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| Jan 25th, 2008 02:26 PM | ||
| Spruce Moose |
Oh wait, I think I've got it. This Y2.1K bug will be the thing that causes Skynet to become self-aware at last. Shame too, we'll be too old or dead to fight in ensuing war between man and machine, thus making us less than bit players in the story. |
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| Jan 25th, 2008 05:12 AM | ||
| executioneer |
just think almost everyone on this message board who is still alive will be on lifesupport by then and will DIEEE |
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| Jan 25th, 2008 02:11 AM | ||
| bigtimecow |
hopefully by then people stop relying on computers  lol
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| Jan 24th, 2008 05:57 PM | ||
| Spruce Moose | Watch. By 2099, the compute will be replaced. By what? Who the fuck knows, I hope it's super rad. | |
| Jan 20th, 2008 04:20 PM | ||
| Pub Lover |
Hey Super Llama, could you head over to the time travel thread, you know, the one where I call you an idiot. 
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| Jan 20th, 2008 04:07 PM | ||
| Super Llama |
By 2099, our robot overlords will have gained mastery over time and space itself, able to alter reality at will. And of course, when the new year rolls around, they'll become confused and all space/time will reset to the year 2000. Hopefully this century doesn't suck too bad, cause you're gonna have to relive it over and over and over and over again. |
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| Jan 20th, 2008 12:25 AM | ||
| Et tu |
Titor will proof you all wrong! When was that nuclear war again? 2006? |
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| Jan 19th, 2008 06:50 PM | ||
| MarioRPG | I was about to comment that I would be most likely dead for a good 30 years before this happened. | |
| Jan 19th, 2008 05:49 PM | ||
| Sethomas |
And Blue Fox is the only one here with a remote chance of being around to enjoy it! Awesome! |
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| Jan 19th, 2008 01:42 PM | ||
| Blue Fox |
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| Jan 15th, 2008 09:08 PM | ||
| Sacks | That was some snooty-ass Willie going on right there. | |
| Jan 15th, 2008 04:49 AM | ||
| executioneer |
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| Jan 15th, 2008 12:04 AM | ||
| AChimp |
That's just a limit on the Windows UI. They had to pick a maximum, so they set it at 2099. Any BIOS capable of handling 2000 should be able to go much higher than that. Try running the "date" command from your DOS prompt. |
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| Jan 14th, 2008 10:31 PM | ||
| Sacks | Man Halloween is on a Saturday in 2099! Nice! | |
| Jan 14th, 2008 08:58 PM | ||
| Tadao | My calander only goes up to 2012 | |
| Jan 14th, 2008 08:56 PM | ||
| JediScum |
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| Jan 14th, 2008 08:13 PM | ||
| Pihlak101 |
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Sweet! To bad by then I'll be too poor as I sold all my robot stock too soon. |
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| Jan 14th, 2008 07:52 PM | ||
| Zbu Manowar | Silly man! In 2099 Alchemax will find a solution to this problem and will beat out any naysayers! Then, Thanatos will come and try to rule over the Virtual Reality portion of the megacorp, and only Spidey 2099 will be able to save the whole of New New York! | |
| Jan 14th, 2008 07:48 PM | ||
| Sethomas |
The Y2.1K bug? I got curious about how the calendars are calculated in Windows, so I tried to change the date on my copy of Windows XP to February 2100. Many people don't know it, but 2100 is NOT a leap year. I had the instinctive guess that computer programmers simplified the dating algorithms in such a way that wouldn't reflect this, but the highest year I could get my computer to recognize was 2099. Now, I know what you might say. Surely something better than XP or even Vista will be around by the time this becomes a problem. This is all contingent even on the assumption that the Rapture will not have happened by then anyways! However, you have to remember that computer programmers are a simple lot, and I fear that the next ninety or so years will fly by and they'll never get around to writing a better calendar algorithm. I have a suspicion that this conversation will come about (in Esperanto, of course): "Hey guys, my computer says that next year, 2100, is a leap year. We need to fix this!" "Umm, dude, 2100 is divisible by 4, so it's a leap year." "NO! Yes, it's divisible by 4, but it's also divisible by 100, which means that it's not a leap year!" "The year 2000 was a leap year, and it was divisible by 100. Chill, dude!" "Yes, but 2000 is divisible by 400, which means that it IS a leap year despite being divisible by 100 as well!" "Dude, you're freaking me out. Do you realize how retarded you sound? Quit making this shit up." The next year, computers worldwide register the existence of an extra day and so begins THE APOCALYPSE. |
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