Civil rights legislation is justified by Amendment XIV, which provides for equal protection under the law. It gives Congress the authority to enforce civil rights laws, trumping states' rights.
Civil rights laws aren't based on the interstate commerce clause. All sorts of discrimination were legal before Amendment XIV was passed.
Seconded! I took both the SAT and the ACT many years ago. Both tests are good at indicating your abilities. If you would do well on one, you would do well on the other. However, I found that the questions on the ACT are more natural compared to the weird SAT questions. It also has a science portion, which may play to your strengths.
The ACT doesn't have as much politics and controversy around it as the SAT. Furthermore, since only college admissions officers are familiar with the ACT, it's only used for that purpose, and not as a general indicator of your intelligence. Parents don't go around bragging about their kids' ACT scores.
Bottom line is, if all of the schools (and scholarships) you are applying to accept the ACT, consider taking that and skipping the SAT altogether.
But perhaps one could transfer the documents using the SD card instead of using their software?
Sony and open standards - too good to be true?
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Sony Reader Now Available
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From the presentation, it appears that the Sony Reader supports
SD card in addition to Memory Stick
Unencrypted MP3, not ATRAC
RTF and unencrypted Adobe PDF, among other formats
So where's the real Sony? Does this show what they are capable of developing when their audio division gets out of the way? If this reader actually supports these standards natively without requiring silly conversion software on the PC, I might even consider un-boycotting Sony to show that they are on the right track.
In the long run, it doesn't matter whether this particular patch is mandatory. The next time there is a truly security-related patch for Media Player, they'll either include this fix or require it as a prerequisite.
Technically, "random" does not necessarily mean uniformly distributed. There are many different ways to randomly pick a sample while not being fair. From my personal observation, I agree that there is some kind of profiling going on in the TSA's screening process.
At my previous company, our UI designer used PowerPoint to create wireframes. That was to get a feel for where the UI elements would fit on the page. One nice thing was that he could easily share his work by e-mailing the PowerPoint file. He even did some crude scripting so that clicking on certain elements would take you to the next page. The software developers joked that we should just ship his PPT file as our product.
The artistic factors (color scheme, logos, etc.) were handled by our graphic designer after the wireframes were done. I think he used Photoshop for that.
If you insist on doing it in Linux, you could try OpenOffice and GIMP.
The Logitech V200 cordless mouse comes in plastic packaging that is so thick, I would say that a circular saw is the most appropriate tool for opening it. It's probably at least twice as thick as it needs to be. I think that the only explanation for that is to make you so thoroughly mangle the package that you would feel bad about returning it if you change your mind.
If Real Networks wanted to bundle Firefox with RealPlayer (just to spite Microsoft due to past disagreements), the Mozilla Foundation couldn't really prevent them from doing so, since Firefox is open source. So perhaps it doesn't really make any difference whether this deal is called a "partnership" or not.
CEOs of companies whose stock price is rising are happy with their stock options, and don't care whether their salary is $1 or $1000000. Of those, the smart ones opt for the low salary because it's good for employee and shareholder morale.
I think the practice of booting from a known clean system ended with Windows NT. In the DOS and Windows 9x days, it was easy to make your own boot floppy, copy a virus scanner onto it, and stash it away in case of emergencies. Also, back then, rebooting was an everyday occurrence anyway.
With Windows NT and its successors, it became cumbersome to make an emergency boot disk -- you needed the original install CD to write to several floppies, and the emergency boot process took an eternity. The virus scanner would have to be burned onto a CD (not everyone had a CD burner) or written to a memory stick (which some BIOSes don't know how to boot from). Of course, the virus scanner could be distributed on pressed CDs, but there would still be a problem with keeping the virus definitions up to date.
So basically, the practice of clean-booting died for the same reasons that the floppy did.
Actually, the PhysicsWeb article is confusing in itself. The first (bold) paragraph says that "the number of people who read news stories on the web decays with time in a power law". The sixth paragraph says that "the overall half-life distribution follows a power law". Perhaps both statements are true, perhaps one of them is inaccurate.
The professor's website doesn't seem to mention this research, so we can't tell what the actual findings were.
The idea of a DVD player that filters on the fly is explicitly allowed under the Familiy Movie Act of 2004. The law was enacted to support ClearPlay, which implements such a system. They trick is to make sure that no fixed copy is made of the redacted version (to comply with US copyright law), and that the filtering information is distributed independently of the movie (to satisfy the DVD Copy Control Association).
