Game Over

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Erasing my TB2000 bookmark folks. The game's over and it's time to join the rest of the crowd streaming out of this stadium.

Just wanted to bid you farewell and tell you it's been fun. Here's hoping that, during our days on TB2000, you've gained as much insight into how the world works as I have. It's been a real education.

Hold no grudges! Not only is it counter-productive, but cyberspace definitely doesn't warrant it.

Adios Amigos,

CD - ( Full time Gulf Coast beach-bum and part time "gubmint shill". >grin< )

-- CD (not@here.com), January 02, 2000

Answers

Hang Ten dude!

-- Spliffmon (B@ggiesrule.dude), January 02, 2000.

C'mon, dont you want to see how the big science project turns out?

The fun part is starting, now we get to see how the little people and all that intricate, intra-system data exchanging process will end up doing. The real danger "seems" to have passed, now we get to see whats left. Could be pretty colorful. Stick around....

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), January 02, 2000.


Another voice of reason rides off into the sunset. Good on you CD,and keep well.

-- Look (at@the.facts), January 02, 2000.

Best to you CD. I'm right behind you. Time better spent on _______ (fill in the blank with just about anything).

-- Bingo1 (howe9@shentel.net), January 02, 2000.

So he's leaving the stadium before the game's over, thinking he'll beat the traffic out of the parking lot. But will he just be getting to the car as he hears the remaining crowd start yelling excitedly and begin to wonder what he's missing?

Or in this case, what's coming to get him?

I used to wonder about folks like this in SoCal, leaving games in the 3rd quarter or the 7th inning. Heck, this "game" is still in the opening minutes.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), January 02, 2000.



Promise to keep your word and stay away?

-- TM (mercier7@pdnt.com), January 02, 2000.

I'm right behind ya too.

-- Porky (Porky@in.cellblockD), January 02, 2000.

You da man, CD. Vieles Gluck zum Neues Jahr!

-- Bad Company (Deutsch@jawohl!.com), January 02, 2000.

Yea,....... I leave the game early too when my team is down (say 21- 0) in the first quarter....not!!! One thing to consider... The embedded issue (1st quarter) was the big unknown (so we've spotted the embedded problem at least 14 points in this game). It was always the doomers dream (I think) that this was gonna be a 1 scene act with all humanity dying in three weeks when the whole infrastructure collapsed. Sorry folks the experts never predicted that, but because it was the big unknown that had a high potential for disruption it had to be addressed. No one was foolish to prepare for such an event even considering the low likelihood of failure. The foolish were those who didn't prepare. So far they are ahead but if they are parents or grandparents they took a chance.

We still have 3 quarters to play..maybe all the work that has been done has fixed the problem...we will know soon enough, tonight we start the second quarter with financial markets opening, although a lot of foreign markets have a holiday tomorrow.... I won't go on...... I hate reading long speculative posts (which this is) but few of you on this forum were ever truly "doomers" and I would venture to say that had we had a massive infrastructure failure, few of us could have survived long term........... so lets be thankful the score is 21-0....... just remember the game plays a full 4 quarters.

Ps In case there are any flame'rs out there, I've never sold anything related to Y2K.... Its cost me a bundle to prepare and have absolutely no qualms about where we are in this scenario.

Anyway if you must go...go in peace and God bless

-- shockwave (vission441@aol.com), January 02, 2000.


Well, I'm waiting in the stadium, because I don't like being stuck in the parking lot traffic and its only the second inning anyway. Wait a minute! Y2K has been scoring quite a few singles and walks. Those are going to start adding up to runs pretty quick. A full business week is absolutely necessary to see how this game pans out!!

-- Guy Daley (guydaley@bwn.net), January 02, 2000.


HOW can we say "Game Over"? I can only count Power and Water/sewer having passed the rollover. The BUSINESSES were CLOSED for the weekend. NOBODY has run payroll. NOBODY has done a month end, Quarter end, or Year end run yet.

This particular game was ALWAYS about MORE than simply the rollover.

We have SUCCESSFULLY avoided ONLY ONE of the 3 or more scenarios. We have avoided the no-power instant crash TEOTWAWKI/Instant MAD MAX scenario.

The othes include the slow "death of a thousand cuts" scenario where the glitches slowly add up to frustrations, lost time and revenue, INCREDIBLE opportunity costs, and the slow grinding down of the way we do things.

And there is the series of possibilities that include awakenning to a very different world on Wednesday or Thursday as the Business world reaps a LOT of what they have sown in terms of lousy remediation and failed remediation projects that take down whole corporations.

Or these errors may take a while and then SURPISE the corporations just disappear.

STAY PRUDENT!!!

STAY VIGILANT!!

MAINTAIN YOUR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS!!!!

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 02, 2000.


Just don't bother to come back here when you realize that 'da game ain't ovah, baby.

Bye bye.

-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), January 02, 2000.


It looks like embedded are mostly "No Big Problem".

It looks like PCs are mostly "No Problem".

Jury out on Enterprise systems, mainframes. Beach-Olesin pain index predicted problems as an exponential function of the INTERCONNECTIONs of a system. To date, these Big Iron systems have not been put to the full test.

Re: Game - not even half time yet. Way too early to call.

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), January 02, 2000.


I hold no grudges.

And FYI, the reason I pushed back against the trolls is the reason you cite: there was more learning to be had here than anywhere else on the planet, in any era, even more than greek philosophical students lucked into..

You are a funny dude and maybe you should stick around.

Polly, yeah, but I aspire to Polly, too. Maybe in March I'll graduate to being one.

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), January 02, 2000.


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