Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 13:21:30 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 15:53:21, Terry Presgrove wrote: > the cultural, social-economic etc. differences that are present. I don't > think that we should ever get to a place where one feels they have to walk > on "egg shells" when they post here. It seems that there are many here who I definitely don't either. I think you're misunderstanding my point. It doesn't bother me at all if Bob starts swearing like a badly wounded sailor. What counts to me is whether or not his arguments make sense. I think that if you are arguing with somebody who makes no sense, it can be way more frustrating than if the person is, say, insulting your mother. I think Bob caused Chris to leave because he switched to "emotionally wounded insane religious-fanatic" mode when confronted with: 1) evidence he thought didn't exist 2) a request to produce similar evidence that doesn't exist Consider his response to the 40k general-purpose instructions per Deep Blue node. He responded that the instructions were not general-purpose, but special Deep Blue instructions. Now perhaps Bob misread Hsu's statement, for whatever reason (bad eyesight? senility? poor reading comprehension?). EVEN SO, it only takes a minute with a pocket calculator to find out that Bob's conclusion is absurd. If Hsu meant 40k Deep Blue instructions, then each DB chip would have to be running at EIGHTY GIGAHERTZ to achieve the reported NPS figures. Not bloody likely. How are you supposed to argue with somebody who is posting crap like this? You can't. It only serves to drive you crazy. (Or drive you off of CCC.) -Tom
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