Think about this for just one moment. The project says "give us your waste CPU cycles, and we'll utilize them on a best-effort basis. We can't guarantee that we'll always have work."
When someone goes above-and-beyond, and decides they will spend real money to create waste so they can donate it, then that's what they're doing. If you get mad at me because you decided that I should do something, and I never told you I'd do that, that is not my problem. It explains the emotion, but it doesn't change that the fact that those people are being incredibly unrealistic. -- Lynn On 6/23/2010 11:54 AM, Raistmer wrote: >> The amount of angst generated when a waste product goes unused is just >> insane. > It would be true if there were no dedicated crunchers. But they are exist. > There are peoples who build (spending time and money) high-performance PCs > just to process SETI (or other project) tasks. > I would not argue if it's good/bad/needed/undeeded. They are exist and for > them it's not "waste product" but "main purpose". > Maybe taking into account such perspective would make easy to understand > sometimes too emotional posts indeed. > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
