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Comment Being raised in Cairo (Score 1) 520

The most complicated set of roads and intersections you can ever imagine, they were designed to get you lost, a GPS would fry in despair trying to figure out what is going on (I think that's why they banned it for so long:)), the rest of the world looks like a straight road to me.

Comment What happened to (Score 1) 948

Good old X code...sheesh.

On a more serious note however, I seriosly feel their pain. It is a mess.
Unless you are writing code to run in batch mode and user interactivity is not on your list of requrinments, you are fine.
The minute you say I need to add a button, or a window, you are presented with the questions :
1) QT or GTK
2) Maybe I should just drop both and build the GUI in Java, so I do not have to get screwed across distributions and glibc updates.
3) Nah, java is limiting, I will use Python, but it looks ugly..

Been there, and its a mess, specially if you try to get into such a conversation with mangment.

As for the audio, dont get me started.

Microsoft

Submission + - DirectX10 drops Hardware Acceleration for Audio.

shrewd writes: ""Imagine your surprise when you fire up one of your favourite games in Vista — say World of Warcraft or Prey — only to find your fancy EAX-endowed soundcard and 5.1 surround speakers are dribbling out flat, unenhanced stereo sound. Then, in a vain attempt to spruce up the audio by enabling EAX, you get a nice taut error message saying EAX is not detected on your hardware. What's going on? Welcome to the world of Vista audio. And a brave new world it is.""

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