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Comment Re:I'm disapointed in people (Score 1) 693

All of this sounds good in theory, but in practice there are some terrible design decisions being made. For example, I tried a build of Red Hat EL7, which has Gnome Classic.

The first thing I tried to do was to customise the panel. right-button clicking on the panel did nothing. Why? I have later learned that I have to click <alt>-right-button on the panel to have the same effect. But why? How should a user know that s/he needs to also hold down the alt button? What was wrong with a simple right-click, which has been used for decades to bring up a context menu? The right-click has not been re-assigned, it just became non-functional.

The changes make the desktop environment less discoverable and hence less usable. It's this type of change that puts people off.

Comment more like this everyday (Score 1) 33

quote: the nonprofit Texas EquuSearch regarding its use of drones for volunteer search-and-rescue efforts. (We’ve featured Schulman before for his defense of Raphael “Trappy” Pirker, a drone pilot who was fined $10,000 by the FAA.) Shulman elaborates on the humanitarian use of civilian drones here in the United States. Texas EquuSearch has used civilian drones in its efforts since 2005. In fact, says Schulman, EquuSearch believes drones to be the “single most useful technology that the organization has ever used.” link: http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...

Comment Re:Funny (Score 1) 693

The board fell behind on bugging folks on payments because the processing took a lot of time and our financial controller was buried in work. As I was saying elsewhere, it's a scaling problem.

No. It's a management problem when an organization takes on a role that it is not equipped to execute and is not part of the organization's primary mission. Furthermore, it is a management problem because the issue was allowed to fester for some time with little to no action (as the minutes show).

Comment Re:Economy Class Only (Score 1) 146

The requirement of 'no business class' for air travel isn't unique to Amazon.

In large companies this may be really "no purchased business class seats", except that the company will buy for senior execs the most expensive economy seats and then get free upgrades for them because of the volume of travel bought by the company.

Comment Re:Funny (Score 1) 693

Here, our treasurer has answered the question you were asking.

Actually, that email thread does not answer my central question of "what was the board doing?", since the treasurer alludes to the lack of a budget, and that there appears to have been no action about that issue.

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