This is among the things chalked up to programmers not having time to make us tools. On my most recent project, there was a model polygon counter, but it was entirely manual, and the programmers did not have the time to make a script to just create a text doc with all the units' polygon counts on it to make sure they were down in numbers they were supposed to have, so we had to manually check each of several versions of each unit or object, which took days. Thank God for MP3s.
I may prefer AMD over Intel for modern processors, but what I really want is for Transmeta chips to make it onto the radar. The trouble is tracking down something less than new, as I cannot afford a new Transmeta laptop at the moment...
You would be a piss-poor tester then. IMHO (as a games tester) those who hate games are better off than those who like them when they start. That way you don't have to work them past the illusion that a) they will be playing games, and b) the games will work properly when they test them.
Two words: job security. Even if I were to make my wallet fat as a temp, I don't like the idea of buying anything big like a house without that security. At least hired on for salary you have job security.
I am a tester at a major games company (we have had two products in the top ten at times in the past month) and I can attest to the fact that testing can in fact be a tedious, horrible, and even evil job at times. The hours can be extremely long, as well. examples of jobs most people do not associate with a games tester that are primary functions:
-going through the User Interface with a checklist and checking off boxes for each item as it functions, pass or fail.
-going through strings tables to find spelling errors and grammatical issues, as well as text that does not fit its area.
-polygon counting.
-recording frames per second as an automated test runs the same combat over and over again
-installing the game to each drive letter possible (D: through Z:) to make sure it functions properly, to quell a VP's fears.
-Installing and uninstalling. repeatedly.
-testing against the Windows Logo Checklist. Trust me...don't if you can help it.
really? when was the last time you went to an arcade, anyhow? I haven't seen such a soul in an arcade in years, at least not in the droves you spea k of. All the people you seem to be referring to are now playing counterstrike and downloading off kazaa on some uni's network and pipe.
yes, but how many people who have actual money still frequent arcades? I know that by the time I had cash to drop on consoles, I didn't have the time to go to an arcade anyway, so I stuck to consoles instead. Besides, the only arcades local enough for me to get to were all running old-school games since they were cheaper, with a few hit machines like Mortal Kombat series games and other such. So when you break it down, arcades are a great place to get mindshare for the future, but not a place to reap of actual cash in most cases.
much of what you said makes sense, up until the end. Thats where it becomes a justification of the current situation rather than an insight towards it. It is not the fault of myself or anyone else who is under 50. As a 21 year old US citizen, I do not feel responsible at all for modern political problems. Yes, I vote. But do I really pick who is making all these idiotic rules? no. The US Citizen has had little power on a whole to change a thing. Voting lets you pick the lesser of two evils. Party politics have seen to it that you either pick the lesser of two evils or you pick who you want knowing he won't win anyway. So until enough people get fed up (and the average citizen isn't going to figure this out), we're screwed by both the abuse of situations that occurred before any of my ancestors came here (all in the 1920s), and the overwhelming scale to which those abuses have taken hold and even become legitimized. So either way, Joe Citizen has not given the politicians the authority, but rather the overwhelming strength of an existing government and a set of abusive precedents have. Saying that I as a voting citizen has given them the authority is like saying that if I wake up in a canoe in a raging river without any paddles that using my hands gives me plenty of control over the course of my canoe.
well, there are two possible replies, so i will give both without taking a side since it can work both ways for his arguement:
Microsoft pays no federal income tax due to a clever ruse they have gotten to be legal.
Retailers pay a considerable amount of sales tax on said products when purchased retail, though the OEM version's sales tax associated with it is almost certainly negligible when you compare it to the rest of the hardware, esp. when the OEMs rather than the sofware company are the ones paying the sales tax.
IANAL or accountant, and I do not know the sales tax laws in said state.
disease == "root server has no mechanism to block requests from abusers"
disease == "programs are making too many abusive requests"
and
disease == "lots of requests should not be causing root servers problems, regardless of validity of said requests"
I could link to a dozen bad URLs from deviantart.com's shitty parser, for example, where the slack ass bastard who posted a description of his work didn't put a space between the period at the end of his sentence and wound up with something like 'end.start' as a url link to nothing at all. Bad parsing of dynamic content such as this is a good example of one of the diseases as well.
blah blah blah. if the servers cannot handle it, then there is a problem with the system, not with its usage. You're one of those fools who treats the symptom rather than the disease i see
how much does this really matter for something that will take 30 seconds to actually run even as a slow interpreted language, aside from overhead from network interfacing that it would take anyway? You're just as bad as these people the article talks about.
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This is among the things chalked up to programmers not having time to make us tools. On my most recent project, there was a model polygon counter, but it was entirely manual, and the programmers did not have the time to make a script to just create a text doc with all the units' polygon counts on it to make sure they were down in numbers they were supposed to have, so we had to manually check each of several versions of each unit or object, which took days. Thank God for MP3s.
I do check that. But thats not tedious, as I tend to do that 90% of the time I do actual ingame testing. But maybe thats just here where I work.
