I don't know if this is legit or not -- maybe they're just messing with our heads... Latest from THEIR forum:
TEAM MEMBERS:
Well it's after 8 PM so we know that all the mothers of those SPCR folders have put them to bed. Seems as if they have also helped them with their use of numbers...
Betty Lou has had all 40 of the servers running for a while. She wants to know when we want to release these WUs into the TEAM stats. Have we revised our conquest date, or is it the same? About 78 of the WUs are getting close to their deadlines. We'll need a final count of all "special conquest" WUs by tomorrow.
Moderator: please kill this post before our "friends" wake up in the morning....
Maybe they're holding back...
Moderators: NeilBlanchard, Ralf Hutter, sthayashi, Lawrence Lee
Wait wait. I have a return post.
"Dear members of SPCR. I have a plan where we sell all those Macheads incredibly expensive computers that don't run as fast as computers half their cost. That will surely bankrupt them and let us win."
Oh wait nevermind.
Seriously, the boys from Mac land have been a scream here on the forums. Much more pleasant than those farting KWSN tossers who went by us a few months ago. I can still smell them. *eww*
"Dear members of SPCR. I have a plan where we sell all those Macheads incredibly expensive computers that don't run as fast as computers half their cost. That will surely bankrupt them and let us win."
Oh wait nevermind.
Seriously, the boys from Mac land have been a scream here on the forums. Much more pleasant than those farting KWSN tossers who went by us a few months ago. I can still smell them. *eww*
Randalee, I saw that post. Given the tenor of that person's posts, I'm inclined to believe it's just a little creative writing.
BTW, Randalee, it's interesting to see a Yellow folder in 114th place. I was at Archnid stats and sorted by Last Update Points, and there you are at #6 on the team! The Daily Production graph shows nothing and then almost 1000 points on the 26th, 800 on the 27th. It'll be a fun week for you, shooting up through the ranks.
David
BTW, Randalee, it's interesting to see a Yellow folder in 114th place. I was at Archnid stats and sorted by Last Update Points, and there you are at #6 on the team! The Daily Production graph shows nothing and then almost 1000 points on the 26th, 800 on the 27th. It'll be a fun week for you, shooting up through the ranks.
David
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Wait. I'm getting all choked up here. 
See that, now you've made me cry. NOT! 
Poor randalee. I told you this day would come. Now you are powerless, and must let them go. I, however will continue to fold into the future for many days to come without fear of losing my processing prowess. Fold on my friends!
See that, now you've made me cry. NOT! Poor randalee. I told you this day would come. Now you are powerless, and must let them go. I, however will continue to fold into the future for many days to come without fear of losing my processing prowess. Fold on my friends!
314159 wrote:Betty Lou has had all 40 of the servers running for a while. She wants to know when we want to release these WUs into the TEAM stats. Have we revised our conquest date, or is it the same? About 78 of the WUs are getting close to their deadlines. We'll need a final count of all "special conquest" WUs by tomorrow.
haysdb wrote:So, when are these hypothetical gates scheduled to open? Are you going to be "merciful and quick" or are you going to just keep toying with us indefinitely?
Methinks the Mac guys are having trouble keeping their lies straight.Macaholic wrote:Valentine's Day seemed the best time to crush your fragile spirits! What a black day it will be for Team SPCR!
David
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Have a look at this:
http://www.overclockers.com/tips1133/
try not too laugh too much at the ridiculously stupidly inefficient 3 blade fans that come as standard... at least they look cute(ish) when there stood still..... about the best you can say I guess....
might E-Mail the guy so he realises the joy he will bring to so many
Think he/she should become an honoury member even if he/she doesn't fold, or folds for someone else... after all, he seems to follow our beliefs.
Damn Life can be so sweet sometimes... bet he didn't even have to try it first to realise the improvement he was going to make
Pete
http://www.overclockers.com/tips1133/
try not too laugh too much at the ridiculously stupidly inefficient 3 blade fans that come as standard... at least they look cute(ish) when there stood still..... about the best you can say I guess....
might E-Mail the guy so he realises the joy he will bring to so many
Think he/she should become an honoury member even if he/she doesn't fold, or folds for someone else... after all, he seems to follow our beliefs.
