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Originally posted by Megaquad
Originally posted by Byrd
Unix won't blow up in 2036 (or whenver.) Nobody needs old copies of Unix. Unix is continually improved and upgraded and the time stamp issue won't happen in 2036 (just as Windows didn't crash and cause the end of the world in 2000.)
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Sorry but you are wrong, Unix clock cannot go beyond 2036 (19 January 2036, ~3 AM to be exact), it reverts back to 1901.
It causes large number of apps, especially web related ones (like this forum) to stop functioning properly.
So, in 2036 this forum would have all latest times stuck in 1901 year or could even stop working.
I tried putting clock on Mac OS X (BSD Unix) to 2036 and it goes to 1901, it's same with all other Unix distributions too.
I think fixing the problem may not be too easy since this is tied very deep into the system.
[Edited on 12-1-2004 by Megaquad]
Originally posted by junglejake
All they need to do is upgrade Unix to 64 bit. That will add another 32 bits to the highest date, making it last a little longer. An OS upgrade would not be too tough, just time consuming. But then, they do have 32 years...One year for each bit.
Originally posted by junglejake
All they need to do is upgrade Unix to 64 bit. That will add another 32 bits to the highest date, making it last a little longer. An OS upgrade would not be too tough, just time consuming. But then, they do have 32 years...One year for each bit.
Originally posted by Garon
It's pretty funny to see you all get so worked up about this subject. Why is some loon getting your panties all bunched up???
December 13, 2000 12:44
(68) Yes, there are unusual events but they do not cause the world to end. It is important that they be a surprise. Perhaps you are familiar with the story of the Red Sea and the Egyptians?
Originally posted by Byrd
Originally posted by blobby
Well i dont know that, personally i dont beleive in what he says, but wouldnt it be that what i posted about this post be the finall proof we need to proove he was a fraud?
All the proof of his fraud was in the FIRST STATEMENTS HE MADE about why he was here.
Unix won't blow up in 2036 (or whenver.) Nobody needs old copies of Unix. Unix is continually improved and upgraded and the time stamp issue won't happen in 2036 (just as Windows didn't crash and cause the end of the world in 2000.)
EVERYTHING HE'S SAID IS A FRAUD. HE'S SOME HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT/COLLGE FRESHMAN WITH A STUPID STORY THAT A FEW PEOPLE BELIEVED.
Originally posted by Losonczy
I'm not trying to piss anyone off here...but the more I read this thread...I think of poor Jesus Christ. I'm sure people said the same about him. Some of the prophecies were right.
We're inspired by ideas that strike some chord in us. Doesn't make them true. Doesn't make them untrue. Just makes them significant...or insignificant.
physicsworld.com...
Everyone knows the score with black holes: even if light strays too close, the immense gravity will drag it inside, never to be seen again. They are thought to be created when large stars finally spend all their fuel and collapse. It might come as a surprise, therefore, to find that physicists in the UK have now managed to create an “artificial” black hole in the lab.
Originally, theorists studying black holes focused almost exclusively on applying Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which describes how the gravity of massive objects arises from the curvature of space–time. Then, in 1974, the Cambridge University physicist Stephen Hawking, building on the work of Jacob Bekenstein, showed that quantum mechanics should also be thrown into the mix.
Hawking suggested that the point of no return surrounding a black hole beyond which light cannot escape — the so-called event horizon — should itself emit particles such as neutrinos or photons. In quantum mechanics, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle allows such particles to spring out of the empty vacuum in pairs all the time, although they usually annihilate shortly after. But if two particles were to crop up on either side of a black hole’s event horizon, the one on the inside would be trapped while the one on the outside could break free. To an observer, the black hole would look like a thermal body, and these particles would be the black hole’s “Hawking radiation”.