Delicious" > > Look jerk, I've used everything: Powerpoint, Keynote, OO, even Aldus Persuasion. Keynote is BY FAR the best. It just happens to be a Mac program, but it would be superior to Powerpoint (and every other alternative) even if it were a piece of perpetually unfinished Linux freeware! So, perhaps you should bother to find out what you're talking about before spewing-forth your hate for a change.
From: Fa-groon on 31 Mar 2010 14:05
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:21:31 -0700, Lewis wrote (in article <slrnhr68hb.2rvr.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>): > In message <hov6s6$cii$03$1(a)news.t-online.com> > Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann(a)t-online.de> wrote: >> Fa-groon wrote: > >>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:19:06 -0700, Wes Groleau wrote >>> (in article <houm0a$qdf$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>): >>> >>>> Mocassin joe wrote: >>>>> "Keynote on iPad is the most powerful presentation application ever >>>>> made . for a mobile device." (Ellipses added.) Without those last four >>>>> words, you would think Apple had never heard of Microsoft (MSFT) >>>>> PowerPoint. >>>> >>>> I don't know anything about Keynote, but there's GOT TO be something >>>> better than powerpoint out there! >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Yes there is and it IS Keynote. It's MUCH better than Powerpoint. > >> Because a cargo cult member says so? > > My wife had to do a "powerpoint" for a class a couple of years ago. She > did it in Keynote since she didn't have MS Office. > > Not just her classmates, but her professors, wanted to know why her > "powerpoint" looked so much better than any of theirs. Might as well save your breath, Lewis, This Peter Koehlmann is too consumed with hate for Apple products and Mac users to hear you. He'll never realize how good some of this Apple software is because he'll never try it. He NEEDS to firmly believe that everything Apple makes is garbage. It's what keeps him going. |