Damn Life can be so sweet sometimes... bet he didn't even have to try it first to realise the improvement he was going to make
Pete
That is just about the saddest, most pathetic example of computer bigotry I can think of. If someone gave me a G5, I sure as hell wouldn't lobotomize it and turn it into a PC. That kind of "religious intolerance" gives me the creeps. I too can do naught but hold my head in my hands.
David
Edit: Thanks sbabb, bigotry is a better word than thr phrase I originally used.
David
Edit: Thanks sbabb, bigotry is a better word than thr phrase I originally used.
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I think "bigotry" may be the word you were looking for, David. This is definitely a fine example of that type of stupidity.
I'm not sure how the Mac was configured, but a quick look through Ebay shows me that he probably could have sold it for a couple of thousand dollars. Instead he winds up with a PC case that really doesn't fit his needs (he complains about only being able to use a uATX mobo) and requires tons of modification work, but looks cool to him and lets him try to convince others that he's cool. All for the bargain price of ~$2000.
If he'd sold it and used the $$$ to buy PC hardware, he could have come up with something fairly impressive. Or maybe not. He wanted a Dell originally, after all.
I'm not sure how the Mac was configured, but a quick look through Ebay shows me that he probably could have sold it for a couple of thousand dollars. Instead he winds up with a PC case that really doesn't fit his needs (he complains about only being able to use a uATX mobo) and requires tons of modification work, but looks cool to him and lets him try to convince others that he's cool. All for the bargain price of ~$2000.
If he'd sold it and used the $$$ to buy PC hardware, he could have come up with something fairly impressive. Or maybe not. He wanted a Dell originally, after all.
I was hesitant to use the word "stupidity" above, but now I'm pretty sure I went way too soft on the guy.
The second page of the article wouldn't load for me until a couple of minutes ago. Now I see that he is happy because he can now use Windows XP to surf the internet and burn DVDs on an Athlon 2200.
Basically he threw away a machine that's several times more powerful and completely capable of doing everything he wanted just so he could put more money in Bill Gates' pocket and not have to learn anything this month.
Oh well, at least he put in lots of loud components and a cool green light so he can impress everyone with the "powerful" sound and glow.
The second page of the article wouldn't load for me until a couple of minutes ago. Now I see that he is happy because he can now use Windows XP to surf the internet and burn DVDs on an Athlon 2200.
Basically he threw away a machine that's several times more powerful and completely capable of doing everything he wanted just so he could put more money in Bill Gates' pocket and not have to learn anything this month.
Oh well, at least he put in lots of loud components and a cool green light so he can impress everyone with the "powerful" sound and glow.
I could never do this, and in defence of peteamer(not that he really needs it), he's just a pom taking the piss! This is something that would inevitably appear, and I must admit, I would love to cram a G5 into a compaq case for the sheer hell of it, but if someone gave me a spanking new mac, theres NO way I could have done that.
This is obviously the work of a spoilt brat, who deserves to have his 'new' mac installed with Redhat and sent to his room without internet until he learns how to install smoothwall.....
This is something that would inevitably appear, and I must admit, I would love to cram a G5 into a compaq case for the sheer hell of it, but if someone gave me a spanking new mac, theres NO way I could have done that. This is obviously the work of a spoilt brat, who deserves to have his 'new' mac installed with Redhat and sent to his room without internet until he learns how to install smoothwall.....
It's not peteamer's machine, he just linked to the web site. The fact that peteamer finds it funny merely shows he has a twisted sense of humor.Mustang Mac wrote:peteamer purgatory would best describe your final destination.
For myself, I find the "Darwin Awards" incredibly funny, and that's about people who managed to KILL themselves 
David
mas, yeah, pom or pommie is a negative term, but in these days, I believe it is not as derogatory as it used to be......errr, that right Pete?? Plus Australia and the Poms are involved in a lot of sporting type rivalries (if you're ito that sort of thing), and much worse gets used quite regularly...There you go, popculture 101 according to TheScarf!!! 
ps. Australia was colonised by whites about 200 years ago(1788), quite a while after the Americas.
ps. Australia was colonised by whites about 200 years ago(1788), quite a while after the Americas.