Billionaire Boys Cup (America's Cup 2003)

morpheus 2001 writes "Wired has a story on the fight to win the America's Cup 2003, a sailing race held every 3 years. The story carries the title 'Billionaire Boys Cup', referring to both the competitors and the millions of dollars that it now takes to field a team. This time around the two US teams pit Craig McCaw and Larry Ellison against each other using their respective technological prowess to beat each other and the rest of the world. The story mentions that all of the teams competing will drop collectively over $700 million, with $30 - 40 million to be spent on R&D (per team) alone. The story gives an excellent description of how the use of technology and massive databases work in concert to give a team an edge of mere seconds, which can be the difference between winning and losing a race."

Comments

Re:About as boring as Formula One is now...

[Brento]

and watching real men sale real boats

If you can't spell "sail" then you're not a real fan. Nice try, though.

Re:About as boring as Formula One is now...

[Brento]

So basically what you're saying is that you can't be a sailing fan if you can't spell? Sounds fair to me...

Just like you can't be a Linux fan if you say "nome" instead of "gnome". There's some things that just scream ignorance.

Not to troll, but...

[goldspider]

...exactly how is this "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters"?

Unless Slashdot has abandoned it's focus on geeky things like computers, Linux, sci-fi, and cool gadgets, and instead is switching to political commentary about the have's and the have-not's, I don't see how this story belongs here.