BBC launches distributed climate prediction project
by Jordan Running Feb 15th 2006 at 12:25PM
The BBC has launched what it's calling "the world's largest ever climate
experiment," a distributed computing project that will use thousands of volunteered home computers, a la
SETI@Home, to predict climate change. The climate experiment, which apparently lacks a snappy name (or any name at
all), utilizes a fancy screensaver that, like other distributed computing projects, uses your computer's spare
processor cycles to perform calculations. The software needed to participate is 
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Steve said 2:14PM on 2-15-2006
"The software needed to participate is, oddly, only available for Windows"
This isn't true, there's also a Linux version made available - on the download page beneath the "Download" button, a small link is labelled "For Linux". I presume this was a design choice taken so that less technical persons using Windows wouldn't be confused.
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Jordan Running said 2:16PM on 2-15-2006
Thanks for the heads-up, Steve. I've fixed the post.
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Derek said 3:14PM on 2-15-2006
Kinda reminds me of the Firefox logo.... Coincidence? I think not.
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