Tiger In Stores Now?!

DavidLeblond said:
Too true, that was one of the things I was glad to see them finally do in WinXP.

Of course, the internet time feature doesn't work at all behind my company's firewall. Corporate security, accurate time... guess you can't have it all.
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The nice side-effect of this being that you can be a bit late for work, saying that "the computer clocks don't have the right time", and YOUR watch does. ;-)
 
mac-er said:
I changed the time on my computer to 6:00 PM on Friday, April 29.

The page did not change to the "mistaken" page that was posted by placeofdis. The counter simply said "Tiger Available Friday, April 29" (and the rest of the page looked the same).

If all the people arguing this was a server error, that page should've changed to the page posted by placeofdis.

This was a human error, plain and simple.
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I changed my computer's clock and the countdown changed. When set to Friday, it said "Tiger available today", but didn't display the page posted in this article, so, agreed, it was a human error. (BTW, it reverted after a few refreshes).
 
mac-er said:
And for those you saying this person would not be fired (if this truly was human error), you haven't read enough about Steve Jobs. He views mistakes like this (even small ones) as a sign of failure and embarrassment.
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I know, but you think he'd fire the poor guy? Its not like he leaked top secret specs on the new 12 GHz G9 processor or something. We know Tiger's available in stores Friday, not like its anything new
 
Yvan256 said:
The nice side-effect of this being that you can be a bit late for work, saying that "the computer clocks don't have the right time", and YOUR watch does. ;-)
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Right now my computer, my laptop, my office phone, my watch, and my cell phone all have different times.

Trust me, when I come in late I'm COVERED. ;)
 
Tiger's approach:
 

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This is a little like stocking or being paparazzi.
Every little change in the window becomes a discussion.
I'm here, so I am not discrediting the practice, just noting it.

I'll bet that somebody gets sacked over this, or this might be a test. Apple now knows how fast a change to their website (an unimportant one) is noted in the rumor sites. Kudos to Apple if your testing us. Whats the time laps, a few minutes at most.
 
pgwalsh said:
I bet it's JavaScript since it's getting your local time.
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Looking at the source of the page in question, I see this:
Code: 
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
<!--
function writeImg() {
	var str1 = '<a href="/macosx/"><img src="http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigercounter';
	var str2 = '200504';
	var str3 = 11;
	var str4 = '.gif" width="680" height="25" border="0" alt="Mac OS X Tiger available Friday, April 29." class="across"><\/a>';
	var now = new Date();
	var then = new Date(2005,03,29,18);
	var nowUTC = now.getTime()+(now.getTimezoneOffset()*60*1000);
	var thenUTC = then.getTime()+(then.getTimezoneOffset()*60*1000);
	if ((thenUTC-nowUTC) > 0) {
		var date = now.getDate();
		str3 = date;
	}
	var tag = str1 + str2 + str3 + str4;
	document.write(tag);
}

var myArrayA = new Array();
var A = 0;

// begin edit here -- escape single quotes and closing brackets with backslash -- \' and \> -- thank you
myArrayA[A++] = '<a href="/macosx/"><img src="http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigerpreviewtitle2005419.gif" width="680" height="45" border="0" alt="Tiger unleashed."><\/a><br><a href="/macosx/"><img src="http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigerpreviewleft2005419.jpg" width="195" height="355" border="0" alt="Spotlight - Instantly find anything anywhere on your Mac. Dashboard - Get information instantly with amazing widgets. Safari RSS - Know when there’s new stuff on the Web."><img src="http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigerpreviewmiddle2005419.jpg" width="290" height="355" border="0" alt="Mac OS X Tiger"><img src="http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigerpreviewright2005419.jpg" width="195" height="355" border="0" alt="iChat AV - Be there in true-to-lifemulti-way video. Automator - Your personal automation expert does it for you. QuickTime 7 - Pristine video from mobile phone to widescreen HD."><\/a><br>'
myArrayA[A++] = '<a href="/macosx/"><img src="http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigerteaserspotlight2005041.jpg" width="165" height="400" border="0" alt="Spotlight. Instantly find anything on your Mac — documents, emails, contacts, images, even things inside PDF files."><img src="http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigerteaserunleashed2005041.jpg" width="350" height="400" border="0" alt="Tiger unleashed."><img src="http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigerteaserdashboard2005041.jpg" width="165" height="400" border="0" alt="Dashboard. A world of widgets that bring information to you instantly — weather forecasts, stock quotes, yellow pages or airline flights."><\/a><br>'
// end editing here

// The Central Randomizer 1.3 (C) 1997 by Paul Houle (paul@honeylocust.com)
// See: http://www.honeylocust.com/javascript/randomizer.html

rnd.today=new Date();
rnd.seed=rnd.today.getTime();
function rnd() {
	rnd.seed = (rnd.seed*9301+49297) % 233280;
	return rnd.seed/(233280.0);
};
function rand(number) {
	return Math.ceil(rnd()*number);
};
function loadRandomA() {
	var Aurl = myArrayA[rand(A)-1];
	document.write(Aurl);
}
//-->
</script>
All that code is what determines which image to display.
 
That shows that the URL pattern started at

http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigercounter20050411.gif
"Tiger available Friday, April 29."

Then came

http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigercounter20050412.gif
"17 days until Tiger is available - Friday, April 29."

then

http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigercounter20050413.gif
"16 days until Tiger is available - Friday, April 29."

and so on. The end of the pattern, which you can also see in the screenshot post above, is

http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigercounter20050427.gif
"2 days until Tiger is available - Friday, April 29."

http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigercounter20050428.gif
"Tiger available tomorrow - Friday, April 29, 6 p.m."

http://images.apple.com/home/2005/images/tigercounter20050429.gif
"Tiger available today - Friday, April 29, 6 p.m."

There are no gif URLs in the pattern before #11 or after #29.
 
yesterday - today - tomorow

I think the discusion is if today was tomorrow would the tiger be unleashed, but if tomorow is today and the day after will it be available? what if the future was today, what would come in the future, woud there be any future or only past? what if when the future arrives, and we see the past we don't see what we want?... Today, tomorrow, the day after, the future, the past, now... the botom line if that Stevo should fire thet guy, and hire me... ;)
 
well I got mine...

Yup...shipped so it would be in my hands tomorrow...except...it's in my hands right NOW!!!!!

OF COURSE my luck would have it that I have a paper to write today and one of the busiest weekends of the year coming up....
 
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