http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#United_States It's legal if it's unencrypted- ergo, it's fine to rip CDs, technically illegal to rip DVDs, but the latter is not enforced unless you're distributing.
Hm, and here I was thinking the US was had the most backwards copyright laws in the world. So basically the same type of enforcement as ripping DVDs is in the US then, no action unless you try to distribute the copies?
It was illegal in the UK? I would have thought that of all places, it would have been illegal in the US. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction I guess...
Oh, here I was thinking it was a glitch in the matrix.
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Because you listen to the MSM maybe? It's just two heads of the same coin really, republicans usually catering to traditional corps like big oil, democrats bending over to the MAFIAA.
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You would have gotten a mod point if you'd thrown in somewhere:
IE6 has less than 2% usage in most of the western world, and IE7 is lower than 6. Really you only have to worry about IE8 unless you're targeting the far east.
I don't have a problem with private high speed cables- I have a problem with the ridiculous waste of resources to gain literally a 5ms advantage over the other psychopaths. True though, work is created. But that's about the only benefit to anyone other than HFT-ers. Of course, if the process is ever outlawed or something, we'll get a flood of programmers who can write a port of asteroids from Z80 assembly without minimum requirements jumping to an i7.
It doesn't- for perspective, I recently read an article about a new trans-atlantic cable being lain that would decrease latency to something in the low double digits (ms). I thought "this is amazing, think of the use it could have in game servers!". Then, I read that it was a private cable designed to shave a few milliseconds off trading times overseas. Just the shock that reached me when taking that in was... amazing. Such a waste of resources to the detriment of society.
Well take a look at the IBM T220- they haven't sold those in over 5 years, current monitors come up to about a quarter the pixels- and those are 1920x1200s which I don't think they sell anymore either. I'd love one except that multi-monitors would be a pain in the ass. As for horizontal res, I've still got a 2048x1568 monitor from '98, that's still more than most anyone has these days. Sad bit? That was an OEM monitor that was bundled with the computer.
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Wait- storing ripped dvds in iso format? *facepalm*
You're doing it wrong.
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It's not so much the pixel density, but aspect ratios. 16:9 kinda sucks on a computer- it might sound minor, but 16:10 is way better. The caveat? You'll either be buying a cheaper 1680x1050 monitor or you're going to have to put down hundreds for a 1920x1200. They don't make mainstream monitors higher than that anymore, either. The complaints are valid. For the record, I do use multiple monitors for a respectable resolution, but they're (asymmetrically) 16:10, so I'm good.
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What? I can't drive legally without glasses, and I still find 1920x1200 a treat for the eyes. Of course, I'm talking more the 25" range.
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You beat me to it. Forget frozen development, things have backtracked. I still have a 2048x1568 monitor from '98! Hell, I'd be satisfied if they upped it to 1920x1200- 16:10>4:3>5:4>4:5>16:9!
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It's legal if it's unencrypted- ergo, it's fine to rip CDs, technically illegal to rip DVDs, but the latter is not enforced unless you're distributing.
... I was just amazed that it was illegal in the UK, but not the US, which as far as I knew had more draconian copyright laws.
Hm, and here I was thinking the US was had the most backwards copyright laws in the world. So basically the same type of enforcement as ripping DVDs is in the US then, no action unless you try to distribute the copies?
It was illegal in the UK? I would have thought that of all places, it would have been illegal in the US. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction I guess...
Oh, here I was thinking it was a glitch in the matrix.
Because you listen to the MSM maybe? It's just two heads of the same coin really, republicans usually catering to traditional corps like big oil, democrats bending over to the MAFIAA.
You would have gotten a mod point if you'd thrown in somewhere:
War. War never changes.
IE6 has less than 2% usage in most of the western world, and IE7 is lower than 6. Really you only have to worry about IE8 unless you're targeting the far east.
I don't have a problem with private high speed cables- I have a problem with the ridiculous waste of resources to gain literally a 5ms advantage over the other psychopaths. True though, work is created. But that's about the only benefit to anyone other than HFT-ers. Of course, if the process is ever outlawed or something, we'll get a flood of programmers who can write a port of asteroids from Z80 assembly without minimum requirements jumping to an i7.
Oh yeah, forgot. It is written in x86 assembly iirc. Well, there are other emulators out there. snes9x is quite good, used it on android before.
Oh- so you wouldn't get blocked by spam filters I assume?
If I weren't so tired I'd make a lame physics joke about quarks. But I am, so you can go about your business. Move along.
It doesn't- for perspective, I recently read an article about a new trans-atlantic cable being lain that would decrease latency to something in the low double digits (ms). I thought "this is amazing, think of the use it could have in game servers!". Then, I read that it was a private cable designed to shave a few milliseconds off trading times overseas. Just the shock that reached me when taking that in was... amazing. Such a waste of resources to the detriment of society.
Not as many though. You only need a handful of people to fix the robot that replaced 100 jobs.
That's called packet radio. It's regulated into idiocy- no encryption allowed even. Highly possible though, look it up.
And I wouldn't want my mail tied down to my ISP.
Almost as bad as when microsoft's website bashing linux as a server. When you click on reliability [of windows servers], it 404's.
Don't- I have one. Resolution's amazing, contrast is terrible.
That made my day! Thanks for the info!
Well take a look at the IBM T220- they haven't sold those in over 5 years, current monitors come up to about a quarter the pixels- and those are 1920x1200s which I don't think they sell anymore either. I'd love one except that multi-monitors would be a pain in the ass. As for horizontal res, I've still got a 2048x1568 monitor from '98, that's still more than most anyone has these days. Sad bit? That was an OEM monitor that was bundled with the computer.
Wait- storing ripped dvds in iso format? *facepalm*
You're doing it wrong.
It's not so much the pixel density, but aspect ratios. 16:9 kinda sucks on a computer- it might sound minor, but 16:10 is way better. The caveat? You'll either be buying a cheaper 1680x1050 monitor or you're going to have to put down hundreds for a 1920x1200. They don't make mainstream monitors higher than that anymore, either. The complaints are valid. For the record, I do use multiple monitors for a respectable resolution, but they're (asymmetrically) 16:10, so I'm good.
What? I can't drive legally without glasses, and I still find 1920x1200 a treat for the eyes. Of course, I'm talking more the 25" range.
You beat me to it. Forget frozen development, things have backtracked. I still have a 2048x1568 monitor from '98! Hell, I'd be satisfied if they upped it to 1920x1200- 16:10>4:3>5:4>4:5>16:9!
Ah, thanks for clearing that up. With a network card though... it just became a whole lot more useful.