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| Personal background |
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| System: Intel Core i7, 3.20 GHz, 6 Gigs of mem. It's a heavy-duty gaming platform, so it's also got a Radeon HD 6900, and two HDs (near 2 TBs of spacel total) under the hood, and I'm pleasantly surprised just how fast the GPU work units are being ground through. And, with the cable-modem hookup, it can grind away at your data at all times without interrupting my game play. And yes, I play lots of games. Heaps of them. Games are, sad to say, nearly the entirety of my life, and no, I don't get paid for it. Considering how the world at large apparently thinks of me and my (complete lack of) marketable skills, I should consider myself lucky I can be a gaming recluse. If the world liked me any less, I'd be out in the woods hammering out hate gibberish on an outdated typewriter (nail bombs not included). I manage a facade of a social life via the net, but even there I'm not exactly sociable, or likeable. Don't like reading about it? I like being it even less, but my alternatives are nil. And yeah, the jerks back in grade school have won. I hope they're happy with that. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Re: Extraterrestrial life: Within the entire expanse of this universe, the odds of it existing are favorable. Proximity and technological development cannot be estimated or guessed at; there simply is not enough data for anyone to decide. The only certainty is that we humans are guaranteed to never find ETs if we never look. We loose in this search the instant we give up, only then, never before. You'd be amazed how many games I've played where, in the course of a single mission (and not script-driven), I've come to the brink of loss only to finish victorious because I simply refused to lie down and die (okay, and a little luck).
As for running your little program, my reasons are essentially twofold. One, this machine is quite new (had it only a couple weeks), and nearly all the games I have are substantially less in power demands than this system has. I figured, at least until new games start overtaking it (in three, maybe four years), all that extra power ought to be used somehow. Second, it adds an illusion of meaning to my existence. Yes, illusion. I have no expectations of recognition for this (heck, I'd be very surprised if anyone even read this profile), even less that any data passing through my system will even qualify as 'curious'. I might mention luck here, but fact is, I've got very little luck to my name, it's not going to be a factor. Still, all in all, the first reason is enough for me. If I can't be useful to the world, then maybe my system can be, eh? |
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