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Re: selling cpu cycles...
Ethics and morals George, these people selling CPU Cycles are IMHO no different then those who won an XBOX 360 from the Mountain Dew contest and sold it on EBAY for $1000.....
It's the idea that some would:
1) Choose to profit from such an activity by selling their PC's cycles
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2) Choose to profit from such an activity by buying PC cycles for gaining standing in the stats with little or no regard for the science. They didn't earn the credits, they purchased them.....
SURE , the work get's done, but if someone is truly that lazy to purchase standing & recognition and they are not doing it to better the science then WTF business do they have of participating if they do not beleive in the work that's being done??
Ex... For the cost of renting 100 PC's it would probably be cheaper to buy the barebones parts and make a Crunchenstein type of blade based system....
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GeorgeCr
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| 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
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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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