This may not be an appropriate question for gamedev.stackexchange.com.  I'd like to make a basic  game with Unity. I'd also like to sell it on the Mac App Store, iOS App Store, Google's Play Store, Windows 8 Store etc.   I'm not sure however if that will cause trouble with Copyright. I asked Google but I didn't find any helpful results.  Can I use the game-concept without buying a license?  I know that there are plenty of games with the same concept on various platforms, I just want to be certain.
Most games build on other games' successes and many are downright clones. Where is the limit of imitation before legal issues come into play? Is it down to literary or graphic work like characters and storyline that cause legal problems, or can someone actually claim to own gameplay mechanics?  There are so many similar clone games out there that the rules are probably very slack or nonexistent, but I'd like to hear the views of more experienced developers / designers.
I searched it a while and found some articles regarding Xperia Mini X10 also on XDA but I couldn't understand them easily. So I want help from you geeks who can give me the lighted way with simple steps to root my phone.    I want a step by step guide about to root this model. I'm a not much familiar with this technology so please guide me through some detailed answer. How are ssl certificates verified? What is the series of steps needed to securely verify a ssl certificate?  My (very limited) understanding is that when you visit an https site, the server sends a certificate to the client (the browser) and the browser gets the certificate's issuer information from that certificate, then uses that to contact the issuerer, and somehow compares certificates for validity.     How exactly is this done?  What about the process makes it immune to man-in-the-middle attacks? What prevents some random person from setting up their own verification service to use in man-in-the-middle attacks, so everything "looks" secure? How to call child component controller function/helper from Parent Component Controller What is the datatype of facebook userid Context  In one of his most popular books , Terry Pratchett makes an entropy joke:     Knowledge equals Power, which equals Energy, which equals Mass   Pratchett is a fantasy comedian and every third phrase in his book is a joke, therefore there is no good reason to believe it.  Pratchett uses that madness to make up that a huge library has a tremendous gravitational push.  The question  I work with computers and mostly with encryption.  My work colleagues believe Terry Pratchett's statement because of entropy.  On the other hand, I believe, it is incorrect since entropy of information is a different entropy than the one used in thermodynamics.  Am I correct?  And if so, why do use the same name (entropy) to mean two different things?  Also, what would be a good way to explain that these two "entropies" are different things to non-scientists (i.e. people without a chemistry or physics background)? I get this error message   NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [plymouthd:305]    on the startup of my system (even with live-cd).  My PC is a dell inspiron 7559 with intel graphic and nvidia.  UPDATE - this issue also happens when attempting to install ubuntu 18.10 using LiveUSB How to change Blender's default startup settings? How can I change Blender from the default cube/lamp/camera default setup? Also, is it possible to change other features, such as the default view direction (Top, Side, etc) or the Editor type (3D View, Node Editor, Graph Editor, etc)? Removing internal geometry So in the image below there are two circles, how can I remove the internal vertices between them without messing up the outside shape. I'm working on a gun and this is just a simple way to illustrate the issue I'm dealing with. If I where to go in and delete the internal faces it would leave holes on the outside of the object, is there a fast way to get around this? Today I was cut off in the middle of the following sentence:     Between Cook, Strauss, and Pietersen—   My friend said I was wrong. He said that for more than two entities, among/amongst are used, and that between is only for two entities.   I vaguely remember some rule like this, but I asked him to hear the whole sentence, which was:     Between Cook, Strauss, and Pietersen, they’ve notched up 56 centuries in Test cricket.   Should I have used among here? Seems correct to me to use between, but my friend was certain.   Another friend pointed out the following sentence:     I’m still choosing between Harvard, Yale, and MIT.    Certainly among doesn’t seem to fit here, and she, to me, was correct in using between. How to merge vertices in Blender? I am attempting to create my first 3D character just for practice. Being one of my first 3d models I going through the learning curve needless to say. In doing so I find myself creating many extra vertices. Where we will say 10 vertices on a rounded shape are spaced out on the equator and on the other north pole end of the edges they are very close. The close end could all be one vertex. Is it possible to say merge all points to one point and delete the rest? Does personified Death really exist in Harry Potter? I went through the last book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, yesterday and a question popped in my mind: Does Death, the supposed creator of the Deathly Hallows, really exist in the Harry Potter universe? Dumbledore thought otherwise and I am with the same school of thought.  