So that the Java Calendar objects provide consistent(ly bad) behavior across all platforms.

Not really a dumb question, just have to understand that's a design goal for Java: to abstract away anything platform specific.

There are limited run craft brews that get up to the $100-200 range per bottle.

I several times a year buy $10-15 bottles of beer.

I think you haven't done your market research very well.

I really appreciate the assurances of random anonymous giggling internet tough guys.

They really help me sleep at night.

Eclipse tries really hard to have good C++ support. I'm using Indigo still (I think), on my workstation. It does a few things well, but some of the automatic warning/error detection is bad bad bad...

As far as GUI editing, Qt's Creator is actually pretty great. Curious how it will integrate QtQuick going forward. As someone else pointed out, Eclipse actually has really good GUI editing capabilities for Java now, thanks to Google.

So, yeah. I think Eclipse + Plugins (and Qt Creator) is plenty sufficient for development on Linux. Is it as good as Visual Studio on Windows? No. But I'd MUCH rather develop a GUI-based desktop application for Linux using Qt 4.x than ever having to deal with Swing... and GridBag...

Congress gave them some extra money to put it off for a while, but they still are planning furloughs for civilian employees. So, yeah, GP was full of shit...

It also included the President in 2004, 2008, and 2012, in case you haven't noticed.

Bullshit. They most certaiinly had the statutory authority to spread the manpower budget however they wanted.

That's not how sequestration works. Every program was cut 10%. The DoD is avoiding furloughs by laying people off, most likely.

The summary is wrong. All workers are furloughed 10% of their time, which is 1 day per 2-week pay period, ie: ~2 days a month.

Also, the FAA doesn't pay overtime. Pretty much all their employees are exempt, and/or salaried.

Did you read the bill, by the way? Every program, every account was cut by 10%. There was no way to "absorb the cuts with less impact". The budget for labor hours was cut by 10%. That means you can pay 10% less labor hours.

Source: I'm a contractor who works for the FAA in R&D.

If you think the GOP is the only problem here, then you're also part of the problem.

Hi. I'm a contractor working for the FAA.

ALL controllers are having their hours reduced by 10%. This comes out to 1 day per 2 week pay period, or the approximately two days per month in the summary. It's not 10% of controllers being affected, it's all controllers being affected by 10%.

And for those of you saying "Why didn't they cut other, less important budgets?"

Well, it doesn't work that way. Every account was cut 10% across the entire FAA. This is incredibly stupid, by the way, since the much of the FAA's labor is paid for via levies on airline tickets, and so it shouldn't be affected by these general fund shenanigans (as an aside, this is why we got furloughed two years ago, because Congress wouldn't renew the airline ticket levies for political reasons). But, hey, Congress... You get what you pay for.

The FAA doesn't have a war budget.

Well, that's Congress for you. It's not like it affects them in any meaningful way. And it's not like we're going to not re-elect them, or that if we elected new representatives they'd be any better.

And in reality nobody ever spent 6 months just writing docs before writing code.

What reality do you live in? I'd really like to move there if that's true, because it sure isn't in mine...

If you don't want people talking on cell phones in your restaurant, then post a sign saying no cell phones and kick people out who disobey.

Don't frickin pollute the already crowded electromagnetic spectrum with a white noise generator, grow a damn spine.

I am teh dumb. Misread what grandparent was saying.