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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hope this is in the right forums, I've screwed up before...
Well, found a link to your site. It's great. Nice point counter and everything. Too bad I found Folding@Home first. It's nice to see another program, even if it takes away from Folding@Home. We can have some good competition. As long as we keep on recruiting new people to fold for something, life is good. Just saying hi from the other side. So, why have you decided to fold for AIDs, Cancer, or a nice Home? What problems have occured while recruiting and what have you screwed up on that really made you mad? Always fun stories, I have many.  I am Folding@Home because I was introduced to it and very interested. After I started, my grandpa got Parkinson's Disease. It is popular at Maximum PC also. I have had more excuses then you could imagine. It takes up too much room, (takes up around 8-9mb), I don't want to ask my dad because I can't talk to him, (his dad went to Stanford and is a doctor...), I don't want to get viruses, (then stop going on porn...), It is bad for my computer, (actually it is good for it in a way), I don't want to, (wow, I hate you), it's too comfusing, (that's where I come into play), it's a waste of electricity, (just like giving to charity), it's too loud, (fine then, just turn it off when you're sleeping and on when you're gone), etc. I have redone the clients hundreds of times to get it perfectly, I am now an expert.  Turning my computer off accidentily and making it restart to whole WU, (work unit), really pissed me off. My Folding@Home Stats |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
you raise good questions about why people don't want to get involved.
my experience with many people indicates they just don't care, period. there is also a general fear of messing up their computers which is very hard to overcome. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
you raise good questions about why people don't want to get involved. my experience with many people indicates they just don't care, period. there is also a general fear of messing up their computers which is very hard to overcome. Personally, I think it's the worst when they just don't care. Makes me want to kill them....Or get them some disease and not give the the cure we eventually find... |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hope this is in the right forums, I've screwed up before... Well, found a link to your site. It's great. Nice point counter and everything. Too bad I found Folding@Home first. It's nice to see another program, even if it takes away from Folding@Home. We can have some good competition. As long as we keep on recruiting new people to fold for something, life is good. Just saying hi from the other side. So, why have you decided to fold for AIDs, Cancer, or a nice Home? What problems have occured while recruiting and what have you screwed up on that really made you mad? Always fun stories, I have many. Hola, amigo! WCG started out with only one project - Rosetta. Basically, once the biologists figured out the make-up of the human genome, they needed to start breaking it down to see how it works. This involves breaking the different proteins down and then running them several times to see how the put themselves together (called folding). Eventually they will start getting leads on what causes virtually everything from cancer to hairy toes. Like most of the people here I like the idea of tackling the most promising project that will potentially contribute the most to science while simultaneously offering the most hope/promise for rapid cures. The other big factor for coming aboard was that IBM went to great lengths to make it clear that no one has dibs on the results of the research done here. It is the "open source code" of biological research. It goes straight into the public domain so that everyone is free to run with it. As to amusement, as of now if you don't like to talk shop, you're pretty much out of luck. (Folks are trying, though.) IBM decided that this forum was going to be "child friendly". As a result the censors don't hesitate to delete any of a very wide range of potentially colorful and descriptive words. If you want some laughs, scroll back to the period when members of TribalWar.com joined (most members felt more like invaded) the site. It was certainly an energetic period. The members of the forum are exceptionally sincere and caring individuals. Although it can be a bit stiff here at times (the language censors really are Draconian); it is a positive, sane and gracious environment to call home.  |
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