Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 18:08:19 04/05/04
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>>I don't think they are going to have much fun playing against Shredder, not many >>find it interesting to get beaten over and over again in 20 moves. > >That's why ChessMaster has so many built in personalities. But they have to change it from the default, which might be hard for them :) >>If people want to learn how to drive a car they take lessons, if they want to >>program their VCR they read the manual. > >How many houses did you walk into and see the VCR time signal blinking? I have >some friends whom I have set the VCR clock 5 or 6 times. Doesn't mean that they >are stupid. Just techo-phobic. They are stupid if they expect things to work magicly. I do not expect to be able to fly an F16 without lots of training, why should anyone expect to be able to use a computer without putting some work into it? >>Let's face it, interfaces are not going to diappear in the near future. >>They might eventually merge into some kind of standard but they won't disappear >>I think. > >Notepad as an interface will be daunting. Furthermore, many people are terrible >typists. Notepad is conceptually closer to the pen and paper which they are familiar with. I often find it quite hard to find something in a menu if it's not where I guessed it would be. In notepad you could always do a search on a keyword and jump straight there. Browsing through help files is always a nightmare compared to that IMO. >>It is relevant if they want the most out of their program, if they can live with >>less then they can do without. > >It needs to start simple at least. If somewhere in the install process the >instructions say "open file with notepad and set pawn hash to 1/16th of >available memory" the product will fail. I think that is common sense, most winboard engines also have their default hash pretty low so it doesn't require changing to run, only changing to run well. >On the other hand, if there is some >menu item for setting pawn hash and there is a helpful description for it on the >form, and there are 2 pages of explanations if they hit the help button, then >the will eventually adjust the pawn hash if they feel like going into that much >detail. >>If you aren't willing to learn how to edit a line in an ini-file then you can go >>and spend $50 to get one of those profi click-click devices. > >?profi click-click? >They are not going to spend any money to edit something. If they can't do it, >they will put it back in the box. They might return it or they might just let >it sit on the shelf. In either case the customer got nothing for their money. Or they might decide it's about time to learn the basics of using a computer :) >>Lazy or stupid has its price. :) > >Not knowing how to use text editors implies neither lazy nor stupid. It implies >a certain lack of technical skills. I don't mean "retarded" stupid, I mean "ignorant of something" stupid. > If someone at a stable put a strange iron >device in your hand and said "Go curry the blaze." most people would not know >what to do. That implies neither that they are lazy nor stupid. I would feel stupid and look stupid, that would be stupid thing to do to me. :) >They may or >may not be interested in learning what "curry" and "blaze" are. If they are >horse lovers, they may get interested and ask about what these things mean and >actually perform the task correctly. Yes but what is your point? Your point seems to be try and weezel out of learning anything and expect other people to make life easy for you so you never have to read a book or know anything. If an 8 months old baby can't do it must be too hard, fix it! My point is that if you want to use something or do something, learn how to do it. If you don't care about learning how to do it you probably don't care about doing it either. >>However, they are in luck as Arena is the best of both worlds :) > >Arena is nice, and SCID is nice. But Chess Assistant is light years ahead of >those. I don't have chess assistant, I had the light version but it wasn't so great IMO. -S.
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