The real point here is that the Acid3 test isn't a broad-spectrum standards-support test. It's a showpiece, and something of a Potemkin village at that. Which is a shame, because what's really needed right now is exhaustive test suites for specifications— XHTML, CSS, DOM, SVG.[2] Acid3 is the third of three benchmark tests that have been devised to challenge browsers to comply with Internet sta...

This article examines the interpretation of Alexander Rzheshevsky’s screenplay Bezhin Mea dow by Sergey Eisenstein. Comparison different versions script reveals emergence film’s conception and changes narrative made during transition from to shooting script. Special attention was given Eisenstein’s three key episodes future film: siege church, highway episode, defeat church. The reduction dista...

Against the backdrop of creeping authoritarianism by the Putin administration, this paper examines whether or not Russian efforts to enact e-government are enhancing, inhibiting, or neutral towards the establishment of preconditions for democracy in Russia. Eighty official regional governmental websites in 2003 and 85 in 2004 are examined to benchmark their contents according to a set of measur...

Random access codes have provided many examples of quantum advantage in communication, but concern only one kind information retrieval task. We introduce a related task—the Torpedo Game—and show that it admits greater than the comparable random code. Perfect strategies involving prepare-and-measure protocols with experimentally accessible three-level systems emerge via analysis terms discrete W...