sasser w0rm n00b caught.

[humndislocation]

Originally Posted by Rebelius

I'd imagine it's a bit like with games testing for companies, if they have a 25 testers who work 8 hours a day and test a game for a week that's 1000hours of testing.

If it's a big game hundreds of people are going to buy it the day it's released, say only 500 people buy it on release day and play it for 5hours that day then by the 2nd day it's out it's had 2.5 times the amount of play time that the testers had in a week. They're going to find the bugs much quicker than testers so it's much easier for companies to release a patch after a couple of weeks because they'll be able to see feedback all over the internet and find all the flaws with the game on different machines too. I imagine this is far less expensive than paying hundreds of testers.

Yeah that's so true. you'd be surprised how many bugs can slip through testing, simply because some aspect of the game wasn't tested on a regular basis, it was a bug that happens under really rare circumstances, or it was something that someone just never thought to do when testing the game.

In my experience of games testing, there'd be a team of about 4-5 people on each game at the game developer, a load of testers at the publisher, and a load of testers at Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo who would test the game to make sure it met the requirements for that particular console.

A lot of PC games are released still buggy, and patched, just because they can and it's cheaper to get them out the door quickly as possible. That and I suppose the time spent in the manufacturing process is time that can be used to

[humndislocation]

Originally Posted by paperbitch

shoot me down, linux kidz.

As someone that has used linux, I can't really shoot you down. Linux is great, and quite usable these days, but it still has a long way to go to be as usable as windows. It's great if you're a programming nerd though.

[6months of evrything]

just to throw petrol on the fire :P

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...4&sid=96479365

[hooligan]

thank fuck most mac useers use netscape. . . or used to, so fuck i do so im safe

[All_in_black]

Originally Posted by Pity the Dead

Nah he should no way go to jail, he should be employed in a high profile computer buisness and made to protect the system from viruses and such like but should only be givin the very minimum of wages, jail is for killers and rapists

Your idea of who should go to jail is very simplistic. This sad ass computer-fuckinup-er should totally go to jail. He disrupted a shitload of people's lives.