On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 08:39:06PM +0000, Alexander Lopez wrote:
Fax will not die, at least not anytime soon.
Not as long as the VoIP industry continues to improvise boondoggles?none altogether successful?to jam an uncompromisingly square peg into an unyieldingly round hole. The problem with boondoggles was articulated in a rather entertaining way by the writer Dmitry Orlov: So why not, as a matter of policy, only propose solutions that are guaranteed to simply create more problems, for which further solutions can then be proposed? At some point, a boondoggle event horizon is reached, like the light event horizon that exists at the surface of a black hole. Beyond that horizon, the only possible course of action is to create more boondoggles. The combined weight of all these boondoggles is slowly but surely pushing us all down. If it pushes us down far enough, then economic collapse, when it arrives, will be like falling out of a ground-floor window. We just have to help this process along, or at least not interfere with it. So if somebody comes to you and says, ?I want to make a boondoggle that runs on hydrogen? ? by all means encourage him! It?s not as good as a boondoggle that burns money directly, but it?s a step in the right direction. [1] This is what we're doing with fax every time we come up with more shit: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21997718/funny-USB-adapter-computer-data... At some point, you need to decide if you're in the POTS industry or the VoIP industry. -- Alex [1] http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/01/boondoggles-to-rescue.html Mr. Orlov is a peak oil theorist and is writing in that rather gloomy context. I don't necessarily agree with his all-around pessimism, but his writing is thought-provoking and his social critiques incisive. -- Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC Tel: +1-706-510-6800 / +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/