Another iTunes giveaway in the US.

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Yep, now 7-Eleven is promoting the 40th anniversary of the slurpee by giving away free songs. Until the end of Aug.

Unlike the Pepsi giveaway or last years 7-Eleven giveaway, you automatically win a song without losing. the cups actually have the redeem code on them. I picked up one and punched the code in. Now I have to just drink more slurpees and get more free songs. I could buy downloads but if I can get them for free, why refuse the offer?

Slurpees give me a headache, especially this time of year when it's brrrr winter (11.2degC outside right now). Then again I'm not in the US and there's no iTMS in Aussie. I guess we aussies will just have to wait patiently until Apple releases the thing altogether!

11.2? winter??? we had that here a fortnight ago, in sodding June.... Ah the wonders of the British summer. Having said which its in the mid twenties now, and sticky. Ugh.

Yep well we're 38 degrees from the Equator here in Melbourne, you'd be 50+. Still it isn't unheard of to have temperatures as low as this or worse in summer. This isn't the most extreme that our winter can get either (right now it's 14.5), must have been a bit of cloud cover, overwise it's surprising since today is Winter Solstice. In theory your summer should be warmer than our winter anyway since you should be a fair bit closer to the Tropics of Cancer where the sun is closest to the earth, right this very day.

Okay, I'll join in,

Here right now where I live we are 37 degrees north of the central line of latitude.
It hasn't reached triple-digits F yet, but it gets humid (not at Texas nor SE USA levels) due to being near the marshy parts of the Valley. We actually had cloudy days in town windy and Pacific Northwest-like climates for a few days, what's up with that? This isn't Seattle.


Our winters can be around the low 50s and high 40s fareinheit with clear skies also, but then we have to deal with a whole lot of fog, darkness and wet rains depending on how well we get rain and snow. This winter it was crazy.

I don't know much about UK climate but when was the last time it reached above body temperature? And what is the humidity level over there?

And regarding the main topic...

I'm sure Aus. will get the iTMS once the Australian Recording industry, indie and local labels and major label branches get their deals together with Apple. When that will be, time will tell.

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Always heard that the Californian climate is similar to ours, though make sense if you're roughly the same distance from the equator.

Damn I don't know fahrenheit but lucky for dashboard. Sounds like you have similar extremes. I don't think we've been below 4-5 degrees (Celcius) this winter. Some winters we'll get a night where the weather report says it fell below 0 though maybe that's still to come this year. We don't really get snow on the ground here in Melbourne, they funnily enough it snowed two years in a row just after Christmas in the northern suburbs (yes, right in the middle of summer). Lots of snow on the mountains and sometimes they get decent snow falls inland from here. Yet there was an occasion in history where a significant portion of the state has been covered in snow:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/c20thc/temp4.shtml

Whoops, yeah, I'm good at getting off topic! I think iTMS is on the way, some artists are mentioning it. You're right though, there are just some issues to sort out.

It would be cool if I saw snow come down during an Aussie Rules Football match. We get to see the sport weekly on Fox Sports World. Make that the Fox Soccer Channel.



Yes and when it does come out, I'll be there to take a look at it (even though I can't buy there) and make sure they have all the Men at Work, Dexty's Midnight Runners, and Midnight Oil. And maybe a few celeb playlists from the "Croc Hunter" Steve Irwin, Paul Hogan, Elle MacPherson, and that Ameri-Aussie-American himself; Mel Gibson.

LOL!! !! !

If you want to know

˚F = [˚C * 1.8] + 32

So adding 1 degree celsius is equal to adding 1.8 degrees fahrenheit.

˚C = (˚F-32)(5/9)

Fat chance of that happening though. Unless they decide to play a match up at Mt Buller or somewhere! As I said we don't really get snow on the ground, but I forgot to mention that on average we only get a snow fall every ten years (those two years in a row in summer were an exception, though I'm not sure if outer areas are included in the average or if it's just the CBD).

Some of those bands are good, though I'd like to see some less known bands such as Eskimo Joe (okay they're probably more known know) and can't think of anymore right now but there must be some others (maybe even the Hunters & Collectors. Oh yeah and it'd have to have Crowded House. No big fan of Steve Irwin though, he's not such a big hit here as he is overseas.

I'm here in the USA, too (about 350 km north of Chicago), but I have had to become fluent in non-USA measures to become fully conversant on the 'web'. In recent years, it has come to the point where my mind is now requiring that I convert all 'F' readings into 'C'. It is just so much more elegant and logical than 'F'. On the 'C' scale, water freezes at zero and, at sea-level, boils at 100 (the same answers that I gave when the teacher asked me that, when I didn't know anything about the subject, in a 1st grade 'weights and measures' class here in the late 1960s - it's THAT easy to figure out). My mind works best knowing how many degrees above or below freezing the temp is.

