Awesome, I wish I had mod points!

Actually, you pay €0.79 instead of $0.99 in the App Store (what this article is about). Also the development program costs €79 instead of $99....

If you remove the VAT it's actually a bit cheaper than the US price...

That iPad you talk about is actually €479, then minus the VAT and converted to dollars it's $595

I can be wrong, but I don't think the Apple Lisa had protected memory, the CPU they used (Motorola 68000 same one as in the Amiga and the ST) was not capable of that...

OS-9 was actually available from the beginning for the Atari ST as well.......

I was an Atari fangirl back then, the 2600, the 8-bits and the ST (and even a TT) I really loved them, but if I'm honest the Amiga had better hardware and a better OS. So did the Atari 8-bit series BTW, they had better hardware than the C64 and if you look closely you really see stuff from the Atari 8-bits in the Amiga...

Ahhhh, Atari ST vs. Commodore Amiga, good old times...

Have a look at the development times they both had... I think it's rather impressive that the designer of the Commodore 64 managed to design the Atari ST so damn fast after Amiga's designers ditched the deal with Atari and go with Commodore...

I always found it funny that the same people defending the C64 also defended the Amiga while dishing on the Atari 8-bits and the ST and vice versa since the C64 and the ST were designed by the same people while the Atari 8-bits were designed by the same people as the Amiga....

Actually the same picture has already been used before for a different article on December 7: http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Nieuws/Politiek/283373/VVD-en-PVV-eisen-tegenprestatie-voor-uitkering.htm

Different author though...

The executable file extension for GUI applications on Atari's TOS had either the extension .PRG or, wait for it, .APP...

We're talking 1985 here.......

Sure, am all for still naming the class of computer a PC but why assume it's also running Windows?

As a side note it's also absurd to just say Mac when they actually mean OSX these days. If I try to install a Mac only application on my Apple Mac running Linux or Windows it doesn't really work :D

To be quite honest, I find it weird that people use 'PC' as a synonym for 'PC running Windows', why not just say 'Windows'? as in: Windows games, Kindle on Windows, Windows only, etc.

Ehh, the Kindle's AZW format is a modified Mobipocket format of which the DRM can be removed by easier methods than you describe! I even have bought Kindle ebooks without owning a Kindle and read them on my iLiad with the DRM removed ofcourse :D

Do a google search for: mobipocket decoder

So, the major geek cred must go to the person who wrote that I suppose ;)

Nah, you must be just ignorant. The Kindle is not the only e-ink device out there: http://www.irextechnologies.com/node/186

Even their old model the iLiad, which I have, supports pdf files, but you must have missed that one.

Such a device does exist, it's called an ebook reader :D

They (Qt Software) make it easy to use and install for their intended user-base. Namely: developers
As an end-user you have no business going there.

The applications you are trying to install should be installed using apt-get which will install the needed Qt libs.
If there's no .deb for the requested app, apt-get ubuntu's libqt4-dev, download the source, go to the source directory where the .pro (project) file is located. run qmake-qt4 in that directory and then run a normal make.

It's not that hard, even from sources. Sure, some problems might arise if the app is using features of a newer Qt version than the 1 bundled with your distro. Even that is easy to solve if you are a developer and if you're not, go complain to the author of the app...