Congratz to jmke
 

On passing 50k points :ws:

JMke is doing great, but the teams output lowers. Already 4 days we stay under 8000 points/day. Lot's of thinkers? :(

Hail to the :king:

Always the first to get on a new memorial board.

I tip my hat for you Sir :super:

Team output lowers because of WU's, not because of the effort

The King is relaxing at his Summer Palace.:banana:

May be working on a few secret product reviews!:^)

Yeah, congrats JMke :)
I'm hitting way too many tinkers atm :( but I keep deleting them :p

Don't do THAT, it will only harm the cause dude. Remember this, we are doing this for a good cause, not beeing the best or something.

But, congrats JMke :super:

tsk, tsk, ...

That way you put more stress on the Stanford servers, making it more difficult for other people to fetch / submit WU's.

... typical ... ?

yeah, its his fault I can not submit my WU :grum:




:D

Seems to work better with my edited HOSTS file :) no more deleting yay :)

Hehe, folding the DDTUNG way, for what i remember it doesn't put any extra stress/load on the Stanford servers.

Fold on !

ps: why do you have "Primo" as your folding link ? Primo = Soda

I am Primo's little *****... :D

wanna be my ***** ? :)

2 of my folding rigs were apparantly offline for a couple of days, they are fired up again, should give a nice boost :)

Tempting, but no... Plimo is a far better master :grin:

Gratz JMke !

I'm starting to have doubts about the cause lately.
I've been thinking about it, and I've come to the conclusion that medical progress is necessary. BUT, also, that not everyone can be saved. Even more : it's not RIGHT to save everyone's life, or extending it dramatically. Nature's way and so on...
I don't think it's such a good cause.
It's WAY better as "crunching those 128bit encryptions", or even that extraterrestrial crap (forgot the name), no doubt about that. That **** is just crap³.

I see a lot of folding people stop, because their electricity bills have raised dramatically. That means that a lot of power is consumed, for "the cause". It also means that a lot of extra heat is produced, for "the cause". Not only here, but we're talking about millions and millions of CPU's that are being used, to save the life of people. It's not only idle cycles we are using, people even buy extra CPU's, "for the cause". (or is it just to get that kick to get a bit higher in the stats?).

It's my humble opinion, that one "supercomputer", will work much more powerefficient than us folding. And don't forget, that we are doing double/triple/even worse work, because we fold the same units, over and over again ("to make sure"). I don't know if it's all that smart afterall to participate.

(don't worry, I'm not an environmentalist, far from actually).

And I already know what you're going to answer, something like : "yeah, but wait untill it's you or someone else who's dying from alzheimer etc".

Well, I have a strong feeling that cancer and other diseases are just natures way, nothing special, and that they always have existed. We have already dramatically increased our lifespan (human life expectancy almost doubled last 500 years). I don't know if all of this is normal actually, we're almost like a virus, always adjusting our life and environment, at ALL cost. Life is the most precious thing. It might seem that way, but it is NOT, that's just a human reflex, the will to survive is a builtin reflex in our brain. It's actually all about selfishness, about the fear of dying of a disease like that, not about the good for society. It seems like folders are "giving", but actually it's the race for the stats, AND selfishness.

I'd like to see your opinions about this... :) Don't know if you guys have really thought about "the cause"? I did, today, after folding over 30K for "the cause". If I'm really honest, it was really about rising really fast in the stats, and nothing else, I never even considered helping people by what I'm doing.

For the record : I'm not saying we have to sacrifise people's lives to save the existance of men. I just say : let nature go it's way, the life of 100 million people does not HAVE TO BE SAVED AT ALL COST ! It cannot be a priority that harms our environment really bad.
If they can be saved, GREAT ! But it's not all that matters, it cannot endanger the environment/the existance of men/... Not in an extreme way, and now it's really extreme & inefficient (in my humble opinion).

when you see close relatives pass away due to cancer and the effect it has on the family, you can start to understand the need to cure cancer, I have an uncle who's wife died from cancer when she was 54, he was 51 at that time. After she was gone he started drinking and came very close to ending his life, this then caused great pain in my family as he was my mother's brother and they are/were very close.

anyway... I'm not folding with the thought of curing any disease, but if an idle PC can be put at good work, then I won't hesitate.