I have also found myself becoming acclimated to all of the other international measures, too, to the point where I now have to convert USA road signs, etc, into meters, kg, etc, in order to understand them.

A simple rule-of-thumb is that 0C is (water) freezing, 10C is cool, 20C is moderate/room temp, 30C is a nice warm summer day and 40C is the equal of the USA's 'triple digits'. Our troops are regularly seeing 50C+ during the warm season in Iraq.

We are expecting low-mid 30s and GORGIOUS sunshine today (I *LOVE* summers in Wisconsin!)

BTW, our winters normally get into the -10s to -20s C, with -30 nights occurring every two-three years or so.

Mike

Any other celebs you want to send to us and not want back?

Anyways...

I wonder how much a song would cost when iTMS hits Aust., if you all get songs for AUS$0.99, then it will be cheaper than in the States, even the world since it would equal to 77 cents here.

Canadians get their songs the cheapest at CAN$0.99 or 80 US cents.
In the UK the songs are more expensive at £0.79 or US$1.44
European Union at €0.99 or US$1.20
Switz. Swe. Den. and Nor. have their own currency raging from US1.18 to $1.30.


And does anyone know why only France and Germany get their stores in their respected official languages while the others have it in English? I was hoping to read the Spanish version in Castellano. Or the Greek version with its own alphabet.
And how much would it cost to offer nations with multiple official languages a store each in those tongues?

The British climate is pretty humid most of the year, as its maritime. Winters are dark, dismal and windy but relatively mild, average daytime temp here in January is around 3 degrees C, with loads of rain mist fog etc, snow when its cold enough to stay on the ground. Summers are short with long days, and fluctuate between crap (15 degrees C, drizzle) and warm (25-30 C, sun, thunderstorms, bloody sticky) Its pretty rare for us to get temperatures above body temperature, usually only a couple of days a year and that in the south east.

Dunc (who likes talking about the weather actually, and has no opinion on iPods)

I've only been in snow twice.

The first time when I was about 9 years old coming home from Reno through the Sierra Nevadas and all of a sudden there was slow, stalling traffic Donner Pass, and what do I see with my bare eyes, snow. Not falling but it was there at the side of the freeway...

...At the end of May.


Second time was last winter when I went up to Yosemite Nat'l Park. My avatar of Yosemite Falls' bottom end was taken during that time. There I got to actually walk in snow, play with it and see it widespread. It was actually a shiny and pleasant day then.

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I agree how metric measurements are much more logical! Plus it is nice knowing what the temperature is relative to freezing point. You know when it gets down to a few degrees that it's pretty damn cold but not quite cold enough for snow. It's a pity the rest of the world can't catch up and use it, though it doesn't seem likely anytime soon. Though interesting to hear that from someone in the USA, rather than from myself, considering I grew up on metric.

Before I could understand F, I'd have to establish some reference points, etc. Then actually use it for some time. Even then, I'd still want to know the temperature in C, I reckon. As for snow, I've seen it countless times as a kid at the local aussie alps because we used to go skiing. Last time I saw snow though was on Arthur's Pass in New Zealand, on my way back to Christchurch Airport from the west coast:
http://www.jeremy.id.au/gallery/nz2004- ... s/img_1445

I'm not sure how iTMS will be priced here, though lately the difference between the AUD and the USD has become quite small. I remember about five years ago when our currency was half that of the USD, yet now it seems cheap to buy some stuff from the USA! I've heard rumour that the Australian iTMS may go above the standard 0.99 piece of currency, if it does, I guess that'd be a local record industry thing.

As for celebrities that I'd like to ship overseas, I don't watch enough TV for there to be anyone in particular who annoys me. Maybe the Big Brother/Australian Idol people, then again I think the concepts of those shows came from overseas to start with!

Whoo, down to 2 degrees (Celsius) right here where I am, so far tonight. While it's -2.2 just out of town in Coldstream. I'd say we're on the verge of reaching sub zero temperatures tonight in the suburbs of Melbourne. Though I'm not waiting around for it to get any colder, I'm off to bed...

Though there's no cloud cover, of course, which = no snow.

Current temperatures:
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60034.shtml

Now I am opposed to the fact that the numbers appear right on the cup... visible to the naked eye.

I purchased a cup a week ago and for some reason I couldn't read the code right and can't tell what number (or letter was what). I wish the code could be more legible.

The other problem is that someone can steal the code by memorizing it or phone snapshots. Maybe covering it with a sticker would be a better option.