> -----Original Message-----
> From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of T.C. Phelps
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 3:01 PM
>
> I think the more important question is, what is the
> EXPECTATION value of the time required to produce a
> "useful" image? Having a picture of yourself drinking
> coffee with a space alien dressed as John Lennon would
> be cool but if you saw next week's lotto numbers after
> only 20 minutes of CPU time is there really that big a
> push to continue the experiment? Wouldn't you rather
> be surrounded by many beautiful <insert preferred sex
> here> while window shopping for a sports car in Italy?
>
> Huh... maybe I should get cracking on this program. :)
>
> - Todd.

You'd have no way of knowing if the image was of the winning lotto numbers.

If you wanted, you could just try long enough to get an image of you surrounded
by many beautiful <insert preferred sex here> while window shopping for a sports
car in Italy.

Years ago I tried to come up with a reasonable calculation of how long it would
take to buy one of every possible lottery ticket.  Just in case the jackpot got
big enough to pay for all the tickets.  Unfortunately, it didn't seem possible
to buy all the numbers in one week.

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