On 20 May 2010 10:07:48 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
All prime examples of media know-nothings trying to be know
it alls.
Has anyone yet developed a vaccine for stupid ?? :-)
Rick
Yes - it induces the only cure - death.
Results of stupidity often survive
In ittcv59na689nhm9o13fjttl75ccdqr...@4ax.com, on 05/21/2010
at 03:10 PM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com said:
So it was smart enough to know that it needed 3 digits for the end
part of the year, but then it concatenated the string '19' in front?
No, it was dumb enough to ignore a
From: Graeme Gibson gra...@ase.com.au
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Wed, May 19, 2010 6:13:37 AM
Subject: Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list
How many of those Prophets of Doom knew what they were talking about but it
worked for most
On 21 May 2010 08:10, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote:
On Fri, 21 May 2010 06:43:42 -0400 Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
:Indeed. On the flip side, not every Y2K bug was worth fixing. At NSF
:we had a monitor that showed the date as 19100; the
On 5/20/2010 2:18 PM, Greg Shirey wrote:
This type of error has been reported various times over the years - it
was around before the term Y2K was invented.
I suspect you're right, but I was trying to find the reporting of the
specific incident cited as happening at the same time in Fairfax
In 20100520042808.ad5f81c...@mail.ase.com.au, on 05/19/2010
at 09:13 PM, Graeme Gibson gra...@ase.com.au said:
Countless other professionals did corresponding good work and as a
direct consequence Y2K was not a disaster at all.
Indeed. On the flip side, not every Y2K bug was worth fixing.
On Fri, 21 May 2010 06:43:42 -0400 Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
:In 20100520042808.ad5f81c...@mail.ase.com.au, on 05/19/2010
: at 09:13 PM, Graeme Gibson gra...@ase.com.au said:
:Countless other professionals did corresponding good work and as a
:direct
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
:Indeed. On the flip side, not every Y2K bug was worth fixing. At NSF
:we had a monitor that showed the date as 19100; the only real effect
:that bug had was to provoke the occasional chuckle.
So it was smart enough to know that it needed 3 digits for the end part of
the
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) writes:
Perhaps, but AFAIK, such systems stored the year in two fields. One field was
used for century and another field for 2 digit year.
In this case I suspect, it was stored as x'13' for 19 in one field for
century and
another field
On 5/19/2010 7:13 AM, Graeme Gibson wrote:
Countless other professionals did corresponding good work and as a
direct consequence Y2K was not a disaster at all. One suspects that
sections of the media were hoping it was going to be very bad (planes
falling from the sky, toasters electrocuting
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gerhard Postpischil
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:40 AM
At the time I was working for an ISV, and beginning 12/31/1999
all technical employees were on call, and three at a time had
to man the help line until 1/3. We got a few calls, but mostly
On 20 May 2010 07:49:37 -0700, wgshi...@benekeith.com (Greg Shirey)
wrote:
At the time I was working for an ISV, and beginning 12/31/1999
all technical employees were on call, and three at a time had
to man the help line until 1/3. We got a few calls, but mostly
minor stuff. However, at the
On Thu, 20 May 2010 09:48:07 -0500, Greg Shirey wrote:
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gerhard Postpischil
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:40 AM
At the time I was working for an ISV, and beginning 12/31/1999
all technical employees were on call, and three at a time had
to man the
snip--
Countless other professionals did corresponding good work and as a
direct consequence Y2K was not a disaster at all. One suspects that
sections of the media were hoping it was going to be very bad (planes
falling from the sky,
snip
All prime examples of media know-nothings trying to be know
it alls.
Has anyone yet developed a vaccine for stupid ?? :-)
Rick
Yes - it induces the only cure - death.
--
John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT
Administrative Services Group
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman
snip--
All prime examples of media know-nothings trying to be know it alls.
Has anyone yet developed a vaccine for stupid ?? :-)
The only
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:16 AM
This type of error has been reported various times over the years - it
was around before the term Y2K was invented.
I suspect you're right, but I was trying to find the reporting of the
On 20 May 2010 09:55:47 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
snip--
Countless other professionals did corresponding good work and as a
direct consequence Y2K was not a disaster at all. One suspects that
sections of the media were
How many of those Prophets of Doom knew what they were talking
about but it worked for most executives.
The doom would have been real enough if the prophets had been ignored.
We began fixing that Y2K thing'gie in late 1992, a tad over 7 years
before 2000. At that time it was mandatory in
Getting back to the oringinal topic:
As the article notes, there is a lengthy test that the IRS has to determine if
one is indeed an independent contractor. As someone who has seasonally
worked as a tax preparer (and who is an IRS Enrolled Agent), I have seen a lot
of people who have been (in
SNIP
This type of article re-appears every two years..
It's suppose to make you fear and maybe you will subscribe to their
magazine.
Remember the Y2K thing'gie ?
How many of those Prophets of Doom knew what they were talking
Bad example. There is more (very sad) truth than not.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Anton Britz
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:12 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes:
Um ... the Y2K thingie was real. Without the efforts of a lot of the
people on this list data processing as we know it WOULD have come to an end.
Y2K remediation also contributed heavily to outsourcing uptik. Y2K
remediation was competing for resources
Hi Charles,
Right you are. For my senior project (1979), I personally wrote some very
non-Y2K compliant COBOL code. It was a major enhancement to a payroll system
for a city that was running a Burroughs 1800 at the time. They were so short
on memory that everthing else had to be shut
Hi Linda,
Yes, my point was, that it was EXAGGERATED using FEAR for profit purposes.
There was no need to upgrade all the
Mainframes/Desktops/Servers/Operating systems etc.
The place I worked at, spent 16 Million Dollars, on upgrading all the
PC's in the Organization and each PC received a
How do you know it was EXAGGERATED using FEAR for profit purposes?
Exaggerated by whom? Perhaps the executives at your former employer were
risk-adverse, or saw senior management's attention to Y2K as a chance to
implement worthwhile equipment upgrades.
Home PCs are different from corporate
Cracking Down on Independent Contractors
Federal and state regulators increasingly want to know whether companies'
independent contractors are truly independent.
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14480567?f=search
--
For
This type of article re-appears every two years..
It's suppose to make you fear and maybe you will subscribe to their
magazine.
Remember the Y2K thing'gie ?
How many of those Prophets of Doom knew what they were talking about
but it worked for most executives.
Anton
Note: Another
Um ... the Y2K thingie was real. Without the efforts of a lot of the
people on this list data processing as we know it WOULD have come to an end.
You're falling into the that saw doesn't need that safety guard fallacy:
That saw doesn't need that safety guard ... no one has cut a finger off in
it
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