The main reason I�ve heard for people liking the Seti project is
because the screen saver looks pretty.
--- "Halliday, Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This brings to mind a question I have been considering for a while:
> Why
> should it be that the seti@home project has collected such a large
> number of downloads while gimps has only around 10,000.
> Is it that the search for prime numbers is perceived to be the domain
> of
> geeks while everybody is supposed to be excited about
> extra-terrestrial
> life?
> Or is it because of the underlying perception that mathematics is
> hard
> and boring?
> I've invited some of my real-life friends and colleagues to join
> gimps,
> but without success. Some of these people had downloaded the seti
> client
> and run it for a while but didn't seem to be impressed by its
> performance or results.
> I'm much more excited about gimps, and believe that I am much more
> likely to find a certain Mersenne prime than evidence about
> extra-terrestrial life (which would still only be a speculation even
> so).
>
> Humour me and visit http://www.geocities.com/intellectualsuicide/
>
> Regards,
>
> Ian
> --
> Aaron Blosser wrote:
>
> > At my current job, I manage the SMS stuff for our huge network.
> Out of
> > curiousity, I ran a query to see if anyone had prime95.exe or
> ntprime.exe.
> > Nope...none. Then I did a search for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and found a
> bunch...
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