If you hadn't noticed, Stanford University needs your help to fold proteins. By downloading the client on their homepage, you let it access all avaliable (you won't notice it, not even when playing games.) processorpower to work through different workunits, very much similar to what Seti@Home does. And thus, joining the struggle against Alzheimers, Parkinsons Decease, etc - in a very small way. Read it all at Stanfords homepage, http://folding.stanford.edu Clients are avaliable on most platforms. And by the way, why not start a sciforums.com-team? - corewarp (team lindh-inn, #12855) GL! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I had to uninstall the application. it was too intrusive and it was eating up about 98% of my computing power. The SETI @ home ap is of a much better design.
I been running it for a year now, Im in the top 10% and love it! I have had no problems with it effecting my performace. Set it to "lowest possible usage" folding@home name: daemon folding@home group: 1088
It's supposed to use as much computer-power avaliable, dont worry. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Btw, tell us if you find some aliens.
I myselfed loved the old, now closed golem program. Evolving automatons. You can still download it for fun but it dosnt get any support. Im game to start a sciforums team..
OK I made us a sciform.com team at folding@home! number: 13254 check it out and join! http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage?q=13254 I join but it does not show me in it yet guess I'll will have to wait tell I finish my workload?
Re: Re: Folding@Home Fraggle... first of all I'm behind a firewall; Second: a cookie is not a progarm its just a note that is added to a data base so that people could see what webpages you look at. search for "cookies" on your computer and you will see that it is nothing but a txt. file with the ip addresses of just about everypage you have ever looked at! If your like me you will notice that none of them lead to porn Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! 3rd: Yes people do in fact do this. folding@home is a legit and helps cure ALL disease by improving are understanding of biology. If you leave you computer on most of the time its a great screen saver and saves wasted cpu time. Your paranoia is sad maybe you should liten up on the :m:
Yes I have to agree these things are not nearly as good as they could have been. We could have been to Mars and had colonies on the moon by now if only we had not stopped paying for it. We could have AI too but companies found it much more productive financially to make computers the way they are today! So hopefully you will have figure what I have and realized: that people always go the easiest way usually the one that makes them rich as soon as possible. What gave me this epiphany many years younger then you? Read “Selfish Genetic” by Richard Dawkins. And no do not wareships it like “Scientology” this is a legitimate book about genetics.
I like being cynical Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I feel like I’m honest about being who I am: an animal that in most cases does not think it is! There is a big difference between modern computers and the analog neural networks projects of the 60’s. First of all they stopped funding for those projects because they did nothing but cool tricks and nothing financially productive. All modern computers are digital and totally non-rewireable, except for maybe programmable gate arrays. Analog neural networks are much MUCH better suited for learning, Object recognition, Voice recognition then their digital counterparts. Little improvement have been made in the field of analog neural network computers today and most cases of AI is the result of brut force software in a high speed digital computer.
Re: Fetus: Sounds to me like you need to try GNU/Linux. Start here Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
