*waves dick*

that was strangely unfulfilling. And I'm going to need bail money, now.

I don't understand the link, but fully endorse the flailing of genitalia.

Amateurs.

Ouch, danostuporstar, why would you endorse that?
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Umm, I don't get the link?

I don't either. I tried reading the FAQ and the About page, but my ADD kicked in and I had to stop before I killed myself.

Sign up, download a bitty file thingie where your computer is used to calculate *something* when you're not using it. The others I've seen (but not participated in) include the SETI experiment.

The dick-waving part is where you or your team members compete to have the most thingies computed. Yes, "thingie" is a perfectly legitimate word.

I got your proteins right here! *grabs nuts*

muddgirl, i had 52,000 points before I started the MeFi team. It resets your score when you change teams.

To those who don't get it:
This is a program to simulate "folding" of proteins, which helps scientists understand how diseases such as cancers form. The better we understand them, the better chance we have of curing them. The simulation is resource intensive, though, so to get a lot of work done, they spread the load by letting everyone run the program on their computer, and donate the idle cycles of the CPU to their cause. The only side effect for you is that your computer might run a little hotter, but it helps them greatly.

If you want to help, all you have to do is download the program and run it on your computer. Make up a username if you want statistics about your contributions tracked, and if you want to join the MeFi team, enter the team number 48034 into the program. Start it up and let it run in the background at all times.

What about tit waving? Is that permitted as well? I'd rather not have them folded though, thanks.

Anyone doing the climate prediction simulation instead? I've been running that one on my lonesome for over a year now. I did Folding@Home for a few years before that.

Wow, you people are crazy! Don't you know the government is monitoring you through those "programs"?!?!?!

/sarcasm, BTW

*waves dick at government*

*waves back*

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i'm chomping away at a 500,000 step work unit. 32% complete. i better get some nice points for this bitch.

I downloaded and added myself, but I dont seem to be appearing on the team page.

Also, despite the fact that my 2.6Ghz laptop is now effectively a high velocity hair dryer with the the speed that the exhaust fan is spinning and the temperature of the exhausted air, I doubt I'm going to finish this work unit before I have to unplug and go home.

However proteins are being folded and my coffee is literally being kept quite warm in a jetstream of 180 degree air. I'm only marginally worried that the paper cup or the formica cubicle desk are going to catch fire.

on windows you can at least limit the cpu usage. i'm on linux and after an hour or so of 100% cpu usage and raising the room temp 5 degrees, i installed a third party program that forces it to give up the cpu at user specified intervals.

You don't appear on the score list until you submit a work unit. Sometimes a single work unit takes an hour, sometimes a couple weeks.