Absolutely On Monday, November 2, 2015, Aled Hughes < [email protected]> wrote:
> This reminds me a bit of that great Movie 'Space Cowboys'. (Made when > Hollywood still had real stars!) > > ALH > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Ford <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > Sent: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:40 > Subject: Re: Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for > Voyager • Job For Shane? > > > Elardus, > > Yep, very funny...I see a parallel and not parallel universe, > mainframe > systems folks and developers retiring and mainframes going the way > of > Voyager 1 ... > > > Scott > > On Monday, November 2, 2015, Elardus Engelbrecht > < > [email protected] <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Jon Butler wrote: > > > > >Is this > remote work or will extended travel be involved? ;-)) > > > > > > I foresee some > serious terrible problems: > > > > 1. How do you motivate extended (and perhaps > failing) dial-up time in your > > overtime sheets? Those top-brass people (PHB, > bean-counters and auditors) > > don't understand technicalities... > > > > 2. Same > for travel. I believe, AFAIK and the last time I checked, there > > are no > hotels, sightseeing points (you'll have to zip past those planets) > > or repair > facilities. Just remember to bring blankets, apparently it is > > freezing out > there ... > > > > 3. Now those Mars wannabee travellers don't have any plans to > return due > > to some problems, how will you travel back? Do you have any > 'escape' plans? > > > > Is it already Friday ??? ;-)) > > > > Groete / Greetings > > > Elardus Engelbrecht > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For > IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to > [email protected] <javascript:;> <javascript:;> with the message: > > INFO > IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For > IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to > [email protected] <javascript:;> with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] <javascript:;> 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
