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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sibe who wrote (1467)	4/19/1998 12:15:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	Respond to of 9818

Humbly report, sibe, Year 2000 Nags Its Way Up The Must-Do List: techweb.com Gee, who should I pay attention to, the IS chiefs, or the SF Examiner reporter? Maybe she should cruise over to year2000.com and get the whole picture. Svejk (GL-15 applies: digiserve.com ;-)

To: sibe who wrote (1467)	4/19/1998 12:48:00 PM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Here's a URL for the Examiner op/ed piece. examiner.com So according to Ms Eisenberg, Citibank is throwing away $600 million, GM is wasting $500 million, etc. I don't think so! I would be a bit reluctant to trust a young freelance writer whose resume bossanova.com lists minimal technical knolwdge, but does mention interest in Dorothy Parker, Darts, Documentaries, Judy Garland, Hal Hartley, Harold and Maude. . The final example of her article reveals her ignorance. "Consider check-printing companies," said San Francisco mathematician and programmer David Van Brink. "For decades, check printing companies made checks with dates that start with 19__. Right now they print checks that read ___. In a couple years, they will print checks with 20__. "It's not traumatic for the check-printing industry. They just deal," he said. So should we. Yup - finding and remediating the tens of thousands of embedded systems in an oil rig or a power plant is just like printing up new checks with 20 instead of 19. What's wrong with this picture? Looks to me like she's just another person taking advantage of Y2K to make a buck - in this case, writing a contrary opinion.