Until Chrome gets the same retinue I doubt Firefox has much to fear. Without fully featured versions of AdBlock, Noscript, FlashBlock, Web Developer, and Greasemonkey, I won't be switching over anytime soon.
If you dont like their product/service dont buy/use it.
Shop elsewhere.
I agree, but after telling them politely why so that they have a chance to change if they want our business.
I sent the following email to: president@nytimes.com; publisher@nytimes.com; feedback@nytimes.com; marketing@nytimes.com
Dear sirs,
I'm sure this was an oversight, and probably not an intentional one. There are several people in the world, myself included, that do not use Windows or Macintosh for their computer operating system. However, we still use the internet for much of our news. We use an operating system called Linux.
Your website does not allow itself to be browsed using Linux. According to this page on your site: http://video.on.nytimes.com/faq/inde...d50be95e3:7 8f1 only Windows and Macintosh are supported.
It would not be difficult to change this and allow more potential users to appreciate the quality of your product. I refer you to this page on the BBC web site as an example: http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/
I hope you will take this into consideration. Thank you.
Actually there's a menu item for what you want to do. However, if you want to make presentation slides in OOo and embed sound in them, that is still impossible.
Hmmmm. I use OOo version 2.0 as well. You may alternatively try Insert -> Object -> Video... . In Tools -> Options..., have you activated the "Show inactive menu items" under OpenOffice.org - View? Maybe it isn't enabled somehow in your build.
Both of those were great suggestions. I have "Show inactive menu items" activated. Under Insert->Object the choices I have available are: OLE Object..., Plug-in..., Applet..., Formula... Just those four. I recall seeing the options you and the other poster mention in earlier beta versions, but I was never able to get them to actually embed anything. They would insert a placeholder graphic, but that was all. Those options don't exist in my installation now, though. Hmm..
OpenOffice is, of course, still under much development. Have you tried debugging to see why this happens? Have you filed a big report? People aught to so this so that OpenOffice (among other's) can actually be improved!
Yes. And I have discussed this in the appropriate newsgroups.
Also, if you're only making a slideshow of jpgs/pngs/etc., why not use one of the other apps in Ubuntu for this like gThumb or F-Spot?
In each of these cases it is not a matter of a lack of alternate methods. I could do the slideshow multiple ways and have it work. I just wanted to point out, in support of the OP, another example. I would love to see OpenOffice be all it can be as well because for those who are not *nix savvy (and don't want/can't become so) it would be beneficial for them to have this working. That's all I was thinking.
OpenOffice is, of course, still under much development. Have you tried debugging to see why this happens? Have you filed a big report? People aught to so this so that OpenOffice (among other's) can actually be improved!
Yes. And I have discussed this in the appropriate newsgroups.
Also, if you're only making a slideshow of jpgs/pngs/etc., why not use one of the other apps in Ubuntu for this like gThumb or F-Spot?
In each of these cases it is not a matter of a lack of alternate methods. I could do the slideshow multiple ways and have it work. I just wanted to point out, in support of the OP, another example. I would love to see OpenOffice be all it can be as well because for those who are not *nix savvy (and don't want/can't become so) it would be beneficial for them to have this working. That's all I was thinking.
What you describe would be perfect...except that I don't have that menu option at all.
I am using OOo2.0, not a beta (I used betas from 1.9.79 to 1.9.129). I have the latest java jre installed (Sun Blackdown - Linux team 1.4.2-02) and it is set up properly in Tools->Options->Java
I wonder what I am doing wrong?
I also followed your link and was successful in installing the JMF files in the appropriate directory. I modified the instructions from setenv, which is csh, to use export since I use bash and set the variables as instructed, but I couldn't get the diagnostics applet to confirm the installation. This is probably moot since the menu item I mentioned previously doesn't exist on my installation of OOo, but I must be doing something wrong...
I truly appreciate the hints and I'll keep looking at it...looks like I'm off to visit some tech forums.
Disclaimer: I use OpenOffice daily. I use Writer, Calc, Base and on occasion Impress.
I have found a few bugs/missing features I would like to have. For example:
-in Impress, so far there is no way to embed sound or other multimedia files. In PowerPoint I used to do this. I would like to be able to have a music file play while the slides autoadvance. I can do the second part easily, but I can't get sound to play. I also have not yet been able to embed a short film clip on a slide.
-in Writer/Calc/Base there is no easy way to print mailing labels from either a spreadsheet or database mailing list. The help files give a method to do it, but when the method is followed only the first page is formatted making it necessary to repeat the process several times if multipale pages of labels are needed, such as for a large database.
-Impress tends to crash often for me during formatting/creation when my slides have a lot of photos (like if I want to make a slideshow of jpgs/pngs/etc.)
There might be more, those are off of the top of my head less than two minutes after reading the OP and link.
Disclaimer #2: I use Linux exclusively (Ubuntu) because I want to--not because I hate any particular OS or company. I have other very effective methods of producing the mailing labels I need, but I would like a good presentation program...Impress is almost there.
