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Myths about Internet growth
An anonymous reader writes "An article in The Economist outlines WorldCom's role in starting the myth that Internet traffic doubles every 100 days. This helped inflate the telecoms bubble."
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my pr0n collection doubles every 100 days.
MARIJUANA, SHROOMS, X: ONLINE?! - E
It should be 'annoying X10 pop unders double every 100 days'
I think we can safely file THAT particular statistic away with the MPAA's and RIAA's claim that piracy has cost billions and billions of dollars in lost revenue.
Of course, I could see the BSA, RIAA, and MPAA getting together and claiming that the piracy of billions of dollars of software is the CAUSE of traffic doubling every 100 days!
internet pr0n/mp3 xfers double every 100 days, not traffic in general.
four-oh-four
Bill Gate's nett worth
Microsoft's profits
Windows bugs
IIS security holes
The number of digits in the latest I.E. version number
The megabytage of Windows Media Player
The number of countries George Bush wants to bomb
The length of Richard Stallman's beard
The number of trolls on Slashdot
The next thing you know, they'll be telling us computers double in speed every 18 months!
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read your post repeatedly and fail to understand what you are trying to say.
I suspect you may be composing in French, and then posting certain weak idiomatic translations.
If that's the case, I'd rather read good French than poor English.
Just remember, 83.5% percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
-R
Stuff that matters: circuitbreakers, vacuum-cleaners coffee makers, calculators generators, matching salt+pepper shakers
If \. is the MS equivalent of /. then I think humanity is a lost cause.
From hell's heart I fstab at /dev/hdc
Well, then you should take off your suit and listen to them!