The problem is that the music is *not* their property. It doesn't matter whether or not this is a new, dynamic, and beneficial business model, which I too believe it is, it simply matters that it is the *artists*, or the *record company's* music, and NOT anyone elses. They are the ones who have the rights to their own creation, or that which they have financed and purchased the rights too. It's that simple. However, I do think that there is certainly a valid proposition of the new business model for music distribution, but that still does not give anyone the right to steal from musicians and record companies in order to enstate that model. If someone stole $1000 dollars from me, invested it, and came back with $10,000, sure I would be happy, *but* that would NOT make the act of stealing an acceptable or correct action. As a person, I would be stupid not to examine this practice and deem it as being ok, but before I give it my seal of approval, it is wrong.
While of course my cluster didn't reach teraflop speed, it was all donated, and let me say right now, that converting around 40 donated old 486's into working, fast, boxen was a royal pain in the ass. Especially when you still have high school to deal with!
With our cluster, we attained speeds of around 1.7x faster than a dual pentium II 450. We did some rc5 cracking, beta testing for mathematica, and are looking into investigating parallel povray rendering. Once the machines are running, I have to say, it is quite a pleasure to work with!
peace aXion
ps. right now, our cluster is offline, but it should be back online soon at amc.faceprint.com
pps. if any of you want to donate some *fast* machines, (and by fast I mean above a pentium 100), email me, chris, at axion@faceprint.com thanks!
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The problem is that the music is *not* their property. It doesn't matter whether or not this is a new, dynamic, and beneficial business model, which I too believe it is, it simply matters that it is the *artists*, or the *record company's* music, and NOT anyone elses. They are the ones who have the rights to their own creation, or that which they have financed and purchased the rights too. It's that simple. However, I do think that there is certainly a valid proposition of the new business model for music distribution, but that still does not give anyone the right to steal from musicians and record companies in order to enstate that model. If someone stole $1000 dollars from me, invested it, and came back with $10,000, sure I would be happy, *but* that would NOT make the act of stealing an acceptable or correct action. As a person, I would be stupid not to examine this practice and deem it as being ok, but before I give it my seal of approval, it is wrong.
While of course my cluster didn't reach teraflop speed, it was all donated, and let me say right now, that converting around 40 donated old 486's into working, fast, boxen was a royal pain in the ass. Especially when you still have high school to deal with!
With our cluster, we attained speeds of around 1.7x faster than a dual pentium II 450. We did some rc5 cracking, beta testing for mathematica, and are looking into investigating parallel povray rendering. Once the machines are running, I have to say, it is quite a pleasure to work with!
peace
aXion
ps. right now, our cluster is offline, but it should be back online soon at amc.faceprint.com
pps. if any of you want to donate some *fast* machines, (and by fast I mean above a pentium 100), email me, chris, at axion@faceprint.com thanks!