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>A computer that supports streaming media files

>PC & Mac Users: Download and install the latest version of Silverlight

And the rest of us?

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Install pipelight, then install the silverlight plugin

http://pipelight.net/cms/installation.html

Wait, is it only a PC if it runs Windows?

You probably know that the PC == Windows and Mac == Apple association dates back decades and while I know where you are coming from I don't see much value in pointing it out. Everybody knows that saying PC for a Windows Machine is not correct, but that terminology somehow sticks

It's like pointing out that it should be GNU/Linux instead of Linux every time (I do sympathize with the GNU Project in some way though), or that Linux is not an OS but a kernel and so forth...

We all here know the truth(s) but you won't change what terminology the public uses, so we should be somewhat relaxed about it (imo)

It doesn't date that far back, really. Mac people used to be very keen on lecturing others that they were also using a "PC", as recently as the late 90s. One swift ad campaign in mid-00s changed that completely.

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