Why the worse is over for those who prepared

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It was not the software problems that got everyone worried. If that had been all that you heard about you would have laughed, hoping the IRS would crash.

It was the embedded thing that scared everyone because they were supposed to cause failures in every utility, form of thransportation, and supply chain that we depend on for daily life. You did not prepare in the even the IRS computers crashed, or the dates on you water bill were off by 99 years, You prepared in the even that all of the things that "embedded chips" were supposed to be in failed.

The chips did not fail, what you worried about is no longer something you have to prepare against. You are seeing the failures of the things that you would normally laugh about and that do not effect your personal safety.

The snafu's that are surfacing will not bring down your world as you know it.

For those who prepared for the worse, the worse is over.

Now is the time that those who origionally had a reason to worry, to worry. Those in information technology.

And stop going to what IT's say or think about the problems you were most concerned about. They no very little or nothing about embedded, so they are as clueless as you in that area.

You don't ask your paperboy about the condition of your car, don't ask IT's about not IT areas.

The IT's that got scared and "headed for the hills" were afraid of something they didn't know, not afraid from knowing what they thought would happen.



-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), January 08, 2000

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"For those who prepared for the worse, the worse is over."

The word you want here is "worst." Superlative of "bad." As in "bad, worse, worst."

"They no very little or nothing about embedded..."

They "no" very little? Really? Gosh. Well, do they KNOW very much? That might be more to the point.

I can't speak for anyone else, but it bothers me when I'm deluged with advice by someone who never mastered basic grammar.

-- just (thinking@out.loud), January 08, 2000.


I totally agree; my biggest concern was that hard-programmed microprocessor chip-sets would shut down one or more essential utilities. I couldn't imagine why such devices would care what the date was but I had no way of knowing for sure that they did not. Polly sneers did not assuage the uncertainties.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), January 08, 2000.

Cherri, I'm feeling very relieved at the moment. 8^)

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), January 08, 2000.

What arrogance! If we had listened to your mis-guidance about preparing (for anything), we would still be looking in the face of an earthquake or hurricane with two cans of beans and stomach gas. This is much bigger than your little corner of insignificant i.t. world.

-- Chruch Fan (hand@waving.com), January 08, 2000.

Eh?

"And stop going to what IT's say or think about the problems you were most concerned about"

I will stop going to what Cherri say or think about.

-- W (me@home.now), January 08, 2000.



We would have laughed about the software problems? A strange proposition.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), January 08, 2000.

My Dear dear Mistress Cherri,

I am devastated dear lady... You posted for me, by name (in you thread below). Then didn't have the common courtasy to reply to my respondse. I did note that your gladiator /cum mantance engineer. Did champion your question to me. But then, if he where to leave the one "little" steam" machine that he has apparently ever been on..And come out west where the "big" coal-fired co-generation complexes are. He might realize that things are not as circumspect as he woulld like them to be.

It must indeed be nice...To come straight out of collage and land a job that will take you through to retirement. Not many of us can do that. Or would want to! That senerio and life experience tends to give one myopia about reality! And stunts their learning processes.

But it is you, my dear lady. That worries me. To ask for a person's attention; and a reply from them. Then to totally ignor them, either bespeaks a total lack of civilized etiquette. Or a serious defficency in upbring.

And I know; lady that you are, that it must have been an over sight on your behalf. (Incidently, you getting any better hitting your targets, shooting from the hip)? The art of fast draw sharpshooting is hard to learn. Especially when one doesn't take in to account the caliber of her diction and subject matter.

Have a good evening Mistress Cherri...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a-Bunker@forty.feet), January 08, 2000.


What arrogance! If we had listened to your mis-guidance about preparing (for anything), we would still be looking in the face of an earthquake or hurricane with two cans of beans and stomach gas. This is much bigger than your little corner of insignificant i.t. world.

-- Chruch Fan (hand@waving.com), January 08, 2000.

Why do you make up things like that to say? I not only never told anyone NOT to prepare, I have said many times that I have been "prepared" for years myself, mainly for earthquakes.

**shakey** I'll have to go back and read what you wrote, I didn't realise you were still around.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), January 09, 2000.


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