Ok, so I RTFA, but what I took from it was the fact that Forbes is pointing out that a whole load of people, a cottage industry no less, has sprung up around sueing spammers, junk faxers and the like.
In other words, they're not pro-spam or pro-junk fax, but anti leeching lawyers, which I have to agree with.
Hell, I don't like spam, but I dislike people who essentially are looking for a quick fast buck too. This stinks of compensation culture I think, where everyone seems to think it's their right to be compensated for every goddam thing that happens to them that they don't like....
Again as mentioned in "The Mythical Man Month", bugs found during the later stages of development (and more so post deployment) are more costly, because:
The cost of regression testing
Other (perhaps subtle) bugs may well be introduced by fixing another
The book goes on to say that, post deployment, fixing bugs (and the introduction of new ones in the process) causes the system itself to atrophy. In other words become more unstable, not more stable.
I wonder what'll happen to my subscription, I got a letter a while back saying that for every issue of Red Herring I was still to receive, I'd get 1.9 (!) copies of Business 2.0 instead.
Actually I find Business 2.0 more readable, and frankly more interesting
Sure the from address is generally bogus, to skip past the basic anti spam methods out there, but something in the email must contain a valid phone number, web site, or address, otherwise how would the spammers make any money (and I suppose they must as they don't do it just to piss everyone off)
Part of the problem is the high cost of the last mile, as posters have already mentioned, the other part of the problem is that there's not enough 'stuff' to fill the fiber.
We're still waiting for that "killer app" to fully utilize all this available bandwidth everywhere.
It's true that movies on demand are making inroads, as is software distribution (for companies, not just the odd shareware app from download.com), but it's hardly scratching the surface.
When more people have broadband access, and are fully utilising it, we're gonna need a lot of international fiber to cope....
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Just noticed on the Register.co.uk that Nokia is apparently evaluating both Perl and PHP for use in Nokia mobile phones, link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/35040.html
Ok, so I RTFA, but what I took from it was the fact that Forbes is pointing out that a whole load of people, a cottage industry no less, has sprung up around sueing spammers, junk faxers and the like.
In other words, they're not pro-spam or pro-junk fax, but anti leeching lawyers, which I have to agree with.
Hell, I don't like spam, but I dislike people who essentially are looking for a quick fast buck too. This stinks of compensation culture I think, where everyone seems to think it's their right to be compensated for every goddam thing that happens to them that they don't like....
just my 2pence.
Again as mentioned in "The Mythical Man Month", bugs found during the later stages of development (and more so post deployment) are more costly, because:
- The cost of regression testing
- Other (perhaps subtle) bugs may well be introduced by fixing another
The book goes on to say that, post deployment, fixing bugs (and the introduction of new ones in the process) causes the system itself to atrophy. In other words become more unstable, not more stable.I wonder what'll happen to my subscription, I got a letter a while back saying that for every issue of Red Herring I was still to receive, I'd get 1.9 (!) copies of Business 2.0 instead.
Actually I find Business 2.0 more readable, and frankly more interesting
Otherwise it would be totally useless right?
Sure the from address is generally bogus, to skip past the basic anti spam methods out there, but something in the email must contain a valid phone number, web site, or address, otherwise how would the spammers make any money (and I suppose they must as they don't do it just to piss everyone off)
Part of the problem is the high cost of the last mile, as posters have already mentioned, the other part of the problem is that there's not enough 'stuff' to fill the fiber.
We're still waiting for that "killer app" to fully utilize all this available bandwidth everywhere.
It's true that movies on demand are making inroads, as is software distribution (for companies, not just the odd shareware app from download.com), but it's hardly scratching the surface.
When more people have broadband access, and are fully utilising it, we're gonna need a lot of international fiber to cope....