Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring
On 9/16/05, R.A. Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> wrote:
Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is "new journalism", since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*...
Never mind the numbers. How does this special-purpose hardware make you _feel_? Can you express the cost of the machine in terms of bags of rice which could have been given to starving chiiiildren in Nepal, or wherever children are starving nowadays? How much higher could the NOLA levees have been built if everyone who worked on this machine had instead been working full-time pouring concrete and piling sandbags? What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine? -- There are no bad teachers, only defective children.
At 2:29 PM -0400 9/19/05, Steve Furlong wrote:
What does George Bushitler stand to gain from this machine?
There you go again... Cheers, RAH I feel *gooood*... -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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