Slashdot Mirror


User: kangsterizer

kangsterizer's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
878
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 878

  1. Re:Interesting on Blizzard Sues Private Server Company, Awarded $88M · · Score: 1

    Oh a Blizzard employee!

  2. Re:Yeah... on Quake Live Beta Ends, Optional Subscription Plans Added · · Score: 1

    you can't make a game that's private unless you pay.

  3. Re:So silly. Just remake Quake 3 already! on Quake Live Beta Ends, Optional Subscription Plans Added · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Quake 4 shares very little with Q3A physics and gameplay, it just has the "so called similar weapons" but it's a different game.

    Quake Live is a modified Q3A but most of it is actually the same as Q3A, physics are tweaked but nearly the same, and so on

  4. Re:So silly. Just remake Quake 3 already! on Quake Live Beta Ends, Optional Subscription Plans Added · · Score: 1

    ioquake3 - ioquake3.org
    No what's funny: in many ways ioq3 engine is better than Quake Live engine (basic stuff like surround sound is actually working)

    All it needs are updated graphics and a better server browser. Unfortunately the new QL graphics are not "licensable" so you're stuck with Q3A graphics if you paid the game, or stuff like Open Arena (it's ugly and does not represent Q3 game play imo)

    Another alternative in the batch of mostly open source quake-like stuff is warsow, which has pretty fine graphics and innovative game play. I don't like their policy tho (they don't release sources unless you're really convincing), but it's the best one I've used - I mean it's actually challenging and fun to play, like Q3A, but slightly diff, and free.

  5. Re:Sleep on The Brain's Secret For Sleeping Like a Log · · Score: 1

    I exercise regularly and I get tired, but it doesn't help me sleep, I would need to be totally exhausted and still I would wake up again rather quickly.
    I'm usually running 2H (on top of regular exercising, which is 1H with break every 2 days) when I'm not sleepy which I believe is rather long. Rest of the day I'm work at a desk in a office which is not a lot of exercise of course...

  6. Re:Yeah, but where does this get ME? on Abandon Earth Or Die, Warns Hawking · · Score: 1

    Well yes, either you are selfish and think about you right now, and give no care for the human race and future generations (= what humans have been doing since like forever, and the reason for most of our troubles ... ?)

    Either you do care about the future generation instead of your sorry own ass

    Not that I would say the second solution is better than the first taking all things equals (maybe it's better if humans die after all - but hey, personally I'm in favor of the 2nd anyways), but don't blame human mentally the wrong way around

  7. Re:Google thinks I'm an anime character on Google CEO Schmidt Predicts End of Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    it's nice that you think a Google search is the only way in the world that everyone uses to find information, unfortunately that's not the truth. And no, you don't have access to more advanced search easily, but /they/ do.

  8. Re:Crap C++ code on A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 · · Score: 1

    I found TB2 slow and buggy compared to TB3 to be honest. For me it's been a relief. I'm not happy with everything in TB3 but I haven't found better and it's still pretty good overall.

  9. Re:stupid propritary on A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 · · Score: 1

    I find funny rated comments funny but I found this one fun enough that i'm replying just to say so!
    Or maybe it's the alcohol, who knows.

    In any case thanks for the laugh lol

  10. Re:Limited problems on A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 · · Score: 1

    i've gigs in my inbox (and i dont have 1000 dirs, just 2 with gigs in it) and i use imap and i don't notice any slow down. That said if they found a bug I'm all for them reporting it, but it doesn't looke like it.

  11. French politics knowledge on Tech Specs Leaked For French Spyware · · Score: 1

    The major issue is that the politics have no idea what this is about, what they're talking about and have no will to figure it out.

    The people behind the 3 strikes law stated publicly that they don't know what P2P is and that they don't care, they can "still do their work properly without knowing".

    They also said that "when you have openoffice, you have a firewall" and a few other things of the same level.

    The problem is that they push such stuff blindly trusting the lobbies and a few powerful people (who know what they're doing) and who have very clear goals.

    They are basically paid by lobbies to enforce such laws, being successful or not, it generate money for the political movement, people associated (websites etc.. usually cost hundred thousands for 1 day of work on these things) and of course the lobbies getting deeper in the government:
    - most of the people named are also affiliated to music companies or other media distributors
    - this law has created a private police that also has the right to judge (private judge+executioner), no doubt they plan to extend it to more than just P2P but to be some global internet police
    - implementing such software directly in the modem could be made mandatory and used to control the people - they are very angry about the internet that they cannot control like the traditional media. you see, in france, the president and other politics happen to just say "internet is bad because the news sources are unverifiable (even when it comes from AFP.. funny that it actually means Agence France Presse), and the news comes too quickly to be regulated by the government - yay)

  12. Re:Somebody call the waaaambulance on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1

    not high, just average, for IT

  13. Re:Somebody call the waaaambulance on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1

    of course not
    a large german city

  14. Re:Somebody call the waaaambulance on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1

    I'm making approx the same as you, 100 000 would make me feel pretty rich :P

  15. Happens! on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1

    I always remember one of my first jobs, where I programmed some things that made the company win $400 000 while I was paid the minimum legal salary.
    For this one, they gave me a $400 product from the company I was working on as "good work gift" =[

    Nowadays I'm paid average but similar stuff still happens often enough, except sometimes I don't even get any gift or bonus. I suppose it's just the way the world goes. I make work I like and make programs I want to be proud of. Most "bosses" or managers work just to get all the money they can get out of it and buy big cars.

