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- Jazzillion, on 10/11/2007, -8/+263Anybody who is an experienced snoozer can tell you that waking up and falling back asleep for even 9 minutes can feel like an extra hour. There is something invigorating about it, even if you press it 7 times like I do.
- Sacrifice, on 10/11/2007, -18/+262I don't understand why people use the snooze button. It is like self-inflicted torture. Get ripped out of sleep...snooze...get ripped out of sleep again! Why not just get up as late as possible?
- wonderchemist, on 10/21/2007, -8/+189Maybe because when you press it 7 times it *IS* and extra hour... and 3 minutes.
- silverchrysalis, on 10/21/2007, -0/+156because: ever the optimists, we are hoping that maybe, just maybe, we can get up that first time....
or the third....
or maybe the seventh - airwalkery2k, on 10/11/2007, -3/+155What? My alarm clock only gives me 4 minutes. That's what happens when you buy cheap imports from Wal-Mart, I suppose. I could have spent a little more and got 5 extra minutes! Boy, was I jipped.
- natjo1986, on 10/11/2007, -1/+152I'm not even going to lie. I'm 21 and I live with my mother. She is my alarm clock. I'm a loser I have no friends, but my mother.
- cvrefugee, on 10/11/2007, -13/+118I can adjust my Sony alarm clock's snooze timer to any amount of time I wish...and it's still better than the PS3.
- ataylor32, on 10/11/2007, -3/+99When I wake up in the morning it feels like I went ten rounds with Mike Tyson and then got ran over by a steamroller. If I snooze once or twice, it's a lot easier for me to get up
- xyzunit, on 10/11/2007, -6/+80Sleep is for the weak.
- KiTchMe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+63I have to put my alarm away from bed, so when it goes off I have to get out of bed to turn it off. Otherwise, I'll snooze myself till noon.
- resplence, on 10/11/2007, -0/+55The snooze feature of the iPhone actually stops time for you so you can never get late if you indulge on it too much.
- danakin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+53Well, you're on Digg, so I'm sure you're not the only one.
- lp1977, on 10/11/2007, -6/+59Knowing you have 9 more minutes of sleep and that you don't have to get out of bed immediately is one of the best feelings ever. I snooze 7 or 8 times each morning.
- rlee0001, on 10/11/2007, -1/+39But it feels like an extra seven hours!
- samuelcotterall, on 10/11/2007, -3/+40Ha, well, it just gave me 54, because I pressed it six times...
Now I'm late for work. - victorycig, on 10/11/2007, -6/+39I'd always assumed digital clocks only gave you 9 minutes because they only had the memory for one bit (like year 00 bug). I figured they just kept producing clocks with those old chips because they were cheap...
- jull1234, on 10/11/2007, -3/+34I bet your roommates (past, present, future) just loooove you.
- Dr.Fade, on 10/11/2007, -2/+32I think I figured it out mathematically. 60 min = 1 hour, 60 / 9 = 6.66666, alarm clock = evil
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+29And not sleeping is for the UNDEAD.
- Jaryd2006, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25Actually using the snooze helps me wake up, Im a deep sleeper and it seems to wake me up better, Plus i know that when it goes off for the 3rd time, Thats the time I have to get up for sure or im late.
- uptown, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26You sound like one of those 2am infomercials trying to sell me some sleep machine.....
- rdhazrd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23Really? I got one.... and a list.
- Gatesophile, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22And you're on digg...
- freehunter, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21I do this at college, and at the beginning of last year I had an RA come into my room and unplug my alarm clock after snoozing for an hour.
- flamingmb, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21my old clock gave me 7 more minutes.
- g30ph, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19I got a digital alarm clock with 2 alarms. I set the first to turn on the radio, and about 30 minutes later I have alarm 2 set to buzzer and that makes sure I wake up.
