Think about that for a moment, folks. That's a QUARTER of a fucking CENTURY. Many Slashdotters weren't even born then, and for most of the rest, it's still been more than half of their lifetime.

And he's still not officially gone until they make the first episode with either A) none of his characters or B) a replacement voice.

I think WordStar has problems with Unicode support. But then again, so does Slashdot.

Cave paintings certainly have some migration issues.

If they had to take "stranded" astronauts down in an emergency, the launch vehicle wouldn't matter at all. Just fit a Dragon capsule with some Soyuz seats (so that they can use their custom-fitted seat cushions) and some O2 tanks and CO2 scrubbers, and send it up.

I'm not sure if the hatch door can be properly shut from the capsule side, or if it can be un-berthed without using the arm. Maybe they could undock the capsule and have everyone suit up and EVA to it, after docking it first to install seat cushions.

And for what it's worth, F9R is more than good enough to be man-rated, it's the Dragon 1 capsule that isn't man-rated, due to the lack of an escape system, sufficient life support (O2/CO2 management) and most importantly, no seats.

More importantly, what are they going to do about all the DHMO in it? That stuff is dangerous in the quantities we're talking about here!

In other news, 50,000 grandmas will now have to find a new dial-up service.

Also HVAC work, even though you may have been conditioned to think otherwise.

There is one thing that can be repaired without too much trouble: the power supply. Electrolytic capacitors, especially from the 200x's have a bad history of blowing out. For $25 in capacitors and an hour of work, you can fix a broken power supply. I've even done it once myself. Of course the cost of LCD TV sets keeps going down, making it only really worth repairing big TVs, as the falling prices just make them that much less worthwhile to repair.

A TV repair place recently opened up near where I live, but they also do computer repair. These days, with tube sets all but gone, there isn't a lot of difference in the skill sets needed.

Indeed. It only means that C programmers are more likely to know when they've used an ugly hack.

That works as long as there isn't some asshole who hates the smell of popcorn.

This sort of work is clearly worthy of an Ignobel nomination.

I use MythTV as my DVR, and I use the OTA guide data from the broadcast signal. Twice a year I have to delete the entire contents of its guide database, because it doesn't handle the DST change properly. I don't know whether it's the guide data format itself not being able to handle it, or a bug in MythTV, but at least MythTV uses UTC time internally.

Thanks to the math required for date conversion, the 2038 bug may actually show up a couple of years early. How do I know? I tried setting the clock forward in an embedded system I wrote the code for. Its calendar actually seems to fail in 2036. I haven't tried it in a while, but I think I can't even set the date past January 2036. I didn't try to figure out exactly why it failed earlier than it should have, because the library code looks pretty messy.

It's using the standard date library stuff from the IAR compiler, so I'm hoping that sometime within 20 years there will be an option to select a 64-bit compatible time/date library, and it can just be recompiled. At least I used time_t for everything related to Unix date values... I think. Also, the hardware it runs on only has a 32-bit counter for the RTC clock, but I'm sure that it could simply check the high bit, and add 2^32 after the rollover.

Considering that FFXIV began as a project to put a new graphics engine on FFXI, the answer won't just be no, but "they'll start to do it, but end just up making FFXVI with it instead".