jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk wrote:
MJ Ray wrote:
Now let's see: spend CPU on making pretty pictures or spend CPU on doing useful stuff... I know which I choose. E is bad for the environment, using all that extra electricity on machines that would otherwise have idle time. ;-)
While I see your point, and mostly agree with it, I can understand that some people who spend a lot of time at their conputer may be of the opinion that it may as well be a nice environment to look at, right? Why do people decorate their houses?
Exactly. Since I spend 9-5 then generally go home and turn my own on (worrying I know, g/f hasn't left me yet), an excessively minimalist or dark environment would seriously and probably psychopathically effect me. Thus the pink. Although I am getting tired of it.
As for spare CPU cycles, I thought everyone was running seti@home these days.. ;)
There's another one to which there might actually be a point. Protein folding @ home or something. Distributed.net's OGM project is also more worthwhile.
Alexis -- need.. more.. sigs..