I think that 127.5 might be a stretch. but I would love to proved wrong for underestimating our team!

FYI...with 23 days left in 2009, we have passed 119 million points. How close to 130 million can we get?
I am running all machines as fast as they will run. Still I hope to get a minor boost in a few days...doubt that it will make any significant difference in the team total though. Another benefit is that I get a lot of the heat out of the compute farm for the house.

Dave! Methane...Me?? --- Never!

It's like metric vs. English units. Most of the world uses metric even with all its drawbacks and besides the fact that English units were already established. The rest of the BOINC world uses credits instead of WCG points, so when (if) WCG changes to credits it will be more in line with other BOINC projects. Credits are supposed to be roughly equivalent, but you are right that there are inconsistencies.

Since 1 credit = 7 points, the whole "dog year" thing has been informally adopted. I certainly didn't mean to belittle Gerald's accomplishment at all. It is quite impressive.

Hum... I did not know that (probably because I do not participate in that larger community) and I don't particularly like it because it does seem derogatory; but since no one asked me, I suppose "it is what it is" to use the current phrase.

If all the other DC projects are using credits, then there is some argument for WCG conforming, but only if one thinks that the WCG should be in association with the other grid projects; If one sees WCG as one of many projects. I don't think of it that way.

Certainly there are other DC projects out there and many of them are worthy, but I think of them as discrete alternatives to WCG.

It must be a scope issue. I freely move between WCG projects as the mood strikes me and I participate in several simeltaneously. But I don't move from and to WCG. I think that the points given by the different WCG projects are somewhat inconsistent but that does not bother me or have any influence on how I move around. Perhaps that is because they are seemingly the same.

If I thought of the whole DC community in the same way, and wanted to move from WCG to xxx or from xxx to WCG freely, and participate in them simeltaneously, then I might want to see a commonality of points (or credits). And this must be from whence this came (as a slight to get WCG to "conform"?).

Soooo.... I am somewhat ambivalent on that. Using credits within the WCG would not make any difference...just a different measure and... "it is all relative".

At a time when our president and other politicians tend to apologize for our country's prior actions, here's a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled negative comments about our country.






These
are good









JFK'S
Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when
DeGaule decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaule said he wanted all US
military out of France as soon as possible.



Rusk
responded "does that include those who are buried
here?



DeGuale
did not respond.






You
could have heard a pin drop















When
in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the
Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of
empire building by George Bush.



He
answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent many of
its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom
beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for
in return is enough to bury those that did not
return.'






You
could have heard a pin drop.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


There
was a conference in France where a number of international engineers
were taking part, including French and American. During a break,
one of the French engineers came back into the room saying 'Have you
heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft
carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he
intended to do, bomb them?'


A
Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three
hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are
nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to
shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to
feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand
gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a
dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and
from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does
France have?'




You
could have heard a pin drop.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


A
U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included
Admirals from the U.S. , English, Canadian, Australian and French
Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large
group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries.
Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a
French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many
languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, 'Why is it that
we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than
speaking French?'


Without
hesitating, the American Admiral replied, 'Maybe it's because the
Brit's, Canadians, Aussie's and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't
have to speak German.'





You
could have heard a pin drop.



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


AND
THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...


Robert
Whiting , an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At
French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his
carry on.


"You
have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked
sarcastically.


Mr.
Whiting admitted that he had been to France
previously.


"Then
you should know enough to have your passport ready."


The
American said, 'The last time I was here, I didn't have to show
it..."


"Impossible.
Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France
!"


The
American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he
quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in
1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen
to show a passport to."




You
could have heard a pin drop.

Yep. Though the French Navy did come in handy at Yorktown (their army was there too). Of course, I understand that Thanksgiving Day in the UK is on July 4th.

(Hey, we are a global team after all.)

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 12/09 - Active Members

Active team members report
==========================

                                                     Current          Points
Active member name            Rank      Change       Points        This Period
=========================     =====     ======     ===========     ===========
marysduby                         1          0      40,095,760          40,200
RT                                2          0      26,058,950          64,725
Coingames                         3          0      18,541,583          44,506
parmesian                         4          0      18,368,956          27,581
nl59056                           5          0      15,028,263             523
Dave Bell                         6          0      11,097,417          15,314
Esteban69                         7          0      10,978,932           4,650
keithhenry                        8          0       9,435,674          10,655
Blizzie                           9          0       7,906,536               0
Jonathan Figdor                  10          0       6,769,918          21,744
Fanie                            11          0       6,745,064               0
frans6nl                         12          0       5,780,574           8,539
brown chris                      13          0       5,605,669          12,416
PohSoon                          14          0       5,388,385           3,813
sulcata                          15          0       5,148,128           7,578
NiceMedTexMD                     16          0       4,790,267          25,081
Vuj                              17          0       4,139,495           7,421
Blueprint                        18          0       4,066,060           4,615
Alain Bryden                     19          0       2,575,507               0
Tomwp                            20          0       2,551,305               0
lawrencehardin                   21          0       2,309,773           1,580
wrr                              22          0       1,933,829           2,637
siseberg                         23          0       1,816,507               0
Wunderwuzzi                      24          0       1,692,441             447
kkelson                          25          0       1,662,798               0
Sunny L. Kae                     26          0       1,654,193           2,214
smcclarigan                      27          0       1,643,088           1,267
txjallen                         28          0       1,405,757           1,497
johng                            29          0       1,331,017           1,127
harry_i_c                        30          0       1,008,479           1,417
Airwolf_Liu                      31          0         928,287           4,520
laughing66607                    32          0         901,315           1,496
darth_vader                      33          0         871,992           5,080
Jockin                           34          0         774,210           1,345
elpe                             35          0         738,354             559
imin                             36          0         670,839           3,471
Bon Kuhlman                      37          0         568,430               0
Momentary Lapse of Reason        38          0         331,917               0
barney15c                        39          0         248,402             955
madambaster                      40          0         240,544           1,128
WindmillMan76043                 41          0         234,126               0
Natalino                         42          0         230,359               0
cknotty                          43          0         180,185               0
TheRoket                         44          0          85,762             484

Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days.

Top Twenty active members returning points today:
01: RT - 64,725 points
02: Coingames - 44,506 points
03: marysduby - 40,200 points
04: parmesian - 27,581 points
05: NiceMedTexMD - 25,081 points
06: Jonathan Figdor - 21,744 points
07: Dave Bell - 15,314 points
08: brown chris - 12,416 points
09: keithhenry - 10,655 points
10: frans6nl - 8,539 points
11: sulcata - 7,578 points
12: Vuj - 7,421 points
13: darth_vader - 5,080 points
14: Esteban69 - 4,650 points
15: Blueprint - 4,615 points
16: Airwolf_Liu - 4,520 points
17: PohSoon - 3,813 points
18: imin - 3,471 points
19: wrr - 2,637 points
20: Sunny L. Kae - 2,214 points

Total points returned today: 330,585
Active members returning points today: 33
Average points per member active today: 10,017.7273