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  1. Not a bug. on Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years · · Score: 1

    This is not a bug. Is a feature that all quake engines, a console to adjust some gameplay and functioning settings for the server.

    Valve is removing this to make these people that cry "hack hack hack" happy, but this is like removing cmd.exe from windows because some people are scared at black windows with white text.

  2. In soviet russia C-: own you on Russian Hopes To Cash In On Emoticons · · Score: 5, Funny

    Two counterfeigted version:
    C-:
    (-:

  3. Short reply: NO. on Will Consoles Merge Back Into PCs? · · Score: 1

    Long reply: No.

    Because Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo love to have his locked down platform where can do anything. And the PC architecture is everything but good. And people want the "easy to use"-ism that consoles provide.
    Maybe could evolve to become more like a Mac, but that is.

  4. The article is WRONG, no gigant, but a 3D skybox. on Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Half-Life engine uses a tecnique to have "3D skybox" using a special room where stuff displayed here show in the sky, so anything there looks gigantic.

    Tutorial here:
    http://www.moddb.com/games/half-life-2/tutorials/3d-skybox-tutorial

  5. I hate consoles, and the article is wrong. on Left 4 Dead Bug Patched Quickly, EVE Exploit Takes 4 Years · · Score: 0, Troll

    Earlier this week, news surfaced that some savvy modders of Valve's Left 4 Dead were able to find a way to enable console commands (meant for the PC version) in the Xbox 360 version of the game.{{yea, why no? console commands are fun. Are console commands disabled on the consoles? aaaarghh...}} This allowed players to increase the size of their character models to ridiculous proportions{{WRONG, the player is on a unreal-style "roomsky". is like a skybox made of a real room somewhere on the map}} , spawn unlimited weapons for themselves (or unlimited enemies for other, unsuspecting players), and go around the map deleting objects as they saw fit {{cool!}}. A video posted on YouTube showed how to enable the commands. Valve reacted swiftly to the issues, releasing a patch to disable access to the commands a few days later.{{WHY?.. its like the "forge" that Halo have. Or whatever other tool to change the gameplay of YOUR server. More locked down, hum??.. no nice to play on consoles!!}}

  6. Re:Laser Squad on Examining the Beginnings of the RTS Genre · · Score: 1

    Maybe Laser Squad is the father of XCOM, then?

  7. Nothing to see here. on Look What's Cooking At Microsoft Labs · · Score: 1

    I like the one of Big Ben, the others seems uses of a big touch screen or/and boring.

  8. Contact emails here on PC Grand Theft Auto IV Features SecuROM DRM · · Score: 1

    For US Support
    Phone: 1-866-405-5464
    Email: usa@rockstarsupport.com

    For Canadian Support
    Phone: 1-800-269-5721
    Email: canada@rockstarsupport.com

    For UK Support
    Phone: 08701 200060
    Email: uk@rockstarsupport.com

  9. Enough is enough. on PC Grand Theft Auto IV Features SecuROM DRM · · Score: 1

    I will not buy the game, but I will play the warez, because I don't want to infect my computer with a rootkit.

  10. not a problem, other than Javascript floats on Web Browser Programming Blurring the Lines of MVC · · Score: 1

    I write applications in XUL (around 20.000 LoC). I use "MVC"ish style for the server. But the "client" is smart(reads: fat).

    My main problem with JS, is that is float calculations suck. If you want to do something serious with calculations you may have problems.

  11. Duplicity: theres already a "utility parition" on New Xbox Experience Goes Live · · Score: 4, Informative

    It seems games already use the HD, if exist:

    "In a post on the Bungie forums, engineer Mat Noguchi explains that the slower loading after a full HDD install is a direct result of how the game was designed to use the HDD in the first place. "When Halo 3 runs, if a HDD is present, we copy maps from the DVD to the utility partition on the HDD," says Noguchi. "And as a result, it means that even if Halo 3 is already installed to the HDD, it will still copy maps to the utility partition."

    The problem is games that still try to use the harddisk ....again. For a PC game, this looks like really easy fix, but I have no idea for a console, as a console is locked down hardware ..for the user and the game dev.. I don't know.

  12. &quote;L.A.S.E.R&quote on The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices · · Score: 1

    Nothing beat a huge laser poiting to the planet core.

  13. Re:Food for Thought on Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth · · Score: 1

    You must do as i do. Simply add && to the link:
    Argumentum ad populum (note: wikipedia is broken)

    Hence.. wikipedia is broken.

  14. Re:How original on Microsoft Patents the Censoring of Speech · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How fun. This as already ben done in spain for some organization alike the RIAA called SGAE.

    note: humm... Linux is betwen moron and fucking here. I will make it bold.

