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Subject: Re: So is it Hydra or Shredder, which play Kasparov later this year?(NT)

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 09:20:29 03/19/04

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On March 18, 2004 at 18:16:16, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>On March 18, 2004 at 07:45:12, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On March 18, 2004 at 04:20:04, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>On March 18, 2004 at 02:32:00, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>Depend on who is willing to sponsor, but I believe that Hydra doesn't have a
>>>future unless they are willing to make it affordable to the mass.
>>>
>>>PS: There is no sense in sponsoring Hydra against Kasparaov, unless there will
>>>be a potential demand for the product.
>>
>>I'm not sure the idea is to sell anything. To me it looks more like a
>>fun project to amuse an oil sjeik and promote the UAE a bit :)
>
>I already find it funny: An Arab program named after a Greek creature, having
>Austrian and German programmers and a Turkish book author.
>
>It is promoted so aggressively as a "UAE program" that you wonder whether the
>name "Christian" is a Muslim name :)
>
>
>>
>>--
>>GCP


It *does* have 9 heads, you know.  Maybe there is a chinese guy assembling the
servers :)

anthony



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