The "Oh My, Look Who Has Pie" Thread

[skinnee]

The last update was 0's across the board for all WCG on Free-DC.

[D_A]

That's why I bake my own pie.

[[XC] mysticmerlin]

I watch Free-Dc and all but it is not the most accurate for PIE direction. We can have 14k on Stats-n-Stones but only 6k no Bak's site. Just not the best to judge. Anywho to all with the pie. Wish it would update as quick for us.

[twilyth]

I was going to say that. No, really. I just wanted to lull them into a false sense of confidence. Bwahaha!!!

[skinnee]

Stats and Stones and Free-DC are not on the same update cycle. Stats and Stones takes the last update of the day and applies it to the next day. They update at the sames times, just the 4 updates of the day differ. Stats and Stones is on GMT for updates, where Free-DC appears to be on EST.

[skinnee]

Correction...

Stats and Stones uses UTC, where Free-DC uses CST.

[123bob]

I've been confused on the whole topic of when and where stats get updated ever since DCStats made the change. I go to WCG to figure out where I'm at.


To Rammie, nice to have you back on our board. I don't pretend to know you, although you have quite a score racked up and I respect that. IIRC, you were a player on xtreme when I joined. You were in the "heavyweight" division then, and I paid attention even when you were a "free" player on the WCG page. Now, you brought your score to our Xtreme "heavyweight" division. I would respectfully hope you keep it there for awhile. You give me something to hope and dream for, and of course, to chase after.....

Regards,
Bob

[SiGfever]

Look who has PIE...

[RAMMIE]

I've been confused on the whole topic of when and where stats get updated ever since DCStats made the change. I go to WCG to figure out where I'm at.


To Rammie, nice to have you back on our board. I don't pretend to know you, although you have quite a score racked up and I respect that. IIRC, you were a player on xtreme when I joined. You were in the "heavyweight" division then, and I paid attention even when you were a "free" player on the WCG page. Now, you brought your score to our Xtreme "heavyweight" division. I would respectfully hope you keep it there for awhile. You give me something to hope and dream for, and of course, to chase after.....

Regards,
Bob

Bob,as stated above http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...6&postcount=75 I won't be here for the long haul.I have no allegiance to any team.I just crunch because it is the right thing to do in my conscience with the resources I have at my disposal.
I give freely and hate the competition that DC creates except to motivate others.
That's why I'm here stealing pie.That slice seems so important that a thread was created about it.I don't care one bit who has a slice,but if it motivates others to increase their contribution we all win.
I'll be moving on by the time Dave gets his pumpkin and mincemeat on Thanksgiving.

Mike

[Movieman]

Bob,as stated above http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...6&postcount=75 I won't be here for the long haul.I have no allegiance to any team.I just crunch because it is the right thing to do in my conscience with the resources I have at my disposal.
I give freely and hate the competition that DC creates except to motivate others.
That's why I'm here stealing pie.That slice seems so important that a thread was created about it.I don't care one bit who has a slice,but if it motivates others to increase their contribution we all win.
I'll be moving on by the time Dave gets his pumpkin and mincemeat on Thanksgiving.

Mike

Mike:
not to rehash an old subject but part of what motivates some people is the competitions and thats their right to do so.
We have as many reasons for being here as their are team members.
Some have been personally touched or had their families touched by these diseases.
Some just love the high end hardware and find in DC work a good use of that hardware.
Some just plain love the competitions themselves but to me, whatever the motivation it is a good one.
There is no bad motivation or one better than another as long as the work is done.
Just like nationalities, races, colors and religeons, people here are all different and we have to respect their motivations just as we respect our own even if theirs are totally opposite to ours.
Don't look at the why, look at the how we can bring others into this.
Spend your energy as I do, to look for ways to get more work done in a shorter timeframe.
I'll let you in on a little secret:
Right now I have app $600.00 to my name.
I had a guy offer me $2000.00 cash for the Nehalem rig last week.
I made no promises when I got this rig.
I could do whatever I choose to with it.
It does app 42 HCC WU per day and that is all that matters to me.
The points we have fun with but never,never read that as why the team does this work.
The work is done from a desire to do what we can as individuals so that all of our kids won't have to see parents and loved ones go through the hell of these diseases.