    Here is the code:

    palabras="mafiosos, ladrones, hijos de puta, hijo putas, chorizos, chupopteros, chupópteros, sangrantes, sangrais, sangráis, gilipoyas, por el culo, joderos, que os jodan, chaqueteros, mierda, agilipollao, alamierda, bujarra, bujarrilla, bujarron, bujarrón, cabron, cabrón, cabrona, cabronas, cabroncete, cabrones, cago en, cagoen, calentorra, calentorro, capulla, capullas, cazurra, cazurro, cenutrio, ceporra, ceporro, chingar, chocho, cipote, cipoton, cipotón, cojon, cojón, cojones, cojonudo, coño, cretino, cuesco, encular, estupida, estupido, folla, follada, folladas, follado, folladoras, folladores, follados, follamos, follando, follao, follar, follarse, follo, gilipolla, gilipollas, gilipuertas, hijadeputa, hijaputa, hijasdeputa, hijasputa, hijodeputa, hijoputa, hijoputa, hijoputas, hijosdeputa, hijosputa, hostia, idiota, idiotas, imbecil, imbécil, jilipolla, jilipollas, jilipuertas, joder, joderos, jodete, jódete, jodida, jodidas, jodido, jodidos, jodienda, linux, mamon, mamón, mamones, marica, maricas, maricon, maricona, mariconas, mariconazo, maricones, mentecata, mentecato, moña, ostia, pendeja, pendejo, picha, polla, pollas, porro, pringado, pringao, puta, putas, puto, putos, ramera, subnormal, subnormales, tarugo, tortillera, truño, zangana, zopenco, zurullo,";

    function pasapalabra(cadena){
    cadena=cadena.toLowerCase();
    arPal=palabras.split(',');
    i=0;encontrada=false;
    while(i if(cadena.indexOf(arPal[i])!=-1){
    encontrada=true;
    document.formito.initialState.value=257;
    }
    i++;
    }
    }

  15. .NET break too much on Mono 2.0 and .NET On Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    "InternetNews points out that only about half of the .NET apps out there will work on Mono 2.0"

    On my Windows XP computer half the .NET applications break anyway.

  16. Obligatory on Can Static Electricity Generate Votes? · · Score: 1

    Can votes... generate electricity?

    Maybe thats the solution to the energy problem!

  17. something-to-talk-about-until-the-hockey-playoffs on Net Neutrality Debate Intensifies In Canada · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WTF? what type of geek are you?

    Something to talk about until the release of AoC and WAR!

  18. Stupid Microsoft!! on Microsoft Move to be the End of JPEG? · · Score: 1

    This infuriate me!.
    The ones that always break standards are tryiing to make one? give me a break!.

    Please, Microsoft guys, implemente PNG correctly on ALL versions of IE (yea, backpatch!), and I will get any new format from microsoft seriously.
    If you can't get the basics, why are tryiing something advanced?

  19. EVE: Add dimensions to the game on Ask CCP About EVE Online · · Score: 1

    I love EVE. But is still somewhat cold game. Having something personal can help:

      - Portraits. Very nice feature, but you can't personalize more your portrait. Ideas:
        * Make your Corportation Flag your portrait background
        * Able people zoom the portraits. Maybe even give people pre-rendered scenes with his portrair rendered as a guy looking trought a station window!. Maybe able to replace human eyes, by enhanced ones (red? deep blue?).

      - Commerce ticker. Make a ticker with sales and prices on the screen, so you can enter a area and check this area prices for ice, or something. If this game can be more "wall street" simulator, people that love that simulator will love it.
      - More non-fighting quest. Whats about other type of quest than "kill 3 rats", or "Kill 20 rats" or "Kill 90 rats"? I can give you ideas: races!, spying, spaceship transportation (a ship is given to you, and you have to move that ship to some location), etc...
      - Fatalities. Make very damaged ships rotate like cracy, or break engines?, Is a idea, maybe a bad idea.
      - Lag and you!. Maybe the way EVE buttons work is not lag-safe.

    Etc. (check the EVE forums for good ideas :D )

      Random ideas:
      - A alien race
      - More lore stuff, history, plot, etc

  20. input could be handled in a manner similar to para on PHP Application Insecurity - PHP or Devs Fault? · · Score: 1

    You can do that now in a unpractical way. You can add a textNode, and set the content to the user output. A textNode will force everything to text, even &entities.
    The problem here is ..where this text come from? you can do a ajax conexion, but is unpractical.

    Anyway escaping in PHP/MYSQL is done with mysql_real_escape_string, and I dont think is bad.

  21. To: David Harris on Pegasus and Mercury Circling the Drain · · Score: 1

    Mr David Harris, I was a user of Pegasus Mail for years because was lightweight and other features, then moved to Eudora, and then Thunderbird, and finally Gmail.

    Thanks for your good work!

    --Tei

  22. To the FSF: on 2006 - The Year the FSF Reached Out · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your work, mates! :D
    The Ryzon thing, and all others :D

    As always:

    Thanks!

  23. [X] The idea is USA centric on The NSFW HTML Attribute · · Score: 1

    To quote Apocalipsys Now "We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene!". On USA sex is more tabbo.
    Other people are more openminded, and dont suffer from that tabbo.
    Adding this idea to internet is bad, because cultural centric extensions to standards are doomed, because the world is wide and complex. I dont think is a good idea to open this can of worms. Because next you will have the suggestion.

    <p>obscene text here </p rel="spanish insiquistion">

  24. Is done boys! on Can Games Fly On Google Earth? · · Score: 1

    Is done. Theres a proff off concept with code. What needs more? people can start hacking this to make other game concepts posible. Of course, the limites are tight. You can make some simple games, for the sake to make simple games for earth. Nothing earthbreaking (no pun intented). Anyway.. I wish some guy make a "Defcon" clone :D

  25. Humm... on Chaos and Your Everyday Traffic Jam · · Score: 1

    Your sign:
        "Oolite: Elite-like game. For Mac, Linux and Windows [aegidian.org]"
    Makes me think.. .humm... "Dream the pilots with electronic space simulators?"
    Why you like Oolite?
    Why people like Elite more than Captain blood?
    What the Olimphants are?