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Send message Joined: 26 Jan 09 Posts: 589 Credit: 497,834,261 RAC: 0 |
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Send message Joined: 10 Aug 08 Posts: 218 Credit: 41,846,854 RAC: 0 |
and her mother is a politican.... |
Send message Joined: 12 Apr 08 Posts: 621 Credit: 161,934,067 RAC: 0 |
I forgot to mention that my plan was she was going to be rich... What was the line in "Paint Your Wagon"? "You can't get a woman with money?" With the reply "You just try getting one without it..." I think Brian has it right. Many seem to think that their wealth and ability to buy speed makes them better than others. That was one of the motivations behind the change to the team system because high earners were holding their teams hostage ... do what I want or I will leave the team and take my credit to another team (in Classic SETI credit went with the participant when the left the team)... That is why I only compete with myself. And yes I love to make 10K a day, 100K is better, but only because that tells me that with the second number I am doing 10 times as much science ... And, I buy my toys for me ... no project is obligated to keep me in work ... I think they are obligated only to give me applications that work, the opportunity to contribute, and a fair award at the end of the day. Sadly, many project cannot even meet those very basic requirements ... |
Send message Joined: 5 Mar 09 Posts: 19 Credit: 102,651,985 RAC: 0 |
like spoiled rich kids. ... I'm not jealous because some crunchers use v8 or v16 or even can have acces to server farms and 32 core machines... I only have a c2d and it's OK that these people are in the same score table than me I can compare with other similar cpus. I once was top 22 in rac with my Q6600 on Rosetta. Shortly after came some 45 nm new cpus, and numerus 8 cores... now i7. I sunk below top 1000 in rac, as did a lot of Q6600 that can be considered now "not so young" tools. But I don't feel i7 should have had a special credit table and rankings. Now, life evolves, new tools are available, and that's great ! If we create separate rankings, why not do the same for optimzed/standard apps, linux/win/mac, 2/4/8/16 cores ... The fact is that GPU are better tools now. Maybe that will last only a few years, who knows ? It was hardly predictable last year that ATI's will be so effective crunchers. That's why I think Milkyway People should not create two separate projects, but only a way to crunch longer WUs. |
Send message Joined: 11 Mar 09 Posts: 12 Credit: 151,458,400 RAC: 0 |
Oh "those" guys. :) I know the ones you mean. I have less time for them than you seem to give me credit for. Please try and judge my post on the content of it rather than on what some other tools say or think. To reiterate.
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Send message Joined: 15 Jan 09 Posts: 169 Credit: 6,734,481 RAC: 0 |
I currently only use CPUs, mainly because so far I am unable to afford a decent GPU. I don't care whether there is one project or two. My numbers are good enough without a GPU, and although I would rank higher with separate projects, I am happy with how it is. My rankings, as shown on BOINCstats, are: MW: Ranked 838 Worldwide combined: 18,904 and rising out of 1,647,545 Country (International): 713 and rising out of 323090 Combined RAC: 1,737 (fluctuating, mostly close to 2000) out of 1,647,545 BOINCstats World Cup: 929 I think out of more than 1.6 million crunchers, those figures are quite good for someone with no usable GPU. It won't change just because the project splits, except that I would rise in the MW CPU rankings, but that is not all it is about. OK, I am a credit hound (junkie/whore/whatever), and do more work on projects where the credits are high than on others, but I also work on projects with low credits (one of the lowest for me at the moment being one where the science is far more important than anything). I stopped chasing aliens some time ago, but my RAC on SETI shows I still chase the credits their opt app gives on my Intel system :) I hope this whole situation is sorted one way or the other soon, so we can find something else to squabble over. This one is already getting tedious :) |
Send message Joined: 10 Aug 08 Posts: 218 Credit: 41,846,854 RAC: 0 |
Have no fear, there will always be something after whatever the current issue is. That's just the nature of this beast we call MW. :) |
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