I’ve been a brainbench.com member since 2004, way back when they still mailed you a paper version of your certificates for free when you completed an assessment. (This was cool).
I’ve just recently taken one of their tests again, out of curiosity, and I have to say: They still “have it”. The questions are difficult, to the point yet not insane. They have a real nice balance. I will definitely be using their corporate service again, when I need to recruit.
I’ve found it to be an amazing bull-filter before. Plus, the free personality tests are interesting…
roelf Business Business, recruiting
Sadly, it turned out that Tribes:Vengeance really sucks. Vivendi cancelled the very FIRST patch for the game, with a couple of lame excuses. Such as “we only sold 7800 copies in the first week”. It’s pretty straight forward guys. Release a game that is broken, unfinished and no fun to play, and nobody is going to want to buy it. Simple economics. If you had at least bothered to fix it, you may have caught the “long tail” and benefited from the loyalty of the fanbase.
It’s a pity. Tribes was the best team-based Science Fiction game of the last two decades, and I’m going to seriously miss it. Every other game I look at that doesn’t have jetpacks simply gets a “poor groundhuggers” response from me. Perhaps community games like Renegades, or StarSiege:2845 will bring back some of the goodness that was Tribes, but it just simply isn’t going to happen in the next year or two.
*sob*
I have however dabbled in some Tribes:Vengeance development, but only briefly.
My T:V Projects
VengeanceSpawn – infinite spawn-like tool for Tribes:Vengeance
VengeanceMaster – info about the Gamespy system used by the in-game T:V matchmaking
roelf Business, Game Development games, tribes
DataPro are one of the best ISP’s in South Africa, in my opinion. These guys care about their staff. And that is something I have to respect.
I’ve been hosting, and dealing with them for well over 4 years now, and I have never had anything but awesome service from them. Heck when we were arranging a Europe — Brittain game of Tribes2, these guys went to the trouble of reprioritizing their traffic, and assuring the best ping times for .za vs .uk. They were even prepared to let us use their offices to reduce any possible latency.
They’re also the first people in South Africa that came out with an industrial grade UNCAPPED ADSL product, including a firewall, and 16 hours support per month.
All I can say, is that in my opinion DataPro will go a long way, due to their superior management and technical skills. Their MD is approachable, and their technical staff are comitted.
Plus, they have one of the most beautiful hosting facilities I’ve seen in my life.
Rock on DataPro.
roelf Business Internet, isp