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Subject: Re: Here a chess programmer does not even care to mention CPU speed

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 02:19:23 10/11/03

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On October 11, 2003 at 05:09:13, José Carlos wrote:

>On October 11, 2003 at 05:02:59, Alessandro Damiani wrote:
>
>>On October 11, 2003 at 04:30:36, José Carlos wrote:
>>
>>>On October 11, 2003 at 01:37:19, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 10, 2003 at 13:11:42, José Carlos wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On October 10, 2003 at 12:47:19, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On October 10, 2003 at 12:37:56, José Carlos wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On October 10, 2003 at 12:10:27, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>What a shame...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    Christophe
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  You have the right to ignore any post you don't like.
>>>>>>>  Personally, I couldn't care less about Bas hardware. I'm interested in the
>>>>>>>problem itself, the nodes and the PV's.
>>>>>>>  So Bas, thanks for posting your analysis.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  José C.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>So you mean that mentionning the processor type and speed together with the
>>>>>>analysis is useless?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Is it the opinion you want to defend?
>>>>>
>>>>>  For me? Yes. Is that bad?
>>>>>
>>>>>  José C.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Then why mention the hash table size and not the processor type/speed?
>>>>
>>>>Why post the entire, long, boring analysis and not just the solution time and
>>>>score?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Christophe
>>>
>>>  Why post boring tounament talbes? Why post boring questions about how to run
>>>this or that program under this or that GUI? Why post boring commercial
>>>advertisments about a new version or a patch? Why post boring "how does alpha
>>>beta search work" questions?
>>>  Your question and all my questions have the same answer: what I'm interested
>>>in is not necessarily what the rest of the world is. I respect posts I'm not
>>>interested in because I know someone is.
>>>
>>>  José C.
>>
>>
>>The question is the value of a posting if one is interested in reading it.
>>
>>When I see a time indication in a result then I am interested in the hardware
>>used. If this information is not provided then the time indication is worthless.
>>Can you compare it? No.
>>
>>Alessandro
>
>  1. "Worthless for you" != "a shame"
>  2. You want to compare? Fine. Must then everyone else want to compare? Of
>course not.
>  3. If someone gives you for free something you don't need, will you say "it's
>a shame you gave me this thing I don't need"? Or would you rather say "thanks,
>could you please also give me that for the gift is more useful for me"?
>
>  José C.

If I would give you my broken TV set, would you take it just because it is a
gift?

Alessandro



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