I have installed many sound cards and have still to see one that fails me.
The last few ones Ensoniq, Sound Blaster (several models), and the integrated in two Shuttle machines' motherboards (FX41, FB61) of which I don't even know the model, which is the way it should be.
In one of the Shuttle machines I had to install my last copy of Windows (W98) and ho and behold, nothing was recognized automatically.
Now tell me Linux is worst regarding sound cards and that the article is not trollish....
That is why several Linux enthusiasts find the article trollish in nature.
... unless you guys put a full stop to right wing teocratic politicians.
Lemme explain: where was the first human clonning achieved? US? UK? Germany? Nope, South Korea
In a recent survey by the BBC, South Korea was found to be one of the countries less concerned with religion.
In the meantime in the US there are people trying to ban steem cell research, granting legal rights to fetuses as human beings and doing all what they can to ban teaching evolutionary theory (cornerstone to work in any biological related discipline. Spare me the creationist bullshit, scientists use evolutionary theory as a matter of fact in fields as diverse as microbiology and genetically engineered crops.).
China and India just have to catch up to the level of sophistication of South Korean scientists and research instirutions, but if the US does not do anything to get rid of its ayatollahs from the political map, lack of action will have a direct effect in US people level of life.
At the end, conceding the points presented in the thread for argumentation's sake, the programmer would not care about this minutiae.
Of course if they are wise they would know better thatn associating themsleves with a company that eventually would play duirty on them (programmers of pre.Net era, where were you taken today?).
Fscking CDs are bloody expensive. Look at AOL, the IT magazines, heck, even newspapers that sell for a few cents. All of them are bleeeeding money given those CDs away for free.
MS, with his zillions of money in the bank, can't affor to spend a few thousend making development tools available.
No! Those communist ideas should be brought down and burned like the trojan horse they surely are.
I really don't know if you are rather naive or blissfully and completely misinformed.....
As long as the Ethiopian goverment does not settle with Eritrea and balk at agreements by independents organizations, all the rest is secondary, since oportunities of development will never exsit because the few resources of the country will be squandered in the war effort....
Since most/.ers are late teens or early 20s the answer was obviously predictable.
So far most comments pat the ignorant boss in the back for being so insightful, well, the pat comming mostly from people with hardly any experience in the working place has very little value.
Now, from old fart to whinney youngs, let me tell you this, prgraomming mad skillz can be put to better use if you have lived a bit more.
Young programmers have a tendency to reinvent the wheel because simply they have not seen other wheels before. For a company that is an absolute tragedy. Older, more experienced prgrammers bring with them something called perspective and corporate awarness.
Thye are the people that will tell you if something has done before, it perhaps ther is a piece of code, an script, an algorith, that solves a given problem.
The best programmer is not the one that programs 1000 lines of code to solve one problem, but the one that remembers sombedy else wrote a similar program that can be modified with little effort.
.... but that does not mean your country, and you by extension, are not influenced by events elsewhere.
There are many monumental examples about how isolationism and not giving a rat's behind about events elsewhere can land you in hot water, but I will not go in such detail since educated people like you surely want to inform themselves in order to influence the political process in their place of residence.
Oh, sorry, I forgot you are a don't-give-a-rat's-behind-er....
Rubish. I will repeat it again. Rubish. I have battled with digital cameras, MP3 players, wireless cards, keyboard switches, CF card readers that did not work with Windows. Or that broke somthing else when the drivers (after click-click-click, you have not got a clue what happened to your system - click) where installed.
"2. "Look, there is plenty of downloaded Windows software that fucks up when you install it."... Big huge hairy bollocks. "
Yes Microsabee, we know all software ever developped for Windows is perfect. Shame that MS's own patches are well known for breaking things. And that is just for starters.
I shall continue, but all is so nonsensical that actually does not make any sense....
Try O2, but other companies may offer similar coverage.
With O2 I have been in Italy, Germany and Spain and my humble "pay as you go" service (or whatever it is called for this company) works with no problems.
And do not be lazy, learn a few sentences of each language or buy trevelguides for each country (which normally include basic sentences).
Honestly, I don't grasp who moderates the above as insightful.
The idiotic obsession with releasing half backed stuff in the software industry is understandable (up to a point) for companies that need to make a profit and to pay attention to the proverbial bottom line.
