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Welcome to Oldfriend Archive, the official 4chan archive of the NSA. Hosting ~170M text-only 2003-2014 4chan posts (mostly 2006-2008).
I just fucking installed this piece of shit computer I got from a friend and the sound just refuses to work.
Either way, I just installed Windows 7 32-bits on this thing. The sound worked when Vista ran on it.
It quit working after the Win7 install. Anyway. I can't open the volume thingie, there's a red warning sign there. When I click it, the program mentions that shit is fucked and it can't get unfucked. Additional information includes that there are NO PROBLEMS with the sound AT ALL, except that either Windows Audio or Audio End Point Builder aren't working.
GUESS WHAT.
So I checked the services. Windows Audio and Audio End Point Builder are working FINE!
What the fuck is this fucking sorcery! How the fuck is this fucking sound not working?
I've dicked with a lot of sound bullshit, but this is the first time I just don't get what the problem is. Unless I'm overlooking some massive problem. I just don't see what's wrong here. It just looks like my sound doesn't work for no good reason at all.
Additional information. For some reason my soundcard is in some quantum limbo where the computer says I have my drivers updated nicely, but my sound diagnostics tell me I have no sound card installed at all.
...The standard that was invented in 1872 is known worldwide as QWERTY after the first six letters of the top line of letter keys. The American naturalist Stephen Jay Gould relates that the characters on the QWERTY were deliberately set to be inconvenient, thus ensuring slower typing speeds.
The reason was simple. Typists using the earliest mechanical typewriters could reach such high speeds that the keys were frequently jamming. Subsequently, as Gould puts it, by some strange 'technological continuity law', the QWERTY survived into the age of electronic despite the fact that the jamming problem was no longer relevant.
All recent attempts to create a mass market for more efficient, for example the Dvorak, on which typists can achieve touch typing speeds about 40 per cent faster than on QWERTY, were blocked. ...
Hey /tech/ I can't find my win7 disk and I need to reinstall win7, but I do know my CD key. If I download win7 off of any old pirate site, burn it to a disk and install it. Will I be okay if I use my CD key? Or do I have to have the win 7 disk?
If you guys think you can take over Tumblr you're kidding yourselves. IT'S A WAR YOU'LL NEVER WIN, REMEMBER WHEN YOU TRIED LAST TIME? You'll fail miserably again.
Free Speech. Privacy. Fair Use. Reverse Engineering. If you care about these rights in the digital world, then you should join the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). EFF was founded in 1990 to protect the rights of users and developers of technology. EFF is the first to identify threats to basic rights online and to advocate on behalf of free expression in the digital age : http://www.eff.org
FIRST it won at Jeopardy. Now it might threaten millions of low-wage jobs. At least, that seems to be the implication of a Bloomberg News article on International Business Machines Corp's Watson supercomputer.
Developers are now figuring out how to use Watson's processing power to replicate the experience of working with an "experienced in-store salesperson" when shopping for clothes. The software would combine databases provided by retailers with customer preferences for style and fit to help people find what they are looking for.
If it works, this technology would be a boon for those who prefer to shop from home. Right now, only a small percentage of shopping occurs online. Shipping costs could be one reason. Another is that many are hesitant to buy things over the Internet when they cannot try them out first, especially clothing. That reticence could be overcome by the new technologies. If a computer knew your body shape and the dimensions of each piece of clothing, it could show you exactly how items would fit.
Instead of going to stores where you would have to struggle to find sales help, compete with other customers, browse from a limited selection, wait to try on clothes, and then stand in line before paying, you could just talk to Watson about what you want and have it trawl through its list of what's available. Then the clothes could be shipped from a warehouse. Retailers could save money by reducing or getting rid of their stores and staff employed there. At least some of those savings would get passed along to consumers in the form of lower prices.
People who work in brick-and-mortar stores may not be as sanguine as the rest of us about these developments. According to the Bureau of Labour Statistics, there are more than 1.4 million Americans working in clothing and clothing accessories stores and another 1.5 million in department stores.
Economists who study these issues think that the rise of the machines has contributed to the gradual polarisation of the workforce into elites and relatively low-wage labourers. Until now, however, those poorly paid workers - including more than 15 million in retail - were relatively safe compared with their middle-class brethren.
How many of those jobs will be obviated by sophisticated computer software? Will the displaced be able to find gainful employment in future? The track record of employment growth in sectors with low or declining productivity is not encouraging.
