why dont we all use our comps for the greater good?

[skywalker[TSG]]

i know that rc5 is a good thing i use it myself but really why use it what will we ever get out by using it
we should instead use our combined cmoputer power for something greater like hmm making the world a better place ive been thinkin on one thing for some time now and that is why dont we use these comp to make live easier for some people just look at all thing that could be better there just aint no way for one person to work everything out
but if we all put our heads together il bet we could have lunar colonies and so on and maybe even some kind off biothermal heating systems using the exess heat from the comps to heat out homes just like NORAD i heard that norads only heating system is all of their computers /forum/smile.gif
and look at russia and all the other third world countries we can do so much but we do so little who needs food anyway when we have our computers
COME ON THIS IS 1999
WHERE IS THE USS ENTERPRISE
CAPTAIN KIRK WHERE ARE U !!!

[deep_sky]

I hear you man.....that is why i do not run rc5, i do not think it is for any greater good or contributing to the general knowledge base of humanity. if you can come up with something that us comp users can do to improve the world in some way, I am all for it.

[drdeath]

well, until something "worthwhile" comes along, why dont you run rc5 instead of just letting the cpu cycles go to waste?

[800XL]

RC5 is an encryption standard. I like my data to remain my data, so I find a worth in contributing to the effort personally. This is not my only reason, however.
Distributed.Net is also less about RC5 and more about distributed processing in general. By proving that a distributed computing effort can be made to work for RC5, it paves the way for further efforts in many other areas. The RC5DES client is already being adapted to search for Optimal Golomb Rulers and other projects that you may find more to your tastes are on the way. If you support the idea of distributed processing, there is your reason for supporting distributed.net's effots. RC5 is just the tip of the iceberg. Since I feel D.Net is running the most convincing system, I support them not only for the sake of RC5 encryption standards, but for future projects that need to be run as cleanly and accurately as they have done with RC5.

As with anything, support what you believe in the best way you can. If you don't feel RC5 is the way to go, push for something that you do feel is compelling. People in charge of these things (like the D.Net staff) don't know what you want unless you tell them.

[deep_sky]

drdeath 800XL,
i am currently trying to run a java client version of setiathome. I feel that seti is "worthwhile". I do not mean to knock people who are running rc5, but this board, especially in the distrib computing forum, has a habit of ignoring anything that is not rc5, as if it was the only thing worth even looking at. That is why I may seem anti-rc5, is because of some people's narrow-mindedness. If d.net came up with a client for seti and the folks at berkeley liked it, i would gladly run it. but the extreme rc5 partisanship on this board makes me not want to run d.net's clients......

[drdeath]

but did you know that all of seti's blocks that they give you are old ones that have already been processed by others? so you really arent helping anything, really. i used to do seti too, until i found that out.

[Apostle 83]

Skywalker, rc5 IS worthwhile as it will cause encryption technology to remain on an upward course, and will develop technology for the future. Look at it like this: Joe has a computer with a super powerful processor, but a mobo that has radically different speeds to different components (HD, ram, video card...). Not all the people on dnet use the same processor, operatinog system, or internet connection. So, you have to design a program for each os that will detect the processor and correspond with the main system as to how to "distribute" the work... it is not easy.

While dnet is for the greater good, the reason distributed computing has not been used for what you percieve to be good (by the way, no offence, but your post was poorly written.), which is probably something like climate pattern predictions, is simply that the technology still needs to be refined.

You have the right idea... I wish we could use it for what you wanted!