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Subject: Re: Progression of Chess Program Buyers-- Ad Infinitum

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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