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Any opinions on why every team in the top 10 is getting a fewer number of new members?
Every top 10 team is in the red for new members.
Every top 10 team is in the red for new members.
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I think one big issue is the difficulty of installation. Just to help someone get everything running you darn near have to write a book. Reading one of the installation guides is daunting to a novice. Stanford should be shot for posting the Win SMP download without the current executable. So, just to get started you have to download the program then download the latest executable. Once we had the one click. ANybody could be folding in minutes. Now if you try to be competetive, run VMware, run the gpu client, it takes hours. That may change soon with SMP2.
I think one big issue is the difficulty of installation. Just to help someone get everything running you darn near have to write a book. Reading one of the installation guides is daunting to a novice. Stanford should be shot for posting the Win SMP download without the current executable. So, just to get started you have to download the program then download the latest executable. Once we had the one click. ANybody could be folding in minutes. Now if you try to be competitive, run VMware, run the gpu client, it takes hours. That may change soon with SMP2.
I suspect some of them are doing BOINC things instead. It is a very easy install with no need for passworded windows accounts, VM stuff, or setting a bunch of things in the GPU's configuration file.
Stanford really needs to clean things up IMO, it's a mess as is.
Back when SETI began, it seemed quite possible. Now that we have so much more knowledge of our galaxy, and space in general, we know it isn't possible to receive radio waves from the distances that would be needed.
I don't run SETI,
but the possibility of contact,
no matter how remote,
is worth the coal.
Such confirmed contact
would be revolutionary to our world
and for that reason alone,
SETI deserves to exist.