Re: Discussion: rmgroup comp.software.year-2000

berlutte_at_sympatico.ca
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:10:51 -0800

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:09:13 +0000, Richard Heathfield
<invalid@address.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

>What's worse, some Y2K "solutions" involved the use of a fixed century
>window, which simply delays some of the kinds of problems that we faced
>just over four years ago. (By "fixed century window" I mean, basically, if
>yy < WINDOW then cc = 20 else cc = 19. Lame, or what?)

Csy2k is a priceless repository of the warnings associated with
'windowing' coming from great guys like InfoMagic, Yourdon and other .

One was Auld Hamasaki-san, a top notch coder, wise of Fort Deecee's
intrigues, and expert in LED.

Now he is doing 'under the sink' jobs to meet babes and earn a few
honest bucks. He's actually passed the 'circling the drain' stage and
pretty much now looking at it from under, as it is. NZ wise.

To learn more on how, one baldish, portly, 50ish, Hawaiian exile with
a bad tooth is surviving in them dire straights:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dc-y2k-WRP/
Tough cookies all!

So, screwy numbers started running with data coming in from the
*thousands of small to medium size US biz, which according to pre y2k
polls, ridiculed and openly stated doing nothing to remediate since it
was all *hype*. A law was passed to keep under wrap any y2k software
malfunctions.

Add the quick fix 'windowing' to the mix and Bingo! You get
derivatives upside down!

Today it was announced that the US Cost Guard is 500 millions short.

And, hold on to your hats, the Secret Service pension fund isself, fer
crissake, is short 3 bi-billions. Wow, how many are they anyway?

Blightful, realllly!