I did try Gordian Knot, along with AutoGK, as I said. No luck.
The Doom forums is one of the forums I poked around on trying to fix the problem. It is rife with people having the exact problems I'm having. Here is an example thread I found in 10 seconds:
Check out the proposed "fix" in the above thread by user "setarip_old"!
Get real! And this is exactly the kinds of "fixes" I muddled through for a few days trying to get the free stuff to work. It's like a freaking arcane black art or something. No thanks. I paid my $80 and now I make a few clicks from a nice, simple GUI and it JUST WORKS.
I don't understand the appeal of sites like "Facebook" or "Myspace". What they look like to me is web-based personal-website-creation tools. What is so interesting about a site that lets people make web sites about themselves? What am I missing? I already have a web site hosted on my own domain. Why would I want a Facebook or Myspace web site?
I tried at least 7 different pieces of software trying to make a go of it with free stuff.
I tried AutoGK, etc. etc. etc.
And I know I'm not alone with an isolated problem because if you go read the DVD-ripping related forums you will find that audio/video sync problems is a consistent theme.
So kudos to you for figuring it all out and saving the 80 bucks. Myself I figure I spent about 20 hours all told trying to get it to work with free software - well over $80 worth of time to me.
Not to mention the fact that none of the free tools were stand-alone products. Most, if not all of them, required you to go download and install numerous other pieces of the puzzle to make it all work. I'm always skeptical when I have to go download 4 other pieces of software to make another piece of software run. It's hard enough to get one developer to make their own tool work right - every time you throw another developer into the mix the chances of things going afoul rise.
So ultimately, I was very pleased with the Slysoft tool. It works flawlessly. I wish I could have found a free tool, but I couldn't.
I don't have an HD-capable TV, so I don't fool around with Blu-ray or any of that stuff yet.
But I wanted to take this opportunity to say how great Slysoft's software is.
I tried at least half a dozen pieces of "free" software trying to rip DVDs and re-encode them to.AVI files. While I could usually get the ripping done (Ripit4me worked), I could never get a re-encoding to work that didn't have audio/video sync issues.
I plied all the forums, downloaded endless codecs and other whosit and whatsit pieces here and there and could never get it to work. So much for "open source".
So I laid out $80 to Slysoft. One package to rip the DVDs, and one package to re-encode them into a variety of formats (I use.AVI). It has worked flawlessly.
It's a nice idea, but the fact is, if you don't do business in Brazil, someone else will, as long as there is profit to be made.
And once their infrastructure is set up and dependent on your competition's equipment, guess how much harder it will be to ever get back in the door in the future?
>So when someone threatens you with a law suit but offers to settle for a much lower amount, you should always settle.
No, but when you are stupid enough to log into P2P file sharing networks with a COMMON NICKNAME you used elsewhere for years, and do so over a hard-wired network, and get caught in the act, then maybe you ought to consider settling.
She received horrible legal advice to try and take this to court.
I think this is very interesting. It tells us a few things:
1) It tells me that ticket prices are, basically, under-priced. If scalpers are buying up the tickets and selling them for 10 times the face value, then Tickemaster should be selling those tickets at ten times what they are currently selling them for.
2) It tells me there is a lot of money in live performances. If I were a performer, I would capitalize on this by putting on 15 shows in a city instead of 5 (or however many I could continue to sell out) before moving on to the next city. While digital music is becoming worthless, clearly some live performances are skyrocketing in value.
3) It tells me that Ticketmaster needs to work on developing technology that can limit the number of tickets that can be purchased by any given entity or individual.
My experience has been that in engineering, people only resort to using your education as a metric to measure you by if you have no relevant experience to use instead.
3 years out of school, and nobody cares where you went to school. They want to see the results of your last 3 years of/work/.
>I hope you told the dean what happened, and that it was a crappy way to treat there customers i.e. students, and because of thre poor policy bought the book elsewhere.
Nah, actually it was never my intent to buy the book from the bookstore - I didn't price check but I'm 99% certain it would have been more expensive at the book store, as every time I have comparison shopped the book store was no comparison. Plus I didn't want to have to make a special trip to go buy the book.
I really can't say that customer service will make or break a commodity book purchase for me. It's going to be the same textbook no matter where I buy it, so really it all boils down to price.
Professors should provide the ISBN number in addition to the name of the book, the author, and edition.
Although truth be told, if you have the name of the book, the author, and the edition you can get the ISBN number online.
I bought my last textbook online. I called up the school bookstore and asked them for the ISBN number of the textbook my class would be using. They refused to give it to me. So I asked for the name, edition, and author, which they did provide. I then went to Amazon.com and found the book, plus the ISBN number.
