Posted on 07/07/2007 8:39:41 PM PDT by texas booster
The Brain Tour explains how the brain works and how Alzheimer's affects it.
Taking the tour: There are 16 interactive slides. As you view each slide, roll your mouse over any colored text to highlight special features of each image. Then, click on the arrow to move to the next slide.
(Excerpt) Read more at alz.org ...
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hope this helps someone.
Both of our new folders are on the boards, and we are waiting on the first units from four new folders.
Thanks for joining the team to make a difference!
New folders can look here to see your progress, and please ping us if you do not show up when expected.
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_list.php?s=&a=2&t=36120
For the first time ever, I have a completed unit sitting in a queue. It was completed yesterday but couldn’t be turned in “to work server.” Same thing today.
Anybody else having this problem?
When I link to Stanford I get “You tried to visit www.stanford.edu, which is not loading.”
I found this post from today over at ExtremeOverclockers forum:
“The daily user summary files that Jason and others use to calculate the stats have been empty files since some time yesterday.”
Putting the two together, I’d say the boys at CalTech have been having some fun at Stanford’s expense, since this is a campus wide outage.
Or California drooped into the Pacific and even Drudge didn’t notice. ;)
Drudge noticed. He just happened to be there at the time :)
There was almost a complete day where things were hung up, but it looks like everything went through in the end.
Yeah, we’re back. Time to play some “catch-up” and pass that “other team” in total points again. Rest assured, until they fold completely, I’ll still be here, doing the one man tap dance on their parade. it’s been what.. 18 months now? I don’t post real regular, but I’m still sticking with it, just not “obsessed” with it like those great times back in Jan 06.. :-)
I was getting pretty depressed this summer, dropping from 69 to #75, but I’ll be back in form by the end of the month and posting somewhat regular numbers. I’m still shooting for a personal goal of #50 or better.
Just awe inspiring. And here I was impressed that I finally made the top 1500. You put me to shame.
BTW, does anyone have the DUmmies team number, I’d like to see how I stack up against the combined lot.
OK, found them. Now I’m disappointed with myself, I’m only pulling the equivalent of half their points all by myself.
Well I guess with half my systems down due to power issues, that’s the best it’s going to get :(
Let me clarify. Pulling the equivalent of half their points so far for this week (should hit about 60% next week)
Obsessed is the right word for last year. Once DU created a team and started bad-mouthing us with very foul language, we had no choice but to fold for points.
I especially liked the time that a FReeper created charts showing our progress compared to DU. When DU deeplinked to the chart, he replaced it with a map of the US election results by county. HA!
Thanks for thinking of us every now and then. While we appreciate the points, we really appreciate the science behind the points.
Now, how many PS3s can we sneaking into the schools under the guise of a BluRay player?
In fact they have no active folders with less than 4,000 points. That means no new folders to streak up the charts.
It’s not just the science, but the idea of giving of yourself instead of government. They’re waiting for hillery or obama to create a govt handout program so they can climb the charts.
True conservatives understand charity and compassion.
DO NOT give DUmmies the idea of a gov’t handout for folding. It would be just like them to come up with the idea themselves.
Probably would vote in a tax increase just to pay for the electricity. Or declare that their electric needs were more noble than our energy needs and just confiscate it.
Them were fun times. I lost my deep secret DU login privledges because I felt sorry for Alfredo, and warned him on what was happening with the linked file. The mods over there shut down thread #12, and they never opened up another.
There were a couple on their team that were really into it for science, and tried to downplay the rivalry, but you know what they say about herding cats.....
But the biggest thing I miss, is the boost we all got, when one of the cosmic clowns posted a thread like, we’re catching up ...... whenever we’d have a down day, and only post about 50K points to their daily average of 12K... They tried so hard, they had me in tears most days, from laughing so hard.
Next biggest thing I miss, is when 8 or 10 guys would be perched on the thread, checking Sanford every few minutes, to be the first to post another “milestone”... like our first million or so points.
Nowadays... any progress is like watching paint dry, so it’s hard to drum up enthusiasm. damn... I’m guilty of it too, I only check the stats about 4 times a day now....
What really pissed a lot of them off, when they made “noise” about me and others, like you, we made it clear that if we took out the top 50 folders for freep totals, our team would still be ahead of theirs. That was during the great flux capacitor scandal. BTW... I lost my decoder ring, so if anyone has the link to the on-line version, I’d appreciate it.
I got them beat all by myself. Take you, and Lrenh, and you got them beat by yourselfsez... take Malsua, and a few others in the top ten, and they’re beat again... Eventually, some of the smarter ones over there caught on. The remaining users, are those who didn’t play the game, but just folded for folding’s sake.
Oh, and when we “admitted” to hacking into the sanford server, and padding our point totals..... that was a classic series.
I’m just sorry I missed most of it. Having been folding for only a bit over a year a lot of the fun had already passed.
Although I admit I like a good rivalry as competition makes things better. They were never really in the race against us, but I did have some respect for those that at least tried (ideology aside)
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