On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote: > Then, Nemertes projected that traffic growth would eclipse supply by 2010, > but the firm now says it has adjusted its projections to reflect > deteriorating global economic conditions."
Wait, doesn't this just indicate that a simple linear projection into the future just doesn't work? I mean, there's always something that prevents an infinite linear growth, negative feedback of some sort, or even a failure at some level, causing the situation to go non-linear. The "deteriorating global economic conditions" cited just prove that the initial linear projection is just a bad guess. The fact that (in retrospect) most horrible things end not with a bang, but a whimper seems to confirm that non-linear increases in negative feedback often ameliorate what otherwise would constitute a Disaster of Biblical Proportions. > More at > http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/112108-internet-bandwidth-trouble.html?hpg1=bn Death of the Internet predicted, film at 11, as they used to say. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