Actually, this is closer to mercata.com's business. With Priceline, the seller can accept each buyer's bid separately, at whatever price each individual offers. Mercata was about group buying power: shoppers offer to buy a product at some price, with the understanding that the final price may go down if enough customers join in on the deal.
The other difference is that Priceline is still around, but Mercata isn't.
Many people have pointed out that Microsoft has the resources to produce a standards-compliant browser. The fact that they haven't done so should tell you something.
Remember what the Browser War was about? Netscape and Microsoft both wanted to control the Web as a platform. Well, Microsoft won, and they now set a de facto standard. Microsoft now wants the majority of Internet users to stay hooked on their sucky browser, and they want the browser to continue to suck. Web applications still pose a threat to Microsoft's revenue stream (witness the recent Google Spreadsheet). Microsoft's hope is to make Web development harder than Win32/.NET development.
But wait, you say. The War isn't over yet, because Firefox is taking back market share. Wouldn't that force Microsoft to improve IE? Yes, but look at what they are doing in IE 7: tabbed browsing, popup blocking, etc. are all new features to make the users happy. From the developer's perspective, though, IE 7 is just as bad as IE 6. Sure, Microsoft could implement XHTML and CSS support, but that kind of effort would do nothing for recapturing their market share. In fact, as far as Microsoft is concerned, shipping a standards-compliant browser is the same as losing the Browser War.
So that's why IE will continue to suck forever: Microsoft needs to make life hard for Web developers. The only way to force Microsoft to reform is if so many users switch to Firefox or Opera that Web developers stop working around IE's quirks. That's not likely to happen anytime soon.
Chinese writing would be a pretty good bet for future readability. After all, modern Chinese characters are still rather similar to those of 4000 years ago. (The tradeoff is that we have no idea how Chinese was pronounced 4000 years ago, but for this application it's more important to convey the meaning.) As a bonus, it's known by a large portion of the human population that is spread through much of the world.
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Civil rights legislation is justified by Amendment XIV, which provides for equal protection under the law. It gives Congress the authority to enforce civil rights laws, trumping states' rights.
Civil rights laws aren't based on the interstate commerce clause. All sorts of discrimination were legal before Amendment XIV was passed.
Seconded! I took both the SAT and the ACT many years ago. Both tests are good at indicating your abilities. If you would do well on one, you would do well on the other. However, I found that the questions on the ACT are more natural compared to the weird SAT questions. It also has a science portion, which may play to your strengths.
The ACT doesn't have as much politics and controversy around it as the SAT. Furthermore, since only college admissions officers are familiar with the ACT, it's only used for that purpose, and not as a general indicator of your intelligence. Parents don't go around bragging about their kids' ACT scores.
Bottom line is, if all of the schools (and scholarships) you are applying to accept the ACT, consider taking that and skipping the SAT altogether.
But perhaps one could transfer the documents using the SD card instead of using their software?
From the presentation, it appears that the Sony Reader supports
So where's the real Sony? Does this show what they are capable of developing when their audio division gets out of the way? If this reader actually supports these standards natively without requiring silly conversion software on the PC, I might even consider un-boycotting Sony to show that they are on the right track.
Sulfur dioxide is hardly a solution -- it just trades one problem for another.
In the long run, it doesn't matter whether this particular patch is mandatory. The next time there is a truly security-related patch for Media Player, they'll either include this fix or require it as a prerequisite.
Technically, "random" does not necessarily mean uniformly distributed. There are many different ways to randomly pick a sample while not being fair. From my personal observation, I agree that there is some kind of profiling going on in the TSA's screening process.
At my previous company, our UI designer used PowerPoint to create wireframes. That was to get a feel for where the UI elements would fit on the page. One nice thing was that he could easily share his work by e-mailing the PowerPoint file. He even did some crude scripting so that clicking on certain elements would take you to the next page. The software developers joked that we should just ship his PPT file as our product.
The artistic factors (color scheme, logos, etc.) were handled by our graphic designer after the wireframes were done. I think he used Photoshop for that.
If you insist on doing it in Linux, you could try OpenOffice and GIMP.
The Logitech V200 cordless mouse comes in plastic packaging that is so thick, I would say that a circular saw is the most appropriate tool for opening it. It's probably at least twice as thick as it needs to be. I think that the only explanation for that is to make you so thoroughly mangle the package that you would feel bad about returning it if you change your mind.
