From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 26 19:31:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail-blue.research.att.com (mail-blue.research.att.com [135.207.30.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA17037B405 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alliance.research.att.com (alliance.research.att.com [135.207.26.26]) by mail-blue.research.att.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029FC4CE64; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:31:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from windsor.research.att.com (windsor.research.att.com [135.207.26.46]) by alliance.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA27461; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:31:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fenner Received: (from fenner@localhost) by windsor.research.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.5) id TAA16602; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200110270231.TAA16602@windsor.research.att.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Cc: chat@freebsd.org References: <200110261707.f9QH7F437553@apollo.backplane.com> <3BDA19B1.F26651DC@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:31:29 -0700 Versions: dmail (solaris) 2.2j/makemail 2.9b Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >I have this vision of an SF novel, where human civilization >is destroyed 29 billion years from now because of 64 bit >seconds, and the fact that all computer programming is done >by machines instead of by humans... Why would human civilization be destroyed 263471208677 years before a 64-bit signed field would overflow? Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message