It may be your procesor cycles, but the software running on them (the bit that's actually doing the work) was designed and written by them. Your computer's crunching numbers - their researcher's curing cancer.
But surely the point of a rosetta disk is to do the same as the original rosetta stone ie offer a translation of a dead language. What's on it doesn't matter - chances are there'll be some other writings laying around where future generations can learn all about how to blow themselves up.
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It may be your procesor cycles, but the software running on them (the bit that's actually doing the work) was designed and written by them. Your computer's crunching numbers - their researcher's curing cancer.
Does anyone else feel a MasterCard commercial coming on?
Isn't this the kind of thinking that got them in trouble before?
But surely the point of a rosetta disk is to do the same as the original rosetta stone ie offer a translation of a dead language. What's on it doesn't matter - chances are there'll be some other writings laying around where future generations can learn all about how to blow themselves up.