I do not think that the GFDL covers trade marks and trade-dress. A default install of MediaWiki (the open-source engine behind Wikipedia) shows a generic logo with a text description of how to change it to your own.
E-wikipedia.net uses the Wikipedia logo, which would require the explicit permission of the Wikimedia Foundation.
I wrote an email parser about five years ago, and I can tell you that there is a good compromise to the problem you describe in the email standards implemented by virtually all mail clients (MUAs).
The header "format=flowed" lets you send text/plain messages that look great whether you are reading it with telnet or pine or with Thunderbird or any other modern MUA. The main rfc for email, RFC 2822, explains that the sending MUA should, but is not required to, break up paragraphs into lines of less than 78 characters terminated by a carriage return/line feed. If you specify the "format=flowed" header described in RFC 2646, you allow the receiving client to rewrap the email according to the receiving user's preference. Typically modern MUAs will rewrap format-flowed plaintext email to the window size.
The specification states that lines ending with a space and then a CLRF are to be treated as part of a single paragraph that can be rewrapped. Hard breaks are then done by terminating the line with a simple CLRF with no preceding space.
Most modern MUAs that I have dealt with can (and typically by default) send format-flowed email that has the standard line breaks every 78 characters for the benefit of clients that cannot rewrap, and contain contextual clues for newer mail clients to seamlessly reformat the message body. For example, Apple's Mail.app by default sends multi-part MIME messages, one part containing the rich text email and the other part containing format=flowed text/plain. No matter what email client the recipient is using, at least one of those options will look acceptable.
I remember playing manhole as a child when my father would lug home his Mac from work every night. A really great and engaging world in retrospect. I had forgotten the name until now. I found it by looking on google for hypercard adventure, which eventually led me to this page about hypercard stacks that is amusingly displayed to look like an old hypercard stack itself.
Maybe a day of protest, where all participating travelers, regardless of body type disrobe completely while standing in the screening line would get some attention to what is going on.
I run a blog that uses one of amazon's wishlist widgets, and my first indication that something was wrong was that my wishlist wasn't being loaded in the side bar.
Good clarification on why they're suing. To elaborate on your suggested scenario:
Craigslist, as a closely held company, has no public market for its shares, and therefore its shares are hard to value. In this case, the company can typically exercise its judgment on its own valuation in the case of a new offering of shares or options.
You can definitely say that $100/share is the fairest price to pay for new shares in a company that is trading at $100/share on the stock market, but in the case of a private company like Craigslist, or M&M Mars, every party does their own evaluation based on comparable public companies, discounted cashflow valuation, liquidation value, etc.. Two parties could easily value a private company, one at 50, and the other at 100.
Not only Wikipedia's IPA, but also the FAQ which I mentioned. I noted in another reply that the z is probably unique to the way I've been saying it. Ah, the finality of/. posts.
Speaking of, I pronounce Post in American English such that it rhymes with the German Prost. I'm not an expert on IPA, so I can't be of much help with the transliterated IPA for that particular sound.
The question was more out of actual curiosity for who said it than to assail the gp's anecdote; although, I can see how you would get the latter out of my comment.
pitched in favor of the lower part of the distribution that ensures the average IQ is 100 IQ scores are designed (and adjusted over the years) to fit a normal distribution, such that 100 is the mean.
Also, advertisements (especially those for booze) tend to appeal to our basic most needs (see either Maslow or Freud).You may be less governed by appeals to these needs than someone less intelligent due to your reasoning power; however, appealing to these basic needs is still probably an ad company's best chance at overriding or modifying rational thought. Given this, people of low intelligence may do just fine in helping companies predict what will work on the population as a whole. In fact, they may be optimal for discerning how an ad appeals to such needs.
Recommended reading: Kafka's Before The Law
Between this and secret laws for security checkpoints at airports, Kafka's absurd vignette is looking looking unsettlingly normal.
This is an interesting problem, as I suspect that not everyone will be operating independent OpenID servers. But, as the spec is open, people who know and care (you and I) can avoid this problem.
The unfortunate thing about the MB compared to the MBP is that there is no option for a matte screen, you can only get glossy. My suspicion, from personal experience and the experience of friends is that the matte screen is more durable and degrades more gracefully (discoloration, not shattering).
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I do not think that the GFDL covers trade marks and trade-dress. A default install of MediaWiki (the open-source engine behind Wikipedia) shows a generic logo with a text description of how to change it to your own.
E-wikipedia.net uses the Wikipedia logo, which would require the explicit permission of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Just wrote my Congresswoman, but I would like to call as well, and I would like to be able to specifically cite the legislation.
The EFF link does not provide this information.
citation needed: Orwell.
I misread "handed" as "hanged" and did a double-take.
err, that was supposed to be CRLF
I wrote an email parser about five years ago, and I can tell you that there is a good compromise to the problem you describe in the email standards implemented by virtually all mail clients (MUAs).
