Laurie said:Let's face it, at 75 I've not got too many years to worry about.
Topimo said:Laurie said:Let's face it, at 75 I've not got too many years to worry about.
Isn't this the attitude that got us into this sub-optimal situation?
langcliffe said:paul said:People do not seem to realise that the fact the Millennium Bug turned out to be a damp squid was actually a very major achievement for the IT industry.
yes and either people couldn't do sums or read a calendar else such a bloody stupid language like Fortran that actually used algorithms for dates to save a little bit of disk space would never have been developed.
So who landed us with it in the first place?
Topimo said:Laurie said:Let's face it, at 75 I've not got too many years to worry about.
Isn't this the attitude that got us into this sub-optimal situation?
royfellows said:langcliffe said:People do not seem to realise that the fact the Millennium Bug turned out to be a damp squid was actually a very major achievement for the IT industry.
yes and either people couldn't do sums or read a calendar else such a bloody stupid language like Fortran that actually used algorithms for dates to save a little bit of disk space would never have been developed.
So who landed us with it in the first place?
tony from suffolk said:At least back then, we weren't told such a pack of lies by politicians.
Alex said:Being in the IT industry I can tell you on the millennium bug was never fixed, it was just kicked down the garden path with a fudge. We will likely start seeing the effects by about 2050 if those old systems are still in use. The reason being the test was if year < 49 then it's the 21st century (append 20), else append 19 as it's the 20th century so by 2051 systems will think it's 1951. Other systems depending on how old they are may had have a different test the value might be 70 so we won't have an issue until then, but the fix was the same, it will break before 2100.
Beardy said:tony from suffolk said:At least back then, we weren't told such a pack of lies by politicians.
Tony,
I'm not so sure that is true.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/12176234/Nine-deceptions-in-our-history-with-the-EU.html
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/882881/Brexit-EU-secret-document-truth-British-public
regards
Beardy
Laurie said:Is a 'lie' something which a polititian says that you don't aree with or an actual 'lie'?
No, a lie is a lie, a porker, being economical with the truth, a big fat fib. Try Googling ?Boris Johnson's Lies? for a healthy dose of pure, unadulterated fabrication.Laurie said:Is a 'lie' something which a polititian says that you don't aree with or an actual 'lie'?