The iPhone version was $56,000. The Blackberry version was $40,000. Together, they were $96,000. It says this very clearly in the original scan.
Where does it say that?
The iPhone version cost $96,000, and a BlackBerry app that never got distributed cost an additional $40,000.
You're MORE than welcome to disprove the data in my init. post here http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2523490&cid=38045322 and GOOD LUCK (you WILL need it, along with contrary facts supporting you vs. the facts & data I posted there...).
Oh no. My wall of text comment was of two purposes. One to point out that you posted a giant wall of text. I was mocking your format not the content. I didn't bother to read it. Second point was to see if I could look more inane than you. I don't think I did.
Also, how in the world did you come up with all that text in 15 minutes?! I am astounded, alarmed and slightly impressed. I didn't read it or anything but that is a long chunk of text!
I don't understand why they don't just send it to a crime scene investigators lab to have the image made crystal clear and so that we can view the asteroid at more angles.
I feel along with the sentiment. I do not look forward to putting Unity on my parents' computer but in my opinion there are a few changes that can be made to make it more friendly. First, remove the global menu bar, unless your users come from a Mac OS X background, it's not worth the retraining. Second change the backlight always on option in ccsm to toggle so it is easy to see when an application is running. I have big hopes for this alternate application launcher: https://launchpad.net/unity-lens-bliss
Unity's not so bad on my netbook where I mostly just run Firefox on a tiny screen, but on my 11.04 laptop the app-launcher sucks, the 'global menu' sucks and the stupid scrollbars suck.
Did they fix any of those in 11.10? Oh, they can't, because they're broken by design.
The overlay scrollbars have seen improvements in the last release. They don't bother me but I really never touch them anyway since I just scroll with my mouse. To remove them, copy and paste this into your terminal: sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar liboverlay-scrollbar3-0.2-0 liboverlay-scrollbar-0.2-0
I can understand why you would dislike the global menu on a desktop. To remove them, copy this into your terminal: sudo apt-get remove appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-gtk appmenu-qt
There have been some very nice changes made to the application launcher. In my opinion, the top one of these is performance improvement but there are also other changes that make it easier to use such as seeing only applications from certain categories.
I recommend that you try it and then come back here and post about the success or failure of the latest Ubuntu release. Trying it out would lend more credibility to your stated opinion.
I don't hate it either. In fact, the only thing that I don't like about it is the application launcher but it's performance has improved a lot from where it was in 11.04. I really do hope that all the people complaining about Unity have tried the version that got released today and are not just basing their opinion on an old version.
The problem with the Roswell folklore has always been that the story completely went away until the point in time when, coincidentally, the actual witnesses had died of old age.
If you want to read an eyewitness's account of what allegedly happened, then go read the book The Day After Roswell by Phillip Corso. I haven't read it but apparently it's interesting.
Out of the box experience? The last time I installed Windows it was missing not only wireless card drivers but also the ethernet drivers. That made getting the drivers tricky.
Yet another dick measuring contest? Seriously?
This.
And once he is at +5, we'll raise you to +5 just to get the point across.
I thought experiments were carried out during the alpha phase, and the beta phase was only supposed to be used to fix bugs...
You're probably right.
Whatever the case, I'm loving the status bar that is not a status bar being moved back to the bottom. I had a very hard time getting used to it on top.
Mark Shuttleworth has gone off the deep end recently with a lot of his decisions for Ubuntu. Dropping Gnome for Unity, and in future even dropping X for Wayland. All in the name of some vague future usability bonus, but at the same time alienating a lot of software developers and Linux community members.
I agree with most of the points you made but I disagree with you in the quoted paragraph. I have a partition on my laptop devoted to the newest Ubuntu Alpha version and I have gnome shell on my laptop which I build every couple of weeks to see what changes are being made. In my opinion, Unity is by far the more usable of the two and is superior performance-wise. I do understand that both are in active development at the time though and this might change. I don't see shipping Unity as going off the deep-end at all.
I'm withholding my judgment on the decision to move to Wayland until it actually happens.
I recommend that you go and try gnome shell; it's not that hard to build. If I'm right, you're going to feel much better about Ubuntu's move to Unity. I could be wrong of course.
It took me a while to adapt to status bar at top, and now they have changed it back to bottom. Will these guys ever learn not to fuck with the UI.
Dude, you're using a beta product. This is where the developers test various UI changes. If you don't like this then maybe you shouldn't be running the beta edition.
I suppose one must take context into account when rtfa.
Let's not get carried away here. He read the RTFA. Let's make sure that he gets credit for that.
Sounds like your computer must have problems. The only release I've found to be pretty poor was Visual Studio
I did have problems with crashing one later release (2005) I think, but it turned out to be a plugin. Arguably, they could strengthen resilience against dodgy plugins but meh, so could the likes of Firefox etc. too, it's something the industry as a whole needs to improve on.
Well, I was using the 2008 version with some kind of Oracle database plugin. So that might have been the problem.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
