484,484,484

[Doctor Q]

I'm not sure you're allowed to win at your own game, are you Dr. Q?

You are if you are a lying, cheating scoundrel. I read that on the Internet somewhere so it must be true.

 

[emw]

Getting closer...

 

[Platform]

Well you must be quick on the keyboard

 

[Sharewaredemon]

This could be a new game! Try to take a screenshot as the counter passes a multiple of 1,000, 10,000, or higher. I've missed three times so far, but it's better than I did at that throw-the-paper-in-the-wastebasket game.

Oh god the wastebasket game. And the thread!

I had more fun whacking the penguin.

EDIT - Found the thread.

it is in case anyone was wondering what Doctor Q was talking about.

 

[OnceUGoMac]

It's gotta be the normal rate of purchase, because we're obviously not near 500M yet, and the 100K prize intervals are still pretty spread out. I don't buy bits, but in the grand tradition of Charlie Bucket, I will try to buy the 500Mth song.

And to those who doubt my veracity regarding the non-altered state of my picture, I have just one thing to say to you:

PHBPFFPPTBHT!

Ha! I like your retort. Quite appropriate.

 

[Alistair]

Does this ticker actually go up as music is bought from the iTMS? Or does it just go up on it's own?

It turns out that if you run it on two machines side by side they start to get out of sync fairly quickly. Also, removal from the internet does not stop the counter. I suspect it gets the current number and the current rate of sales and extrapolates from there. I'm sure the Apple we all know and love wouldn't dream of it, but I wonder if it might have a slight delay on as well to increase the number of sales around the prize levels

Since replacing all the windoze machines at school with macs I really do have too much time on my hands

 

[rainman::|:|]

I win! I win! And I have Photoshop to thank!

(Perhaps I should have waited until the counter actually got to 485,000,000 before posting this.)

funniest Doctor Q post ever...

 

[Don't panic]

I really wanted to play Doctor Q's new game... but my office's myriad of filters block anything from the iTunes domain. Including the simple JS that is the counter.

See?

that's what i get too, but i don't think it's because of a filter. do you need 10.3 to see it?

 

[michaelrjohnson]

that's what i get too, but i don't think it's because of a filter. do you need 10.3 to see it?

No, for me it's most definitly my employer's content filter. For example, Apple.com/iTunes is blocked for of "Music, entertainment" (excerpt of the message I get when trying to go there). The source URL for the counter is located within the Apple.com/iTunes domain.

But to answer your question, all you should need is a modern browser and an unfiltered connection.

 

[steve jr.]

well, i was close. hopefully i won the rollover because i hit the enter button to submit the "tell a friend" a split second before i did the print screen (winxp user, sadly). here's hoping! ::crosses fingers::