Some third-party publisher, who have no agreement with the original author, uploaded the books to Apple for sale. Apple obliged, found the content to be reasonably tasteful, but didn't check if the third-party holds the copyright. The original author doesn't get a penny from the transaction. What makes it complicated is that Apple makes a percentage of the profit. If the original author did not agree to the profit structure, then Apple becomes an accomplice.
My two minute judgment is that (after completing a motion to discover number of copies sold and transactions made) Apple should reverse any credit deposits to the third-party, and pay for the irreversible parts out of their pocket. Apple should forfeit their share of the proceeds from selling the unlicensed books. Apple will also pay for a small percentage for statutory damage. All these should go to the original author. Then the author has a right to choose whether they want to enter an agreement with Apple to continue selling their books, even negotiate a favorable rate if they want to.
Meanwhile, Apple will be ordered to conduct a copyright check before selling. Apple might even start charging a fee to the publisher. This final point might change digital publishing landscape yet again.
Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many."
And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area. A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. The demons begged Jesus, "Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them." He gave them permission, and the evil spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.
So you are saying the Anonymous should drown like the pigs?
The university can easily spin around bad press by saying they're creating an ivory tower for the students to learn effectively; after all they're a learning institution. And what good it is if you destroy the university's reputation while you're still in it? Doesn't the worth of your degree depend on it?
But with the help of student union or professor support, I think it's realistic to ask the IT department to put on each blocked page a "request for approval" button, which the IT department must honor if the website does not violate acceptable use policy. Even if the acceptable use policy contains clause such as "under the discretion of ____" and if the IT department is constantly ignoring the request, then you can make a case to the Dean or some higher up that the IT department is not doing their job, and you need legitimate access to a site. If they Dean doesn't respond, then you could make a case to the Board of Trustees, and eventually to the press, that the university is in fact not creating an ivory tower for learning, but a prison of knowledge starvation.
In the best case scenario, hopefully they will eventually give up on the request for approval button and just plainly open access to everything.
Genetic Modification is useless unless you also use a herbicide manufactured by Monsanto called Round Up. The modification makes the seed resistant to Round Up, so you can apply Round Up to kill the non-resistant weeds without killing your crop, thereby increasing the yield. Round Up is a synthetic chemical, so your crop would not be organic if you use it.
iPads are a subclass of computers with smaller form factor, different input device (touch screen as opposed to keyboard and mouse), and limited computing power. Computers are wonderful things, but the only limiting factor is the humans not using it to its full potential. Computers, after all, is a passive tool, and computers are only as smart as the least common denominator of the programmer and the user. Problem exists between keyboard and chair.
It is year 2038. Scientists invents local geospatial time that tracks diurnal patterns of human activity by their geographic location. The new time keeping method solves various inconveniences and confusion using UTC...
I would appreciate that you keep quiet if you don't have anything constructive to offer. Your smart ass attitude of "let me think that straight for you" is what makes Slashdot such a painful place to hang out. If you are knowledgeable, you could still make educated assumptions to these supposedly key details and provide helpful answer. You inability to do so should not be blamed on the person asking the question. Besides, I think most of the detail you ask for are irrelevant.
What is the hotel using now and why does it want to replace it?
Why are you asking this? There is no reason you should need to know why they want to replace something.
What is a "proprietary encasement," and who put the APs there? Are you expected to put new APs in the same encasements? What will happen to the old APs?
You say the hotel doesn't want to lay any new cable. That might just be too bad, but it also seems to imply that there is already some cable somewhere. Why not use the existing cable? You say the APs "seem to be connected by telephone wire," but you don't sound sure. Perhaps it's just long strings with tin cans at each end? Is there any way to find out?
I'm almost certain he means that the hotel uses leased lines (which is dedicate circuit telephone wire, not circuit switched like your typical telephone) and some sort of modem to connect the APs. There is ethernet over phone line and ethernet over coax cable adapters that he can use to avoid laying new ethernet wires. As a commentor, it is your job to mention these options, not to ask him back and blame him for not providing you with the detail.
If the existing network is as strange and nonstandard as you make it sound, why is that? Was there something unique to the property that made that the best solution, and is it smart for you to ignore that?
That is a ridiculous question from you. A building wiring is often a hack job just like how much of the programs are spaghetti code. Electricians who are good at wiring is hard to find. All you can do is to work with the mess and make it better.
Before you begin, have you verified that the hotel's contract with Comcast actually allows it to offer Internet access to the public?
