Aggressive suggestions for competitions

[Monstru]

Hey my friend, I think you misunderstood me. I have been doing this for a long time now and I do not think everybody heard me complaining
Everybody knows that if you don't have the cash to buy something, you can get it by working hard. I've been doing this for a while and you do not see me complaining that my Gulftown is crap and I cannot bin 50. That is the one I have, I will live with it. Maybe the next CPU will be better

The point is that these rules are very good for people with lots of money, period. Doesn't matter if you live in USA or Kuala Lumpur, somebody that can bin 50 CPU's will allways have the upper hand, no matter how many rules you have. Somebody using super duper cherries will allways have the upper hand, anywhere in this world. By enforcing THIS kind of rules, we would just give more advantage to people with lots of money. If this is what competitions should be about from you point of view, what can I say, good luck people, may the..."best" man win

The issue is strictly that something has to be done to try and clean up this cheating mess and please don't take it so personally.
It's all about the community thriving in a fair playing field and not about any individual.

I do not take it personally, I was just giving an example. I have been involved in keeping it fair for a while now, and I really ment exactly what I said in a post in another thread. Remember why we are doing this, remember the fun, the passion and the respect. When honor is gone, you can have 1000 bullet-proof rules. They don't make 2 cents, believe me, people will allways find various ways to trick the system. That is not the point. Respecting yourself and your colleagues, and your work and their work, that is the point.

That's like complaining because it's cold in Finland..
Move if your not happy.That's not sarcasm, just straight truth.
A top nVidia 480 card here is app $500.00
That's not exactly chicken feed and as much as I'd like to try one I don't have the $$ to do so.
Do I complain about it? No,again, just life.

I understand so well why you are saying this, but there are such enormous differences between our cultures that I am sure that is much better if I do not adress this issue, even knowing that I am talking to a very wise, educated man. Let's just say that this is just like saying - hey, you don't like this mess in overclocking??? Then why don't you try ballet?