What is not understandable is that a project whose aim is scratching an itch, which aims to provide a tool that otherwise would not be available, would run, lemming like, in the same stupid rat race to release half backed rubish that would frustrate people involved as users and testers.
Fast development leads to more bugs, oh yes, they can be troubleshooted, but that firefighting mentality of people involved in producing software is what gives the profession and the industry a bad reputation and bad name.
I salute the Linux guys that IMNSHO are striking the right balance, in spite of the mounting commercial pressures (heck, if somebody feels Linux is not being developped fast enough they know what they can do. Hint: read the GPL).
Finally, more childish rubish: "And in this game, staying still is the same as going back". Give me a break, what about if moving forward is fallin into a 100m free fall Mr Lemming?
... from goons , no kooks (the term seems popular on this thread) like you that would be happy to benefit from the work of others without giving anything back to society.
The software is free under the GPL, thank goodness for that.
You are not free to plagiarize other's people work. Well, cry me a river, goon, I mean , kook.
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I have installed many sound cards and have still to see one that fails me.
The last few ones Ensoniq, Sound Blaster (several models), and the integrated in two Shuttle machines' motherboards (FX41, FB61) of which I don't even know the model, which is the way it should be.
In one of the Shuttle machines I had to install my last copy of Windows (W98) and ho and behold, nothing was recognized automatically.
Now tell me Linux is worst regarding sound cards and that the article is not trollish....
That is why several Linux enthusiasts find the article trollish in nature.
I was using an S3 card for years before dumping my previous PC.
Debian if you should know...
....rate of gambling addiction.
China.
They are legendary for the above....
.... the cost of basic educations once that people work for US companies in the US.
... unless you guys put a full stop to right wing teocratic politicians.
Lemme explain: where was the first human clonning achieved? US? UK? Germany? Nope, South Korea
In a recent survey by the BBC, South Korea was found to be one of the countries less concerned with religion.
In the meantime in the US there are people trying to ban steem cell research, granting legal rights to fetuses as human beings and doing all what they can to ban teaching evolutionary theory (cornerstone to work in any biological related discipline. Spare me the creationist bullshit, scientists use evolutionary theory as a matter of fact in fields as diverse as microbiology and genetically engineered crops.).
China and India just have to catch up to the level of sophistication of South Korean scientists and research instirutions, but if the US does not do anything to get rid of its ayatollahs from the political map, lack of action will have a direct effect in US people level of life.
But then a company making business elsewhere based on the US should not be allowed to bring capital gains back to the country of origin.
Or are you the kind of person that wants to have his cake and eat it, resell it, outsource it, etc...?
"All the Europeans seem to do is complain about Americans blindly and automatically".
I need not read any further.
I will just say two words: Afghanistan and Iraq.
.... if they don't have a sense of humour and a bit of self deprecation.
We can't help it if sparkly witty people are mainly non religious ones.
Their arguments are impecable from a teologic point of view, but are normally socially invasive and often disruptive....
At the end, conceding the points presented in the thread for argumentation's sake, the programmer would not care about this minutiae.
.Net era, where were you taken today?).
Of course if they are wise they would know better thatn associating themsleves with a company that eventually would play duirty on them (programmers of pre
Fscking CDs are bloody expensive. Look at AOL, the IT magazines, heck, even newspapers that sell for a few cents. All of them are bleeeeding money given those CDs away for free.
MS, with his zillions of money in the bank, can't affor to spend a few thousend making development tools available.
No! Those communist ideas should be brought down and burned like the trojan horse they surely are.
To give something for free! MS! Never!
I really doubt it.
I really don't know if you are rather naive or blissfully and completely misinformed.....
As long as the Ethiopian goverment does not settle with Eritrea and balk at agreements by independents organizations, all the rest is secondary, since oportunities of development will never exsit because the few resources of the country will be squandered in the war effort....
Man, get a life.
Jeeeez.
Reply saying that you found the "hidden" information in the Word document (SCO and many others can attest to this feature).
Ask if they would not prefer to send documents in the future using a different document format that does not dsitribute their personal information.
Two law firms I was in touch with changed to mostly plain text just for this comment of mine....
"If it's your boss or client, then accept the Word document. After all, you're being paid to do so."
