We're sorry, but SETI can't take your call right now

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dcdc Send message Joined: 3 Nov 05 Posts: 1832 Credit: 119,821,902 RAC: 15,180	Message 70131 - Posted: 26 Apr 2011, 18:57:23 UTC SETI is running out of funds - I guess this will be good news for the rest of the BOINC community!?!: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/were-sorry-but-seti-cant-take-your-call-right-now.ars I'm assuming it won't negatively affect the BOINC platform's development... ID: 70131 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Speedy Send message Joined: 25 Sep 05 Posts: 163 Credit: 808,337 RAC: 3	Message 70137 - Posted: 27 Apr 2011, 3:19:26 UTC Boincs development wont be effected neither will Seti's data flow. Eric's response to the article Have a crunching good day!! ID: 70137 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

dcdc Send message Joined: 3 Nov 05 Posts: 1832 Credit: 119,821,902 RAC: 15,180	Message 70138 - Posted: 27 Apr 2011, 6:44:54 UTC - in response to Message 70137. Boincs development wont be effected neither will Seti's data flow. Eric's response to the article Ah! I was expecting lots of homeless crunchers to be looking for a new home! ID: 70138 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Sid Celery Send message Joined: 11 Feb 08 Posts: 2130 Credit: 41,424,155 RAC: 16,102	Message 70151 - Posted: 28 Apr 2011, 4:42:56 UTC Such a pity that so many people crunch, yet waste every second that they do so by doing it there. A complete & total waste of time. ID: 70151 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,208,737 RAC: 3,249	Message 70154 - Posted: 28 Apr 2011, 12:02:39 UTC - in response to Message 70151. Such a pity that so many people crunch, yet waste every second that they do so by doing it there. A complete & total waste of time. I agree, it is a shame the way the project has gone from a good one to a black hole! I like the concept but obviously something is wrong over there! ID: 70154 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Greg_BE Send message Joined: 30 May 06 Posts: 5691 Credit: 5,859,226 RAC: 0	Message 70157 - Posted: 28 Apr 2011, 17:21:29 UTC - in response to Message 70154. Such a pity that so many people crunch, yet waste every second that they do so by doing it there. A complete & total waste of time. I agree, it is a shame the way the project has gone from a good one to a black hole! I like the concept but obviously something is wrong over there! The BOINC project goes on as they have plenty of data. The SETI program using the dishes is being cut or hibernated. ID: 70157 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,208,737 RAC: 3,249	Message 70163 - Posted: 29 Apr 2011, 11:05:27 UTC - in response to Message 70157. Such a pity that so many people crunch, yet waste every second that they do so by doing it there. A complete & total waste of time. I agree, it is a shame the way the project has gone from a good one to a black hole! I like the concept but obviously something is wrong over there! The BOINC project goes on as they have plenty of data. The SETI program using the dishes is being cut or hibernated. Are they analyzing any of the data the users return yet? When I left Seti in March 2007 they admitted that all data being returned was just being left on the shelf for analysis at a 'later date', apparently they had no resources to analyze it! I decided I was not crunching for a project that could not take the time to do anything with all my pc's hard work! That is why, and when, I came to Malaria!! ID: 70163 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Mod.Sense Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 22 Aug 06 Posts: 4018 Credit: 0 RAC: 0	Message 70168 - Posted: 29 Apr 2011, 16:35:11 UTC ...but beware the Dilbert priciple: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-04-20/ Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense ID: 70168 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Dragokatzov Send message Joined: 5 Oct 05 Posts: 25 Credit: 2,446,376 RAC: 0	Message 70178 - Posted: 30 Apr 2011, 17:08:10 UTC - in response to Message 70131. Last modified: 30 Apr 2011, 17:13:35 UTC SETI is running out of funds - I guess this will be good news for the rest of the BOINC community!?!: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/were-sorry-but-seti-cant-take-your-call-right-now.ars I'm assuming it won't negatively affect the BOINC platform's development... good news? how can this possibly in any which way be good news? its terrible news! The whole reason why Boinc is even here in the first place is because of SETI However, if you are hoping homeless SETI@home crunchers will start using rosetta, think again http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=63889 the SETI@home community is tight. The community will keep it afloat as they have in the past Victory is the ONLY option! ID: 70178 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Greg_BE Send message Joined: 30 May 06 Posts: 5691 Credit: 5,859,226 RAC: 0	Message 70184 - Posted: 30 Apr 2011, 20:47:25 UTC - in response to Message 70168. ...but beware the Dilbert priciple: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-04-20/ LMAO...no doubt ID: 70184 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

mikey Send message Joined: 5 Jan 06 Posts: 1895 Credit: 9,208,737 RAC: 3,249	Message 70199 - Posted: 1 May 2011, 12:13:03 UTC - in response to Message 70178. SETI is running out of funds - I guess this will be good news for the rest of the BOINC community!?!: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/were-sorry-but-seti-cant-take-your-call-right-now.ars I'm assuming it won't negatively affect the BOINC platform's development... good news? how can this possibly in any which way be good news? its terrible news! The whole reason why Boinc is even here in the first place is because of SETI However, if you are hoping homeless SETI@home crunchers will start using rosetta, think again http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=63889 the SETI@home community is tight. The community will keep it afloat as they have in the past I don't know how 'tight' they are, but ALOT of us are former Seti crunchers. Seti does seem to the starting point for alot of Distributed Computing crunchers, but most move on only to be replaced by others. According to this page http://boincstats.com/index.php?pr=sah Seti does have by far the most number of users, and is getting more and more every day, but it does not show the number of people that join and never return a unit or leave shortly after joining. The other projects stats however show an increase also, meaning some must be switching from project to project, and/or joining multiple projects, to account for the numbers. ID: 70199 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote