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

To: B.K.Myers who wrote (437)	8/28/1999 3:58:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 662

apbnews.com See what Y2K DOOM and GLOOM is bringing out of the woodwork? Who's to blame? I think we all know the answer to that question!

To: B.K.Myers who wrote (437)	8/29/1999 1:50:00 AM
From: Radiosport	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 662

> You asked, "Since we had virtually no GPS problems (except for some cars in Japan), do you feel more confident now that the embedded chip "problem" will not be serious" >> Yes and no. So, overall, I do feel better about the Y2K embedded system problem, but I am still very apprehensive. Final results from the GPS rollover aren't in yet, but the preliminary results do look good. There's a very large difference between the Y2K and GPS problems I haven't seen stressed. Y2k was the result of a design tradeoff decision 40 years or so ago, and we are faced with the lack of date format standards, late start in converting, and large amount of old code to be fixed. GPS rollover is very different. The 1024 count week field was in the initial GPS transmitted data format, and only an incompetent programmer would fail to design in rollover handling into his design. Granted that some of the designs were not designed properly. The fact that some units were not designed correctly was known for a long time, and affected users had plenty of time to determine if their equipment was certified rollover ready, and replace it if it wasn't. Even where GPS was used to provide timestamps to large mainframes, it was generally an external box, easy to replace. Very different from searching millions of lines of source code. The fact that GPS rollover went very well does not indicate that Y2K will also go very well; it, of course, surely doesn't indicate that Y2K will NOT go well. There's no connection between the two events.

To: B.K.Myers who wrote (437)	8/29/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 662

Y2K - The Immediate Problem << I'm going to let you in on a little secret. One that concerns the government almost as much as anything else having to do with the Year 2000 problem. This little secret has nothing to do with computers, has not been mentioned in any of the Y2K articles, yet is so critical to our economy, that it alone could drive the world into a depression. The secret? Holiday Retail Sales - those sales between November 27, and December 25, account for as much as 70% of total profits for a large percentage of US and world wide retailers and manufacturers. And should anything cause those sales to drop more than a few percentage points from last year's levels, you'll see a tidal wave of economic losses and bankruptcies spread throughout the world. Retailers know this. Manufacturers know this. And governments know this. And that's why most governments want to make sure that nothing scares consumers into cutting back on their holiday shopping. >> ... cont'd at ... bmyers.com Good article. ***** B.K. Is this you? ... just curious :-)) John