Wednesday thoughts
According to Fedex, the game should be here tomorrow by noon. Sadly, I’ll be at work when that happens, but I think it’s safe to say that I’ll be playing quite a bit of it tomorrow night when I get the chance. I can’t ever recall being this excited about a game.
In Brewers news, Ben Sheets strained his groin and was pulled from the game in the 4th. I can’t say that I’m shocked by this. The guy has great stuff, but he is hurt every single year…without fail. Thankfully they have a good staff to work around the issue of his always being injured.
Tomorrow the PS3 is supposed to get another firmware update and an update to Folding at Home that will increase the speed of the folding and add some other stats and such. Over 250,000 people have used their PS3’s for folding to this point. It’s a terrific program and I hope that we see more things like this in the future to use the processing power of our systems when they’re not in use.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
It’s funny. I wonder what the rate of return is regarding “Folding”. Is there a point where all the excess power used by the process and resulting greenhouse gases, etc., defeats the purpose of even doing this?
I admit I’m not familiar with the PS3 and it’s “folding” - does it require the power to be turned on (I would assume so)?
Also, there are a great many screensavers that perform this exact same process on the PC - I think it was grid.com (address may be incorrect) that helped with DNA sequencing for a cure for cancer as well as helping out SETI.
April 25th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Yes, it does require the power to be turned on.
I don’t have the equipment here to figure it out, but I’m guessing that I spend a good deal more every month powering my PC’s than I do keeping my PS3 on all the time. Also, the PS3 is outworking my PC by about 400% in Folding as well. That amazes me.
If my PS3 was being used to compile the worlds largest ball of virtual twine I would think that the cost, both in the environmental and in the financial sense, would be a major consideration. But the simple fact of the matter is that, in the case of my home, the money and energy would have been spent on something and I’m more than glad to put them towards a cause like this.