On Friday 22 October 2004 15:02, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: >fre, 22.10.2004 kl. 15.48 skrev Gene Heskett: >> On Friday 22 October 2004 02:38, Tom Taylor wrote: >> >On Thursday 21 October 2004 21:21, joelbryan wrote: >> >> Hi, For the sake of science, will Fedora Core participate at >> >> Folding@Home? >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Music = Apple iPod + Rhythmbox & iTunes >> >> Browser = Mozilla Firefox & Epiphany >> >> Desktop = Gnome, Mac OSX, Longhorn 4074 >> >> Distro = Fedora Core >> >> Language = PHP, MySQL, Python, HTML >> >> Graphics = Gimp 2.0, gThumb >> >> Editors = FrontPage 2003, vi, gedit >> >> Codecs = FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Apple Lossless >> > >> >Hmmm: >> > Folding. Is this like an origami party? Or perhaps an envelope >> > stuffing afair? >> > >> > Home. Whose? Why? Where? When? >> > >> >Hee, hee, hee says he while ducking the tomatoes. >> > >> >Tom >> >> Its a program to study how proteins fold as they combine to make >> the end products chemically. It has quite far reaching >> implications in the development of new drugs. Such research >> requires the sort of processing power thats only available from >> the organisational aspect of something like setiathome. I'm >> currently running seti, but the replacement for seti, called boinc >> (and I forget exectly what that acronym stands for), I will >> probably convert to when seti runs down. Its also doing various >> areas of medical research, but isn't limited to that only. Both >> would seem to be projects that have potential for the betterment >> of mankind whereas seti is basicly an itch scratcher. > >Who gets the benifit of this research? >Anybody-who-wants-to-download-the-result, or some multi-billion >pharmaneutical reseach company that will use it only for own profit? That was, (std disclaimer here) the last I read, still up in the air. Being a bit paranoid, if there are profits to be made from something my machine helps to discover, it only seems right that I should get a pittance for the electric bill or better yet, a royalty check from time to time. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.