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  1. Re:Contois should be sued by these guys on Apple Sued Over iTunes UI · · Score: 1

    But... those little carousels are an example of a GOOD patent! It's a physical invention with a specific application. What more do you want?

  2. Re:In reality on Is Apple & Community Evangelizing Into Uncoolness? · · Score: 1

    I honestly can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi, or between New Balance and Nike, and I'm suspicious of anyone who tells me they can. Dude, you have no taste buds.... Seriously, Coke is more acidic than Pepsi, and it is easily determined by me at least by blind taste. (I've done it.) However, I'm sure that most people don't choose based off of this and just user the brand...

  3. Re:what, you have to study something to work in IT on Studying Computer Science at Home? · · Score: 1

    That's because people like me with awesome foundation knowledge and a fuzzy practical skill set wind up working at Home Depot.

  4. Re:Summary on The Laptop Supply Chain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I, for one, welcome our new repost script overlords.

  5. I for one... on Google to Map San Francisco in 3D · · Score: 1

    welcome our laser-spy truck overlords.

  6. Re:OpenTransport? on Does New Development For Mac OS X Make Sense? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:"Uber"? on Next-Gen Gaming to be Uber Expensive · · Score: 1

    Ueber and über are German words with specific meaning. Uber is the borrowed Anglification of it. If you're gonna borrow and abuse foreign words, at least have the decency to change the spelling to show the less obvious meaning shift.

  8. You want a piece of evidence. on Al Gore to Receive Internet Achievement Award · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, Al Gore was puffing himself up a bit... No, he wasn't claiming to be the inventor. But, He did sponsor many of the congressional bills that funded the infant internet In 1989, Gore introduced the National High-Performance Computer Technology Act, a five-year, $1.7 billion program to expand the capacity of the information highway to connect government, industry, and academic institutions. Signed by President Bush in 1991, the bill supported research and development for an improved national computer system, and assisted colleges and libraries in connecting to the new network. High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 - Title I: High-Performance Computing and the National Research and Education Network - Directs the President to implement the National High-Performance Computing Program. Sets forth Program requirements, including: (1) setting goals and priorities for Federal high-performance computing research, development, and networking; (2) providing for interagency coordination; (3) providing for oversight of the operation and evolution of the National Research and Education Network provided for in this Act; (4) improving software; (5) acceleration of high-performance computer system development; (6) technical support and research and development of software and hardware needed to address fundamental problems in science and engineering (Grand Challenges); (7) educating undergraduate and graduate students; and (8) providing for security.

  9. Re:Pure Evil Tetris Version on Bastard Tetris Hates You · · Score: 1

    I misread your post. Are you saying a tetris clone that gives only blocks and one zig? Post a series of blocks, I'll stack em

  10. Re:Pure Evil Tetris Version on Bastard Tetris Hates You · · Score: 1
    $ @ $ @ $
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    This is trivially easy.
    I think any "solid" Tetris run is simple to continue.
    Other Zigzag is just the mirror of this. Square and Line are obvious.
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