Y2K38 - ANOTHER computer problem.

Wow - sort of empty here at work.

I'm trying to trudge through 200 emails of spam, remember all my passwords (did you know the #1 password people use is PASSWORD?) and trying come to grips on waking up SO EARLY!

The last time I saw sunshine was for more then a brief moment was December 17th, the day I went on vacation. I had an entire vacation without sunshine. For those keeping track, Madison is about 0.7 degrees below average and 19 inches of snow above average (7.2 inches below last year).

I don't really have any valid train of thought this morning so I'll just spew.

Did you know that the U.S. spends, BY FAR, the most on health care per person when compared to all other developed countries. No other country is even CLOSE. And what do we get with all that spending. Squat. The U.S. is also in the bottom 10% when it comes to life expectancy. The reason is that we have so many procedures that do not really increase our health BUT cost a lot.

And the Republicans are against change? (I'm not anti Republicans, just anti their stubborn ways, they seem afraid of change). The language that they are using is exactly the words they used against Harry Truman when he proposed Medicare in 1945 and argued it was "a dangerous move toward Socialized Medicine" and other fear tactics to stop the progression of the health care for the elderly.

Now - Obama, who actually has a plan and has been working on it for 20 years (as opposed to 90% of ALL other Presidents who's main plan was to just get elected) is trying to change things for the better. Just as with Medicare I'm sure there are problems and stumbling points but in the long run things will get worked out. America has one of the worst health care systems in the world.

Of course Fox News (not actually news but entertainment) had a "Prayercast" forgiving the Democrats for wanting to reform Health care (which they believe is working just fine, why change).

All I know is I feel that anybody that is anti Health care reform are completely out of touch with real life OR, listen to FOX news and actually believe their so called "news".

WOW where did THAT come from LOL Show me a graph in National Geographic on the health of health care and I go off!

How about good news - Packers.

Packer fans are so lucky to have Ted Thompson (sorry suz). So, we gave up Favre and go with Rogers who seems to be better then Favre AND we got Clay Matthews (in the form of a draft pick) as a throw in. I'm feeling pretty good about how things went down.

We have the first QB in NFL HISTORY to throw for 4000 yards his 1st two years as a starter. We have a real play maker and one of the best rookies in league and we have zero drama (Minnesota has the drama now).

It'll be interesting next week. Two 10-5 teams not showing the other team anything new, both resting players but both wanting to keep the momentum.

Check this out - pretty good.

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Did you know you can get an external hard drive with a TERABYTE of memory for like $80? After work today I'm going to Buy More and buying a 320 gig External harddrive for my laptop just for photographs! A TERABYTE? man I feel I should buy one just for bragging rights! That is unheard of! Like I need 1000 gig!

The decade is coming to an end!!!!

Remember 10 years ago about this time we were all preparing for the apocalypse as the world would crumble with Y2K. Many people did not give much credit to computer programmers for this non-event. Seriously - it was a lot of work to fix this known problem.

The problem was with memory and how much it cost - in order to save memory space, computer people dropped the 19 on the years. NOW - we can get a Tarabyte for our computers for $80 LOL

There was another problem with Sept 9 1999 because it was 9/9/99 which a computer would see as 9999 which is also used to signify an unknown date.

The NEXT big computer problem happens in 2038! Known is Y2K38. This problem affects all software and systems that store system time as a signed 32-bit integer. It's a REAL problem.

Programs that deal with dates 20 years in the future will need to be fixed before 2018. The problem is that in a 32bit computer all dates are computed by how many seconds we have used up since 1/1/70. And we are running out of space. As of 2007, hundreds of millions of 32-bit systems are being used and it is far from certain if they will all be replaced by 2038. Also 32-bit applications running on a 64-bit system are likely to be affected by the issue.

WE ARE DOOMED