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LOL...just thought of something about the millennium bug

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lol, i've never been banned, but there are times i "ban" myself because i need a break from the pc.

so, either way....we all "need" it once in a while....or we forget the world goes beyond the monitor 14 inches from our nose. "i have a big nose....you might be 15 inches away" lol;)
 
The millennium is over just what are they going to do about the change from 9999 to 10000? I wonder if they will be prepaired :p
 
Mark620 said:
The millennium is over just what are they going to do about the change from 9999 to 10000? I wonder if they will be prepaired :p

awwww, man, now i'm starting to worry..... lmao:D
 
Mark620 said:
The millennium is over just what are they going to do about the change from 9999 to 10000? I wonder if they will be prepaired :p

An oldie but a goodie:


An Article from a London Newspaper (circa 999 A.D.)
Canterbury, England. A.D. 999.
An atmosphere close to panic prevails today throughout Europe as the millennial year 1000 approaches, bringing with it the so-called "Y1K Bug," a menace which, until recently, hardly anyone had ever heard of.
Prophets of doom are warning that the entire fabric of Western Civilization, based as it now is upon monastic computations, could collapse, and that there is simply not enough time left to fix the problem.
Just how did this disaster-in-the-making ever arise? Why did no one anticipate that a change from a three-digit to a four-digit year would throw into total disarray all liturgical chants and all metrical verse in which any date is mentioned? Every formulaic hymn, prayer, ceremony and incantation dealing with dated events will have to be rewritten to accommodate three extra syllables. All tabular chronologies with three-space year columns, maintained for generations by scribes using carefully hand-ruled lines on vellum sheets, will now have to be converted to four-space columns, at enormous cost. In the meantime, the validity of every official event, from baptisms to burials, from confirmations to coronations, may be called into question.
"We should have seen it coming," says Brother Cedric of St. Michael Abbey, here in Canterbury. "What worries me most is that THOUSAND contains the word THOU, which occurs in nearly all our prayers, and of course always refers to God. Using it now in the name of the year will seem almost blasphemous, and is bound to cause terrible confusion. Of course, we could always use Latin, but that might be even worse -- The Latin word for Thousand is Mille which is the same as the Latin for mile. We won't know whether we are talking about time or distance!"
Stonemasons are already reported threatening to demand a proportional pay increase for having to carve an extra numeral in all dates on tombstones, cornerstones and monuments. Together with its inevitable ripple effects, this alone could plunge the hitherto-stable medieval economy into chaos. A conference of clerics has been called at Winchester to discuss the entire issue, but doomsayers are convinced that the matter is now one of personal survival. Many families, in expectation of the worst, are stocking up on holy water and indulgences.
 
Mark620 said:
The millennium is over just what are they going to do about the change from 9999 to 10000? I wonder if they will be prepaired :p

"One day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter"

Besides before the year 10000 comes around then the computer industry is likely to have already re-written the date/time code to work on different planets
 
do you guys remember some of those "y2k fix cards" that would just stick in your isa/pci slot and do absolutely nothing? haha. those always cracked me up. they had a huge stock at office depot (an office supply store that has some computer stuff for those of you who don't know) and people would be asking for those all the time :) useless... hehe. i have a freakin 286 i think it is that runs perfectly and understands the date correctly... :rolleyes: i used to use it for banking and playing old games on 5 1/4 floppies :) i think it has a sub 100 mb hard drive too :)
 
lol...it was funny my dad actually bought some winshield thingy that "checks" to see if your computer is "Y2k safe" im like...dont waste ur money dad and hes like "you dont know computers brian, so im gonna buy it" i didnt know as much then as i did now but i still knew more than him....lol

But i never saw this fix cards...lol notice how there is nothing on the PCB! lol...i just changed the date to 2001 day before new years..lol
 
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