PLAYSTATION 3 cures cancer

Draft · 08-23-2006, 06:33 PM

No, I'm not kidding.

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There's no denying it, even though the PlayStation 3 may be the most late, most expensive, and most, um, well ventilated of this this generation's consoles, Sony's also going out of their way to make the device appear as versatile as possible. So hell, if your machine is going to burn energy when not in use, best to put that power suck toward a good cause, right? Stanford and Sony have announced that PlayStation 3s will be able to participate in Cure@PS3, making gamers' consoles massively parallelized computing nodes for the Folding@Home project.

Cool concept. I don't really mess around with Folding@Home or SETI or any of that stuff, because I'm too cheap to leave my PC on all day. Cancer patients be damned when you're living paycheck to paycheck! I imagine a PS3 would pull a similar amount of juice in standby/folding mode, but still, it's a neat option for those of you who care more about curing diseases than environmental responsibility.

PS- I am not pro-cancer. I would go so far as saying I am in fact anti-cancer.

bapenguin · 08-23-2006, 07:43 PM

Awesome! I run folding at home on my home pc, laptop and two spare pcs at work. This is awesome awesome news. Two thumbs way up for Sony.

captainstrombosis · 08-23-2006, 07:44 PM

I like how you took a nice thing and tagged it as being irresponsible. Really quite a deft stab.

TheEpicOfTyler · 08-23-2006, 07:50 PM

Someone will turn this into a negative.

Also, I think this is a really great thing.

reimomo · 08-23-2006, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by captainstrombosis

I like how you took a nice thing and tagged it as being irresponsible. Really quite a deft stab.

I like how you took a negative thing and turned it into a positive thing. Oh the irony!

Draft · 08-23-2006, 07:56 PM

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I like how you took a nice thing and tagged it as being irresponsible. Really quite a deft stab.

I don't know how effective Folding@Home has been in the war on cancer, but I do know that your PC sucks up an ungodly amount of juice over the course of 24 hours, even in "sleep" mode, and much more so if it's doing stuff like folding data and trasmitting it. That energy usage has a detrimental effect on the environment, as it creates extra strain on our already overworked power infrastucture, not to mention it takes cash money out of your pocket.

I am not like trashing Folding@Home, but I suspect turning your PC (or PS3) off when it's not in use has a more immediate, tangible positive effect on the world than the computations it would otherwise provide. If you must leave your PC/PS3 on for extended periods of downtime, then Folding@Home is pretty much the best thing you can do with it.

rein · 08-23-2006, 07:57 PM

I hope that MS and others join in this. Awesome thing for Sony to do. Someone over at Sony at least thought of a way to get news out that can't be fucked with. I dare anyone to make this negative. Even Drafts environmental responsibility remark fell way short.

Draft · 08-23-2006, 07:58 PM

Basically you guys are trying way to hard to find the PS3 bashing.

rein · 08-23-2006, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Draft

I don't know how effective Folding@Home has been in the war on cancer, but I do know that your PC sucks up an ungodly amount of juice over the course of 24 hours, even in "sleep" mode, and much more so if it's doing stuff like folding data and trasmitting it. That energy usage has a detrimental effect on the environment, as it creates extra strain on our already overworked power infrastucture, not to mention it takes cash money out of your pocket.

So stop playing games all together if it is such a strain to have them on. I would rank using the energy to search for a cure for cancer higher on the list than using it to play video games. That is the most retarded thing you have ever said Draft. Just admit it and move on.

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Basically you guys are trying way to hard to find the PS3 bashing.

No, it was lame for you to throw that last part in there.

Johan · 08-23-2006, 08:01 PM

This is a cool thing.

If I were a troll, I could say that this would give you at least one good use for your PS3...

but I actually think that Sony will have great games this generation, and that I would own one if I could afford it. I'm no playa hata on any console. I hope they all do well, and this is pretty dang cool.

Schnoogs · 08-23-2006, 08:03 PM

Gee...maybe I can right off the $600 as a charitable contribution now

El Ikkir · 08-23-2006, 08:03 PM

This is Awesome.

What else is there to say?

Draft · 08-23-2006, 08:07 PM

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So stop playing games all together if it is such a strain to have them on. I would rank using the energy to search for a cure for cancer higher on the list than using it to play video games. That is the most retarded thing you have ever said Draft. Just admit it and move on.

You are a moron. I was actually going to respond to this statement but it's far too stupid.

Steve_Erhardt · 08-23-2006, 08:07 PM

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No, I'm not kidding.Cool concept. I don't really mess around with Folding@Home or SETI or any of that stuff, because I'm too cheap to leave my PC on all day. Cancer patients be damned when you're living paycheck to paycheck! I imagine a PS3 would pull a similar amount of juice in standby/folding mode, but still, it's a neat option for those of you who care more about curing diseases than environmental responsibility.

Let your mother rot away from ovarian cancer and get back to me.

I have every faith in the world you didn't really mean that to come across like it has, Draft, but that was just a fantastically fucktarded thing to say.

Johan · 08-23-2006, 08:10 PM

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Gee...maybe I can right off the $600 as a charitable contribution now

You know...why couldn't you? If you're donating part of the processing capabilities of the machine as a charitable contribution, couldn't you deduct a portion of the cost in line with the donation?

Sounds crazy enough to be possible. Any accountants out there? IRS employees?

Khash · 08-23-2006, 08:12 PM

Where's Kamelot? This thread isn't interesting enough.

Draft · 08-23-2006, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve_Erhardt

Let your mother rot away from ovarian cancer and get back to me.

I have every faith in the world you didn't really mean that to come across like it has, Draft, but that was just a fantastically fucktarded thing to say.

Please elaborate on how you interpreted, "don't leave your PC on all day to run Folding@Home" as, "I don't care about cancer."

codswallop · 08-23-2006, 08:12 PM

I think the idea is good, but in practice it's not particularly useful. If you have the console on, chances are you're playing games or using it's media capabilities. If it's off, it's off and can't do any good.

So, what, you leave the console on and it uses way more CPU and memory thus greatly increasing the power used? In reality it's a waste of natural resources.

For you guys who say "since your computer is on you may as well put it to use", well, if my computer is on doing nothing, it uses much less CPU power and thus electricity. If it's running anything@home for example, the CPU usage is much higher due to the complex computations (let's face it, if they were simple they wouldn't need us) and therefore using a lot more power.

Sooo... good idea but in practice it's bad as a few others have mentioned. It could work I suppose if when playing movies/music it used 3 or the Cell processors or whatever to do the folding@home stuff.

Heretic Machine · 08-23-2006, 08:20 PM

Thats Sony for you... always hating on Cancer. Fuckers...

tombofsoldier · 08-23-2006, 08:23 PM

Cool, kinda gimmicky but cool none the less.