The header "format=flowed" lets you send text/plain messages that look great whether you are reading it with telnet or pine or with Thunderbird or any other modern MUA. The main rfc for email, RFC 2822, explains that the sending MUA should, but is not required to, break up paragraphs into lines of less than 78 characters terminated by a carriage return/line feed. If you specify the "format=flowed" header described in RFC 2646, you allow the receiving client to rewrap the email according to the receiving user's preference. Typically modern MUAs will rewrap format-flowed plaintext email to the window size.
The specification states that lines ending with a space and then a CLRF are to be treated as part of a single paragraph that can be rewrapped. Hard breaks are then done by terminating the line with a simple CLRF with no preceding space.
Most modern MUAs that I have dealt with can (and typically by default) send format-flowed email that has the standard line breaks every 78 characters for the benefit of clients that cannot rewrap, and contain contextual clues for newer mail clients to seamlessly reformat the message body. For example, Apple's Mail.app by default sends multi-part MIME messages, one part containing the rich text email and the other part containing format=flowed text/plain. No matter what email client the recipient is using, at least one of those options will look acceptable.
You can find a pretty good write-up of this at Dan's Mail Format Site.
I remember playing manhole as a child when my father would lug home his Mac from work every night. A really great and engaging world in retrospect. I had forgotten the name until now. I found it by looking on google for hypercard adventure, which eventually led me to this page about hypercard stacks that is amusingly displayed to look like an old hypercard stack itself.
Maybe a day of protest, where all participating travelers, regardless of body type disrobe completely while standing in the screening line would get some attention to what is going on.
I run a blog that uses one of amazon's wishlist widgets, and my first indication that something was wrong was that my wishlist wasn't being loaded in the side bar.
Apple sells computers. Macs to be specific. Apple also sells phones, wireless base stations, etc.
Anywhere or Everywhere?
Good clarification on why they're suing. To elaborate on your suggested scenario: Craigslist, as a closely held company, has no public market for its shares, and therefore its shares are hard to value. In this case, the company can typically exercise its judgment on its own valuation in the case of a new offering of shares or options. You can definitely say that $100/share is the fairest price to pay for new shares in a company that is trading at $100/share on the stock market, but in the case of a private company like Craigslist, or M&M Mars, every party does their own evaluation based on comparable public companies, discounted cashflow valuation, liquidation value, etc.. Two parties could easily value a private company, one at 50, and the other at 100.
They're just reforming in the wrong direction. Much like Venezuela's land "reform".
Not only Wikipedia's IPA, but also the FAQ which I mentioned. I noted in another reply that the z is probably unique to the way I've been saying it. Ah, the finality of /. posts.
Speaking of, I pronounce Post in American English such that it rhymes with the German Prost. I'm not an expert on IPA, so I can't be of much help with the transliterated IPA for that particular sound.
The audio file linked to by Wikipedia is the same one as linked to from the FAQ.
Also, I guess I had it a little wrong, too. The very source I linked has it as "gres," whereas I pronounce the "s" more as a "z".
Post / Grez / Queue /El
Because it is such a common question (and such an odd name), it is aptly an entry in the PostgreSQL FAQ.
If you don't like my phonetic spelling and prefer IPA, Wikipedia has you covered.
Many people, myself included, simply call it Postgrez.
The question was more out of actual curiosity for who said it than to assail the gp's anecdote; although, I can see how you would get the latter out of my comment.
Presumably a schematic for a leyden jar, although foil electroscope was the first thing I thought of.
Are you referring to James Watson's comments? If so, that's not a direct quote so far as I can tell. Care to cite who this "famous biologist" is?
"Naturally it's better to live in Germany. Unfortunately, I'm American."
Also, advertisements (especially those for booze) tend to appeal to our basic most needs (see either Maslow or Freud).You may be less governed by appeals to these needs than someone less intelligent due to your reasoning power; however, appealing to these basic needs is still probably an ad company's best chance at overriding or modifying rational thought. Given this, people of low intelligence may do just fine in helping companies predict what will work on the population as a whole. In fact, they may be optimal for discerning how an ad appeals to such needs.
Recommended reading: Kafka's Before The Law Between this and secret laws for security checkpoints at airports, Kafka's absurd vignette is looking looking unsettlingly normal.
This is an interesting problem, as I suspect that not everyone will be operating independent OpenID servers. But, as the spec is open, people who know and care (you and I) can avoid this problem.
Stupid millionaires typically don't remain so for long.
The unfortunate thing about the MB compared to the MBP is that there is no option for a matte screen, you can only get glossy. My suspicion, from personal experience and the experience of friends is that the matte screen is more durable and degrades more gracefully (discoloration, not shattering).