Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 12:43:40 10/29/99
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On October 29, 1999 at 14:56:46, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 Fernando, I truly loved it. This is my post of the year. Enrique
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