Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-10-2010

[andrewducker]

• U.S. Government: We Have Not Forgotten About Osaka Binn Rogen
  Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who recommended checking a few countries to the left, said that he also was dedicated to finding the terrorist leader. "I don't see Osama that often," Karzai said. "But next time I do, I'll definitely let him know that our allies are looking for him."
  (tags: afghanistan pakistan satire terrorism)
• Denmark Introduces Harrowing New Tourism Ads Directed By Lars Von Trier
  (tags: funny advertising video)
• GPU vs CPU - I hadn't realise quite how much faster GPUs are nowadays...
  (tags: gpu programming security)
• HATETRIS - the Tetris that hates you. I got 2 points. Can you beat me?
  (tags: tetris fun games)
• When technology and culture clash - over an upside down e...
  (tags: language EpicFail)
• The (possibly other) version of Clash of the Titans you didn't see...
  (tags: movies)
• Does 'befriending' sex offenders stop new crimes?
  (tags: sex abuse crime rehabilitation)
• The xkcd "Tetris from Hell" has been created!
  (tags: tetris flash game xkcd hell)
• Is Birdemic worst film ever made?
  Uwe Bolle had better watch out...
  (tags: EpicFail movies)
• FarmVille player puts mum in £900 debt
  BAN THIS SICK FILTH!
  (tags: EpicFail facebook web2.0)
• An empirical analysis of the gender gap in mathematics
  (tags: mathematics gender)
• New technology brought to e-readers to provide both colour and video.
  WANT!
  (tags: ereader colour video technology)
• New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler
  (tags: iphone apple flash development)
• The Economist argues that copyright should be returned to 28 years in length
  (tags: copyright business law society creativity economics innovation)
• 7,500 shoppers unknowingly sold their souls by failing to unclick a checkbox on a website checkout form..
  (tags: funny ecommerce web society)

Comments

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

I got three, in theory 4, but that move also killed me.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I have five points at hateris! Hahaha! Hell, take THAT. Well, uh, sort of. The first time I played, I got zero and didn't expect to be able to improve (I didn't improve at the curved-bottom tetris)

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Does the hate partly stem from the fact that the pieces don't drop on their own and have to be nudged down one damn row at a time?

[andrewducker]

That's to make your life easier. The hate comes from the way it analyses your current position and assigns you the worst possible piece.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Yup, figured that part out... how is having to press the down key 10 times per piece not making me hate it even more?

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

There's quite a few of those, and most don't do *anything* to make your life easier. For work a couple of years ago I ended up testing about a hundred Tetrises (don't ask, long story), and 'bastard Tetris' exists in a couple of variants...

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Also he just didn't really bother to code it! I'd be a lot happier if it either cleared the key buffer between pieces, or included a 'drop all the way' button - drives me nuts having to press 'down' so many times to get a piece to land, but he says the replay functionality in particular relies on there only being four possible moves. Hmh.

I'm curious if you made the connection that this is by the guy who wrote 'Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective', incidentally.

Funny that he put this up about two days before that xkcd - I do wonder if that was pure coincidence...