Author: Pete R.
Date: 13:57:48 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 16:02:37, Alvaro Polo wrote: >If I were Hsu I would spend $100,000 dollars of my own money just to have the >dream of my life realized. Of course I know more about my own finantial >situation than about his. But he would SURE find a sponsor. Perhaps not >Microsoft, Intel or Sun. Perhaps not a couple of million dollars of >sponsorship, but enough to cover his costs and make him live. A medium size I tend to agree. I was operating on the assumption that Hsu needed a sponsor first to build the machine. If that's not the case, and it wouldn't totally break the bank, I would be inclined to go for it. This means nothing since we are different personalities, but there come times in everyone's life where you just have to go for it. No guts no glory. Who dares, wins. If I knew I could build a machine that could just stomp everyone, I would build it. If you build it they will come. ;) Odds are *very* good that at some point you will recoup your money and then some. If the machine crushes everything and everyone, can Kasparov really duck it? How lame would that look? Even without him it would be sufficiently entertaining to watch it whip everyone that people will want to see it, and hence sponsors will put money in. I think it would be a safe bet. So much so that *I* would even be willing to invest in it. I can't imagine that corporate sponsors could ignore it.
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