On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:12:43 -0500 Jeff Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:09 AM 3/9/01 +0000, you wrote:
>
> > > That would help prevent exponents expiring multiple times.
> >
> >Is that _really_ a problem? If anything it only points out a lack of
> >commitment to the project amongst some of the contributors.
>
> *THAT* is precisely the reason that such people should not be assigned the
> very exponents that are most necessary to reaching the next
> "milestones". For those of us that measure progress both in Teraflops and
> in milestones, we've not seen much lately, mainly due to the things that
> Henk was complaining about.
I consider the attitude "GOTTA GET IT DONE" to be rat-race oriented
rather than thank-you-for-participating oriented. It implies to
those with less-than-state-of-the-art equipment: "__You__ are an
obstacle in the way of GOTTA GET IT DONE -- there are no seats for
you on this bus".
Would the world come to an end tomorrow if the GIMPS participants were
more tolerant of those who do __not__ measure progress in Teraflops ?
mikus
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