Why has it failed to catch on? I don't think it has, there's been quite a lot of movement towards it especially by government agencies, but a product as entrenched as MS Office isn't going to be ousted over night.
I've used OO for the last year without any problems.
I can't actually think of a single time it's crashed. Plus I *do* need office compatibility, and haven't had any problems there either. This is in a business, where sending out poorly formatted docs would be a serious problem, but I've had no issues..
I put it to you sir that either you haven't used OO.o for a long time, or you're full of it.
I absolutely agree, though as you say it's not really relevant to this particular discussion.
On that note though, I download and watch DivX for three main reasons:
1. The ease of getting them. 2. The simplicity of storage, management and retrieval. 3. I'm not willing to pay £15 for a permenant copy of a film that I might watch a couple of times at most. Rental could be a solution here, but Blockbuster have made it nearly impossible for smaller shops that have more than just the top 20 recent releases (slight exaggeration I know). My local video store just doesn't have enough films that I want to watch.
If there were a services where I could download movies for say £3-5 (~$5-9 afaik) and be allowed to play them on any player without having to authenticate with a server, then I would do so happily.
Incidentally, probably the majority of what I download now is TV series, for example I just got round to watching the end of Battlestar Galactica Season 1. Now the rips I'm watching are from Sky, which I had a subscription to while they were being aired...
On a side note, from what I've read, it's arguable whether downloading content is actually illegal. You'll notice that no-one's been arrested for downloading, just for uploading.
Actually most people I know with chipped xboxes now mostly use them to run XBMC to stream media from a separate PC. Suprisingly like the media extender capability MS is building into the 360. Except of course you'll have to be running Windows to stream to that...
I've got a few cracked games on mine, but I hardly ever play games on it any more.
I guess you haven't been following the DS very closely then.
Ok if you purely define it as games that make *you* want to go out and buy it then fine, but the DS has been an incredible success, and its innovative games are getting rave reviews.
====== Gates: Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together. So it's not like there was some software that had this security capability and our software did not. ======
You don't need to get it modded though, just detune the channels.. That way if you decide at some point you do want TV then you don't have to get the mod undone, or worse get a new TV.
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Neither is DNS, which is what the whole discussion is about.
Er, we did.
Perhaps you should read up on how the internet works.
It's based on firefox apparently.
pray tell, what's native american food?
Well I use OpenOffice yes.
Why has it failed to catch on? I don't think it has, there's been quite a lot of movement towards it especially by government agencies, but a product as entrenched as MS Office isn't going to be ousted over night.
Who's spreading FUD now?
I've used OO for the last year without any problems.
I can't actually think of a single time it's crashed. Plus I *do* need office compatibility, and haven't had any problems there either. This is in a business, where sending out poorly formatted docs would be a serious problem, but I've had no issues..
I put it to you sir that either you haven't used OO.o for a long time, or you're full of it.
They bring the only serious competitor to MS Office, Star Office/OO.o
Not hard to work out is it?
Netscape's using their operating system monopoly to push a competing browser out of the market? Well you learn something new every day!
I absolutely agree, though as you say it's not really relevant to this particular discussion.
On that note though, I download and watch DivX for three main reasons:
1. The ease of getting them.
2. The simplicity of storage, management and retrieval.
3. I'm not willing to pay £15 for a permenant copy of a film that I might watch a couple of times at most. Rental could be a solution here, but Blockbuster have made it nearly impossible for smaller shops that have more than just the top 20 recent releases (slight exaggeration I know). My local video store just doesn't have enough films that I want to watch.
If there were a services where I could download movies for say £3-5 (~$5-9 afaik) and be allowed to play them on any player without having to authenticate with a server, then I would do so happily.
Incidentally, probably the majority of what I download now is TV series, for example I just got round to watching the end of Battlestar Galactica Season 1. Now the rips I'm watching are from Sky, which I had a subscription to while they were being aired...
On a side note, from what I've read, it's arguable whether downloading content is actually illegal. You'll notice that no-one's been arrested for downloading, just for uploading.
no YOUR mother!
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The Dreamcast doesn't need modding to play copied games...
Actually most people I know with chipped xboxes now mostly use them to run XBMC to stream media from a separate PC. Suprisingly like the media extender capability MS is building into the 360. Except of course you'll have to be running Windows to stream to that...
I've got a few cracked games on mine, but I hardly ever play games on it any more.
pardon?
replying to self sorry...
that only works for the first page, still you can read the intro.
here's the mirrordot link
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http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/2400897cd3c6f4ab
And HTML :)
Slight correction:
// : For most languages with C like syntaxes (Including PHP as that's the example we have here)
/* something */ : Ditto
# : For Bash, PHP and many others
<!-- something --> : HTML
I guess you haven't been following the DS very closely then.
Ok if you purely define it as games that make *you* want to go out and buy it then fine, but the DS has been an incredible success, and its innovative games are getting rave reviews.
I havet to agree on multiple monitors. Personally I'm happy enough with two and 3 virtual desktops. One straight ahead and one off to the right.
Ok then, how about this one...
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Gates: Software in general, whether it was from Microsoft or somebody else, was not set up for an environment where all the computers were connected together. So it's not like there was some software that had this security capability and our software did not.
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Haw!
It was, kinda. The different disk format means that you have to stream across ethernet instead of running off the mini-dvd thing.
Have you been a fan of previous Wipeout games? The control mechanism is quite unique and a lot of people don't like it..
To my knowledge every major console ever released has been cracked. What makes this one so different?
You don't need to get it modded though, just detune the channels.. That way if you decide at some point you do want TV then you don't have to get the mod undone, or worse get a new TV.
You can have a normal TV detuned from the channels and not pay the fee if you inform the license authority. I've done it and they were fine about it
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