I actually paid $30 for WinXdvd Ripper Platinum so I don't have to see those damn ads anymore. (got the original one from http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/)
It's the only one I've ever seen that really works. I use my quad core and can rip a movie in an hour.
Dvd goes on the shelf, mediacentre pc plays the file.
The movie industry is dumb. They have learned nothing.
P.S. If I could go to a torrent site and have some machine at home build me a car... yer damn right I'd steal it in a heartbeat! Wait till 3d printers become affordable!
I have about 15 of these boxes. I have not ever had a "surprise" virus. Any virus that I've ever had came from my own stupidity, like downloading a bad no-cd patch.
I have all the patches I need for the games I play now. I'm behind a router and stopped updating XP since service pack 3 screwed up my network and slowed my machines to a crawl. I have four machines that don't even have anti-virus anymore. I watch my network traffic and scan the shared drives from a machine on the lan.
To get suitable performance out of Windows 7, I would have to upgrade 13 of 15 machines and then most of my software wouldn't work. I'm staying with XP till nothing works anymore. I have a garage full of spare parts so I may end up being the last person to use XP.
Shit I still have a win2k server running fine.
What I'm really waiting for here is for Microsoft to kill activation once XP hits EOL. How much you wanna bet that they don't do it?
If I buy a new car in Canada, it still says miles per gallon on the sticker. (as well as the metric one). We use metric for temperature and weights of goods sold but you know what? A 2 x 4 is still a 2 x 4. I buy plywood in 4' x 8' sheets. I built my whole house with a standard tape because it's easier for me. I know I can easily divide a foot by 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6. Try that with a damn decimeter.
Some things will never be changed. The roads in Alberta are 1 mile apart east to west and two miles apart north to south. That'll never change either.
Metric is ok for some things, but a royal pain in the ass for other things. Both systems will be used in Canada forever. Shit we changed in the seventies and I can easily buy stand tape measures, 16oz hammers and standard size steel and wood.
QOS on your router can fix most of that "shared line" issue. I stream netflix and the quality is the same as my media centre. I can buy the complete seasons of almost anything I want to watch for $100. (latest was SG-1)
I've seen hi def via blue ray, ya it's nice, but not needed. I watch ripped dvd's from a media centre (mediaportal) on a standard def projector about 80" diagonal. I frankly don't need anything else.
I'm not going to 3d, or blue ray or any other bullshit format that Sony dreams up. Sony is the evil.
Good enough + works in my van + cheap + easy to rip beats the hell out of anything else.
I only lost $10 on the game and it didn't improve my customer experience regardless of the incessant fan-boy rantings.
Shall I continue to flame the crowd? Please choose a flamebait from the list below:
1. The moon landings were faked.
2. 9-11 was an inside job.
3. Apple sux.
4. Linux will never be ready for the desktop.
Anybody else I can piss off today?
BTW, how are those wonderful steam games going to work when the company inevitably fails? .
Let me clarify.
1. I bought a game in a store that did not visibly disclose that Steam was required.
2. The game installed steam, downloaded a shit load of stuff and made me make a login in the process.
3. The piece of shit game still wanted the cd and to be connected to Steam to launch the game.
4. After about a week, the piece of shit updated via steam and killed the sound.
5. I then installed the no-cd and no-steam crack and although the game would play, the sound was still not working.
6. I uninstalled the game, and will never buy anything from Steam again. Fuck em.
7. Any moron that thinks DRM is a good business model is an idiot.
8. When it's easier and more convenient to download and install a torrent than it is to actually BUY and install a game, DRM fails and is retarded.
What really pissed me off was that there was no visible warning that Steam was required at all. I did finally see the warning though... in the tiniest of text.
There was no offline mode that I could see. Anytime I wanted to play the game, it started steam. If I had seen a sticker that said Steam was required.... I would have left the damn disk in the store. Lesson learned.
I bought ONE (1) Steam game. Star Trek something. I couldn't believe that they actually make sure you're online before the game starts. Downloaded the no-cd and the no-steam patch. The game lost it's sound a week or so later. (it did work after the patches though). Uninstalled. I will never buy another steam game.
I went to Direct2Drive and re-bought Star Wars Battlefront because they made it work on a quad core machine. They should do more of that.
With any luck, we will get the exact same result as the previous three elections and all the leaders will be replaced. Then we can hopefully start over in a couple years.
I've always been conservative (because we don't have a libertarian party here) but this bunch of assholes has to stop trying to make us in the US image. A Canadian DMCA will never fly and the only way that would pass is if asshole Harper got his majority. Thankfully, most people in the east know what kind of megalomanic he is and are scared shitless of giving him that majority.
