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Re: The Future of Celestial Navigation: A British Viewpoint
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2013 Sep 3, 11:25 -0300
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2013 Sep 3, 11:25 -0300
PowerPoint presentations are a mainstay of the scientific and engineering academic communities. Some are good and some are bad. We try to train our students to produce good ones. But to classify PowerPoint generally as evil is a gross exaggeration -- along the lines of some of the reporting that Fox News does. ;-) -- Richard Langley On Monday, September 2, 2013,245, at 5:40 PM, Wolfgang K�berer wrote: > Frank, > > regarding "PowerPoint is evil" I can only remember someone giving a - pretty interesting, by the way - PowerPoint presentation on the use of lunar distances on American whalers in the 19th century in Greenwich and me suggesting seeing this in print and never seeing something later on. > But what I really admire is the ease with which you utter scathing judgements about institutions and people you hardly know anything about. But we've been used to that since your posts to the late George Huxtable. But I am wondering whether you copied Catherine Hohenkerk or Steve Bell into your posts containing assumptions about their institution. > > Wolfgang > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > NavList message boards and member settings: www.fer3.com/NavList > Members may optionally receive posts by email. > To cancel email delivery, send a message to NoMail[at]fer3.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > : http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=125055 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Richard B. Langley E-mail: lang@unb.ca | | Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ | | Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 | | University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 | | Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 | | Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.fredericton.ca/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
