On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:43:53PM +0100, eckinator scripsit: > 2010/1/17 paul stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net>: > > Real? It's not real until it happens. But I'm ready, I have my > > millennium shelter fully stocked. Oh wait, that was the last > > doomsday scenario. That was "real" as well. > > naah the millennium bug was as real as the majority votes for dubya's > presidencies.
The Millenium bug -- a whole bunch of code that assumed it wouldn't be running in 2000 -- was real; it just got (mostly) fixed in time. There were a number -- but not a really big number -- of things like embedded controllers that really did start acting weird, but the majority of systems were patched or replaced in time. Look at the 2010 bug they just had in Germany when someone made a similar mistake abut date handling and millions of people suddenly stopped having working bank cards. So far as the whole anthropogenic climate change thing goes, one might want to take a photographic perspective on the question and look at the old and new shots of Glacier National Park. <http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=626&gid=42&index=0> -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
