Handbrake will detect DVD's, offer you convenient presets based on the material given, and offer you 4 different major codec choices to rip your DVD into a convenient universal format.
One could easily put in a disc, press "start", press "ok" for the automatically generated file name, and away it goes.
In a couple hours you have a 1.3 gig H.264 encode with no noticeable loss of quality.
i think distracted drivers are far more likely to kill someone's kids than a governor chip preventing them from getting off of a bridge during an earthquake.
so save your righteous indignation.
how about teaching responsibility, rather than teaching them to depend on others to make sure they don't do something wrong.
We already see that from the first encroachment of this mentality on previous generations:
wall street malfeasance. the continued election of officials who spend money they can't cover through taxes. parental negligence giving rise to bullying intense enough to prompt school shootings, and to the teenage use of guns as a solution which could have been prevented. The increase (seen in articles) incidence of people graduating college and moving right back in with parents because they can't handle the real world.
You're a cunt, and if I had mod points your karma would reflect that. Not just for this post, but all the other stupid ones in this thread.
I wish you luck.
Have a nice day projecting your bitterness on people who don't deserve it rather than the holy, blameless police officer and someone who decided to approach a 6 inch high road obstruction at 100 miles per hour.
AC windows which open stereos adjustable seats tilt cruise GPS the tach map lights that clicking you get from the turn signals all seats except the driver's seat.
You can't be selective about your distractions if you really believe that.
Any officer properly trained in emergency driving would not merely depend on the lights and siren to allow them to obliviously drive through red lights.
Even ambulances will slow down to about 25 when approaching an intersection to run a red.
as for your friend at a railroad crossing.. that was not "panic", that was stupidity. Grats to him for the darwin award.
Living in Atlanta, driving on 400, 285, and 85 everyday and during rush hour and not on rush hour, at least until 4 weeks ago.
Why yes, I've never had to suddenly increase my speed to avoid an accident. Braking, shifting lanes, and not being in the fast lanes usually keeps me from dying on the more perilous occasions.
Yes, I said that with a straight face.
You're a liar, plain and simple.
(no this is NOT a troll, I live in the same metropolitan area and I have a bridge to sell to anyone who believes this hogwash)
There is actually no reason to let 16 year-olds drive. They are still in high school. Why the hell do they need to drive somewhere?
part time jobs, extracurricular activites (band, football, math club, chess club), to feed themselves, to take the burden off parents who work 2-4 hours away by picking up their younger siblings at school/daycare.
Once again, you don't seem to get how spread out the burbs are in the majority of states.
Aren't you the guy who was arguing that it was perfectly safe to eat and use your cellphone while driving?
Back in the day, i'd say yes. A cell phone back then was dialable by touch, and no more distracting than changing the radio station.
Now.. you have to look at it continuously, navigate through nine menus, etc.
As for eating.. it depends on what the food is.
Trying to eat a steak dinner isn't exactly the safest thing in the world, but reaching into a bag and popping gummy bears into your mouth every once in a while is, once again, no more distracting than changing the radio station.
Yeah, and there are a few situations where it is less safe to wear a seat belt. However, these occurances are dwarfed by the number of situations where a seatbelt saves your life. So you wear it.
you don't see the government or parents padlocking you into it, and requiring a "special, unrestricted key" to get you out.
I rarely drive the speed limit in anything but rush hour traffic, but the idea that not being able to go faster than 80 is endangering anybodies life, or especially more people than it's protecting is complete bullshit.
"better 1000 guilty go free than 1 innocent suffer wrongfully"
Someone in a teenager's camp gets injured, they have to rush to a hospital, and there's no address to get an ambulance there.
Let's tell the parents their kid is dead because the other kids parent's were paranoid, authoritarian dickweeds.
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A similar bill to protect you from the HDS, which should not be trusted with your laptop for more than 1 second.
I think it does you a favor.
My experience is people who use social networking sites and people with an IQ over 40 are mutually exclusive.
I could swear the last story I heard on this was real pre-emptively suing to make it legal.
it might be a political statement for the canadian market as politicians there keep pushing the same crappy law.
I say it's point proven.
This is Sauron versus Palpatine. Is there a good guy? Don't think so.
Speak for yourself..
palpatine is much neater than sauron.
he doesn't toss his victims around and splatter them on the walls.
Handbrake will detect DVD's, offer you convenient presets based on the material given, and offer you 4 different major codec choices to rip your DVD into a convenient universal format.
One could easily put in a disc, press "start", press "ok" for the automatically generated file name, and away it goes.
In a couple hours you have a 1.3 gig H.264 encode with no noticeable loss of quality.
yes it does, welcome to the USSA
If you believe this "intent", I have a bridge to sell you.
i think distracted drivers are far more likely to kill someone's kids than a governor chip preventing them from getting off of a bridge during an earthquake.
so save your righteous indignation.
how about teaching responsibility, rather than teaching them to depend on others to make sure they don't do something wrong.