I may prefer AMD over Intel for modern processors, but what I really want is for Transmeta chips to make it onto the radar. The trouble is tracking down something less than new, as I cannot afford a new Transmeta laptop at the moment...
You would be a piss-poor tester then. IMHO (as a games tester) those who hate games are better off than those who like them when they start. That way you don't have to work them past the illusion that a) they will be playing games, and b) the games will work properly when they test them.
Two words: job security. Even if I were to make my wallet fat as a temp, I don't like the idea of buying anything big like a house without that security. At least hired on for salary you have job security.
Actually, as a hobby, I garden and I play with computer hardware. And I play console RPGs. But I have never worked on an RPG title...
I am a games tester. When I finish a project, usually the first thing i do with my free cop(y/ies) is send them to friends who live far away.
I am a tester at a major games company (we have had two products in the top ten at times in the past month) and I can attest to the fact that testing can in fact be a tedious, horrible, and even evil job at times. The hours can be extremely long, as well. examples of jobs most people do not associate with a games tester that are primary functions:
-going through the User Interface with a checklist and checking off boxes for each item as it functions, pass or fail.
-going through strings tables to find spelling errors and grammatical issues, as well as text that does not fit its area.
-polygon counting.
-recording frames per second as an automated test runs the same combat over and over again
-installing the game to each drive letter possible (D: through Z:) to make sure it functions properly, to quell a VP's fears.
-Installing and uninstalling. repeatedly.
-testing against the Windows Logo Checklist. Trust me...don't if you can help it.
And thats just a start. I could go on for hours.
I haven't been here that long....I'm originally from Germany and grew up in the bay area....
really? when was the last time you went to an arcade, anyhow? I haven't seen such a soul in an arcade in years, at least not in the droves you spea k of. All the people you seem to be referring to are now playing counterstrike and downloading off kazaa on some uni's network and pipe.
*gives you official texan hat*
I second that. Pop 1400 here
yes, but how many people who have actual money still frequent arcades? I know that by the time I had cash to drop on consoles, I didn't have the time to go to an arcade anyway, so I stuck to consoles instead. Besides, the only arcades local enough for me to get to were all running old-school games since they were cheaper, with a few hit machines like Mortal Kombat series games and other such. So when you break it down, arcades are a great place to get mindshare for the future, but not a place to reap of actual cash in most cases.
much of what you said makes sense, up until the end. Thats where it becomes a justification of the current situation rather than an insight towards it. It is not the fault of myself or anyone else who is under 50. As a 21 year old US citizen, I do not feel responsible at all for modern political problems. Yes, I vote. But do I really pick who is making all these idiotic rules? no. The US Citizen has had little power on a whole to change a thing. Voting lets you pick the lesser of two evils. Party politics have seen to it that you either pick the lesser of two evils or you pick who you want knowing he won't win anyway. So until enough people get fed up (and the average citizen isn't going to figure this out), we're screwed by both the abuse of situations that occurred before any of my ancestors came here (all in the 1920s), and the overwhelming scale to which those abuses have taken hold and even become legitimized. So either way, Joe Citizen has not given the politicians the authority, but rather the overwhelming strength of an existing government and a set of abusive precedents have. Saying that I as a voting citizen has given them the authority is like saying that if I wake up in a canoe in a raging river without any paddles that using my hands gives me plenty of control over the course of my canoe.
well, there are two possible replies, so i will give both without taking a side since it can work both ways for his arguement:
Microsoft pays no federal income tax due to a clever ruse they have gotten to be legal.
Retailers pay a considerable amount of sales tax on said products when purchased retail, though the OEM version's sales tax associated with it is almost certainly negligible when you compare it to the rest of the hardware, esp. when the OEMs rather than the sofware company are the ones paying the sales tax.
IANAL or accountant, and I do not know the sales tax laws in said state.
provided of course they haven't already gotten into your E-mail as well
In SOVIET RUSSIA, Josef Stalin misspells YUO!
amen, brother. Amen.
woo! i want intergalactic G.I. Joe weapons too!
actually,
disease == "root server has no mechanism to block requests from abusers"
disease == "programs are making too many abusive requests"
and
disease == "lots of requests should not be causing root servers problems, regardless of validity of said requests"
I could link to a dozen bad URLs from deviantart.com's shitty parser, for example, where the slack ass bastard who posted a description of his work didn't put a space between the period at the end of his sentence and wound up with something like 'end.start' as a url link to nothing at all. Bad parsing of dynamic content such as this is a good example of one of the diseases as well.
blah blah blah. if the servers cannot handle it, then there is a problem with the system, not with its usage. You're one of those fools who treats the symptom rather than the disease i see
I did. I also read 'Lion' (the animal) as Lithium-ion
egad...if you're gonna troll, do it right. your cow dung thing doesn't make any fucking sense.
isn't that slashdot every day?
how much does this really matter for something that will take 30 seconds to actually run even as a slow interpreted language, aside from overhead from network interfacing that it would take anyway? You're just as bad as these people the article talks about.