Milkyway: DOUBLE CREDIT FUNDRAISER CANCELLED
Dear MilkyWay@home volunteers, It appears that I have made a mis-step in management of MilkyWay@Home, regarding double credits for fundraising. I believed that this had been done before. I have since discovered that not only I was incorrect, but it is also inconsistent with the BOINC credit system. As volunteers, you have donated enormous computational resources to my group, and on top of that have created a powerful community that not only helps us with software but also teaches us how to be responsible members of your community. We will be running double credit two days this week to make up for lost credit in the past, but we will not be running a double credit fundraiser in September. I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. I will need a little time to understand what the right way is to do this, so stay tuned. Best Wishes, Prof. Newberg
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I guess "they" got to him. Sad times when a guy can't run his own project without being accused of "inconsistent with the BOINC credit system"
Unreal.
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Someday DA someday...You will find yourself in front of a very unpleasant looking east-european gangster, who donīt give a f.... for your BOINC credit system!!...
Man I am sick of this...DA is dictating how a Professor should run his own project? How lame is that?
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Maybe is a comemoration of the first edition aniversary of Hitler's "Mine Kumpf" or Nero's Rome fire. Some cientists can be a very good project of ditactorship. :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPa01kmxP4w
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Man, DA you are a totally narcissistic, arrogant prick...... He must think he is "Up There" with Bill Gates, Larry Ellis or Steve Jobs. Just a nerd lost in his own little Academic Microverse.
I sincerely hope DA is NOT Swedish or Scandinavian...... It would a absolute bummer to be related to that @ss, even if three times removed.......
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A one man disaster zone.
He must have a serious flatulence problem cos eveytime he has one of his farts he screws up the whole boinc system and causes one hell of a stink.
* note sig link * \m/
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I think it is about time we got together and discuss an alternative to DA's Boinc. He might be credited as the creator of Boinc, but he will also be the demise of Boionc as we know it. Surely we do have amongst us somebody who could create an alternative system especially in view that Boinc is open software or whatever it is called. I am not into these things. I just crunch in memory of friends and relatives who died of Muscular Dystrophy. I am having fun at the same time and crunch any science project and like the way we can compete against each other on a level playing field. Chopping and changing scores in the middle of a game is not for me. It seem that whilst currently I am not a member of Folding, it will not be long before I will be. DA can go back to run his Seti for I have had enough of his dictatorial way of running Boinc. I paid for my equipment and am paying for my Electric Bill and time. Enough is enough...
Edit. I apologise if I am misleading people to think that it was DA who stopped the Double Credit Fundraising in MW. Having re read MW Message Boards there is no indication of any direct involvement in his part. I am just pissed off with this NewCredit deal and assumed it related to it. Never the less, I feel that it could be alleged that there was some interference in order that Prof. Newbery changed his mind. Either way, one should read things a bit more carefully and I did not...
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I guess I better test Milkyway before this may or may not happen.