Product placement, augment digital content with tangible products, live venues, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, build upon existing content (like Hollywood does every time they steal from Shakespeare or Homer), develop proprietary means of reducing production costs, sell cameo spots to fans, invest in the next wave of distribution infrastructure, interactive/custom content.

I'm not particularly creative, so I'm sure a creative person could come up with a better list.

I can't speak to the developer experience for Qt vs. GTK, but one day the scrollbars in the GTK-based programs I use started going into ultra slow motion if I held down the mouse button for 1/4 second.

While looking for a place to report the bug, I discovered this is an intentional "zoom" feature. Almost nobody knew about this amazing(?) feature, so with virtually no discussion, it was made to activate automatically to be more "discoverable".

Personally, my life would be better if I hadn't discovered this UX regres-(cough)-feature. This sort of thing also reflects poorly on the software using the library. (Initially I thought Synaptic was broken.)

I'm surprised that a mature library can change overnight in such a far-reaching way on some dude's whim.

It's like asking people to stop voting for the least-awful of the two candidates showcased on the teevee. Yes, they should just stop for their own good and for the public good, but it's not going to happen.

I'm not expecting them to stop, I'm saying they can't simply be absolved of responsibility if you're going to blame the law as well.

I think you're making a category error. What exactly are you saying the users are responsible for in the behavior of the cartels?

The blame was in a conditional statement: if you blame the law forbidding drugs, why not the people actually funding the cartels? They may not intend for such to happen, but neither could it happen without them.

> The pro-systemd brigade only seems to be a small minority of Debian devs (though they're extremely loud, and trollishly persistent).

And generally more convincing, probably due to actually understanding both sides under debate.

Probably 50-100,000 among their employees, ex-employees, aspiring employees, partners, contractors, and people who've seen it mentioned somewhere like this (including me and you, now).

Let's play a bit of semantics and say putting people on Mars helps to insure our future. As in, it provides insurance against some catastrophes that a malaria cure and even squirting flowers can't.

Still I agree that we tend to see things through our own lenses. Maybe evolution has something really amazing planned for bonobos, but we're too stubborn to die off.

My first impression from the title was some kind of Firefox phone debacle.

I think it depends more on the federal government officially deferring to state drug laws (unlikely) or taking action to de-schedule marijuana specifically (slightly less unlikely).

Right now the only people who can grow cannabis openly and "legally" with any degree of safety are the states themselves, which kind of puts a damper on market competition.

Assuming I understand what they're offering here, I'd consider something like this for self-hosting a Facebook game having no valuable data, as Facebook requires apps to use SSL, and users tend to shy away from bright red browser windows with dire warnings about untrusted security certificates.

Do you mean

1: affected singsong or whining speech.

or

2: the private language of the underworld?