Off topic: IE7 was Re: [sdiy] Digital noise source project (replacing MN5837 in Prophet 5and Monopoly)

[Rainer Buchty]

On Thu, 22 May 2008, Donald Tillman wrote:

> Yes, it completely sucks, but that's what you have to do.

Why? I mean, obviously, the MSIEs seem to be broken, so why work around 
their defects?

Yes, I know -- they come preinstalled with Windows, but if everyone 
works around their defects, where's the incentive for Microsoft to 
fix them?

It's not like you would tweak your hardware to fulfill the needs of 
let's say a broken VCA where you would have to attenuate the signal to 
some nanovolts level to not get distorted, having to re-amplify it after 
the VCA.

You'd rather repair the VCA.

So why doing the opposite in software?

Rainer