Looks like Bittorrent itself is under a massive take-down effort that the MPAA/RIAA has been threatening.
Whisch is interesting as to what they had against tvtorrents.com, which didn't have movies or music.
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DCJensen - Dec 19, 2004 3:58:29 pm PST #640 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Consuela - Dec 19, 2004 4:04:00 pm PST #641 of 10003
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which didn't have movies or music.
I don't think they make that distinction, Daniel, and it's just as illegal to distribute tv shows as it is movies.
tommyrot - Dec 19, 2004 4:21:59 pm PST #642 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A friend of mine needs a new computer; I'm trying to persuade her to buy an iBook. She likes the idea, but she has a fairly complex Word document (lots of fields for text to be entered) and it won't convert and open properly in the version of AppleWorks (6.2.6) that I have, and she doesn't want to spend the bucks to buy Word on top of a new computer.
So I'm looking for older versions oe used copies of Word to buy. Anyone know of any sources? What was the first version of Word written for OS X?
eta: Apparantly naughty people are selling already-registered copies for cheap. This seems like it could be... problematic.
Gris - Dec 19, 2004 4:24:41 pm PST #643 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Try OpenOffice.org? I hear it has pretty durned good support for fairly complex word stuff... and is free. Kind of slow, but free.
tommyrot - Dec 19, 2004 4:34:00 pm PST #644 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Try OpenOffice.org?
Yeah, that's worth a shot.
Any heard of LuxuriousityOffice?
LuxuriousityOffice is a Microsoft Office compatible office suite software package for APPLE MAC OS X that includes word, excel, powerpoint, and frontpage compatible programs that open, edit, and save Microsoft Office and HTML documents.
Gris - Dec 19, 2004 5:20:44 pm PST #645 of 10003
Hey. New board.
That is almost certainly rebranded OpenOffice, Tommy. Or even the somewhat older StarOffice. The "Developed by Sun Microsystems" give it away.
(OpenOffice : StarOffice :: Mozilla : Netscape)
ETA: The fact that those screenshots are in fact not even OS X windows (they're X11 windows) makes me even more certain of that, as OpenOffice currently has to run under X11 on OS X, just like that Luxblahblah thing.
meara - Dec 19, 2004 5:41:42 pm PST #646 of 10003
Also, see if she knows any students...a lot of times they can get the student edition of Office for very cheap (that's how I got mine...a friend who has friends at a certain college can get copies for $10...sadly, way too tenuous a connection to help you out personally)
tommyrot - Dec 20, 2004 4:52:34 am PST #647 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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§ ita § - Dec 20, 2004 7:24:14 am PST #648 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A co-worker just received his Neo Ion iPod adapter for his car, and he's totally in love. I'm intrigued. Looks like a fairly small doohickey, and it makes your CD player/tape player controls control the iPod.
DCJensen - Dec 20, 2004 8:21:55 am PST #649 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
tvtorrents dot net has reopened at tvtorrents dot tv