If Real Networks wanted to bundle Firefox with RealPlayer (just to spite Microsoft due to past disagreements), the Mozilla Foundation couldn't really prevent them from doing so, since Firefox is open source. So perhaps it doesn't really make any difference whether this deal is called a "partnership" or not.
And who's going to nab him for obstruction of justice? The Justice Department?
CEOs of companies whose stock price is rising are happy with their stock options, and don't care whether their salary is $1 or $1000000. Of those, the smart ones opt for the low salary because it's good for employee and shareholder morale.
In a few hundred years, everyone will think that the first people there were whalers singing "We're landing on the moon..."!
I think the practice of booting from a known clean system ended with Windows NT. In the DOS and Windows 9x days, it was easy to make your own boot floppy, copy a virus scanner onto it, and stash it away in case of emergencies. Also, back then, rebooting was an everyday occurrence anyway.
With Windows NT and its successors, it became cumbersome to make an emergency boot disk -- you needed the original install CD to write to several floppies, and the emergency boot process took an eternity. The virus scanner would have to be burned onto a CD (not everyone had a CD burner) or written to a memory stick (which some BIOSes don't know how to boot from). Of course, the virus scanner could be distributed on pressed CDs, but there would still be a problem with keeping the virus definitions up to date.
So basically, the practice of clean-booting died for the same reasons that the floppy did.
Actually, the PhysicsWeb article is confusing in itself. The first (bold) paragraph says that "the number of people who read news stories on the web decays with time in a power law". The sixth paragraph says that "the overall half-life distribution follows a power law". Perhaps both statements are true, perhaps one of them is inaccurate.
The professor's website doesn't seem to mention this research, so we can't tell what the actual findings were.
The idea of a DVD player that filters on the fly is explicitly allowed under the Familiy Movie Act of 2004. The law was enacted to support ClearPlay, which implements such a system. They trick is to make sure that no fixed copy is made of the redacted version (to comply with US copyright law), and that the filtering information is distributed independently of the movie (to satisfy the DVD Copy Control Association).
As long as we're reforming spelling anyway, why don't we make the English language conform to the HTTP standard?
Old spelling: referrer
New spelling: referer
No Jesus, no pees. No Jesus, no pees.
Actually, this is closer to mercata.com's business. With Priceline, the seller can accept each buyer's bid separately, at whatever price each individual offers. Mercata was about group buying power: shoppers offer to buy a product at some price, with the understanding that the final price may go down if enough customers join in on the deal.
The other difference is that Priceline is still around, but Mercata isn't.
Many people have pointed out that Microsoft has the resources to produce a standards-compliant browser. The fact that they haven't done so should tell you something.
Remember what the Browser War was about? Netscape and Microsoft both wanted to control the Web as a platform. Well, Microsoft won, and they now set a de facto standard. Microsoft now wants the majority of Internet users to stay hooked on their sucky browser, and they want the browser to continue to suck. Web applications still pose a threat to Microsoft's revenue stream (witness the recent Google Spreadsheet). Microsoft's hope is to make Web development harder than Win32/.NET development.
But wait, you say. The War isn't over yet, because Firefox is taking back market share. Wouldn't that force Microsoft to improve IE? Yes, but look at what they are doing in IE 7: tabbed browsing, popup blocking, etc. are all new features to make the users happy. From the developer's perspective, though, IE 7 is just as bad as IE 6. Sure, Microsoft could implement XHTML and CSS support, but that kind of effort would do nothing for recapturing their market share. In fact, as far as Microsoft is concerned, shipping a standards-compliant browser is the same as losing the Browser War.
So that's why IE will continue to suck forever: Microsoft needs to make life hard for Web developers. The only way to force Microsoft to reform is if so many users switch to Firefox or Opera that Web developers stop working around IE's quirks. That's not likely to happen anytime soon.
Apparently, some people would pay extra to have a yellow MacBook.
Pascal is no match for Homer Simpson's wit:
BackBase also supports the Back button.
Chinese writing would be a pretty good bet for future readability. After all, modern Chinese characters are still rather similar to those of 4000 years ago. (The tradeoff is that we have no idea how Chinese was pronounced 4000 years ago, but for this application it's more important to convey the meaning.) As a bonus, it's known by a large portion of the human population that is spread through much of the world.