I liked the concept of SGU but they fucked it all up on execution. Good actors acting out bad scripts with a plot going nowhere.

Now that I think about it... it is a lot like Battlestar Galactica but without the awesomeness.

It sounds like you don't know any better lol.

Winforms has a nice API, but there are a lot of drawbacks to it. Essentially it is a wrapper for WIN32 GDI and that brings in a lot of limitations. Microsoft made a poor decision in choosing to not reimplement controls in Winforms because they would have very quickly been able to add a lot of flexibility and features that are missing from other frameworks like Qt.

You'll quickly run into huge problems depending on which controls you try to subclass.

Try subclassing a rich text control to add syntax highlighting without using WPF. It can be done, but it is a HUGE pain in the ass. You'll need anger management therapy when you're done.

Winforms, for all its API sanity and OO goodness, is still just a fancy wrapper for WIN32 GDI - including all the gotchas. If they want me to take it seriously, they need to reimplement these "problem controls" either in the standard GDI library or reimplement them in Winforms.

That's a good point here in that Qt isn't just a GUI. It's a complete application framework, including threading, super easy mutexes, thread pool automation, multimedia, scripting, etc.

The GUI is only a small part of the Qt library.

I've been using Qt for a few years. The API is really nice, with just a couple of bad exceptions.

It's buggy though and bugs don't always get fixed quickly.

I have had problems with Mono. It's not production ready yet IMO.

I called 911 on a drunk driver a couple months ago. He was drifting over the centerline a few feet and would always over-correct.

Certainly it could have been a distracted driver, drunk, tired, high, heart attack, whatever. Doesn't really matter why because he shouldn't have been on the road, no matter what the cause was. I saw in the newspaper later that he did in fact get charged with DWI instead of DUI but no BAC was listed, so it likely was just medication or something. Regardless, head on collisions at 55+ MPH are no joke. There's a reason crash test ratings are done at 40 MPH. Faster and it's anybodies guess what happens.

He's also a doctor(but not an MD).

Linguistics funnies aside, he is absolutely the best guy for the job. Which is why I'm so shocked he got the job.

Investors wanted their money back. If Sun dumped all their copyrighted works onto torrent networks with a GPL license and folded up shop, their stock price would have instantly tanked and investors lost every penny.

Such a leadership decision would have been so negligent with regards to fiduciary responsibility that the board likely would have faced personal criminal liability. Not to mention, anyone working at Sun who actually wanted to stay at the company would have lost their jobs.

It's easy to see the repercussions of the Sun sale affecting us all for years to come, but I don't think there was any other choice. Oracle was the last company I wanted to see get Sun's assets; but it is what is is.

Oracle isn't going anywhere. This lawsuit isn't going to be anything at all like SCO/IBM or SCO/Novell because Oracle is many times larger than SCO is and is at least 2 orders of magnitude more relevant.

Java is everywhere. Schools teach it. Companies use it.

If Google really copied things from the Java source like actual source code or documentation, they might be screwed. It sounds like from the summary that the bulk of this 'copying' was the API, which I don't think is even eligible for copyright(not artistic).

I bought a new monitor for better contrast and energy savings. I think the viewsonic used like 300 watts or something and weighed 70 pounds. It got so warm my cat would sleep on it in the winter.

I miss the high resolution, but the LCD has excellent contrast and is very compact in comparison.

You've got it all wrong.

HD isn't "High Definition", it's "Higher Definition". That is to say that it is higher definition than the really abysmal NTSC specification called out.

On another note, I just got rid of my old 21" Viewsonic CRT. I think it was close to 18 years old and still had higher resolution than my new widescreen LCD monitor.

Hah! Worlds largest etch a sketch. Draw on the FBI's maps today!

Hell yes. I wouldn't give it back either.

I would disassemble it and post it on youtube. Or try to hack it and see if I can come up with a neat use for it.

Why give it back? If they put it on your car, do they still own it? I'd like to think not.

I once stole cable from a neighbor.

1500 homes? That's pretty ambitious. This guy must have nuts of steel, or a rock for a brain.

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