Online gamers vs. AIDS-like virus = pwnt

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Originally Posted by Highroller

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged...161920724.html

I love this.

Scientists have been stumped on finding an accurate model of a monomeric protease enzyme for decades.

Gamers took three weeks to figure it out.

WTH? The article is absolute malarkey and, clearly, you guys haven't any idea of fold.it, do you?

Why the haughty tone; "scientist have been stumped", whereas "gamers took three weeks". In any case, if one has any idea of computational/modelling programs, it's not all that surprising. It was a matter of time if anything at all.

Originally Posted by Monopoman

Watch the 20 minute lecture by Jane McGonigal then say that.

fold.it's not a game; it was a distraction and a puzzle spruiked during a lecture (at least, that's what it'll be to me). It's decent for killing hours during reading week ... (oh, wait).

Also, I don't see how Jane McGonigal is at all relevant.

Originally Posted by Eberbacher

But if we are looking at the "desing our XY" and recieve 1000$, its still a ripoff, because you get 1000$s and thats it.
Lets say 1000 people worked each 2 hours to design the logo, thats a lot of work.

And now compare it to what a proffessional designer team would ask for designing a new Logo for , lets say a subsection of Nike or footlocker

What the heck are you on about?

Originally Posted by Eberbacher

Although it might be a good idea to use such a method in research that is good for everybody, there are also negative Aspects to this.

More and more companies are using the "hey community, design, a new logo/burger whatever for us" and are basically outsourcing research to the web community.

Boy, market research, focus groups, Wikipedia, etc. must cheese you off.
The community doesn't do research proper; rather, they do the grunt work. Also, moot point, man.

Originally Posted by Smores_Prime

That's pretty awesome. Progress in medical science has been made, and it's good publicity for gaming, win-win!

Yes, yes, and yes, despite how misinformed the thing is.

fold.it; bloody brilliant.

[Monopoman]

Jane talks about using games to solve the world's problems right?

They just used a game to help work towards solving AIDS. Yes we don't have a surefire cure for AIDS based off this information but we are a step closer then we were before.

She might not have referenced using gamers to help work to solve things like AIDS or Cancer in her speech but she does specifically reference using gamers to solve problems. As far as I know the world would be a better place if we had a 100% cure for AIDS.

Who gives a crap if it doesn't function identically to a game like Call of Duty its still a game.

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Originally Posted by Monopoman

Who gives a crap if it doesn't function identically to a game like Call of Duty its still a game.

I confess I don't actually know what CoD is other than something a tiny subset of classmates spend time playing.

Too many definitions of 'game', too blurry.

Originally Posted by Monopoman

They just used a game to help work towards solving AIDS. Yes we don't have a surefire cure for AIDS based off this information but we are a step closer then we were before.

Hm.
Sure-fire cure is ever sus.

She might not have referenced using gamers to help work to solve things like AIDS or Cancer in her speech but she does specifically reference using gamers to solve problems. As far as I know the world would be a better place if we had a 100% cure for AIDS.

Okay, this is bugging me; video games, not games.

While handy to generate data and solve structures, you could study microbes, the immune system, or pharmacology or chemistry or, heck, develop a better algorithm.

I just can't wait for the article at NSMB (link for anyone interested: <http://www.nature.com/nsmb/index.html>).
Edit: http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v...nsmb.2119.html

Article's meh. Now I'm wondering when drugs will be developed, (who/which big pharma will own the patent), how accessible the drugs will be, and when resistance will develop.

[Monopoman]

Video games are games dude.

Yes if you want to be specific we are taking video games here but that is not relevant to the discussion.

I am through replying to your nonsensical posts man.

It's like complaining about someone referring to an apple as a fruit.