I got April Fooled by my alarm clock. It thought it would be funny to fake daylight savings time again spring forward another hour. The fucker woke me up at 7:20 and told me it was 8:20. It wasn't until I saw Mike on the bus that I realized I had been duped harder than Peter Sarsgaard in Shattered Glass. And what really chaps my ass is that it wont let it go. It still is trying to fuck with me. I guess we can't really ever trust computers. But when will be the next time we will wake up and be messed with? Well here is the list.
3:14:07 on Tuesday, January 19, 2038 - Planes will fall out of the sky, up will be down, black will be white, hippies will be normal. The way that computers keep track of time is using a signed 32 bit counter that adds one each second. The problem is that 2^32 is just over 4 billion. So that in 2038 the counter will hit reach its maximum and become negative. Negative time. Many predict this to be the date when computers take over the world and Ann Coulter comes out of the closet.
Y2K10 - You wake up in new years day, still hung over from year 9999 and realize that its not year 10,000 at all but actually year 0000. This is because modern computers that will still be in use in 8000 years only give 4 places to store the year, and only the last 4 are displayed. This is a very pressing issue that many scientist have already theorized has no solution.
I thought there would be more, but it looks like were safe from the tyranny of our alarm clocks for another 31 years.
2 comments:
You're computer is fine, and if it still works in the year 10000, it's probably a good enough computer to cryogenically freeze you and revive you to show you that it works in the year 10000. The problem is with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, fucking pushing daylight savings time earlier, even though there's doubt it will result in net energy savings. But yea, your operating system (including the latest service pack) was made before that bill was passed, so it's unaware of when DST /really/ starts. Unless of course you're using Vista, in which case I will be praying for you. /Anyways/ that was just my theory, and if I'm completely off-base about it, I just contributed another piece of false information to the internet, just like the people who tell you that entering your PIN in reverse at the ATM will alert the police that you're being robbed.
good because my PIN number is 4554.
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