BenHeck f@h team, now in place 29128 of 74828!

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:25 am

Our team number is: 80664

I present this to ben.

Btw, my name on f@h is NixiLuff, shutup.

cowsgoquack101 · Post by **cowsgoquack101** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:27 am

I'm willing to join. I don't care too much for cancer.

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:44 am

Then whats the motovation!!

Might ask ben though before we do somthing in his name, then set up a team. Just finished a sequence then.

EDIT: FYI, my mum has had breast cancer, an my dad leukemia. They both survived the treatment.

nightwheel · Post by **nightwheel** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:14 am

I'll join if ben gives you the go head. My Compaq Presario's AMD Althon 64 processor is going to waste by doing nothing productive. Besides my grampa has cancer(my moms dad). And cancer runs on my dads side of the family. I have no grandparents on my dad's side due to cancer

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cowsgoquack101 · Post by **cowsgoquack101** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:35 am

My uncle has cancer and hepotitas c, but that's for another story.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:50 am

Nothing in my family! But cancer = sux20r2.

I will probably join, but what exactly do we do?

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:52 am

Kurt_ wrote:I will probably join, but what exactly do we do?

Install the program and while your computer is at idle it crunches numbers.

I'm in, even if its just my Athlon 2100+ (get a network card for my Thinkpad and put that 300MHz PII to work, too).

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:08 pm

I have an extra server doing nothing but holding music, I can throw that in.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:18 pm

I KNEW a dual-core processor would come in handy!

Yeah, I'm all in if we do this. My family members have cancer, some have died from it, and a few of my friends are survivors, so I'll help however I can.

CTFan

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:02 pm

I don't get it... Our computers are going to find a cure for cancer? I'm rather skeptical of the idea...

What exactly does it do? Just a bunch of math equations? And if this is supposed to work, why hasn't all the money that is donated to cancer research been spent on buying a ton of powerful computers to do the number crunching? Can anybody give me some more information as to what this is? Don't get me wrong - I'm all for putting our time to such a worthy cause like finding a cure for cancer, but it just seems a bit far-fetched as to it actually working...

Dr. KillGood · Post by **Dr. KillGood** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:09 pm

It is because the more computers doing it, the better. I don't know if I want to though because I need more memory.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:38 pm

Technically now, the idle process consumes less power then the folding@home process, thus by running it, you are, in fact, wasting more power than you are saving by running something while your computer is idle. Couple that with the fact that folding at home is just studying protein folding, nothing particularly related to a cancer cure, and you're just wasting electricity. If your computer's idle a lot, it stands to reason that it would be much more energy-efficient to turn it off. Then, with the money you now save on electricity, you can donate to cancer research and make a greater difference than you would doing this folding@home process

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:52 pm

Dr. KillGood wrote:I don't know if I want to though because I need more memory.

That makes no sense....

Info, its run by Stanford.

Dr. KillGood · Post by **Dr. KillGood** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:55 pm

I DON'T WANT THEM STEALING MY PORN OK!!

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:12 pm

Dr. KillGood wrote:I DON'T WANT THEM STEALING MY PORN OK!!

Hey keep it PG.