Battle for Middle Earth - Bugs

[Joe Forster/STA]

Originally Posted by aquadag2

let me put it to u in a way that your little mnd can handle it, would u like the same programmers working on things for your safety with the same attitude that the game developers have, such as airplane, train controls, and elevators and stop lights

Sherlock, dig a bit deeper and find out how much 1) money, 2) time and 3) help with the design do A) game programmers and B) programmers of critical systems get from the company that ordered the software. With 1) ten/hundred times as much money, 2) several years of (pre-)development and 3) very careful design, design testing and re-designing (and this again and again and again, before a single line of code was written!), ANYONE can implement a(n almost) completely bug-free software/system!

You're trying to compare the manufacturing process of an everyday car with that of a NASA space craft!

And, no, I don't like Micro$oft either. However, 1) no law makes them tighten the security and reliability of their softwares - mainly operating systems - so why would they do that themselves and 2) there are alternatives anyway (hehe, an answer for the previous one: the higher quality of concurrent softwares make them finally build better softwares of their own!)...