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Ileke-IdI:
1. I listened to Fela's songs

2. Cleaned out my ears, making sure it wasn't due to hearing problems

3. Searched his videos using another browser

4. Made sure it was Fela I was listening to.

Conclusion; I'm not impressed nor do I get the hype.

prince paris: Check this out. Nigerian designed and manufactured tablet. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18895366

But what proved to be more controversia according to Mark, was the realisation that the desktop would have to change for this to work. ‘The old desktop’, he says, ‘would force your tablet or your phone into all kinds of crazy of funny postures.’

“So we said: Screw it. We’re going to move the desktop to where it needs to be for the future.”

This, he acknowledges, ’turned out to be a deeply unpopular process.’

‘Our Desktop Sucked’

Mark, like many at Canonical, both in the design team and out of it, were aware of the vocal “backlash” caused by switching to Unity from GNOME.

But one mistake Unity’s critics routinely made was in assuming that the desktop was cobbled together on a whim; Unity was, made cried, something that wasn’t built with users in mind.

The truth was the polar opposite.

“Every week we would get in a bunch of people …to benchmark how we’re doing. When we started this process we realised very quickly that the desktop we had four years ago sucked.” Shuttleworth shared.

“It was great for us; we all loved it. But [if] you put it down in front of anyone off the street …it was just terrible.”

By continually testing, refining, and iterating Unity has matured considerably in its few short years of existence. So much so that it is, in testing, shown to be the second easiest desktop to use after Windows, and ahead of the oft-lauded ‘simplicity’ of Mac OS.

‘Ubuntu is in an interesting position’

“So here we are in this interesting position,” he continues, “We have this [user experience] that’s really proving itself in the laboratory. People respond to it, they want to take the CDs home, etc.

Companies like ASUS, Dell, and Lenovo are shipping it in volume. Next year 5% of the worlds PCs will ship with Ubuntu pre-installed. Which is kind of amazing.”

Amazing indeed. But what of that ol’ rumour that Linux laptop/netbook returns are higher than for Windows?

“ASUS ran an experiment where they shipped half a million of them to Germany. not an easy market. And the return rates on Ubuntu were exactly the same as the return rates on Windows. Which is the key indicator for OEMs who are looking to do this.”

“Don’t want to end up like Windows 8″

So the UX is going down well with professionals and users alike – but was every aspect really necessary? Shuttleworth thinks so:

[size=16pt]“We [had to move] our desktop because if we didn’t we’d end up where Windows 8 is.

[In Windows 8] you have this shiny tablet interface, and you sit and you use then you press the wrong button then it slaps you in the face and Windows 7 is back. And then you think OK, this is familiar, so you’re kind of getting into it and whack [Windows 8 is back].”[/size]

‘But [Ubuntu] is in this great position to spread out across all of the form factors. “

With Ubuntu for Android, Ubuntu Phone and Ubuntu TV attracting industry attention, and the Ubuntu OS set to ship on even more devices by years end, ‘great position’ is starting to seem like an understatement.

‘Take the initiative’

“Four years ago we set a challenge for Ubuntu, and we said ‘Okay we want to get into design, we want to really focus on the user experience, we want to innovate, and we want to see if we can get ahead of Apple, ahead of Microsoft,” Shuttleworth told the OSCON audience prior to the Unity WebApps demo.



“We [thought we] should take the initiative and lead.”



Noble ambitions. To do this Canonical assembled a design team in London to take on, what Shuttleworth refers to as ‘a radical goal’ – that of multi-form factor design.

“We said ‘We have this desktop, and it’s a very popular desktop; lots of people love it. But we believe that the future looks like this diverse collection of form factors. We want to have a user experience that spans a range of form-factors, e.g. a desktop, a tablet, and a phone, and, in fact, we even wanted a TV as well!”

“Screw it”



Although convergence of devices and UIs is no longer something that unique – Google’s Android spans Phones, Netbooks, Tablets, TVs, and headless streaming devices – the challenge presented by this ‘strategy’ wasn’t quite so clear cut at the time.

‘Different form factors [have] different constraints and need different interfaces,’ Shuttleworth explains, ‘But they can be, we believe, part of one family.’

“It was a very controversial at the time.”

sheruppp: yes in Ubuntu there is no need to install extra supporting software as in Linux

ishika roi: Actually my first installation of ubuntu was not successfull and then i tried for the second time and then it was ok without any hanging problem it got installed. after installing ubuntu my system is ok. now there are no problem with my system. I am having an ubuntu CD.

aieromon: I wonder what you guys are even hiding

berem: and what happened to kanye west's mother,jenifer hudson's family and dr.dre's son? Get a life bro and stop ranting!

jayboy4u2nv: With all the money you guys have, you couldn't fly her to the Uk or US for proper and prompt medicare. You had to wait till the last second, now to fly her to india for cheap medicare. its well!!!!!

Andre Uweh: Probably, Chelsea authorities have realised that Hulk is too fat to be in the new Chelsea look.

ritchboy: Sharrap Debo!

"Walcott", "100k p/w", "Final year", and "15 million", should never be in the same sentence in an ideal world

When even the "cheaper replacements" are still far better/more versatile, I.e Affelay, who is available for 5 million on lower wages.

Abeg, let Theo go and reach his prime at Liverpool or Chelsea if he's not content with whatever's on the table.

3kay945: pls how is this stuff special?
can it bypasses secure WiFi

puskin: ......explain further nah.........haba

lynxnoon: Hmmmm....ZDBOX
Interesting

Okija_juju: Sam Amadi should ignore them... If them vex, make them switch to pre-paid meter..