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You never know: we leapt 7 years a few centuries ago. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: 07 December, 2015 19:37 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog

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On 2015-12-08, at 02:36, Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: > You never know: we leapt 7 years a few centuries ago. > > Kees. > I miss the reference. Clarify, please. > -Original Message- > From: Ed Gould > Sent: 07 December, 2015 19:37 > > Is there a leap week somewhere along the

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Steve Thompson wrote: >Please note: There are three kinds of people in this world, those who can >count and those who can't. Count me in... ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

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Oops! Sorry! - -teD -   Original Message   From: Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Monday, December 7, 2015 03:32 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog Early Monday? Have a coffee first. Note the chars after the '365

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‎In Texas Hold'em is what I was talking about. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Randy Hudson Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2015 23:03 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog In article <20151204220655.5476437.57761

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z Systems Development Blog 24x7x52 is already a year (less a few days). Multiplying by 365 makes it 365 yrars. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Monday, December 7, 2015 02:35 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: IBM

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24x7x52 is already a year (less a few days). Multiplying by 365 makes it 365 yrars. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Monday, December 7, 2015 02:35 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog

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On 12/07/2015 04:59 AM, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2015-12-07 o 09:09, Ted MacNEIL pisze: 24x7x52 is already a year (less a few days). Multiplying by 365 makes it 365 yrars. That's why I use to write '24/7/365' Less chance to get acrimonious remark. Of course both ways of notation do NOT describe

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: 04 December, 2015 16:51 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:34 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: too true. I may even s

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In fairness, "24x7x365" was originally a shopkeeper/consumer sort of expression, never intended as a mathematical formula. As in, "We're open round the clock, every day of the week, every day of the year." Or in other words "We don't close overnight, we don't close on (insert historically

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In article <20151204220655.5476437.57761.60...@yahoo.ca> teD wrote: > Easier to get a Royal Flush. > 265,000:1 A dealt royal flush, AKQJT all of the same suit, in any order, is closer to 650,000-1. A drawn royal flush, the jackpot hand on most "video poker" slot machines, is typically between

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You forgot the 52 for the 100%: 24x7x52x365 ;-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: 04 December, 2015 16:51 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog On Fri, Dec 4, 2015

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W dniu 2015-12-04 o 14:55, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze: [...] There are still enough fishes in our oceans, dams and rivers for a while, but ... Your grand children will ask this question and you're too old to remember anyways: Mainframe? Fish? z/OS? Rhinos? MVS? Tigers? RACF? Pandas? What are

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On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: > On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:34 AM, John McKown > wrote: > > > too true. I may even start playing the state lottery, even though that's > > not really a good idea. I understand enough

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On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:34 AM, John McKown wrote: > too true. I may even start playing the state lottery, even though that's > not really a good idea. I understand enough statistics to know that. > Don't play in Illinois. They only give you and IOU. -- Mike A

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John McKown wrote: too true. I may even start playing the state lottery, even though that's not really a good idea. I understand enough statistics to know that. ​ After I interviewed Prof. William Kahan (designer of the math for the Intel 8087 co-processor) in 1997, (

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On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote: > On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 06:43:23 -0600, John McKown wrote: > > >I've bookmarked that in my browser. Thanks. > > Me too. > Pity the z business here has gone so far down the toilet I've had to wind > up my company and wander

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Shane Ginnane wrote: >Sobering ;0) Indeed. I was at a casino once and it amazed me that there are zombies sitting there all day and night, staring at and feeding those one-arm bandits. Now and then I do buy a lotto ticket. Half of the time I do get my money back. Never won enough to buy

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I've bookmarked that in my browser. Thanks. On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Anthony Giorgio < niteh...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > Did you know that the IBM z Systems development team has a blog? If you > want to hear news about IBM products right from the experts who develop > them, then

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On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 07:34:25 -0600, John McKown wrote: >​too true. I may even start playing the state lottery, even though that's >not really a good idea. I understand enough statistics to know that. ​ Don't do that. I was listening to the BBC overnight a few weeks back, and they must have been

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14:21 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 06:43:23 -0600, John McKown wrote: >I've bookmarked that in my browser. Thanks. Me too. Pity the z business here has gone so far down the toilet I've had to wind up my company and wander

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On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 06:43:23 -0600, John McKown wrote: >I've bookmarked that in my browser. Thanks. Me too. Pity the z business here has gone so far down the toilet I've had to wind up my company and wander off into retirement.. Interest only now. Shane ...

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John McKown wrote: >​too true. I may even start playing the state lottery, even though that's not >really a good idea. I understand enough statistics to know that. ​ and Shane Ginnane wrote: >Pity the z business here has gone so far down the toilet I've had to wind up >my company and wander off

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On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote: > On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 07:34:25 -0600, John McKown wrote: > > >​too true. I may even start playing the state lottery, even though that's > >not really a good idea. I understand enough statistics to know that. ​ > > Don't do

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On Dec 4, 2015, at 8:37 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: --SNIP Now and then I do buy a lotto ticket. Half of the time I do get my money back. Never won enough to buy lots of *more* lotto tickets anyway. It is more or less throwing away part of your money in the

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Some people have beaten the lottery! http://www.jordanellenberg.com/how-not-to-be-wrong/ A fun book to read. On 04/12/15 14:29, John McKown wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 07:34:25 -0600, John McKown wrote: ​too true. I

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On 4 December 2015 at 08:34, John McKown wrote: > ​too true. I may even start playing the state lottery, even though that's > not really a good idea. I understand enough statistics to know that. ​ > Thing is, buying a ticket is almost completely irrelevant to

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In <5661ca41.2040...@codemagus.com>, on 12/04/2015 at 05:15 PM, Patrick Hayward said: >Some people have beaten the lottery! They're called ""The House". -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

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On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Patrick Hayward wrote: > Some people have beaten the lottery! > http://www.jordanellenberg.com/how-not-to-be-wrong/ > > A fun book to read. Or bought 5M tickets (ran out of time trying to get all 7M possible combinations).

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The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation - UK) does *NOT* run any lottery. There are more than one (and a bit) different lotteries licensed in the UK and no I do not subscribe to any. The odds as you point out are horrendous. Originally it was bad enough with 6 numbers at odds of 14.5M : 1

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Easier to get a Royal Flush. 265,000:1 - -teD -   Original Message   From: Vince Coen Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 16:17 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: IBM z Systems Development Blog The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation - UK) does

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On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 11:39:11 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: > >The chances of winning in IL are the same but on the downside they >don't pay if you are a winner > >Ed > And if you can't win the lottery fair and square, get a job with the commission and fix it:

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On Dec 4, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Dana Mitchell wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 11:39:11 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: The chances of winning in IL are the same but on the downside they don't pay if you are a winner Ed And if you can't win the lottery fair and square, get a job

IBM z Systems Development Blog

Did you know that the IBM z Systems development team has a blog? If you want to hear news about IBM products right from the experts who develop them, then come take a look! https://ibm.biz/z_systems_development Some of the topics recent articles have touched upon are: * zEDC and HSM - A