Things that aren’t clever | Miscellaneous Heathen

The Olympics video site is built such that it will only work on Intel Macs, not PowerPC Macs.

Based on my understanding of building Mac software, doing this means they made a choice to deliberately exclude the PPC machines (and there are still millions out there; Macs have long useful lives — Mrs Heathen’s laptop, for example, is one) when compiling the software. Apple’s build tools create so-called Universal binaries by default that work on both architectures. Someone at NBC or the Olympics is basically just being an asshole.

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I can’t watch the frackin’ thing at work either because we don’t have Vista or XP S2.

Dear NBC – You suck and I will not watch any of your fall shows which I wasn’t planning on doing anyway because, again, you suck.

Not to mention the simple fact that despite my having 10.4.11 and Safari on an Intel mac, it still kicks back an error message saying that I don’t have the right hardware.

Mrs. Heathen on August 20, 2008 at 8:57 pm said:

I can’t watch the frackin’ thing at work either because we don’t have Vista or XP S2.

Dear NBC – You suck and I will not watch any of your fall shows which I wasn’t planning on doing anyway because, again, you suck.
Chris Bakos on August 21, 2008 at 2:05 am said:

Not to mention the simple fact that despite my having 10.4.11 and Safari on an Intel mac, it still kicks back an error message saying that I don’t have the right hardware.