Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 13:30:17 03/24/01
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On March 24, 2001 at 15:40:38, Rajen Gupta wrote: >in my opinion they are a wonderful, no problem that you have a different opinion than i do have >highly >innovative company yes. like microsoft. highly innovative. how long does it take for a 286 to boot windows 3.11? and how long does it take for a 486 to boot windows 95? and how long does it take for a pentium200 to boot win98 and how long does it take for a pentium3/700 to boot win NT ? and ... do you get a picture of a higly innovative company ? what happens when your windows crashes , you cannot rescue it, do you have to install all your chess programs again when you have installed a fresh windows from the scratch ? and ? does it make fun ? Do you believe that an operating system in the 21.century needs to be shut down for any change that has been made ? microsoft is a pain. its completely nuts, and though we all use it, cause we have no choice. this is innovative. this is the future, the progress, the sense of life, to boot an operating system, to install the OS over and over again, to reinstall applications over and over again, to boot the machine over and over again, to watch the blue screens appear ... thats 21.century innovation. and chessbase is on the way to become a 2nd microsoft company ! hip hip horray ! this will be a brave new world. 1984 ? 2001 !! aahhhh! >with the interests of us computer chess lovers first with the interest to make money. >and >foremost and profits last. :-))) >they were the first 1)to start selling a complete >chess programme for $50 when all the others were demanding at least 50% more for >programmes which had much fewer features.2) they were the ones who introduced >the single user interface on which a number of different engines could run, thus >facilitating eng vs eng matches 3)first to introducea commercial version of a >multiprocessor capable engine 4)their stable has the best and stongest engines >that money can buy > >what evil about that? whats the evil thing about mc donalds ? whats the evil thing of giving weapons to young children or teaching them how to use ? whats the evil thing about cars that need 20 ltr. fuel / 100 km ? >rajen use kant's categorical imperative to find out youself.
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