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Subject: Re: Please don't forget to mention CPU type/speed when you post an analy

Author: David Dory

Date: 02:21:15 10/10/03

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On October 09, 2003 at 21:46:56, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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

What?

Calling neurotic computer chess fan's ** human ** ?? :-D

Dave



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