Author: Terry Presgrove
Date: 13:50:39 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 16:21:30, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 I'm sorry but I just don't get what all the fuss is about? I just haven't seen anything in the discussion that would cause someone that much grief. Sometimes you just have to agree to disagree and then move on. TP
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