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From: Andy B. <and...@ea...> - 2003-01-17 01:44:35
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Hello Fred, FM> Here in Canada, many high-speed service providers > are putting a monthly quota on the number of bits > you can download before they charge you extra. They > refer to the quota as "bandwidth" (bits per month). That would bug the heck out of me. If I'm paying for (say) a 256 kilobits/sec pipe I expect to be able to drag something approaching 256 kilobits/second through it as long as the pipe holds up (without any surcharge). It could be that they're concerned about allocating bandwidth fairly, preventing a few hogs from putting up the cost for everyone. I can think of (subjectively) nicer ways of doing that though, and I can't help wondering if they're just using bandwidth quotas to artificially lower their monthly service charge. FM> One of the features that really chew up quota is the > blinking cursor that many applications have. I tend to use Unix and the X window system, which doesn't blink its cursor. I think Michael made a good case for your proposed 'screen-saver' option to be optional. I'm all in favour of saving bandwidth though. I would like to see support added for monochrome, 4 greyscale and 16 grey -scale modes. Sadly I don't yet know enough about X or VNC to be able to write that support. FM> P.S. It got below -20C last night (forgot how much > below). The wind chill probably made it close to -30C. > Cool, eh? Good time to stay at home and use VNC. The coldest it's been here (near Chicago, IL, USA) lately was -14C. Plenty cold enough to warrant widespread VNC deployment! ;-) Regards, - Andy Ball. |