Well, I've had the same thing recently, and that's how I got to thinking about this cause. And still I came to my conclusion. It would be a GREAT thing to cure cancer. And we will get there, no doubt about it. But speeding things up dramatically, just to save the life of 100thousands? I don't know, but thousands die each day in third world countries, and lots of those people don't even have a disease.

Even if we find a solid cure for aids, it would not be distributed equally over the world, it would only save those next to us, who can afford it. Not that billion of africans who really have the disease in mass.
Any way I look at it, it keeps being no more than a sort of selfish solution.
We "sacrifice" our CPU cycles from our many (too many) CPU's that are WAY to powerfull for what we REALLY need them, and donate them to cure cancer. Ain't that nice, we're almost saints ;)

I'm not saying that "doing nothing" is better. Not at all. But thinking about it, is a first step. And a second step might be to spend your (our) resources on an even better cause, one that is much more solid & direct.

I still think that it's better when a "supercomputer" folds all those units 3 times, compares the results, and then gives it's conclusion. Now, we are folding these units thousands and thousands of times, with far too many CPU's, just to do what? A supercomputer will work much more efficient, because we're doing to much work now, AND we are working on several CPU's, several systems, several systems who have to much HW running, and so on... All these machines together use much much much more power than a single supercomputer I think :)

It bothers me lately, how much the life of certain people means in comparison to the life of others. People being decapitated reach the world news every day, thousands and thousands dying from aids/hunger/... don't. It's not interesting to report about these people every day, I'm very very aware of that. But I don't know, it seems like everyone measures with a sort of "what's the selfish value of this item to me", in stead of measuring with more general values.

And now I'm going offline, my CPU is doing to much idle cycles, and I'm surely not convincing anyone here, so it's of no use at all ;)

@ JMke here below me : so, what you are really saying is, that I'm so very right in everything I'm saying, but that it's hopeless, that you can't change a thing about it, and you just continue folding :) Cru gezegd :)

you can not save everyone, nor can you expect that that the rich will help the poor. It's a fairy tale, not reality unfortunately, communism combined with none-dictatorship come quite close to your idea though:
- little or no personal possesions
- you work for everyone
- everyone has the same amount of advantages/disadvantages

the trouble is that the rich people will never want to live like that and give away their current "with powerfull CPU's" filled lives.

where do you read that sh*t magnum :).

You are saying that survival isn't the most important thing in life?
Survival is the meaning of life, if we don't live we got no life. Maybe folding is a bit overhyped, but if you can save people's life with just your pc ;).

I think desease research is a great thing to do, there will always be new deseases. So why don't try to cure the ones that already excist for 100's years.

We can never prevent all deads, so don't worry about over population. But I find it awfull if someone dies without having a life. I had a friend who died after 6 years of cancer, they tried everything to keep her alive. She cured twice but she got cancer again. From her 12 years till her 18 she was sick, and I mean very sick. She never had the chance to do something with her life.
And maybe folding can give people with cancer (etc) a beter chance of surviving. There doesn't have to be a 100% chance of survival, but when docters tried 3 different ways to cure cancer and non of them worked then I think it's time to find a beter cure.

BTW: folding is also fun, if you don't care about the cause don't think about it. See it as a good way to win hardware :D

Give only what others can receive.
Give because that's what you like.
Give without thinking of returns.

Giving is not sacrifice.
Giving is not "a cause" / rather it is from the result.


