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Qt For The Console
lintux writes: "You probably know Qt as the fine toolkit for the less-fine X. Today something cool reached a stable state: Qt for the console. A Qt library port which allows you to port Qt programs to the console! Just imagine a full-featured web browser like Konqueror, on a 386 text-machine! I tried some things, and I never want to use w3m or lynx again, I can tell you that!" Update by HeUnique:While I do approve of the job these guys have done on console QT, I believe they may need to properly relicense their project under the GPL.
And how many slashdotters actually read the comments? I thought so...
This is actually a sort of mean joke, taking in to mind taco's stats that got the whole blackout thing started. Since the vast majority of visitors don't read the comments, how are they to know it's a joke? I'm sure that even fewer people then read comments go straight for the download on every story...
So most people who see this will assume it's real.
So I guess the punchline is that slashdot lied to hundreds of thousands of people today? I don't have a problem with a joke, I like a joke, but it's not a joke if the majorty of the people who read it never find out it's false. Thats a lie.
And the localized date feature in slashcode (hey, all my dates× still say march, and will for another 6 hours and 45 minutes!) really doesn't help any. When newspapers do an april fools joke, it tends says April 1 at the top of the page. It's still March in the U.S.A., where most(?) slashdotters live.
The majority of the people who read it won't realize it's not true.
I guess that really is pretty funny, but it sure doesn't seem like good bussiness practice.
Or a good way to maintain credibility.
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Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what mnemonic means, you've got a problem. - Larry Wall
This begs the question: just what the hell IS slashdot now?
"News for Nerds; Stuff that Matters" -- no.
Small community that's become so arrogant as to think they have a bigger voice in the world than they actually do. -- getting there.
I hope you understand that this has become nothing more than a geek political site. Geeks are supposed to be smarter than everyone else, but they get involved with possibly the stupidest game ever created. The fat white men in suits don't care what we think.
And as a feature request, I'd like to be able to place a vote within my posts as to whether they'll get moderated as troll, offtopic, or flamebait. I also think you should be able to put comments into more than one category.
Not that someone affiliated with the site will actually read this. Not that I care.