He mentioned that it is 100Mbits, which is Business class Ethernet that typically requires you to work with a Comcast business representative and negotiate some form of agreement. Unless the hotel owner is falsifying his intent, I'm pretty sure the comcast representative would have brought up the use case of providing wifi to hotel customers. Besides, this is between the hotel owner and comcast. This is none of your business, really.
You say the hotel wants to provide the network for free, so there's no need for any billing management system. Are you then comfortable with the idea that there will be no logging of the network at all, and no record of who might have used it and when? Is BitTorrent OK? How about botnets?
Good that you brought it up, but why can't you answer your own questions?
If the patrons aren't expected to pay for the network, can they expect it to exist at all? That is, do you have a plan to test and verify that every room will have equal access to the network, and that a guest who came last summer won't return this summer and find out that the hotel doesn't seem to have WiFi anymore (when in fact it's just their new room)?
I'm sure they will take care of it. That's out of the scope of the original question.
This is ridiculous. 802.11a/b/g/n uses unlicensed spectrum. And as long as his equipment is FCC compliant, he should not have to worry about this.
Does your task include just replacing the network or does it also include managing the network, making repairs, etc.? How much time do you plan to devote to that?
That's his business, not yours. If you offer him an option, it is up to him to ask how much maintenance effort is required of him or the hotel owner afterwards. You have not offered any options yet, so these questions cannot be asked.
All is well, as long as the result of the research belongs to public domain. It still may be patentable, but the patent should be compulsorily licensable royalty free to the public.
Why, are you incapable of making fun of the left wing television network? I came to Slashdot for a laugh watching pot calling kettle, and manure calling turd, not for an intellectual conversation.
although it is currently free to register with App World, in the future there will be a $200 USD charge.... You, on the other hand, have decided that for $200, a developer should only get to publish 10 apps, and it will cost $200 for every additional 10 apps.... After getting all my personal information in, and being thoroughly disgusted with your ignorant pricing scheme, I’m now ready to start the actual process of developing.
Their pricing scheme is not ignorant, but certainly arrogant. On one hand, RIM knows that popularity is a chicken and egg problem. If they don't have apps, they won't have users, and if there are no users, there will be no apps. They want some apps to show up at the beginning to seed users, but later on they want more apps to be paid. I don't know if the pricing scheme will achieve what they want. According to Distimo last year, Blackberry had a paid/free app ratio on par with Apple iOS, but has the most expensive average paid app price.
Sarcasm aside, as it stands, the Playbook SDK is complete crap.
One has to sympathize with RIM's internal software engineers if that is the same tool they have to work with to develop their own apps. This is not an indication that RIM wants to turn developers away, but an indication that their software development process is not very efficient. The complicated process is not only a turn-off for external developers, but also their internal ones. The question is, is this the best process they could come up with, or is it that good ideas or designs in the company have problem becoming realized?
In the high school I went to, my physics teacher made it perfectly clear that Newtonian physics is just an approximation, although Newtonian physics is only as far as we went. My brother and I went to the same school. I came to study computer science. My brother, on the other hand, developed interest in quantum mechanics in his later years in high school, and is now studying physics in a Ph.D. program.
On the other hand, when both my brother and I had to study number theory in college, we found ourselves having a difficult time to undo the brain damage caused by K-12 school math. I had to take a second stab to undo the brain damage caused by geometric axiomatic proofs because I had to learn formal proofs for reasoning about the soundness of a programming language type system. Both of these difficulties have more to do with putting too much faith on an oversimplified teaching, causing difficulty accepting new ideas later in life. If you want to know, I never took a computer class at school, and instead learned everything on my own since the 5th grade or so.
I know that you're trying to make a point that education inherently has to make omission in material taught in K-12 curricula, but there are two rules of thumbs. One is that you need to leave gaps between the oversimplification so that these gaps can be later filled in. Second is that the oversimplified knowledge you teach still has to have practical application. Now, tell me, how does the evolution theory as taught in your ideal school fulfill these two rules of thumbs? If anything, my opinion is that this new legislation puts education in the right course.
If you're a teacher (and I'm talking grade school or high school) you get shit on. You don't get paid shit and your 'customer' treats you like shit. What's worse is that you cannot refuse your customer and it's your duty to make sure no child is left behind.
This is really the reason why kids don't receive education. IMO part of the education is to teach discipline, but teachers now have no teeth nor incentive. This is the real problem.