When I log in, it remembers which episodes I've watched. It will automatically resume, which is awesome. If I am watching something, then just close the browser, it remembers and goes back to the same spot the next time I try to play it. I don't have to close or stop playing the show.
I am in Canada, so it may be different from the states. I don't have anywhere to bookmark things I'd like to watch other than in Firefox. But once I've started watching something, Netflix puts it in my history which I can access anytime. The last three shows I watched are displayed at the top of the home page and there is a link to access everything I've already watched or am in the process of watching.
Firefly has been added to netflix, Rug rats have a few seasons up. They have Stargate infinity (I know, not the same).
I have found lots to see already and they seem to be adding more content all the time. It works perfectly in Canuckistan for me. $8. a month is well worth it, especially if you have little kids. There's lots of kid stuff and I love the fact that there is no commercials and they keep track of which episodes you've watched.
They do have their fair share of stinker movies too, but I also like to support their efforts. Hopefully this will be the tv of the future.(Cause the damn satellite sure sucks)
You should do this for a living then. I bet within a couple years you will be cured.
Is there anything more annoying that the user who proudly proclaims," I don't know anything about computers!" ? These are the same people that want you to fix it for free... even if it is your business. "Well you sold me the computer so it should work perfectly forever, regardless of the viruses I install on it".
I could only stand about a decade of tech support. Most users have no idea what a backup is until they lose everything the first time. Sadly, a lot of businesses I saw were the same way.
It's a very stressful job. Friends and relatives always think that you can wave the magic floppy disk and save everything they lost... for free of course.
I personally stopped upgrading at XP. If it's Vista, or 7, I just tell them that I haven't used those operating systems and can't help. It's worked as well as telling people that I'm Mac-tarded.
I NEED Photoshop. I even needed a better version than I had. Thankfully I could buy the newer version on Ebay without spending 2k.
Why does everyone always resort to comparing Gimp with Photoshop? Photoshop is the industry standard for graphics and I am hard pressed to do my job without it. I agree that Gimp is for the amatuers who do nothing more than post to fark and somethingawful.
Those may very well be the same people who have enough free time to spend fucking around with Linuk to try and get something to half-assed work for geek points.
I have no problem affording new hardware. I fail to see a need.
Last I checked, Gimp was a very poor substitute for Photoshop.
Open Office crashed way too much for my liking.
I do use Mozilla software though.
I'm absolutely sick of Linux in it's 1000 versions. I tried for a decade to use it. It's been banned from my house now. I've listened to fanbois on this site for ten years and it will NEVER be ready for prime time. Linux will NEVER have any decent market share with end users. You can cite the great Linux "achievements" but the fact remains, Linux had a huge lead in net-books only to be destroyed by Microsoft within a year.
Ubuntu was to be the "holy grail" of distributions and now the geeks are fighting about that. It will probably ultimately fail just like everything else before it.
I used to help advance the Linux cause, but now I'm so tired of the bullshit and elitism that comes with it.
Lots of people can use the free software, sometimes it's worth it, sometimes not. I prefer to spend my money on other toys and my time playing with those toys.
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It's the only one I've ever seen that really works. I use my quad core and can rip a movie in an hour.
Dvd goes on the shelf, mediacentre pc plays the file.
The movie industry is dumb. They have learned nothing. P.S. If I could go to a torrent site and have some machine at home build me a car... yer damn right I'd steal it in a heartbeat! Wait till 3d printers become affordable!
I'm so glad I don't do computer repairs anymore.
I have all the patches I need for the games I play now. I'm behind a router and stopped updating XP since service pack 3 screwed up my network and slowed my machines to a crawl. I have four machines that don't even have anti-virus anymore. I watch my network traffic and scan the shared drives from a machine on the lan.
To get suitable performance out of Windows 7, I would have to upgrade 13 of 15 machines and then most of my software wouldn't work. I'm staying with XP till nothing works anymore. I have a garage full of spare parts so I may end up being the last person to use XP.
Shit I still have a win2k server running fine.
What I'm really waiting for here is for Microsoft to kill activation once XP hits EOL. How much you wanna bet that they don't do it?
Some things will never be changed. The roads in Alberta are 1 mile apart east to west and two miles apart north to south. That'll never change either.
Metric is ok for some things, but a royal pain in the ass for other things. Both systems will be used in Canada forever. Shit we changed in the seventies and I can easily buy stand tape measures, 16oz hammers and standard size steel and wood.
Just break the damn things.
I've seen hi def via blue ray, ya it's nice, but not needed. I watch ripped dvd's from a media centre (mediaportal) on a standard def projector about 80" diagonal. I frankly don't need anything else.
I'm not going to 3d, or blue ray or any other bullshit format that Sony dreams up. Sony is the evil.
Good enough + works in my van + cheap + easy to rip beats the hell out of anything else.
