Distributed computing experiment SETI@home will be switched off on December 15 as it becomes part of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). The BOINC site will allow boffins to build other volunteer computing projects in areas like molecular biology, high-energy physics, and climate change study.

How sad! I’ve used SETI@home for years. Guess I’ll just have to keep sending my extra computing resources to Folding@home. And we never even found aliens…

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Motley Fool story on Apple’s aggressive sourcing of flash memory and the potential for a new instant-on or near instant-on machine.

How interesting!

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Mom: “Don’t you want some GIRL things for Christmas?? Like some shoes?!”

*sigh*

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I had the opportunity to play some XBOX 360 yesterday. I didn’t have time to really sit down and get to know the games that were available, but here is a quick rundown:

Condemned: Criminal Origins - OK. This game is pretty cool for the first 30 minutes. A first-person shooter mixed in with some CSI elements. However, I can see it easily deteriorating into a GTA syndrome - I may only want to play to see how incredibly violent I can become. Here’s the Gamespot review. Some of the missions, like finding 5 dead birds, seemed kind of rediculous (what are they trying to stop, bird flu?). But for the fact that you can make most objects available to you killing machines (a subway sign, pipes off the wall, a school desk), I’d probably tire of killing the same deranged low-lifes over and over. Creepy, but repetitive.

NBA 2006 - I hate sports games. I hate them because I don’t understand sports, so it makes it hard for me to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing. Wait, by that logic someone could say “Oh, and you have personal experience slaying dragons and crafting leather armor?” Just shut up.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted - I didn’t get to actually play this one, but it looks frickin’ awesome. Especially on a really, really, really big TV. Someone with me said “This doesn’t look all that different from a regular XBOX,” but I have to disagree.

Ok, so that’s my little breakdown. It looks promising, but I’m still torn between PS3 and XBOX 360. Obviously, I haven’t played the PS3 yet. And I hate Sony now. Only time will tell.

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