Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 11:56:46 10/29/99
There are already many complaints and wheenings about Rebel century and this sheer fact show to me how truth is the firts statement of the general Villegas Law of Professional Chess Programs and/or Computer Purchaser Satisfaction After the day one: none. The program is presented in windows? That's silly as much as windows sucks. It is made into DOS? Tha's untolerable, as much Dos is an old, obsolete piece of trash. It has an stronger engine? As much we are beaten since 1989 or before, so what we need are more these or those features. It brings more features? Louzy thing, as much we are smart people concerned with strenght, not with frills. It is cheap? Yeah, but you are asking another lot of bucks for the future upgrades. It is expensive in order not to ask more money for upgrades? Hey, we are not rich people, put a reasonable price or I will look to another place. It has a pretty screen and rich flavoured graphics? Sorry sir, but we are not just common, despicable mass market people, give us the real, professional, spartan kind of thing. It is spartan? Then we hate the too much grainy texture of the display and we say that the program deserves something in the magnitude of 2000000000000 pixels in each square inch of the screen. And so and so. Second statement of the etc etc Villegas law: never write a complain after reading in full the manual, but always before, so the programmer must send one post ater another indicating than this or that thing was explained in page XX. Third statement: never write a complaint without a threat that you are not going to purchase anymore in your life the bloody product, so we can scare the poor bastard that was working a full year at full gear to deliver it to us. Less than to bitter his life before we have even played two times his program is absolutely forbiden. Fourth statement: never say something negative without the maximun possible of pulicity in order to hurt the guy that dissapointed us so much, and of course to do it precisely when the man need badly to sell his things to earn a life and continue in the task of giving to us these marvelous products. Fith statement after a good while of time: well, is not so bad ater all.... Mr programmer, could you give us this and that feature next time...? Fernando
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