Actually, it's popular for people to live in giant mansions in Texas, because land (and, thereby housing) is cheap. I know *I* was damn happy to find out houses are cheap here ($180k for 3500sq ft some places).
Right...I'm not arguing that what *behavior* is acceptable is immutable and definable in unchanging terms. Behavior is different from usage, though.
100 years ago, 100 bits per second was the same as it is today (although, the measurement wouldn't have meant much back then...arguments about early 20th century telegraphs aside).
If you had terms saying "You can't download anything obscene", you have legal questions when enforcement of those terms happens. There is no ambiguity with bandwidth limits...they can be clearly defined with no need for legal interpretation or judgement. Society's opinion has no bearing on data transfer rates.
The things that you mentioned are discretionary (except the DUI law) because there's no empirical way to measure them (well, maybe "square centimeters of exposed skin" or "number of public blowjobs per day", but those are silly).
What we're talking about isn't behavior, it's usage, and usage is a thing that's easily measured, analyzed, graphed, etc. If it wasn't, the customer mentioned would never have gotten a warning, because his ISP wouldn't have been able to tell he was using "100x the national average" bandwidth.
If the ISP wants to write some terms saying "If you use more than Xbps average bandwidth (taken as an average over Y hours), we will limit your bandwidth/cut you off/charge you more money/send guido over to remove a digit of our choice", fine, but they damn well better spell out what "X" and "Y" are if they wan't me to consider the terms seriously.
So, "unless I'm mistaken" covers the freezing point, and I'm right about the boiling point.
Oh, and *my* mommy can beat up *your* (AC) mommy! So there! (tongue sticking out, etc.)
And to the other ACpedants bitching about the modding, log in and quit posting AC, then you can have your OWN mod points to rectify situations like this...
Notice how it also doesn't define in any way, shape, or form, what exactly constitutes excessive use, or how the customer is supposed to be able to tell if he or she is improperly restricting, inhibiting, or degrading other users' use of the service. If they're not gonna give their customers a way to tell if they comply with this nebulous restriction, why would they have any legal standing to terminate anyone's service, even with those terms accepted?
Yes, let's cram all of the tools and images into one single toplevel window so that everything is restricted to one of my monitors instead of being able to spread out across all 3.
Got a couple spare monitors and video cards for me? How about advocating the beauty of choice? Let me decide that having all of the tools, images, and menus in a single toplevel works well on my poor, measly, single monitor, and you can have stuff strewn across all three of yours.
Celsius is based on wanter. 0 for freezing, and 100 for boiling. Unlike F, which is loosely based on the body temperature of a feverish woman.
Well, unless I'm mistaken, water has different boiling and freezing points at different pressures..."less arbitrary" is probably not as good a description as "more consistent on earth at sea level".
Kelvin, being based on Celsius, (which is arbitrary because it's boundaries are defined by the reaction of a substance that is only reliable under specific conditions...pressure of about 1 atmosphere) is arbitrary as well make 1,000,000 degrees kelvin equal to the temperature of the hottest observable radiating body in the known universe (or something equally sensible), and I'll agree that it's not arbitrary...for a while;)
Well, some of us (me, for instance) listen to fox news and NPR...my own personal take on fair and balanced...and see that the party line is alive and well on both major sides of the political fence. That's part of the reason I'll never be a democrat or a republican (or a libertarian, or any other label you want to stick on a like-minded group of people). The news has information in it. Look for it, compare notes, and make up your own mind what's news.
Well, I've been able to buy beer for more than a decade, and Super Mario Sunshine is turning out to be a game I enjoy playing quite a bit. A bit of a pain in the ass, but then, you have to like the mega-adventure-puzzle that those types of titles (SM Sunshine, DK-64, etc.) represent. If "mature titles" means loads and loads of first-person shooters, I'll take the immature stuff, thanks. I am only amused by seeing "You fragged Xero" a few dozen times, after that, it's more satisfying to buy a few BB guns and pairs of goggles.
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It's there for a reason.
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err...:
30 GOTO 20
damn preview button doesn't work, obviously.
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nope. Disables the "RUN STOP" key. Try this on 50 or so CBMs in a computer lab (circa 1984-85):
10 POKE 144,88
20 PRINT CHR(RND(255)+1)
GOTO 20
The nice thing is that the program is really quick to type...
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If that had been a C-64, VIC-20, PET, or CBM, I'd have added the following at the beginning:
5 POKE 144,88
Bonus points for anybody who knows why my intro to BASIC teacher hated that command...
That's better...although I'd say talking about version 3.x stuff is moot, since it's not the current production version (hell, I've been screwing around with 4.1 for 6 months). Not having stored procedures is my biggest issue with it, but I'm patiently awaiting their arrival in 5.0.
If that had been your first post, you'd have gotten some mod points.
And that's because...of nothing in particular? At least give a reason *why* you have an opinion, if you're gonna do that. Is it some vague feeling of fear? What's the reason?
