I don't understand. Is resume formatting that big of a deal for job seekers? I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that formatting a resume was trivial, but that managing your job search effectively was hard.
"Elsevier is liberal with respect to authors and electronic preprints. Unlike some publishers, we do not consider that a preprint of an article (including a prior version as a thesis) prior to its submission to Elsevier for consideration amounts to prior publication, which would disqualify the work from consideration for re-publication in a journal. We also do not require authors to remove electronic preprints from publicly accessible servers (including the author's own home page) once an article has been accepted for publication."
manuscript ~= preprint more or less in publishing speak
Couple of other things. Elsevier is $3 billion in revenue, not $10 billion (the author must be thinking of Reed Elsevier here, Elsevier's parent company.) So really they only have something like $3 billion reasons to not let the internet drive the costs of scientific publishing down to zero.
And to be clear, so far as I can tell, SOPA has almost nothing to do with arxiv.org, because arxiv.org publishes the manuscript, not the final version of the article. Elsevier's stated position is that publishing the manuscript version is not copyright infringement.
Even if SOPA passed, sure, it would be easier for Elsevier to shut down arxiv.org. But if arxiv.org started publishing the final version of articles for which Elsevier had obtained worldwide exclusive copyright, that would be copyright infringement anyway. So the key (it would seem to me) is whether arxiv.org publishes the final version of articles or not (they curenttly don't), not whether SOPA passes, that determines whether arxiv.org is to get shutdown.
And so if they did, the answer to the question "Could Elsevier shut down arxiv.org?" would be "Yes."
These might be questions to ask after you get the offer, but IMHO you'll likely decrease your chances of getting the job if you ask them early in the interview process.
Agreed. It's like someone writing a whole article about all the harms of smoking, and then ending the article with "Now of course I'm not saying quit smoking, just cut down to a pack a day."
I highly recommend the O'Reilly School of Technology courses on Python if you are looking to learn Python. They are self-paced, reasonably priced, and provide some great tips on best practices. And the ability to have someone actual give you feedback and test you I find helps me keep moving forward learning to program.