What does God need with a starship?

I'm not sure of the exact term for it, but your example assumes the user is looking for photos of Scotland that they took and have stored on their local drive. What if they want to search for Scotland on the internet? Maybe someone else said something about Scotland, so they type in "Scotland" to look it up on Wikipedia, or to see image results for Scotland from Google. Or, more relevant to the shopping lens, maybe they typed in "kilts" because they want to buy one, not search for pictures of kilts on their local drive -- or to search for an app named "kilt", which is how the original feature worked.

I think that if Ubuntu had debuted Unity with web searches built in to the lens thing, people wouldn't be nearly as surprised and even outraged. It's the change from a purely local search (albeit one with several modules) to one that includes results from Amazon that's made it shocking. Nobody is protesting amazon being included in the search bar in Firefox, for example.

Personally, I'd prefer it if there was a toggle for internet searches in the search bar, down where the privacy notice is now, and add way more useful lenses like the wikipedia one. I'd actually use that.

They don't even have to raise the fee; that's the best part of this, to them. They can just increase profit by going "Oh, let's pick accounts at random and accuse them of piracy."

35 dollars later, they say "oh, our bad", and they keep the money.

I don't think that's the law; a least in my state, you have to wear a helmet until you turn 18, after which it is your choice.

The real cost is users later choosing not to buy more games they won't be able to play.

I'm not saying 'pirate!' either. It is undeniably legitimate to choose other ways of spending one's money and time.

Okay.

Hmm, but what to? XFCE, Unity, KDE, Cinnamon... well, there are a lot of choices, at least. :) Bye, gnome.

Well... that explains that. Ooops. ._.

The UK couldn't raid the Libyan embassy when they literally shot a policewoman dead (and at protestors, too), but they can go in for Assange?

That's too cruel, really.

(Just reading the headline and wildly assuming is fine, right?)

That's good advice, but what if he wants to keep getting promoted? He should dress like a CEO -- that means either jeans and a hoodie, or jeans and a black turtleneck, depending on the industry he's in.

Seriously. This is *slashdot*. We should know better.

I don't use gnome3 myself, but I did try it out for a while, and it did a few things that might meet your needs better.

Gnome3 can look pretty good, with themes. To my personal taste, the default looks terrible, though. It's also a lot easier to customize than Unity is now, though this wasn't the case earlier.

I tried it out for a while, and I actually really like how it handles notifications, though your taste may go the opposite way. And Compiz still has issues with snapping on resize, so getting away from that is nice.

Gnome3 also will dynamically manage your desktops/workspaces, adding or deleting them as you move windows to them. I personally couldn't stand that, but from what I hear it matches some people's needs perfectly.

You can also use bluetooth keyboards with this. It is more like the Brydge, only, well, first party: http://thebrydge.com/

I clicked your link. I read the article you linked. It has nothing at all to do with the text you provided for it. O_o

I can't tell if you accidentally linked the wrong article, or were doing a pretty clever gamble... :o

I am a bit in awe; you posted a link, then outright fabricated entirely different results to rant against -- and still you have several people nodding and agreeing with you... and a score of 4, while I'm writing this.

That's making being adverse to RTFM to a new level and making it work for you.