Really, Michael, what kind of a TI-83 Plus can only transfer 1.17 kB/s?

A better question: how are you planning on keeping track of time after your 84+'s clock overflows in about 128 years?

*goes outside to join the parade*

speaking of those damned clocks, does anyone know why an operating system made in 2004 allows me to set the date to 1997? (I speak of the 68k AMS) It boggles my mind why they would allow that, but not earlier.

-W-

The answer is that January 1, 1997, midnight Texas time, was the beginning of time, as far as TI is concerned.

It is the origin of TI's date stamp system, which also uses 32 bits, foolishly enough. The first TI date stamps would have been made for the first Flash Apps and OS's (1998) so TI's programmers must have figured they could extend the life of their date stamps.

Kinda' like those websites with the pulldowns that ask for your birth year that go back to 1900. I love those. :^)

And also up to the current year. :)

You think there might not be people out there who are 104 years old?

None who would be using a computer. :-D

What makes you so sure of that :-) I know at least one person 100+ who uses a computer more or less regularly.

Lifesupport does nto count.

-W-

My stepmom's aunt is 101 and counting. She doesn't even appear to be effected by time, its like she is still 70 or so...

120d

... or 0 years?

I saw one that even went up to 2054! (For birth year!)

Well, maybe some people born in the future have time machines and go back in time. ;-)

The date cannot be set higher than 2132, either.

so does that mean all time ends in 128 years? but thats such a short life! noooooooooooooo.....

dangit now my dream to live forever is crushed.

To be precise, the End of Time will occur at 6:28:16 AM on February 7, 2133. Most TI scholars believe that this time, referring as it does to a calculator clock, is local, and that therefore the destruction of the universe will occur over the course of 24 hours, beginning with New Zealand. Some New Zealand residents are planning to prevent this by setting their calculators' clocks to UTC; it is unknown what, if any, effect this will have on the impending doom.

probably wont help...hey! i just thought of something!
We're Not Going To Be Alive At The End Of Time, So Don't Worry About It!!!

But our reincarnated souls will (if you believe in reincarnation)...

unlike me

on the other hand... after thinking about that for that last year or so... i change my mind

Sure...just like the answer to the universe, to life, to everything is 42... :-)

Hehehe...what a great book! The problem with that is we don't know the question...so what's the question that leads to the answer of February 7, 2133? There's a question for everything...especially if we know the answer...

Maybe it's something along the lines of the "What do you get when you multiply 6 by 7?"...

Really?
...I always thought it was pi.
pi = everything.answer()

That just shows that YOU haven't read "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"!!! :-)

everything.answer() could be 42.

Yes, well, this is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...according to it, 6 times 9 is 42...

6(base 13) × 9(base 13) = 42(base 13)

But he did end up saying "Nobody writes jokes in base 13."

"Six by nine. Forty-two."
"That's it. That's all there is."

that's why you should believe in jesus :) because if you do, he might actualy bother to save you :p

The kind that also has to pause the transmission periodically while it stores the data on its attached 10 TB disk array :)

I don't think I'll be using my calculators after that long (assuming I'm still here). I'm being serious this time. ;-) By then I'd probably be using a different, newer calculator, or palm pilot, or computer of some sort.

Captain Obvious, I presume?