10 gadgets of the decade

hmmm....what about the USB flash drive? who DOESN'T have at least one?

They need a Wii.

Interesting read.

I have an older digitial camera and still have a computer with XP on it.  Never had any of the other stuff.

We count from 1 upwards, therefore, the decade finishes at the end of 2010.

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

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.

Or to be more accurate at the last second/minute/hour of December 31 2009 .... JAFOCHECK

I bow to the master of all things technical...you are correct sir.

If Apple came out with the iDrive it would be on that list. USB flash drive should be in there.

 

That is only true if you assume that year 2000 was the 1st year of the decade. Because there was no 0 AD the first year was 1 AD so from 1/1/0001 to 12/31/0001 was the 1st year. That means that the 10th year did not end until 12/31/0010. Two thousand years later the decade will end on 12/31/2010. Further to claim there was a 0 AD it must also follow that there was a 0 BC. The calendar would have looked like ... -3, -2, -1, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3 ... which we all know is folly.

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.

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.

I heartily agree! Since the time of tally marks, the human race has counted from 1; therefore, the first decade did not end until the end of Year 10. Now if it is a chance for a party, that is a different matter, but ignoring the fact does not invalidate the fact.

Top 10 gadgets that defined the AMERICAN decade though... Tivo, Motorola and palmone has little to no leverage in europe.

? 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........

That's pirate math.

/me makes a note to double check the captain when splitting up the booty.

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.

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.

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.

My Christmas present, Canon PowerShot SX120 IS is the first on the list of a decade of Great things.    And it Rocks!!

I'm glad that you got something that really makes you happy.  My ex-wife (my first missus) has one (yeah, we're talking again after 20 years of not) and she reckons it's totally the best camera she has ever had... and she's had a few decent ones in the past.

He has 1, because, it is only at this stage does he start counting. etc. Ignoring your arbitrary origin of 2000, the class intervals are ill defined and the class boundaries overlap; does 2001 go into the 1st or second interval?

Exactly... Fred doesn't say, when his hands are empty: "Oh look, I have zero apples in my hand!", does he?

Zero is a vacant number, in fact, and occupies a space in the mathematics table purely to add units of 10, 100, 1000 when 9,99, 9999, etc, have accrued. 

So, by using that logic, the fact that a decade is 10 full years... not a moment less, we can count the 2000's as a decade as being over only when 2010 is concluded.  This is calculation is reached purely by virtue of the mathematical fact that the first complete year of the decade hadn't elasped until 31 December 2000 at 12.00am.   Prior to that point in time, 2000 qualified only as a collection of 11 months, plus 30 days 23 houra 59 minutes and 59 seconds.