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Most parents give their children; it is in our nature.;)

I'll be honest, I'm folding for the stats, only because I'm only folding with one PC and I'm folding so less, that nobody would notice if I would stop.
Other than that, this IS necessary. Think about 'de pest', too many peoply died then. Imagine this happening again, but now by cancer, the effect would be even bigger, because it could infect the whole world in a few hours (because we travel over the world), millions of people would die, and no cure. Think about the impact, panic, crime, ... .

Cancer has always been there. Also keep in mind, that a lot of people that get cancer, have had a life of smoking/drinking/eating way to much fat/moving hardly at all/sitting behind their desk staring at their PC screen. In other words : suicide. Not all of them, but lots of them.
Yes, there the amount of people with cancers IS rising.
I clearly have a different view on things than most people here :)

BTW : I haven't had a reaction on the fact that this might not be the most efficient way to "compute" a solution. Or the fact that people see it way to much as a race, who let their PC running for longer as necessary, or even buy extra PC's for the "cause".

Survival is the most important thing in life, but not the survival of the individual, that's called selfishness, as I described in my first post.
My english isn't that good, I already regret not posting it in dutch :).

In other words : I've quit folding, for good now.

Haven't read any previous posts but here goes:
It's prolly not the most efficiënt way to computer a solution, but:
- it's much cheaper for universities, as their supercomputers costs a lot to use them and even with 100% supercomputer power it would still take a long time to find something.
- I guess this way they can be pretty sure a protein doesn't help when our computers say so.

(and actually I can't think of a better method)


@HardFreak: cancer is not something you get infected with, it's just your own body that starts to "generate" faulty, living cells.

Please read the Stanford FAQ :

http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandeg...lding/faq.html

PC idling helps no-one
PC folding will help science ... and maybe someday your son or daughter.

It might be long shot, but it is worthwile and doesn't require any effort at all. All things in live are eventually a gamble, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose ... but not gambling = not winning.

ok, cancer was a wrong example, but you'll get the same with another disease. Still, my opinion is that it is useful. It may cost a bit, but later (maybe when you are already dead) people would be thankfull.

P.s.; magnum, this thread was actualy for saying congrats to JMke, not for telling how useless u find F@H. So, maybe back on-topic.

JMke, go for the 100K :grin:

Cancer isn't just "nature's way", it's far from nature's way.
It has been around for ages, sure, but not in the manner it manifests itself right now, killing way too much, too young, people.
Offcourse, it's all aur fault, one of the main causes of cancer is pollution we produce.
my father did't have a life of smoking/drinking/eating way to much fat/moving hardly at all/sitting behind their desk staring at their PC screen, and he had it till i was 16.
So, it would have been damn nice to have a father till a was at least mature (in age) and a long time after that.

Here's your reaction, it is certainly the truth that this isn't the most efficient way to compute this kind of solution. There are many things that aren't efficient or the best solution and still they made it, is this a pitty ? Maybe, but thats not the point, the point is that you have a problem that needs a solution.

Maybe you should be one of those scientist, look at their point of view, they have a good deal right ? Without spending a great deal of money on a new supercomputer they have what they want, fame and fortune and maybe there way of 'solution' will just 'fix' the problem.

And yeah people see it as a race, but thats part of there solution, people are competitive and they use that.
Do you really think people don't know that, do you really think people are that stupid ?

Good! No Problem, you've made your point, now we all know it and we seen your arguments, let's stop talking about it.

or how to **** up my 50k congratulations thread? :p

:hello:

60K !

:ws: :king:

EDIT : this is a fishrod reply :D

Oh, yeah, about that cancer thingie: some cancers can already be blocked or even cured, but the problem is that it cost loads of $$$$...

Folding is OK, but you should understand that YOU pay to research stuff for scientists that will make you pay when they got the solution...

But, you're all doing a great work...

Imagine that scientist have to pay all the bills. Nobody and nothing who could pay it.
B.t.w. doing great JMke :super: even with less power :o

I'm still brainstorming on an automated way to do some offline folding, but I don't have high hopes :/