Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:10:00 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 18:51:25, Amir Ban wrote: [snip] >I think it's pretty low to say or imply that Ed played DBjr for cheap publicity. >Obviously he did that out of curiosity. It would make better business sense to >concentrate on the WCCC rather than play improvised games in the hall, but >people who are curious do what is intersting, not important. It's clear from Hsu >& Campbell's letter and the clarification from Friedel that they are not curious >in the least, and that they don't give a damn about their peers respect. That's >a good enough reason not to respect them, and I don't. Wow! I am very surprised to hear such a strong statement from you. How do you imagine that they do not wish for respect? Because they do not want to persue the matter? It is not clear if that is out of kindness or lack of energy, but it seems a bit much to imagine that they are not interested in public opinion. Imagine if I made some chess game called "Bean Counter" and played against Junior 100 times, winning all 100. Well, it turns out that I ran Junior with 1K of cache and even the program had to swap to disk because the memory of the machine was so small. Imagine further that Junior was on a 486 and my program was on a AMD K-7. If (in our mind experiment) I put on my software box: "Bean Counter blasts Junior 100 to nothing!" I think possibly you might be a bit upset. Suppose further, after you found my machine configuration, you knew that I was running Junior in a stupid way. Now you might post a note to the forum saying "Dann Corbit was quite a dolt because he was not running Junior correctly at all. It is no suprise that his lame program won because Junior was running at about 1/10000 of capacity." If you decided not to sue me, would that indicate that you have no respect of your peers? I guess that I simply do not understand your comments.
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