[RAMMIE]

I understand Dave.You are just repeating what I said.I only like the competition as a means to spur others to produce more work.That's why I'm here taking pie.

I only compete with these diseases.

[D_A]

The slice itself and pie in general is of no importance. It's all just supposed to be fun and games, and a way to encourage each other. I've run into folk who take the whole pie thing far more seriously than the science and that saddens me (and I'm ugly when I'm saddened. Really. Goblins run like frightened children. It's unpleasant for all concerned.) but this crew aren't like that. The perspective here is truly grounded in what we are all trying to achieve.

[D_A]

As it should be.

[skinnee]

My addiction to crunching is mostly due to an OCD issue. I started with a single P4 to see what it was all about, then found out there were points and saw how all of these guys had a lot more points than I did, thats where my competitive nature kicked in. Once I finally hit the pie chart, it was a matter of trying to get others to push me off the chart and spur me to add more machines in order to stay on the chart. I had been searching for something to do with my knowledge and access to HW for a while, I even started helping out a childrens hospital here in the Twin Cities with some network infrastructure projects, they kept wanting to pay me and I kept forgetting my social security number.

The pie and points keeps me interested. For now, I am competing with the team rank numbers, I want to see where I can get team rank wise before the end of the year. I just keep finding small things to keep me interested in crunching, because as someone send a few posts back (one of those collective goofballs I think )...crunching is rather boring, its like having a fish tank. However, with points its like we have fighting fish.

[[XC] serlv]

I started crunching when my Dad passed due to Cancer. I wanted to do something. If a DC app isn't working on Cancer research, of some sort, I'm not interested.

At the time I had three computers. However, I was going to school for networking and didn't want to use their labs, so I built a few more at home. I joined my forum's team to be with like-minded forum members and got a lot of support. My Dad's death really shook me up. Getting involved with them helped me through a very rough time, emotionally.

My forum, at that time, was Bitbenders, where D_A hails from. Though we were a relatively small team we were very strong in standings among forums. I enjoyed that, alot. I've since been with one or two other forum's teams, and enjoy helping a forum "rise up" and become a force. That involves points, yes. There is something there, for me, involving the competitive nature. I was, in the past, a very strong and vocal cheerleader. I like to encourage a team's build-up. Something in it that resonates with me. However, the points represent important work being done. WU's being completed. And maybe one step closer to a more effective treatment. And maybe less lives devestated at some point.

For sure, I wouldn't be crunching if my life hadn't been personally affected by Cancer. That was the catalyst that got me involved and still drives me. But I like seeing us whoopazz, too. I like "kickin' some butt". I like being a strong part of that.

Crunch On!
Onward and Upward


Scott

[ShootStraight]

I started crunching when my Dad passed due to Cancer. I wanted to do something. If a DC app isn't working on Cancer research, of some sort, I'm not interested.

At the time I had three computers. However, I was going to school for networking and didn't want to use their labs, so I built a few more at home. I joined my forum's team to be with like-minded forum members and got a lot of support. My Dad's death really shook me up. Getting involved with them helped me through a very rough time, emotionally.

My forum, at that time, was Bitbenders, where D_A hails from. Though we were a relatively small team we were very strong in standings among forums. I enjoyed that, alot. I've since been with one or two other forum's teams, and enjoy helping a forum "rise up" and become a force. That involves points, yes. There is something there, for me, involving the competitive nature. I was, in the past, a very strong and vocal cheerleader. I like to encourage a team's build-up. Something in it that resonates with me. However, the points represent important work being done. WU's being completed. And maybe one step closer to a more effective treatment. And maybe less lives devestated at some point.

