I am running a G4 DA 733mhz and can watch the streaming video from Apple, but I am dual - booting with Xubuntu 10.10. How Ironic is that! Of course I guess I could always watch it on my Vista Pooter as well. Maybe Steve Jobs has hung around with Gates and Balmer and wants what money that they don't have. And to think, I almost bought a new Macbook last year. I am kinda wondering what we are supposed to do with all of these old Macs now that Apple has deemed them as useless? Maybe they will go the way of the old Mac Classics with everyone trying to make aquariums out of them? LOL Heck with them and their wallets, I will run My G4 until they stop selling electricity.
On Oct 20, 9:49 pm, Joshua Juran <jju...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: > > > On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Fluxstringer wrote: > > >> Lion ? > > > Don't know? > > > I went to the Apple site to watch the streaming video of the > > presentation and was rudely greeted with this: > > > "Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or > > Safari on iOS 3 or later." > > It's nothing new for a Web site to require one vendor's browser and > operating system in order to function, but typically that's been > Microsoft. So much for Apple's commitment to Web standards. > > intellectual honesty and html5 > by Christopher > Blizzardhttp://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2010/06/intellectual-honesty-and-html5/ > > Seriously, *Snow Leopard*? Leopard isn't even three years old yet. > Apple still provides security updates for it. What's the deal here? > > > I'm on a PPC G5 with 10.5.8 and current Safari v. 5.0.2 (5533.18.5) > > and I CAN'T see the streaming video because it REQUIRES Snow Leopard > > 10.6!!! > > Unibody MacBook Pro, less than two years old, running the OS it > shipped with. I guess I'll be spared seeing the video, then. > > I was *going* to watch the iPhone 4 keynote, and had started to watch > it, then paused it to attend to something else. I came back to it the > next day, unpaused... and hey, I don't remember this part... *rewind a > minute* nor this... *rewind a few more minutes* no, not this part > either... wait, what? This is the iOS 4 intro! > > Yes, The streaming video server decided to replace my usual morning > video with Folger's brand and see if I'd notice the difference. But > even without such shenanigans, streaming video is worse than a > downloadable video file. Air travel is a perfect opportunity to watch > an hour-long video, since I'm sitting in one place for a while anyway > and free of Internet-sourced distractions (as well as the resources > that I often need to get work done). If they'd just let me download > it, I could watch it at my convenience. Of course, then people would > share it with others, depriving Apple of viewing metrics, and possibly > even *gasp* REMIX it. Which I thought was one of the things you were > supposed to do with a Mac -- be creative. > > > Sometimes Apple is so insane. > > Apple is not what you or I wish they were. > > Josh -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
