Or you can just work 16hour days like the rest of us and wear it with a badge of honor.
IMO, there is no honor in working more hours than you're actually being paid to work. Not only are you hurting yourself, you're keeping someone else from being able to take that job.
If you've got 80 hours worth of work to do at your company, and one guy with a 40-hour-a-week contract, you need to hire another person, not convince the existing guy that he should be proud to be enslaved. Morally speaking.
This guy probably is the tech but is wanting to spend more time with his family or something.
Probably settled down too fast and can't get a better job now. My advice: don't settle down and quit using your wife and children as excuses for your career failures because they'll grow to hate you for it.
OR, if you want to have a family life, don't take a job that requires you to do stuff that's not family-life-oriented.
That's the route I've taken - no on-call phone, no midnight maintenance, no work-80-hours-get-paid-for-40 bullshit. Pay doesn't seem that great, until you factor in the wage dilution of those guys working more hours than they get paid for. Turns out, hour-for-hour I make just as much as a lot of the managers around here, and don't have to deal with half the crap they do.
The rivers sure have been nice this year... and the barbecues, the lazy evenings relaxing on the porch, the weekends to myself... yea. I dig it.
Yeah, which good sound card to get for Windows and Linux for gaming, music, HTPC, etc.
I'd let Amazon's peer-review system answer that; as I said, I don't have a lot of personal experience with USB sound cards that aren't geared towards pro audio.
They need to ask permission because the FAA specifically banned such behavior last month.
Gone are the days, when pursuit of happiness was understood as a natural right granted to each human being not by their government, but by the Creator.
And if my pursuit of happiness involves not having some noisy-ass quadcopter fly 50 feet over my house every time the neighbor orders a new bauble?
You forget, that whole "pursuit of happiness" meme has to be reconciled with the concept of, "unless it infringes other's right to the same."
No problem! Assuming you have an open PCI 1x slot, you may want to consider looking into a sound card that fits it; prices are comparable to some of the higher-end USB units, and you get much better latency.
Well, if you think about stuff like latency inherent in the protocol, that does make sense. It's not that "USB is bad for gaming," it's that USB isn't as good as onboard or PCI-based sound, because of the increased latency and, in many instances, cheapness of the hardware - those $10 sound card dongles aren't known for high production quality.
If you're wanting to play games in 7.1 surround sound, a USB dongle likely won't cut it, but if all you care about is hearing what's going on in-game, many of them would provide satisfactory, but not necessarily exemplary, service.
And to understand the answer, one must consider the vantage point from which those who filter the news are viewing the world.
It's up there.
Less-than-poetic version:
Dude, think about who is doing the filtering - people with power. Once you realize that, it's easy to see what "good" they feel will come from the practice - keeping the proles fat, blind, and complacent.
If you're not concerned about pro-level audio equipment (ie, just want something with decent sound), I'd recommend going to a site like Amazon, searching for 'usb sound card," and reading the reviews.
Personally I don't know much about the non-pro-audio stuff, as I don't ever buy or use it.
My old, circa 2008 Gateway machine wouldn't let me record the audio stream (aka, "What You Hear") with the onboard audio, had to install a discrete card to get that capability.
That's about the only useful thing I've done with a PCI sound card in the past decade.
I use the motherboard audio to plug my headphones into. However, the volume for headphones is never high enough even with the volume control maxed out in Windows. Would a separate audio card fix this problem?
Maybe.
Higher quality headphones, specifically ones that have their own amp, would probably work better, though.
For most of us, no. Onboard sound is great and getting better all the time. If you're an audiophile or using your system to do professional mixing or music then it is worth it.
Even then, you're not going to be using a PCI Soundblaster card, but rather a purpose-built audio interface device. And you sure as hell won't be buying it from Creative. At least, not if you care about your sound.
I'd hardly consider a device that requires use of a $300+ smartphone to be "cheap," and definitely not free.
If only you could DIY that bit, too, eh?
... For less than several hundred bucks, yea.
I mean, sure, right now you could probably get an R-pi or BeagleBone Black, a couple small, hi-res screens, an NFC shield, etc. and cobble together your own solution; but when all is said and done, would it be any cheaper than just using a Galaxy S3?
For a power user (gamer/developer), onboard is probably good enough.
