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Who did we lose this decade?

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guyver01 said:
the 80's may refer to the period of 1980 - 1989..
however the 980th decade is the period of 1981 - 1990
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Wikipedia disagrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000–2009

Not that I consider Wikipedia an authorative source on this topic, but it at least shows that this convention is accepted to some degree.

perhaps the OP should restate to "who did we lose in the past 10 years" if he wanted to cover the period of 2000 - 2009.
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Agreed.
 
guyver01 said:
the 80's may refer to the period of 1980 - 1989..
however the 980th decade is the period of 1981 - 1990

perhaps the OP should restate to "who did we lose in the past 10 years" if he wanted to cover the period of 2000 - 2009.
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hey, a decade just ended. and another! and another! a decade ends every second! (actually, if you go all the way down to planck units ~10^44 decades end every second)

i just out pedanticed you
 
dighn said:
However, when one refers to the "80's" for example, the time interval of [1980 1 1, 1989 12 31] is implied. Therefore it is conceivable that the OP intended for the decade to start on 2000 1 1. AFAIK there is no established convention on this.

I urge the OP to clearly define "this decade" to avoid further confusion.
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To throw some more sand in the machine... The 80s didn't start until 84 or so, and didn't end until 92 as a cultural phenomena. That's typical of most decades, so we won't really be able to tell until 2012 at the earliest :^D
 
dighn said:
Wikipedia disagrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000–2009

Not that I consider Wikipedia an authorative source on this topic, but it at least shows that this convention is accepted to some degree.

Agreed.
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wikipedia contradicts itself..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade

Some writers like to point out that since the common calendar starts from the year 1, its first full decade contained the years from 1 to 10, the second decade from 11 to 20, and so on. The interval from the year 2001 to 2010 could thus be called the 201st decade, using ordinal numbers.
 
I blew up a Dragon 2 Plus motherboard trying to overclock a 2.8C Northwood..

Motherboard still works here and there but its got leaking caps and a smoky smell (in all fairness, I blew up the PSU, which in turn got the motherboard).

Good times, good times 🙂
 
guyver01 said:
wikipedia contradicts itself..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade

Some writers like to point out that since the common calendar starts from the year 1, its first full decade contained the years from 1 to 10, the second decade from 11 to 20, and so on. The interval from the year 2001 to 2010 could thus be called the 201st decade, using ordinal numbers.
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clearly the OP meant the last 10 years (all of which happen to begin with 200) and only someone with a giant stick up their ass would take it any other way.
 
ElFenix said:
hey, a decade just ended. and another! and another! a decade ends every second! (actually, if you go all the way down to planck units ~10^44 decades end every second)

i just out pedanticed you
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nope. logically, you are correct.

a decade can reference a period of 10 consecutive years.

for example.. the decade, which began December 27, 1999 at 11:14pm just ended.
 
Your life began when you were born, not after your first birthday celebration.
Age does begin counting at 0. "the baby is 6 months old" for example. that would be zero years and 6 months old.
the decade starts jan 1st 2010
0 through 9 = 1 decade.
everyone knows this.
even flying pork roasts.
 
What an absolutely wonderful thread. I like how things started off civil and quickly turned to shit once the nerd-rage hit. Thats the problem with nerds - they get so caught up in such minor, mundane details that they miss out on everything else thats going on around them. Then they just give up and go home. How sad. How pathetic. Everyone knows this.
 
disappoint said:
Your life began when you were born, not after your first birthday celebration.
Age does begin counting at 0. "the baby is 6 months old" for example. that would be zero years and 6 months old.
the decade starts jan 1st 2010
0 through 9 = 1 decade.
everyone knows this.
even flying pork roasts.
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you disappoint, son....
 
theflyingpig said:
What an absolutely wonderful thread. I like how things started off civil and quickly turned to shit once the nerd-rage hit. Thats the problem with nerds - they get so caught up in such minor, mundane details that they miss out on everything else thats going on around them. Then they just give up and go home. How sad. How pathetic. Everyone knows this.
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shut up, nancy - the OP has spoken for himself, and doesn't need you to hold his hand....
 
ABit BH6 ftw
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OMG that was my first really stable usable overclock. Before that I was soldering crystals and shit - on the 486 boards. I left for a while and missed out on the early pentium stuff.
 
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