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Farewell, 11111010001

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the listen-to-my-biological-clock-yammer dept.

As you might know, Slashdot runs on Greenwich Mean Time. That means that you're reading the last story posted in 2001, in which we've gathered some more year-end submissions. Happy New Year to all, no matter what time zone you're in! Zargo writes: "Infosync.no has a great collection of articles named Rewind 2001 looking back at the best stories of 2001. Lots of cool gadgets in there. Samsung 3G prototypes, a car designed by Bella and Nokia, soft hardware by IDEO, Siemens wristphone, Compaq's project Mercury, the Agende VR3 Linux based PDA, the Pogo, Psion's über gadgets, Handspring's Treo, Fathammer's X-Forge, Samsungs YOPY (Linux PDA), Sharp's Zaurus SL-5500 including screenshots. Lots and lots of cool stuff to read."

Speaking of Stuff, Dave Gould writes: "I have published my picks for the 2001 Stuff of the Year. Here's hoping for lots of neat new stuff in 2002!" I bet high that stuff continues to arrive. Maybe even more IT.

Weedstock writes: "EE Times has a list of 15 interesting articles about technologies to watch in 2002. One of those articles, Software model needs overhaul, explains the current problems with computer processing and describes new technologies (Such as the Reconfigurable Architecture Workstation processor from MIT) that will affect this domain in the next year."

uninet writes: "'Looking back over the past year, I think most people would have to agree it has been a ground breaking time for open source. While it is true that open source companies suffered just like the rest of the tech sector from poor economic conditions, those same conditions have also made open source appear even more attractive.'" Here's the rest of Open For Business' analysis of the year past and coming.

There are plenty more year-end wrap-ups filled with bulleted lists and instant nostalgia, but few can top Llewyn, who writes: "The couple who met on Slashdot two years ago are celebrating their first wedding anniversary! you can email them at scott@asofyet.org and elysse@asofyet.org or visit their reminiscing website." Congratulations!

For those into New Year's festivities of the more athletic (and semi-athletic) variety, burntfungus writes with words on "Security and open 802.11b WLAN Access Points along the Rose Parade route, Pasadena's yearly event that allow anyone to be a street person for two nights a year! If you get cold there are many places to get a hot cup of coffee or hot chocolate. Watch floats (on webcam, blimps and low flying stealth bombers! Find a public WLAN access point or two."

At least partly wrapping up one of this year's oddest stories, several readers have submitted a link to a CNN story which says that Dmitry Sklyarov has returned home to Russia, and has already raised a toast with his wife and children. I hope Dmitry's treated a little differently on his next visit to the U.S. suwain_2 adds a link to this Newsforge story as well.

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  1. Enter the Palindrome by LionMan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The last one was 1991 - now we have 2002.
    But we won't have another for 110 years! (and then 110 every time after that one until 2992, after which we'll wait for 3003. But I'll be dead by then. Maybe slashdot won't!)

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    -Leo
  2. Chinese new year? by checkitout · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apparently this year is the year of the horse.

    http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2002.htm

    Of course, it doesn't start until February 12th but since our own calendar system doesn't include fortunes, it might be fun to look at.

  3. Get Involved - Donate! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
    As the year that brought us the DeCSS, Sklyrov and so many other scary cases draws to a close, I would encourage those who care to follow Mr. Lessig's advice and get involved. I just donated $100 to the EFF in time to claim the deduction for my 2001 taxes.

    How about the rest of you Slashdotters? Let's end the year by doing something productive!

  4. Re:Wrong. by coyote-san · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I read someplace (Knuth? Burke?) that this rule was invented long after ancient times. For most of the empire there was only addition - with the symbols often "out of order" to modern eyes, and even after the subtractive rule was introduced there are some truly bizarre constructions found in the ruins. Not only would the ancients use MIM for 1999, they were just as likely to use IMM.

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    For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
  5. goodbye 2001 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Here is the last memory of the year 2001, after this 2001 will be forever gone and never return back.

    find all positive integers a,n such that
    a^(n+1)-(a+1)^n=2001

    note 1: positive integer is a number in 1,2,3,4,5,6,...,infinity

    note 2: a^b means axax...xa (b times), 2^3=2x2x2=8, 2^4=2x2x2x2=16

    RIP my mother's father (grandfather-in-law) who dies in 11 September 2001. He fell down from the chair 1 week before 11 September and after 1 week of struggling, he finally goes away. He is a great guy and is nice to me. I like to go to his house during school holidays. I will never see him again. RIP.

  6. Re:Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT? by PsychoSpunk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sorry, but you're wrong. The link is wrong too.

    UTC is GMT with the following exception: leap seconds. Leap seconds are added to and subtracted from (when necessary) UTC. GMT does not reflect leap seconds, hence the term Mean in the title. UTC is calibrated for scientific purposes.

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    ALL HAIL BRAK!!!
  7. Farewell, 11111010001 by lnxguy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For your information, it is no longer Greenwich mean time (GMT). It has been called Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) for about eight years now...