Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 09:41:52 04/24/99
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On April 24, 1999 at 00:24:18, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On April 23, 1999 at 23:48:34, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>I forgot to add, IT ISN'T POLITE TO YELL EITHER. >> >>Dave > >I ran it through Babel Fish, and what it says, if you can trust Babel Fish, is >that the match should have been done on a 500 mhz Pentium III, and a word that >the translator translated as "idiot" was used several times to describe he who >would try to do a match on the hardware that will be used in this match. > >Notably absent was an offer to ship a Pentium III to the playing site. > >bruce Do not trust Babel Fish. Do not trust any automatic translation program, they are good to have a laugh, but no more. In fact José Hernández was offering to lend the organiser his pentium III. The word "idiota" was not used to describe he who would try the match on that hardware (G3). It was used to say that anybody (any "idiota") can see that Hiarcs is much weaker on a G3/233 than on a PIII/550. Note that I do not support José Hernández' point of view, I think it is up to the organiser to choose on which hardware he will play Hiarcs. But Babel Fish gave you a really poor translation this time, and I wanted to point it out as it seems to say exactly the contrary of the original post. Spanish grammar is very different from English, so the result is not surprising. José.
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