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[Basil Chupin]

On 11/06/11 18:11, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 02:55 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>
>>> That would appear to be true, but in that case why did the OP get a
>>> warning after upgrading to 11.04 that he did not have the hardware
>>> capabilities to run Unity?
>> You would need accelerated graphics and OpenGL enabled to run Unity. You
>> would only get that with the correct driver installed. The OP didn't
>> mention his nvidia chipset though. I think it was the 5200 that was the
>> first nvidia chipset that supported GL ver 2.0 ? Someone correct me if
>> I'm wrong. So, maybe his chipset isn't recent enough and Unity diagnosed
>> that there was no hope, or there is a bug in need of becoming fixed.
>> Troubleshooting with a shotgun. I have no other clue. Ric
> Why in the heck would such a minimalistic, "mobile phone" style
> interface even require THAT MUCH when it delivers THAT LITTLE? Where is
> the mentality behind such silliness? Is it that the corporate's and
> developers all own mobile phones (iPhones, HTC's and Galaxy's) and
> they're thinking with their phones instead of their "desktop" minds?
> Jeesh...c'mon...wake the farg up...


It was Shuttleworth I understand who decided that all Ubuntu-ers must 
play with iPad-type playthingies.

The thinking went along these lines:

It all began with an iPhone... When my son celebrated his 25th birthday 
and I got him an iPhone. He just loved it. Who wouldn't?

I celebrated my birthday and my partner made me very happy by giving me 
an iPad.

My daughter's birthday was in August so I got her an iPod Touch.

February came by this year, so I gave my partner the birthday present of 
an iRon.

It was around then that the fight started...

What my partner failed to recognize is that the iRon can be integrated 
into the home network with the iWash, iCook and iClean.

This unfortunately activated the iNag app. Which led me to the iHospital 
and iGet out Thursday.

BC


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