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It provides the right output if the right timezone is given:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=hours+between+1pm+est+m...



I see 24 hours (not the correct 23) when I follow that link.

Edit: Now I see that the link has both times in EST, which is not on point. See chrisrhoden's link in a sibling to this comment.


Currently playing about with the timeline, I can't see any easy way to choose which list sees your past posts, unless you want to manually go through every single one and change it.


True, that would be a great feature to have as I mentioned in another thread post, you can _at least_ set any public posts you made to friends only. In privacy settings > Limit the Audience for Past Posts http://cl.ly/AMpv


I've had this for a couple of weeks (weirdly). You never get used to it and you always feel like you're missing something.

Even more annoying is the little status updates in the top right, above the sidebar showing everyone of your friends recent activity (which I really liked) seems to have gone now.


Yes, and the changes have pretty much ruined the iOS app's "news" display.


You never get used to it and you always feel like you're missing something.

I'll bet this is explicitly intentional as a driver to spend more time on Facebook.


In Australia it might have something to do with the fact it's currently 3:35 am


Well, its not 3:35 anymore! Australia and NZ are definately not listed under asia which would be the logical place. This is very anoying, as I would really like to see how FF4 uptake is going over here.


Those countries are in Oceania


I seriously think companies wait for another lawsuit to appear before suing. To try and minimise bad press.


Thanks for posting this, I've been paying for the micro plan for a few months for my projects. I had no idea students could apply for a free plan.


Update went fine on an unbranded HTC Trophy for me, although having to deal with the Zune software is a minus.


Really? To me the Zune software is about 8 steps beyond iTunes.

The UI is great, lots of nice touches, looks modern, it's fast. I can drag music and such to my phone even if I'm using someone else's Zune software.


I find both of their UIs arbitrary and confusing, but at least Zune is prettier, I guess.


Is there any such thing as a non-arbitrary UI?


Fair point. I guess arbitrariness is like intuitiveness - it describes an individual's experience more than any objective characteristic of the software.


If you like it, it is not arbitrary ;)


But then still, the Bing toolbar is watching what you're searching for and recording that information. That's a pretty big privacy issue


Google doesn't really want to get into a heated discussion about the evils of a search engine knowing everything you've ever searched for. Stones, glass houses, etc.

(Given Google's near-monopoly of the market, Microsoft and DDG have some amusing competitive synergy going on, don't they. DDG can criticize Google all they please for retaining user data because DDG doesn't and isn't in a position to benefit from it. Microsoft, which certainly is in a position to benefit from it, doesn't need to worry about Google calling them on it because Google is the only search engine that can actually lose market share over the issue.)


For all Google’s sins, there is a Dashboard that let you erase all you care them not to know: Google could promote that heavily in case of stone, glass house. I always assumed this would be a great way to learn more about queries: spotting what words people are ashamed to have searched for.

It could be something a registered user could set from a browser toggle, and DuckDuckGo is a very good project, or course. My point was: data portability and user control are within Google's long term interest, not being evasive about their data cache.


While it's great that Google lets you delete information, harvest-your-data-by-default is not a choice made with your best interests at heart.


This is what all toolbars do, and is largely the point of why big companies offer them and pay little software companies to make them optional installs (see Corel's WinZip, which installs the Google toolbar)


And that is explicitly stated in their tos. There's no hiding here.


Let’s agree “not hiding” is what is in the demo video. TOS… we all know they could add that you sell the soul and the virginity of your mother in there, no one would read it.


It only records that when the user has explicitly agreed to send anonymous data. chrome and Google toolbar do that too and so do most of the toolbars out there.


Never had a big problem with the Linux version. It does video, with good quality, and that's all you really need Skype for, a flashy UI or other pointless features just detracts from Skype's main purpose.


Totally agreed. I used to be annoyed by the absence of SMS support in one of the previous versions. I havent bothered checking whether it is present now, since I no longer need that feature anyway.


Well, I think Skype only interferes with Flash apps, non flash apps that use the camera are unaffected.


This to me implies that both Skype and Flash are doing something wrong.


Reminds me of the recent conflict between the IcedTea (Java) and Moonlight (Silverlight) plugins in Chrome/Firefox http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/01/plugin-...

Is there an equivalent to Video for Windows/GStreamer on OSX?


Is there an equivalent to Video for Windows/GStreamer on OSX?

Apple's media framework and counterpart to VfW/DirectShow/GStreamer/etc. is Quicktime.


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