Time slots do make or break shows. I've seen plenty of shows who did fantastic in their time slot, then moved to a different slot to subsequently get the ax due to reduced viewership. The issue is lessened a bit by the advent of DVRs, but there's still a very high live viewing audience.

Using Android as the phone UI is an indication that Unity will remain a keyboard centric UI. There's enough FUD surrounding Unity without the need to muddy up that simple fact.

Unity was designed for notebook computers with keyboards, not phones and touchpad devices.

Keyboard navigation is faster. Your hatred for Unity has nothing to do with that fact. Let's compare:

Keyboard Option: Press hot-key, type "gvim" and enter. If you type 45wpm that's about 2 seconds.

GUI Option: Grab mouse, move it to corner of screen, click on Applications, click on Editors, scroll down to "Gvim", click on it. One second per click, which includes targeting menu items, waiting for sub-menus to pop up. Total time 5 seconds.

Thing is, the launcher should be 100% user configurable, which would cut both times in half. What I described is how most OS launchers come as default. A good app launcher should have a GUI available for clicking to see an inventory of applications if one is not sure what is installed on a given PC. It should support the ability to put commonly used launchers at the shortest point (visible on screen, topmost app menu), and it should allow direct keyboard launching.

For me there are 10 applications that account for over 90% of my app launching. Most stock launchers fail their most basic purpose to launch things quickly. I have yet to find a launcher, stock or custom, that has the proper combination of GUI and keyboard customization and in that respect Unity seems just as good as anything else (if you ignore its bugs)

Unless under contract, why complain? Stop renewing and switch carriers. When all carriers do this, then whine, raise a fuss with the FCC, BBB, write congressmen, etc.

The thing is AT&T has always been the carrier with the highest cost, not to mention data upcharges, and slower speeds (markets their 3G+ network as 4G), yet people flock to it en masse and then complain... I don't get it.

Sweet. Does that mean by the end of 2012 I will be able to get my workstation to boot up to GUI mode? (stopped working as of the 3.0.0-15 kernel in Ubuntu). Until then I'm partying like it's 1999!

Fact is, physical products are just as important now as they have ever been. Demand for boring necessities such as Cars, Housing, Food, Clothing, and the raw materials required to make them is still growing, and will continue to grow with a population. They are more important than software because, we do and will continue to buy more of all of the above than we buy of software

Don't forget that software is rapidly becoming a free commodity, meaning it will draw less and less product revenue. Who willingly pays for an operating system, word processor, or spreadsheet nowadays? Those used to be hundreds of dollars, now there's fantastic ones for free. All the while we still have to buy computer hardware, which requires requires raw materials, factories, mass labor employment, all of which comes with R&D and engineering skills.

The U.S. has lost much of that skill by contracting with foreign companies to produce them. At the end of the day, a country like China will not only own the manufacturing of computers but will put free software on them, and what differentiator is the U.S. is left with in the world economy?

Since 11.04 the menu has been replaced with a search box, called Unity. Sounds like an incremental improvement to that... what's the big deal?

Limited range? You obviously don't understand what a plug-in hybrid is -- an electric car with a [typically] gasoline powered electric generator on board. The range for the volt is estimated at 379 miles, which is more than most passenger vehicles on the road.

Turn on the 4G radio on when you need it and leave it off the other 90% of the time for a perfect combination of speed and battery life.

If Sales and Marketing staff was all commission based then they'd actually do a lick of work to keep themselves relevant. At one IT company I worked at we'd replace our Sales/Marketing guy at least once per year (the latter part of the title gave him a decent salary and the former gives him commissions on top of a decent salary). They were tasked with selling our product as well as finding needs for customers so we could augment our product or build new for those with need. Lets just say we never found someone who was actually good at doing either, but they had a nice base salary while they were at it.

A buddy of mine was also a salesman in the health care field for years. He'd negotiate a nice living salary with commissions, work about 10 hours a week, and change jobs every 6 months because... well... each company has a level of tolerance for lack of sales somewhere between 3-12 months. He brings in his regular set of customers initially and when new sales quotas don't quite make it (primarily because of his work habits) he'd just move on and someone else was more than happy to make it.

I'm talking 6 figure pay in both cases, yes I was jealous, but I have higher ethics than allows me to take a job like that.

Good summary, mod parent up!

No one said Unity was cool, or was trying to be cool. It's a bare bones WM. It does what's needed. I don't even see what issues people are having.

You have an integrated launcher/active app bar so people can do their mousey-clicky thing. It has the gnome-do functionality that lets you find apps quicker than any mousey-clicky scheme (other than custom icons on the launcher). Docklets are coming along (i.e., check out indicator-multiload). It's very easy customize the launcher (drag/drop to re-order), right-click "Keep In Launcher" to make the app icon stay there, or do the opposite to remove it. Simple stuff.

There are very few real complaints I can find in here.

"I can't relocate the launcher." Considering most monitors today have 2x the horizontal resolution as vertical, the sides seem to be a more logical place to put a launcher so I can live with that. "I can't reset hot-keys" Yes you can, just go to "Keyboard->Shortcuts" and set it to what you want...(yes you can change the main meta key to something else). I've got my own set of complaints but this is pretty much what a WM needs to be (though I wouldn't mind having a menu to see a categorized inventory of apps).

indicator-multiload is what you are looking for

Considering most monitors sold maddeningly use proportions are nearly 2x as wide as long, it seems the best use of space is the left or right areas. Notebooks are especially prone to this when you only have 800 vertical pixels to deal with.

If so, Apple will just buy them for their patent so that they can sue for what is, effectively, a process, which is not patentable. And why not, the patent system is that broken