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Former Member
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Sekerob, please reconsider and just ignore those who do complain. I'd say that there are far more crunchers 'out there' who do appreciate the fantastic service you've been providing (after all, just ocnsider the numer of hits these graphs receive). +1 +1000 Cuz Sekrob and his charts are fantastic, regardless of what some idiotic masses might say  agreed |
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nasher
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 2, 2005 Post Count: 1423 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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yes i want Sekrob to restart all the graphs he has suspended even if they are not perfect they give us some idea.. myself i want to know (with best estimate) how much time i may have... since i only have 3 machines if i get to the ruby or emerald badge i want to be able to look at a chart and go humm well it estimates less than 5 months on this project should i try for the next badge on this project or am i happy with what i have.
----------------------------------------Yes i know sometimes it will jump from 6 months left to 30 days left but it is still nice to know some reasons they don't say how many work units left 1) projects add work now and then 2) the amount of work they have ready to send vs amount of work left for project are different 3) now and then they resize work units for efficiency 4) may be something in there agreements with companies (similar to why they dont tell us what project is releasing next)  |
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wchoff
Cruncher Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 35 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sekerob, please reconsider and just ignore those who do complain. I'd say that there are far more crunchers 'out there' who do appreciate the fantastic service you've been providing (after all, just ocnsider the numer of hits these graphs receive). +1 +1000 Cuz Sekrob and his charts are fantastic, regardless of what some idiotic masses might say agreed +1 more Maybe the given finish dates can be less specific, like a quarter or season, instead of a month. This would give people the information they're looking for and help them remember it's only an estimate. |
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fablefox
Senior Cruncher Joined: May 31, 2010 Post Count: 168 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thank Nasher,
----------------------------------------The reason I'm asking is that I'm a "finisher" type. I'm not a badge hoarder (yet :-) ). If there is 5 projects with 'estimated' 13 days left, I rather work on it, even if I'm not getting any badge for 13 days x 5 projects work. I'm happy enough to see a project get completed so the scientist can move on with their research. As for reason 1, 2 and 3, they could just add a simple forum post on the reason, no big deal. As for estimation, they could just do it 'per week' basis. How many work unit get done last week, and work unit left divided by that number, and we would get number of week estimated. Of course, people move from project to project, some machine retired, some people quit. It's just like windows copy bar in it's XP days. heh heh. So for a week we would get one year left, next week we could get 6 month left - it's all about amount of work unit done last week. They could also take amount of work unit done, divide by the number of weeks the project has been online, and divide work unit left by that. I know this will lead crunchers just like me focus on one job at one time, leaving the other project (therefore draining their resources). But if you ask me, let say there are ten project require one year each - do we want to spread all, so the projects get complete 10 year from now, or focus on each one so that each year we get one project complete so the scientist can get something useful out of it. I know there is no right or wrong asnwer, but I focus all my resources on HCC - just for one reason: http://www.naturalnews.com/003927.html http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1298...r_one_killer_by_2010.html http://cancer.about.com/b/2008/12/09/cancer-w...er-one-killer-by-2010.htm |
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