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Assume v. Presume

af123 said:
Wow - what a lot of data usage BT are offering with their broadband these days...

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And unlimited usage with Infinity. I can't even be bothered to work out what the usage would be with 3 TVs tuned in 24/7 to the three HD IP channels.

Posted sitting down waiting for Amazon Vine to start at 8pm. Please excuse the brevity.
 
"10Gb usage. UK residential customers only. Terms apply"
I suppose this skirmish is about the "b" instead of a "B", but 10Gb/B usage over how long? Why no full stop after the "apply"??

I can't help thinking post 640 onwards belong in the Broadband Disaster topic.
 
I once had an interesting debate with an ISP where the contract permitted my customer to burst up to 2MB/s on a circuit. They meant Megabits of course but did refund the excess charges (and amend the contract!) eventually.


Posted on the move; please excuse any brevity.
 
If all that refers to a car forum - cold, very cold. Good user name though, I wish I had thought of that.
 
'Works' could be referring to the result of cooking a dish with thyme.
Fresh thyme would circumvent the drying and storage that is usually necessary for dried thyme. :D
I have tried to use old 'fresh' thyme and the result was that it was like picking the bones out. The stems of old theme do not soften enough with cooking.

BTW Erk. Why has soften got a 't'?
 
I was only thinking that if dried thyme works just as well, fresh thyme can't be described as "best". Maybe it should have been "works almost as well".

Amazing what crap comes out of the mouths of people who don't listen to what they're saying and self-criticise (in this case Lorraine Pascale).
 
It may be "best" overall, e.g ecologically, but when concentrating on ingrediants it may serve just as well.
 
In the context, it was only a question of how well it functions in the recipe. TV chefs say this kind of thing all the time: "use fresh pobblegrammates if you can get them, but if not the tinned ones are readily available from supermarkets and just as good". Twits.
 
What's wrong with that? If one quarter of the plaque is removed 'normally' (say 0.1 gram) and next time you remove twice as much ( say 0.2 gram), then surely you have removed 100% more. Or am I, as usual, totally missing the point here?
 
You would indeed. But where is the baseline? And there is the magic get-out clause "up to", meaning that as long as one person achieves the 100% improvement (possibly from a very low baseline), they are not in trouble with the advertising standards people.

"Sale - Up to 75% off" - as long as there is just one item in the shop with a 75% mark-down, the other sale items can be all 10% off.

The dodgy advert is question was for an electric toothbrush - they claim it is the changes of direction of the bristle tips that deal with the plaque, so the more changes the better. A manual toothbrush (they say) achieves 600 per minute, but their electric/sonic/whatever does 48,000. Great if you want to wear your teeth out.
 
Ah, right, I see. It was the old 'up to' that you were meaning. Shedloads of advertisers use that old chestnut, and anyone who falls for it these days...... :frantic:
 
Yes, it would be nice to see an honest "at least" advert, but it wasn't only that - it was also a question of the unstated baseline.
 
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