Wired

Adam L. Beberg beberg@mithral.com
Sun, 9 Jun 2002 12:25:13 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Tom wrote:

> As for seti...its still rocking. Im sure wired and the short term mindset
> probably think of it as yesterdays news...too badso sad...for wired and
> the short attention span theater.

The problem with seti@home is that all the computation they are doing could
be done with less then $1000 worth of ANALOG hardware attached at the dish
site. Granted, s@h is "neat", but it's completely the wrong way to do
things, and thus, an exercise in global warming via CPU not alien hunting.

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
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