By the way who created the deathly Hallows actually?  Update:  1) Why were the brothers so sure that the hooded figure was death(couldn't it be a more powerful wizard playing with them)  2) Couldn't, Beedle and the brothers create this story? How SELECT column does not list in GROUP BY clause The query:  select year,sum(mark),sum(maxmark)  from table1  group by parameterno   yields an error message:     Column 'table1.year' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause. $\delta$ differential notation Various textbooks that I am currently consulting (including Spacecraft Dynamics and Control An Introduction - Anton H.J. De Ruiter | Christopher J. Damaren | James R. Forbes Section 1.4, page 32) use $\delta$, not $d$ or $\partial$ to express an infinitesimal quantity. In the context of the reference text above, the symbol is used as part of a general definition for the derivative of a vector. Specifically, given   $$\mathbf{\vec{r}}=\mathcal{\vec{F^{T}_{1}}}\mathbf{\vec{r_{1}}}$$   where   $$\mathcal{\vec{F^{T}_{1}}}$$   is a vectrix   $$[\mathbf{\vec{x_1}} \phantom{s} \mathbf{\vec{y_1}} \phantom{s} \mathbf{\vec{z_1}}].$$  The time derivative of the vector is defined as   $$\dot{\mathbf{\vec{r}}}\triangleq \lim_{\delta t\to 0}\frac{\delta\mathbf{\vec{r}}}{\delta t}.$$  In this context, what is the difference between $\frac{\delta\mathbf{\vec{r}}}{\delta t}$ and $\frac{d \mathbf{\vec{r}}}{d t}$ ?  Note about thermodynamic use of $\delta$: My understanding is that $\delta$ is used in thermodynamic equations to express path dependence of a scalar quantity such as heat or work. What does it mean in the context of an abstract physical vector? I have got a specific folder located in "/home/.../reboot/".  I have a series of users that require read-only access to the ever changing files within.  My problem is that the same users are not authorized to view any of the parent directory files.  Right now, the only thing I have in place is that their starting folder is at "/home/.../reboot/" by changing the etc/passwd file; and I need to block all access to other folders.  How could I only give them access to this directory? "The ticket is printing" vs "...is being printed" You're standing in front of a ticket vending machine and it says "The ticket is printing". Is that correct or should it be "The ticket is being printed"?  EDIT:  If both are correct, which one should be preferred or is more common? is it safe to keep database connections open for long time I have a .net client application which is connected to a remote database. Is it safe to keep a single connection open for the lifetime of the client (hours)? Does the answer hold if I have multiple (10 or 100) clients running? How do I recursively grep through compressed archives? I'm trying to find out what modules  in cpan. So I've used  to mirror it. My problem is that I need to iterate through the archives that are downloaded, and grep the files that are in the archives. Can anyone tell me how I might do this? preferably in a way that tells me which file in the archive and what line it's on.  (note: they aren't all tarballs some are zip files) Performance impact of updating target columns with same values ON CONFLICT This is a question about the inner-workings of Postgres (v10) and performance.  Given a table, github_repos, with a multi-column unique index on org_id and github_id columns, is there any performance difference (or other issues to be aware of) between the two bulk upsert operations below? The difference is that in the first query, the org_id and github_id columns are included in the UPDATE, whereas in the second query they are not. Since the UPDATE runs ON CONFLICT, the updated values of org_id and github_id will be the same as the old values, but those columns are included in the UPDATE because the underlying library I am using is designed that way. I'm wondering if its safe to use as-is or whether I should be explicitly excluding those columns in the UPDATE.  Query #1:  INSERT INTO "github_repos" ("org_id","github_id","name") VALUES (1,1,'foo') ON CONFLICT (org_id, github_id) DO UPDATE SET "org_id"=EXCLUDED."org_id","github_id"=EXCLUDED."github_id","name"=EXCLUDED."name" RETURNING "id"   Query #2:  INSERT INTO "github_repos" ("org_id","github_id","name") VALUES (1,1,'foo') ON CONFLICT (org_id, github_id) DO UPDATE SET "name"=EXCLUDED."name" RETURNING "id"   github_repos table:        Column       |       Type        | Collation | Nullable  -------------------+-------------------+-----------+----------+  id                | bigint            |           | not null |  org_id            | bigint            |           | not null |  github_id         | bigint            |           | not null |  name              | character varying |           | not null |  Indexes:     "github_repos_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)     "unique_repos" UNIQUE, btree (org_id, github_id) Elementary formula for permutations? Suppose I fix $n$ and let $\sigma_k$ represent the $k$th permutation of $S_n$ with respect to  some ordering (whatever ordering might serve my purpose). Is there an elementary formula for $\sigma_k(i)$ which requires only $i, k,$ and $n$?  Is one known for small $n$, perhaps even as small as 4? What's the difference between the nvidia-current, and nvidia-current-updates packages? What's the difference between the , and  packages?  The former has a higher version number, and the description of the packages are the same.    Which do I use? Which is the most recent one What's the purpose of this split packaging?