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A Taste of Qt 4
Karma Sucks writes "In 'A Taste of Qt 4', Trolltech reveals that it is positioning Qt 4 directly against Java. Qt 4 promises to be smaller and faster than its predecessors and there will be a boatload of new features including support for non-GUI applications and accessibility under Linux using Sun's ATK. More controversial is the introduction of a new and elegant foreach construct. Incidentally, for those still opposed to Qt's moc preprocessor, Havoc has some interesting comments. It is possible the idea will be adapted to provide GObject introspection in the future."
OS X is closed source. This means that it is the work of the devil - its purpose is to make the end users eat babies.
Linux is the only free OS. Yes the BSD lincenses may appear more free, but as they have no restrictions, they are actually less free than the GPL. You see, restricting the end user more actually makes them more free than not putting restrictions on them. You must be a dumb luser for not understanding this.
And you obviously dont have a real job. A real job involves being a student or professional academic. You see, academics are the ones who know all about productivity - if you work for a commercial organisation you obviously do not know anything about computers. Usability is stupid. Whats wrong with the command line? If you cant use the command line then you shouldnt be using a computer. vi should be the standard word processor - you are such a luser if you want to use Word. Installing software should have to involve recompiling the kernel of the OS. If you dont know how to do this, you are a stupid luser who should RTFM. Or go to a Linux irc channel or newsgroup. After all, they are soooo friendly. If you dont know how the latest 2.6 kernel scheduling algorithm works then they will tell you to stop wasting their time, but they really are quite supportive.
Oh, and M$ is just as evil as Apple. Take LookOUT for instance. You could just as easily use Eudora. Who needs groupware anyway, a simple email client should be all we use (thats all we use as academics, why cant businesses be any different).
And trend setters - Linux is the trend setter. It may appear KDE is a ripoff from XP, but thats because M$ stole the KDE code. We all know they have GPL'ed code hidden in there somewhere (but not the things that dont work, only the things that work could possibly have GPL'ed code in it).
And Apple is the suxor because they charge people for their product. We all know that its a much better business model to give all your products away for free. If you charge for anything, then you are allied with M$ and will burn in hell.
rusty is a gay pedophile. fuck you rusty!
That's nothing for me, the humble user.
I'm not a developer, I'm just a KDE user. I fail to see how there's anything revolutionary in here for me, or the other users. After all, software isn't just for the developers.
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT
Fuck you Spain! Pussies.
or what is kde?
Open and Extendable Penis Enlargement.
I thought it said Q for Quake 4. This is silly.
I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
NEW YORK, April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In September 2002, a group of senior
Bush administration officials convened for a secret videoconference to make a
difficult decision: what to do with six Americans suspected of conspiring with
Al Qaeda. The Yemeni-born men from Lackawanna, N.Y., were accused of training
at a camp in Afghanistan, where some had met Osama bin Laden. For Vice
President Dick Cheney and his ally, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the
answer was simple: the accused men should be locked up indefinitely as "enemy
combatants," and thrown into a military brig with no right to trial or even to
see a lawyer, Newsweek reports in the current issue. That's what authorities
had done with two other Americans, Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla. "They are the
enemy, and they're right here in the country," Cheney argued, according to a
participant.
But others were hesitant to take the extraordinary step of stripping the men of their rights, especially because there was no evidence that they had actually carried out any terrorist acts. Instead, Attorney General John Ashcroft insisted he could bring a tough criminal case against them for providing "material support" to Al Qaeda, report Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff and Washington Bureau Chief Daniel Klaidman in the April 26 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, April 19). In the months after 9/11 there were fierce debates -- and even shouting matches -- inside the White House over the treatment of Americans with suspected Qaeda ties. On one side, Ashcroft, perhaps in part protecting his turf, argued in favor of letting the criminal-justice system work, and warned that the White House had to be mindful of public opinion and a potentially wary Supreme Court. On the other, Cheney and Rumsfeld argued that in time of war, there are few limits on what a president can do to protect the country. "There have been some very intense disagreements," says a senior law- enforcement official. "It has been a hard-fought war." Hamdi and Padilla have challenged their enemy-combatant status. Next week the Supreme Court will hear their arguments, in what could be the most profound legal issue in the terror war: whether the president can lock up American citizens suspected of terrorist links indefinitely, without charges. This week the court will also hear a case to decide if foreign detainees at Guantanamo have any legal rights. Hamdi, a Louisiana-born, Saudi-raised U.S. citizen discovered in the spring of 2002 among the hundreds of ragtag Taliban fighters sent to Guantanamo, was flown to a Naval brig in Norfolk, Virginia, while administration lawyers tried to figure out what to do with him. When a local public defender who read about Hamdi in the newspaper petitioned to meet with him, an assistant U.S. attorney made a novel argument in court: Hamdi was an "unlawful enemy combatant," and had no right to counsel. Administration lawyers concede that there was a seat-of-the-pants quality to the way events unfolded. "There is a sense in which we were making this up as we went along," says one top government attorney. "You have to remember we were dealing with a completely new paradigm: an open ended conflict, a stateless enemy, and a borderless battlefield." Padilla, the Muslim convert who was arrested while returning home from Pakistan, where he allegedly met with a top Qaeda operative and planned to set off a dirty bomb in the U.S., has been held in a military brig in South Carolina. He was also decreed an enemy combatant. As months wore on, Justice lawyers became increasingly uneasy about holding Padilla indefinitely without counsel. Solicitor General Ted Olson warned the tough stand would probably be rejected by the courts. Administration lawyers went so far as to predict which Supreme Court justices would ultimately side for and against them. But the White House, backed strongly by Cheney, refused to budge. Instead, Newsweek has learned, officials privately debated whether to name more Americans as enemy combatants -- including a truck driver from Ohio and a group of men from Portland.
Hey, fuck you buddy! Spain was fighting terrorism back when the U.S. was trading arms for hostages.
Terrorism (from ETA) has been a fact of life for the Spanish for a long time. Long enough to that they can put terrorism into perspective and not let it ruin their country like in the US. Terrorism a LAW ENFORCEMENT problem. By treating it as such they have already caught the people who bombed the trains in Madrid, not with troops in Iraq, but with police in the city. Didn't even need a "Patriot" act to do it either. w00t.
Bush got the world into Iraq by lieing through his teeth constantly, deliberately, and ineptly. Leave it to the Spanish to tell that retarded liar to fuck off. Did you see Bush's press conference? That guy can't even answere simple questions without getting a script ahead of time. lol.
Mmmm... brown sugar would be so sweet...
He can - America is a weak democracyy /0,3604,119 4672,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/stor
and will get plenty of time to do it - the gang of four (Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld and Rice) will get another 4 years according to the latest polls.
I must leave Slashdot now, your ego is taking up all the bandwidth
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Wow, they just described glib2+libxml2! Doesn't it surprise anyone that we'd rather reinvent the wheel than reuse someone elses code? Opensource innovation at it's best!
Yeah, I've got the karma, bring on those blowtorches...
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