For sure, I wouldn't be crunching if my life hadn't been personally affected by Cancer. That was the catalyst that got me involved and still drives me. But I like seeing us whoopazz, too. I like "kickin' some butt". I like being a strong part of that.

Crunch On!
Onward and Upward


Scott

Amen. You're not alone.

-SS

[Movieman]

Since people are listing their motivations I'll add mine.
There are multiple reasons but my Grandmother and 2 daughters are the main ones.
When I was little my father worked 3-11PM at the GE in Lynn,Mass
My Mother worked at Liberty Mutual Ins Co. in Boston.
She left at 7am and got home at 5pm.
This left a gap from 2pm-5pm and my fathers mother came and watched us every afternoon for those 3 hours then she would grab the bus home.
She was like a 2nd mother. A tough as nails old Irish lady with the maiden name of Cecilia Corbett.
When I was 12 she was diagnosed with cancer. That was 1964.
She had surgery, then came home but it attacked her again.
One of my vivid memories is of my father holding her head over a bucket while she was vomiting from the drugs they gave her.
She was a great old lady and she died at age 68 in 1965 when I was 13.
I loved that old lady in a way that I can't describe to you here.
Except as a child I think I've cried three times in my life.
First when she passed, next when my father passed in 1997 and last when watching the events of Sept11,2001.
I have two daughters, aged 20 and 31 and if I can do anything in my power, either personally or by motivating others to do this work, to spare my two kids the hell of what I saw my grandmother go thru then I will do it.
You sort of bare your soul to people at times when you get involved in this and things that are very personal get shared with others.
If we as a group with all this computational power can cut the time to save just one person then it's all been worthwhile.
I beleive that we can do much more than save that one person and that is what motivates me along with the personal parts I mentioned here.

[gr8golf]

I started crunching when my Dad passed due to Cancer. I wanted to do something. Scott

Just think about what would happen if everyone that had been personally been affected by cancer started crunching? I don't know whether crunching is going to be the magic bullet in the heart of this disease, or what kind of role it will actually have - but what if it is?

OTOH - we need to get some more nuclear power plants up and running and find ways to deal with the heat / global warming.

[SiGfever]

PIE Time...

[D_A]

Well ... I don't talk about my experience normally but ...

My parents and another couple were married on the same day in the same church. Being the only couples that knew each other in a new town they stayed close and their kids and my sister and I effectively grew up in each other's pockets. Aunty Morna and Uncle Ernie they were to us. Aunty Morna contracted bowl cancer, but despite aggressive treatment she developed secondaries in the brain, lungs and liver. By the time she died none of us could recognise here. Morna had always been a big woman, full of love and life. She passed as a pale, skeleton-esque shadow of her former self.
My Dad died a few years later with Parkinsons being a contributing factor. Since then we've had two friends contract Hodgkinson's and non-Hodgkinson's lymphoma. One survived and has three sons, the other died leaving a wife, son and two daughters.
I crunch in their memory HDC, HPF/2 and the like in their memory. I do FAAH for the friends I have who are nurses paramedics and other emergency services who get put at risk of this in the course of their trying to help the rest of us.

[SiGfever]

Morning PIE anyone?

[skinnee]

mmm...blue raspberry!

[twilyth]

mmm...blue raspberry!

Show off!

My slice is bigger than your slice - nah, nah, neh, nah, nah.

You know if you overclock too much, your chips will start to grow hair and clog the radiators. Yup, that's a fact. There's a reason they're call "hairy Hapertowns."

So . . . . you better slow down before it's too late. I'm not envious or anything, I'm just trying to be a good friend.

[skinnee]

See...now thats the type of response I expect around here. I know crunching is serious business, but come on, if we can't make fun of "The Collective" there is something seriously wrong.

[[XC] mysticmerlin]

Hey, Wait a darn second there skinnee........... Oh, Yeah, never mind your right