From what I see, it looks like we're doing particularly well recently. Are the rest of you seeing dramatic improvements in points returned as ambient temperatures drop and our CPUs can do more work due to the drop in temperatures?

We are undoubtedly doing better than "usual" lately. Keep in mind though that as we cool down towards winter, our teammates below the equator are warming up towards summer. Do the two cancel out? I doubt it but I think there are a number of factors in play.

Personally, I tend to be pretty tolerant of topics for discussion in a thread. I try to acknowledge and respect the diversity of backgrounds, cultures and experiences of the WCG's crunching population. I have no monopoloy on knowledge or answers. Not all take the same approach. We have had conflicts and accusations fly at times in one thread or another. I don't expect any serious problems among our team members but there is nothing keeping others from joining in here (neither do I object to non-team members posting here) and I admit to being cautious if only to avoid disruptions in our own thread that could hurt our team.

I think those who tend to religous extremism tend to work from definitions of God in their terms and not in God's terms. Apparently it is pretty common for folks to consider their beliefs and mortality at my age. I guess I'm not unusual in that respect though we all tend to have occasions to consider that sort of thing during the course of our lives. I am tending towards a more holistic approach I guess. I cannot believe that religion and science are irreconcilable. Interestingly, science is doing more to "prove" the existence of God than religion. Cosmologists can take our universe back to the instant of the Big Bang but then are left with the question of what caused the Big Bang. Recent theories on our universe as we know it simply being one dimension in a multi-dimensional universe and theories of parallel universes may be the start of taking thing beyond space and time to the timeless eternity beyond. Back in ancient times (mine at least), I had a high school math class in "analysis". We started with the definitions of a point, line and plane and built our existing mathmatical system from that. My inclination at this point is to define God as that which is omnicient, omnipotent and omnipresent and build from there. Interestingly, that would encompass all that exists within our space-time continuum but also all that exists outside it. So, one rather interesting aspect of that is that each of us is also a part of God. It's a bit like being one of the blind men feeling that elephant. Too many of us define right and wrong based on what we feel and thus, despite our describing what are just different aspects of the same elephant, we become mired in conflict instead of recognizing that Truth is in all our answers. We want Truth to be constrained by us when it is truly greater than us.

PV jail is driving me nuts. I now have 18 WUs waiting to be validated, 14 of which are dddt WUs. It's enough to make you want to join SETI. Maybe not.

Congrats to the milestoners.

Sorry folks, but temp/humidity has no bearing on "speed". As long as the devce does not exceed its upper/lower design boundries, it will run at a steady state. I would not recommend putting them in you deep freezer or wood stove though.