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Subject: Re: How about open weaponry boxing championship?

Author: Sean Empey

Date: 10:23:23 07/14/04

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On July 14, 2004 at 13:04:20, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 14, 2004 at 12:39:01, Matthew Hull wrote:
>
>>On July 14, 2004 at 12:30:13, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>
>>>On July 14, 2004 at 12:19:46, Sean Empey wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 14, 2004 at 12:11:31, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On July 14, 2004 at 12:06:35, José Carlos wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On July 14, 2004 at 11:41:04, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On July 14, 2004 at 11:38:31, Peter Berger wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On July 14, 2004 at 11:26:47, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On July 14, 2004 at 11:12:14, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Not at all, Omid
>>>>>>>>>>If you already have a parallel engine you should run it into a hardware
>>capable >>>>>>>>of getting all its power.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I understand that you are going to provide the hardware, right?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>It is not something personal; next year I will have the needed hardware,
>>but >>>>>>>what about others? Deep Sjeng and ParSOS were also parallel engines,
>>but ran on >>>>>>>single processor not because they thought it was better, but
>>because they did >>>>>>>not have access to a fast multiprocessor machine.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I wonder what except the results changed from two weeks ago to now to
>>make you >>>>>>imply this is an unfair event and go on raving about it ?!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Weren't you even one of the organizers?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Yes, and I complained loudly about it even before the event.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  It doesn't make sense to organize something you complain about. Either
>>ask >>>>_before_ that it is a WMCCC this year or don't organize something
>>you're >>>>against.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm glad that we organized it, and am very happy that it took place
>>>>>successfully.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm of course not against it, but simply say that there is room for
>>>>>improvement.
>>>>
>>>>Yes, but it's not making it easier for _you_ to win. It's marketing it better
>>>>and getting more participation.
>>>
>>>For this very reason a uniform hardware rule should be adopted. The number of
>>>participants would be much higher in a uniform hardware event, and you can
>>>expect other strong single processor engines (like Hiarcs and Tiger) to join.
>>
>>
>>Wrong.  CCT6 had Hiarcs, Junior and Rebel AND it was open hardware.  There were
>>three times the participants.
>>
>>This proves you are completely wrong.  People don't come to WCCC because it's
>>too expensive and too long.
>
>The problem of being too expensive can be solved if the sponsor pay 10000$ for
>every programmer who participates so even programmers with no chances to win may
>come because they can make money by doing it.
>
>The  number of participants can be limited to 30 participants and 30*10000$ is
>only 300000$ that is not much for some rich people so giving the money is no
>problem for them and they will also have money for better machines(not PIV but
>some quad opteron).
>
>You only need to convince one of them to give the money.
>
>Uri


Uri, come down to reality. Come back to us.



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