I also have a list of things that are like slavery if anyone is interested.

Oh! Oh! Is it raising taxes a few percent?

Also, something something profit motive government can never do anything right.

This is one thing I don't get about some of the more ardent supporters of weak copylefts. It's fine if someone wants to take my code and make it so no one can see it, but god forbid take it and require that it stay open source.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1051333/combing-an-external-event-loop-with-qts

It's undocumented, but I believe at one point someone showed me how to put Qt in your own event loop. I wish I could remember how to do it now.

My experience with asking for help with GTK was having random people rudely tell me that I should go read the documentation (which, incidentally, I *did* read, and it was woefully incomplete). Qt actually has good documentation, but in the rare instances when I need help, people are always happy to assist. I wouldn't touch GTK again with a ten foot pole.

Seriously. The Liberal Media would never report on any wrongdoing by a Democratic Governor. Rachael Maddow broke this story with her liberal-y liberal liberalness, but where was she during the Blagojevich scandal in Illinois? Dead silent!

Oh wait, no she wasn't.

I know, right? You look all over the place for credible reports of Democrats being this shady, and all you get are unconfirmed internet comments about unnamed Democratic governors closing down DMVs, without a source or even the name of the state it supposedly happened in. Then the liberal media doesn't report it, for lame reasons like "it didn't really happen".

Fairness in reporting demands that they report on Democratic scandals too. And if they can't find one, they need to make one up.

Conceptually I don't have a problem with an app store or a tablet interface (provided they don't take away my fucking start menu), but I *do* have a problem with the fact that they're trying to pull an iOS and phase in a closed ecosystem where the only way to get apps is to go through their app store. From a competition standpoint, no good can come of it. It's pushing us more toward expensive, locked down appliances and away from general purpose computers.

That said, I have to speculate that part of the reason people don't know how badly Windows 8 is doing is that Microsoft likely learned from their Vista failure and has hired marketing firms to canvas the internet with positive comments about it so that people don't realize how unpopular it actually is.

I know, right? One time my friend's friend said he saw a post on the internet that said that their friend saw someone with an EBT card buying potato chips! We should either abolish food stamps or stop believing random shills on Slashdot!

Realistically, if an OS isn't used by many people, there's little reason to write malware for it.

(That being said, if Steam OS makes desktop linux big, then there will be more malware for desktop linux.)

Oh man. Ten years ago, the Bushies were here on slashdot telling everyone that if they have complaints about the way Dubya was running the country, they should just go to China, because apparently in order to find a comparison to make Bush look favorable, they had to sink as low as a communist dictatorship.

In my line of work, I'd kill for the opportunity to make my code 1.5 times faster!

Then wait a year and buy a new computer.

Heavily refactoring projects of this size rarely brings any benefit for the users, it's just technical masturbation. If you're lucky, you will after a few years end up with a project that does the same things as before, most likely it will have acquired some bugs as icing on the cake.

This was wrong when people said it about Netscape. It's still wrong now. It's just that the payoff is unfortunately in years and not months.

(with some allowance for those buying the game for others).

Therein lies the problem. Certainly some of the people who purchased it are buying it for other people.