BS 2000

Y2K Preparedness This year, most of the world is preparing to celebrate the year 2000 and the coming of a new millennium. However, many businesses, manufacturers, banks and hospitals are quietly hoping for an uneventful new year’s transition. At midnight on December 31, many businesses will be anticipating what effects the millennium rollover will have on computer software and other equipment that contain a time sensitive chip called an embedded chip. Early computer programmers, in an

I. Introduction Globalization has paved the way for e-business models that currently sweeps the internet with its’ revenue share to improvise the economy (Hong-Oanh Nguyen,2013). Cost (production to delivery) (Evangelista and Sweeney,2006; Gunasekaran and Ngai,2008; Australian Bureau of Statistics,2008; Samar and Robert,2004), customers interest (Australian Bureau of Statistics,2008; Evangelista and Sweeney,2006; Samar and Robert,2004), size of the company (Davies et al.,2007; Nurmilaakso,2008),

Diana Nyad is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long- distance swimmer. Diana is also the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without getting injury, swimming one hundred and one miles in fifty- three hours. It was Diana fifth time standing on the Cuban shore, hoping that she will make it across that vast from Cuba to Florida. Not only has she tried four times but even the greatest swimmer in the world has been trying since 1950's and it hasn't been done yet. Knowing

In The midst of a rising industrial climate, the 1990s was a time for change and expansion. On December thirty-first, 1999 nearly every developed nation in the world anticipated the oncoming new millennium. After strike of midnight, January first, 2000 a forecasted event would take place, and many in the world were anxious to comprehend the supposed inevitable. The occurrence of the Y2K scare changed the way the world revolves around technology during the time period, which has lasting residual

Our group had a lot of choices when we wanted to pick a company and in the end, we chose TRIMERCO. This company is owned by a relative of one of our groupmates, Ralph Tan and in a way, we are interested in how they do their HR practices. With this paper, we hope that their company will be able to use this information to further improve the relationship of their employees and the company overall. Company Background (history, organizational structure, industry, business model, etc.) TRIMERCO Merchandising

Criterion group from the 1960’s to the year 2000. Business for this company peaked in 1980 while steadily declining shortly afterwards and by the year 2000 the business was working on reinventing itself to remain in production. (Campbell-Hunt, 2000) This assignment will outline the problems Criterion face based on several issues and what should

(Meyerson, 2000). As the marchers began to walk down Wilshire Boulevard from downtown to Century City, they experience many surprises. As they walked the cars kept honking at them, not become of anger, but because they were trying to signal their support for the movement (Meyerson, 2000). As the movement continued, there was a lot more support then what they believed they would get. Elected officials came out and stood on the flatbed truck leading the parade, to signal their support (Meyerson, 2000). This

unfortunately did not happen. One of the first steps the media take to make the people aware is to say the problem. The three most commonly used words for the Year 2000 Computer Moral panic in this research of the New York Times were "Year 2000 Problem," "Millennium Bug," and "Y2K." Variations of these three included "Year 2000 Bug," "Y2K Bug," and "Y2K Problem." Other says used less frequently to describe the moral panic were "glitch," "apocalyptic event," "challenge," "malfunction," and "bomb

Wanting insight to what has emerged in technology, I pestered my grandmother about what it was like growing up in her generation. “You’ve always got your face glued to your phone,” she says without missing a beat, “back in the sixties when I was in high school, the party line phone hung on the wall and had a time limit of three minutes before disconnecting with a ten second warning prior. There was no such thing as privacy. You had to stand in the middle of the kitchen and talk on the phone in front

December 31, 1999. Many products have microchips that have been programmed to process only the last two digits of a year on the assumption that the first two would be one and nine. As a result, 98 is read as 1998, and 00 could be read as 1900 instead of 2000. Y 2 Care About Y2K: Checklist How do you know if you will encounter Y2K problem? I have prepared the following checklist to help you avoid being bitten by the millennium bug.  If you have a personal computer, PC software, fax