Well lets try option 2. Maybe they store it all internally as UTC and get local time from the cellphone tower. So your 5am local daylight time is X UTC. "fall back" to regular time and that wakeup is now X-0100 UTC. The alarm program reads the local time, converts to UTC, and you sleep in one hour. oops.
What mystifies me is that Apple would store the time internally as UTC instead of going pure local time. Not owning an iphone, if you travel east/west across a few timezones, do you have to reprogram all your alerts to the new local timezone which has a new UTC offset?
If I had to guess; this partly has to do with power savings for mobile devices. The 'activate alarm' time can be set as an offset in seconds to the current time. So, the alarm application tells iOS to wake up the alarm app again in x seconds so it can ring the alarm. iOS than proceeds to efficiently schedule this task, allowing maximum powersaving. In the meanwhile, the timezone offset changes, but the alarm application didn't foresee this, and isn't awake to do any rescheduling.
Of course it's polarized. How else could I prove that I am superior to you?
Seriously though, proving superiority to someone else based on better taste, better hardware, shinier stuff, more expensive cars and taller blonder girlfriends has always existed. It's the way a lot of people operate, and they need to be loud in proclaiming their superiority. Because that is how, in their minds, they gain recognition and dominance.
That's why these discussions are polarized, because they can be.
Oh come on. With a high enough volume of transactions, and even half an hour of delay between people purchasing the game and __completing__ their download, gog was guaranteed to piss off a couple hundred of customers at least.
Well, a download client that supports resume, hash checking and block based re-download of corrupted blocks _would_ be nice though. Especially because we are likely talking about multi-gig downloads.
It could still use plain http, and allow people to download the games using the web-browser. The extra download client would just add a bit of robustness.
That depends. You can have a 700 page specification, signed, _understood_ and approved by all stakeholders. OTOH you can have a 40 page spec written in unbearable incomprehensible verbiage, with some of the stakeholders unaware of its existence, some other don't care what's in it, and yet others wildly misunderstand it.
Just saying that the size of the specification has little to do with how complicated it is.
The problem with Windows is the vast amount of software that is poorly designed and wants Admin privileges even though it could be designed to carry out its task without them.
I run Windows as a limited user. It never was the majority of programs. Since 2005-2006, the amount of times I need to inappropriately switch to Administrator has shrunk to 0. The amount of defective programs encountered is a bit higher, but near 0. Since then, it has just been easier to find an alternative to the defective program, rather than to run it as Admin.
It's surprising how little flak youtube is catching in the comments to this story. I would have expected at least one sideways attack on youtube and its reason for existing.
Usually, in any Xbox story regarding its earnings, we would already have gotten a detailed graph & analysis on how it could never pay back the initial costs before the heat death of the universe.
I *like* not having write access to production. Problem with the server? Can't help you guv, here's the admin's phone number.
I like having read access to production. Problem with the application? Look at logs. Oi, there's apparently a funky problem where the Database version on PRD is 9.077.0554 which doesn't happen on QUAL where the Database version is 9.065.0479. Maybe we should upgrade DEV, INT and QUAL and then we can debug the problem? Oh yeah, here's the admin's phone number.
Counting the number of days since 0AD could be interesting. In what Calendar? Solar days or administrative days? Do we account for the 17 or so days that were skipped switching from one calendar to the other? And how exactly do we account for them?
Depending on your exact requirements, this is perhaps a fit for a Enterprise Content Management system. If these datasets are heterogeneous, I'd think looking into some kind of flexible meta-data system would be the way to go. This can be anything from a custom application, a bought solution or a opensource ECM system.
Though I caution you, some of these systems can be convoluted to set up, maintain and learn. Don't let that scare you away from the concept of it though.
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Well lets try option 2. Maybe they store it all internally as UTC and get local time from the cellphone tower. So your 5am local daylight time is X UTC. "fall back" to regular time and that wakeup is now X-0100 UTC. The alarm program reads the local time, converts to UTC, and you sleep in one hour. oops.
What mystifies me is that Apple would store the time internally as UTC instead of going pure local time. Not owning an iphone, if you travel east/west across a few timezones, do you have to reprogram all your alerts to the new local timezone which has a new UTC offset?
If I had to guess; this partly has to do with power savings for mobile devices. The 'activate alarm' time can be set as an offset in seconds to the current time. So, the alarm application tells iOS to wake up the alarm app again in x seconds so it can ring the alarm. iOS than proceeds to efficiently schedule this task, allowing maximum powersaving. In the meanwhile, the timezone offset changes, but the alarm application didn't foresee this, and isn't awake to do any rescheduling.