- KevinWhite, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19I agree, I hate when they use it in TV shows, commercials, movies, or whatever....I cringe every time I hear it
- SuitCase874, on 10/11/2007, -11/+29Yeah! ***** the PS3!!!
- missflibbles, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17I get no snooze on mine. To combat this, I sometimes set two or even three at staggered times to make sure I get up. It throws me into anxiety mode whenever someone has the same ring as the one I use for my alarm, though.
- RJNavarrete, on 10/11/2007, -12/+29But what about in Chuck Norris' case? He doesn't sleep, after all... He waits.
- zanvann, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16Surely everybody is an 'experienced' snoozer, unless there is some extreme sport I'm missing out on or something?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15I'd probably just piss the bed.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Just in case the article fall back to sleep.
- almightyzam, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16In Soviet Russia, alarm clocks last only 9 seconds and play the Soviet National Anthem at full volume when they go off
- xxpor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13good thing computers dont store numbers in decimal
- zanthrax, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16I haven't checked if there were really any mechanical alarm-clocks with a snooze button. But I doubt it.
I was told the reason that a snooze buttons give you 9 more minutes of sleep if because that is the simplest way to program one and it takes up the least memory.
What the code behind the snooze-button does:
The alarm is sounding, the button is pressed:
- store the last digit on the face -1, (say it's 7:38, store 8-1 = 7 )
- The alarm will sound again the next time the last digit is a 7, which is 9 minutes later.
To snooze 1 minute more, you need twice the amount of memory to store a 2 digit number. - alexkriegsmann, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12finally someone answered that. now i can sleep.
- Durrok, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12I think you ***** up that meme...
- docbob84, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Anyone who is habitually awake BEFORE their alarm goes off should be beaten severely. ;)
- Trel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12It's been 9 minutes, WAKE UP!
- MonkeyFit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Mine gives me 6 minutes. I think somebody was looking at it upside down when they programmed it in.
- evilninjax, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10"one bit"? i think you mean 3 bits. With one bit, you only get 0,1 and so maybe 2 min (assuming you just +1 to each number). With 3 bits, you get 8 and so +1 -> 9.
- MalDON, on 10/11/2007, -3/+13Alarm clocks! pfft. That's why you work out of your house.
- DigitalDud, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I often use my cell phone's alarm clock as a backup, and the whole phone crashes after hitting snooze too many times and needs to be rebooted. Gotta love Motorola's software.
- TinFoil209, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13The best I heard for 9 minutes is most people go by 5s as the shortest interval of people set alarms by. 9:30, 9:35 etc. So even if your a screw ball and do 9:32, both minute digits will change. 9:32 becomes 9:41. So when you see a change in both it alerts you more telling yourself that you better wake up. If its 10 minutes 9:30 becomes 9:40 and you go "Ahh I still got more time before I get ready for work". What do I know? I still do 90MPH to make a 5 minute trip to work a 3 minute one to get to work a minute late... I need an 8 minute snooze! :)
- ZZZin, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12The snooze button is just another reminder that you're going to be late for work.
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -2/+10Snooze button is terrible, and so is the alarm clock. I moved into an apartment with stock blinds that are really translucent so the light just pours in at sunrise.
It's the best thing ever; waking up gradually with natural sunlight is the only way to go. It's like a very gradual natural alarm.
Waking up to a _pleasant_ aroma is nice too. There are some zen alarm clocks that combine light, aroma, and sound to wake you up gradually... haven't tried one yet though.
Waking up to the sound of water is probably not bad either. - rodrigo74, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8The sunlight strategy would not work here in Norway, in the summer the sun is up at 3AM, and in the winter it pretty much never shows up.
Wake up with the sound of water? No way, it will make me desperate to go to the toilet. - cplex, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11I use my blackberry as my alarm clock. It became painfully clear that doing so was a terrible idea after I'd thrown it against the wall =
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+12Try setting it for a multiple of 90minutes. If you time it right in the sleep cycle you should feel like springing out of bed and doing handstands.
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