The article is really a flamebait. It says, "Teachers who are unable or unwilling to teach the theory of evolution in biology might be one reason U.S. students are falling behind in science, according to new research." This is not at all where the issue is. I don't see how not teaching evolution will make students fall behind in science, when you have plenty of hard sciences like Chemistry and Physics that will have immediate and obvious application in technology innovation.
When it comes down to evolution, they need to separate origin of species from the package. When you invent new drug to save the world, or when you study genetic disease, you need to know natural selection and mutation. But neither origin of species nor speciation have any bearing whatsoever in science innovation. Don't bundle this controversial, useless knowledge to your science education, and blame the teachers for unwilling to teach it.
And again, it's the lack of respect and classroom discipline that makes the student fall behind. It's not the missing material.
First, Google would have to index IPv6 websites. They do not.
They seem to index some IPv6 sites. I Google searched for "site:ipv6.beijing2008.cn" which you can verify to be an IPv6 only site. The result seems very sparse though.
When "music with originality, creativity, and integrity featuring talented musicians using actual instruments without autotuning bad vocals" becomes available, that will just become pirated as well. If you don't like a song, why bother pirating it? Besides, there always has been "music with originality, creativity, and integrity...," only that they're not marketed with a massive budget, so you'll have to look harder for them.
You're correct, he is - and to some extent you are as well (overly generalizing). While Facebook seems all the rage, nothing at all prevents you from firing up your favorite HTML editor and making your own webpage, website or even a new Facebook competitor.
Well, suppose you're able to cope with dynamic IP address (say you use a DDNS service), your upload bandwidth is vastly smaller than your download bandwidth. At 3mbps down/768kbps up, you won't be able to transmit HD video to even just one visitor in real-time like YouTube does, even though you can watch YouTube in HD. You can certainly get away if all you are sharing are photos and HTML pages.
You can still set up your own email server as well as access it from a general purpose computing device running code that you've hand picked and even compiled (I suppose Gentoo is still around...).
You must be extremely lucky to have an ISP that doesn't block incoming and outgoing SMTP port 25. On the other hand, I don't think anyone is blocking the Wave protocol, so that might work.
Let me tell you a piece of history that you won't find on Wikipedia.
The reason why Mac OS (classic) use left to right parameter passing is because that's the Pascal calling convention, which was the dominant structural language at the time Apple first came out. In fact, Inside Macintosh uses Pascal to illustrate how to write code on Mac, so I wouldn't be surprised that most of the early Mac applications were written in Pascal.
I don't actually know why Win16 uses Pascal calling convention, but Win32 uses stdcall convention which passes arguments right to left, contrary to what you claimed.
Since you know BASIC, you may actually find it easier to learn assembly language next. Both of them are very similar actually. Then from the point of view of assembly language, try to familiar yourself with the C calling convention, which will help you understand what a C compiler does under the hood when it compiles a C program.
Another approach that is completely orthogonal to that is to start learning about how to define mathematical objects on paper. After you learn a few basic building blocks such as tuple and pattern matching, you can start defining data structure and write algorithms in math. Then you'd be delighted to find out that an algorithm written in mathematical notation can be easily transcribed to a functional language.
I'm only presenting this argument, take it or leave it:
Google Map indicates that in vast majority of the rural area (pick any state you want), post offices are 10 miles apart in Euclidean distance. However, roads are not straight. That means you easily have to drive for 5 miles from the post office to a postal address. And these roads are curvy and in the woods, so 20 mph is a reasonable speed limit. How fast do you expect trucks to drive anyway? You're not driving a Ferrari.
I'm not arguing literally that there shall be no other houses within 5 miles. It is your own nitpicking and/or misunderstanding of the example; that is not the point. The point is that mail delivery is a point to point problem. There is no guarantee that you and your closest neighbors down the same road will have mail the same day. Hence what I'm presenting here is the worst case analysis. I have no statistics regarding how the population density correlates to the volume of mail delivered. They may not even be correlated. I'm only trying to illustrate why universal service is not feasible; much thanks to your affirmation.
Now, would you please get off my lawn and get a life? I'm not interesting in your argument clinic since you fail to bring new insight.
You've apparently never lived in Vermont. But thanks for blaming your frustration on me, for the lack of universal postal service because you chose to live in a rural area.
Certainly the cost of delivery should reflect on the postage.
Let's say there is a house 5 miles away from the post office in its own
secluded neighborhood, and the road's speed limit is 20 mph. It takes 15
minutes to drive there, and 15 minutes to drive back, for a total of 30
minutes. At a pay
rate of $50k/yr, that's about $24 an hour. The total cost of that delivery,
assuming there is only one first class mail in the truck for that house, is
$12. The postage you pay right now for a first class mail is 44 cents.
