On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:55:36 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
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>__/ [catherine yronwode] on Thursday 05 January 2006 06:59 \__
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>> __/ [catherine yronwode] on Thursday 05 January 2006 00:51 \__
>>>
>>> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Google could possibly pay customers and then borrow some
>>> >> resources (net-work bandwidth is important) from them.
>>> >> Ultimately, customers would report back to the datacentres. If
>>> >> they sell machines worldwide, this could help establish
>>> >> distributed, fragmented datacentres that perhaps act as proxies
>>> >> too.
>>> >
>>> > Think of something like the SETI screensaver / data-cruncher program.
>>> > Perfect!
>>> >
>>> > Marketing the idea: Google would give you a free mini-computer, or free
>>> > software, or a free network enabled phone, or free tunes, or free
>>> > airline miles, or something of "perceived value" if you let google use
>>> > your machine while you were online but not "doing" anything. The more
>>> > time you logged for google tasks (that is, online time you let them use
>>> > your machine), the more free stuff you would get.
>>> >
>>> > What a splendid concept! They should test this on a small scale in
>>> > Northern California. I would sign up immediately.
>>>
>>> That concept is becoming popular, but not among commercial bodies which
>>> must find ways to lure people to exposue of themselves. SETI just burns
>>> energy in vain in my humble opinion.
>>
>> Well, that's an opinion. At east it was a pioneer in the distributed
>> computing field.
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>Many innovative ideas tend to come from hippies and the hackers culture.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Culture
>
>I hope you can spot the sarcasm here. *smile*
More realistically it's Stoner Culture that does the heavy-duty
thinking, at least some of which is productive.
NN
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