@Jack,
> Works really well for thieves....
Nice attempt to deflect the argument by tossing in a point that's totally irrelevant, even it were...
Make that 13 people now - I got refused today at Manchester airport.
I thought I was up to date on this legislation - I knew of the EU ruling from...
Don't forget to check out apps like GoodReader or SlideShark either, they're indispensible for people on the go in presentation situations. Best...
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...
Talkback
"80 per cent of budget, to keep legacy systems alive"…Seems like a bit of a waste to me. I understand that these things are cash cows, but all anyone does by updating or re-shaping their legacy system is to simply create another one. Another legacy Elephant that will sit under the table until the next year, when the need for further enterprise agility will once again demand a 'not-so-agile' 6-12 month re-engineering project. Clearly legacy is still a huge problem, regardless of the fact that people don't talk about it as much as they used to…or have learned how to hide it underneath some form of SOA implementation.
It frustrates me that many companies see this problem but refuse to believe there is a feasible solution. I wish the IT industry would stop thinking that legacy migration is costly, time consuming and unreliable. This is not the case anymore. For example, I work for Erudine, a company that uses a Behaviour Engine (not a rules engine mind!) to recreate the behaviour legacy systems in a short time scale and at an affordable rate. We've done it, it works, and it doesn't just create further legacy for another day. If the industry becomes more open minded about solutions to this issue then maybe we could help reduce one of the biggest pain points for CIOs - surely that would encourage them to stick around a bit longer!