Re: SETI@home (was Re: Folding@home 2.0)

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 05:06:19 MST


The instability combined with my narrow pipe made it not worth the effort for me.
Sad but true. Have they improved the code any WRT stability?

PS: Jakob Nielsen at www.useit.com estimates the yearly world productivity loss
due to instabilities in Windows (+ apps, one assumes; figure and ground) at $170billion.
THat, he claims, is three times Billgatus's net worth.

> >BTW, is anybody still contributing to the "Extropy.org and
> >Transhumanism.com" SETI@home team, or am I the only one left?
> >For some time I have suspected that these sorry SETI@home statistics
> >are pretty indicative about how the members of this list follow
> >through with their goals and actual projects.

Suspect what you like, but remember the old saying about herding cats...

> >
> >--
> >Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

-- 
My moronic mnemonic for smart behavior: "DICKS" == 
diplomacy, integrity, courage, kindness, skepticism.


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