Agreed. My house has already been photographed and published on the web via the Cook County, Illinois Assessor's website. If I cared, I already missed my chance to be outraged.
I'm all for it. Commercial breaks are irritating, and seriously disrupt the mental state that the show is trying to induce in me. I'd rather ignore the computer-generated label on Doogie Houser's cereal box than I would sit through a cereal commercial.
Until the 600th close-up of Doogie's cereal box. The purpose of ads is to 'disrupt your mental state' and if superimposing them doesn't grab your attention, advetisers will try something that will.
Nice info. To expand on this a bit, the ANSI versions of the Win32 file functions limit to MAX_PATH (which is 260). The UNICODE versions limit to 32k, but to create paths that long you need to specify the path in UNC format (basically prepend local paths with "\\?\"). IIRC, if you call the UNICODE versions without that prefix, the MAX_PATH limit is still in effect. Some malware takes advantage of these differences to create paths that cmd.exe and explorer.exe cannot transverse, let alone delete.
On an unrelated (but hopefully interesting) note, NTFS also has support for multiple streams. cmd.exe (and explorer.exe I think) only show details for the primary stream. This means you can add "hidden" data to a file. The second stream could be 1000 bytes, but when you dir it, the file size shows up as 0 bytes. I think streams have been a standard feature on Macs for a while, right? They were used to store the GUI resources.
OK, I won't. The comment is not about the causes of rising gas prices and whether the causes are simple or complex. It is only about consumer's reaction to such increases (how ever they come about). Moderate increases fall under the radar of most consumers. People don't get upset until the prices increase quickly or cross an imaginary comfort level.
I think this is a similar process as to the price of a lot of things: automated tolls, automated parking meters, cost of a coke in a vending machine, etc.
Also, why would a city want to risk losing that much revenue from all those tickets?
Automated, electronic payment makes it easier to raise prices by minimizing consumer's resistance; in much the same way that gas prices can increase a little bit at a time. As long as the increase isn't too quick or doesn't cross a psychological line (e.g. $3 per gallon), consumers won't care too much. This should be a concern for automatic toll-booth systems (iPass, EZPass, etc.) as well.
Consider the pros and cons -- Cons: a) decreased revenue from fines and tickets, b) additional overhead to operate the electronic system (partly passed on to the consumer via the convience fee). Pros: a) decreased overhead of parking cops and the ticket infrastructure, b) Opportunity to raise prices perioidically with little consumer awareness.
Since their is a net reduction in overhead, presumably there is a sweet-spot where consumers and providers can both get more for their money. The trick is keeping the providers in-check with regard to raising prices.
To be more precise: Arthur Anderson and Anderson Consulting became peer partnerships in 1989. In 1998, Anderson Consulting sued Arthur Anderson for breach of contract, and in 2000 Anderson Consulting was broken off and renamed Accenture. But you're right, it had nothing to do with Enron. Anderson Consulting had long felt like they were being dragged down by the accounting half.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
Actually they did try this (or maybe it was RIAA). Does anyone remember the Interational Lyrics Server -- the IMDB of lyrics? But before IMDB, before Google, and even before the OLGA threat. They got threatening letters so they moved the servers out of the country. Then the local police worked with the FBI to raid the remote servers and grab them. In the end, the ILS capitulated and offered their service up under the direction of the copyright holders. Unfortunately, the new site sucked and wasn't worth it. The new site would only flash a verse at a time, you couldn't set the flash speed, move forward or back, and of course you couldn't cut-and-paste.
The example that Shreak gave is the exact issue SIP has with NAT. If endpoint A signals the address/port that it is listening on, then that address/port needs to be reachable from endpoint B. NAT typically decouples the internal and external addresses/ports and breaks the reachability. Work-arounds for SIP include: a) making the SIP app aware that it sits behind a NAT and using the external address/port, b) making the NAT SIP-aware so that it can do packet inspection and replace the internal address/port with an external address/port.
If you constrain yourself to sessions that are always initiated from behind the NAT, then you are probably OK. But whenever a protocol signals its address/port (without initiating a packet over that same address/port), then you end up with NAT troubles.
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Agreed. My house has already been photographed and published on the web via the Cook County, Illinois Assessor's website. If I cared, I already missed my chance to be outraged.
I'm all for it. Commercial breaks are irritating, and seriously disrupt the mental state that the show is trying to induce in me. I'd rather ignore the computer-generated label on Doogie Houser's cereal box than I would sit through a cereal commercial.
Until the 600th close-up of Doogie's cereal box. The purpose of ads is to 'disrupt your mental state' and if superimposing them doesn't grab your attention, advetisers will try something that will.
Here it is on sys internals: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Ctrl2Cap.htm l
On an unrelated (but hopefully interesting) note, NTFS also has support for multiple streams. cmd.exe (and explorer.exe I think) only show details for the primary stream. This means you can add "hidden" data to a file. The second stream could be 1000 bytes, but when you dir it, the file size shows up as 0 bytes. I think streams have been a standard feature on Macs for a while, right? They were used to store the GUI resources.
OK, I won't. The comment is not about the causes of rising gas prices and whether the causes are simple or complex. It is only about consumer's reaction to such increases (how ever they come about). Moderate increases fall under the radar of most consumers. People don't get upset until the prices increase quickly or cross an imaginary comfort level. I think this is a similar process as to the price of a lot of things: automated tolls, automated parking meters, cost of a coke in a vending machine, etc.
Also, why would a city want to risk losing that much revenue from all those tickets?
Automated, electronic payment makes it easier to raise prices by minimizing consumer's resistance; in much the same way that gas prices can increase a little bit at a time. As long as the increase isn't too quick or doesn't cross a psychological line (e.g. $3 per gallon), consumers won't care too much. This should be a concern for automatic toll-booth systems (iPass, EZPass, etc.) as well.
Consider the pros and cons -- Cons: a) decreased revenue from fines and tickets, b) additional overhead to operate the electronic system (partly passed on to the consumer via the convience fee). Pros: a) decreased overhead of parking cops and the ticket infrastructure, b) Opportunity to raise prices perioidically with little consumer awareness.
Since their is a net reduction in overhead, presumably there is a sweet-spot where consumers and providers can both get more for their money. The trick is keeping the providers in-check with regard to raising prices.
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To be more precise: Arthur Anderson and Anderson Consulting became peer partnerships in 1989. In 1998, Anderson Consulting sued Arthur Anderson for breach of contract, and in 2000 Anderson Consulting was broken off and renamed Accenture. But you're right, it had nothing to do with Enron. Anderson Consulting had long felt like they were being dragged down by the accounting half. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
Actually they did try this (or maybe it was RIAA). Does anyone remember the Interational Lyrics Server -- the IMDB of lyrics? But before IMDB, before Google, and even before the OLGA threat. They got threatening letters so they moved the servers out of the country. Then the local police worked with the FBI to raid the remote servers and grab them. In the end, the ILS capitulated and offered their service up under the direction of the copyright holders. Unfortunately, the new site sucked and wasn't worth it. The new site would only flash a verse at a time, you couldn't set the flash speed, move forward or back, and of course you couldn't cut-and-paste.
If you constrain yourself to sessions that are always initiated from behind the NAT, then you are probably OK. But whenever a protocol signals its address/port (without initiating a packet over that same address/port), then you end up with NAT troubles.