Well, I'm off. If, while I'm gone, anyone suddenly receives a huge burst of medieval-Arabic-combinatorics knowledge, please let me know, as I'm pretty stumped.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Emily - Nov 02, 2005 1:09:03 pm PST #830 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
libkitty - Nov 02, 2005 1:12:39 pm PST #831 of 10006
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
that was my point. stated in a very sideways way.
oops. nebbermind.
Hil R. - Nov 02, 2005 1:15:07 pm PST #832 of 10006
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
If, while I'm gone, anyone suddenly receives a huge burst of medieval-Arabic-combinatorics knowledge, please let me know, as I'm pretty stumped.
Once you get back, I might be able to help, if I'm still here then. (Do you have AIM? Might be easier than filling up the boards with math homework.)
flea - Nov 02, 2005 1:18:55 pm PST #833 of 10006
information libertarian
Speaking of lots of media reports about a problem, lots of money spent, and then I heard nothing, can anyone explain the whole Y2K thing to me? I mean, I remember why we were told it was important. But I never heard of anything bad coming of it. Were we just super-efficient and fixed everything on time, or was it a crock?
Maria - Nov 02, 2005 1:19:24 pm PST #834 of 10006
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
There was a big brouhaha from the GM labor groups a few weeks ago when management said that they had to up the level of unionized employees healthcare contributions from 5% to (I think) 10% (white-collar GM employees pay upwards to 33%).
Uh huh. And it's not over yet.
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 1:23:46 pm PST #835 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Were we just super-efficient and fixed everything on time, or was it a crock?
It wasn't a crock. A whole lot of software running a whole lot of stuff would have broken. I'm not saying planes would have fallen out of the sky onto your head or anything, but it would have been, at the very least, fucking irritating for all involved.
I'd say the coders who made an assload of money off it deserved what they got. Anything that needed to be fixed can't have been fun to fix.
Betsy HP - Nov 02, 2005 1:27:55 pm PST #836 of 10006
If I only had a brain...
I'd say the coders who made an assload of money off it deserved what they got. Anything that needed to be fixed can't have been fun to fix.
Yup. There was a fair ol' chunk of code whose source was long-lost and which didn't have documentation.
Cass - Nov 02, 2005 1:29:42 pm PST #837 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
And there is the amusement of find old pieces of tech that have the ubiquitous green, yellow or (well, those would be scrap so you don't see them anymore) red stickers on them.
Also Y2K got me into Biohazard Level 3 places that I in no way should have been, but I seem to have missed any of the major bugs. It also meant I didn't get a kiss on New Year's but you take what you can get.
JZ - Nov 02, 2005 1:42:51 pm PST #838 of 10006
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I hope you're all happy. I was just upstairs dropping off some papers for someone's signature, and the hallway was covered with FLU SHOT signs, so I got one, all because of you. Also, I didn't flip out over the needle-ness of it hardly at all, and my nurse gave me a Power Rangers band-aid.
Still, ALL BECAUSE OF YOU. Except for Nutty, the contrarian anti-alarmist.
Tom Scola - Nov 02, 2005 1:46:14 pm PST #839 of 10006
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
my nurse gave me a Power Rangers band-aid.
Cool! Dino-Thunder or SPD?