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> This is the sort of mess in standards that our government needs to assist
> in correcting. Concerning standards -snip-
Now thats exactly what the Gov should have instructed the Microsoft-trial
commitee(s) to do (issue that I raised a few months ago):
"Do not waste tax payers good money on faked non-events(Microsoft's alledged monopoly)
but instead address the real customer concerning issues !!".
ISO is the way to go (International Standard Organisation).
Regards,
Ton Maas
ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dismiss the ".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying and
note the new address change. Also for my Homepage
http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaas
----- Original Message -----
From: <lissen@xxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: donderdag 6 januari 2000 16:58
Subject: Re: 1/3/2000 data
> Alain:
>
> This is the sort of mess in standards that our government needs to assist
> in correcting. Concerning standards, Herbert Hoover was probably the only
> secretary of commerce to use his office to simplify and reduce the number
> of unnecessary product variations in many areas. That our light bulbs will
> fit any receptacle is due to his efforts back in the 1920's. These efforts
> benefited both industry and the consumer. Many secretaries of commerce
> since then have been small minded political hacks. Herbert Hoover
> developed the concept of the voluntary standards system in this country.
> This got around the limitation that the Feds had no legal authority to
> impose standards, while at the same time developing a consensus standard.
>
> I thought there was a law passed in the early 1950's that requires a vendor
> to sell his product to any purchaser under the same conditions as they
> sell to any other purchaser. This was in a Federal law banning so-called
> fair trade laws (they were really unfair trade laws).
>
> Thanks for enlightening me on the problem.
>
> Regards
>
> Lionel Issen
> lissen@xxxxxxxxx
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alain Jossart" <Alain.Jossart@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: ""Equis Support"" <support@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 1:16 AM
> Subject: Re: 1/3/2000 data
>
>
> >
> > Lionel,
> >
> > Same problem here, but the technical issue if not for Equis support. Let
> me
> > explain.
> >
> > Quote Plus isn't an agreed data vendor (as ... see Downloader list). They
> > even cannot buy the Write version of Equis Developer Kit. They had
> > therefore to kind of reverse engineer the Equis Year2000 date encoding.
> It
> > seems this trial/error approach was not completely successful. But this
> was
> > to be expected.
> >
> > This is a commercial matter at first place. Metastock/Computrac 255
> sec/dir
> > was a de facto universal database standard till 31 Dec 1999. Everybody
> knew
> > it was dead end. Equis decided to not make public their Year2000
> > modifications to the format => THE STANDARD IS GONE !
> >
> > I don't understand the competitive advantage of playing secret games
> about
> > a data format. It's the kind of evidence Reuters/Equis or Omega research
> > won't even read, anyway.
> >
> > Alain.
> >
> > At 21:08 5/1/2000 -0600, lissen@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > >I am having a problem with Quotes Plus. I missed Monday's (Jan 3)
> > >download. When I downloaded on Tuesday (Jan 4) one full directory was
> not
> > >updated and one partial directory was not updated. Additionally both
> Jan 3
> > >and 4 data was marked as 1900 instead of 2000 in the File, Open
> spreadsheet
> > >(but in the correct position). When I opened one of the charts the data
> was
> > >correctly shown as Jan 3 or 4 , 2000.
> > >
> > >I am using V 6.52
> > >
> > >Any suggestions on how to fix this?
> > >Anyone else have this problem?
> > >
> > >Lionel Issen
> > >lissen@xxxxxxxxx
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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