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Re: OT: Carly's Departure
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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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[log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 9 Feb 2005 16:00:00 -0500764_- Wait a minute!

I'm already too old to care...........

Brian.

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:44:58 -0500, Brian Donaldson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>I came across a web site that is expounding the theory of the next
>date bug phenomena -- 2038.
>
>http://www.deepsky.com/~merovech/2038.html
>
>Of course, by the year 2038 I will be too old to even care about it...
>
>Brian.
>
>On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:27:00 -0500, Brian Donaldson <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>The timestamps are stored in an MPEix file as "longint_types" which are
>>double integers.
>>
>>The big problem is that these dates aren't stored as a [...]39_9Feb200516:00:[log in to unmask]
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John writes:

> The Cringely article makes a valid point that the old HP knew nothing
> about marketing, but all the marketing expertise in the world is useless
> if you don't have desirable products to sell.

There's a lot to be said for cold, dead fish, if that's what people want to
buy, especially if it's the best possible cold, dead fish.

Wirt Atmar

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