On 7/20/2012 14:38, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:11:39 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>
>> On 7/12/2012 7:25, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>>> Then Y2K failed to happen (as a catastroph)
>>
>> I've never been able to figure out whether this should be "Then Y2K
>> failed to happen" or "Thus Y2K failed to happen".
>
> Clearly Y2K happened, since it's 2012.
>
> The predicted Y2K computing technology disaster is what failed to
> happen.  Planes failed to fall from the sky, the power grid failed to
> fail, the phones kept working.

I understand.

> Society failed to fall into a dark age due to technology failures.

Sure. But was it because everyone worried about it so much they were willing 
to pay COBOL programmers $200K/year to fix it? Or was it just never really a 
problem to start with?

Given the broadcast of the cheering from the FAA when the clocks rolled over 
GMT and planes didn't fall out of the sky, I'm not totally inclined to 
dismiss the first possibility.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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