And I'd say Tim passes the Turing Test. :-) Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: [email protected] Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Aled Hughes <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 09/04/2015 15:45 Subject: Re: A New Performance Model Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Seymour J Metz said, "How do I know that yopu exist?" (sic) I felt I had to reply to this. Contrary to your somewhat puerile comment Seymour, Timothy DOES exist. I have had some excellent advice from him over the years which didn't necessarily involve purchasing more IBM H/W and/or S/W. I would also venture that Timothy knows much more about the ''real" world of mainframe computing today than you do. (Even your web link doesn't work!) My apologies to Darren for this rant. Sometimes, Seymour does make idiotic comments. Cheers! ALH -----Original Message----- From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 13:22 Subject: Re: A New Performance Model In <of1f97a172.f079794d-on48257e22.001a26e3-48257e22.001dd...@sg.ibm.com>, on 04/09/2015 at 01:26 PM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> said: >How do YOU know it's "even more expensive"? How do I know that yopu exist? >You haven't articulated an inviolable physical constant, like some >theories in physics. Theories in Physics are provisional; evidence trumps theory.m >This issue is situational, Part of the stipulated situation is a regulation with stiff penalties. >"wait for 100% bug free, fully performance optimized code" Are we having a sale on straw dummies? The issue isn't whether to wait forr 100% correct, but whether to do thorough testing before rolling code into production. >That doesn't mean operators trying to say "No" to everything "new" >is helpful. Neither inventing positions that nobody took. >Even when I seem to be the only rational voice in the room. :-) Responding to imaginary posts isn't rational. Why not address what people actually wrote? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
