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...standards thus far mentioned share something in common: they’re “open” standards. Some of them, such as regulations for the permissible content of gasoline, are codified in law and maintained by the government; others are maintained by non-profit professional groups such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) or the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). They’re all available for free: anyone who wants to can go on to the W3C web site and download the full specification for HTML; thus, anyone who wants to can write...
...success of the computer and the Internet. Because the rules for HTML were agreed upon on back in the early ’90s and made publicly available, the standard was quickly supported on a variety of computer platforms which were otherwise not interoperable. This meant that content producers could create consistently formatted information and distribute it broadly, and so the web was born...
...same strengths as a biology concentrator? To satisfy these national education requirements, colleges would have to completely alter their educational philosophies.Furthermore, standardized tests in general are an enormous waste of time and money. Students waste countless hours in the standardized testing process; whether the hours spent include learning content specifically (and only) because it is found on the test, or the several hours spent taking the test itself, time is thrown away on an incredibly arbitrary “validation” of what one should already know. Some argue that this time is well-spent, that we should always...
...Conservatives, for their part, argue that they are more transparent than their recent predecessors, noting that Harper has been holding more press conferences than either Jean Chr?tien or Paul Martin did. Harper "gives deep media interviews with much deeper content than Canadians have seen or heard from previous Prime Ministers over the last 12 years," Buckler says. And government ministers aren't complaining about being muzzled. "We've all been told to be prudent, because when you're in government your words carry different weight than in opposition," says Agricultural Minister Chuck Strahl, a 12-year...
...bird-flu pandemic), collaborate on clean-energy programs and improve coordination on border security. But he also made clear that he wasn't going to rush into the ambitious agenda favored by some Canadian business leaders and academics toward establishing a common tariff and security zone. Instead, he was content to say of the U.S. President, "I believe he understands our issues...