wufu why would your dad be against it. Is he afraid of virus/spyware/etc or of the cpu/ram usage....

For many people, this is pointless and takes up disk space, though. I may start doing it once I get to a university where I can consistently be online on my laptop.

Disk space?
No. You won't even notice.

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Still the bad cop.

BUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!111 I'm in the top 20 now! Really everyone should be doing this. Oh and shameless bump.

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I'm worried about the electric bill. Does Standby mode continue Folding@Home and downloads through BitTorrent?

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No standby mode=f@h paused click

Also the dl go down with the standby mode. There are special routers, though, that allow you to dl even with your pc switched off.

@spanky - I hate you for kicking me out of my 18th place

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Here's this one the other link died.



Use this one Just flip the Brackets----->[....] and put it in your Sig.
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Finally got around to changing my sig to include this stuff~

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i'm really skeptical about this, the program was launched in 2000, and on the ps3 in 2006, and i turn it on occasionally but how much progress has this really contributed to anyways?

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Now the old one is working and the new one died....

Sorry.



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Never mind, its showing me now.

Last edited by thezombieking at 8:00 am, Apr 5 2008

I stopped Folding for BU a while back to set up a team on another site. I don't really go on that site much anymore, the F@H team is doing nicely there though, so I decided to go ahead switch back to this team.

I'm in as well. But I don't appear in the database yet.

The thing you have to understand about proteins is that there's millions of the little buggers.
Bio lesson!
You know your DNA is made of bases right? A, T, G and C. From this your body makes proteins (which in turn make bones, muscle etc). A sequence of 3 bases (eg AGG) code for an amino acid, there's 20 in all. These amino acids from a chain following the order of the bases in DNA.
Now here's the thing. We have a chain of amino acids, possibly tens of thousands of units long. Some are charged, some are polar, some can form sulphur bonds some don't interact at all. It is the shape of the protein that is the most important thing and what shape it takes will depend on how these thousands of little molecules interact. That's what protein folding is, using computing power to figure out how these chains have bent and twisted and linked together, Knowing their shape you can figure out what they do and develop drugs etc to mimic them, or stop them working whatever.

As the actual folding is very complex (quantum mechanics and such) and the number of proteins very large this project is going to be running for a LONG time. 6 years may seem like a long time but I guarantee there's still plenty of work left to be done. It's worth doing I think, if you have the spare computing power. Thinks like Alzheimer's are the product of misfolded proteins, this kind of work could cure things like that.
Go read their page.
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Science

Errors in my science I blame of being Chemistry & Physics majors

Cool! I can't believe I only found out about this now! I'm in!