Author: Dan Ellwein
Date: 10:28:50 03/02/00
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On March 02, 2000 at 11:26:50, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >On March 02, 2000 at 09:47:32, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: > >>On March 01, 2000 at 13:54:31, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >> >>> >>>There is no satisfying the computer chess buying public, >>> >>>Amen >> >> >>Hallelujah, but your story goes for everything PC related. >> >>My first PC I used was a 4,77MHz 5Mb IBM. >> >>The first one I owned had 20Mb and a 8088 processor with 768k ram. >>Compared to that one now my processor is at least 500x faster that that 8088 , >>my internal memory alone is 13x bigger than that HD and my current hard disk has >>800x more space on it. I'm already looking for a new one. >> >> >>In fact I'm very happy with those developments, removing the notion of finality. >>Why should there be bnoundaries in these respect? >> >>You make it sound like we're spoiled brats ;) but maybe we are looking for >>advancement and better solutions until even the best solution will be the past. >> >>Sometimes you meet your match, but most of the times I'm happy frontiers are >>shifted everytime we try to reach them. >> >>Let's boldly go where no one else has gone before. >> >>Jeroen ;-} > >Dear Jeroen, > >Like my mother-in-law says when I talk to her about the billions of galaxies in >the cosmos. "There is no life out there, there is only life here on Earth--the >rest is "outer space". "We are the only ones that can think". Dogs and chimps >can't think "they are just dumb animals." I keep trying to teach my >dog,Mittens the pitbull, to play chess but the best I could do was a chewed up >rook. The dog is, however, doing quite well in conditioning me and regularly >gets what she wants. > >We are a curious species and a few of us will always look for more out of life >than dogma. We will hope for 100Ghz processors and Terabyte data storage >devices and 3D virtual reality monitors and........ > when truth turns in-to dogma... then truth is no longer truth... - pilgrimdan >Tim "Cosmos" Frohlick
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