New Decade's resolutions

[Raistlin]

It depends on your definition. One looks back from the start of the calendar and one looks forward at the future years which share the same set of numbers. Both are correct, though.

[SuperMillionaire]

Start killing the next person(s) who attempts that overdone, pedantic, and incredibly wrong argument to save time on repeating myself (which I even did just 10 posts ago!).

Oh my... yikes, you're starting to scare me!

[rubah]

I already had this discussion with Shlup already, (very one-sided because I was right and she was so obviously wrong) but a "decade" is just a collection of ten consecutive years. It could be considered associated with every ten years since the beginning of CE/AD, in which case 2010 would not be a new decade (and 2011 would be). However, the term is commonly associated with a group of ten consecutive years so that in XXAX the number for "A" stays the same (e.g., "the '80s," "the '90s," etc.). Neither is wrong, and in the latter sense 2010 would be the start of a new decade. It is arbitrary, but then so is our entire number and calendar system to begin with.

Yes

New Year's resolution: Move to the States and do a Master in Nanotechnology there.

New Decade resolution: Get married, have my first child before I'm 30 and get a good-paying job.

Nanotech: It's not a truck you can dump on. It's a series of tubes!

And one more post just to make Paul cry 8)

:twak: -Rantzien

[Aerith's Knight]

New Year's resolution: Move to the States and do a Master in Nanotechnology there.

New Decade resolution: Get married, have my first child before I'm 30 and get a good-paying job.

Nanotech: It's not a truck you can dump on. It's a series of tubes!

Ghehe, that made me laugh. xD

Actually, most likely I'll go the direction of Optical Electron Lithography. Or maybe Metrology. There is a lot of business in that.

And one more post just to make Paul cry 8)

A worthy cause.

[SuperMillionaire]

Nanotechnology is indeed a very interesting concept.