Y2K

* whiney comment deleted by admin *

it's not a virus

jen - it looks like brian wrote that macro you suggested!

However the reactions of people expecting things to fall apart could be a problem.

Brian- I was thinking of you giving you a good rating for this one, but after that lovely comment you made, I don't think so.

Virus? Oh you mean the meme virus... Yeah, that's having an effect.

options 2 and 3 way too similar

I think that most of the important probs will be sorted. All this disaster talk is bollocks, just hype from the press. I actually had to work on a millennium project for 5 months and it was sodding boring!

I think the biggest problem will be people who are so frenzied with fear they create danger and havoc for the rest of us. We are our own worst enemy.

Yep, Y2K is a myth. After 1999 we'll have 1999.1, 1999.2, etc.

Actually it's more of bug than a virus.

This question has been done before, recently, and better than this.

I'm currently working on Y2K remediation and testing where I work. We haven't had any date related issues with our code. Of course, we aren't in charge of the railways or power companies. When people ask me if I've stocked up on food, I do admit to buying a Food Saver for Christmas, but not so we could pack away 100 pounds of rice, I just wanted to be able to keep the lettuce fresh for a week and to keep mold off the cheddar.

The hype over the whole thing has been fun to watch. Our office is full of M&M's (the candy of the millennium). The oster/sunbeam site has an overlay for their products that show a "Y2K compliant" logo and the silly thing comes up for a bread slicer -- I mean the kind of device that HOLDS a loaf of bread so you can make even slices. There is no date info related to this device -- it isn't even electronic! There are sites where you can buy Y2K candles that show a statement like - guaranteed to work if you use Y2K compliant MATCHES. The whole thing cracks me up.

Our VP gave a briefing to the company a couple of weeks ago and ended his talk with this thought:
"Remember, the dark ages were brought on by the Y1K problem."
[sigh]

I disagree about the "better" part, steve. That 1 to 10 scale was goofy, what's the difference between a rating of 6 or 7 and how can that possibly track true across the entire survey group? Brian's choices are more explicit, simpler to choose from, and still seem to cover most of the bases wrt what people might think on the subject.

Jane, you mean that you take later comments by the SC members into consideration when rating the survey question itself? So you're actually rating the SC member, aren't you? I don't know about you, but the button at the bottom of my screen is for a *survey* rating.

jefff: Brian's comment was quite offputting, perhaps you didn't see it before bill deleted it?

Brian is a dead horse, lets stop beating him.

I agree, but jefff re-brought him up.

There are going to be a whole lot of out-of-work Cobol programmers.

nothing to get your knickers in a twist over......IMHO

sorry to keep beating the dead horse, but I have to reply to jaffs comment.

jaff- you didn't see it, did you? The comment was really bad. I was reading the survey and thinking "oh, this is an okay survey, I should give him a good rating," but then I read his comment, and suddenly, I didn't want to. So I left it at No Opinion. It's not something I make a habit of, but I couldn't help myself just this once.