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Ich lese nicht so viel, als dass ich mir anmaßen könnte über Bücher zu schreiben, aber "Glennkill" war einfach zu schaf.

There are several ways to refer to dates. You can use exact dates like "January 1st, 2008", or you may use less precise descriptions like "in April 2008" or "next year". Usually everybody familiar with the western calendar will know what timeframe you are talking about. That's not the case if you're referring to week numbers, as there are several ways to calculate them.

The first computer I worked on had no hard-drive at all, just wobbly floppy disks. Later, I guess it was on a 80286, we had our first hard drive with a nearly infinite storage of 20 MB. Year after year hard-drive capacities got bigger and bigger and the actual drives got smaller and smaller. Just compare those 5 ½”–douple height drives with 20 MB and current iPod disks with 1.8” and 160 Gigs.

So who screwed this one up?

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It's actually a good idea to sort a list with > 200 entries alphabetically, but please be sure to use the actual label for sorting.

This is a clip from 1967 and it features a computer vision for the year 1997. The technical aspects aren't that interesting, but take a look at the social ones:

What the wife selects [she's shopping] on her console will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console.

The wife is surfing some web-like-thing to do some – what else? – shopping and she looks after the kids by using a big brother-like omnipresent monitoring system. Her husband has to do all the financial stuff like paying the new dress for his wife.