Larger power suppliers in developed nations are said to be mostly prepared for the date rollover, but some officials remain worried about how the industry overall will cope with the year 2000 computerproblem.
PLC, Stephen Hester, has already given up his bonus, for the second year running, after a computerproblem left millions of customers without access to their accounts.
In this high-tech age -- when computer programmers are in short supply (don't forget the Year 2000 problem) and when Congress may liberalize immigration laws to lure foreign programmers to our shores -- this ban on programmers' becoming individual entrepreneurs is absurd.