[font='courier,courier new']Retiring in 789.43.

5000 cobblestones and a year will be my contribution to science.

After that, who knows.[/font]

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I am a long time supporter of classic and now I am here. I like the idea of what we are trying to do, and dispite a few miner hickups the program runs fine i am quite sure they will work it out in the end.

Welcome James. I hope you find this product a very worth while experience. Plenty of helpful people here, so don't be afraid to ask. Lots of resources here to pretty much answer anything you could probably come up with. :-) Once again, welcome to the program. :-)

Jeremy

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I am a long time supporter of classic and now I am here. I like the idea of what we are trying to do, and dispite a few miner hickups the program runs fine i am quite sure they will work it out in the end.

Welcome to BOINC there Jim. You will find it quite fun to be here. Even with the hiccups, for the most part we can still access these boards. The Café is the place for general fun and chit chat. Go on over and check it out.... Again, welcome.... >:-)

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"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

I am a long time supporter of classic and now I am here. I like the idea of what we are trying to do, and dispite a few miner hickups the program runs fine i am quite sure they will work it out in the end.

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Keep it clean/decent.
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No pictures needed.
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Are you for REAL? Are you trying to seek all the attention people
here will pay you? Are you trying to win a prize with the most number
of threads started? Are you for REAL? You are nothing but an
ATTENTION WHORE!!!! If you're going to start threads, start USEFUL
ones, not bitchy little Whaaa Whaaa threads.

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CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr XO - L L & P _\\//
USS Vre'kasht NCC-33187
Winders 10 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker
"Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath

If I had a couple thousand, I'd "double down" and get more puters for my farm.


does that give you my answer?

huh, it seems your answer is my thoughts when I look at my bank statement - ok, it's "if only I had...", but still ;)

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If I had a couple thousand, I'd "double down" and get more puters for my farm.


does that give you my answer?

Reasons? Ok: I'm a believer.

- I believe there's life elsewhere in the universe, even intelligent life
- I believe humans will find traces of, evidence of that life
- I believe SETI@home is one way of searching and finding
- I believe that what we do here matters, makes a difference for mankind and it's future
- I believe BOINC eventually will pave the way for a better life for us all
- I believe the fun of the competition, and the diverse gain from the projects outweigh the periodic frustrations of outages, bugs etc.

And I could go on. Did I mention I'm a believer? ;)

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It was interesting to try and help finding aliens. It was then fun trying to see how many work units you could do. Then it was fun to see how cheaply I could build a new computer because I had the extra parts laying around. Does one person really need 5 computers? Too bad they keep taking away any fun reason for contributing.

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That's the nice part of BOINC..... Tired of aliens, go calculate some climate.....

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Been here since May of '99 , don't plan on leaving now. Have invested too much effort to quit.

Until it´s fixed i´m switching all of my machines to LHC.

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Join BOINC United now!

Been here since May of '99 , don't plan on leaving now. Have invested too much effort to quit.

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Having read through all the posts and agreeing with most all, all I can say is I've been at it for 5 years and plan on hanging in there until we find ET or the wheels fall off. Then there's that rumor that the one who finds that golden signal gets a free beer. I'm in!

Seti User since 21. October 1999

not the first outtage, at Seti, when i look back,

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2001/03/02_fiber.html

a seven Day Outtage

that was 2001, but i always here :)

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

There is only one reason for me:

I wanna find ET!

and its about the competition as well....

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Leaving.

After months and months of staring at finished work units that won't upload, white-background message boards, and illegible GUI print, I'm finished with SETI@home.

I'm going to find a DC prog that actually works.

Adios!

Staying, definitely. I'm relatively new since I just switched to BOINC in March. Its such a worthwhile project a few blips in the overall processing aren't going affect my enthusiasm for the project. Chances for finding an actual signal may be slim -- "but if we don't even look, the chances are zero!"

Its a great place to learn more about managing the program and the people here are interesting and informative (maybe a tad bit on the contentious side at times, but that also makes for interesting).

All my best,
Kathy

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If your not sure where to search for ET, you can start with anything and anything is better than nothing !
Even if the possibility to spot ET this way is allmost NULL ........
I'm part of it because I'm part of it, and probably will be until the New hardware deny's me even the download of WU's.
Maybe then I'l go back to my Telescope and search the sky for the streak of a earthbound Spacecraft.

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Objective reasons please.

Because BOINC, by itself, is an interesting experiment.

The engineering challenge is to run reliable projects on inexpensive (and therefore unreliable) infrastructure.

The social challenge is to see if users can understand and tolerate that.

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Reasons:

1. Having public evidence of existing alien intelligence would be the most significant and decisive milestone in the history of mankind, with unpredictable consequences on a massive scale and scope.

2. SETI@home is a challenge at last. The likelihood that we will find evidence this way is near absolute zero. I find this very appealing.

3. With several years behind the project, we are at ther very-very beginning. SETI@home needs every bit of suuport to stay on track improving its computing capacity, coverage in frequency, direction and time.

The reasons stated here are identical to my own, even described better than I could. I am becoming increasingly skeptical that we will find alien life based on the methodology of SETI's model. As more projects come online SETI will receive proportionately less computing power from me.

BOINC shows great propmise.

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