Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 23:10:34 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 18:15:49, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On October 12, 1999 at 17:47:12, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On October 12, 1999 at 14:58:21, odell hall wrote: >> >>>I don't think Ed Was making any "Macho" statements at all, He was simply >>>reporting the excellent results against what he Perceived to be Deepblue jr. I >>>think anyone would have done the same thing, It was not his fault that deepblue >>>Team misrepresnts a "fake" as the Real thing. Ed doesn't have EsP or Psychic >>>abilities, he can only go by what he sees presented. Had ferret beat what you >>>thought was deepblue, would you not comment about it??? I see nothing wrong >>>personally in a person who is in "business" To use positive publicity, as long >>>as this publicity is based on Fact. Ed Reported the Facts Accurately as far as >>>he knew them. >> >>I haven't followed the thing with Ed, so I wasn't referring to Ed specifically, >>I was referring to the general attitude of the whole microcomputer crowd, >>including people in here who don't program but have their favorites, etc. >> >>Regarding DB Jr in Paderborn, the thing was running over the net on a machine >>out in the lobby, and I believe that what happened is that a few people were >>taking laptops out there. >> >>I was invited to do this by one of the other programmers, which was a very nice >>offer, and I declined. >> >>The idea didn't appeal to me at the time, and I wasn't able to express at the >>time why I didn't want to mess with the thing. It is still difficult for me to >>say. >> >>I think that I would rather play their best version, or at least a version that >>I can describe accurately after the game, rather than play some computer museum >>dinky-ass lobby version. >> >>It would have been fun to play against it, but I don't think it would have >>proven or disproven anything if my program had beaten it. I'm sure it could >>have. If I could play it from here I would. But at the time I was having >>mental health problems due to playing in a big tournament, and I just wanted to >>email my family then leave to go get food and beer. >> >>bruce > >Your last paragraph makes me wonder if there is any sort of disciplinary action >for a computer entrant if its operator is taking performance-enhancing drugs >(e.g. aspirin or valium or something :-). > >Dave I have a real problem with connecting performance enhancing drugs with "warm German beer"... Unless you are, perhaps, a Urologist. :)
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