An Open Question to HTC-

[Shuffler]

You would give college students the job of "storing" booze?  Are you crazy?!

As long as there are no instructions on the bottle as to how to open it. I see no problem.

[PFactorDave]

As long as there are no instructions on the bottle as to how to open it. I see no problem.

This is a valid point also. 

[LLogann]

But not as valid.... Lest we forget John Belushi in Animal House.....  He never took the top off, simply smashed the bottle high up and drank the rest. 

This is a valid point also. 

HTC would then sink into debt and need a bailout because the booze is because a "red expense."

[Shuffler]

Not much expense. The scotch is from SAPP. The intern can be paid as a bartender or server (less than minimum wage) and work for tips.


First "tip" ...... don't drop the bottles.


I can picture a back room at Hitech with a pool table and a bar..... ummm opps I mean an enlarged back room with more pool tables and maybe another bar.

[LLogann]

But is that the good stuff?  Get some Blue Label and I'll bartend myself.......for free!!!     

Not much expense. The scotch is from SAPP.

[hitech]

SlapShot: I once hired a programmer who claimed to want to do optimization in assembler. I knew I was in trouble when I saw he was a slow 2 finger typer.

I once hired a color blind artist. He actually did good work.


HiTech

[Strip]

hitech,

With ut most respect possible for the work you guys do Id like to ask you a question. Why does it take so long to fix apparently simple bugs? (I realize that some arent so simple and its not so easy.) It seems to me fixing a gauge or damage bug shouldnt be too difficult. Or the things like the CoG issue with the mossi and Me-163's incorrect fuel burn rate?

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Strip

[LLogann]

Burn rate for the 163 is just fine...... 7 minutes.  In game, we have a throttle control for it..... Is that what you want fixed?  Make it like it was?  7 minutes of fixed thrust to get to 45k and then glide to your target?

Also....... Bugs........

Think about this one.....  Microsoft has a few more developers then HTC does.  Agreed?  Office 2007 comes out and not until 2 months ago did they make docx, pptx, exlx files backwards compatible with old versions of office.  It's all the same code isn't it?  Code fixes are sometimes so obscure, that it takes a while.  Not that that statement gives Microsoft an excuses..... Those punks.

hitech,

With ut most respect possible for the work you guys do Id like to ask you a question. Why does it take so long to fix apparently simple bugs? (I realize that some arent so simple and its not so easy.) It seems to me fixing a gauge or damage bug shouldnt be too difficult. Or the things like the CoG issue with the mossi and Me-163's incorrect fuel burn rate?

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Strip

[mechanic]

hitech,

Or the things like the CoG issue with the mossi

Please, for the love of god, leave the mossie alone.

[Strip]

Burn rate for the 163 is just fine...... 7 minutes.  In game, we have a throttle control for it..... Is that what you want fixed?  Make it like it was?  7 minutes of fixed thrust to get to 45k and then glide to your target?

The Me-163 fuel burn rate decreases as speed increases which for a rocket engine is impossible.

Edit: You facts are incorrect also.....in real life the Me-163 was throttlable and restartable.

You cant compare HTC to Microsoft any more than you can compare Office 2007 to Aces High. HTC doesnt want to be compared to Microcrap on most subjects either.

Strip

[LLogann]

AH HA..... You are right sir, my bad. (163)

However.... This one is not a comparison.... In fact it's so not a comparison between MS & HTC that I will not even address it.  Maybe read what I said again (about bugs in the code) a little slower.

The Me-163 fuel burn rate decreases as speed increases which for a rocket engine is impossible.

Otherwise you cant compare HTC to Microsoft any more than you can compare Office 2007 to Aces High. HTC doesnt want to be compared to Microcrap on most subjects either.

Strip

[Strip]

I read it fine...

Microsoft is motivated by greed....Aces High is motivated to be the best. (I hope....)

Strip

[LLogann]

That is true.... 150%.

But you're the only boob comparing two companies.  I simply made a bug comparison.



Wait Skuzzy, I'll do it......... "See Rule 4"

Sorry.

[Strip]

Sigh....

You bring a coding issue up masked as a bug issue. Microsoft willingly made the files not backwards compatable. HTC more than likely did not know about some of these bugs.

Hardly the same in any form (bug or company) in my book....oversight vs malice.

Strip

[dedalos]

Well if that is your experience with interns Straffo, then I don't blame you for thinking as you do.  Perceptions are based on experience, after all.  In my experience, I have seen interns out-produce and even out-think (strategically) higher level staff, who simply have a different approach.  Don't get me wrong, there are certainly your waste-of-oxygen ones out there...but you can say that about any position.  Again, just my experience in the matter. 

Don't categorically dismiss them just because you had a couple duds...that's all I'm trying to get at.

Maybe in a different field.  We hire full time programmers that we will not let do anything important for months until they are familiar with our systems and infrastructure.  These are guys we recruit from the best colleges after months of interviewing.  Are they 100 times smarter than me?  Probably yes.  But until they have the experience to go with it they are just dangerous