Author: r.c. richards
Date: 19:47:04 11/07/00
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On November 07, 2000 at 14:53:51, Christophe Theron wrote: >So why don't you say that Gambit Tiger is the best program at this time? I always enjoy reading the claims about new versions of programs by folks who haven't seen the programs yet. Has anybody seen Shredder 5 yet who will admit it? The highest known version of it that I know of anybody seeing was Marcus Kaester who used to have 4.16 before it time bombed out on him, and, for whatever reason, he got booted from the beta testing team. (That episode was certainly interesting, but I'm glad the moderator moderated it out because I was spending too much time trying to figure out what happened.) To tell you the truth, I'd probably have never considered buying Shredder except that Stefan seems to be a pretty controversial character--I'm not sure exactly why, but that's basically sold me on the program. I got to have it, especially if independent testing says it's 100 points higher than Fritz--nevermind that Fritz wipes me up and 100 extra points are ain't necessary. If Marcus Kaster were a programmer, I'd buy his program too, and I'd hope Marcus would sell his program for cheaper than the Shredder package, which is too high. I don't want or need all that extra crap that goes along with it. In fact, I may try to think up some reason not to buy it. Those guys at Millenium must have never heard of effective costing, which is just one reason why John Merlino has a lot more money in his pocketbook than Stefan does--and why Shredder is the world champion, but I'd bet a smaller percentage of folks here own Shredder than any other program. John is probably living it up at his beach house while poor Stefan works his butt off in some basement. RC
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