@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...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
Your comments would seem pretty naive and immature. Your 'solution' appears to be, "gee, let's all just give in to the hackers and give them...
"Interesting thought ... If you installed Win7 as a dual boot on a machine that previously only had Linux, and it wrecked your Linux installation,...
This is an excellent summary of Ubuntu and Mint and the interface differences between them. Most such articles take a very partisan position for...
@ewallace. Not so clear. Anyone can obtain the text, for example from here http://www.ustr.gov/webfm_send/2379.
I support ACTA so long as it and...
Talkback
..."Downloading 2/298"....Oh sorry there, oh I see I am supposed to provide real money, and at rip off prices to the record industry, well I'll just fork out £12 for that new CD, oh whats that you say there is a flash presentation and some wallpaper, omg I'd better buy it full price now before they reduce it in 2 weeks time...."Downloading 4/298"...
"The UK music industry has compared the fight against illegal online file sharing with curbing drunk driving."
This is proof positive, not that we needed it, that the music industry (or at least the BPI, RIAA and their money-grubbing industry executive friends) has lost the plot.
Driving while drunk is a stupid, dangerous activity which kills God alone knows how many people worldwide every year.
Whereas downloading music has yet to kill anyone, drunk or otherwise.
Just for the record: If I'd ever lost anyone I cared about to drunk driving, I would be mortally insulted by the BPI's crass, idiotic comments. I'd be writing to every newspaper in the land asking exactly who the hell these people think they are?
When are the real workers of the music industry, the artists, going to wake up and realise that the organizations which allege to represent them are long overdue being publically slapped down and humiliated by the people who make their existence possible?
And when is the music buying public going to say "enough is enough" and boycott the product of an industry which treats all it's customers as criminals?
The British Music Industry are no better than there American counterparts money6 grabbing no good snooks IF they paid the Artists as much as they RIPOFF for THEMSELFS they MIGHT somewhere in the next MILLION years or so deserve the money they CREAM OFF for themselfs .
Until then they need to shutup and go away they serve very little purpose in life at all and the pricec they have the front to try and charge for an CD Album thses days is an absolute insult to all
There has got to be a way in British law to scupper them so completeley they aint got a hope in hell of wriggeling out into the courts ever again .
I do not object to paying the Artists for there Albums but not the ripoff multies that THINK they run the Country right now (not for long watch the papers is all i will say right now .:-)..)
I find this amusing to say the least. We have the BPI going after people who allow songs to be uploaded from their machines. Not because they are getting into a tizzy about it, but they don't go after the companies that sell the CDs in the first place.
For example.. Sony EMI sell music CDs and Film DVDs, but the user can copy that music or DVD movie to their hard drives and therefore be shared. And also they sell CD-RW / DVD-RW ROM units and blank cds/dvds to the public and not expect them to use them for copying?
It would appear that those in the industry want thier cake and be able to eat it...from both ends.
If the major electronics industry want to sell cds /dvds with useless encryption then maybe a rethink on their part is needed.
Or could they just sell the music cheaper? now there's an idea!
With this battle it's just one public relations cock-up after another. How can the BPI or RIAA (burn in hell) hope to win when they drag drink driving into this?
If music was more reasonably priced when it first hit the shelves there might be less want to illegally download.
When music is worth buying I buy a legit. version. This is so that the music industry can invest money into studios and funding musicians careers to ensure they keep making good music.
Let's look at the fact the industry does actually need money. If everyone were to download and pay nothing, the funding isn't there to create the music in the first place.;