Unfortunately the most important features weren't added. Concepts, modules, reflection and concurrency ... those would actually fixed almost all the things, where c++ is lacking now. Hope those will get into the next standard at least.

Watt-hour is a unit of energy, not power, so the information doesn't make a sense. Maybe the author wanted to say "rover can get up to 500 watts out of his solar panels" or "It can get 500 watt-hours of energy per day"?

Weather is bad, launch has been aborted. Tomorrow is the next chance (IIRC).

Yes. Exactly.

That means it is actually pretty good summary. Everybody knows that we need super strong threads to build space elevator so it is not worth mentioning. The rest, however, is pretty goddamn interesting and relevant. I did a little bit of research and couldn't find much more relevant information about the discovery than it is written in this summary.

Obligatory: Have you tried SolentNews ? The server is already quite mature and the community there is also very good.

Not true. Qt widgets appear to be native, but in fact they are not (but your post is proof that they made quite a good job with the appearance). This is a bit of problem on macos where Qt has some issues with appearance (or at least used to have).

*per month FTFY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States#Cost

Here you have opinion of a former loud GW critic that actually looked at the scientific evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... . However feel free to stay ignorant.

QtQuick2 requires OpenGL. I didn't say I'm using OpenGL directly. However there is Qt3D and QtQuick3D that you might have a look at http://doc-snapshot.qt-project... http://doc.qt.digia.com/qt-qui... .
As for the graphs, there are some commercial graphs supplied by digia http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/... or KDAB http://www.kdab.com/kdab-produ... or freely available QWT http://qwt.sourceforge.net/ .

I think that Mesa is necessary. I'm developing UI in QtQuick2 and it does only work with OpenGL 2 and above. Since there are platforms that don't support OpenGL 2 I have to have fallback to software rendered graphic. Mesa saves the day. If there was no Mesa, I'd be forced not to use QtQuick2 and stick to Qt widgets, which are not really designed to run well on mobile devices. And for the record, I do think, that QtQuick2 is the future of Gui development.

In this thread: http://meta.slashdot.org/story... it is pretty obvious, that not only the "fuck beta" people are pissed. In that thread there were many great comments and suggestions to Dice, what is bad with beta and how should they improve it. After zero effort to improve anything, some of the very skilled people stopped to complain and started to do something about it and other people joined them on Soylentnews. Nowadays, I can assure you, that there is almost no topic on Slashdot that doesn't have some "fuck beta" comments, on Soylentnews there are almost zero "fuck beta" comments and there is also pretty on topic discussion. Surely, it isn't perfect yet, but even today, Soylentnews has better discussion than /.

Lol, this one should have been modded funny.