Posted on 01/07/2009 11:27:20 AM PST by XR7
Up next: 2012.
:->
/johnny
I have 2 pouches of freeze dried chili left, thanks for the meal idea!
Younger programmers today, and those yet to be born, will have another Y2K-like opportunity in another 30 years or so.
I haven’t heard anybody talk about the Y10K problem.
Hey, Y2K computer systems remediation gave me a good job for a couple of years. And in fairness, there *was* a problem—although not to the apocalyptic extent North and his ilk predicted. Systems that had to do arithmetic or sorting on dates where the years were stored as two digits might’ve been glitchy and had some weird results, and there would have been inconvenience, but I seriously doubt a doomsday scenario was ever even close to possible.
As it was, most companies I knew about already had their Y2K situations handled well in advance. One large financial company I contracted with was done by the beginning of 1998; the company I worked for when 2000 rolled around was taken care of by the end of first quarter 1999.
}:-)4
Ya - why doesn’t everyone realize that all things are the same as always...each day follows the next....sunrise/sunset....nothing has changed in this country....no worries?
Food stores for yourself for the wrong reason are good. Whipping people into a hysteria primarily fueled by the people who have the most to gain from the hysteria (global warming anyone?) because you happen to have bought into it is not a good thing.
Some younger programmers are still trying to figure out leap years, apparently.
I recall that it was around noon and they had first reports from Australia, the announcer said “we now go direct to Sydney, Christie on your cell phone, how does it look, - Christie - everything looks fine, no problems so far -————
and her phone went dead.
Up next: 2012.
I vote for 2010.
Zune.
Thanks for reminding those with selective memories.
That’s funny. A guy I knew moved out to the Iowa countryside, convinced he could live off deer, pheasants and nuts and berries after Y2K. No one told him a gun and hunting license was required to take critters...
I have a greater fear of BHO on 01/20/09, than I had of Y2K.
--and this proves how very farsighted the Y2K'ers are.
/johnny
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