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Technology Stocks : 2000: Y2K Civilized Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: daffodil who wrote (143)	8/12/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: Ken	Respond to of 662

daffodil- "A rose by any other name is still a rose!" Regardless of whatever change in content or semantics, the reality and the essence and the source of the embedded systems problems is, has been and will remain: ITS TOO LATE! IT WAS TOO LATE YEARS AGO FOR THE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS! You can not underpin the entire infrastructure of modern civilization for 30+ years with scores of billions of chips thruout the entire infrastructure, globally, and hope to fix enough in only a few years!! "A rose by any other name......"

To: daffodil who wrote (143)	8/12/1999 9:36:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 662

RE: SEC Y2K DISCLOSURES <I am somewhat heartened by the change* in language I've observed over the last few quarters ... I'd welcome comments and insights*> - Attorneys - Stock Price

To: daffodil who wrote (143)	8/13/1999 12:05:00 AM
From: B.K.Myers	Respond to of 662

<<NERC decided to let power companies list themselves as Y2K ready in time for the June 30 deadline, even though they were not. They justified this action by permitting the utilities involved to list certain Y2K "exceptions" on a separate report which was not made public or given to the Department of Energy. >> daffodil, I am not sure I would put too much confidence in any Y2K statements, even those included in the 10Q?s. Here are a couple of lines from worldnetdaily.com. <<All identified (Y2K) exceptions will be held in strict confidence and will not be reported to DOE (Department of Energy) or the public. When we were working on the January report (required each quarter detailing Y2K progress), one of the things that we realized was that there were a number of utilities that weren't going to be making the June 30 target date we had established (to be Y2K ready)," Gorzelnik explained. NERC decided to let power companies list themselves as Y2K ready in time for the June 30 deadline, even though they were not. They justified this action by permitting the utilities involved to list certain Y2K "exceptions" on a separate report which was not made public or given to the Department of Energy. That false information is the basis for the glowing quarterly report NERC gave to the Department of Energy last Wednesday. >> This information refers to the power companies reporting to the NERC. I would expect them to file similar reports with the SEC. B.K.

To: daffodil who wrote (143)	8/13/1999 1:00:00 PM
From: Ken	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 662

daffodil: new lantern. D, I bought the Ray-o-vac battery powered lantern. It is a double-tube, using 8 Ds. It is adequately bright, even on low, sufficient for close up reading and to lite a room, IMHO. I did not find the lite too harsh. It is a more attractive one than the other similiar ones I have seen. Battery life with Duracells is advertised about 24 hours on low. I don't recall which one you bought- was it the Coleman one that is advertised to be the worlds brightest battery powered one? If so, please post your results. I was told that that one while brighter, gives a harsher lite than mine, and batteries will only last about 15 hours. I plan to buy this Rayovac for all my rooms, unless I find a brighter one with same battery life and similiar lite.