Re: Did anyone else notice?
Kelly French (targon@hazmat.com)
Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:51:54 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 bytor@logicsouth.com wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Dossy wrote:
> > > > True, although I think international date format is nicer; especially
> > > > since it is monotonic.
> > > It has an implicit year 10,000 problem
> > The thought that we'll survive another 8k years is more than optimistic,
> > in my book. And more likely than not we'll probably end up re-numbering
> > our years within the next millenium, like going from BCE to AD, we'll
> > probably go from AD to AA (after armageddon?) or somesuch nonsense.
> But now, before armageddon, we must consider that we will be outlived by
> nuclear-powered linux boxes. And we want the aliens who discover them to
> be impressed that after 15000 years they are still running! :)
Probably still running one of the encryption challenges
-KF
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