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The world outside of the USA that functions perfectly fine with CCS2 adapters.

The farebox recovery ratio in many western nations are not enough to ever fully fund public transport. In many cases, the systems to collect fares end up costing hundreds of millions of dollars. These costs are never made back. It makes sense to make it free.

Fun fact: z/OS is now emulated on Red Hat Linux nowadays for "new" deployments.

Communications of the ACM.

> Such small software shops like Microsoft unfortunately cannot afford to hire designers to do multiple sets of icons.

I had to chuckle. I remember back in the Windows 3.11 days, there used be a separate monochrome set of icons for all Windows (and Microsoft) programs.

> An engineering company should have engineers as managers from the bottom level all the way up to the CEO.

Sun Microsystems had this. Didn't work too well for them.

It's not at all as simple as this.

I believe Bryant and O'Hallaron wrote a text book just for this course. You can always "optimize" it by reverse engineering the benchmark app and providing the correctly aligned blocks to the bench-marking application. It'll beat the standard malloc calls by several magnitudes if you were to do that.

This is one of the reasons why people write custom allocators - to suit a specific purpose where the allocation pattern is known well in advance.

Bluetooth still isn't perfect for certain use cases. That's why Apple ended up augmenting it for audio.

Apple was an early adopter of the standard. I remember when being amazed at being able to use a Bluetooth keyboard in the EFI!