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  • #16
    Why are you being a loner Rasbelin?

    Being a part of a group doesn't effect your results in any way - it just shows that you're a member of Apolyton.
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    • #17
      I won't join your group of smelly Mexicans.

      "Kids, don't listen to uncle Solver unless you want your parents to spank you." - Solver

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      • #18
        When not too lazy to do so, I can process a lot. Currently, I can proceed about 3 full units during 24 hours.
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        • #19
          As you can see, I decided to retire at 1500 packets. Is there an Apolyton group for Folding@Home? Maybe I'll join, although I don't get much done in the summer. I don't leave the comp on 24hrs due to thunderstorm activity ("summer" seems to follow winter very closely here with little spring in between).
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          • #20
            Rasbelin: Mexicans?? What on earth are you talking about? I myself am American Indian (Wyandot - from the Great Lakes region), Scottish, and German ... or in another words, your average American.

            Solver:

            Straybow: I guess if I lived in a region that got a lot of thunderstorm activity, I would most likely also turn my computer off when I wasn't using it...but since I don't - I don't.
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            • #21
              Originally posted by Wittlich
              What do you mean, Panag?
              hi ,

              simple , open a new mail account , wait and see , .....

              either some does it without the projects knowledge or they themselfs do it , ......

              there are people who signed in , and got so much spam they had to change the account they are using , .....

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              • #22
                Wittlich,

                did you see the twink?

                None the less, I'll think about it.
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                • #23
                  Drop in the ocean.

                  Originally posted by panag

                  there are people who signed in , and got so much spam they had to change the account they are using , .....
                  Just register using a hotmail account, you won't notice any increase in spam.
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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by panag
                    there are people who signed in , and got so much spam they had to change the account they are using , .....

                    have a nice day
                    I use my regular email account and the only thing I get from SETI is the SETI Newsletter - I wouldn't call the SETI Newsleter spam though...
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                    "One day if I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven - I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'" - Herb Caen, 1996
                    "If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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                    • #25
                      I'm damn curious. as to why is Folding@Home or others more important?

                      1. For those, raw comp power isn't the only thing needed, while for SETI it is.

                      2. The possible result of SETI is FAR better than any possible result from Folding.
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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Solver
                        I'm damn curious. as to why is Folding@Home or others more important?

                        1. For those, raw comp power isn't the only thing needed, while for SETI it is.

                        2. The possible result of SETI is FAR better than any possible result from Folding.
                        Is this a joke?

                        SETI looks at a very minute area and hopelessly tries to look for signals in the sky. Hasn't SETI been re-crunching the same packets several times over now to double-check they didn't find anything, btw?

                        Even if we do find someone, there's nothing we can do about it. It'd be way too far away, it'd be useless, we wouldn't know how to communicate with them, etc.

                        Whereas Folding@Home is providing real, tactical research and simulations for protein folding which is critical in understanding the cause of, and cure of, many diseases that people suffer and die from.

                        So tell me again why you think SETI is more important?
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                        • #27
                          Because discovering aliens (who ARE there) is much more important than understanding causes of diseased, as heartless as this might sound. Heck, it would be the biggest thing ever for all of the human civilization. Not to mention they might well have the cancer cure...

                          Besides, folding research can be done without a distributed supercomputer. SETI can be not.
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                          • #28
                            I concur, SETI can hopefully lead to the age-old question: "Are We Alone?" It really doesn't matter if we can do anything right now with that knowledge, but it will point us in the right direction concerning space exporation.
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                            "One day if I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven - I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'" - Herb Caen, 1996
                            "If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God." - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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                            • #29
                              Pah. I do not have ANY doubt AT ALL that we're not alone. I am just as sure about it as I am about my own existence. Many people are, though, of course not feeling the same way.

                              This is why an open contact with extraterrestrials, or a transmission received from them, would be the most important thing yet.
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                              • #30
                                I think the SETI is far more important if it succeeds. If it finds nothing, then its all been a big waste of processing power. I think the payoff from what Asher has mentioned is tangible and known to be acheivable. As such its a safe bet.
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