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Bad News: It's an overpriced piece of crap.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/fun.games/09/18/playstation.folding/index.html

piece of crap is a little too much, im sure it will perform as advertised... super pretty graphics.  but the price is way too high, and the library will be 95% PSX and PS2 sequels

Bad News:  It will cause epileptic seizures.

Bad news: It will cause personal bankruptcies all over the country.

Good News: It plays games...

Only if your already a sufferer, or if they show season 1, episode 43 of Pokemon on it ^^
God I hate that show.

Better news:

You can help cure cancer, ALS, and Alzheimers thanks to your computer, and save 600 dollars by not buying the PS3 as a manner to cure cancer.

As someone whose mother has the terminal illness known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, or the Steven Hawking Illness I highly recommend people to run this program on their computer. The program runs in the background, so it does not hog resources, and it truly helps in the search for the cure of many illnesses.

If you would like to install Folding @ Home, here is the link (http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html).

What a strange, scattered, article. It goes everywhere.

...in theory...

What does the download do?

Short Answer: It simulates the folding of proteins. By understanding the folding of proteins it may be possible to find cures for many noncommunicable illnesses.

Long Answer: Proteins are complex. There may be 21 amino acids that make up proteins but these acids can be arranged and folded in any way. There are literally billions of ways to fold proteins, but somehow our body seems to do it right most of the time. But what would happen if say these proteins were not to fold correctly?

See, proteins have a very important function in our body. Often times they are enzymes, which hasten or allow organic reactions to occur. These enzymes must be folded perfectly in order for it to function correctly. If, by some freak occurrence the folding process fails, then that enzyme will not exist in the cell, and the process it helps facilitate would not be allowed to go on.

Misfolding of proteins causes a lot of illnesses. Cancer, ALS, Alzheimer's, are all thought to be begun by protein. Of those, cancer has the most concrete evidence of a misfolding of a protein allowing the illness to occur. See, the body actually has a protein that destroys tumors. You may have heard of it, p53, or the tumor suppressor protein. Most of the time this protein folds correctly, but on some rare occurrence this protein may misfold, causing p53 to not work as planned. This malfunction can lead to what we commonly call cancer. It sure would be nice though to know how p53 worked though, perhaps then we would have a cure for cancer.

Thing is though that while we know the structure of the p53 protein and what it does we do not know how to recreate it in the lab. The folds that are required to make this protein are extremely complex and require a supercomputer to figure out. But, what if we could make the processes smaller, and allow them to be run on home computers? Enter Folding @ Home.

Folding @ Home is a program developed by Stanford University that works in the background and determines how a protein folds. Sure it may take a while to determine how one protein works, but if you have a million people running Folding @ Home you are going to have a lot of computations being generated. These computations could be used to find cures for cancer, you never know.

Of course, the more people who run the program the better the program becomes, and the more data that comes available. So, please consider running F@H, it may someday find a cure for cancer.

I seriously doubt Trader Jake wrote that...

But yeah, I was running F@H for quite a while.  Most of the time you wouldn't even notice its installed.   It only uses spare clock cycles, so you will not notice a performance hit. 

I think I'll start running it again.

I took AP Bio, I sure as hell wrote it.

Lucky you.

Then I guess you should take the compliment.

By the way, I wasn't questioning your knowledge, just your writing style.  Both the volume and quality are atypical of an Internet forum.

That's more than Wii or 360 can say. :)

That episode was soo lame. I didn't even get the slight hint of a seizure. :-/

But as things stand now there still isn't anything coming out on PS3 that has made me think i need the system.

Resistance Fall of Man?
MGS4?
Ninja Gaiden?
Virtua Fighter 5?
Motorstorm?
Heavenly Sword?
FANTAVISION 2!?!?!?!?!

No
No
No
No
No
No
No

None of those games are worth 700 dollars. Then again no new game if worth that.

Exactly, the new games are worth 60$ :P ;)

Right on. :)

OK the games are worth 60. To play them is not worth 700+.

Bah humbug.

They probably edited the episode to avoid a world wide lawsuit.

Aside from the PS3 price, the uncertainty of the console already has some PS3 exclusives now also planned for 360.

Virtua Fighter 5 isn't a definitely yet, but Sega has not ruled out a 360 port.
So it's all just one big waiting game really, an interesting one though.