[Magictour] Re: Stats

I'm sorry about these messages. They are pretty off the topics.

> I should be thanking you for letting me be a part of this project and
> helping me leave my mark in history.

I don't know if our names will mark the history in 100 years, but solving
this 150 years problem is quite glorious now.

> Why is there no market for distributed computing in France? You have
> twice the population of Canada so I'm sure that there is potential for
> it. In my eyes, Europe is a lot more technologically advanced then
> North America. Don't get me wrong, Canada & the United States are
> leaders in the IT world and Canada is the country with the most PC's per
> capita but still, we still have a long road ahead of us to catch up to
> you guys!
>
I'm aware that we are technologically in advance, but the problem is that we
are theoretical guys.
We are unable to make money from our work, perhaps because starting a
business in Europe is very difficult, due to the (great) social constraints.

>I thank you for not making it distributed

I spent many hours maintaining EulerNet. I don't want to bother distributing
it manually; this is really boring, because people leave the project without
sending mail, and you have to update the pages regularly when you receive
computation. Look at http://euler.free.fr/progress.htm

Gunter is now pretty good at maintaining his site, so it will be time for
him to learn how to maintain a distributed project :-)

> and am sorry if my desktop is taking so long to
> compute some tours, I'll buy an Opteron or Alpha processor next time!
>
It's not very important. In France, we like to look at working people while
we do nothing.
Of course, I worked hard on this program, but it's always a pleasure to see
somebody else put the efforts :-)

JC


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Received on Thu Dec 04 14:24:18 2001