Ah, obviously you have not seen the also-secret IBM charged-photon patent! ;-)
It's way past Friday in Chicago's northern suburbs. Mike Walter Aon Hewitt (Insert the usual disclaimer here) (Sent from the wee keyboard of a Blackberry.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Ackerman" [alan.acker...@bankofamerica.com] Sent: 10/02/2010 01:53 AM EST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM ISFC links Photons don't carry a charge, Mike. (It's still Friday here for 7 more minutes.) Alan Ackerman On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:16:13 -0500, Mike Walter <mike.wal...@hewitt.com> wrote: >TCP/IP is old technology? What about the bits and bytes it relies on - >why can't IBM replace those with negatively and positively charged >photons? They'd be a lot faster! Gee, I hope I'm hinting at some secret >announcement letter pending for the z/NT, which would naturally be >followed by the z/XP, and then (skipping some more nightmares) eventually >the z/7, right!? %-}~ > >But then.. light does go waaaay back to the very beginning. ;-) > >Mike Walter >Hewitt Associates >The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. > The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail.
