At 12:00 PM -0700 4/10/2010, Ashgrove wrote:
> >On 10 Apr 2010, at 15:56, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Yes. Calling it a netbook would be the clue there. But it should
still identify the processor as an x86, NOT as a powerpc.
Snow Leopard IDs the processor as "unidentified" in About This Mac,
but of course it had to identify it as x86 --which it certainly is--
in order to have installed at all. Now, the Silverlight installer says
it's a G4 and stops cold. (Well, it did until I removed the hardware
identifier portion of it, thanks to Matt's tip.) My guess is that it
identifies the hardware as somehow "wrong," and says "G4" because
that's the only way it has to say "wrong." Installers have a somewhat
limited vocabulary.
Ah, ok. So this is a Microsloth bug. :)
> It's got all those. So how is it not a full-fledged computer?
Well, technically an abacus is a computer, too. And some people say
Stonehenge is one. Only the software got lost, and we're stuck with
gigantic, useless hardware. It does look pretty in calendars and
stuff, though. Stonehenge is the TAM of the Neolithic Period.
You mean there were computers that didn't BONG when they booted?
>> "Niche" is a synonym for crippled by politics and a bad OS?
Politics? Please elaborate.
L'Steve has a thing for closed eco systems, that he can control with
an iron fist. He tried this many times over the years (compact Macs
etc) relenting only reluctantly. He's now pulled it off with iPhone
OS and the app store.
To make matters, um, sweeter, he's even going so far as to justify
the p0rn app ban with his own personal morality.
Personally, I find the former to be annoying and the latter to be
extremely offensive.
- Dan.
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