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From: Woody on 2 Apr 2010 07:03 J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > > > > > > > > The description claims it needs a computer running a minimum of Snow > > > > > > Leopard! Rules it out for me as I have a PPC :-( > > > > > > > > > > After upgrading Quicktime and iTunes to the latest version > > > > > on Tiger G5 Mini iTunes is full of iPad mentions too. > > > > > So it will probably work. > > > > > > > > > > iSteve is just trying to tell you > > > > > that you really shouldn't want too, > > > > > > > > > > > > > You are too late Jan, I somehow managed to misread the specs. > > > > > > No, you didn't misread. > > > Apple.com -does- state that you need 10.5.8 minimum. > > > > But Snow Leopard is 10.6, Jan. Are you saying that 10.5.8 won't run on a > > PPC machine? Because that sounds wrong to me. And so you can support an > > iPad with a PPC Mac. As Graeme says, he *did* misread the specs. > > That was the previous round. > I was saying next that the specs are probably exaggerated, > and that it seems likely that 10.4.11 (Tiger) > will do as well, Probably not, as iTunes checks what version it is installing on, and I presume that it requires iTunes 9.1 (or whatever the current version is) -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Woody on 2 Apr 2010 07:03 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > You could argue that all inventions evolve from what came before. > > So the computer is no different in that respect. The significance of > > the computer is that it is the result of radical breakthroughs in the > > way we understand mathematics and formalize reasoning, which > > breakthroughs occurred in the first half of the 20th century. > > Yes, if you like; that was one aspect, but not the one that most > affected people like me. > > The real paradigm change for ordinary members of the public was the > computing price crash, and that happened because of the invention and > development of the microchip, initially for military purposes. > > So the second computer revolution, and the one that has changed society > most and affected everybody in a conscious way, is quite recent- maybe > 30 years ago. It's equivalent to the invention of the telephone; it > changed the way people related to each other. And in both cases it was > related to price. Society Ladies would communicate by letter, writing in > the morning to make an appointment in the afternoon[1]. Then around the > turn of the 20th century, they could afford to do it by telephone; but > it was another 20 years until the ordinary member of the public could do > that- and until the 1960s if you wanted to get in touch with a person in > the provincial working classes, you had to send a telegram to arrange to > speak to them on the phone, at the local shop or the pub. Now everybody > has a phone, fixed or mobile, and telegrams are dead. It's the same with > computing- we're on the way to the '60s. When you see internet addresses > on the side of white vans, as they are appearing now, you know things > are really changing. You know full well that although the drive for communication may have been driven by ladies, it wasn't 'society' ladies (but maybe social!) -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: David Kennedy on 2 Apr 2010 07:04 Graeme wrote: > > Ceefax is dying, once the digital switchover is complete it will disappear. > > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8260196.stm> -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: Peter Ceresole on 2 Apr 2010 07:26 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > That was the previous round. > > I was saying next that the specs are probably exaggerated, > > and that it seems likely that 10.4.11 (Tiger) > > will do as well, > > Probably not, as iTunes checks what version it is installing on, and I > presume that it requires iTunes 9.1 (or whatever the current version is) I'm listening to iTunes 9.1 now, and it's running in 10.4.11 on an iG5. So you may well be right about needing iTunes 9.1, but 10.4.11 would be okay for that. -- Peter
From: Woody on 2 Apr 2010 07:33
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > That was the previous round. > > > I was saying next that the specs are probably exaggerated, > > > and that it seems likely that 10.4.11 (Tiger) > > > will do as well, > > > > Probably not, as iTunes checks what version it is installing on, and I > > presume that it requires iTunes 9.1 (or whatever the current version is) > > I'm listening to iTunes 9.1 now, and it's running in 10.4.11 on an iG5. > > So you may well be right about needing iTunes 9.1, but 10.4.11 would be > okay for that. In that case I would think that is the only restriction -- Woody www.alienrat.com |