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.

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Slashdot Spreads Misinformation on a massive scale

[phyxeld]

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&times 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.