Shall I continue to flame the crowd? Please choose a flamebait from the list below:
1. The moon landings were faked.
2. 9-11 was an inside job.
3. Apple sux.
4. Linux will never be ready for the desktop.
Anybody else I can piss off today?
BTW, how are those wonderful steam games going to work when the company inevitably fails?
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Regardless, it was my first and last experience with Steam.
Let me clarify.
1. I bought a game in a store that did not visibly disclose that Steam was required.
2. The game installed steam, downloaded a shit load of stuff and made me make a login in the process.
3. The piece of shit game still wanted the cd and to be connected to Steam to launch the game.
4. After about a week, the piece of shit updated via steam and killed the sound.
5. I then installed the no-cd and no-steam crack and although the game would play, the sound was still not working.
6. I uninstalled the game, and will never buy anything from Steam again. Fuck em.
7. Any moron that thinks DRM is a good business model is an idiot.
8. When it's easier and more convenient to download and install a torrent than it is to actually BUY and install a game, DRM fails and is retarded.
There was no offline mode that I could see. Anytime I wanted to play the game, it started steam. If I had seen a sticker that said Steam was required.... I would have left the damn disk in the store. Lesson learned.
I went to Direct2Drive and re-bought Star Wars Battlefront because they made it work on a quad core machine. They should do more of that.
Anyone that thinks DRM works is retarded.
Didn't this idea kill mp3.com? Even if this is YOUR music uploaded this time, I doubt the RIAA will take this sitting down.
Why would anyone steal that shit?
McAfee and Norton. Are these not the two worst software companies?
I've always been conservative (because we don't have a libertarian party here) but this bunch of assholes has to stop trying to make us in the US image. A Canadian DMCA will never fly and the only way that would pass is if asshole Harper got his majority. Thankfully, most people in the east know what kind of megalomanic he is and are scared shitless of giving him that majority.
Boooo..... hahahahahaha. no mod points left ;-(
I am in Canada, so it may be different from the states. I don't have anywhere to bookmark things I'd like to watch other than in Firefox. But once I've started watching something, Netflix puts it in my history which I can access anytime. The last three shows I watched are displayed at the top of the home page and there is a link to access everything I've already watched or am in the process of watching.
I thought someone just bought the rights and the online community was told that there would be no new episodes.... which does suck.
I have found lots to see already and they seem to be adding more content all the time. It works perfectly in Canuckistan for me. $8. a month is well worth it, especially if you have little kids. There's lots of kid stuff and I love the fact that there is no commercials and they keep track of which episodes you've watched.
They do have their fair share of stinker movies too, but I also like to support their efforts. Hopefully this will be the tv of the future.(Cause the damn satellite sure sucks)
One goatse was enough for me. No clicky strange links. ;-)
Is there anything more annoying that the user who proudly proclaims," I don't know anything about computers!" ? These are the same people that want you to fix it for free... even if it is your business. "Well you sold me the computer so it should work perfectly forever, regardless of the viruses I install on it".
I could only stand about a decade of tech support. Most users have no idea what a backup is until they lose everything the first time. Sadly, a lot of businesses I saw were the same way.
It's a very stressful job. Friends and relatives always think that you can wave the magic floppy disk and save everything they lost... for free of course.
I personally stopped upgrading at XP. If it's Vista, or 7, I just tell them that I haven't used those operating systems and can't help. It's worked as well as telling people that I'm Mac-tarded.
I do NOT miss that business.
They're Mormons.
Why does everyone always resort to comparing Gimp with Photoshop? Photoshop is the industry standard for graphics and I am hard pressed to do my job without it. I agree that Gimp is for the amatuers who do nothing more than post to fark and somethingawful.
Those may very well be the same people who have enough free time to spend fucking around with Linuk to try and get something to half-assed work for geek points.
Last I checked, Gimp was a very poor substitute for Photoshop.
Open Office crashed way too much for my liking.
I do use Mozilla software though.
I'm absolutely sick of Linux in it's 1000 versions. I tried for a decade to use it. It's been banned from my house now. I've listened to fanbois on this site for ten years and it will NEVER be ready for prime time. Linux will NEVER have any decent market share with end users. You can cite the great Linux "achievements" but the fact remains, Linux had a huge lead in net-books only to be destroyed by Microsoft within a year.
Ubuntu was to be the "holy grail" of distributions and now the geeks are fighting about that. It will probably ultimately fail just like everything else before it. I used to help advance the Linux cause, but now I'm so tired of the bullshit and elitism that comes with it.
Lots of people can use the free software, sometimes it's worth it, sometimes not. I prefer to spend my money on other toys and my time playing with those toys.
hehe 70's. Any of these young-un even know what a nickel bag was?