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| Get your own CPU.... |
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|  Well, for those that do care.. World Community Grid is a distributed supercomputer to help researchers (e.g. medical researchers looking to cure stuff like aids, cancer, malaria.. etc).. when your computer's on and doing nothing, why not donate your CPU cycles to help out.. |
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| thats actually really cool... Update » greatjob wrote on Thu Jul 27, 2006 @ 3:12pm just signed up! |
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| make sure to set it to run "in screensaver mode" otherwise it'll be one all the time.. |
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| k |
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| that's like donating cycles to SETI
WTF!
interesting alas |
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| that's exactly what this is.. SETI came up with the idea, then World Community Grid (IBM made it) made one that allowed other groups to use their software to help their initiatives.. |
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| aw no NT.. guess that excludes this machine |
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| You're using Windows NT?
I'm fairly sure it runs on any current version of windows out there.. Windows XP is infact Windows NT 5.1 |
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| NERDS!!!!!
haha just kidding i just signed up every computer in my office... |
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| Hahahaha, that's one of the things they tell you not to do.. 
"Only install World Community Grid on computers that you own or have permission to be running it on". |
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| Fuck that, who are "they" to tell "me" what to "do". |
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| They dun wanna get in trouble for you deploying their application on someone else's computer.. |
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| How can they get in trouble? It's fucking incredible how absolutely no one has any sence of responsibility anymore. That's like a company going after Microsoft because an employee installed MSN Messanger; the problem isn't the availability of the software, it's what the person did. |
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wait till you get sued by someone, then you'll know to try avoiding it like the plague. |
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| So, if I take a knife and stab you in the stomach, are you going to sue the knife-making company? If I take a shotgun and blow your parent's heads off, are you going to want the cops to arrest the man who sold me the gun while I walk around free?
The company has made a tool. What you do with it is not their fault, it is the fault of the person who used/missused it |
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| If the knife company had billions of dollars, enough to pay you off to drop the suit.. ?
People will sue for anything if they think they can make money. IBM doesn't want to get sued for something they're doing for free (at a loss). |
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| i'm sure no one will even notice here... |
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