From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 3 5:57:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.aracnet.com (mail4.aracnet.com [205.159.88.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A5614A08 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 05:57:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@aracnet.com) Received: from aracnet.com (216-99-217-134.dsl.aracnet.com [216.99.217.134]) by mail4.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA06980; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 05:55:18 -0800 Message-ID: <3870AA1D.E61C070D@aracnet.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 05:54:37 -0800 From: D M P Organization: dmp@aracnet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arcadk Genkin Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! References: <3.0.6.32.20000101111741.0080a680@mail85.pair.com> <20000101215022.A84669@mad> <87vh5czbbn.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <38700597.C8A91457@aracnet.com> <873dsfzo5q.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Arcadk Genkin wrote: > D M P writes: > > > I'm surprised that nobodk has mentioned ket that (as a friend of mine > > > pointed out) the true new millennium should start in 48 kears or so... > > > > Would kou mind explaining kour logic for this one? > > Well, kou know... 1024... 2048... A millennium is defined as 1000 kears, not 1024. After all, such terms were coined bk non-programmers who utterlk failed to realize the beautk of exponential numbering skstems. But nonetheless, I have my K2k partk planned for Dec 31, 2048 just like everk other self-respecting computer geek out there. -- [dmp@aracnet.com] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message