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brown chris
Master Cruncher California - USA Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 2560 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, I just got finished taking a week off from life. It was great! I did NOTHING! LOL
----------------------------------------I floated in the pool, drank beer, listened to music (while floating in the pool). I didn't even notice that my weather station had crashed for two days!  It's nice to be back to the living, though. Lots of news happened that I manged to ignore - now, I'm interested again. I noticed that June was the coolest month on record for California. Hmm.... Must be global warming. Now it's nice and warm, again. Only 103, though.. not hot, yet. The pool is 85, though. Now, when I get home from work, there is a trail of clothes from the garage to the pool. Then, a trail of water from the pool to the fridge (always forget to grab a beer first). I love this time of year! 
BIG BANG THEORY: In the beginning there was nothing... which exploded
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brown chris
Master Cruncher California - USA Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 2560 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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BIG BANG THEORY: In the beginning there was nothing... which exploded
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The new badge colors:
----------------------------------------1) Are counter-intuitive. Ruby, Emerald and Sapphire are better than gold? At least before it made some sense. 2) Too many colors loses meaning -irrational meanings and finally, what are these badges for in the first place? I want to know the real purpose behind all the different color badges for all the projects. Is it to cause people with resources to spread them as much as possible to achieve the highest level in all projects? Is it to get people with fewer resources to concentrate them on one project? Doesn't it have both these effects? Why would WCG want to do that? Does it make sense to attempt to manipulate the people who are contributing their resources on a strictly altruistic basis? Certainly it is not to indicate overall contribution; we have points, (already a rubber ruler) for that. So it must be some sort of effort to manipulate the way people allocate their resources to projects. Why  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
and finally, what are these badges for in the first place? RT -- the badges were designed to quickly highlight a member's accomplishments as well as to give them something to shoot for. |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The new badge colors: 1) Are counter-intuitive. Ruby, Emerald and Sapphire are better than gold? At least before it made some sense. 2) Too many colors loses meaning -irrational meanings and finally, what are these badges for in the first place? I want to know the real purpose behind all the different color badges for all the projects. Is it to cause people with resources to spread them as much as possible to achieve the highest level in all projects? Is it to get people with fewer resources to concentrate them on one project? Doesn't it have both these effects? Why would WCG want to do that? Does it make sense to attempt to manipulate the people who are contributing their resources on a strictly altruistic basis? Certainly it is not to indicate overall contribution; we have points, (already a rubber ruler) for that. So it must be some sort of effort to manipulate the way people allocate their resources to projects. Why Well, it might have been different if all six were there from the beginning. Done separately, it might have been harder sticking with precious metals. What's after gold? Titanium, platinum, then what? Plus you need something that has different colors too. So precious gems are more valuable than precious metals I guess. Ruby, emerald, sapphire also leaves the possibility of diamond for five years maybe? Just guessing at all this though. As for why the badges, probably the same reasons we have points to begin with. It's a lot like why MOT has its milestones and Hall of Fame banners. A sense of tangibility and accomplishment along with goals to aim for. That's important for some folks; others are fine without them. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together Phase 1 is almost complete!!! Details here.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The new badge colors: 1) Are counter-intuitive. Ruby, Emerald and Sapphire are better than gold? At least before it made some sense. 2) Too many colors loses meaning -irrational meanings and finally, what are these badges for in the first place? I want to know the real purpose behind all the different color badges for all the projects. Is it to cause people with resources to spread them as much as possible to achieve the highest level in all projects? Is it to get people with fewer resources to concentrate them on one project? Doesn't it have both these effects? Why would WCG want to do that? Does it make sense to attempt to manipulate the people who are contributing their resources on a strictly altruistic basis? Certainly it is not to indicate overall contribution; we have points, (already a rubber ruler) for that. So it must be some sort of effort to manipulate the way people allocate their resources to projects. Why Well, it might have been different if all six were there from the beginning. Done separately, it might have been harder sticking with precious metals. What's after gold? Titanium, platinum, then what? Plus you need something that has different colors too. So precious gems are more valuable than precious metals I guess. Ruby, emerald, sapphire also leaves the possibility of diamond for five years maybe? Just guessing at all this though. As for why the badges, probably the same reasons we have points to begin with. It's a lot like why MOT has its milestones and Hall of Fame banners. A sense of tangibility and accomplishment along with goals to aim for. That's important for some folks; others are fine without them. I was happy with the points--just like playing marbles which i was never good at--By the way did we ever get the UD problem fixed>?  How about all that Protein folding we did 2004-2005 and i think their were some others[Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 17, 2009 1:24:13 AM] |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 07/16 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== RT reached 16,000,000 points  Dresser reached 900,000 points Runtime milestones report ========================= No runtime milestones found. Results returned milestones report ================================== NiceMedTexMD returned their 3,300th result Airwolf_Liu returned their 2,200th result jamesjr934 returned their 100th result New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 12/19/2007 2,522 Points: 05/06/2009 518,871 Runtime: 01/25/2006 1:123:00:53:34 Good crunching folks!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 07/16 - Active Members
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Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 60,644 points 02: marysduby - 56,475 points 03: esoteric17 - 41,120 points 04: Coingames - 37,112 points 05: NiceMedTexMD - 25,833 points 06: parmesian - 23,243 points 07: Dave Bell - 19,430 points 08: brown chris - 16,602 points 09: Dataman - 16,528 points 10: Dresser - 15,139 points 11: Blueprint - 11,797 points 12: keithhenry - 10,711 points 13: sulcata - 10,166 points 14: Vuj - 8,034 points 15: Esteban69 - 6,368 points 16: PohSoon - 5,145 points 17: Airwolf_Liu - 3,618 points 18: smcclarigan - 2,920 points 19: gr8buddha - 2,629 points 20: darth_vader - 2,544 points Total points returned today: 397,669 Active members returning points today: 38 Average points per member active today: 10,464.9737 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The new badge colors: 1) Are counter-intuitive. Ruby, Emerald and Sapphire are better than gold? At least before it made some sense. 2) Too many colors loses meaning -irrational meanings and finally, what are these badges for in the first place? I want to know the real purpose behind all the different color badges for all the projects. Is it to cause people with resources to spread them as much as possible to achieve the highest level in all projects? Is it to get people with fewer resources to concentrate them on one project? Doesn't it have both these effects? Why would WCG want to do that? Does it make sense to attempt to manipulate the people who are contributing their resources on a strictly altruistic basis? Certainly it is not to indicate overall contribution; we have points, (already a rubber ruler) for that. So it must be some sort of effort to manipulate the way people allocate their resources to projects. Why Well, it might have been different if all six were there from the beginning. Done separately, it might have been harder sticking with precious metals. What's after gold? Titanium, platinum, then what? Plus you need something that has different colors too. So precious gems are more valuable than precious metals I guess. Ruby, emerald, sapphire also leaves the possibility of diamond for five years maybe? Just guessing at all this though. As for why the badges, probably the same reasons we have points to begin with. It's a lot like why MOT has its milestones and Hall of Fame banners. A sense of tangibility and accomplishment along with goals to aim for. That's important for some folks; others are fine without them. I was happy with the points--just like playing marbles which i was never good at--By the way did we ever get the UD problem fixed>? How about all that Protein folding we did 2004-2005 and i think their were some othersNo, the conversion from points to credits is still on their to do list. All the numbers on the WCG site are accurate. It's just that the points from UD are not included on the external sites like BOINCStats and such plus WCG points are the dog year version of BOINC credits (seven times as much). |
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