On Sep 29, 2009, at 5:53 AM, [email protected] wrote: > And everyone that cares about doing science instead of benchmarks > will opt > out. Credit is not part of the science being done.
And you must have missed the several posts where I have repeatedly said that each calibration task run is awarded the same amount of credit as would a "normal" task if not a small but significant bonus to encourage opt in ... were the bonus large enough the cheats would actually prefer these tasks ... And since I have been assured that our anti-cheat mechanisms are iron- clad I am sure they will not be able to sneak one by us ... Though as the lone dissenter I have been saying that our anti-cheat regimes have mostly hit the innocent ... but I digress ... As to science being done... standing in the lab and tossing unknown amounts of unknown chemicals may count as science with you guys, but I much prefer the guys and gals in the white coats would actually use calibrated devices to select the right proportions of chemicals to mix ... that seems so much more sciency to me ... I suppose that you would vote to just start using Hubble to snap photos without calibrating the instrument ... your way we get lots more pretty pictures ... my way we get far more usable pictures ... more accuracy, more science _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