>Why the US isn't using its weapons is because the US has no right to be where it currently is,
Whether or not the US has any right to be where it currently is, the reason why it isn't unchaining its military to lay waste to the region, ala Dresden, Nagasaki, etc., is because the aftermath would be on CNN in 15 minutes.
>You can't blow up an idea, especially if each attempt just makes more followers.
You can't blow up an idea, but if you blow up enough people you can break the will of people to act on those ideas. It just takes sufficient force. We are unwilling to apply that kind of force in Iraq, and, consequently, we are having no effect on the will of our enemies there. In fact, in all likelyhood we are actually enhancing their will by being there.
But you can't win a war with one eye on CNN to gage the public response to your use of your weapons. That is why we won't use our weapons to win wars anymore.
>Um, if you could buy an expensive car in state X, or the same car for cheaper from some guy that bought one in >California, marked it up to less than you could buy it in state X and delivered it to you, >which would you buy? They have to completely restrict sales to prevent this.
Is there anything that prevents a Californian from selling his California-purchased car outside of California today?
Look, if Californians want to state-subsidize cleaner automobiles, that's fine.
But how does letting other people buy the same kind of car in other states hurt their investment? The people of California would/still/ get to buy cleaner cars. And in fact, if other people could buy them, too, maybe the price would go down and California would not have to subsidize them so heavily.
Now I could see California saying they will only pay a subsidy for cars sold IN California, which would mean they would cost more in other states that don't subsidize. But I don't see why they would care.
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I did try Gordian Knot, along with AutoGK, as I said. No luck.
The Doom forums is one of the forums I poked around on trying to fix the problem. It is rife with people having the exact problems I'm having. Here is an example thread I found in 10 seconds:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=131202
Check out the proposed "fix" in the above thread by user "setarip_old"!
Get real! And this is exactly the kinds of "fixes" I muddled through for a few days trying to get the free stuff to work. It's like a freaking arcane black art or something. No thanks. I paid my $80 and now I make a few clicks from a nice, simple GUI and it JUST WORKS.
I think I missed a boat somewhere. :)
I don't understand the appeal of sites like "Facebook" or "Myspace". What they look like to me is web-based personal-website-creation tools. What is so interesting about a site that lets people make web sites about themselves? What am I missing? I already have a web site hosted on my own domain. Why would I want a Facebook or Myspace web site?
I tried at least 7 different pieces of software trying to make a go of it with free stuff.
I tried AutoGK, etc. etc. etc.
And I know I'm not alone with an isolated problem because if you go read the DVD-ripping related forums you will find that audio/video sync problems is a consistent theme.
So kudos to you for figuring it all out and saving the 80 bucks. Myself I figure I spent about 20 hours all told trying to get it to work with free software - well over $80 worth of time to me.
Not to mention the fact that none of the free tools were stand-alone products. Most, if not all of them, required you to go download and install numerous other pieces of the puzzle to make it all work. I'm always skeptical when I have to go download 4 other pieces of software to make another piece of software run. It's hard enough to get one developer to make their own tool work right - every time you throw another developer into the mix the chances of things going afoul rise.
So ultimately, I was very pleased with the Slysoft tool. It works flawlessly. I wish I could have found a free tool, but I couldn't.
I don't have an HD-capable TV, so I don't fool around with Blu-ray or any of that stuff yet.
.AVI files. While I could usually get the ripping done (Ripit4me worked), I could never get a re-encoding to work that didn't have audio/video sync issues.
.AVI). It has worked flawlessly.
But I wanted to take this opportunity to say how great Slysoft's software is.
I tried at least half a dozen pieces of "free" software trying to rip DVDs and re-encode them to
I plied all the forums, downloaded endless codecs and other whosit and whatsit pieces here and there and could never get it to work. So much for "open source".
So I laid out $80 to Slysoft. One package to rip the DVDs, and one package to re-encode them into a variety of formats (I use
I'm a big Slysoft fan now.
You know what? I'm tired. I'm just damn tired of all of this content maneuvering.
I think I'm just going to swear off of music and video all together and find other uses for my time. I'm serious. I've already canceled the cable TV.
It's a nice idea, but the fact is, if you don't do business in Brazil, someone else will, as long as there is profit to be made.
And once their infrastructure is set up and dependent on your competition's equipment, guess how much harder it will be to ever get back in the door in the future?
I know it's fun to hop on the "let's hate the USA" parade, but come on.
/really/ think that every other country in the world doesn't monitor the communications systems that route through /their/ country?
Does anyone
WWIV. Ah, the good old days. :)
>Is there also an air of nerdy excitement about this new-sorta "Space Race II"
>(new character... Asia!) in the rest of you guys too?