I use Linux because:
-I prefer it as a desktop environment
-I can spend more of my time being productive rather than eradicating spyware and defragging my hard drive
-The tools and apps available are at least as good as those for Windows with very few exceptions, all of which fall outside of the scope of my needs
-The stability is amazing
Note: I hadn't run a "unixy" app in over 15 years prior to my complete switch and I had used MS products since MS-DOS 3.0 all the way to WinXP.
I don't hate Windows, Bill Gates or anyone/thing associated with them. I just wanted to offer a counter to the parent's last paragraph
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I have several of those already installed in Chrome. You may enjoy a quick trip to https://chrome.google.com/extensions?hl=en-US
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Actually there's a menu item for what you want to do. However, if you want to make presentation slides in OOo and embed sound in them, that is still impossible.
Hmmmm. I use OOo version 2.0 as well. You may alternatively try Insert -> Object -> Video... . In Tools -> Options..., have you activated the "Show inactive menu items" under OpenOffice.org - View? Maybe it isn't enabled somehow in your build.
Both of those were great suggestions. I have "Show inactive menu items" activated. Under Insert->Object the choices I have available are: OLE Object..., Plug-in..., Applet..., Formula... Just those four. I recall seeing the options you and the other poster mention in earlier beta versions, but I was never able to get them to actually embed anything. They would insert a placeholder graphic, but that was all. Those options don't exist in my installation now, though. Hmm..
Thanks for the ideas! I appreciate it.
Sorry...this time with carriage returns...
OpenOffice is, of course, still under much development. Have you tried debugging to see why this happens? Have you filed a big report? People aught to so this so that OpenOffice (among other's) can actually be improved!
Yes. And I have discussed this in the appropriate newsgroups.
Also, if you're only making a slideshow of jpgs/pngs/etc., why not use one of the other apps in Ubuntu for this like gThumb or F-Spot?
In each of these cases it is not a matter of a lack of alternate methods. I could do the slideshow multiple ways and have it work. I just wanted to point out, in support of the OP, another example. I would love to see OpenOffice be all it can be as well because for those who are not *nix savvy (and don't want/can't become so) it would be beneficial for them to have this working. That's all I was thinking.
OpenOffice is, of course, still under much development. Have you tried debugging to see why this happens? Have you filed a big report? People aught to so this so that OpenOffice (among other's) can actually be improved! Yes. And I have discussed this in the appropriate newsgroups. Also, if you're only making a slideshow of jpgs/pngs/etc., why not use one of the other apps in Ubuntu for this like gThumb or F-Spot? In each of these cases it is not a matter of a lack of alternate methods. I could do the slideshow multiple ways and have it work. I just wanted to point out, in support of the OP, another example. I would love to see OpenOffice be all it can be as well because for those who are not *nix savvy (and don't want/can't become so) it would be beneficial for them to have this working. That's all I was thinking.
What you describe would be perfect...except that I don't have that menu option at all.
I am using OOo2.0, not a beta (I used betas from 1.9.79 to 1.9.129). I have the latest java jre installed (Sun Blackdown - Linux team 1.4.2-02) and it is set up properly in Tools->Options->Java
I wonder what I am doing wrong?
I also followed your link and was successful in installing the JMF files in the appropriate directory. I modified the instructions from setenv, which is csh, to use export since I use bash and set the variables as instructed, but I couldn't get the diagnostics applet to confirm the installation. This is probably moot since the menu item I mentioned previously doesn't exist on my installation of OOo, but I must be doing something wrong...
I truly appreciate the hints and I'll keep looking at it...looks like I'm off to visit some tech forums.
Disclaimer: I use OpenOffice daily. I use Writer, Calc, Base and on occasion Impress.
I have found a few bugs/missing features I would like to have. For example:
-in Impress, so far there is no way to embed sound or other multimedia files. In PowerPoint I used to do this. I would like to be able to have a music file play while the slides autoadvance. I can do the second part easily, but I can't get sound to play. I also have not yet been able to embed a short film clip on a slide.
-in Writer/Calc/Base there is no easy way to print mailing labels from either a spreadsheet or database mailing list. The help files give a method to do it, but when the method is followed only the first page is formatted making it necessary to repeat the process several times if multipale pages of labels are needed, such as for a large database.
-Impress tends to crash often for me during formatting/creation when my slides have a lot of photos (like if I want to make a slideshow of jpgs/pngs/etc.)
There might be more, those are off of the top of my head less than two minutes after reading the OP and link.
Disclaimer #2: I use Linux exclusively (Ubuntu) because I want to--not because I hate any particular OS or company. I have other very effective methods of producing the mailing labels I need, but I would like a good presentation program...Impress is almost there.
Take a look at the ubuntuforums...here's a link that helped me get wpa working perfectly with my ipw2200. http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=26623
I use Linux because: -I prefer it as a desktop environment -I can spend more of my time being productive rather than eradicating spyware and defragging my hard drive -The tools and apps available are at least as good as those for Windows with very few exceptions, all of which fall outside of the scope of my needs -The stability is amazing Note: I hadn't run a "unixy" app in over 15 years prior to my complete switch and I had used MS products since MS-DOS 3.0 all the way to WinXP. I don't hate Windows, Bill Gates or anyone/thing associated with them. I just wanted to offer a counter to the parent's last paragraph