School Placement tests

scott · Post by **scott** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:39 pm

you are right on the mark there MoG, at my interview for a games tester they said that because i was in the indusrtry it will be easier for myself to get into game develpment if i wanted, and they are right, because of my work i can get a degree in compter games design and will be having one of the best chances to get into a the games industry, though the universtiy take students in that do not have industry experience, they ask for a portfolio of your work, this seems to be a resenable bit for the aplication and they do make out it is important, and the part about none of the game developers not having education in the area is true to the extent that companies like Rare Ltd would not even tkae a computer games course into acount while applying for a job, it was completely on the merrit of your own work and portfolio, however in the last couple of years (not much at all) they have realised that educated people in the games area is an advantage.

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:10 pm

darksmaster923 wrote:me live in ultra rich area, right by the beach.
its nice.

I envy you, We took a vacation three years ago, went to San Diego, LA, Carlsbad, and Huntington Beach. We shopped in LA, went to legoland in Carlsbad, went to the San Diego zoo, and relaxed on the beach in HB. It was one of the best vacations ever.

bernie wrote:Living in a city must be like rats living in a sewer. Never fancied the idea myself its like MOG says but I'm not too sure about the visiting being ok.

Bernie wrote:Nah far too hectic. Everyone rushing round like there's no time for anything, traffic snarled up and tempers fraying. There's little wonder folk turn to drugs or even suicide. I prefer the quiet lfe in the countryside. When I awake in the morning I hear the birds singing. I can see the stars in the sky at night. When I visit my kids in the city there's none of that. Sodium street lights shining through the curtains and traffic noise keeping me awake. You can't see the stars at night just the orange glow of sodium lighting. The sound of the birds drowned out by traffic, the neighbours playing loud music into the night, rowing with each other after a frustrating day among the traiffic, muggings and prostitution rife in the city centre. Not for me thanks very much, I'd rather be dead than living like that.

Well, Waterford is a small city. The tallest buildings are four and five stories tall, In the center they're crammed and the traffic's bad, but after that, not so much. I live a bit further out than that. The houses are one or two stories, and fairly packed but we still have room for a cool yard that has so many dips, and trees, and hills, and cliffs that we play Airsoft for hours, it's the perfect arena, small, less than one acre, but the best.

Another thing, waterford does not have the square streets and intersections every block like most cities, Actually it's built around four or five lakes (Hence WATER FORD, it's basically built on the land that divides the lakes) So we live right by the lake in a quiet little area. There aren't many kids here, mostly young couples (20s and 30s) and elderly people. The only person my age near me is the girl that lives across the street. Everyone else my age is a little ways away. I wake up to the sound of birds, crickets (food for my lizard), ...and my alarm clock. currently, though, no birds, everything is blanketed in six inches of snow (half a foot, a sixth of a meter) and it's about 20 degrees Fahrenheit (about -10 Celsius) So I'm inside with a jacket on. (in the three months of warm weather we get evey year I like to sit out on the porch swing) Anyway, It's not a very bad city, theres not Drug Dealers around the corners, or prostitution. You only really hear news of crimes and stuff from nearby cities. (Man, I wish it were warmer. But I'm way up, about 100 miles from the very northern reaches of the USA, almost into Canada, so that doesn't happen)

And if we really miss the country, we go to my grandparent's, they live in tuscoa, where houses are a mile apart, property is cheap, and the nearest big town is a half hour's drive away. They have cool stuff too, four wheelers, a vehicle called "the mule" which is like a cross between a pickup truck and an offroad golf cart.

scott · Post by **scott** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:25 pm

just worked it out, $7.5 USD per gallon here, £1.09 per litre, 3.785 litres per gallon, £1 = $2 BLOODY expensive.
you americans how about stop filling your swimming pools with gas and using water so we can have cheaper fuel.

prices are only to rise more aswel.

fps · Post by **fps** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:42 pm

trust me. if it was up to me that would have been the case as soon as i heard about that advanced hydrolosis system. your talking to the wrong "americans". sorry, buddy.

darksmaster923 · Post by **darksmaster923** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:58 am

u wuz in hb and u didnt tell me? wah

an i like gas in my pool. makes it taste good, and covers up sum neat suprises!

kiddin

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:13 am

Ouch scott, but your cars on average get twice the fuel mileage as ours...
But it's not my fault (Oh, we live on the lake so we don't have a pool and our cars run on E85, not gas, so I can't help you there scott)

darksmaster923 · Post by **darksmaster923** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:18 am

Agentarrow wrote:Ouch scott, but your cars on average get twice the fuel mileage as ours...
But it's not my fault (Oh, we live on the lake so we don't have a pool and our cars run on E85, not gas, so I can't help you there scott)

WHAT! ETHANOL? BLASPHEMY! THIS IS THE UNITED STATES! WE POLLUTE AND WASTE LOTS OF MONEY AROUND HERE

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:22 am

My dad works for chrysler, he got company cars, A durango, Dodge company car, and a Town & Country, Chrysler company car.
SO they run on ethanol. It saves scott about $.1 every thousand gallons, no need to thank me scott

vrageprogrammer · Post by **vrageprogrammer** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:14 pm

Er....Wasn't this about school placement tests?

