Great, I clicked on your Homepage and what do I get? Topless photos. GEEZ

All joking aside, I appreciated your perspective, though I do wonder if all MBAs are that involved...

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Archaic? I ran into that bug^H^H^Hnotation in JavaScript, of all things. Must be NEWWWWWWWW.

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/man that was an annoying bug to fix

This is a cool project. Thank you for working on it.

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Hahaha that's awesome. Genuine LOL here.

Thanks,
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Apparently, since we're inside the universe and there's a ground and you can measure gravity and mass, you can come up with an estimate. However, if you were an outside observer making only global observations about the tree-falling universe, nothing has changed.

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How fast is your email? I keed, I keed.

I hate those comparison graphics where email is listed as a service for measuring speed. Uhhhhh

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It's also similar to deregulated energy markets where a monopoly manages the wires but generators and service providers are competitive on those wires.

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Do it! Make the world a better place, 1 query at a time.

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No kidding. I was just looking through some vendor PL/SQL and there you have it: a cursor looping through rows to find the most recent date in a column instead of using a dad-blasted ORDER BY clause and limiting rows to 1 result. What the...???

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And... the stars in the outer region orbit faster than you might otherwise think because of dark matter.

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The Internet *was* built on trust. It also happens to be the case that not all people on the Internet are to be trusted and thus cryptography is necessary.

As you may know, many core pieces of the Internet are moving from the trust-all model to more secure models. Routing protocols, DNS, email, you name it. It used to be the case that when you plugged in your ethernet cable, you had a reasonable expectation that your computer would be safe.

That's not the case anymore and our infrastructure will evolve accordingly.

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And the other thing is that if PCs start getting less popular (phone + KVM + RDP to the cloud or similar), BOINC will shrink. They're trying to cover their bets with this phone stuff. While I, the submitter, think it's cool and important, I seriously doubt people will want to spend much effort on it -- especially if PC ownership shrinks overall.

Also, you're talking about AIDS and other high profile projects. There are plenty of low profile, tiny projects that benefit a great deal from BOINC at a price point that is affordable.

FAAH has been going since 2005. They've scanned millions of particles against a number of receptor sites. And we have barely got a few molecules making it to the wet lab. I'm not sure that even a billion dollars on dedicated kit back in 2005 would have made similar progress simply due to logistics and the brute force game we're playing.

As you know, not everything works on the GPU. But it sure is cool when it does!

Thank you for your contributions. I've been on the team for a long time, too.

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Nothing. It's a donation. If you don't want to donate, it's your choice. :)

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Not necessarily. A lot of these smaller research teams would have to pay big bucks to get on a decent grid (within a reasonable research timeframe). BOINC affords them that with very little cost.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/VolunteerComputing

Yeah, that makes sense. I just wondered if I had a buggy phone or too much crap running. I did put it into developer mode and kill just about everything on a regular basis. My last phone was a Nokia E75 so all this USB charging is new to me.

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