Posted on 01/02/2006 9:53:26 AM PST by systematic
New thread for this week.
Congrats to all new members who joined this week!
We've made excellent progress so far and have smoked the DUmmies and Kossacks. Let's keep folding!
"We" meaning those of us who have volunteered to help the project, I'm sure.
I can't believe people haven't heard of SETI@home. This is no different (except that it is better science). There's also Genome@home, from Stanford, and I think IBM has/had one too.
Yes, I am. Shall I stop?
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If you look at the first post of this thread and then the home url for this project - http://folding.stanford.edu/ - I think it may help answer many of your questions.
There a thousands of computers and thousands of teams doing this. Some may be at Stanford, but many, like us, joined a team out of a common bond.
...and if I may add to that. We are very proud to be FReepers doing it.
It's NOT about Stanford, really, it's not. It's about helping. And if we can continue to make the kind of impact that we have been, and whip the DUmmies and at the same time rub thier noses in the fact that we are FReepers, then so much the better. Why not use your ENEMY to defeat your ENEMY?
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...and if I may add to that. We are very proud to be FReepers doing it.
It's NOT about Stanford, really, it's not. It's about helping. And if we can continue to make the kind of impact that we have been, and whip the DUmmies and at the same time rub thier noses in the fact that we are FReepers, then so much the better. Why not use your ENEMY to defeat your ENEMY?
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I could care less about the DU
They are a bunch of whack jobs
I guess I could understand where they were coming from if this was a distributed computer project to study why male > female transexuals become lesbians, but it's not.
what the heck does that mean??
Sounds like a "Trust Me" comment
Yes! You found me out! Burn all colleges and universities to the ground.
So you're saying colleges and universities can do worthwhile research?
You're 100% right! They are, But, it's so much to irritate them and watch 'em wiggle and squirm. :)
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What the heck does what mean?
We do not do it to advocate Stanford.
We do it to advocate Stanford's research goals.
I like Newt Gingrich's ideas, but I'd never advocate him as a politician. See the difference?
my question is .. what kind of game are you trying to play?
Pin the tail on the donkey. You?
If you are trying to win some over to this "program" of yours ... you failed
First of all it is not *my* program. But if it was I'm pretty sure I would not want you on it. You seem to have a desire to purposely not understand what we're doing and what the program is for. But you *do* have a desire to be disruptive and belligerant.
If you have no desire to join us, then pack-up your 286 and trundle off to another thread.
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