All right...I'll live up to being a big ol' geek. If susan was a robot (of the positronic brain variety), She'd have been "killed" in the short story involving Nestor (one robot hiding among his bretheren...Susan and he ended up bathed in radiation at the end, which killed the 'bot, but left her alive).
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A new one? What part of PA is Scranton in, exactly?
Actually, it's popular for people to live in giant mansions in Texas, because land (and, thereby housing) is cheap. I know *I* was damn happy to find out houses are cheap here ($180k for 3500sq ft some places).
100 years ago, 100 bits per second was the same as it is today (although, the measurement wouldn't have meant much back then...arguments about early 20th century telegraphs aside).
If you had terms saying "You can't download anything obscene", you have legal questions when enforcement of those terms happens. There is no ambiguity with bandwidth limits...they can be clearly defined with no need for legal interpretation or judgement. Society's opinion has no bearing on data transfer rates.
What we're talking about isn't behavior, it's usage, and usage is a thing that's easily measured, analyzed, graphed, etc. If it wasn't, the customer mentioned would never have gotten a warning, because his ISP wouldn't have been able to tell he was using "100x the national average" bandwidth.
If the ISP wants to write some terms saying "If you use more than Xbps average bandwidth (taken as an average over Y hours), we will limit your bandwidth/cut you off/charge you more money/send guido over to remove a digit of our choice", fine, but they damn well better spell out what "X" and "Y" are if they wan't me to consider the terms seriously.
Oh, and *my* mommy can beat up *your* (AC) mommy! So there! (tongue sticking out, etc.)
And to the other ACpedants bitching about the modding, log in and quit posting AC, then you can have your OWN mod points to rectify situations like this...
Notice how it also doesn't define in any way, shape, or form, what exactly constitutes excessive use, or how the customer is supposed to be able to tell if he or she is improperly restricting, inhibiting, or degrading other users' use of the service. If they're not gonna give their customers a way to tell if they comply with this nebulous restriction, why would they have any legal standing to terminate anyone's service, even with those terms accepted?
Got a couple spare monitors and video cards for me? How about advocating the beauty of choice? Let me decide that having all of the tools, images, and menus in a single toplevel works well on my poor, measly, single monitor, and you can have stuff strewn across all three of yours.
12in = 1ft
3ft = 1 yd
1760yd = 1 mi
63360in = 1 mi
Sometimes I long for the good old days of the dram and the cubit...
Well, unless I'm mistaken, water has different boiling and freezing points at different pressures..."less arbitrary" is probably not as good a description as "more consistent on earth at sea level".
Kelvin, being based on Celsius, (which is arbitrary because it's boundaries are defined by the reaction of a substance that is only reliable under specific conditions...pressure of about 1 atmosphere) is arbitrary as well make 1,000,000 degrees kelvin equal to the temperature of the hottest observable radiating body in the known universe (or something equally sensible), and I'll agree that it's not arbitrary...for a while ;)
Aaaaaand...she's slashdotted. Well, "exceeded bandwidth usage" anyway.
Isn't it called "wall" in *NIX?
Scroll up, and be enlightened. There's news aside from Fox's that's unfair, as well.
Well, some of us (me, for instance) listen to fox news and NPR...my own personal take on fair and balanced...and see that the party line is alive and well on both major sides of the political fence. That's part of the reason I'll never be a democrat or a republican (or a libertarian, or any other label you want to stick on a like-minded group of people). The news has information in it. Look for it, compare notes, and make up your own mind what's news.
Fair is fair ;)
Except that the original poster mentioned something or other about "free"...pretty sure MS hasn't started giving away MS SQL Server for free yet.
Well, I've been able to buy beer for more than a decade, and Super Mario Sunshine is turning out to be a game I enjoy playing quite a bit. A bit of a pain in the ass, but then, you have to like the mega-adventure-puzzle that those types of titles (SM Sunshine, DK-64, etc.) represent. If "mature titles" means loads and loads of first-person shooters, I'll take the immature stuff, thanks. I am only amused by seeing "You fragged Xero" a few dozen times, after that, it's more satisfying to buy a few BB guns and pairs of goggles.
It's there for a reason.
30 GOTO 20
damn preview button doesn't work, obviously.
10 POKE 144,88
20 PRINT CHR(RND(255)+1)
GOTO 20
The nice thing is that the program is really quick to type...
5 POKE 144,88
Bonus points for anybody who knows why my intro to BASIC teacher hated that command...
If that had been your first post, you'd have gotten some mod points.
And that's because...of nothing in particular? At least give a reason *why* you have an opinion, if you're gonna do that. Is it some vague feeling of fear? What's the reason?
Ergo: Susan Calvin was NOT a robot.
Maybe he did, but it looks better without it...makes me think you're addressing somebody called 'people'.
Or, I could fire up the paper-tape reader and show them how long mine is...