but I would love to see trials change so you're actually judged by your peers instead of members of the public, so for example doctors by doctors, network admin by other network admin, and such. That way you can get a bunch of people who know how far this person has stepped out of line.
Prisoners by prisoners, rapists by rapists, hired guns by hired guns...
All ISPs in Belgium have a monthly data limit. The only cable ISP, Telenet, offers a 10 Gb limit per month. You can consult a webpage which shows how much you downloaded already, and even see last months statistics.
At night, they use "nightsurfing". Basically, you can download twice as much and it just counts as normal traffic. So someone surfing only at night could download 20Gb per month.
You can order extra Gigabytes, at 1 euro per extra Gigabyte, but you can only order a "reasonable" amount extra each month.
And yes, big downloaders each either download 9.99 Gb/month, or start downloading a lot the day before the meter resets (back to 0). They then introduced a "dynamic" meter.. not resetting once a month, but always counting your last 30 days. Each day, the day 30 days ago fell off, and a new blank day was introduced. After much complaints from the customers, they brought back the static meter, resetting back to 0, but each customer had his own reset day (instead of all customers resetting on the end of the month) thus dividing the 'last day'-traffic across the month.
And yeah, this is an annoying system and lots of people complain. But it's been improved over the years, and it is pretty decent now... if you can settle with about 20 gigs a month.
I always compared MUDs to books, and MMORPGs and stuff to movies. Book leave things to your imagination. A dragon there is a *huge* fearsome creature.. You're bent over the keyboard, reading the text, going north and back south immediately to have a quick glimpse.. your imagination does it for you.
I can't help but feel not bound to the MMORPG characters.. it's just a few pixels on a screen.. it's like pacman for me. It's not me, and if it died, *I* didn't die. My remote control midieval guy did.
And just as when you read a book and then see a movie and are dissapointed because you imagined it all differentely, I am dissapointed at the graphical stuff. Maybe I should try a massive first person online roleplaying game or so. Any suggestions?
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but I would love to see trials change so you're actually judged by your peers instead of members of the public, so for example doctors by doctors, network admin by other network admin, and such. That way you can get a bunch of people who know how far this person has stepped out of line.
Prisoners by prisoners, rapists by rapists, hired guns by hired guns...
As an example, someone could be downloading a copyrighted song for backup purposes
But who has uploaded that copyrighted song for his own backup purposes?
Nice for people who don't know where their keys are.. every time they check, they type.
And try looking at CTRL-ALT and DEL at the same time :)
All ISPs in Belgium have a monthly data limit. The only cable ISP, Telenet, offers a 10 Gb limit per month. You can consult a webpage which shows how much you downloaded already, and even see last months statistics.
At night, they use "nightsurfing". Basically, you can download twice as much and it just counts as normal traffic. So someone surfing only at night could download 20Gb per month.
You can order extra Gigabytes, at 1 euro per extra Gigabyte, but you can only order a "reasonable" amount extra each month.
And yes, big downloaders each either download 9.99 Gb/month, or start downloading a lot the day before the meter resets (back to 0). They then introduced a "dynamic" meter.. not resetting once a month, but always counting your last 30 days. Each day, the day 30 days ago fell off, and a new blank day was introduced. After much complaints from the customers, they brought back the static meter, resetting back to 0, but each customer had his own reset day (instead of all customers resetting on the end of the month) thus dividing the 'last day'-traffic across the month.
And yeah, this is an annoying system and lots of people complain. But it's been improved over the years, and it is pretty decent now... if you can settle with about 20 gigs a month.
Better not lean against these babies then I guess...
I always compared MUDs to books, and MMORPGs and stuff to movies. Book leave things to your imagination. A dragon there is a *huge* fearsome creature.. You're bent over the keyboard, reading the text, going north and back south immediately to have a quick glimpse.. your imagination does it for you.
I can't help but feel not bound to the MMORPG characters.. it's just a few pixels on a screen.. it's like pacman for me. It's not me, and if it died, *I* didn't die. My remote control midieval guy did.
And just as when you read a book and then see a movie and are dissapointed because you imagined it all differentely, I am dissapointed at the graphical stuff. Maybe I should try a massive first person online roleplaying game or so. Any suggestions?
Hmmm.. so I send some fake spam mails in name of a concurrent company and they get DDoSsed by antispam people? Woot! Black Cat Agency, away!