Author: James Robertson
Date: 09:44:47 11/18/98
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>>>>Perhaps (just maybe) the people here are decent. Ever thought of that?
>>>>
>>>>James
>>>>
>>>
>>>That's a pretty strong statement. You are saying that anyone who is neither
>>>shocked nor agrees with KK isn't a decent person. Can't say that I agree with
>>>that sweeping generalization.
>>
>>I don't care what you think about KK's other observations about the programs,
>
>Nor do I ask you to. You state that a decent person is defined as someone who
>agrees with KK, and therefore those who don't aren't. You may not have meant to
>say this intentionally, but that's what your post states. Do you really believe
>that?
Stop putting words in my mouth!!! A decent person is defined as someone who
agrees with ME, not Komputer Korner!! :)
No seriously, I did not make that defenition at all. For centuries decency has
been defined as the ability to avoid wrong.
>
>>but I do agree with KK that one should avoid vulgarity and nudity in a >>program.
>
>Fine, but when did vulgarity and nudity become defined as bugs? If he presented
>this opinion in a review, that's one thing, but when included in a list of
>bug-laden software as a bug, then I disagree.
>
> Albert Silver
Read KK's list again; it isn't just about bugs. Here it is, and many of his
complaints have NOTHING to do with bugs. A very dull and dreary GUI or a stolen
engine are not "bugs".
1) Chess Wars- playing program with sickening murder scenes that have
nothing to do with chess. playing engine was stolen from GNU Chess without
credit or access to source code
2) IAMGM- a database program that has many "this file has performed
an illegal operation " , and unusable features.
3) USCF Chess playing program that has so many bugs, it seems to be in an Alpha
stage.4) Monarch 2.0 database- crashes on most simplest of menu features
Very dull and dreary GUI.
5) National Lampoon's Chess Maniac Five Billion (and 1)Animal House chess,
Has vulgar language, partial nudity, but kids love it.
Has a feature that allows it to cheat during the game, if you
let it and it also randomly talks to you throughout the game.
6) Championship Chess- only good features are an ability to play over a LAN and
low price.7) GM Chess Ultra- bugs galore
8) ALEXS- This is a weak playing program with so little number of features that
it is laughable and the setup feature is unusable.
James
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