GeorgeCr
Funny it worked last time
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Sheffield,UK
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 ·BlueYonder Interne..
| reply to Logan 5
Re: selling cpu cycles...
I can understand the point about not profiting from selling CPU cycles, but I don't see the difference between renting PCs to gain credit vs. buying PCs to get credit. In both cases the person pays to get credit. Since the credit is for work done, does it really matter about the person's motivation?
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Logan 5
Some people go WAY over the top
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join:2001-05-25
The WasteLAN
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|  George:
Guess we'll agree to disagree on this then. The whole concept of anyone paying for stats without actually doing anything to earn them just seems like cheating somehow or at the very least...sleazy.
If they didn't buy them they'd have never had them otherwise so it's an unfair advantage to those of us who have crunched every WU, Cobblestone or folded protein under our name(s) we've ever downloaded. I've earned my stats and whatever comes along with having them.
If someone offered me a chance to use 100 machines for a month, even for free, I'd say....no. Maybe it's me but I just wouldn't do it as there's no sense of accomplishment as doing it that way is taking the 'easy/lazy' way out.
I can go to sleep at night with a large amount of pride knowing that every BOINC WU I've ever crunched has, was and always will be 100% mine. How many of the buyers and sellers of CPU Cycles can say the same thing??
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