I wish I had upvotes for you.

I am a power user. I'm currently surrounded by two very powerful PCs... rather a high-end 'docked' mac laptop dedicated to development work and a frankenstein's monster BYOC dedicated to gaming, Watching and converting video (-- Anime junkie) and artwork.

I also own a little Samsung Android tablet. Despite the mobile development workstation, I use the ever-loving snot out of that tablet. I use it to watch video I've converted for it, read books and magazines, browse web while seated in my nice club chair in the living room, have a reference site up while console gaming, and art. Turns out that Autodesk has a VERY nice painting app for $6. Works beautifully with cheapy capacitive styluses.

I consume the vast majority of my Crunchyroll subscription on it (more anime and manga).

However, I don't use it at ALL for email.

So yeah, mobile matters.

If that's true, plankton might be found all over the solar system.

"My God! It's full of plankton!"

They may be the "dark matter" we've been searching for.

Took 5-seconds to find:

http://www.zdnet.com/the-true-...

http://www.biznix.org/whylinux...

If you haven't seen this, you'll probably appreciate / enjoy this:

Smallest "Hello World" ELF: 142 bytes

Programs are so bloated today.

"[W]hite western women" are not "the most privileged creatures on this planet", as things like wage disparity

What wage disparity exists, comes as a result of what career paths women choose to take. So says a number of studies. Giving women the same wages as men, despite them being in less demanding jobs, is pure man-hating, women-are-perfect, political correctness gone completely awry.

sexual abuse

Huge populations of men are doing long jail terms and then being made unemployable and homeless for the rest of their lives, due to ever more strict laws that conflate rape with any and every other legal infraction that happens to have any minor sexual component.

access to healthcare

Men pay considerably more for health insurance, specifically to subsidize the higher cost of providing health care for women. Whatever the problems with the US health care system system, women aren't being disproportionally affected by it.

Why is it that sexism is only banned in one direction?

Who said it was? Rape jokes directed at men are banned now, too.

How it'll actually pan-out remains to be seen, and I can only hope it doesn't turn into the man-hating women's club everyone is expecting.

It wasn't that long ago that Fark stopped posting nudie pics every day, and spun that off to a separate Foobies site that next to nobody visits.

I lean on the side of it being perfectly ok to hate people for their attributes, regardless of whether they can change them or not, regardless of whether they are willing to change them or not. And that it is why I have no problem fucking over the anti-gay ideologues and I laugh at your precious concern for their freedom of "conscience". I don't give the slightest fuck about your religious beliefs, your oh-so-logical arguments, or the cultural norms you grew up with. There is no sane defense for that nonsense, it's as irrational as racism and as stupid as astrology. If you side with anti-gay bigots, there's really no way around it, you're basically a cunt.

But the hypocrisy, you cry! Don't you remember the parable of the Nazis? After they came for the bigots, there was no one left to speak for me! I need the bigots to speak for me!

Hating gay people doesn't make you a protected class. It is our choice to hate those people who believe that our hate of their hate should make them a protected class. The difference between us and the bigots is that history is never going to decide that hating bigots is a horrifically immoral crime, you know, like every over thing the bigots once supported. But go ahead, liken us to Jim Crow and the Red Scare, it's hilarious. I hope they all end up unemployable like the child molesters who live under bridges. If we could start a blacklist to hasten that outcome, I'd be snitching on them like Reagan.

No, that's completely different than the scenario I described, and completely useless and unnecessary.

Unknown. Pure madness lies that way so maybe the committee has come to its senses ...

One can always hope/pray/etc...

You want the committee to focus on practical problems?! LOL. You are more delusional then them! :-)

Recently they wanted to add a 2D graphics API to the language! Yeah, let's re-implement OpenGL ES.
http://developers.slashdot.org...

This is your typical design-by-committee of a "Solution looking for a Problem". God forbid we actually have _standardized_ pragmas like we do for OpenMP.

The committee has only one motivation:

  "Job security by obscurity."

C++ has a become a total cluster-fuck of over-engineering. It jumped the shark back in 2000 when they forgot the mantra of GOOD programming & design:

    Keep it simple, stupid!

D seems to clean up some of this crap but sadly it not properly supported across multiple platforms.

> Now, one interesting thing in C++14 is binary literals (using "0b" a la "0x" for hex).

Hey, it only took ~40 years for a C based language to add binary literals! (It will only take another 40 to standardize pragmas such as struct packing.)

Using 0b is dumb. They should of used a letter that isn't in hex, say 0z1101.

Using '_' would of been nice but the C++ community doesn't really have a fucking clue about solving real-world problems. Witness ...

Herb Sutter looking into adding Cario 2D into C++
"http://developers.slashdot.org/story/14/01/04/2115249/cairo-2d-graphics-may-become-part-of-iso-c"

This is your typical design-by-committee of a "Solution looking for a Problem"

--
"One of my most painful programming memories was working on a professional C++ compiler. My colleagues used to joke:
There are 2 problems with C++: It's design, and implementation. "