I'm making a 2d RPG and I'm having trouble designing a sprite, so I downloaded an image of Pokémon Leaf Green's player sprite and copied how it looked. I didn't copy it completely, only how it looks. Here's the image:    Can I get sued for this? the gameplay and mechanics are far from Pokémon's mechanics, the only problem is the sprite of the characters. Can I get into trouble because the character sprite looks too much like Pokémon's character?
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 came across the following problem in a book:  Give a combinatorial proof of  $$ {n \choose 0} + {n \choose 2} + {n \choose 4} + \, \, ... \, = {n \choose 1} + {n \choose 3} + {n \choose 5} + \, \, ...$$ using the "weirdo" method (i.e., where one of the elements is chosen as special and included-excluded -- I'm sure you get the idea).  After days of repeated effort, the proof has failed to strike me. Because every time one of the elements is excluded, the term would be ${n-1 \choose k}$ and not $ {n \choose k}$, which is not the case in either of the sides of the equation. How to make ssh log in as the right user? I use ssh on a variety of machines, mainly linux. Accounts on these machines vary in naming scheme: if my name is First Last, then I have accounts: first, flast, last_f, lastf, and sometimes I need to log in as root. For each machine I use, I would like the openssh client to know which account to use when I don't specify on the command line.  So the question is: How do I make ssh server Do The Right Thing when a username is not specified? DropDown list onchange event and AJAX in MVC Prove that there exists some $c\in(-3,3)$ such that$ \ \ g(c) \cdot g''(c)<0$. $f(x)$ is a differentiable function and $g(x)$ is a double differentiable function such that $|f(x)|\leqslant 1$ and $f'(x)=g(x)$. If $$f(0)^2+g(0)^2=9$$ then prove that there exists some $c\in(-3,3)$ such that$ \ \ g(c) \cdot g''(c)&lt;0$.  Attempt: Let us define a function $h(x) = g(x) g~'(x)$. Then $$h'(x) =  g(x)g''(x) + \left( g'(x) \right)^2 \tag 1$$ If we prove that for some $c \in (-3,3), h~'(c) &lt; 0,$ then $$g(c)g''(c) &lt;0 \tag 2$$ Also, $$\left|f(0)\right| &lt; 1 \implies f'(0) \in (-3,-2\sqrt 2 ) \cup (2\sqrt 2,3) $$ Could someone please advise me how do I move forward from here. Thank you very much for your help in this regard. Why is my bash prompt getting bugged when I browse the history? Often when I start looking at history of commands some of the characters from a command displayed aren't erased, for example:  What's happening:  prompt$ some_command prompt$ some_commanother_command   What should have happened:  prompt$ some_command prompt$ another_command   I can't erase those characters and bash ignores them when executing the command. They also disappear when a new prompt is being displayed (after pressing Enter for example).  I asked other people who work on Linux at my workplace and they said that they have that problem sometimes too, but they didn't have an idea on how solve that issue.  I have Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm using guake. Here is my PS1:  \e[0;31m\u \A ${PWD##*/}\e[0;32m$(parse_git_branch)\e[0;31m$\e[m   where parse_git_branch is  parse_git_branch () {     git name-rev HEAD 2&gt; /dev/null | sed 's#HEAD\ \(.*\)# (\1)#' }   As far as I know my colleagues have that problem even with less "fancy" PS1. Why using IN(...) when selecting on indexed fields, will kill the performance of SELECT query? Can I have a mathematical equation within a caption? I'd like to have an eqnarray environment (or equivalent) within a table caption. If I do this naively,  \begin{table*}   % table stuff   \caption{\label{tab:my_tab}     \begin{eqnarray}       a &amp;=&amp; b \\ c &amp;=&amp; d     \end{eqnarray}   } \end{table*}   LaTeX falls over with LaTeX Error: \begin{table*} ended by \end{eqnarray}. How can I get what I want (I don't mind no equation numbers)? I have an image that is Base64 encoded. What is the best way to decode that in Java? Hopefully using only the libraries included with Sun Java 6. Complex towers: $i^{i^{i^{...}}}$ How can I revert a config file back to the originally installed version after I have edited it? I want to revert a file in /etc/ back to its originally-installed form. I have edited the file since it was installed. How can I revert this config file? Apt is smart enough not to overwrite edited config files, so how do I tell it that I want it to do so?  For argument's sake, let's say that I want to revert the file /etc/foo.conf from the package foo. I'm wondering whether I should use the present tense for a descriptive statement but in a past context. For example:     (1) I went to the zoo and saw a giraffe last week.       (2) A giraffe is a mammal with long neck.       (3) It is the first time I see that animal with my own eyes.   Statement (2) is a description of a giraffe in general, not the specific one in the zoo, so is it correct to use is?  Statement (3) is an event that is still true now, so should I use is and see?  I'm not native speaker so forgive me if the question is very obvious to others. How can I get sql string, generated by Linq2SQL ORM? Table with actions per row I have been/am being taught that end punctuation should always go inside quotes. For example, you are supposed to write:     Marvin thought it was "awful."   The problem is I do not see how does this make sense. Intuitively, I always wrote:     Marvin thought it was "awful".   as that makes more logical sense — you want a quote to be an exact replication of what somebody else said, so why should you add punctuation inside?  I always thought it made more sense to not touch the quote and add anything after or before if it must be added.  So, why should I put end punctuation inside quotes? Show Previous/Next Posts navigation only inside the same category Is it possible to force previous/next navigation to browse through the posts (back and forth) that are only inside the same category (and to exclude other categories)? Python __str__ and lists Here comes Bob.  Bob is coming here.  Would anyone please explain what is  the difference between these? Tracking down where disk space has gone on Linux? When administering Linux systems I often find myself struggling to track down the culprit after a partition goes full. I normally use du / | sort -nr but on a large filesystem this takes a long time before any results are returned.  Also, this is usually successful in highlighting the worst offender but I've often found myself resorting to du without the sort in more subtle cases and then had to trawl through the output.  I'd prefer a command line solution which relies on standard Linux commands since I have to administer quite a few systems and installing new software is a hassle (especially when out of disk space!) Let V denote the Klein 4-group. Show that $\text{Aut} (V)$ is isomorphic to $S_3$ After a week in my Abstract Algebra class, the professor proposed this as a problem. I'm not entirely sure where to begin. $ V = \{ e, \tau, \tau_1, \tau_2 \}$, so I'm not sure exactly what is meant by $\text{Aut} (V)$. Is it simply saying that the only way to have an automorphism on $V$ is to rearrange the order of the elements of $V$ and therefore $\text{Aut} (V) \cong S_3$? LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'D:\...\MyProj.exe'