Re: Gates Patents Flipping a Light Switch

[NOSPAMdave]

According to T. Max Devlin  <tmax@localnet.com>:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:20:41 +0000 (UTC), NOSPAMdave@sebastian9.com
> wrote:

> >It is quite humbling to realize that the storage occupied by the longest
> >line from a typical Usenet posting is sufficient to provide a state space
> >so vast that all the computation power in the world can not conquer it.
> 
> Is your sig a quote, and if so, who is it?

I'm quoting myself there - something I wrote in an article long ago
that really gripped my imagination.  I wrote an explanation about it
for the lay person back in 1998 in rec.gambling.poker:

http://www.google.com/groups?q=group:rec.gambling.poker+author:wallace%40netcom.com&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=11&as_maxm=6&as_maxy=2003&selm=wallaceF21t8r.B84%40netcom.com&rnum=29

(if that URL is too long for you, go to Google groups advanced search and
search rec.gambling.poker for the title "Reply to Mavrick" in
November 1998).  The explanation is down a few paragraphs, after
I indulged in the said reply to a self-appointed "expert on
everything," who had gone just a little bit too far.

-- 
Dave Wallace            (Remove NOSPAM from my address to email me)
It is quite humbling to realize that the storage occupied by the longest
line from a typical Usenet posting is sufficient to provide a state space
so vast that all the computation power in the world can not conquer it.