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Welcome 2009!
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Welcome 2009!
Bit late, sorry. Oh well. Happy 2009.
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vanarbulax wrote:I am in awe of the amount of fail they accomplished here
Makes perfect sense if you read that from the random topic.
I wasn't here.
Uh, the problem in no way has to do with the Y2K problem (which was severly overhyped at that). In fact, it doesn't even come close - it has to do with the 'composition' of the year, not the year number. If you're going to make analogies (a la Y2K38 which also in no way is related to the Y2K problem) at least make them technically correct.
Yeah sorry, I may be a pedant, but I seriously think it's a flawed proposition.
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jelco wrote:Uh, the problem in no way has to do with the Y2K problem (which was severly overhyped at that). In fact, it doesn't even come close - it has to do with the 'composition' of the year, not the year number. If you're going to make analogies (a la Y2K38 which also in no way is related to the Y2K problem) at least make them technically correct.
It's a problem caused by the clock, the similarity emphasised by representing the year in a form almost exclusively used to refer to the preceding bug. That's all the superficial detail one needs to draw an analogy, particularly in the context of a lighthearted, off-the-cuff joke. Indeed, the joke is in part drawn fro the fact that the analogy is a poor one; clearly the Zune has not actually 'caught up' the the year 2000, it's an inherently ridiculous proposition. It was not an especially funny joke, but condescending dissection has not helped in that regard. The point remains, you are making a fool of yourself.
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You officially have no sense of humour. Please proceed to the nearest employment opportunity in the exciting field of Data Entry.jelco wrote:Uh, the problem in no way has to do with the Y2K problem (which was severly overhyped at that). In fact, it doesn't even come close - it has to do with the 'composition' of the year, not the year number. If you're going to make analogies (a la Y2K38 which also in no way is related to the Y2K problem) at least make them technically correct.
KingAl wrote:It's a problem caused by the clock. That's all the superficial detail one needs to draw an analogy, particularly in the context of a lighthearted, off-the-cuff joke. Indeed, the joke is in part drawn fro the fact that the analogy is a poor one; clearly the Zune has not actually 'caught up' the the year 2000, it's an inherently ridiculous proposition. It was not an especially funny joke, but condescending dissection has not helped in that regard. The point remains, you are making a fool of yourself.
Quite possibly true, but fact is that I was never intent on making this a laborious joke-disrupting discussion. I merely Fix'd dunetrooper's post to "Z2K9", which was my own twist of humour added to the topic, and the technical explanation only followed when it didn't seem to be immediately clear what I was trying to get across. Circumstances which force an explanation of a joke are often complicated, and this is one of those cases. I might not have made myself popular as an entertaining act of comedy, but I beg to differ with regards to me having ruined a joke.
I won't say my 'version' was funnier, but it certainly didn't seem particularly amusing to me that the analogy was a bad one, as you suggest was the intent. I got the point alright, the funny part of it just didn't come across.
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jelco wrote:...but I beg to differ with regards to me having ruined a joke.
Don't worry, there wasn't much of a joke to ruin
But I mean... correcting a joke? That's a new low in pedantry, particularly when you're not clear on what the joke was. Also, your responses assumed the ignorance on the part those you were replying to of certain ideas which were pretty self evident, e.g. that Y2K means the Year 2000 and that as such Y2K9 means the Year 2009; that any connection between the Zune issue and the Y2K bug was imagined (I confess I may have confused things by using the phrase 'the fact that...' when not referring to a fact :S, it's a turn of phrase which you'll notice I use inappropriately a fair bit ), that the Y2K bug was overhyped, etc. There are ways in which you could have had this conversation without framing it in a manner implying that you are correct and others are not; appending winking emoticons is sadly not among these Being condescending, however unintentional, does not an amicable discussion make. That's why I'm definitely not doing it now >_> 
jelco wrote:I won't say my 'version' was funnier, but it certainly didn't seem particularly amusing to me that the analogy was a bad one, as you suggest was the intent.
The analogy is bad in both 'versions'. If the analogy to the Y2K bug is not present, then it's just an inert coining of a moniker for the issue, which is even less funny. Raising Microsoft's failings may be an end in itself, though, but... this is why joke 'correction' just isn't done
But enough drama, this is beginning to look like the Defcon forums. Albeit more... literate.
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