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

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Sun Dec 8 09:51:14 EST 2013


In article <528aaac4-0b35-4175-8189-2e5c650cddaf at googlegroups.com>, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk writes:
>{...snip...}
>When even one of the UK's leading accident investigation lawyers (one of the 
>good guys, not one of the ambulance chasers) knows what PowerPoint is, when his 
>accident report into an aircraft incident that unnecessarily killed 14 people 
>talks about
>"a PowerPoint culture [...] that glosses over hard questions and 
>detailed evidence, and sacrifices safety to incompetence, sloppiness, 
>complacency and cynicism" [1],
>for anyone allegedly knowledgeable in serious IT to claim to not know what PPT 
>implies (in this context) is, at best, surprising.

The discussion is not about knowing what PowerPuke is/was but that PPT is an
abbreviation for it.  

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