But if there were things to choose from, people who want one specific advancement can choose from a selection.
This could be very good and very cool.
Think about it. Many people who choose SETI@Home over Distributed.net aren't just choosing it due to the visuals, but because they want to find aliens. I, myself, would love to find aliens. But I think there would be a greater chance of, say, curing cancer.
I'd love to be able to setup my computer to:
- Search for prime numbers for one week
- Help find a cure for cancer the second
- Help find aliens the third
- etc
Or one could just choose to dedicate all of their cycles to one thing that they really want to see happen.
i am hoping you meant on topic not off topic when you said OT!
because it was on topic. think about it. let's say that i make a post that's body only says: "i like poop" and you respond with: "you like poop? me too!" well, that's not off topic.
while the parent would be off topic, in this case, the reply isn't.
you're probably one of those moron moderators who marks everything off topic or troll that deserves a -1. you mark stuff like, "I GOT FIRST POST AND AMAZON.COM SUCKS ITS GOOD THAT ITS RUNNING OUT OF CASH" as offtopic, EVEN THOUGH IT'S ON TOPIC.
snowball.com sucks because it is in league with the ever crappy Vault Network which, by the way, has sites for over 10 different roleplaying games and strategy games with UP TO THE MINUTE news with the best, most up-to-date informational fan sites you'll ever find! in addition, Vault Network sites are among the only MMORPG fan sites to gain so many exclusives!
vault network sucks, and they're arrogant as donkey doo doo.
none. it's just that dorks like signal11 and asciiman moderate down anything that buttmaldas don't like, or that is anti-linux. they can't take the heat.
linux users are generally dorks. i am a linux user myself, but i'm not too much of a whining little baby that i can't use windows. linux zealots are in denial. so much so that, if one of them reads this, they'll reply with a bunch of bullcrap about how they aren't in denial and how i'm wrong. but trust me - i'm right. thanks
why are there so many dorks on slashdot? dork = geek? geek = dork? i think so. notice how i didn't act dorky and use ==? that's because only a dork does that. the english language isn't a programming language. i'm sorry. also notice how i didn't use !=? YOU'RE A DORK!
Oh we could find an AIDS cure (I assume you mean cure - we already have "treatments," and will continue to find them, subtle as they may be) in a heartbeat. But that's not where the money is.
Why would we want to find a cure for AIDS? That'd be the dumbest thing an intelligent American could do. There's no need to find a cure when you can just keep coming out with treatments and charging 90 zillion bucks for it, and keep getting rich. This way, the customer keeps coming back and you get more money!
Same thing with the "we can't even find a cure for the common cold! hu hu!" deal. Do you realize how much money those cold "treatment" medicines generate? Do you realize how much less they'd generate if they were one-time things? Not a good idea, and they know it.
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But if there were things to choose from, people who want one specific advancement can choose from a selection.
This could be very good and very cool.
Think about it. Many people who choose SETI@Home over Distributed.net aren't just choosing it due to the visuals, but because they want to find aliens. I, myself, would love to find aliens. But I think there would be a greater chance of, say, curing cancer.
I'd love to be able to setup my computer to:
- Search for prime numbers for one week
- Help find a cure for cancer the second
- Help find aliens the third
- etc
Or one could just choose to dedicate all of their cycles to one thing that they really want to see happen.
much greater
what a good shot at that Anonymous Coward!
now, tell me, what was your real point? if you have none relating to his text, then perhaps you should just ignore similar posts and admit defeat.
i agree
good suggestion for him, too
did anyone think this was funny?
did anyone even read past half of it?
i know i sure didn't, especially not to number one.
dork.
yep
agreed to both of you.
hemos is a moron
Now you are funny.
??
Not sure what you're doing wrong, but Windows 98 never crashes for me.
that's not offtopic.
i am hoping you meant on topic not off topic when you said OT!
because it was on topic. think about it. let's say that i make a post that's body only says:
"i like poop"
and you respond with:
"you like poop? me too!"
well, that's not off topic.
while the parent would be off topic, in this case, the reply isn't.
you're probably one of those moron moderators who marks everything off topic or troll that deserves a -1. you mark stuff like, "I GOT FIRST POST AND AMAZON.COM SUCKS ITS GOOD THAT ITS RUNNING OUT OF CASH" as offtopic, EVEN THOUGH IT'S ON TOPIC.
man fuck you
snowball.com sucks because it is in league with the ever crappy Vault Network which, by the way, has sites for over 10 different roleplaying games and strategy games with UP TO THE MINUTE news with the best, most up-to-date informational fan sites you'll ever find! in addition, Vault Network sites are among the only MMORPG fan sites to gain so many exclusives!
vault network sucks, and they're arrogant as donkey doo doo.
haven't you ever heard of paragraphs? if you used them, people might read your post.
and since i didn't read your post, i must judge it by the parent when i say: your post sucks.
by the way, linux will never be on the average desktop.
none. it's just that dorks like signal11 and asciiman moderate down anything that buttmaldas don't like, or that is anti-linux. they can't take the heat.
linux users are generally dorks. i am a linux user myself, but i'm not too much of a whining little baby that i can't use windows. linux zealots are in denial. so much so that, if one of them reads this, they'll reply with a bunch of bullcrap about how they aren't in denial and how i'm wrong. but trust me - i'm right. thanks
man you suck big time
you're a dork
i hate dorks like you
why are there so many dorks on slashdot?
dork = geek? geek = dork? i think so. notice how i didn't act dorky and use ==? that's because only a dork does that. the english language isn't a programming language. i'm sorry. also notice how i didn't use !=? YOU'RE A DORK!
Wow, what a dork
Fuck you buddy!
you're such a dork
agreed.
haha
dork
Oh we could find an AIDS cure (I assume you mean cure - we already have "treatments," and will continue to find them, subtle as they may be) in a heartbeat. But that's not where the money is.
Why would we want to find a cure for AIDS? That'd be the dumbest thing an intelligent American could do. There's no need to find a cure when you can just keep coming out with treatments and charging 90 zillion bucks for it, and keep getting rich. This way, the customer keeps coming back and you get more money!
Same thing with the "we can't even find a cure for the common cold! hu hu!" deal. Do you realize how much money those cold "treatment" medicines generate? Do you realize how much less they'd generate if they were one-time things? Not a good idea, and they know it.
haha
dork
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