"I’m a total geek all around," says Angela Byron, a 27-year-old computer programmer who has just graduated from Nova Scotia Community College. And yet, like many other students, she "never had the confidence" to approach any of the various open-source software communities on the internet--distributed teams of volunteers who collaborate to build software that is then made freely available. But thanks to Google, the world’s most popular search engine and one of the biggest proponents of open-source software, Ms Byron spent the summer contributing code to Drupal, an open-source project that automates the management of websites. "It’s awesome," she says. Ms Byron is one of 419 students (out of 8,744 who applied) who were accepted for Google’s "summer of code". While it sounds like a hyper-nerdy summer camp, the students neither went to Google’s campus in Mountain View, California, nor to wherever their mentors at the 41 participating open-source projects happened to be located. Instead, Google acted as a matchmaker and sponsor. Each of the participating open-source projects received $500 for every student it took on; and each student received $4,500 ($500 right away, and $4,000 on completion of their work). Oh, and a T-shirt. All of this is the idea of Chris DiBona, Google’s open-source boss, who was brainstorming with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google’s founders, last year. They realised that a lot of programming talent goes to waste every summer because students take summer jobs flipping burgers to make money, and let their coding skills degrade. "We want to make it better for students in the summer," says Mr. DiBona, adding that it also helps the open- source community and thus, indirectly, Google, which uses lots of open-source software behind the scenes. Plus, says Mr. DiBona, "it does become an opportunity for recruiting." Elliot Cohen, a student at Berkeley, spent his summer writing a "Bayesian network toolbox" for Python, an open-source programming language. "I’m a pretty big fan of Google," he says. He has an interview scheduled with Microsoft, but "Google is the only big company that I would work at," he says. And if that doesn’t work out, he now knows people in the open-source community, "and it’s a lot less intimidating.\
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根据消费税现行政策的有关规定,下列说法正确的有()。
A. 纳税人通过自设非独立核算门市部销售的自产应税消费品,应当按照门市部对外销售额或者销售数量计算征收消费税B. 委托加工的卷烟按照受托方同牌号规格卷烟的征税类别和适用税率征税C. 对于每标准条卷烟调拨价格在70元以上的(含70元),卷烟从价消费税税率为56%D. 卷烟在批发环节按照5%税率计征消费税
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我国宪法第三条第一款规定:中华人民共和国的国家机构实行民主集中制的原则。这主要体现在()。 ①在国家机构与人民的关系方面,国家权力来自人民,由人民选举产生国家权力机关 ②在同级国家机构中,国家权力机关居于主导地位 ③在中央与地方国家机构的关系方面,中央和地方的国家机构职权的划分,遵循在中央的统一领导下,发挥地方的主动性、积极性的原则 ④在国家机构内部作出决策、决定时也要实行民主集中制
我国宪法第三条第一款规定:中华人民共和国的国家机构实行民主集中制的原则。这主要体现在()。
①在国家机构与人民的关系方面,国家权力来自人民,由人民选举产生国家权力机关
②在同级国家机构中,国家权力机关居于主导地位
③在中央与地方国家机构的关系方面,中央和地方的国家机构职权的划分,遵循在中央的统一领导下,发挥地方的主动性、积极性的原则
④在国家机构内部作出决策、决定时也要实行民主集中制
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