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Not available as of 14:14 here in the UK (on GMT). (Bloody Californians think their time zone is the centre of the universe. Grump.)

by cstross 16y ago

cstuder 16y ago
According to MacWorld, the exact release time is 10am Pacific Standard (Which would be 1800 GMT and still be within the time interval 'today'.) Patience.
- dalore 16y ago
  The sun has usually set by 1800 GMT, especially this late in the year, so technically it's tonight.
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frb 16y ago
Here's how you can check if the update is available: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-0-firmware-release-expected-momentarily-quick-terminal-ti/ http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-0-firmware-release-expe... It's for iOS 4.0 but can be changed to check for 4.2. However, my experience is that downloads are pretty slow in the first hours, when a new major version becomes available. Patience is needed.
- aditya42 16y ago
  I'd really like people NOT to hit Apple's servers every 30 seconds on such a day if they can help it. Especially if someone goes all gung-ho and removes that timer altogether.
  - frb 16y ago
    You're right! People shouldn't go over the top with it, but it still can be helpful.
kemiller 16y ago
Says the guy in the arbitrarily-set-in-1847 +0:00 time zone. ;)
- alextgordon 16y ago
  It's not entirely arbitrary. There's a limited number of places you can put the prime meridian without the date line bisecting some significant land mass (which would be very inconvenient for the people living there). Britain happens to be one of those places.
  - megrimlock 16y ago
    Even putting the IDL over the sparsely populated Pacific is inconvenient enough that it was drawn to zig-zag across 40 degrees of longitude, or 2.5 hours of timezones, to be less annoying! You know... we should optimize the IDL with a graph partitioning algorithm. We can measure inconvenience by the number of times any human's life trajectory passes the IDL. That's impossible to measure, so let's use recorded passenger airline / boat transportation numbers as a proxy. That also quantizes our graph into distinct origin and destination nodes. We penalize any graph edge that transits the IDL. Then we just find the min-cut of that graph, and draw the new IDL across the cut. That still leaves us lee-way about where to cross each edge in the cut, so we can apply aesthetic heuristics to try to draw a maximally straight line, or one most aligned with meridians. Then this will no longer be arbitrary.
    - futuremint 16y ago
      I'd like to see some code and a blog post for this! This is far more interesting to me than the iOS update :)
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  - kemiller 16y ago
    Sure, that's why they chose it. ;) And rightly so, since they came up with a good idea. But California came up with the iP(ad|od|hone) so it gets to set timing for that.

Not available as of 14:14 here in the UK (on GMT). (Bloody Californians think their time zone is the centre of the universe. Grump.)

by cstross 16y ago

Not available as of 14:14 here in the UK (on GMT). (Bloody Californians think their time zone is the centre of the universe. Grump.)

cstuder 16y ago

According to MacWorld, the exact release time is 10am Pacific Standard (Which would be 1800 GMT and still be within the time interval 'today'.) Patience.

dalore 16y ago
The sun has usually set by 1800 GMT, especially this late in the year, so technically it's tonight.
- deleted 16y ago
  [deleted]

frb 16y ago

Here's how you can check if the update is available: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-0-firmware-release-expected-momentarily-quick-terminal-ti/ http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-0-firmware-release-expe... It's for iOS 4.0 but can be changed to check for 4.2. However, my experience is that downloads are pretty slow in the first hours, when a new major version becomes available. Patience is needed.

aditya42 16y ago
I'd really like people NOT to hit Apple's servers every 30 seconds on such a day if they can help it. Especially if someone goes all gung-ho and removes that timer altogether.
- frb 16y ago
  You're right! People shouldn't go over the top with it, but it still can be helpful.

kemiller 16y ago

Says the guy in the arbitrarily-set-in-1847 +0:00 time zone. ;)

alextgordon 16y ago
It's not entirely arbitrary. There's a limited number of places you can put the prime meridian without the date line bisecting some significant land mass (which would be very inconvenient for the people living there). Britain happens to be one of those places.
- megrimlock 16y ago
  Even putting the IDL over the sparsely populated Pacific is inconvenient enough that it was drawn to zig-zag across 40 degrees of longitude, or 2.5 hours of timezones, to be less annoying! You know... we should optimize the IDL with a graph partitioning algorithm. We can measure inconvenience by the number of times any human's life trajectory passes the IDL. That's impossible to measure, so let's use recorded passenger airline / boat transportation numbers as a proxy. That also quantizes our graph into distinct origin and destination nodes. We penalize any graph edge that transits the IDL. Then we just find the min-cut of that graph, and draw the new IDL across the cut. That still leaves us lee-way about where to cross each edge in the cut, so we can apply aesthetic heuristics to try to draw a maximally straight line, or one most aligned with meridians. Then this will no longer be arbitrary.
  - futuremint 16y ago
    I'd like to see some code and a blog post for this! This is far more interesting to me than the iOS update :)
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- kemiller 16y ago
  Sure, that's why they chose it. ;) And rightly so, since they came up with a good idea. But California came up with the iP(ad|od|hone) so it gets to set timing for that.