Re: SETI@home (was Re: Folding@home 2.0)

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2001 - 13:43:58 MST


"Michael M. Butler" wrote:
>
> The instability combined with my narrow pipe made it not worth the effort for me.
> Sad but true. Have they improved the code any WRT stability?
>
> PS: Jakob Nielsen at www.useit.com estimates the yearly world productivity loss
> due to instabilities in Windows (+ apps, one assumes; figure and ground) at $170billion.
> THat, he claims, is three times Billgatus's net worth.

Instabilities compared to what?

If MS has such a poor standard of quality, then the MAC world should be
similarly compromised, since MS is the largest producer of MAC
application software.

The alleged 'instability' of Windows environments have always seemed to
me to be specifically because of the impossibility of programming
applications (and OS's) to operate in all possible equipment
configurations in a market with an open hardware architecture (as
opposed to a closed hardware architecture as MAC is).

Any productivity loss should be more properly compared to the
productivity loss of either having no computer at all, or spending twice
as much, as would occur in a world monopolized by the likes of Apple.



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