Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 09:48:29 04/23/05
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On April 23, 2005 at 11:48:29, Mike Byrne wrote: >On April 23, 2005 at 11:40:11, Steven Edwards wrote: >>On April 22, 2005 at 21:27:22, Tony Petters wrote: >>But here's a half serious proposal that could work: >> >>Allow each participant a fixed limit on the amount of energy used per game. >>This can be done by attaching an integrating wattmeter between the entrant's >>power supply and the rest of its system. A limit of one megajoule would be >>sufficient to run a modest system for an hour or two. Quad CPU competitors >>might have to go into power save mode instead of pondering. Huge rackmount >>systems would have to be very good at blitz. > >Excellent -- recognizes that equal platfroms are not possible -- but does >propose a solution that levels the playing field and also encourages innovation >in extracting the most out of the world's limited resournces. A very green and >earth friendly suggestion. Even more green would be to power each system by a generator attached to a stationary bicycle with the program's author pumping the pedals. The organizers might have to perform drug testing for steroids. One advantage is that a tired author would be more motivated to resign in a lost position.
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