41) Message boards : Number crunching : Shorties - Credit Ratio (Message 884647) Posted 12 Apr 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: I just got through looking at the credits-per-hour of the various classes of units. I haven't done this for many months. It looks like the shorties give me about 30 percent more and the long ones about 20 percent more than the average ones, for both my PD950 and Q6600. By the way I like the improvement of the tasks page and the easily accessible stats and computer info with one exception: Every time I want to go thru the pages of uncompleted units I have to mouse the bottom of the page onto the screen so I can advance to the next page. It would be better to locate "Next 20" to the top portion of the page where I can click 1-2-3- etc without having to fiddle with the right panning facility for each page.

42) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Earth Hour (Message 881020) Posted 31 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: I try to leave lights off when I don't need them 8766 hours per year. As the incandescent lights burn out one by one I'm replacing them with compact fluorescents.

43) Message boards : Number crunching : Connical Result Determination - How is it done? (Message 879472) Posted 26 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: How about taking the average of the results that sufficiently agree and calling that mean the canonical?

44) Message boards : SETI@home Science : The Future of Hubble Space Telescope (Message 879115) Posted 25 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: As far as the mirror is concerned, I can remember that Perkin-Elmer made a mistake when figuring it. It is off by about 2/3 wave or something, and the maximum error permissible, generally, is 1/8 wave (the Rayleigh limit). Also, I don't know how many micrometeorites hit it, making pits. Maybe that mirror is worth no more than a mirror blank.

45) Message boards : Number crunching : Connical Result Determination - How is it done? (Message 878874) Posted 24 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: If there are only two results, and they agree sufficiently, why is there a need for any canonical result? Now it's a different story if there are more than two results.

46) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Play Hard, Die Young (Message 877494) Posted 20 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: It would be nice to have a summary of the longevity of everybody who plays or has played rough sports in his/her lifetime, compared to that of the general population. If some guy eats himself up to 300 pounds (136 kg), even though it be muscle, and he would have the upper hand in a fight, he might be in a losing situation with longevity. Maybe his organs or brain would be taxed.

47) Message boards : Number crunching : Quad Core CPU's (Message 877490) Posted 20 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Sorry, I mentioned the wrong software. What Skildude said is correct.

48) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bat's fate after shuttle launch appears grim (Message 877221) Posted 19 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Maybe that bat was blown off by the passing winds but probably had to pass through that superhot flame.

49) Message boards : Number crunching : Quad Core CPU's (Message 877219) Posted 19 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: You could download CPU-Z and check your processor/core temperatures. Anything above about 65C (but this might vary- check the specs) is probably too hot. When one of my Pentium Ds got to above about 80C it would slow down to 1/3 normal calculation speed, probably to protect itself.

50) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Car Racing 2009 (Message 876557) Posted 17 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: I watched a little dragracing last Sunday. I understand that they have shortened dragracing courses from 1/4 mile (1320 feet or 402.4 meters) to 1,000 feet (305 meters) in order to reduce terminal speed and lengthen the slowdown track, right? Some funny cars got up to about 280 mph (451 kph) in about 4.1 seconds for that distance, but the motorcycles were much, much slower, about 180 mph (290 kph) and 7.0 seconds. I can see a little (perhaps 20 percent) disparity but don't understand why so much between motorcycles and cars.

51) Message boards : SETI@home Science : you may like this (Message 875488) Posted 14 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: By the way, John, how do you make sites like that clickable?

52) Message boards : Cafe SETI : . . . i can hear a pin drop in 'ere (Message 874094) Posted 9 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: I have a Miranda Sensorex f/1.8 I bought in late 1970 that kinda resembles the Minolta Maxxum shown. It has a focal plane shutter that goes from one second to 1/1000 by halves; and I bought three Vivitar lenses to go with it. I see "Macro" on that Minolta, and what could be a spacer to put the lens out so that it can take close-up shots. But that's only a wild guess. Maybe removing that spacer would put the lens back in and make the foot-and-meter graduations correct, but that is also only a wild guess. Just an idea. I also see on the front what looks like an extra lens that might allow those macro shots. Maybe that comes off for regular shots. Another wild guess.

53) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : Any Ideas about this? (Message 873462) Posted 7 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Maybe the ridge on Iapetus has something to do with the junk being deposited there making one side almost white, the other dark.

54) Message boards : SETI@home Science : A big fault on Kepler (Message 873457) Posted 7 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: The chances are pretty small that the planet will transit its star as seen from Kepler. In the case of something like the Earth, it's about 1/2 degree divided by 180 degrees or about 0.28%. But that's probably why Kepler has been set up to look at over 100,000 stars. Out of 280 possible stars there might be several candidates. It'll probably have to make a lot of measurements because transit times are short.

55) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Kepler a Search for Habitable Planets (Message 872987) Posted 6 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: I read about that scope in my newspaper this morning. Sometimes newspapers have quite a lot of interesting stuff.

56) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Huge halo around Moon (Message 872982) Posted 6 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Even my little star book that I received about 1953 said that in addition to a 22-degree lunar halo there can be a 46-degree one. I believe it's just ice crystals or possibly water droplets in the atmosphere. I believe they forecast rain within 12 to 24 hours.

57) Message boards : Science (non-SETI) : We were lucky......Again ! (Message 872569) Posted 5 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Wasn't the Tunguska event just an atmospheric graze? That would be much different from an impact with the ground or ocean!

58) Message boards : Cafe SETI : I hate February. (Message 871079) Posted 1 Mar 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: February, in the Northern Hemisphere, represents an upturn in average temperature, climatically. Also the days are well on their way to getting longer. December is probably the month to loathe. But, fortunately for many, that is the time to be festive about Christmas and New Years. So, I guess, many have developed a way to "Accentuate The Positive". (Johnny Mercer, February and March 1945).

59) Message boards : Number crunching : Length of work units (Message 870555) Posted 28 Feb 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: Theres something wrong there. That would mean it would take almost a year to do that workunit. If I were you I would turn off Boinc and turn it back on again. If that didn't make that machine get that unit going to an acceptable speed I would abort that unit. 48 hoursworth of effort but negligible work done. That 48 hours is water over the dam. Loss of that unit is a very small loss, really.

60) Message boards : Politics : Bush-era energy drilling leases in Utah canceled (Message 870124) Posted 27 Feb 2009 by Clyde C. Phillips, III Post: It seems like it would be too much trouble and use too much energy to heat up oil to 650F. Besides, it would break into constituents or burn unless confined under pressure.

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