Here's a great little article on how the Myan calendar works at How Stuff Works.

http://history.howstuffworks.com/central-american-history/mayan-calendar.htm

 

Ah yes, shades of Y2K.

 

Hi everyone I am new here and according to me Science and Technologies are developing day to days but with some advantages and some disadvantages,I hope World will not be destroy in 2012.
deadliest tsunamis

 

Yes, the worst earthquakes in 140 years according to NPR. Thing is, it also happened 140 years ago, this isn't that unusual an event.

I can only hope the the folks in Japan mostly got out of the way (Hawaii too). It is about the only thing you can do when Mother Nature is going overboard.

 

We are on the safe side. It's sad day for japan.

about 2012 thing....I don't believe it an itsy bit

 

Ah yes, shades of Y2K.

yeb.
weren't planes supposed to fall out of the sky and elevators supposed to stop working?

i read a great sci-fi book called "All Tomorrow's Parties" by William Gibson. it deals with an idea of nodal-points within history. something to do with mass attention being directed towards certain places, and mass attention being directed to specific upcoming moments in time. i guess it was hinting at the power of self-fulfilling-prophecy to some degree, but there was more to it than that.... been a while since i read that one.

the simple act of the tide coming in could be relatively catastrophic for some entities who just couldn't predict it. we're pretty good at predicting lots of things, but who knows? maybe there are significant cyclical conjunctions in the works which we haven't quite caught the pulse of. climate-change might be an example... of course humans are affecting the climate, but there is a also history of the climate changing without our input.

i was quite fascinated by Y2K. i sometimes wonder if some of the people who went about hording diesel and water weren't just a bit disappointed on 01/01/01.
still, it's always nagged me a bit that the first day of international business in the new-millennium was in fact 9/11/01. (okay, maybe that's up for debate, but for SOME international organizations it's true)

 

i was quite fascinated by Y2K. i sometimes wonder if some of the people who went about hording diesel and water weren't just a bit disappointed on 01/01/01.

The general consensus was that the computer problem was related to 01/01/00, not 2001.

John

 

The general consensus was that the computer problem was related to 01/01/00, not 2001.

oh, yes of course. there i go mixing up the two digit date bug with the generic turn-of-the-millennium-jitters.

but it seems the "Y2.01K" hex/bcd confusion bug caused it's share of havoc last year.

and don't forget to stock up your bomb-shelter for the 01/19/2038 signed-32bit-integer problem! 03:14:07am universal time will signify the END of the UNIX calendar. be ready.

 

Also there was the September 9, 1999 EOF problem (9999). It was just another ruse to get more money. I didn't know a single real computer person who thought it was anything more than a joke.

John

 

I felt pretty much the same about Y2K, much ado about nothing. That which needed fixed was fixed, with plenty of time to spare.

The really funny thing is why it came up to begin with. Back in the beginning memory was expensive (my first computer had 4K), so 2 digits were used instead of 4 for years. We are in the age of terabyte drives, soon it will be petabytes. It simply isn't an issue anymore.

 

I felt pretty much the same about Y2K, much ado about nothing. That which needed fixed was fixed, with plenty of time to spare.

The really funny thing is why it came up to begin with. Back in the beginning memory was expensive (my first computer had 4K), so 2 digits were used instead of 4 for years. We are in the age of terabyte drives, soon it will be petabytes. It simply isn't an issue anymore.

Just wait to the year 10,0000. I'll be we have all kind of problems then. Has anyone checked if AAC is Y10K compliant? I'd sure hate to not be able to get to the site for a couple of days.

 

I suspect our masters, the supercomputers, will have taken care of it.

Maybe it will give the revolution a chance.

 

I didn't know a single real computer person who thought it was anything more than a joke.

yep.
the 300 billion dollar joke 0.o
hey, i even ended up with a Y2K compliance summer job in '99.
out of several hundred computers, i noticed, like, 2 which might have had issues.
and out of those, only one had an important function.

 

Well I can tell you right now. I am putting my foot down. I had to work Jan 1, 2000. Ain't no way I am going to do that again come Jan 1, 10,000!

 

Jan,1,2000 turn out to be a dud,I have film celebrating,1999 ending and 2000
coming In. It did not take long to find out that was a non-day,people never mention
It.

 

oh, yes of course. there i go mixing up the two digit date bug with the generic turn-of-the-millennium-jitters.

but it seems the "Y2.01K" hex/bcd confusion bug caused it's share of havoc last year.

and don't forget to stock up your bomb-shelter for the 01/19/2038 signed-32bit-integer problem! 03:14:07am universal time will signify the END of the UNIX calendar. be ready.

Many *nix systems are now 64 bit. I'm pretty positive that even 64 bit will be "old school" in 2038.

I predict an asteroid impact or sun burning out before IT is caught unawares, hasn't happened yet, other than viruses and malware, and only getting better.

 

So next will be a 256Bit system rather than 128bit

 

I've discovered some wingnut who believes the Rapture will occur May 21st, 2011 and the end of the world October 21st, 2011. I'm writing him a strongly worded letter asking him WHY I will never get to reach my 18th birthday. Remind me to ask him if the world has ended come May 22nd.