All silliness aside (and I'm all for silly) I do hope we can show a little respect for others, even when we disagree.

... and work more toward discussing the ideas, and not going after the people who support either side.

-- Ned

Hi folks!

As of late we have seen a lot of work shortage. And we have seen two Donation chalenges. I participated too. To keep this short:

What about to save for example last 1000 WU only for those users, who donated in past year (have green star)? There is not many benefits to those, who donated. What about to add one? Maybe more people donate and everything will go smoother with more cash in hand.

What do you thing about this?

People who crunch for SETI donate not only their CPU power but also (in a €/$/etc kind of way) the costs of their higher electric bill. How someone could read this is that the one kind of donation is more important then the other kind of donation..., which I think would become a slippery slope...

David, this is NOT meant as a flame, so please don't take it that way. Although, I did read what you, ksnash and several others were saying about BOINC over at the house of "Classic" about a year or so ago. And, I don't remember reading where anyone, doing BOINC, said you or any other "Classic" cruncher were "stupid" for not making the switch. But, that's beside the point....
What makes you think that the work being done on SETI II, under BOINC, is any less important, or any less effective than "Classic" was? We're doing the same work here as was done at "Classic". The only 2 changes is the software and the credit system. Obviously, by now, you know that with BOINC you can do work on more than one project at the same time. The advantage is that if one project is down or out of work temporarily, the other[s] can take up the slack. And, credits, well credits are credits. I'm in this for the science, although it's nice to see something that shows I'm contributing to the science.

The point is that most everything evolves. Just look at computers for instance. My calculator has more computing power than computers of decades ago. I would just like to see the acceptance of said evolution. Nothing stays the same, everything changes. Some day, maybe 6 years from now, something better than BOINC will come along and replace it. If and when that happens, I can see it now: people asking why no more BOINC and this new "thing" is a piece of crap. Just as it happened with the "Classic"/BOINC fiasco. Peace.... (-:<

Sorry, but i couldn't stand the following question for entertainment during the outage:

[sarcasm]
Wouldn't it be easier to announce on the frontpage when the server is reliable running instead of announcing when it is not running?
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Actually, I was a charter member of the Planetary Society, as well as being a member of the National Space Institute and an L5'er. Of them all, L5 was the one that held the most attraction for me, mostly because of a single line printed in its first newsletter, that "our clearly stated long range goal will be to disband the Society in a mass meeting at L5" ... I really liked to dream in those days!

Somewhere along the line, though, I realized that the real stumbling block to reaching the stars was (and is) less a matter of practical science than it is of practicing politics (hack, spit). So now I believe that best chance we have (with the possible exception of an impending global cataclysm) to "get there" may be with the help of ET, and we've got to *find* him first!

So participating here is just my way of keeping a little tiny bit of that dream alive, perhaps for those who come after - I have little hope that it will happen in my life time, and even if it should, rather doubt that I'd qualify to be a part of it.


Stats and being part of a team just add a bit of fun to that!

Hmm ... I think I may have just written my profile...

SInce it is no longer 1 work unit = 1 credit, the time it takes to do the work is not a reason not to do the work unit. That was one of the whole points to moving away from one size fits none.