Well it seems there is something a number of us agree on. Why is the Ubuntu Unity launcher so ugly?
I thought perhaps it was something to do with...
Duplicate comments are not made intentionally. Its very good to know that now you are keeping check on this problem because sometimes a commenter...
"the very significant number of users" and "many (most) of us" - you have no evidence for these statements. It is a fact that most users are saying...
Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
Kubuntu is late.
Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
cf.:...
@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Excellent article. One small correction, though--although a fresh installation of Linux Mint 12 will, indeed, provide the user with a version of...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
Talkback
"IBM said it will eliminate its pan-European management layer to reduce internal bureaucracy."
This can be A Good Thing. IBM is top-heavy with unnecessary layers of management. However, at the grass roots level, first-line managers are overburdened with work, and many of the nonmanagement employees are grossly overworked. Can those working Beamers really continue to produce the high quality of products that has made IBM famous?
Cut back too far, and disaster awaits, as was experienced at Lloyds Register of Shipping in the 1970s. There, at LR, one manager was so determined to cut costs that, each time an employee left or fell ill victim to a stress-related illness, he simply spread that surveyor's work among the remaining staff, until about half of the department was off sick, suffering from stress-related illnesses.
I hope that those 13,000 employees are all from middle management, rather than from among the people who actually do the work. I hope also thatsome of the vast sums of money saved by no longer paying the salaries of those managers will be used to employ more working Beamers, to help produce products and services of the quality that one associated with IBM.
The idea of "moving" Global Services employees (or any employees) is a traditional ruse that IBM employs, to get rid of people. Those who have "outside" interests, those whose personal interests lie in a particular community, will choose to leave the company, rather than move to a new location. One IBM senior manager once proudly boasted, when he announced the closure of a software development location, that he had moved his children to several different schools, over the preceding years, to accommodate IBM's wishes. I wonder whather he ever discovered that there are more important things in life than the status quo of his own superior managers. Therefore, many Global Services personnel are likely to leave the corporation.
IBM used to claim that it was a multinational corporation. Are we seeing its return to a mere interational company, based in and wholly run from New York?
Another businessman decides to trash 10,000 and lives, and will he be charged with crimes against humanity? If these trashed workers are in management, how many are in their 50s and so unlikely to ever find a good job again? Why not trash IBM's directors instead? Because having to pay them bonuses for jobs poorly done would cost too much. 10,000 lives -- who will write a news story about those?