10 gadgets of the decade
Thursday, December 31, 2009 by Draginol | Discussion: WinCustomize News
The decade is over in less than a day. EnGadget has a great article on the top 10 gadgets of the decade.
>> EnGadget
Reply #4 Thursday, December 31, 2009 1:49 PM
I have an older digitial camera and still have a computer with XP on it. Never had any of the other stuff.
Reply #5 Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:53 PM
Reply #6 Thursday, December 31, 2009 3:06 PM
Actually, by counting from 1 upward (the first day in year zero or in this case 2000), the decade finishes at the begining of 2010.
2000 - 2001 = year 1
2001 - 2002 = year 2
2002 - 2003 = year 3
2003 - 2004 = year 4
2004 - 2005 = year 5
2005 - 2006 = year 6
2006 - 2007 = year 7
2007 - 2008 = year 8
2008 - 2009 = year 9
2009 - 2010 = year 10
Reply #7 Thursday, December 31, 2009 5:18 PM
Interesting to see Apply and Microsoft fighting out all decade to have a few of their gadgets on this list. Funny though, I've always considered gadgets to be electronic or manual devices but never considered software to be a gadget, except maybe those in DesktopX but not really.
Reply #8 Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:15 PM
Or to be more accurate at the last second/minute/hour of December 31 2009 ....
Reply #11 Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:39 PM
To embrace 12/31/2009 as the end of the 2010th year, then you must claim that year 2009 was the 2010th year which is really silly, though the French could have devised it so.
This whole argument started because people couldn't bear to wait for the end of 2000 to celebrate.
Reply #12 Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:31 PM
Technically speaking, the decade (10 full years) ends at 12.00am on Dec 31st 2010.
EG: if you count from the 1st day of 2000 until the last day of 2009, you have only 9 years... not a full decade.
However, if you count from when 1 full year into the new year has elapsed (which is correct) until 10 full years have elapsed, you arrive at the first second of 2011... the beginning of a new decade.
Back on topic....
It's just like the bullshit detector... also absent from that list!! The reason??? Apple never released it cos Jobsy didn't want people to know they didn't invent the dock; the OS; the GUI; the scroll mouse; personal computers, laptops and mobile phones.
Reply #13 Friday, January 1, 2010 6:45 AM
Reply #14 Friday, January 1, 2010 10:20 AM
Reply #15 Friday, January 1, 2010 11:56 AM
? I don't think so...........
fred's standing nekkid in the desert....empty handed
how many apples does he have? 0
now I hand fred an apple...how many now? 1
but by your reasoning, he has 2........
Reply #16 Friday, January 1, 2010 12:15 PM
EG: if you count from the 1st day of 2000 until the last day of 2009, you have only 9 years... not a full decade.
That's pirate math.
CarGuy1 makes a note to double check the captain when splitting up the booty.
Reply #17 Friday, January 1, 2010 12:16 PM
the human race has counted from 1
? I don't think so...........
fred's standing nekkid in the desert....empty handed
how many apples does he have? 0
now I hand fred an apple...how many now? 1
but by your reasoning, he has 2........
Still wrong! He has ONE apple... cos his other hand is covering his tockley to stop it getting sunburned.
Fact is, a decade consists of 10 full years... no less! Now in this case, the decade commenced at January 1st 2000, right, and when the first full year had elapsed it was midnight December 31st 2001, right, and if you count from whence the first year elapsed, ten full years expires on December 31st 2010 at 12.00am.
The only way it could have ended on December 31st 2009 is if one year (any year) was canceled due to lack of interest, but was still mathematically calculated in by the powers that be to stop people retiring a year early.
Reply #18 Friday, January 1, 2010 12:26 PM
Technically speaking, the decade (10 full years) ends at 12.00am on Dec 31st 2010.
EG: if you count from the 1st day of 2000 until the last day of 2009, you have only 9 years... not a full decade.
That's pirate math.
CarGuy1 makes a note to double check the captain when splitting up the booty.
It won't matt'r none if'n ye watches I divvy up tha booty... it's still g'wen ta be "One fer you n' two fer me... two fer you n' three fer me... three fer you n' four fer me" Why? Cos I 'aves a ship t' run... an' it ban't be cheap... not when she be in dry dock gittin' fitted wiv gadgets so's us can sail up ta Stardock's front door.
Reply #19 Friday, January 1, 2010 12:46 PM
wrong...unless they now use a standard year at having 730 days...I believe December 31st 2000 (vs 2001) would be more accurate
Reply #20 Friday, January 1, 2010 12:51 PM
Now in this case, the decade commenced at January 1st 2000, right, and when the first full year had elapsed it was midnight December 31st 2001, right,
wrong...unless they now use a standard year at having 730 days...I believe December 31st 2000 (vs 2001) would be more accurate
You are quite correct... 2000 it was! Bugger... damned typo, and I missed it.
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Reply #1 Thursday, December 31, 2009 1:22 PM
hmmm....what about the USB flash drive? who DOESN'T have at least one?