ISPs buy a bunch of bandwidth, then sell even more, assuming that consumers won't saturate their lines. Their advertising is unclear, but so what? They could try to increase the efficiency in other ways.
I'm thinking of a way to make bandwidth to cost more during peak times to even out the load. It could be as simple as having different prices for different hours. (Hopefully it would be possible to do this less confusingly than celluar carriers do.) Do any ISPs do anything like that?
If there were intermissions, it would have been financially feasible to make the movies longer. First, during intermissions, people buy snacks, which is how theaters could make most of their money. Second, we'd all get a chance to go to the bathroom. Also, some people might, for scheduling reasons, see half one day and the rest later (Or you could sell seperate tickets). And if the movies had been truer to the six books (three volumes of two books each), there would have been natural boundaries.
This reminds me of a tickling machine I saw a while ago in PopSci. You can't see from the article, but the tickler-thingy is suspended and controlled by four wires. First it maps out your back, then it starts tickling.
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I'm thinking of a way to make bandwidth to cost more during peak times to even out the load. It could be as simple as having different prices for different hours. (Hopefully it would be possible to do this less confusingly than celluar carriers do.) Do any ISPs do anything like that?
If there were intermissions, it would have been financially feasible to make the movies longer. First, during intermissions, people buy snacks, which is how theaters could make most of their money. Second, we'd all get a chance to go to the bathroom. Also, some people might, for scheduling reasons, see half one day and the rest later (Or you could sell seperate tickets). And if the movies had been truer to the six books (three volumes of two books each), there would have been natural boundaries.
Any others?