If you're an audio pro and/or you're building a semi/professional audio rig, onboard isn't going to cut it 99% of the time.
FWIW, plug in sound cards are actually more common than a lot of people think, because a lot of people seem to think that if it doesn't go into a PCI slot, it's not a sound card.
The Rocksmith cable, with its built-in discrete audio unit, is a prime example, one that I use almost daily.
Schools not teaching, graduating kids that never learned to read or write but did learn how to put a condom on a banana (a very useful skill if you are approached by a sexually aggressive banana).....
Carl... tonight... YOU...
No, HandBanana, NO!!!
Couldn't help myself:)
Send them more money, the unions say it's the only logical approach here in pretend it'll get better world..
Isn't that basically the same idea behind the Mayday PAC? Yea, something tells me it's going to work just as well...
makeing so that the car fails or goes into some kind of limited safe mode is successful hack?
Yes, if the goal is just to prove the thing can be hacked.
What if goes into a mode there you need to do a dealer only restore that they will not let anyone do other then the dealer and only after they verify that the owner is there to pick up the car when it is done. and that restore may come with a new $1000+ CPU / ECU with $250+ labor to install it?
OK, first thing - meet your new friend, the comma. Learn to understand one another.
Second, you're moving the goalposts. Stop that.
Third, to restate my point, if the idea is to find a flaw and exploit it, than any result other than "no flaw found/exploited" would be a successful one.
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Or you can just work 16hour days like the rest of us and wear it with a badge of honor.
IMO, there is no honor in working more hours than you're actually being paid to work. Not only are you hurting yourself, you're keeping someone else from being able to take that job.
If you've got 80 hours worth of work to do at your company, and one guy with a 40-hour-a-week contract, you need to hire another person, not convince the existing guy that he should be proud to be enslaved. Morally speaking.
This guy probably is the tech but is wanting to spend more time with his family or something.
Probably settled down too fast and can't get a better job now. My advice: don't settle down and quit using your wife and children as excuses for your career failures because they'll grow to hate you for it.
OR, if you want to have a family life, don't take a job that requires you to do stuff that's not family-life-oriented.
That's the route I've taken - no on-call phone, no midnight maintenance, no work-80-hours-get-paid-for-40 bullshit. Pay doesn't seem that great, until you factor in the wage dilution of those guys working more hours than they get paid for. Turns out, hour-for-hour I make just as much as a lot of the managers around here, and don't have to deal with half the crap they do.
The rivers sure have been nice this year... and the barbecues, the lazy evenings relaxing on the porch, the weekends to myself... yea. I dig it.
No PCI slots.
Ah. Makes sense.
Yeah, which good sound card to get for Windows and Linux for gaming, music, HTPC, etc.
I'd let Amazon's peer-review system answer that; as I said, I don't have a lot of personal experience with USB sound cards that aren't geared towards pro audio.
Gone are the days, when pursuit of happiness was understood as a natural right granted to each human being not by their government, but by the Creator.
And if my pursuit of happiness involves not having some noisy-ass quadcopter fly 50 feet over my house every time the neighbor orders a new bauble?
You forget, that whole "pursuit of happiness" meme has to be reconciled with the concept of, "unless it infringes other's right to the same."
No problem! Assuming you have an open PCI 1x slot, you may want to consider looking into a sound card that fits it; prices are comparable to some of the higher-end USB units, and you get much better latency.
Well, if you think about stuff like latency inherent in the protocol, that does make sense. It's not that "USB is bad for gaming," it's that USB isn't as good as onboard or PCI-based sound, because of the increased latency and, in many instances, cheapness of the hardware - those $10 sound card dongles aren't known for high production quality.
If you're wanting to play games in 7.1 surround sound, a USB dongle likely won't cut it, but if all you care about is hearing what's going on in-game, many of them would provide satisfactory, but not necessarily exemplary, service.
One must ask, what good is news that filters?
And to understand the answer, one must consider the vantage point from which those who filter the news are viewing the world.
It's up there.
Less-than-poetic version:
Dude, think about who is doing the filtering - people with power. Once you realize that, it's easy to see what "good" they feel will come from the practice - keeping the proles fat, blind, and complacent.
Lol, good point. Also worth asking if the plug is fully seated, I've made that mistake once or twice myself.
