Noob questions

[davekusa]

I've just started folding a few days ago and I just set up a farm tonight. I got every pile of junk laying in my basement out and plugged into my router. I have a few questions .........

Q: Have any diseases actually been cured by folding?

Q: I see that team 32 is ranked 3rd. Does anyone think that we'll
catch hardcop in the rankings?

Q Is anyone rallying team 32? I see alot of people on the top 1000 that
haven't folded in months.

Q: I see some people have over 20 cpu's running. How do you get so many?

Q Is fold tax deductible?

Thanks for any info
davekusa

[Seven]

A: Not yet, but the data you and millions of others around the world is helping the guys and girls at Stanford along very well. Listen to Pande's speech if you don't believe me.

A: I do.

A: Yes, we have had a huge influx of new members, including you. A lot of our top folders have to go back to school, or have quit for various reasons. However, we are doing very well with all the new members.

A: Either massive farms, or a lot of people have borgs (installing F@H on machines besides their own [with consent of course]).

A: No idea.

You're welcome
-Fyber

[Sterculus]

-While folding has yet to actually cure any diseases, the results that they have gathered have led to increased understanding of the mechanisms behind folding. They've published quite a few papers, and I just finished listening to the speech that Dr. Pande gave at whatever it was (there is a thread floating around somewhere).

-At the moment we are massively behind H in production and massively behind OCAU in total points. However, if we keep getting new members there is a possibility of changing both of those.

-Many of the top 1000 have had to quit for various reasons. Generally most of those people had good reasons for quitting, and as a team we've brought up trying to contact all of them in the past and decided it would not be tactful.

-Many people (myself included) have farms and borgs (computers owned by someone else that fold for you). Of my 49 procs active within 50 days, 14 are actually mine. However, that number is inflated due to four PCs with HT, and thus two consoles running, so I only have 10 actual CPUs. The rest are all borgs.

-Highly doubtful. You could check with someone more knowledgable of tax laws than I am.

[samuraisam]

I've always wondered if it's tax deductible too.

-Sam

[Seven]

I don't think it is. It would be if you were really donating something to charity, but you are volunteering your CPU otherwise.

[davekusa]

I was just wondering. It's not going to change my mind. It would be nice. I felt kind of weird asking.

[samuraisam]

The donations you make to the actual project money wise are tax deductable, it says so on their web page.

-Sam