Re: amazonaws.com?

[Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>]

On May 29, 2008 at 06:08 joelja () bogus com (Joel Jaeggli) wrote:
> To paraphrase one of my colleagues from the user interaction world:
>
>      "The key to offering a compelling service is minimising
>      transaction hassles."
>
> I encourage all my competitors to implement inconvenient hard to use 
> payment methods....

One way of describing it is "minimizing transaction hassles".

Another way of describing it is "monetizing others' hassles", let them
spend on bandwidth, firewalls, personnel, etc, to deal with my
customers' spamming.

That's the arbitrage we're currently deaing with.

But you're right, there was no good reason for tobacco companies to
concern themselves with the cost of health effects of their products
for many, many years, it wasn't their problem.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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