Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:57:32 -0300, Wojtek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> Note: Since I am using the year 9999 as a "magic number", some of you >> may think that I am repeating the Y2K problem. Hey, if my application >> is still being used in the year 9998 I am not being paid nearly >> enough... > > I would not say the code itself, but some design decisions may survive for > a long time. Like the railroad inter-rail distance, which even for the > newest trains, remains the same as used by Stephenson in England two > centuries ago - and he choose the same width as used by common horse carts > at the time. (Some people goes beyond that and say it was the same width > as used in the Roman empire but this may be just a practical coincidence, > no causality being involved). > Brunel, of course, being an original, built his system with a wider inter-rail gap, and passengers commented on the smoother ride they got. But standardization wars aren't new, and IKB lost that one.
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