I think the only reason for not having larger hard drives sooner, is that there are multiple compatibility issues w.r.t. drives larger than 2TB.
There can be issues with bios, sata & raid cards. Best to check if your hardware+software all support that 3TB drive before you upgrade.
Of course it's polarized. How else could I prove that I am superior to you?
Seriously though, proving superiority to someone else based on better taste, better hardware, shinier stuff, more expensive cars and taller blonder girlfriends has always existed. It's the way a lot of people operate, and they need to be loud in proclaiming their superiority. Because that is how, in their minds, they gain recognition and dominance.
That's why these discussions are polarized, because they can be.
"Sure, can I have a receipt for that?"
Take it to the police lost and found. Somebody should get a giggle out of that at the FBI's expense.
Yanking individual machines off a rack? Nah, they'll just ship back the container of servers to a repair center when it reaches 30%-50% failure.
Oh come on. With a high enough volume of transactions, and even half an hour of delay between people purchasing the game and __completing__ their download, gog was guaranteed to piss off a couple hundred of customers at least.
They lied. I don't know about you, but people and businesses that lie to me get bumped all the way to the end of the 'my money & time' queue.
That page implied they expected to be back. Probably. Hopefully.
Not certainly. Not in a couple of days.
Not cool, not funny, not a good marketing stunt.
Well, a download client that supports resume, hash checking and block based re-download of corrupted blocks _would_ be nice though. Especially because we are likely talking about multi-gig downloads.
It could still use plain http, and allow people to download the games using the web-browser. The extra download client would just add a bit of robustness.
Ditto. Besides, the google homepage fade-in effect annoys me. So I use the classic google/firefox homepage, in all of my browsers, including IE.
The browser can be set to only load flash on request. That makes it functionally similar to flashblock with firefox.
That depends. You can have a 700 page specification, signed, _understood_ and approved by all stakeholders. OTOH you can have a 40 page spec written in unbearable incomprehensible verbiage, with some of the stakeholders unaware of its existence, some other don't care what's in it, and yet others wildly misunderstand it.
Just saying that the size of the specification has little to do with how complicated it is.
The problem with Windows is the vast amount of software that is poorly designed and wants Admin privileges even though it could be designed to carry out its task without them.
I run Windows as a limited user. It never was the majority of programs. Since 2005-2006, the amount of times I need to inappropriately switch to Administrator has shrunk to 0. The amount of defective programs encountered is a bit higher, but near 0. Since then, it has just been easier to find an alternative to the defective program, rather than to run it as Admin.
It's surprising how little flak youtube is catching in the comments to this story. I would have expected at least one sideways attack on youtube and its reason for existing.
Usually, in any Xbox story regarding its earnings, we would already have gotten a detailed graph & analysis on how it could never pay back the initial costs before the heat death of the universe.
Look. I'm not an American. I haven't ever been to America.
I still know what the Lincoln Memorial looks like. And where it is in relation to the White House and a rather tall Obelisk Thingie.
I'm totally unconvinced that a lot of people would really be confused about either recognizing the Lincoln Memorial or about its location.
I *like* not having write access to production. Problem with the server? Can't help you guv, here's the admin's phone number.
I like having read access to production.
Problem with the application? Look at logs. Oi, there's apparently a funky problem where the Database version on PRD is 9.077.0554 which doesn't happen on QUAL where the Database version is 9.065.0479. Maybe we should upgrade DEV, INT and QUAL and then we can debug the problem? Oh yeah, here's the admin's phone number.
No access to production? +20% on my estimate.
Counting the number of days since 0AD could be interesting. In what Calendar? Solar days or administrative days? Do we account for the 17 or so days that were skipped switching from one calendar to the other? And how exactly do we account for them?
Agreed, except that a swimming pool for a student population of 4000 isn't totally unreasonable.
Doesn't the UK have a small claims court were you can represent yourself, and they'll need to spend legal fees to defend from refunding a £30 game?
IIRC Microsoft signed a contract with Sun saying they wouldn't embrace & extend Java.
I propose a new logo for Oracle stories on Slashdot. As Oracle is obviously The Evil Empire, it should get a Death Star as its logo.
Depending on your exact requirements, this is perhaps a fit for a Enterprise Content Management system. If these datasets are heterogeneous, I'd think looking into some kind of flexible meta-data system would be the way to go. This can be anything from a custom application, a bought solution or a opensource ECM system.
Though I caution you, some of these systems can be convoluted to set up, maintain and learn. Don't let that scare you away from the concept of it though.