Although the point should be made that although those who prefer C can still justify making an exception in order to have the cleaner API of QT, others cannot: GTK has bindings for an ever-increasing number of languages, QT is C++ only (for any practical purpose, there may be some hacks out there.)
I for example am most familiar with guile-gtk; it would be much harder for me to justify switching my toolkit to QT, since everything else would radically be changed as well with the switch from scheme to C++. But C users don't face this dilemna.
(Not my intent to contribute to a flamewar either, if there was a scheme, or better yet Common Lisp, binding to QT I'd have good reason to prefer it too, but multiple-language support is definately one of GTK's advantages.)
I for one have decided to steer clear of this film after reading the rather sobering reflections Roger Ebert had on its message in his review.
A lot of us need some escapism these days, but I don't think that the best place to be finding it is in a movie that pokes fun at muslims and considers their one of their contries (Malaysia) inconsequential.
Ebert's point that I liked the best was that, "If the Malaysians made a comedy about the assassination of the president of the United States because of his opposition to slavery, it would seem approximately as funny to us as "Zoolander" would seem to them."
Comedies like this add to the dislike of America that was exploited by a few crazy lunatics to lead to the Sep. 11 tragedy; how sad is it to see that the first big comedy to come out of the States after those events just pours salt on the wounds of the have-not countries of the world; especially since Malaysia has tried very hard to improve its possition in the world (witness the Petronas towers and the F1 grand prix).
In light of these concerns I think that those who are sensitive to the pain that certain American attitudes can cause to the people of other nations would do well to avoid this film.
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Although the point should be made that although those who prefer C can still justify making an exception in order to have the cleaner API of QT, others cannot: GTK has bindings for an ever-increasing number of languages, QT is C++ only (for any practical purpose, there may be some hacks out there.)
I for example am most familiar with guile-gtk; it would be much harder for me to justify switching my toolkit to QT, since everything else would radically be changed as well with the switch from scheme to C++. But C users don't face this dilemna.
(Not my intent to contribute to a flamewar either, if there was a scheme, or better yet Common Lisp, binding to QT I'd have good reason to prefer it too, but multiple-language support is definately one of GTK's advantages.)
A lot of us need some escapism these days, but I don't think that the best place to be finding it is in a movie that pokes fun at muslims and considers their one of their contries (Malaysia) inconsequential.
Ebert's point that I liked the best was that, "If the Malaysians made a comedy about the assassination of the president of the United States because of his opposition to slavery, it would seem approximately as funny to us as "Zoolander" would seem to them."
Comedies like this add to the dislike of America that was exploited by a few crazy lunatics to lead to the Sep. 11 tragedy; how sad is it to see that the first big comedy to come out of the States after those events just pours salt on the wounds of the have-not countries of the world; especially since Malaysia has tried very hard to improve its possition in the world (witness the Petronas towers and the F1 grand prix).
In light of these concerns I think that those who are sensitive to the pain that certain American attitudes can cause to the people of other nations would do well to avoid this film.