[Info-vax] [OT] Abbreviations, was: Re: Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

Paul Sture nospam at sture.ch
Sat Dec 7 07:47:16 EST 2013


VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> In article <l7v0nk$3e8$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>On 2013-12-07, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> When the context at hand is "electronic presentations", *no* IT
>>> professional today would missunderstand what PPT stands for!
>>>
>>
>>Agreed. As a example, I know at least three definitions for "RMS" and
>>each would be clear in a discussion because of the context it would be
>>used in without having to spell it out.
>
> Mention of RMS in the context of comp.os.vms stands a better chance of being
> understood to be Record Management Services than as Root Mean Squared, Risk 
> Management Solutions, Richard Matthew Stallman, Railway Mail Service or the
> Ramstein Air Base.  I'm sure there are those reading here that have used or
> have seen RMS in these other contexts but they would most likely read Record
> Management Services.  
>
> PPT: Parts per Thousand|Trillion, Precipitate?  Primitive Pythagorean Triple,
> Perl Power Tools, Personal Property Tax or Putnam Premier (Income) Trust.  I
> would have thought of one of the aforementioned; not PowerPuke which I would
> have assumed abbreviated as PP.

In VAXman speak:

Poor Presentation Technology?
Pathetic Presentation Technique?

FWIW one of the best presentations I attended in recent years was given
by an architect.  While he used PowerPoint for the couple of slides
he showed*, they were obviously graphics prepared by some other tool.

The bulk of his visual content was done by hand using good old fashioned
flip charts.

* PowerPoint because that's all the conference room laptop connected to
the projector was set up to accept.

-- 
Paul Sture




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