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tsig Member (Idle past 2934 days) Posts: 738 From: USA Joined: |
I'm confused by this. The program just runs a bunch of calculations, it does less creepy things than playing a computer game (a program that tries to immerse you psychologically in another world, the rules of which are decided by geeks). My email program 'learns' what I consider spam and what I want to read. It gets to decide what I read and when. THAT'S creepy. I always turn the computer off when I am not using it, the idea of letting it be on the net full time is creepy.
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I always turn the computer off when I am not using it, the idea of letting it be on the net full time is creepy. That's fine. You don't have to leave it on the net full time. I may just be that you and others don't understand how the grid works. The application downloads a program to your computer. Your computer then works the problem. Once completed it contacts the grid, uploads the results and downloads the next project to work on. In Preferences you can set when it can work on problems (although it only uses unused resources at anytime) as well as connection times. Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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NosyNed Member Posts: 9003 From: Canada Joined: |
If you don't have it secured enough to allow net access when you aren't sitting at the keyboard then you aren't any safer when you are. At least in my non-security-expert opinion.
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tsig Member (Idle past 2934 days) Posts: 738 From: USA Joined: |
That's fine. You don't have to leave it on the net full time. I may just be that you and others don't understand how the grid works. You are right, bye.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1430 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Members (Rank) 21 (#371) we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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Asgara Member (Idle past 2328 days) Posts: 1783 From: Wisconsin, USA Joined: |
Thanks to Bernd...our 21st member!!
Asgara "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" Save lives! Click here!Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC! http://asgarasworld.bravepages.comhttp://perditionsgate.bravepages.com
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3986 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 7.1 |
Phat writes: You guys sound like you have started your own religion! You mean The Temple of the Golden Rule? It's the first religion, Phat, and still the oldest and best. Save lives! Click here! Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC!
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bernd Member (Idle past 4006 days) Posts: 95 From: Munich,Germany Joined: |
Thanks to you - and to the whole team - for your efforts to support a good cause, for your visible enthusiasm and last not least for showing how easy it can be to help. Have a nice day!
-Bernd
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Asgara Member (Idle past 2328 days) Posts: 1783 From: Wisconsin, USA Joined: |
We are about to break into the top 2k, this is great folks! Thanks to Bob Gray for joining our little group here. He makes 22 members. GO TEAM!! Asgara "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" Save lives! Click here!Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC! http://asgarasworld.bravepages.comhttp://perditionsgate.bravepages.com |
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Asgara Member (Idle past 2328 days) Posts: 1783 From: Wisconsin, USA Joined: |
And yet ANOTHER new member, thanks to Discreet Label for joining in the effort! Just to help members make the all important decision to join us or not... From the home pages of World Community Grid: World Community Grid World Community Grid - About
Our Mission, Our Work and You World Community Grid's mission is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity. Our work has developed the technical infrastructure that serves as the grid's foundation for scientific research. Our success depends upon individuals collectively contributing their unused computer time to change the world for the better. World Community Grid is making technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid. As part of our commitment to advancing human welfare, all results will be in the public domain and made public to the global research community.spacer How Grid Technology WorksMaking a difference has never been easier! Grid technology is simple and safe to use. To start, you download and install a small program or "agent" onto your computer. When idle, your computer will request data on a specific project from World Community Grid's server. It will then perform computations on this data, send the results back to the server, and ask the server for a new piece of work. Each computation that your computer performs provides scientists with critical information that accelerates the pace of research! To learn more about World Community Grid's current research, please link to our Research area.
Our team - Team EvC World Community Grid - Team Asgara "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" Save lives! Click here!Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC! http://asgarasworld.bravepages.comhttp://perditionsgate.bravepages.com
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Asgara Member (Idle past 2328 days) Posts: 1783 From: Wisconsin, USA Joined: |
cora, I see where you joined the grid, but you aren't a member of Team EvC. Was this an oversite or don't you love us anymore?
Asgara "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" Save lives! Click here!Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC! http://asgarasworld.bravepages.comhttp://perditionsgate.bravepages.com |
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jar Member (Idle past 419 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
just incase you missed it. We sure appreciate what you and everyone else is doing.
This message has been edited by jar, 12-22-2005 12:02 PM Aslan is not a Tame Lion |
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1430 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
I've been away for the last couple of days, so both my laptop and main machine have been off. Glad to see the new members.
Members (Rank) 23 (#342) Looks like we broke the 2K rank level and are still moving up. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9196 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.3 |
So did we get many christians to join the team? Seems to be a sorry commentary on the religion that we have so few.
Any Iders or YEC's at all?
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Asgara Member (Idle past 2328 days) Posts: 1783 From: Wisconsin, USA Joined: |
Several Christians and/or various religious folk...
None that identify with the fundamentalist or evangelical crowd that I can see. This is a good cause no matter what your beliefs so if helping humanity is up your alley...PLEASE JOIN!! Asgara "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now" Save lives! Click here!Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC! http://asgarasworld.bravepages.comhttp://perditionsgate.bravepages.com
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