OSNews > Thread > "RE: I sense a disturbance in the force." by Bending Unit

Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 31st Dec 2008 17:12 UTC

"Judgment day has arrived for owners of 30GB (and only 30GB) Zunes. The music player inexplicably entered a worldwide coma last night, and players are completely non responsive." [Kroc: I wonder if this is anything like the bug that caused Windows 98 to crash after 49 days when the tick-count exceeded 32-bits :P]

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RE: I sense a disturbance in the force.

by Bending Unit on Wed 31st Dec 2008 18:56 UTC in reply to "I sense a disturbance in the force."

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2005-07-06

Yes but this time it is warranted. This is truly pathetic. Developers have been messing around with shutdown dates or best before dates.

This is obviously a mistake but there should never be such time limits coded in the first place, triggered or not!

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RE[2]: I sense a disturbance in the force.

by BallmerKnowsBest on Sun 4th Jan 2009 13:59 in reply to "RE: I sense a disturbance in the force."

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2008-06-02

Yes but this time it is warranted.

It is? Have we all forgotten Apple's practice of intentionally bricking iPhones / iPod Touches as a means of license enforcement? Or that iTunes update which had a tendency to rm -rf entire OS X systems?

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