Our good friend David Baker...

[stocius]

Nothing more than your standard academic. I'm not sure if anyone has heard my views on academics here but there's many a rant on the net posted by me about how I feel about academics. By "academic" I do not mean those dedicated persons working their butts off to help people, I mean snotty, pampered, cowardly, outright Báltaí, bitseach, cac ar oineach...David Baker Téigh trasna ort féin who slander those who work under them. A lot of credit for many, many discoveries should've gone to the grad students who actually do the work, not the jerk sitting in the chair.

[road-runner]

He even looks like a in the picture and I know nothing about him...

[twilyth]

Where's the movie link? Did it get deleted?

I don't know the guy but he - or at least his researchers - gave a nice mention to WCG in a paper last year

The size of the calculation is significant and is estimated at 12 million CPU hours, or 1,350 CPU years. This calculation was performed on the World Community Grid (WCG) parallel grid computing facility provided by IBM (http://wcgrid.org).

see http://biology.plosjournals.org/perl...o.0050076&ct=1

Plus, it was another reasearcher - Bonneau - who blew the lid off of the apparent scam at grid.org. Can look for the posts from last year if anyone is interested.

[64dragon]

Where's the movie link? Did it get deleted?

? the big pic that looks like film and has a photobucket logo in the bottom right

[twilyth]

? the big pic that looks like film and has a photobucket logo in the bottom right

Didn't load first time I looked - or second. Lot of disk activity atm, so maybe that's it.

[fart_plume]

ick he uses a mac. he's a horrible public speaker, from that video i dont perceive him as "smart" or educated. he seems like a cheap skate, he used the SETI program for rosetta, because he couldn't create his own program? and from RSmura's link in original post, he created a game so other people could do his work and find a new protien structure?

i say we stamp reject on his forehead and push him in front of a heavy moving object (bus, train...)

Why would want to insult any self repecting heavy object by getting his crap all over it?

[phelan1777]

Why would want to insult any self repecting heavy object by getting his crap all over it?

Beat him with his mac book?

[fart_plume]

nah, make him live with my ex that set me on fire....................

[Frisch]

I always try to focus on the positive things, and what comes to mind, is that i kicked levi's A$$.....maybe my memory fails me...whatever....i choose to remember it that way.... (ok...i got help)





OH , and some guy leading the project, that didn't know the world is bigger than his ego.

[WrigleyVillain]

So I guess....wait whaaaa fart plume's ex set him on fire? Was she lighting a smoke while you were letting one rip?

[Movieman]

So I guess....wait whaaaa fart plume's ex set him on fire? Was she lighting a smoke while you were letting one rip?

God no, then we'd have lost the whole state!

[STEvil]

Where's the movie link? Did it get deleted?

I don't know the guy but he - or at least his researchers - gave a nice mention to WCG in a paper last year



see http://biology.plosjournals.org/perl...o.0050076&ct=1

Plus, it was another reasearcher - Bonneau - who blew the lid off of the apparent scam at grid.org. Can look for the posts from last year if anyone is interested.

Eh, scam? what scam?

[64dragon]

Why would want to insult any self repecting heavy object by getting his crap all over it?

my bad. we can make him pull your finger...or you can pull your own finger and be facing him so he gets hit with the full force of impact

[fart_plume]

I wouldn't waste a perfectly good plume on that walking bag of fertilizer(no insult intended to fertilizer,lol)...................

[twilyth]

Eh, scam? what scam?

It was suspected that UD was sending out busy work towards the end. In fact I think they had actually admitted to doing this at some earlier time, but claimed that this was no longer true. However when someone asked Baker why Grid.org hadn't been mentioned in the article (the one where WCG was mentioned), Bonneau responded to say that it was because they had not done any significant work on the project and the work they did do had to be redone anyway. But it wasn't a reply on the forum, it was an email to one of the members so there was some question about whether the supposed email was genuine. A few weeks after this UD shut down their distributed computing operations.

[fart_plume]

So I guess....wait whaaaa fart plume's ex set him on fire? Was she lighting a smoke while you were letting one rip?

No, actually I was trying to stop her drug use and her cheating on me with her dealer. Never get between an addict and their drugs.........

[Glow9]

This um guy uh speaks uh like uh this wtf......

[Movieman]

This um guy uh speaks uh like uh this wtf......

yea, the world isn't all rosy..
Sometimes a cloud enters your life and it's your character that pulls you through.
Night all.. Sleep calls.

[Glow9]

yea, the world isn't all rosy..
Sometimes a cloud enters your life and it's your character that pulls you through.
Night all.. Sleep calls.

When that guys speaking in the video I cant tell if he's trying to be funny, or insulting or informative.

[jimmyz]

from the very start of the clip he belittles SETI who gave him the software to begin with. he just doesn't appreciate anyone.

[Martijn]

from the very start of the clip he belittles SETI who gave him the software to begin with. he just doesn't appreciate anyone.

But that's the truth, LOL. No really, I noticed that as well. He could've been a little more thankful.

[The[R]eaper]

ouch! he works at the UW. (U-Dub) we call it.

[DDTUNG]

David who?

DDTUNG

[D_A]

Sounds like JAIAH to me. (just another ignorant a-hole).

[Movieman]

David who?

DDTUNG

Good one.. Cracked me up.