YHBT. YHL. HAND.
See if you can see the pattern:
That wooshing sound? That's the sound of the joke going right over your head.
No 4G. Less capacity than my thumb drive. Lame.
I always get them switched. Thanks for the info, even though I'm sure to forget and make the same mistake again, probably soon.
Like forgetting to tick the "post anonymously" button and accidently outing yourself as the OP?
I resent that! Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel.
--J.J. Jameson, Spider-Man
"Tetra" is a numerical prefix that means "four." The name "Tetrada" isn't any more a trademark infringement than "tetrahedron" would be, unless you really think '-da' is closer to '-is' than '-hedron'.
Game rules are not copyrightable, but the presentation of the game is. It doesn't take a lot of work to avoid copying a presentation, since all you have to do is develop your own artwork and game layout. I don't have a WP7 and I haven't looked at screenshots, but I'm (perhaps naively) trusting that the developer did this.
The only other copyright the Tetris company could hope to leverage would be on the code itself, which is incredibly unlikely because the formula for Tetris is simple and fairly transparent (compared to, say, the AI decisions in Warcraft).
The Tetris Company really doesn't have any recourse, and I'm enough of a bastard that I would simply reply to the takedown letter telling them to pound sand.
Hey, grammar Nazis. I can already tell that your evil little hearts are thumping with excitement around this article.
I just wanted to tell you one thing, since you're all congregated in one place: fuck off! No one gives a shit if you are going around and correcting people with a snarky little "FTFY." You think you're intellectually superior or something, but you're not. I hear people complaining, "You should proof read!" or, "Pay more attention to misspelled words." Short answer: NO! This is not school. This is not a job. I derive no benefit from spending more time proof reading a post.
So in the future, you should post logged in. That way, I can down mod you off-topic.
FTFY.
Holy shit, that goes back to 2004. 7 years. In the time it's taken to get anywhere on it, two major versions of Windows have been released. It's like the Duke Nukem Forever of FireFox bugs.
Ah, used to work in one of their outsourced call centers. We made fun of their tagline: "US Worst! Life's bitter here!"
Store more than 4KB of information?
The blog does not say what the contributor says it does. The closest it comes is noting that the links from the negative reviews never counted in the first place because the sites hosting the reviews used the "rel=nofollow" attribute on the links. What it does say is that they have altered the algorithm to punish bad businesses more effectively in response to the NYT article that suggested that being bad could be good for business.
Move along, nothing to see here!
Design your application to modularize the OS-dependent code away from the OS-independent code. When it comes time to port (if it ever happens) you should only have to worry about the OS-dependent stuff with minimal modification to the core of the application.
TCP/IP is routable, period. The "non-routable" blocks are simply IP addresses that can't be used across the Internet but will still work fine in an internal network. HP's users might need to talk to each other, but there's no reason for me to able to ping all of them from home.
This is obviously coming along with the increased focus on removing distractions from driving (cell phones, texting, DVDs, etc). The problem is that flying a plane has almost nothing in common with driving a car, beyond some rudimentary instrumentation similarities and the overall goal of getting from point A to point B. The skies are not crowded like a freeway--a pilot doesn't have to worry about the plane next to him cutting him off on the way to LAX, because there is no plane next to him--flight paths are planned well in advance. The pilot only has to worry about situations that can't be handled by auto pilot, like mechanical failure or turbulence.
So, in other words, the FAA is saying, "We want you to give your full attention to flying, but you can't do anything to keep yourself awake." I don't care how much sleep you get, a 17+ hour trans-Atlantic flight with nothing to do but check your instrumentation is going to bore you to sleep. In trying to improve flight safety, this is going to have the opposite effect.
Quantity is no substitute for quality, but its the only one we've got.
