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Your wrong indeed.

Folding @ home is used to map proteins which on its turn are responsible for all sorts of diseases. The folding project is responsible for finding alot of information helping us to develop medicine, cures against altzheimer, cancer etc.

The Seti@home project at the other hand is imo completely useless. Thats being used for scanning alien signals from outer space.

The folding@home project is one which everyone should support. I just cba to run it as it makes your electric bill go up and your hardware livetime go down.

Ps. our old team is still on the rankings, "new_folder" its called.

I totally get it has benefits and its a good cause - and like you Saint I would probably do it but don't want to shorten life of equipment.

The folks I'm referring to are the ones that seem to have lost the plot and are chasing the numbers and ranking - what its for really is now secondary. It seem to me like the most extreme form of grinding possible. Its from that point that I think they have lost the plot!

I totally get it has benefits and its a good cause - and like you Saint I would probably do it but don't want to shorten life of equipment.

The folks I'm referring to are the ones that seem to have lost the plot and are chasing the numbers and ranking - what its for really is now secondary. It seem to me like the most extreme form of grinding possible. Its from that point that I think they have lost the plot!

My brilliant father Tony and his equally brilliant brother Greg have advanced Huntington’s Disease which they inherited from their mother. I myself have taken the test for the disease and am negative for the gene.

I quite literally won a genetic coin toss, and having won the same coin toss that my father and uncle lost fills me with conflicting emotions; I vacillate between feelings of relief, helplessness, and self-disgust. Relief for never having to face what they face, helplessness at not being able to do anything significant to ease their suffering and restore their vitality, and self-disgust at the selfishness of feeling relieved.

Building Atlas Folder then is therapeutic for me. While it almost certainly will never directly help my father or uncle, it can help others as yet unborn that might suffer the same fate or the fate of some other genetic disease. This project and this blog then are very much about my coping with my not having Huntington’s Disease and what steps I can take as a healthy individual to contribute meaningfully in the name of my father and to justify my winning coin toss.

Jason Farqué

I wonder how many points he has on a daily basis !

Let me re-iterate.

I know Folding is for a good cause - end of.

But I would wager that most of the addicts are doing it for the ranking and weird buzz, not for the original reason they started. None of the guys interviewed in Custom PC seem to do for no other reason than trying to get to a higher rank.

Seriously why build a system numeruous systems with 23 GTX295? They could of simply donated the thousands of euros he must of spent directly to them!

Let me re-iterate.

I know Folding is for a good cause - end of.

But I would wager that most of the addicts are doing it for the ranking and weird buzz, not for the original reason they started. None of the guys interviewed in Custom PC seem to do for no other reason than trying to get to a higher rank.

Seriously why build a system numeruous systems with 23 GTX295? They could of simply donated the thousands of euros he must of spent directly to them!