On 5/30/2012 5:05 PM, Charles Carroll wrote:
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> Amen to what David said.
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> That is why I suggested a micro-payment rather than straight Ala Carte
> model.
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> Why someone who watches 16 hours a day should pay the same as someone
> who watches 16 hours a week makes no sense.
>
[snip]
Of course the same could be said of internet usage as well, but I'd sure
hate like hell to go to a metered model where I'd never know from one
month to the next what I'd be paying.
And your analogy of your mother watching standard def tv and how she
shouldn't have to pay the same rate as those who watch hi-def tv would
work just as nicely on internet usage -- people who go only to
text-based web-sites shouldn't have to pay the same as those who visit
web-sites with large graphics and music playing.
And come to think of it, people who only drive 10 miles a week shouldn't
have to pay the same auto insurance rates as someone who drives 1000
miles a week.
There's much in modern life that could stand to go to the "actual usage"
billing model vs. the "package" billing model, but the nightmare of
tracking everybody's everything to be sure they're not using one iota
