Do you use pirated software?
VLC is excellent and the UI is fine, if a little plain. Who cares, anyway?
Maybe you could fix it up.
Edit: also, despite that and that it has a few bugs, it's still the best thing ever.
Maybe you could fix it up.
Edit: also, despite that and that it has a few bugs, it's still the best thing ever.
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VLC has skins, doesn't it? So you could always change the interface to some degree. I personally like VLC's interface. It's businesslike and straightforward. No bells and whistles where they don't need to be.
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i would love some of option of resize video to player size and resize player to video size.
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I've been using MPlayer for Windows lately and I've always used MPlayer for Linux.
I do own Sid Meier's Pirates! for my PC, but...
EDIT: Oh, that says "pirated". Not "pirate". Misread. All legal here.
EDIT: Oh, that says "pirated". Not "pirate". Misread. All legal here.
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I had Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (that was a great game btw) but I gave it to my cousin and he hasn't given it back.
SMAC was an amazing game; used to always play as the Technologists, wait a while, then once I had the knowledge advantage, pwn the crap out of the world.
Lol, I used to play as the Puerto Rican woman. I'd spend like 10 turns just looking for a place to settle down next to loads of resources, and then build my base. I'd build it in such a way that I'd end up with a ring of 5 bases with the first in the middle (edit: so there would be 6 in total). The 5 around the main base would be full of defensive units and then they'd all pull together to create an offensive force. The first base would take care of non-military things like building new bases, terraformers, etc.
Then I'd build a multitude of roads, forests, solar collectors and mines within the ring and surround it with sensors and bunkers. It was impenetrable, I almost never lost my main base that way.
I also used to stockpile nukes and use them to strategically destroy the largest bases of my current enemy. I would pick off my enemies one by one (I always won via military victory -- I never found any other method fun).
It was pretty damn fun. I'll ask my cousin for it back when I next see him.
Then I'd build a multitude of roads, forests, solar collectors and mines within the ring and surround it with sensors and bunkers. It was impenetrable, I almost never lost my main base that way.
I also used to stockpile nukes and use them to strategically destroy the largest bases of my current enemy. I would pick off my enemies one by one (I always won via military victory -- I never found any other method fun).
It was pretty damn fun. I'll ask my cousin for it back when I next see him.
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I don't use any pirated tools for developing... gedit and the command line are all I need :D
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As a software developper, I could never use any pirated tools. I know how difficult, expensive, and time consuming it is to develop good computer software so I refuse on principle.
However, I barely EVER use commercial software (Windows 7 and Corel WordPerfect Office being the only two). I use Visual Studio for work, but I get a license through my work for the MSDN so I can download it freely from there. Everything I else I use is either Open Source, or extremely good Freeware (like MP3 Tag for example)
However, I barely EVER use commercial software (Windows 7 and Corel WordPerfect Office being the only two). I use Visual Studio for work, but I get a license through my work for the MSDN so I can download it freely from there. Everything I else I use is either Open Source, or extremely good Freeware (like MP3 Tag for example)
I've been extremely tempted before to get my hands on a few proprietary programming frameworks before, but I ended up never downloading any pirated software.
Everything I use is either open source or extremely good proprietary (EDIT: that I paid for)... but it has to be EXTREMELY good, like Adobe Photoshop CS5 will be.
-Albatross
Everything I use is either open source or extremely good proprietary (EDIT: that I paid for)... but it has to be EXTREMELY good, like Adobe Photoshop CS5 will be.
-Albatross
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Playing with my nice new Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition (~$500) right now =D. Just kidding.
Wow, have you guys, "heard" of those cracks that actually write the serial key right into the installer when you press the generate button? Some pretty fancy stuff right there, I'm telling you.
PS. I really haven't pirated VS2010. I haven't had a need for one of the retail versions yet.
Wow, have you guys, "heard" of those cracks that actually write the serial key right into the installer when you press the generate button? Some pretty fancy stuff right there, I'm telling you.
PS. I really haven't pirated VS2010. I haven't had a need for one of the retail versions yet.
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OpenSource software is not really free, someone must have bought it for us just like the Blender 3d
| OpenSource software is not really free, someone must have bought it for us just like the Blender 3d |
What helios said is a perfectly valid pointed question. Must software be produced in a commercial environment?
You do need to pay to keep servers online, however that may be paid for by donations from insane geeks like us and/or by any ads on the websites.
As for developers and managers of a production, there is a massive pool of people who would help with the production of certain pieces software for free. Like me!
Finally, the ads only pay if the website is visited. Finally, there are enough insane geeks who insist on their software being open-source to let those ads pay for the site.
Verdict: The environment need not be commercial. It may also beopen-source free.
-Albatross
You do need to pay to keep servers online, however that may be paid for by donations from insane geeks like us and/or by any ads on the websites.
As for developers and managers of a production, there is a massive pool of people who would help with the production of certain pieces software for free. Like me!
Finally, the ads only pay if the website is visited. Finally, there are enough insane geeks who insist on their software being open-source to let those ads pay for the site.
Verdict: The environment need not be commercial. It may also be
-Albatross
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