1: Please vote, tell us why you aren't folding.
2: Take a look below at the poll option you just voted for.
3: Take a look at the two main reasons you should fold.
4: Follow a link to the folding guide that suits you, or pop along to the dc forum and someone will take you through it.
5: Sit back and enjoy watching your pc and your team mount the ranks, while helping medical reaserch.
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2:
1: I am, for OcUK.
-Excellent. Fold on!
2: I am, for another team.
-Traitor! (better than not folding I suppose, at least your helping the medical research side of it)
3: I’m running a BOINC project instead.
-As long as its doing something worthwhile and its doing it for OcUK, that’s great.
4. I don't know what it is.
-Folding@home is a scientific study using idle CPU time on thousands of pc's to investigate proteins when they misfold, one of the causes of many diseases.
-Its also a competitive sport for pc enthusiasts to compete with each other on who can crunch the most work units and earn the most points.
5. I can't be bothered.
-If you can find time to browse this forum surely you can find 5 minutes to start folding.
6. I thought it made my pc run slower.
-Nope, it stops working as soon as you need the pc.
7. I don't think my PC is powerful enough.
-Any pc bought in the last 5 years is fine, every little helps.
8. I don't think I can run it on my computer.
-There are Linux and Mac clients, see the advanced guide for details.
9. I don't have time
-You don't have 5 minutes to help find a cure for cancer and help your forum?
5 minutes is all it takes.
10. Pc gets too hot/noisy/uses too much power.
-Your pc is poorly designed; sort out noise or cooling problems by posting in the Overclocking & Cooling forum. Folding can be run at a low CPU percentage if necessary which will lower heat and power consumption.
11. I thought you'd need to run your computer 24/7?
-Nope, obviously it will help your production but the client writes regular save points and the deadlines are long enough that most computers can still participate even if they are a bit old or not on much.
12. It's all just pretend isn't it? They haven't actually found anything have they?
-Although it's quite theoretical there have been many interesting and useful findings over the years that Folding@Home has been running
If the medical research side of it doesn't interest you for some reason, its still worth doing to help your team and your forum and for the competitive side.
The fact that nothing was ever found by the SETI project didn’t stop OcUK becoming the worlds best team.
13. Why should I spend money doing research for some drugs company to then charge me for what's produced?
-Folding is run as a non-profit project and all findings are made publicly available through the folding website and publications.
14. It will stress my pc and cause parts to fail prematurely.
Your pc might last 15 years if you don't run folding, 10 if you do. It will be useless due to advances in technology in about 5. Those aren’t actual numbers, but how many CPUs do you know of that died of old age? Even massively overvolted CPUs outlast their usefulness.
The question you should really be asking is 'why didn't i start folding before?'
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3:
Now let me tell you why you should fold:
1: As mentioned, you’re helping medical research and potentially helping cure diseases such as Alzheimer's and Cancer. That in itself should be a good enough reason to run folding. More info here.
2: Your forum is competing with various other teams and organisations, as well as members of the team competing amongst themselves. It is a lot of fun and it can be very satisfying to pit your latest and greatest machine against the rest and see who you can beat, and who you can’t!
You can take a look at the teams list here to see who we’re up against, the team stats here to see how we’re doing, and the users stats here to see who your up against!
All available from the main EOC stats page here.
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4:
How to start folding:
-Click here for the Quick and easy guide to folding at home.
-Click here for the complete advanced guide to folding if you have a little more time.
-If you want to ask any questions or want any help, you can start a thread in the DC forum.
-If you can’t be bothered to read either of the guides, just start a thread in the DC forum and someone will be happy to guide you through the setup step by step.
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5:
You can read the latest edition of the Folding@Home Weekly team news here and get the low-down on who’s stomping who and how everyone and the team has been doing over the last week or so .
Thanks for reading; I hope to see you in the team news next week.
Fold on!
2: Take a look below at the poll option you just voted for.
3: Take a look at the two main reasons you should fold.
4: Follow a link to the folding guide that suits you, or pop along to the dc forum and someone will take you through it.
5: Sit back and enjoy watching your pc and your team mount the ranks, while helping medical reaserch.
_________________________________________________
2:
1: I am, for OcUK.
-Excellent. Fold on!
2: I am, for another team.
-Traitor! (better than not folding I suppose, at least your helping the medical research side of it)
3: I’m running a BOINC project instead.
-As long as its doing something worthwhile and its doing it for OcUK, that’s great.
4. I don't know what it is.
-Folding@home is a scientific study using idle CPU time on thousands of pc's to investigate proteins when they misfold, one of the causes of many diseases.
-Its also a competitive sport for pc enthusiasts to compete with each other on who can crunch the most work units and earn the most points.
5. I can't be bothered.
-If you can find time to browse this forum surely you can find 5 minutes to start folding.
6. I thought it made my pc run slower.
-Nope, it stops working as soon as you need the pc.
7. I don't think my PC is powerful enough.
-Any pc bought in the last 5 years is fine, every little helps.
8. I don't think I can run it on my computer.
-There are Linux and Mac clients, see the advanced guide for details.
9. I don't have time
-You don't have 5 minutes to help find a cure for cancer and help your forum?
5 minutes is all it takes.
10. Pc gets too hot/noisy/uses too much power.
-Your pc is poorly designed; sort out noise or cooling problems by posting in the Overclocking & Cooling forum. Folding can be run at a low CPU percentage if necessary which will lower heat and power consumption.
11. I thought you'd need to run your computer 24/7?
-Nope, obviously it will help your production but the client writes regular save points and the deadlines are long enough that most computers can still participate even if they are a bit old or not on much.
12. It's all just pretend isn't it? They haven't actually found anything have they?
-Although it's quite theoretical there have been many interesting and useful findings over the years that Folding@Home has been running
If the medical research side of it doesn't interest you for some reason, its still worth doing to help your team and your forum and for the competitive side.
The fact that nothing was ever found by the SETI project didn’t stop OcUK becoming the worlds best team.
13. Why should I spend money doing research for some drugs company to then charge me for what's produced?
-Folding is run as a non-profit project and all findings are made publicly available through the folding website and publications.
14. It will stress my pc and cause parts to fail prematurely.
Your pc might last 15 years if you don't run folding, 10 if you do. It will be useless due to advances in technology in about 5. Those aren’t actual numbers, but how many CPUs do you know of that died of old age? Even massively overvolted CPUs outlast their usefulness.
The question you should really be asking is 'why didn't i start folding before?'
_________________________________________________
3:
Now let me tell you why you should fold:
1: As mentioned, you’re helping medical research and potentially helping cure diseases such as Alzheimer's and Cancer. That in itself should be a good enough reason to run folding. More info here.
2: Your forum is competing with various other teams and organisations, as well as members of the team competing amongst themselves. It is a lot of fun and it can be very satisfying to pit your latest and greatest machine against the rest and see who you can beat, and who you can’t!
You can take a look at the teams list here to see who we’re up against, the team stats here to see how we’re doing, and the users stats here to see who your up against!
All available from the main EOC stats page here.
_________________________________________________
4:
How to start folding:
-Click here for the Quick and easy guide to folding at home.
-Click here for the complete advanced guide to folding if you have a little more time.
-If you want to ask any questions or want any help, you can start a thread in the DC forum.
-If you can’t be bothered to read either of the guides, just start a thread in the DC forum and someone will be happy to guide you through the setup step by step.
_________________________________________________
5:
You can read the latest edition of the Folding@Home Weekly team news here and get the low-down on who’s stomping who and how everyone and the team has been doing over the last week or so .
Thanks for reading; I hope to see you in the team news next week.
Fold on!
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