Fw: FW: The YOK bug

[Steve Shapiro <sgshiya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And, to the president of the TexasPhotography Club, whomever you may be,
cheers.

It's an ancient problem.

Steve Shapiro

Subject: Re: FW: The YOK bug


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>>> >Message from Rome January 18, 1 B.C.
>>> >
>>> >Dear Cassius, Are you still working on the Y zero K problem?  This
>>> >change from BC to AD is giving us a lot of headaches and we haven't
much
>>> >time left. I don't know how people will cope with working the wrong way
>>> >around. Having been working happily downwards forever, now we have to
>>> >start thinking upwards. You would think that someone would have thought
>>> >of it earlier and not left it to us to sort out at the last minute. I
>>> >spoke to Caesar the other evening.  He was livid that Julius hadn't
done
>>> >something about it when he was sorting out the calendar.  He said he
>>> >could see why Brutus turned nasty.  We called in the astrologer
>>> >Consultius, but he simply said that continuing downwards using minus BC
>>> >won't work.  As usual, he charged a fortune for doing nothing useful.
As
>>> >for myself, I just can't see the sand in an hourglass flowing upwards.
>>> >We have heard that there are 3 wise guys in the east working on the
>>> >problem, but unfortunately they won't arrive till it's all over.  Some
>>> >say the world will cease to exist at the moment of transition. Anyway,
>>> >we are continuing to work on this blasted Y zero K problem and I will
>>> >send you a parchment if anything further develops.  I must end this
>>> >message short because I have suffered from a terrible case of
>>> >enscriber's syndrome ever since you sent us the new high-speed
>>> >rewriteable tablets.
>>> >                                Best Regards,
>>> >                                Plutonius
>>> >
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