Even if the company did send something, the customer could file a chargeback.
"There is no chargeback category for this" - there is a chargeback code for "item not as described" or similar:
Visa: 53
MasterCard: 4853
Discover: 4553
OK, let's say AJAX didn't exist for a moment. People would have to refresh their browsers to display/submit forms, which would require Apache/PHP to serve a *full web page* for every form displayed and submitted. This in itself causes a load on servers, before dynamic content is even considered.
If anything, AJAX *lowers* server load.
Perhaps it didn't occur to anyone, but maybe switching to Ubuntu/Linux/OS X/[insert quick-fix OS] is not the best idea. One of the "security flaws" is a nine-year-old. Do you want to explain to him/her why running games doesn't work perfectly anymore (yes, I am aware of WINE)? Or why they can't play any of their iTunes-purchased songs?
IMHO, you can't fix stupidity by switching OSes. You fix stupidity by making people less stupid.
No, but I did say "average". It included data from a variety of places with a variety of different speeds, ranging from 50 kilobits/s in the middle of nowhere to the 1.9 megabits/s to which you are referring.
From what I've seen, the average total throughput (download plus upload) is around 900 kilobits per second.
Convert that to gigabytes and you get 0.000107288361.
0.000107288361 * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days = around 278.1 gigabytes.
So yes, it's certainly possible to go over 5 GB in a month.
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On Windows, maybe.
But OpenGL right now does not seem to be geared towards games in any way.
I think some folks at Valve would have something to say about that.
Even if the company did send something, the customer could file a chargeback. "There is no chargeback category for this" - there is a chargeback code for "item not as described" or similar: Visa: 53 MasterCard: 4853 Discover: 4553
Net neutrality is not about preventing ISPs from capping users. It's about preventing ISPs from prioritizing traffic to some sites over others.
What backbone? There isn't one; the internet is a distributed network.
The closest you could get is probably one of these. Of course, these companies are ISPs, too.
OK, let's say AJAX didn't exist for a moment. People would have to refresh their browsers to display/submit forms, which would require Apache/PHP to serve a *full web page* for every form displayed and submitted. This in itself causes a load on servers, before dynamic content is even considered. If anything, AJAX *lowers* server load.
It's not for debugging, it's for troubleshooting.
Perhaps it didn't occur to anyone, but maybe switching to Ubuntu/Linux/OS X/[insert quick-fix OS] is not the best idea. One of the "security flaws" is a nine-year-old. Do you want to explain to him/her why running games doesn't work perfectly anymore (yes, I am aware of WINE)? Or why they can't play any of their iTunes-purchased songs? IMHO, you can't fix stupidity by switching OSes. You fix stupidity by making people less stupid.
No, but I did say "average". It included data from a variety of places with a variety of different speeds, ranging from 50 kilobits/s in the middle of nowhere to the 1.9 megabits/s to which you are referring.
From what I've seen, the average total throughput (download plus upload) is around 900 kilobits per second. Convert that to gigabytes and you get 0.000107288361. 0.000107288361 * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 30 days = around 278.1 gigabytes. So yes, it's certainly possible to go over 5 GB in a month.
I can definitely attest to this. I've tried converting many people to open-source, and the first thing they say is "It's free? I'll take it!".