On 28 Oct 2003 at 17:04, John W. Nichols, M.A. wrote: > I have been involved with [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the past 4.449 years (talk > about anal retentive) and have completed almost 9,300 work units for > the project. I am at the 99.668th %-ile among the 4,729,551 people in > the world who are currently involved in the effort to locate the > little green guys. >
I know nothing about BOINCing, and only a bit more about BONKing. So instead I'll use this thread to air a complaint about SETI. I was an early subscriber, and I really liked their nifty screen display. Even if I didn't have a clue what it was showing, I enjoyed telling students who asked that I was searching for ET. Then I discovered that their display was burning a permanent image into my computer screen. When I got a new screen (and after SETI ignored my complaint) I switched to a distributed computing project which did cancer research. I didn't understand their screen display any better (images of molecules) but at least it floated around and wouldn't damage my computer screen. Does anyone else who's been using SETI for a long time have this problem? Look at your screen when it displays a white background. Does it retain a faint image of the SETI frame? If so, you've got the problem I'm talking about. All they have to do to fix it is to have their display float about the screen, as my cancer research one does. Otherwise, I suspect that the only objective result of their project to date is to progressively damage millions of computer screens. Neat trick. Maybe they're sponsored by computer manufacturers. Stephen ___________________________________________________ Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. tel: (819) 822-9600 ext 2470 Department of Psychology fax: (819) 822-9661 Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips _______________________________________________ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
