Poll: The Great OcUK DC Census [Poll]

[Joe42]

Your probably right, but its called folding because its protein folding. How anyone is supposed to know its 'using your pc to help medical reaserch' i don't know.
Thats why we do these threads, to raise awareness of what it is, how it works, and to make it easy for people to do it.

 

[Roduga]

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They may just concentrate on another organisation. I won't mention what I do on the forums as it's personnal. I voted for 'I can't be bothered.' purely because I feel I do enough already.

Just concentrate on the ways that are interested.

 

[Joe42]

Perhaps i should have included another option for 'i do something other than a boinc project or folding'.
Although if its a distrubited computing project i'm curious as to what it is, and if it isn't you can probably do folding aswell...
Or is it because you feel you spend time on something else with similar goals to folding and that should be instead?
Thats fair enough, although the point about folding is it doesn't really take a any time at all to set up.

If you feel the money spent for the extra power folding uses is better spent on another cause then thats understandable, but there was an option for 'uses too much power'.

Just curious.

 

[SiriusB]

They may just concentrate on another organisation. I won't mention what I do on the forums as it's personnal. I voted for 'I can't be bothered.' purely because I feel I do enough already.

Just concentrate on the ways that are interested.

Surely you could have opted for "I dont have time" rather than "I can't be bothered"?

I rather suspect a lot of people are just clicking the latter option for the hell of it. It might be a bit late now but I think an option that says something along the lines of "I don't want to" would be useful.

SiriusB

 

[Zefan]

If everyone that clicked "I can't be bothered" started folding we could have SO much more output

 

[Joe42]

It might be a bit late now but I think an option that says something along the lines of "I don't want to" would be useful.

SiriusB

The problem with that is it wouldn't tell us much, and it woudn't make people think of a good reason why they aren't folding. I would rather know that people can't be bothered.

 

[Trojan]

There are a lot of lazy stubbon people who could be helping to find a cure for cancer and helping the team get better who aren't for stupid reasons.

For most people there really is no excuse.

Do you give blood regularly? Are you on the bone marrow doners list?

If not, why not?

 

[Gilly]

I'm in the bone marrow donors list \o/

But I don't fold

Who is doing more for their fellow man?

 

[Trojan]

I'm in the bone marrow donors list \o/

But I don't fold

Who is doing more for their fellow man?

Exactly.

 

[Joe42]

Fair enough. But there is some effort involved in both of those, and there isn't really in folding.
You can't compare folding with bone marrow donation, which apparently is quite painful. Were talking about setting up a small program here, not sticking a needle in your arm.

 

[Trojan]

Fair enough. But there is some effort involved in both of those, and there isn't really in folding.
You can't compare folding with bone marrow donation, which apparently is quite painful. Were talking about setting up a small program here, not sticking a needle in your arm.

So what, it's hardly like a lot of effort, especially to give blood. An hour tops, if that, and it's only once every few months.

So really, I could label you as a lazy stubbon person since you don't, in the same way that you're trying to label people who don't fold.

 

[Joe42]

Thats certainly an intersting point, and puts a different perspective on things.
But i don't think you can compare a process which takes an hour and involves sticking a needle in your arm to setting up a piece of software that takes a couple of minutes and doesn't involve any pain or inconvinience.

Imagine if you did a poll called 'why aren't you giving blood?'. With relevant options. I would say someone would be more justified to vote 'i can't be bothered' on that poll than this one, because it is considerably more effort and involves pain. Is that not a fact?

However, i would vote either for the 'i have a fear of needles' option or the 'i am afraid of the pain' option. Those are logical and understandable reasons in the same way that the 'my pc runs too hot/uses too much power' option in this poll is a logical and understandable reason and while i would urge those who voted that option to do something about i if they can, i would not attack them or criticise them in any way if they could not.

Would you not also find it disheartening if the majority of people voted 'i can't be bothered' in your poll, did not read the post that took you ages to write and basically couldn't care less?

 

[Zefan]

snippery

ABSOLUTELY.

There simply is nothing to say you "Can't be bothered" with. PLEASE SOMEONE tell me what's the actual thing you can't be bothered to do?

 

[Dave85]

My answer is simple.

I dont want to, and thats the reason just like I dont give blood or bone marrow or any thing else they want to get.

My life is mine and and if I decide I want to give I shall. I dont feel the need to justify myself to you.

Perhaps there should have been the option saying I dont care hence I dont fold.

 

[Clarkey]

I run a laptop only these days, too hot/noisy, hot enough at idle but at least the fan doesnt run.

 

[Stringy]

ABSOLUTELY.

There simply is nothing to say you "Can't be bothered" with. PLEASE SOMEONE tell me what's the actual thing you can't be bothered to do?

Well, in ten days time I shall be leaving to join the RAF. Before then, I will be donating my computer to my mother and father, as their current PC is a bit carp. In short, I cannot be bothered to install folding onto my PC because it will be on for a negligible amount of time before I format it, reinstall Windows and give it to my parents.

There you go, someone who has explained what they can't be bothered to do

 

[Sequoia]

ABSOLUTELY.

There simply is nothing to say you "Can't be bothered" with. PLEASE SOMEONE tell me what's the actual thing you can't be bothered to do?

I haven't voted, because there isn't an option that says "don't want to". It isn't, with me, that I can't be bothered, though that would be the closest option on the poll, but that I am actively disinterested in DC projects.

Why? My business, and I don't feel the need to justify myself on a forum. But there is a distinct holier-than-thou tone running through this thread, with the implication that there's something wrong with you if you don't do DC, and that if we just took the trouble to learn a bit about it, we could do it.

I don't need to learn about DC. I understand what it's all about and I'm not interested in doing it. And that holier-than-thou attitude is making me much less interested than I was before.

I agree with DAvE18 .... I don't do it because I don't want to. End of.

 

[Joe42]

My answer is simple.

I dont want to, and thats the reason just like I dont give blood or bone marrow or any thing else they want to get.

My life is mine and and if I decide I want to give I shall. I dont feel the need to justify myself to you.

Perhaps there should have been the option saying I dont care hence I dont fold.

This thread exists to challenge your reasons for not wanting to. Certainly the discussion about blood donation has made me think of two reasons why i don't donate blood.

I think i'm justified in criticising you for not caring about finding a cure for cancer. Surely you must know of someone who has suffered from cancer, and is that not enough to justify folding?
I think i'm also justified in calling you selfish for not even considering either giving blood or folding and not thinking of a logical reason for it. Am i not?

As you say, its your life and your choice, but i am entirely justified to criticise it.

 

[Von Luck]

I agree with DAvE18 .... I don't do it because I don't want to. End of.

Sums up my feelings on the issue too.

 

[Dave85]

As I said I dont feel the need to justify myself but I shall

I dont want to. its simple.
And to answer your question no one off our family or anyone I know has died of cancer.
although my grandad just died last night of old age.

If a family member had been lost to cancer then perhaps I would feel diffrent,but I dont.

As for giving blood etc

Yeh am selfish, but thats my choice