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To: waldemar cyranski who wrote (21950)	8/11/1998 8:12:00 PM
From: IVAN1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

The young genius story sounds like another crock. Hey, we've heard it all before. A young, chubby kid in (INSERT NAME OF COUNTRY) has come up with the silver bullet. I'll believe it when I see it. Anyway, don't you all know by now that Bill Gates will solve the problem : ) Best, Ivan1

To: waldemar cyranski who wrote (21950)	8/11/1998 9:32:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Humbly report, waldemar, from what you said, I conclude that the ABC news story was about FBNA. It doubled again today. magneticdiary.com Cheers, Svejk abitare.it

To: waldemar cyranski who wrote (21950)	8/11/1998 9:51:00 PM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein	Respond to of 31646

Urban myth... Waldemar, that story about a young genius solving the y2k problem in his basement is an old one. It popped up back when Zitel began its incredible ascent, in late 1996. It has popped up in vairous incarnations since. My private practice associate, otherwise an intellgient man, told me two years ago not to invest in any y2k plays because he heard about this yong genius who etc. CF. other urban myths such as the guy who woke up in central park with his kidney missing (actually turned into an episode of Law and Order), the rat pup in the Pepsi bottle, and that old favorite: The babysitter who got threatening calls only to discover that the calls were being made from the phone upstairs. DocStone

To: waldemar cyranski who wrote (21950)	8/12/1998 12:26:00 AM
From: PaddyD	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

Dear Waldemar; I spent years as a programmer and can tell you that story is a fable and absolutely untrue. By now plenty of programs have been written (most of the authors were very bright) to convert dates, but sometimes you can't even recognize when a date is being used in a calculation without examining the code in detail. Through the years programmers have used date fields for every purpose you can conceive, and not always just for tracking dates. Also these programs have been written in several programming languages which are very different from each other. No "genius", including Bill Gates, is going to come up with a magic formula and save us from this problem. The closest person to the genius status on this matter that I know of is Ed Yourdon. I believe I read that he is planning to move his family to a survivalist type setting in New Mexico in 1999. Non of this has much to do with the embedded systems that TAVA deals with anyhow.