[ILUG] United Devices Cancer Program for Linux

McGahon, Dermot Dermot.McGahon at avocent.com
Mon Oct 21 16:44:05 IST 2002


>And who's to say you'll be told about the breakthrough cure for Cancer
>that get's discovered by your CPU cycles. Or if you do find out when
>they discover it, it'll be because you read about it when they stick a
>million patents on it.

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>> SETI at home is complete bollerx! if anyone thinks that we are 
>going to be told when we find an alian signal they are in la-la land.

The good thing about these types of distributed applications though is that
they are figuring out how to do them. Surely that can't be a bad thing. The
usefulness comes 
later.

Dermot.
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