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To: Byron Xiao who wrote (15923)	4/29/1999 10:19:00 AM
From: David W. Ricker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

OT - Dump thy Sun Stock. I am a programmer doing Y2K remediation on Java apps. Came across this little jewel this morning. Written a mere three years ago. Pathetic. /* * Gary Cornell and Cay S. Horstmann, Core Java (Book/CD-ROM) * Published By SunSoft Press/Prentice-Hall * Copyright (C) 1996 Sun Microsystems Inc. * All Rights Reserved. ISBN 0-13-565755-5 * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this * software and its documentation for NON-COMMERCIAL purposes * and without fee is hereby granted provided that this * copyright notice appears in all copies. * / /* * Store dates and perform date arithmetic * (another Date class, but more useful that * java.util.Date) * @version 1.02 13 Jun 1996 * @author Cay Horstmann / package CoreJava; public class Day implements Cloneable { /* * Constructs today's date / public Day() { java.util.Date today = new java.util.Date(); year = today.getYear() + 1900;* month = today.getMonth() + 1; day = today.getDate(); } Guess what folks, this won't work come year 2000. Written three years ago. If this is the kind of work being done at Sun, I repeat, dump thy Sun stock.

To: Byron Xiao who wrote (15923)	5/20/1999 6:53:00 PM
From: Byron Xiao	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Forget about SUNW for a minute. What do all of you think about an extended trading hour for NASDAQ and NYSE. They are proposing a 5pm - 10pm eastern time extended hour started some time in this summer. Next year, we might have a 24 hour open market. I say let's make it a 24x7, 365 days market. I heard that's what Al Gore wants, and that's a quick way to capture the votes of hundreds of thousands of daytraders vote in Y2K presidential election. I think a 24x7 trading market will be awesome. Daytraders don't need sleep any ways.