I'm afraid that the appearance of working is all that people really care about.

You can sell "pretty" over functional any day, and "quick" over both, with "cheap" trumping all.

Developers cannot fix this. Not unless they get far more organized than they are now. As long as developers do what management tells them and management's values are as previously described, insecurity and unreliability are going to be the hallmarks of software.

And unreliable software is almost guaranteed to be insecure, so kiss all your private data goodbye.

Because it's not simply "lots of new bugs". It's a rearrangement of bugs.

All joking aside, metrics over the years have indicated that once a software product reaches maturity, the total number of bugs on file for further releases will be relatively constant.

This is worse than useless. Computers, copiers, traffic lights, all electrical, electronic, and mechanical devices all operate because they are possessed by evil spirits bent on the frustration and injury of human beings.

Whether you employ wiccans, African witch doctors, Catholic priests or Indian medicine men, exorcising the evil that lives inside these devices will make them non-functional.

Then you'll have to call in a repairman to install a new evil spirit.

I can tell that you don't, if you think that people want to pay for anything in IT. After all, there's millions of people in Southeast Asia who'd be glad to do the job. For wages that would starve anyone in the First World.

Oh yes, and it has to be delivered in 3 days. Because All Yo Have To Do Is...

And the first thing the users will tell you is "That's great! But can you make it do this one simple thing?"

FTFY.

And you forgot about the part where your company shows up on the evening news because all of your most critical data has been leaked to former Soviet-block countries. After a mysterious 6-hour service outage.

But it's "cost effective", right?

For the guys who collected the bonuses and bailed, anyway.

As long as it isn't fishy bacon.

And AM radio is certainly not good analog. What's the bandwidth. 5kHz?

Worse. He's claiming that AM has better sound quality than streaming.

In truth, all the songs I can remember by him weren't exactly audibly precise even on FM. There's a lot of artists I'd worry more about losing sound quality on than him.

He's not as famous or as well-played as he thinks he is, and all this is going to do is make him even less so.

Take a look at what Hurricane Hugo did to North Carolina and where it did it.

If you come inland from Savanna, Atlanta is no further.

Besides, a hurricane doesn't need to still be an actual hurricane to really mess things up. One storm came West of Florida, went Northeast through Georgia, came out into the Atlantic, turned back into a hurricane and plowed down into Florida again.

And THAT was fairly recently.

One could argue that, but the actual state of affairs indicates that there are too many "freed up" resources already.

That's how Jeb Bush got in trouble. By intending to say that today's underemployed need to be able to work more (paying) hours. And got lambasted by Hilary who countered that there are too many people who already work multiple jobs/overtime without their work producing enough income to do anything other than tread water.

Which is the paradox of our times. They're both right, in a way.

There has never been any proof that eliminating jobs creates more jobs. Just because it worked that way in the 1900s doesn't guarantee that that's some sort of simple straight-line function. As they say on Wall Street, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results".

The PC monkeys are in an outsourced call center in South Asia. They've probably never seen a server.

The idealized data center these days is a dark building with a handful of cable monkeys scurrying around like rats in the woodwork. They jack boxes in and out and plug in cables and that's about it. Everything else can be handled from a remote control center.

Think again. Georgia and Texas are both hurricane targets.

A company I used to work in Florida had a hurricane contingency plan that involved shipping a trailer full of mainframe tape files up to Charlotte.

The hurricane that was supposed to hit Florida swept around an nailed Georgia/South Carolina instead. The truck with the tapes was stranded between 2 flooded-out sections of road.

Atlanta is far enough inland that few hurricanes would have enough direct force to faze it (excepting something like what Hugo did to North Carolina), but the more economical place to locate cheap data centers would be among the peanut farms of the Southern reaches of the state. Which do tend to get more hurricane-related storms.

I'd rather 90 minutes New York to Paris.

Undersea by rail.

Actually, I think I got early leakage of this when I talked to local reps the other day. Something that sounds in retrospect a lot like it, anyway.

From what I've seen so far, the price quoted is indeed the price.

The catch is that this kind of service isn't delivered to residential areas. You have to be in a business district where their infrastructure can handle it.