To be profitable, USPS would have to save enough letters and packages for
this house and deliver a large batch. Someone in this household can choose to
pick up mail from the postoffice sooner, or will have to wait for a few days
for more mail to come. At the rate I receive mail, it would probably take a
month to accumulate that much mail.
The telecom industry knows this as the last mile problem. I see no exemption
for USPS.
By a very unfortunate twist of fate, I learned to program by myself on DOS using debug.exe when I was 10. Now I couldn't decide if I want my childhood back.
I tend to see buffer overruns as a separate class of bugs than the sort of things that type systems tend to prevent (treating this block of bytes as a floating point when it's an int)
Buffer overrun happens when you are supposed to treat a block of bytes as void, hence you're not supposed to dereference the pointer, but you try to use it as char or int or float.
You collect up a formula that describes the path that the trace took through the function (e.g. if the input is 'x' and it executed 'x=x+1' then 'if(x>0)' you'd get a formula like 'x_0+1 > 0'). You then negate the part of the formula corresponding to one of the conditions and give it to a theorem prover... The technique was originally developed at MS Research and at some point might replace the current engine in their Static Driver Verifier
How does linear constraint with no elementary recursion help verifying device driver code? How do I know if I'm programming hardware in an inconsistent state? How do I know if my program is having race condition with the hardware, say sending commands to the hardware when the hardware is not ready?
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His IP address is seen starting at page 55 of the document, 24.60.152.212, which is indeed a comcast address.
Some third-party publisher, who have no agreement with the original author, uploaded the books to Apple for sale. Apple obliged, found the content to be reasonably tasteful, but didn't check if the third-party holds the copyright. The original author doesn't get a penny from the transaction. What makes it complicated is that Apple makes a percentage of the profit. If the original author did not agree to the profit structure, then Apple becomes an accomplice.
My two minute judgment is that (after completing a motion to discover number of copies sold and transactions made) Apple should reverse any credit deposits to the third-party, and pay for the irreversible parts out of their pocket. Apple should forfeit their share of the proceeds from selling the unlicensed books. Apple will also pay for a small percentage for statutory damage. All these should go to the original author. Then the author has a right to choose whether they want to enter an agreement with Apple to continue selling their books, even negotiate a favorable rate if they want to.
Meanwhile, Apple will be ordered to conduct a copyright check before selling. Apple might even start charging a fee to the publisher. This final point might change digital publishing landscape yet again.
So you are saying the Anonymous should drown like the pigs?
The university can easily spin around bad press by saying they're creating an ivory tower for the students to learn effectively; after all they're a learning institution. And what good it is if you destroy the university's reputation while you're still in it? Doesn't the worth of your degree depend on it?
But with the help of student union or professor support, I think it's realistic to ask the IT department to put on each blocked page a "request for approval" button, which the IT department must honor if the website does not violate acceptable use policy. Even if the acceptable use policy contains clause such as "under the discretion of ____" and if the IT department is constantly ignoring the request, then you can make a case to the Dean or some higher up that the IT department is not doing their job, and you need legitimate access to a site. If they Dean doesn't respond, then you could make a case to the Board of Trustees, and eventually to the press, that the university is in fact not creating an ivory tower for learning, but a prison of knowledge starvation.
In the best case scenario, hopefully they will eventually give up on the request for approval button and just plainly open access to everything.
Genetic Modification is useless unless you also use a herbicide manufactured by Monsanto called Round Up. The modification makes the seed resistant to Round Up, so you can apply Round Up to kill the non-resistant weeds without killing your crop, thereby increasing the yield. Round Up is a synthetic chemical, so your crop would not be organic if you use it.
iPads are a subclass of computers with smaller form factor, different input device (touch screen as opposed to keyboard and mouse), and limited computing power. Computers are wonderful things, but the only limiting factor is the humans not using it to its full potential. Computers, after all, is a passive tool, and computers are only as smart as the least common denominator of the programmer and the user. Problem exists between keyboard and chair.
It is year 2038. Scientists invents local geospatial time that tracks diurnal patterns of human activity by their geographic location. The new time keeping method solves various inconveniences and confusion using UTC...
Why are you asking this? There is no reason you should need to know why they want to replace something.
I'm almost certain he means that the hotel uses leased lines (which is dedicate circuit telephone wire, not circuit switched like your typical telephone) and some sort of modem to connect the APs. There is ethernet over phone line and ethernet over coax cable adapters that he can use to avoid laying new ethernet wires. As a commentor, it is your job to mention these options, not to ask him back and blame him for not providing you with the detail.
