noun. A mental condition characterized by anxiety about the remaining battery life of your portable electronic devices. Sufferers will spend all their time worrying about how to charge their device and will be extremely anxious when the low battery warnings appear on their gadgets, especially when away from a power socket.
Enrique bought a really expensive solar panelled back pack to charge his phone from, in order to reduce the powernoia he feels when away from a power socket for any length of time. He finds it particularly useful on his "special mushroom" picking expeditions in the forest.
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Matt - Nothing much, it was pretty much powerpointless.
Matt - Nothing much, it was pretty much powerpointless.
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When the presenter of a PowerPoint presentation is reading straight off the slide and not expanding on what is written.
"She's just reading straight off the slide! She may as well let us read it rather than read it out to us - it's PowerPoint Karaoke, I tells ya!"
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This little piece of sh -- I mean, software comes with MS Office and it features creepy templates and clipart, your helpful friend Clippit and strategic incompatibilities with previous versions of itself.
It masquerades as a graphics program, but cannot touch Adobe in any way shape or form, so it is instead as annoyingly incompatible with Adobe as possible.
Also, it will HOG all your SWAP SPACE.
Bastard.
This little piece of sh -- I mean, software comes with MS Office and it features creepy templates and clipart, your helpful friend Clippit and strategic incompatibilities with previous versions of itself.
It masquerades as a graphics program, but cannot touch Adobe in any way shape or form, so it is instead as annoyingly incompatible with Adobe as possible.
Also, it will HOG all your SWAP SPACE.
Bastard.
Person: Instead of doing real technical work, I spent all day making powerpoint slides out of my results, only to have the software freeze my computer after a few hours.
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Winterkalte is excellent powernoise.
by Rekk September 8, 2005
Get the powernoise mug.The phrase used to described the numbing sensation that accompanies a 30-slide briefing. Behind all the PowerPoint jokes are serious concerns that the program stifles discussion, critical thinking and thoughtful decision-making.
"Last year when a military Web site, Company Command, asked an Army platoon leader in Iraq, Lt. Sam Nuxoll, how he spent most of his time, he responded, “Making PowerPoint slides.” When pressed, he said he was serious."
"Despite such tales, “death by PowerPoint,” the phrase used to described the numbing sensation that accompanies a 30-slide briefing, seems here to stay. The program, which first went on sale in 1987 and was acquired by Microsoft soon afterward, is deeply embedded in a military culture that has come to rely on PowerPoint’s hierarchical ordering of a confused world."
"We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint", Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, April 26, 2010
"Despite such tales, “death by PowerPoint,” the phrase used to described the numbing sensation that accompanies a 30-slide briefing, seems here to stay. The program, which first went on sale in 1987 and was acquired by Microsoft soon afterward, is deeply embedded in a military culture that has come to rely on PowerPoint’s hierarchical ordering of a confused world."
"We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint", Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, April 26, 2010
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Often used by corner shops.
Often used by corner shops.
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