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There isn't any project on "finding new earths", as far as I know. There are some new alpha-test projects, like Stardust, but I'm not familiar with them. But then, we'd have to solve the problem of transporting outselves there etc before taking the step. So one could argue that physics DC...

guy, very good analysis. Wrt "What keeps people trading the SP?" A reason why many bigger players preferred the SP vs ES is the cost issue. CME used to charge (and still does to a point) ABSURD fees for the electronic contract. These costs really add up if one trades BIG size. Also, the...

I don't know how serious your serious business is, but it contradicts all my experience on the matter. You may be using GMail for your mail, and it works fine technically, but to most people it looks like a "free", "throwaway" "non-real" address, like hotmail.com and yahoo.com. Not to...

DC is becoming more mainstream: Ten days ago, BBC (UK) sponsored "Climate Change Experiment" was launched and over 80.000 new participants joined it already. <img src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/images/aboutexperiment_small.gif"> More info at project's URL...

Thx for the feedback. I am thinking about adding a "table of contents" and then maybe breaking up some parts and moving them to their own pages. As for success (=popularity), fun facts: Looking at the referrer logs just one (1) person visited the page via ET (probably it was you) during...

-bump- I've finally finished the HowTo at http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html If anyone is considering offering his PCs' idle time to help change the world for the better, I think it'll help you save lots of time (and perhaps even convice those who haven't joined in yet). :)

Actually it was someone else's comment: "it (SETI) is a lot like the lottery. If you buy one ticket a week, you're a dreamer, if you buy 100 tickets a week, you've got a problem" I think he was referring to those guys at the top-100...

nitro, thx for feedback, I visited the links you posted. I think you'll find that my overview at http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html helps one understand how the various projects you cited, from climateprediction and SETI, to Folding and Rosetta and others fit together (from the...

What he describes is correct, but in the following sense: SETI (Search for ET intelligence) attracted HUGE number of following, about 5 MILLION. Incl. some ("wackos"?), which forgot that such a project is about the science So those wackos "cracked" the SETI client, to return bogus WUs...

TraderNik: Yes, I wrote it, thx. About the credit system, I don't care much about my "credits" (I never look at it, unless I want to make sure my PCs is actually processing WUs from project XYZ). I'd only care about whether the project is legit (my best measure would be citations by other...

If anyone else is actively contributing and have taken the time to look into them, I'd appreciate their feedback about which projects to contribute to. Some are more time-sensitive or prioritized then others, looking for computing power. I've joined most, but give out most to less widely...

Actually, I've been running Folding@Homa via Google toolbar since 2004. But 1/ G has stopped supporting F@H via its toolbar, new versions don't support it at all (says so in the URL you posted) 2/ the code version supported via toolbar is the old TINKER code (vs GROMACS and even newer...

(I've searched around ET for posts on this subject, but couldn't find any. This is suprising, considering that us traders have modern, fast PCs which keep running 24/7, but only use them a few hours per day.) We all have probably heard about the legendary SETI@Home by Berkeley Univ (the...

Does IB offer ED spreads as traded on Globex? I can't find any info at IB's site and doing TWS -> Add Symbol -> GE -> FutSprd gives an error.