Folding@home: Cure diseases whilst rocking out!
Am I a bad person? I think maybe I am, like Hugo Drax, or Auric Goldfinger.
I like the whole Folding@Home thing, I like the idea that one day, a child who would previously have some horrific genetic illness, will instead laugh and frolic with the other children because of a protein that I personally folded with my mighty PS3. However, I also like low electricity bills, and running the kilowatt-hungry PS3 all the time so I can contribute 0.0000003% to curing a pre-disposition to freckles doesnt really sit well with me. Yes, you’re right, I am a bad person.
However - the answer is here! If you, like me, are an evil self-serving swine then how about this? That new PS3 update has paved the way to a more interesting Folding@Home — now you can listen to tunes whilst curing obscure illnesses, in fact, if you’re particularly evil, like a bond villain or something, but you need to keep your rep with people like Scaramanga, you could wire the audio cables into a stereo and turn off the tv altogether - that way noone will ever know that deep down you’re alright really, and that shark pit was just a bit of a laugh.
Oh, and on the power-saving thing? You’ll be able to set it to switch off after a certain amount of time — no more walking into a super-heated secret lair after leaving “The Beast ” on all night.
Filed under: Console news, Folding@home, Playstation Network, Social Networking, Tricks, ps3 firmware
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Nice update to the service - BGM whilst saving the world, one protein at a time!
The 1.3 Folding@Home update is available now. Background music works great! And did you used to be able to zoom in and rotate the molecules before? It make the Pink Floyd experience complete.
Actually, if you read the papers from Stanford University, they’ve made breakthroughs in how cancerous cells start. It’s not to do with freckles. Even though this is good news for the PS3, it’s not particularly a shining light for Folding@Home. Thanks for posting, but the main focus of Folding@Home is life-threatening diseases. Many diseases like Alzheimers and also ways of figuring how how proteins fold and misfold, which can lead to treatments and medical advancements in areas such as Alzheimers, cancer, etc.