    I'd like a big car but I couldn't work with the only goal to make money, so I do what I like and gain little. I suppose many people are like that.

  16. Re:Any sufficiently advanced technology... on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 1

    the open source alternative 3D driver ? no, there's no 3D nvidia alternative driver. Only the binary blob. The only alternative is for 2D. And people want compiz & friends, if not 3D gaming or other things. (there's a 3D branch for the driver but its NOT ready)

    there's *no* alternative.

  17. Re:Cores do not equal power on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 1

    Any app except Apache actually use GCD?

  18. Re:Any sufficiently advanced technology... on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There's no real to use uTorrent on Linux tho.

    I'm not going to use aria2c on windows with a crappy command line, neither going to run it in cygwin or powershell.

    Now if uTorrent for Linux was truly excellent, why not, but... ...then comes the closed source argument, which is just like the GPL vs BSD and friends. Choosing closed source is always the wrong choice in that case. Some drivers are closed source blobs and they are successful why? Cause there's no alternative. That's the only reason. Sorry, theres many very good alternative to uTorrent, arguably pretty much better ones too.

    So after all, It has nothing to do with being a new app.

  19. Re:Any sufficiently advanced technology... on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 1

    I find it funny that their "coming in august" is missaligned on FF

  20. Re:"Facing" and serving are very different things. on Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police · · Score: 1

    I'm unsure where one would go. There's no magical countries.
    These countries are still better than most.

  21. Re:USA - Police State on Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police · · Score: 1

    That is a rather non-insightful and pretty poor statement actually. The idiot certainly isn't the one you think of.
    How do you think a police state appears exactly? It was defined when earth was created and it's just like that maybe?

    Next thing you know, because some countries government murder population, anyone having someone close murdered and complaining would be an American idiot I suppose. Oh wait, was that too strong? Heck, some may even agree that murder is ok for speeding, some certainly did in the past.

    No one seems to read history books anymore -

  22. Reinventing the window? on Firefox Tab Candy Alpha · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When I want to group tabs, I make new windows. In fact i rarely have more than 5 tabs per window, then 2-3 windows open. It's easy to navigate and organized, and also happens to be the way it's supposed to be done in current operating systems.

    Maybe I"m just old school.

  23. Re:Speculation on Google Schedules Chrome 6, 7, and 8 For This Year · · Score: 1

    but is it any better? They might start of version 20 at least their intentions are clear. Artificially bumping version numbers incrementally very very very fast to appear as good guys doesn't really inspire more confidence than coming out clean.

  24. Re:Bounties sucks on Microsoft Says No To Paying Bug Bounties · · Score: 1

    To be slightly more on topic I'll add to that that Microsoft is the number ONE target and thus get a lot of bugs discovered for free. Bounties might have a small effect (partly due to what I explained before, since eventually a friend will want the $3000 right?), but certainly the small effect is more important for software companies with a lesser market share.

    Take Apple for example, they'll never pay bounties (heck, those guys don't even put credits if you're not a big guy, they don't *even* mention the vulnerability if you didn't make a lot of noise about it, silent fix 6 month later no thanks nothing else than a single email "we're looking into it, please don't tell anyone about what you found - this is an automated msg please don't reply to it").

    Yet they don't get *that* many exploits because its a small part of the market (coincidently (not) the number of exploits reported have rised recently as their market share has grown)

    However even Microsoft has a much better security response team and passive analysis (in this case, I don't know, but I doubt Apple even has an analysis team, except for iPhone jailbreak and such stuff)

  25. Bounties sucks on Microsoft Says No To Paying Bug Bounties · · Score: 1

    The reality is that $3000 for a really good exploitable bug is cheap.

    And most companies paying bounties won't pay you for a DoS you found in e.g. Chrome in 2H spare time, and only if you're lucky for things like data leak.
    They're only going to pay for sure if you deliver a full blown with proof of concept and completely documented exploit that let you take over a system.

    But here's the trick! Not only those take a long while to do, even for the skilled engineer (heck writing docs and stuff sucks), but $3000 is peanuts. Some companies or evil guys pay $10 000 for these (and no, you can't have the extra $3000 later because they're going to give you a NDA - but you can probably make your friend win the $3000 - that's how it works, he just rewrites what you tell him 3-6month later and on top of that you'll feel better since the bug will actually be fixed)