If it is work related you should be provided with the necessary tools to do your work.
If I get a document in a propietary format for which I don't have a tool, even my boss gets a reply requesting the correct tool to read the software.
Since this means a complete computer system (I don't use MS stuff at home) i get documents back in a format I can use (normaly text or variations).
Quoting:
"Word 97/2000 Viewer (Windows 95/98/NT/2000)"
I will not tell you which OS I am running but have a guess....
A polite reply saying "I don't have Word, please send in X format" is enough.
Nobody is under any obligation to buy MS products to communicate with other people.
Since most /.ers are late teens or early 20s the answer was obviously predictable.
So far most comments pat the ignorant boss in the back for being so insightful, well, the pat comming mostly from people with hardly any experience in the working place has very little value.
Now, from old fart to whinney youngs, let me tell you this, prgraomming mad skillz can be put to better use if you have lived a bit more.
Young programmers have a tendency to reinvent the wheel because simply they have not seen other wheels before. For a company that is an absolute tragedy. Older, more experienced prgrammers bring with them something called perspective and corporate awarness.
Thye are the people that will tell you if something has done before, it perhaps ther is a piece of code, an script, an algorith, that solves a given problem.
The best programmer is not the one that programs 1000 lines of code to solve one problem, but the one that remembers sombedy else wrote a similar program that can be modified with little effort.
That is why experience is important.
He should have grow and developped.
Just to be a pesky composer, my goodness.
He could have been a respected conductor.
A librettist.
Or even better, an opera empresario.
Most people are expected to grow and develop....
.... but that does not mean your country, and you by extension, are not influenced by events elsewhere.
There are many monumental examples about how isolationism and not giving a rat's behind about events elsewhere can land you in hot water, but I will not go in such detail since educated people like you surely want to inform themselves in order to influence the political process in their place of residence.
Oh, sorry, I forgot you are a don't-give-a-rat's-behind-er....
"1.-Hardware WORKS in windows"
Rubish. I will repeat it again. Rubish. I have battled with digital cameras, MP3 players, wireless cards, keyboard switches, CF card readers that did not work with Windows. Or that broke somthing else when the drivers (after click-click-click, you have not got a clue what happened to your system - click) where installed.
"2. "Look, there is plenty of downloaded Windows software that fucks up when you install it."... Big huge hairy bollocks. "
Yes Microsabee, we know all software ever developped for Windows is perfect. Shame that MS's own patches are well known for breaking things. And that is just for starters.
I shall continue, but all is so nonsensical that actually does not make any sense....
Try O2, but other companies may offer similar coverage.
With O2 I have been in Italy, Germany and Spain and my humble "pay as you go" service (or whatever it is called for this company) works with no problems.
And do not be lazy, learn a few sentences of each language or buy trevelguides for each country (which normally include basic sentences).
Honestly, I don't grasp who moderates the above as insightful.
The idiotic obsession with releasing half backed stuff in the software industry is understandable (up to a point) for companies that need to make a profit and to pay attention to the proverbial bottom line.
What is not understandable is that a project whose aim is scratching an itch, which aims to provide a tool that otherwise would not be available, would run, lemming like, in the same stupid rat race to release half backed rubish that would frustrate people involved as users and testers.
Fast development leads to more bugs, oh yes, they can be troubleshooted, but that firefighting mentality of people involved in producing software is what gives the profession and the industry a bad reputation and bad name.
I salute the Linux guys that IMNSHO are striking the right balance, in spite of the mounting commercial pressures (heck, if somebody feels Linux is not being developped fast enough they know what they can do. Hint: read the GPL).
Finally, more childish rubish: "And in this game, staying still is the same as going back". Give me a break, what about if moving forward is fallin into a 100m free fall Mr Lemming?
... from goons , no kooks (the term seems popular on this thread) like you that would be happy to benefit from the work of others without giving anything back to society.
The software is free under the GPL, thank goodness for that.
You are not free to plagiarize other's people work. Well, cry me a river, goon, I mean , kook.
"the FCC is cracking down because of public outrage over the Superbowl halftime orgy"
Since when it is an orgy exposing a female breast?
Your grasp of reality is sorely lacking, so please, do not attempt to advice others about the subject.