If you're not concerned about pro-level audio equipment (ie, just want something with decent sound), I'd recommend going to a site like Amazon, searching for 'usb sound card," and reading the reviews.
Personally I don't know much about the non-pro-audio stuff, as I don't ever buy or use it.
My old, circa 2008 Gateway machine wouldn't let me record the audio stream (aka, "What You Hear") with the onboard audio, had to install a discrete card to get that capability.
That's about the only useful thing I've done with a PCI sound card in the past decade.
I use the motherboard audio to plug my headphones into. However, the volume for headphones is never high enough even with the volume control maxed out in Windows. Would a separate audio card fix this problem?
Maybe.
Higher quality headphones, specifically ones that have their own amp, would probably work better, though.
Woah, watch your step around this post, ladies and gents; my Sarcasm Detector is going off the charts!
For most of us, no. Onboard sound is great and getting better all the time. If you're an audiophile or using your system to do professional mixing or music then it is worth it.
Even then, you're not going to be using a PCI Soundblaster card, but rather a purpose-built audio interface device. And you sure as hell won't be buying it from Creative. At least, not if you care about your sound.
Ton of USB and firewire devices that'll do it for relatively cheap.
... which are, by definition, discrete audio devices.
I'd hardly consider a device that requires use of a $300+ smartphone to be "cheap," and definitely not free.
If only you could DIY that bit, too, eh?
... For less than several hundred bucks, yea.
I mean, sure, right now you could probably get an R-pi or BeagleBone Black, a couple small, hi-res screens, an NFC shield, etc. and cobble together your own solution; but when all is said and done, would it be any cheaper than just using a Galaxy S3?
Hey, mebbe we're onto something here...
Really? I've got an old SB X-FI from, like, 2001 I think, and even though it spends most of its time in a dusty shop I've never had a problem with it.
For the average user, onboard is just fine.
For a power user (gamer/developer), onboard is probably good enough.
If you're an audio pro and/or you're building a semi/professional audio rig, onboard isn't going to cut it 99% of the time.
FWIW, plug in sound cards are actually more common than a lot of people think, because a lot of people seem to think that if it doesn't go into a PCI slot, it's not a sound card.
The Rocksmith cable, with its built-in discrete audio unit, is a prime example, one that I use almost daily.
Is there an aluminum version for the iPhone?
Don't know about the iShinies, but according to this ad, er, link, from TFS, someone will be making one for Android devices.
Right, cause cheap/free VR certainly isn't of interest to the slashdot crowd.
I'd hardly consider a device that requires use of a $300+ smartphone to be "cheap," and definitely not free.
Still neat, though, because it shows off the depth of cool stuff you can do with cardboard these days.
If history is any indicator? Minimum 2 weeks paid vacation, er, "suspension."
Obviously we all got into the wrong lines of work.
Schools not teaching, graduating kids that never learned to read or write but did learn how to put a condom on a banana (a very useful skill if you are approached by a sexually aggressive banana).....
Carl... tonight... YOU...
No, HandBanana, NO!!!
Couldn't help myself :)
Send them more money, the unions say it's the only logical approach here in pretend it'll get better world..
Isn't that basically the same idea behind the Mayday PAC? Yea, something tells me it's going to work just as well...
Sounds like it's right up M. Night's alley, though, save the fact it's actually a half-decent idea for a film.
makeing so that the car fails or goes into some kind of limited safe mode is successful hack?
Yes, if the goal is just to prove the thing can be hacked.
What if goes into a mode there you need to do a dealer only restore that they will not let anyone do other then the dealer and only after they verify that the owner is there to pick up the car when it is done. and that restore may come with a new $1000+ CPU / ECU with $250+ labor to install it?
OK, first thing - meet your new friend, the comma. Learn to understand one another.
Second, you're moving the goalposts. Stop that.
Third, to restate my point, if the idea is to find a flaw and exploit it, than any result other than "no flaw found/exploited" would be a successful one.
what happens if a failed hack bricks the firmware in a way that the next person / group can't do anything more when it is there trun?
Then it was a successful hack!
Most rational people take the phrase "you can sue..." to mean that you have even a marginal chance of success.
But, to be fair, OP did fail to specify the situations to a precise enough degree that a pedant wouldn't be able to engage in pedantry about meaning.
In other words, while you may be technically correct, nobody likes a pedant.