RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

No cuss word was meant.  It is a sign of respect to g-d in the Jewish faith
that you do no actually write out the word of the one deity.  The (-) dash
is meant so that you know who you are referring to without actually writing
it.

Larry

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fleming, Greg \(ED\)
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 1:08 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

Trevor,

I think his intention was actually "god" with the "o" left out to
legalistially avoid referring directly to the deity.  Hence the actual
expression was "god forsaken".  

Although I also read it the way you did, Trevor, until I saw Doug's
veiled explanation.  

G

|-----Original Message-----
|From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
|bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Perry
|Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 11:15 AM
|To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
|Subject: Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence
|
|Douglas,
|
|Whatever context you chose to use, the implication was g-d as a
cussword.
|If
|you are going to keep secrets in an email to a group like this, then
you
|should expect we are going to think it means gosh-darn.
|
|I read what I read. You cussed - with hyphens.
|
|Trevor
|.
|----- Original Message -----
|From: "Douglas W. Palme"
|Subject: Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence
|
|
|> cuss words? I re-read my comments and nowhere did I use a cuss word.
If
|> you
|> are referring to my usage of the term g-d that is certainly not a
cuss
|> word
|> and the spelling is used purposely from a Jewish perspective, however
|that
|> is another discussion for another forum of which this one is not
|> appropriate.  If you want to know why I used it in the context I did,
|> email
|> me privately and I will be more than happy to explain.
|>
|> A calendar control requires now many clicks with the mouse? two?
Three?
|> and
|> if you have to change the month or year you can add at least one to
two
|> additional clicks.  I can perform the same function with data entry
and
|do
|> it more efficiently than with a control.  As for errors, you can
still
|> have
|> the same issues with someone clicking the wrong day and since our
system
|> pulls its dates and times from the system time we do not have an
issue
|> with
|> them.
|>
|> We are going to have to agree to disagree here Trevor on the issue of
GUI
|> versus GS, because it is readily apparent you are not going to change
and
|> frankly I do not see a need to recode our entire system just to
provide
|> slicker looking screens.  I might add that we have looked at GUI in
the
|> past
|> and just cannot justify it.
|
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