[Magictour] Re: Stats

Personnaly, I hardly relish being extremely famous in some machine's memory.
In fact, I don't think my fellow human beings' memory has expanded one bit
(I mean neuron) and that's where I'd appreciate being gloriously AND
actively remembered... ;-)

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  Envoye : mercredi 2 juillet 2003 10:59
  A : magictour@ml.free.fr
  Objet : [Magictour] Re: Stats


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

  now that data storing is so much easier than in the past,
  the history will become much wider and more people will
  find a place in it. So, yes , I do think that if someone
  will type your name into a searchengine in 100 years,
  then he will probably find you.

  Hugues:
>> 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!

  yes, exactly 6 hours ;-) . When I'm writing this, you are still asleep.

  JC said:
>I'm aware that we are technologically in advance, but the problem is that
we
>are theoretical guys.

  I'm not so aware of that. Maybe we were 40 years ago, but then the
  Japanese came. They are actually a bit silent and now we are waiting
  for the Chinese.

  But Canada-France, NorthAmerica-Europe what's the difference ?
  You are of European descendence, just some few centuries difference,
  same genes. Come on, join the European community...

>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.

  it's also the bureaucracy
  (in Germany it's everywhere but I didn't even know the English word,
  had to look it up)

>>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

  this can be automized, IMO. 50 years ago nobody could imagine that
  you might telefone without an operator ! In some years, you create
  a distributed project with one mouseclick and it's maintained
  automatically (and JC will be glad that he already has another job ;-) )

>Gunter is now pretty good at maintaining his site,

  he isn't. Everything is entered manually. There should be a program
  to convert SOLUTION.TXT into new html- tours within index.htm

  But I don't expect many more new tours to appear.

>so it will be time for him to learn how to maintain
>a distributed project :-)

  you should have told me this 3 years ago !

>> and am sorry if my desktop is taking so long to
>> compute some tours, I'll buy an Opteron or Alpha processor next time!

  shame on you ;-).
  Can't you get a supercomputer with thousands of processors ?

>It's not very important. In France, we like to look at working people
while
>we do nothing.

  c'est la vie...

>Of course, I worked hard on this program, but it's always a pleasure to
see
>somebody else put the efforts :-)
>
>JC

  yes, it's fascinating to view these transistors at work,
  calculating boring knight's tours for months without pause,
  getting only minimal electrical power for it
  and still won't ever complain.


  Guenter (,being not so serious this time)
  



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