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PS3 Downtime To Fight Disease
Aerenel writes, "CNN reports that Sony has teamed up with Folding@home to use the PS3 to study how proteins are formed in the human body and how they sometimes form incorrectly. From the article: 'Donating [a gamer's] PS3's down time to researchers could help cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or mad cow disease.' PS3 users will be able to download a software package that tracks when the PS3 is not being used. While gamers are in school, at work, or asleep, their system's Cell processor can be used to perform simulations for research organizations. The PS3, due in November, has gotten serious negative press in the past few months, and this refreshing good news may win back the hearts of gamers still undecided about purchasing the system."
Yes, like sony is going to get me to do this on there machine when i can do it on my PC.
You mad
will anybody trust Sony with usage-reporting software on their PS3?
Why would my PS3 being kept turned on 24x7 win my heart and mind again? Because privately held research would like to use my PS3 for free and then make money from it when they discover something - without any intention to charge less $$ for the treatment / cure in exchange for all this free computing?
_Vishal www.squad9.com
Of course, this is Sony, and people are allowing them to run software on their box that "phones out".... Who wants to bet there will be extra data sent out if you've ever played an unlicensed game or media in the console?