On Sat, Feb 2, 2002 10:15 PM, Mary Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is that fun? Does that sound like fun? Some hobby!
George said no poaching. He said if there was a problem with exponents
not being completed in a timely fashion, he would take care of it.
Anybody who continues to poach
There are two points of view here. They seem to be more or less
irreconcilable. This argument repeats on a regular basis.
I have to say that:
(a) I agree completely that having an assignment poached is
annoying to extremely offputting, especially for a relatively new
user;
(b) I don't see
Well, I think that most people on the list know of my past... it's when
someone does a Google search on me that I think borders on stalking.
One can only wonder what you might find if you did Google searches on
everyone on this list. :)
Anyway... the gardening analogy doesn't pass muster.
I agree that having your exponents poached is extremely annoying and can
and probably does drive away new participants. When it happens repeatedly
and when the person who does it, does so repeatedly and with a clear
disregard to whether the exponents are being checked in regularly or not -
Mary
Mary Conner wrote:
Hobbies are supposed to be fun. Poachers make it not fun. It's like a
bully trashing your sand castle because you're building right where he
wants to. Imagine yourself a first time GIMPS participant.
[cut history of the hypothetical newbie]
Hi. I'm new to GIMPS. I
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Maciej Hrynczyszyn wrote:
Hi. I'm new to GIMPS. I recently switched from SETI@Home looking for
something more solid, which probably makes me a good example for this
discussion :-) This entire thread scared me a lot, I must admit. Could
anybody told me - a complete newbie
First, may I point out that neither GIMPS nor PrimeNet *owns* the
Mersenne exponents being tested. I would posit that *anyone* is free to
test *any* exponent they choose.
Clearly, the purpose of GIMPS/PrimeNet is to optimize this search by
assigning exponents in an orderly fashion.
Both those
Legally perhaps not (however, they are using PrimeNet in a way that
violates the stated terms of usage), morally and ethically I do think
(and
I suspect most people would think) it is wrong. Not terribly
surprising
that you don't think it is, I suppose.
See, it's the snide comments like
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Aaron Blosser wrote:
Legally perhaps not (however, they are using PrimeNet in a way that
violates the stated terms of usage), morally and ethically I do think
(and
I suspect most people would think) it is wrong. Not terribly
surprising
that you don't think it is,
Mary Conner wrote:
It's very unlikely that particular exponent will get poached. But in
general, the best way to avoid poachers is to avoid looking like a
newbie. If you are running Prime95, set your Options--Preferences--Days
between sending new end dates value lower, down to 1 if that
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Maciej Hrynczyszyn wrote:
But if I use 'Vacation or Holiday' option at least my completion date will
be postponed?
If you uncheck the computer will be on during your absence box, it
should adjust your completion date. The bigger problem is that not having
checked the
Aw heck, let's just agree to disagree and shake hands. :) I'm not
terribly upset, and as I mentioned before, I have far greater things in
life to be concerned about than GIMPS, so I didn't mean to make a big
deal of it. :)
First, I would like to point out that you brought yourself into this
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Aaron Blosser wrote:
Aw heck, let's just agree to disagree and shake hands. :) I'm not
terribly upset, and as I mentioned before, I have far greater things in
life to be concerned about than GIMPS, so I didn't mean to make a big
deal of it. :)
No problem with that here.
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