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Farewell, 11111010001
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.
Are the first post lamers gonna fight over who gets LAST POST?
--Nuintari
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Read : Infosync.no vividly reminds you of all the cool toys you really wanted to buy in 2001 but couldn't afford, and probably won't be able to afford in 2002 either.
1999 = MCMXCIX
2000 = MM
2001 = MMI
2002 = MMII
Boy, I'm wondering what the hell didn't happen this year. Terrorist attacks, new prez, cloning, artifical hearts, iPod, 2.4.x, Linux PDA's, Pentium 4, RAM prices fall, RAM prices go up, people born, people die, text Quake II, etc...
Oh what a year it was. Hell, I think the only thing that didn't happen was me getting a girlfriend...
Happy New Year everyone!
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!)
-Leo
2. Turn off the TV during war/disaster/election controversy.
3. Attend more Free Jazz concerts.
4. Do not boot to Windows once (at home, forced to at work)
5. Take para-gliding lessons.
6. Get a sick stereo (Krell and B&W).
7. Badger slashdot staff until I see a poll without the CowboyNeal option.
8. Knock over the first person I see driving an "IT".
pronoblem
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.
My new years resolution is 1024x768 ;)
Posted by timothy on 18:59 31 December 2001
/. will use whatever time zone you want it to.
I'm set up for EST...
I'd like to have the time displayed in seconds since the Epoch. Surely I'm not alone! Everyone knows nothing important happened before 1-1-1970 anyway, no?
As the first line states:
:-)
_ gc i213612,00.html
;-)
k b; EN-US;q158588
"As you might know, Slashdot runs on Greenwich Mean Time."
and I have noticed it for a long time, I will now take the opportunity to ask if Slashdot editors wouldn't please enter the new age and use updated acronyms?
A good explanation can be found here:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9
Even MS has the following [slightly related] page from 1997 (and we wouldn't wanna be defetaed by MS, would we
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
Ergo, skip the GMT and start using UTC.
Oh, and I hope all will have a Happy New Year!
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Your wife/girlfriend/mistress/mom bugs you with finding at least ONE good resolution for 2002? here's one that will make you happy to follow and shut them off for next year :)
:)
in 2002, my resolution will be 1600x1200x32x75+hz... on a 21+" LCD, playing DOOM III.
Hey, they've asked for it so stop feeling guilty and go buy one with your next (or maybe 10 next) paychecks
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
An affordable "webpad" like computer running Linux, with a nice bright clear full colour screen, similiar to those things on Star Trek Enterprise. That would be an excellent type of computer, and would likely replace my desktop computer for a lot of stuff.
There is no rule like that...
The only rule that remotely resembles what you're talking about is that you can only put an I in front of V or X, only put an X in front of L or C, only put C in front of D or M. (that's the reason why MIM was invalid for 1999, MCMXCIX was one of the more correct options you had. 2000 was simply MM, 2001 MMI and 2002 MMII..)
Ner lbh sebz gur HFN? Gura lbh'ir whfg ivbyngrq gur QZPN!
Uhhh.. I'm working until 11pm--and there's a party AT MY HOUSE. Happy new year.
I don't need large brains to have a good time.
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How about the rest of you Slashdotters? Let's end the year by doing something productive!
I hope everybody remembers to dates their checks properly. It's seems every January some of us tend to make the mistake of writing last year's date. Remember to write "Year of the Horse" instead of "Year of the Snake". ;)
It's a link to another parody/satire year-in-review thingy:
l ay=20011231&id=480
http://www.ridiculopathy.com/news_detail.php?disp
Enjoy.
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.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
Niether of things affected me at all.
Now, you know that's not true. I'm sure at least one broadcast of WWF Smackdown was preempted by 9-11 news coverage.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
>[] 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.
Frankly if I were him, I would be totally disgusted by the US and would never ever want to go again to the US?
Think of it, as if you were going to a foreign country and has been treated the way he was..
Would you want to go again to this foreign country?
I doubt it, and first you would have to convince your wife to let you go there
>> 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.
Or in other words -- a tribute to vaporware 2001.
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
I use IE/5.0 on Macintosh (MacOS9.2, 450MHz G3) and there are significant slowdowns with heavily-nested comments. Rendering can take several seconds, sometimes longer.
This is a problem/limitation of IE 5 for Mac. Try it on Mozilla - you'll notice it's as fast as IE on Windows (that is, no huge delay in rendering deeply nested tables). I use IE on my Win98 laptop, but I use Mozilla on my G4 tower.
For your information, it is no longer Greenwich mean time (GMT). It has been called Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) for about eight years now...