I think that really do have some marketing geniuses there. If I remember correctly they were the first nonprofit to develop a Firefox addon that took your Amazon purchases and fed them through there nonprofit sponsor links so that you could done money without even thinking about it.
This is another really great marketing venture. It's too bad that Miro kinda sucks and is not geared towards my age demographic.
Capitalism failed because the Capitalists broke it. It's a false dichotomy. Pure capitalism doesn't work because inherently the only motivation is to make money. When you're willing to do anything to make a profit, including buying politicians who make the laws so that you can have monopoly on the business in that area, then you have effectively broken capitalism.
I really want to start my own municipal cable/internet/telephone service much like the town of Wilson, North Carolina. But I know that would never happen without a really compelling reason. My local town is owned by TW.
Last I read, Moonlight support for those specific features aren't available until Q3 this year.
That said, you might try the Moonlight that let everybody stream the presidents inauguration address. I doubt it will work, but it's worth a try.
http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/
Download VirtualBox
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Install a version of Windows XP. If you don't have one find a torrent... cough cough blackxp cough.
Watch March Madness on Windows on Linux.
For the record, I don't watch sports, so I don't know that it work. That said, I have watched Netflix (uses Silverlight) on a licensed Windows in Virtualbox on Ubuntu.
First off. Windows 2000? That you keep up to date? I haven't seen Windows 2000 updates since.... 2005. Security? WTF?
For the love of dog, use something like VirtualBox or VMWare. Now!
Second, as a techie who has returned to college I deal with this a lot. Firefox has been hit or miss. Sometimes, I have HAD TO use IE. It's a bitch, cause I use Ubuntu. Nothing sucks more then having to keep a dual boot system (I used previously) or a VM around just for that one class that requires that you submit files via IE.
That said, I have had professors are usually very understanding of using browsers other than IE. For instance my Macroeconomics professor posted my short go by for playing his videos which seemed to only play in IE. I don't know why but they only played in IE, and I forced them to play with Firefox, Greasemonkey and FlashFix.
Other than that, I have seen problems with Blackboard and Etudes. It's usually hit or miss. Depends on the professor. My best luck has been with Moodle. I haven't had one class that has been problematic on Moodle.
I would guess and say that it plays a video as you start the game. The intro screen shows something that looks like the name "Aspyr" in a flame and it says, "Aspyr." Then the intro plays that shows the Sims doing different actions (related to expansion packs.)
My guess is that they are all part of a Quicktime video.
I'm of two opinions here:
1) I agree with Stewie241. The Sims 2 was not updated, the Quicktime update broke something that was previous working.
2) That said, Aspyr sucks. They have many problems that we have never been able to resolve. Sims has a problem where the graphics kinda freak out and only shows the wire frames. Aspyr blames this on the differences in Apple drivers (ATI/Nvidia). And the expansion packs have frequently been the cause of teeth knashing (yeah I'm looking at you Bon Voyage.)
So Apple or Aspyr? I blame both. Apple isn't as great as it once was, and Aspyr just sucks.
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss
