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Seti@Home Bandwidth Problems
reflexreaction writes: "With so many of the /. users actively using and supporting Seti@home, many of you have realized that in the last couple of weeks that Seti has had some serious problems receiving completed data and getting new data to process from its 3 million members because of network bandwidth problems. All the gritty details are here. The article details some things that users can do to alleviate some of the problems including connecting during off hours and downloading more than unit than once using programs like SetiQueue for PC and Seti Unit Manager for Mac. Donations are also accepted. There is also a plea for bandwidth donations. It will be truly unfortunate if this page becomes /.ted without benefit from /. users."
Think about it. IF there are aliens who fly around the universe with SUPERIOR technology - they'd have the means to contact us.... and when they DO - we'll know it.
I'm not trying to troll or bait a flame war - I'm just questioning the feasibility and practicality of SETI@home.
There must be OTHER projects to lend CPU cycles to. I know that Distributed.net has projects that are looking to create stronger encryption. And at my last job, a co-worker had a screen saver program that used his spare cpu cycles to work on cancer research.
SURE - it'd be cool to have the PC that decoded the first real ET message - but what are the chances of doing so?
Would it be more practical/feasible to donate those spare cpu cycles elsewhere???
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Do you honestly think the /. effect on a 5KB page of text is significant, in comparison to the millions of people who are periodically downloading large chunks of uncompressible data from their servers? Do you realize that most slashdot vistors aren't interested in the dicussion? They only read the front page and click the links. Filling up the comments page with that crap is just irritating, unless the site is down.
I read the subject line. As another poster put it, it's "whoretastic!".
I think you went to the same school-of-namechoosing as the person who posted the message below this one :-)
boB just sounds funny
And how do you think all the Bob's feel? Unless, of course, you were talking about Microsoft Bob, which look sfunny too!
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Reminds me of those mailers I get in the mail.
"Here, we've sent you a bunch of preprinted address labels with your name and address on them which you never asked for and can use while sending out snail mail. We ask that you donate $10 for some poor kids because we need to make up for the costs of sending out these mailers."
No, I'm not making this up!
Mmmm.. Donuts
It's == It Is
Its == possessive version of 'it'
The rules of the apostrophe for it/its/it's are a special case and do not follow "Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots."
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Ok, so when I get Quake III Arena for Linux, it'll run on your 68K Mac? Oh, what's that? Software targets specific hardware too, and it isn't enough to identify software's target by its intended operating system?
I think what you really meant to say in your rant, is that software targets a platform, and a platform consists not only of the hardware (Gateway G6-300 PC, Apple G4 PowerMac, SunBlade 1000, SunBeam Toaster), but also the OS running on it (Windows / Linux, Mac OS / Linux, Solaris / Linux, George's Custom 30-word RTOS).
You're dealing with slang here. When people say PC without any further qualifiers, they mean "the typical realization of the PC hardware platform running the current mainstream operating system for that hardware." (Which, right now, typically translates to a Wintel box.) We all use shorthand for common phrases. Get over it. At least we're not asking "Does this computer have the Internet on it?"
--JoeProgram Intellivision!