This post went live at 6:31:30PM ET on Feb 13, 2009. That’s 1234567890 in Unix time. (Seconds since January 1, 1970.)
Just thought you should know.
Another PC Golden Age?
Is it real? Is PC gaming returning to its former glory? Sort of. It's complicated.
Game at the Bottom
Why spend millions on visuals that are just a distraction from the REAL game of hotbar-watching?
The Plot-Driven Door
You know how videogames sometimes do that thing where it's preposterously hard to go through a simple door? This one is really bad.
The Gameplay is the Story
Some advice to game developers on how to stop ruining good stories with bad cutscenes.
Fable II
The plot of this game isn't just dumb, it's actively hostile to the player. This game hates you and thinks you are stupid.
…Shamus, you magnificent bastard. How long have you been planning this?
You mean we only have 277 more years before the counter runs full ? what will become of us, o tragedy !
:-D
It’s not every day you pass such an important milestone, this will change the way I keep time forever.
“You mean we only have 277 more years before the counter runs full ? what will become of us, o tragedy !”
Nope. You’re still thinking in decimal. :-) We have less than 30 years until it rolls over (on January 19, 2038, to be exact) at (2^31)-1, or 7FFFFFFF in hex. That’s going to make Y2K look easy to fix.
That’s the most interesting and worthless piece of trivia I’ve ever seen.
Also, did you know that cows can be led upstairs but not downstairs?
Well, I guess that “Dork” label in your picture next to your Escapist columns is rightfully earned… :)
When did you set THIS up to post? I can’t imagine you got lucky…
@Kimari:
Also, did you know that cows can be led upstairs but not downstairs?
As the Patrician once said, “The trick of getting donkeys down from minarets is always to find that part of the donkey which seriously wishes to get down.”
Slashdot knows this too :)
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/13/1534240&from=rss
Geek!
You’re way more of a geek/dork/nerd than I thought you were, Shamus.
@Randomscrub:
You meant “Dork!”, right?
Erik: Only if time_t stays a signed int32. Making it unsigned (which has other issues) will give another 68 years; making it either signed or unsigned int64 will give another … uhh, far more years than I want to think about.
And since 64-bit programs’ time_t is indeed 64-bit (at least on Linux/x86; no idea about various other kernels or architectures), all we have to do is replace everything with a 64-bit binary. That can’t be hard, right? :-P
But to be slightly serious — I think (almost) 30 years to upgrade everything to 64-bit is far more than we need. The 32-bit transition took a few years, but nothing like 30.
It’s Allentine’s day?
Bryan @ #14:
The main problem isn’t “time_t inside a program”, it’s all the places where it’s slapped firmly into a file format or protocol specification. Those bastards are almost impossible to change smoothly (tip, if you EVER design a file/protocol format that needs to represent time down to the second, reserve 16 (if you want to be OK until end of year 9999) or 17 (if you feel better about year 99 999) octets and use ISO date-time strings).
Incidentally, “lack of storage space” seems to have been one of the major reasons behind the Y2k problem, since sticking the century indicator in is a whole whopping 2 characters per record, it was a significant savings, back then and that created a file-format whose legacy, 30-40 years later, probably cost more than it would have cost to spend the money initially.
Heh, i wondered about that when i looked at the tile of the post. I was in a bar last night counting this down with some friends…
Happy progressive Unix time day.
This post brought to you by the letter “U.”
“U” Is for Unix. oF 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 0 oF
I’m going to tell this to everyone I know, just to see what kind of look they’ll give me. :)
This apparently caused some shennanigans in Ragnarok Online …
Now we just have to wait for 9876543210…
NNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good one though!
Yep, ultimate nerdery. Well played sir, well played.