That is a ridiculous question from you. A building wiring is often a hack job just like how much of the programs are spaghetti code. Electricians who are good at wiring is hard to find. All you can do is to work with the mess and make it better.
He mentioned that it is 100Mbits, which is Business class Ethernet that typically requires you to work with a Comcast business representative and negotiate some form of agreement. Unless the hotel owner is falsifying his intent, I'm pretty sure the comcast representative would have brought up the use case of providing wifi to hotel customers. Besides, this is between the hotel owner and comcast. This is none of your business, really.
Good that you brought it up, but why can't you answer your own questions?
I'm sure they will take care of it. That's out of the scope of the original question. This is ridiculous. 802.11a/b/g/n uses unlicensed spectrum. And as long as his equipment is FCC compliant, he should not have to worry about this.
That's his business, not yours. If you offer him an option, it is up to him to ask how much maintenance effort is required of him or the hotel owner afterwards. You have not offered any options yet, so these questions cannot be asked.
Since dandelions grow everywhere, it would be nice if they figure out how to make biofuel out of dandelions (and other weeds).
All is well, as long as the result of the research belongs to public domain. It still may be patentable, but the patent should be compulsorily licensable royalty free to the public.
Why, are you incapable of making fun of the left wing television network? I came to Slashdot for a laugh watching pot calling kettle, and manure calling turd, not for an intellectual conversation.
Their pricing scheme is not ignorant, but certainly arrogant. On one hand, RIM knows that popularity is a chicken and egg problem. If they don't have apps, they won't have users, and if there are no users, there will be no apps. They want some apps to show up at the beginning to seed users, but later on they want more apps to be paid. I don't know if the pricing scheme will achieve what they want. According to Distimo last year, Blackberry had a paid/free app ratio on par with Apple iOS, but has the most expensive average paid app price.
One has to sympathize with RIM's internal software engineers if that is the same tool they have to work with to develop their own apps. This is not an indication that RIM wants to turn developers away, but an indication that their software development process is not very efficient. The complicated process is not only a turn-off for external developers, but also their internal ones. The question is, is this the best process they could come up with, or is it that good ideas or designs in the company have problem becoming realized?
In the high school I went to, my physics teacher made it perfectly clear that Newtonian physics is just an approximation, although Newtonian physics is only as far as we went. My brother and I went to the same school. I came to study computer science. My brother, on the other hand, developed interest in quantum mechanics in his later years in high school, and is now studying physics in a Ph.D. program.
On the other hand, when both my brother and I had to study number theory in college, we found ourselves having a difficult time to undo the brain damage caused by K-12 school math. I had to take a second stab to undo the brain damage caused by geometric axiomatic proofs because I had to learn formal proofs for reasoning about the soundness of a programming language type system. Both of these difficulties have more to do with putting too much faith on an oversimplified teaching, causing difficulty accepting new ideas later in life. If you want to know, I never took a computer class at school, and instead learned everything on my own since the 5th grade or so.
I know that you're trying to make a point that education inherently has to make omission in material taught in K-12 curricula, but there are two rules of thumbs. One is that you need to leave gaps between the oversimplification so that these gaps can be later filled in. Second is that the oversimplified knowledge you teach still has to have practical application. Now, tell me, how does the evolution theory as taught in your ideal school fulfill these two rules of thumbs? If anything, my opinion is that this new legislation puts education in the right course.
This is really the reason why kids don't receive education. IMO part of the education is to teach discipline, but teachers now have no teeth nor incentive. This is the real problem.
The article is really a flamebait. It says, "Teachers who are unable or unwilling to teach the theory of evolution in biology might be one reason U.S. students are falling behind in science, according to new research." This is not at all where the issue is. I don't see how not teaching evolution will make students fall behind in science, when you have plenty of hard sciences like Chemistry and Physics that will have immediate and obvious application in technology innovation.
When it comes down to evolution, they need to separate origin of species from the package. When you invent new drug to save the world, or when you study genetic disease, you need to know natural selection and mutation. But neither origin of species nor speciation have any bearing whatsoever in science innovation. Don't bundle this controversial, useless knowledge to your science education, and blame the teachers for unwilling to teach it.
And again, it's the lack of respect and classroom discipline that makes the student fall behind. It's not the missing material.
They seem to index some IPv6 sites. I Google searched for "site:ipv6.beijing2008.cn" which you can verify to be an IPv6 only site. The result seems very sparse though.