We already see that from the first encroachment of this mentality on previous generations:
wall street malfeasance.
the continued election of officials who spend money they can't cover through taxes.
parental negligence giving rise to bullying intense enough to prompt school shootings, and to the teenage use of guns as a solution which could have been prevented.
The increase (seen in articles) incidence of people graduating college and moving right back in with parents because they can't handle the real world.
You're a cunt, and if I had mod points your karma would reflect that. Not just for this post, but all the other stupid ones in this thread.
I wish you luck.
Have a nice day projecting your bitterness on people who don't deserve it rather than the holy, blameless police officer and someone who decided to approach a 6 inch high road obstruction at 100 miles per hour.
it's nice to see impartial mods on /.
there is no -1 "i disagree"
flamebait does not substitute.
have a nice day.
Anything distracting the driver is a huge danger
I think we need to get rid of:
AC
windows which open
stereos
adjustable seats
tilt
cruise
GPS
the tach
map lights
that clicking you get from the turn signals
all seats except the driver's seat.
You can't be selective about your distractions if you really believe that.
Actually, no. Traction control will give you the maximum traction possible in snow, so you will not need to rock the car in the first place.
yes, technology is infallible, just ask microsoft.
Sounds like the cop was a bad driver.
Any officer properly trained in emergency driving would not merely depend on the lights and siren to allow them to obliviously drive through red lights.
Even ambulances will slow down to about 25 when approaching an intersection to run a red.
as for your friend at a railroad crossing.. that was not "panic", that was stupidity. Grats to him for the darwin award.
SURPRISE: An INSURANCE group commissioning a biased study so they can "justify" more rate hikes.
"Society for intelligent design study shows science should be removed from schools"
"Fox news study shows liberals 50% more likely to betray their country"
Living in Atlanta, driving on 400, 285, and 85 everyday and during rush hour and not on rush hour, at least until 4 weeks ago.
Why yes, I've never had to suddenly increase my speed to avoid an accident. Braking, shifting lanes, and not being in the fast lanes usually keeps me from dying on the more perilous occasions.
Yes, I said that with a straight face.
You're a liar, plain and simple.
(no this is NOT a troll, I live in the same metropolitan area and I have a bridge to sell to anyone who believes this hogwash)
There is actually no reason to let 16 year-olds drive. They are still in high school. Why the hell do they need to drive somewhere?
part time jobs, extracurricular activites (band, football, math club, chess club), to feed themselves, to take the burden off parents who work 2-4 hours away by picking up their younger siblings at school/daycare.
Once again, you don't seem to get how spread out the burbs are in the majority of states.
Aren't you the guy who was arguing that it was perfectly safe to eat and use your cellphone while driving?
Back in the day, i'd say yes. A cell phone back then was dialable by touch, and no more distracting than changing the radio station.
Now.. you have to look at it continuously, navigate through nine menus, etc.
As for eating.. it depends on what the food is.
Trying to eat a steak dinner isn't exactly the safest thing in the world, but reaching into a bag and popping gummy bears into your mouth every once in a while is, once again, no more distracting than changing the radio station.
Yeah, and there are a few situations where it is less safe to wear a seat belt. However, these occurances are dwarfed by the number of situations where a seatbelt saves your life. So you wear it.
you don't see the government or parents padlocking you into it, and requiring a "special, unrestricted key" to get you out.
now here's the boggler.
Does it really matter what AGE you are when you "first get a car"?
Does it breed responsibility when you don't have the opportunity to forego temptation?
I rarely drive the speed limit in anything but rush hour traffic, but the idea that not being able to go faster than 80 is endangering anybodies life, or especially more people than it's protecting is complete bullshit.
"better 1000 guilty go free than 1 innocent suffer wrongfully"
Someone in a teenager's camp gets injured, they have to rush to a hospital, and there's no address to get an ambulance there.
Let's tell the parents their kid is dead because the other kids parent's were paranoid, authoritarian dickweeds.
someone's never been to the tennessee mountains.
Trucks will end up at 35 mph in a 65 zone on those steep grades.
The faster you can floor it around them, the safer you are.
Restricting freedom is perfectly legitimate when the freedom is use of your stuff and you're put the restriction on other people, though.
then corporations can manipulate contract law and slip eula's into packages and bills of sale saying it's still "their stuff".
Hurray! we just bypassed the constitution!
I'm sorry, but most teenagers can barely drive in the first place, let alone when panicked during an emergency.
Oh, so you don't want to give your child every opportunity to survive.
spoken like someone who doesn't have kids.
it's a feature in most GPS systems, including the bargain basement models.