Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:46:56 10/09/03
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On October 09, 2003 at 09:13:36, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>On October 08, 2003 at 19:21:09, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>But the ONE thing that make them hard to compare is that 90% of the posters
>>love
>>to mention their name, the *town* they are living in, the amount of hash table
>>they are using BUT DO NOT EVEN CARE TO MENTION THE PROCESSOR THEY ARE USING and
>>its clock frequency in MHz!!!
>
>A suggestion in good spirit but it won't fly, believe me. :)
>
>People specify times w/o timezones, temperatures w/o the unit (very funny
>between Europeans and Americans), store dates without the century (it still
>happens, but then what do you expect of people who even use a shortcut
>(Y2K-problem) for the year-2000 problem?), Americans use 12-hour time w/o
>specifying am/pm when they talk with each other and of course CCC-readers post
>results of engine matches w/o specifying the CPU etc. In short: humans are lazy
>and always will be. :)
>
>Sargon
Lazy is not the word. Irrational, illogical, dumb, stupid, comes to my mind.
See how I love the human race in general! :)
Christophe
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