When "music with originality, creativity, and integrity featuring talented musicians using actual instruments without autotuning bad vocals" becomes available, that will just become pirated as well. If you don't like a song, why bother pirating it? Besides, there always has been "music with originality, creativity, and integrity...," only that they're not marketed with a massive budget, so you'll have to look harder for them.
Well, suppose you're able to cope with dynamic IP address (say you use a DDNS service), your upload bandwidth is vastly smaller than your download bandwidth. At 3mbps down/768kbps up, you won't be able to transmit HD video to even just one visitor in real-time like YouTube does, even though you can watch YouTube in HD. You can certainly get away if all you are sharing are photos and HTML pages.
You must be extremely lucky to have an ISP that doesn't block incoming and outgoing SMTP port 25. On the other hand, I don't think anyone is blocking the Wave protocol, so that might work.
Let me tell you a piece of history that you won't find on Wikipedia.
The reason why Mac OS (classic) use left to right parameter passing is because that's the Pascal calling convention, which was the dominant structural language at the time Apple first came out. In fact, Inside Macintosh uses Pascal to illustrate how to write code on Mac, so I wouldn't be surprised that most of the early Mac applications were written in Pascal.
I don't actually know why Win16 uses Pascal calling convention, but Win32 uses stdcall convention which passes arguments right to left, contrary to what you claimed.
Anyone who bothers a cursory glance at Wikipedia would have found out about what you said, but that's really not the point of what I wanted to say.
After "the C calling convention" add "of the compiler and operating system of your choice" if that pleases you.
Since you know BASIC, you may actually find it easier to learn assembly language next. Both of them are very similar actually. Then from the point of view of assembly language, try to familiar yourself with the C calling convention, which will help you understand what a C compiler does under the hood when it compiles a C program.
Another approach that is completely orthogonal to that is to start learning about how to define mathematical objects on paper. After you learn a few basic building blocks such as tuple and pattern matching, you can start defining data structure and write algorithms in math. Then you'd be delighted to find out that an algorithm written in mathematical notation can be easily transcribed to a functional language.
I'm only presenting this argument, take it or leave it:
Google Map indicates that in vast majority of the rural area (pick any state you want), post offices are 10 miles apart in Euclidean distance. However, roads are not straight. That means you easily have to drive for 5 miles from the post office to a postal address. And these roads are curvy and in the woods, so 20 mph is a reasonable speed limit. How fast do you expect trucks to drive anyway? You're not driving a Ferrari.
I'm not arguing literally that there shall be no other houses within 5 miles. It is your own nitpicking and/or misunderstanding of the example; that is not the point. The point is that mail delivery is a point to point problem. There is no guarantee that you and your closest neighbors down the same road will have mail the same day. Hence what I'm presenting here is the worst case analysis. I have no statistics regarding how the population density correlates to the volume of mail delivered. They may not even be correlated. I'm only trying to illustrate why universal service is not feasible; much thanks to your affirmation.
Now, would you please get off my lawn and get a life? I'm not interesting in your argument clinic since you fail to bring new insight.
You've apparently never lived in Vermont. But thanks for blaming your frustration on me, for the lack of universal postal service because you chose to live in a rural area.
Certainly the cost of delivery should reflect on the postage.
Let's say there is a house 5 miles away from the post office in its own secluded neighborhood, and the road's speed limit is 20 mph. It takes 15 minutes to drive there, and 15 minutes to drive back, for a total of 30 minutes. At a pay rate of $50k/yr, that's about $24 an hour. The total cost of that delivery, assuming there is only one first class mail in the truck for that house, is $12. The postage you pay right now for a first class mail is 44 cents.
To be profitable, USPS would have to save enough letters and packages for this house and deliver a large batch. Someone in this household can choose to pick up mail from the postoffice sooner, or will have to wait for a few days for more mail to come. At the rate I receive mail, it would probably take a month to accumulate that much mail.
The telecom industry knows this as the last mile problem. I see no exemption for USPS.
By a very unfortunate twist of fate, I learned to program by myself on DOS using debug.exe when I was 10. Now I couldn't decide if I want my childhood back.
Buffer overrun happens when you are supposed to treat a block of bytes as void, hence you're not supposed to dereference the pointer, but you try to use it as char or int or float.
How does linear constraint with no elementary recursion help verifying device driver code? How do I know if I'm programming hardware in an inconsistent state? How do I know if my program is having race condition with the hardware, say sending commands to the hardware when the hardware is not ready?