Why do so many people encounter a problem and conclude that SM didn't test enough. Why do they conclude that SM is too cheap to buy some things and test them? Why do people conclude that none of the Beta testers ever did what they are doing?

Here, I tested it for you. 10 M4s, rendered with GI. I rendered it 8 times just to be sure nothing blew up. I did this during Beta test, but I just did it again to be sure. During Beta I did it with 16 figures.

Now what? Suppose we got the other 100 beta testers to do this and they have no problem as well. What would you suggest then for future testing effort? Would you still say there was not enough testing? Do you think that SM should give Poser 8 to 1,000 people for a beta test? 10,000 people? 100,000 people?

Peoples expectations about product development are unrealistic. No matter how much testing you do, short of giving the entire world a free copy as a beta test, it's impossible to find every possible scenario with every possible hardware and software and OS configuration.

Obviously there's something different about your computer than mine. I'm on a quite ordinary 3 year old Dell laptop with 2 GB RAM and a lame-ass dual core CPU. Why don't you give your computer to SM for a few weeks. I'm sure they'd be happy to add it to their testing lab, along with the dozens of other machines they already are testing with. Clearly there's something unique about yours.

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