Just Kidding!

scott · Post by **scott** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:55 pm

indeed it was to do with school placment but as everything on the forums oftopic seems to be the main skill of everyone.

and yea our cars run twice as economical for the whole reason of the price, we dont have speedy fast super charged sports cars, or massive v8/v10 humvies, we go around in V6 1.6L mini's or equivelent through force of price, if fuel was cheaper here i would imagine alot more of us driving pickup truks with gas turbins straped on the back

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:38 pm

lol, yeah. Dodge started making smaller cars for the European market, but these are now sold in the US and pretty popular, like theDodge Caliber

V4 1.8L engine, five passengers, Ethanol or Gasoline, 25 - 35 MPG highway, and around $20,000 I like this car a lot

or theDodge Nitro Possibly the smallest, and most fuel efficient truck on the market

V6 .... aprx 2L Don't know much else
They'll also be releasing the Chrysler Voyager soon. It's a cross between a large car and a minivan. Good family vehicle

However, Dodge and Chrysler aren't their American sports car faults:
Dodge Charger SRT-8
Viper SRT-10
Dodge Caliber SRT-4 (High performance version for the American market

)
Dodge Challenger
Chrysler Firepower
Chrysler Crossfire
Chrysler 300 SRT-8
So yeah, They have the gas guzzlers, but they also have the nice, fuel efficent cars

And scott, you'd be surprised how much (Or at least around here) that people advertise America as being the "land of gas guzzlers" but I don't see too many gas guzzling cars, unless you go to places like Miami where people own and drive Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and Porsche's for fun.

Post by **bernie** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:41 am

25-35mpg is a gas guzzler if you compare to 50-60mpg for my ford fusion 1.4L anything 40mpg or less is a gas guzzler. The high price we pay for petrol (gas) is also to pay for CO2 emmissions. Global warming is a serious issue and it's about time the US came on board and cut it's emmissions too.

Agentarrow · Post by **Agentarrow** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:00 am

Except, that what is told about Global Warming, About emissions and stuff only accounts for 1/4 of Global warming. The other 3/4 is part of a natural warming cycle that the earth goes through, basically, the Earth goes through a warming cycle, it gets hot, whatever, then the Earth goes into a cooling cycle and there's an Ice age, then it repeats. And the 25-35 aparently, according to my dad is on Ethanol which is considerably less mileage than on Gasoline, so Ethanol is better for the environment but shaves 5-10 mpg off your fuel efficiency. :\

darksmaster923 · Post by **darksmaster923** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:35 am

Agentarrow wrote:Except, that what is told about Global Warming, About emissions and stuff only accounts for 1/4 of Global warming. The other 3/4 is part of a natural warming cycle that the earth goes through, basically, the Earth goes through a warming cycle, it gets hot, whatever, then the Earth goes into a cooling cycle and there's an Ice age, then it repeats. And the 25-35 aparently, according to my dad is on Ethanol which is considerably less mileage than on Gasoline, so Ethanol is better for the environment but shaves 5-10 mpg off your fuel efficiency. :\

were overdue for an ice age anyway

Post by **bernie** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:41 pm

And the 25-35 aparently, according to my dad is on Ethanol which is considerably less mileage than on Gasoline, so Ethanol is better for the environment but shaves 5-10 mpg off your fuel efficiency. :\

So what you are saying then is that the environmental saving you make using ethanol you lose by having to use more of it to cover the same distance. hmm!

Except, that what is told about Global Warming, About emissions and stuff only accounts for 1/4 of Global warming. The other 3/4 is part of a natural warming cycle that the earth goes through, basically, the Earth goes through a warming cycle, it gets hot, whatever, then the Earth goes into a cooling cycle and there's an Ice age, then it repeats.

Yes but 25% is a huge contribution and any cuts in man made emmissions would be good and help save humanity. Lets face it, the US is the worlds biggest polluter at the moment and should do it's bit to help combat this major threat. Besides that the world shoud be in a natural cooling period at the moment like darkmaster has pointed out.

Here in Ireland the government has announced a 25% tax on all new SUV's and the annual tax on vehicles 1.5L and over is to be increased proportionally with vehcles less than 1.5L paying less. That is a sensible move in my opinion and should discourage an awful lot of wasted energy. Another move that is being mooted at the moment is to ban the sale of conventional light bulbs and replace them with energy saving light bulbs again saving waste and emmissions.