Posts by Qui-Gon
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Cricket graph?
(Message 1360024)
Posted 29 days ago by  Qui-Gon
Mod hat = ON Sorry, I didn't mean to step on anyone's toes here. I don't look at the graphs on a minute-by-minute basis, but I do check to see if up/downloads are working before I connect and press the update button. No sense requesting new tasks or reporting finished ones if the connection is down. I assume others use it for similar purposes. PS When I was a moderator no one told me or my fellow moderators not to "stickie" the Cricket graphs. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Cricket graph?
(Message 1359976)
Posted 29 days ago by Qui-Gon
I did a search for "Cricket graph" but didn't find anything. Perhaps a moderator can stickie this or put the information in one of the stickied threads in various boards. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Cricket graph?
(Message 1359969)
Posted 29 days ago by Qui-Gon
Thanks HAL, I'll put it in my bookmarks now. I hope anyone else having this problem sees this thread. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Cricket graph?
(Message 1359967)
Posted 29 days ago by Qui-Gon
My bookmark to the cricket graph worked up until the server closet change, now it shows only about 350 bps "in" and about 60 bps "out". Is there a different address that is now being used to view traffic? |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Rocky's Coffee Club II point 16
(Message 1340643)
Posted 85 days ago by Qui-Gon
Just got back from China. It was cold, polluted and utterly fascinating. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (80) Server Problems?
(Message 1332639)
Posted 112 days ago by Qui-Gon
Results ready to send:1,444,950 You are correct, Ex, that this is nothing new, but it is happening after I downloaded some work, and while the Server Status page shows 1.4 million "Results" ready to send. It is still confusing and misleading to send a message that there is no work available when so much is shown on the Status page. (And I've been here a while, too.) |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (80) Server Problems?
(Message 1331866)
Posted 115 days ago by Qui-Gon
I get these messages, over and over again: 1/26/2013 5:17:31 PM SETI@home Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. But the status page shows lots of work, and the cricket graph seems to show both up and downloading. This is frustrating. It took hours to report my completed work, and now I can't connect even though I'm not requesting new work. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (80) Server Problems?
(Message 1323926)
Posted 139 days ago by Qui-Gon
Greetings, Same thing happening to me. I took a break from crunching over the holidays so my hoppers are empty. Now that we're back up again, I can't get any work? That is disappointing. PS: Happy New Year Siran |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Rocky's Coffee Club II point 16
(Message 1318261)
Posted 151 days ago by Qui-Gon
Well, I'm still here. Was the end supposed to start at 12:00AM or 11:59PM? |
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Message boards :
Cafe SETI :
Rocky's Coffee Club II point 16
(Message 1311365)
Posted 167 days ago by Qui-Gon
I do hope everyone enjoyed the little holiday rest from crunching. Gives us all time to eat and shop without the distraction of tending our SETI farms. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (79) Server Problems?
(Message 1307776)
Posted 183 days ago by Qui-Gon
One of the red flags that a site has been hacked or spoofed is that you find grammatical or spelling errors that are out of the ordinary, and that make a message hard to read. Did anyone else notice the most recent message on the front page seems to have such errors? For example, "the lookup of result in process", "hosts being assigned large number or [of?] results to compute", and "The host. think it received", among others. These are not normal for the seti@home front page or any technical message one usually finds on the site. Sure, that could be, but they've had a long time to determine what this problem was, and a long enough time to correct the front page message. I don't recall any messages from Eric in the past that contained so many faults. I'm not saying that aliens have the team held in the basement of the server closet, forcing them to write messages that will throw us off the scent. I'm just commenting on the abnormality of the way this issue is being explained. If I have mistakes made yous maybe see them and wondering you are. |
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Message boards :
Number crunching :
Panic Mode On (79) Server Problems?
(Message 1307765)
Posted 183 days ago by Qui-Gon
One of the red flags that a site has been hacked or spoofed is that you find grammatical or spelling errors that are out of the ordinary, and that make a message hard to read. Did anyone else notice the most recent message on the front page seems to have such errors? For example, "the lookup of result in process", "hosts being assigned large number or [of?] results to compute", and "The host. think it received", among others. These are not normal for the seti@home front page or any technical message one usually finds on the site. |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Hopefully we can end this silliness now.
(Message 1296817)
Posted 214 days ago by Qui-Gon
1st: it wasn't the Supreme Court. 2nd: the government didn't defend its own law (passed in the Clinton years). 3rd: we're pretty close to an election that may change things in this area. So, no, it doesn't look like anything is at an end. |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Taxes
(Message 1296485)
Posted 215 days ago by Qui-Gon
. . . but lawyers are special bottom feeding scum. :) Thanks. That's a promotion from ambulance chasing blood-sucker. |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Taxes
(Message 1296438)
Posted 216 days ago by Qui-Gon
Gary used the tax code to define economic terms. What he did was quote the definition in the tax code of "capital". The tax code has it right. The code doesn't disagree with the definition I was taught in finance and tax law courses. |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Taxes
(Message 1296420)
Posted 216 days ago by Qui-Gon
Economics is a science not a tax code. Huh? Who said economics is a tax code? The tax code uses certain economic principles from economic theories that you may not agree with, but as a science, economics is rather too fuzzy for me. It offers no absolute answers before the fact, and answers that are often highly disputed after the fact. |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Taxes
(Message 1296403)
Posted 216 days ago by Qui-Gon
Gary, what that says is that the tax code ignores economics but seriously effects economics. That's not what my finance professor and tax law instructors taught me. The tax code has the definition of "capital" correct. But you are right that tax policy, as codified in the tax laws, does, by design, affect the economy. |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Taxes
(Message 1296341)
Posted 216 days ago by Qui-Gon
Gary, we've had this discussion before, a home is not capital. Actually, it is: privately owned capital. Definition: Capital is something owned which provides ongoing services. In the national accounts, or to firms, capital is made up of durable investment goods, normally summed in units of money. Broadly: land plus physical structures plus equipment. The idea is used in models and in the national accounts. http://economics.about.com/cs/economicsglossary/g/capital.htm |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Taxes
(Message 1296327)
Posted 216 days ago by Qui-Gon
The purchase of stock directly from the issuing company does create capital and probably deserves special treatment, The speculative purchase of existing stock does not deserve the same treatment. Then who gets that "special treatment"? Only the original purchaser? If the stock is sold the benefit should follow ownership of the stock. |
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Message boards :
Politics :
Taxes
(Message 1296326)
Posted 216 days ago by Qui-Gon
Regarding the very wealthy spending more of what they have -- actually that seems on its face to be not so true. It would seem to me that a larger proportion of earnings at the low to upper middle income levels get spent for goods and services that at the very wealthy side. I don't see encouraging the extremely wealthy to accumulate even more wealth as being all that good for the economy -- rather that simply takes money out of the economy. Romney suggested that deductions be capped; the hypothetical figure he used was $25K, which would not affect most middle class but would affect the very rich. Some very rich, like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet might continue to make charitable donations and other payments beyond the $25K, but I suspect many would stop "giving" about when they reach the limit. Romney himself gave millions to charities, but he may be an exception. If I found out that a $5K gift to my local Public Radio would bring me to $30K deductions under Romney's plan, I might rethink it or put it off to next year, unless next year I'd be over the limit too. Our taxes are already progressive, so that the wealthy pay a higher rate (percentage), but also pay more actual dollars. Romney may have paid 14% while his secretary paid 28%, but he funded the government with many times more dollars than his secretary paid the government; and add to that his contributions to society through charitable institutions and he did not get off cheap. |
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