Author: stuart taylor
Date: 15:19:13 09/04/03
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On September 04, 2003 at 00:18:52, Christophe Theron wrote: >On September 03, 2003 at 23:53:48, Jason Waugh wrote: > >>On September 03, 2003 at 18:45:43, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>>AFAIK, Christophe is currently working on the ARM version of >>>>ChessTiger for Palm devices. >> >>>Gian-Carlo, what is your source exactly??? >>> >>>When you do not know the answer to a question, the best you can do is simply to >>>NOT answer. >> >> >>Christophe, you are the one person to whom the question of "when's the next >>version?" is asked the most, and I notice that you do *not* answer, and I >>respect that, and fully understand not only why you don't answer, but also why >>you would ask Gian-Carlo not to answer on your behalf. I'm also happy that you >>don't bow to the pressure. >> >>Unfortunately, you have been breaking your own rule since the release of the >>Tungsten T -- in fact, the way you were hyping armlets it was assumed that your >>Dec. 22 release of last year would be the armlet version of Tiger with Hi-Res... >>it wasn't. (note, CT remains the best looking, most full-featured, best playing >>program on the face of the handheld planet... I'm not trying to deny you of the >>credit you truly deserve) >> >>Since then, you have done nothing but talk about: your forays into Linux, and >>your work on the "arm-native" version of Chess Tiger. >> >>If anybody were to ask me what Christophe Theron is working on, I'd say "since >>sometime about a year ago he's been working on a new version of Chess Tiger for >>the palm with some Arm code in it but god knows what the hell has happened to >>that" and I'm sure, if I wanted to, I could use the CCC search engine to fully >>back that claim with *your* words. >> >>If people are under the impression that you are working on some "arm-native" >>version of Chess Tiger for the palm platform, it is specifically because you >>have stated so on numerous occasions. You are way off base for chiding >>Gian-Carlo for answering that in response to a legitimate query. >> >> >>Jason W. > > > >Come on, who is going to believe that I would have to spend a FULL YEAR on this? >;) > >The reality of my work is more complex than "he is working on the ARM version". > >I'm doing several things at the same time. Some tasks take a long time because >the amount of automatic testing is huge compared to the amount of actual >programming work. Some tasks take a long time because there is human testing >involved and the quality of the testing is worth the wait. Some tasks take a >long time because I'm waiting for something before I can go ahead. Some tasks >take a long time because of the innovating nature of the concept behind them >(and they could take forever or could be ready next week). Some tasks take a >long time because I can work on them only when I'm not busy with the other >tasks. > >In short: I'm very busy with several different "things" and I do not want to >reveal what these things are exactly. You will not find any word about them in >my recent CCC posts, sorry. > > > > Christophe Nevertheless you leave us with little to go by, but It seems to me that about the only thing _I_ recall you as saying (in a specific way) was that you were working on was the ARM-based version of Tiger. (so he had that "information" from YOU) Also, there were times you used to be more talkative. S.Taylor
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