I don't know a whole lot about how this works yet, but it seems to me that in awarding sick days, companies would have already planned for this. Don't they expect people might take days off? This just happens to be everybody leaving on the same day.
I understand that other factors might be involved, such as not having enough employees available to run a piece of equipment, but that's not what they're talking about. Raw wage calculations should have been taken care of already.
This isn't about the warez FTP your neighbor's kid has running in his basement. This is saying if you like to listen to lots of streaming radio, or keep an eye on a bunch of websites, or just happen get a ton of email (spam?), you could get hit with extra charges. Obviously I don't know yet what the limit is, so I don't know how much of a problem this could turn out to be.
Sure, bandwidth is bandwidth, and sure, it's expensive to provide. But when I'm already paying fees for content (commercial NNTP, for instance) shouldn't I take notice when an ISP starts coming after me for more money, above and beyond my normal bill?
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I don't know a whole lot about how this works yet, but it seems to me that in awarding sick days, companies would have already planned for this. Don't they expect people might take days off? This just happens to be everybody leaving on the same day.
I understand that other factors might be involved, such as not having enough employees available to run a piece of equipment, but that's not what they're talking about. Raw wage calculations should have been taken care of already.
Yes?
Aren't we talking about download limits here?
This isn't about the warez FTP your neighbor's kid has running in his basement. This is saying if you like to listen to lots of streaming radio, or keep an eye on a bunch of websites, or just happen get a ton of email (spam?), you could get hit with extra charges. Obviously I don't know yet what the limit is, so I don't know how much of a problem this could turn out to be.
Sure, bandwidth is bandwidth, and sure, it's expensive to provide. But when I'm already paying fees for content (commercial NNTP, for instance) shouldn't I take notice when an ISP starts coming after me for more money, above and beyond my normal bill?
Maybe I missed something.
Yeah, better get rid of those books laying around too... we all know they're just text on paper.