Yes, but also I have this nagging fear that we won't be able to dominate like we used to. We're lazier and more expensive than we used to be.
>So when someone threatens you with a law suit but offers to settle for a much lower amount, you should always settle.
No, but when you are stupid enough to log into P2P file sharing networks with a COMMON NICKNAME you used elsewhere for years, and do so over a hard-wired network, and get caught in the act, then maybe you ought to consider settling.
She received horrible legal advice to try and take this to court.
Let's have a vote. You can even AC it if you want.
How many people have ever bought music direct-from-the-artist over the web or in person?
>$100 a ticket to see a band? you've got to be kidding me.
Clearly, from TFA, there are a lot of people who are not kidding and quite willing and able to shell out that kind of money and more for tickets.
The demand is there.
I think this is very interesting. It tells us a few things:
1) It tells me that ticket prices are, basically, under-priced. If scalpers are buying up the tickets and selling them for 10 times the face value, then Tickemaster should be selling those tickets at ten times what they are currently selling them for.
2) It tells me there is a lot of money in live performances. If I were a performer, I would capitalize on this by putting on 15 shows in a city instead of 5 (or however many I could continue to sell out) before moving on to the next city. While digital music is becoming worthless, clearly some live performances are skyrocketing in value.
3) It tells me that Ticketmaster needs to work on developing technology that can limit the number of tickets that can be purchased by any given entity or individual.
My experience has been that in engineering, people only resort to using your education as a metric to measure you by if you have no relevant experience to use instead.
/work/.
3 years out of school, and nobody cares where you went to school. They want to see the results of your last 3 years of
>I hope you told the dean what happened, and that it was a crappy way to treat there customers i.e. students, and because of thre poor policy bought the book elsewhere.
Nah, actually it was never my intent to buy the book from the bookstore - I didn't price check but I'm 99% certain it would have been more expensive at the book store, as every time I have comparison shopped the book store was no comparison. Plus I didn't want to have to make a special trip to go buy the book.
I really can't say that customer service will make or break a commodity book purchase for me. It's going to be the same textbook no matter where I buy it, so really it all boils down to price.
Professors should provide the ISBN number in addition to the name of the book, the author, and edition.
Although truth be told, if you have the name of the book, the author, and the edition you can get the ISBN number online.
I bought my last textbook online. I called up the school bookstore and asked them for the ISBN number of the textbook my class would be using. They refused to give it to me. So I asked for the name, edition, and author, which they did provide. I then went to Amazon.com and found the book, plus the ISBN number.
Imagine the reduction in social strife that will come the day that all the world's currencies are of equal value.
How nice, yet another pain-inducing tool that leaves no marks. I'm sure they will put this to quick use at Gitmo.
>Why the US isn't using its weapons is because the US has no right to be where it currently is,
Whether or not the US has any right to be where it currently is, the reason why it isn't unchaining its military to lay waste to the region, ala Dresden, Nagasaki, etc., is because the aftermath would be on CNN in 15 minutes.
>You can't blow up an idea, especially if each attempt just makes more followers.
You can't blow up an idea, but if you blow up enough people you can break the will of people to act on those ideas. It just takes sufficient force. We are unwilling to apply that kind of force in Iraq, and, consequently, we are having no effect on the will of our enemies there. In fact, in all likelyhood we are actually enhancing their will by being there.
You can't think of any?
I tell ya, the more I read this stuff the more it makes me consider a life of crime! :)
You most certainly CAN end a war with weapons.
But you can't win a war with one eye on CNN to gage the public response to your use of your weapons. That is why we won't use our weapons to win wars anymore.
OK, I'm way late to this thread, and I know no one will read this.
And I know you are not the first one to say that they were just toting the missles off as cargo somewhere.
But here is my question:
Why is cargo, even weapons being carried as cargo, mounted on the wings, presumably on weapons-launching pylons?
If these missiles were being toted around the country as cargo, why weren't they put in a crate and sent in the belly of a C-130 or something?
>Um, if you could buy an expensive car in state X, or the same car for cheaper from some guy that bought one in
>California, marked it up to less than you could buy it in state X and delivered it to you,
>which would you buy? They have to completely restrict sales to prevent this.
Is there anything that prevents a Californian from selling his California-purchased car outside of California today?
Look, if Californians want to state-subsidize cleaner automobiles, that's fine.
/still/ get to buy cleaner cars. And in fact, if other people could buy them, too, maybe the price would go down and California would not have to subsidize them so heavily.
But how does letting other people buy the same kind of car in other states hurt their investment? The people of California would
Now I could see California saying they will only pay a subsidy for cars sold IN California, which would mean they would cost more in other states that don't subsidize. But I don't see why they would care.