89,975 user registrations - Congrats DU on almost 90,000!

[helderheid]

[tanyev]

1. And thanks to all the trolls who helped us get there!

Nice work. :hi:

[helderheid]

2. LOL

:)

[Deja Q]

3. !

:spray:



(and those who left as well.)

[LSK]

10. the freepers would have you believe theres 89500 trolls

:rofl:

[Catchawave]

4. Lovely !

Nice milestone for DU :grouphug:

[Dr.Phool]

5. It sure is lonely.

89,999 freepers and me.:evilgrin:

6. 89,978

[sweetheart]

7. How many hits a day

How many logins a day. I'm suspicious of these macdonald's numbers, and i respect
skinner's not disclosing actual hits, reads, or whatever, as by its absence, all posts
are "democratic" and the opposition is not clear on which posts are gold and which
are lead.

[ny_liberal]

8. So why are the FREEPERs beating us

at folding (see thread below)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1092649&mesg_id=1092649

[helderheid]

9. I hate to be so ignorant but what is a "folding team" ??

[ny_liberal]

11. Here's how F@H works

Folding@home does not rely on powerful supercomputers for its data processing; instead, the primary contributors to the Folding@home project are many thousands of personal computer users who have installed a small client program. The client runs in the background, and makes use of the CPU when it is not busy. In most modern personal computers, the CPU is rarely used to its full capacity at all times; the Folding@home client takes advantage of this unused processing power.

The Folding@home client periodically connects to a server to retrieve "work units," which are packets of data upon which to perform calculations. Each completed work unit is then sent back to the server.

Contributors to Folding@home may have user names used to keep track of their contributions. Each user may be running the client on one or more CPUs; for example, a home user with two computers could run the client on both of them. Users may also contribute under one or more team names; many different users may join together to form a team. Contributors are assigned a score indicating the number and difficulty of completed work units. Rankings and other statistics are posted to the Folding@home website.

[helderheid]

12. still confused

What are the programs for? What is it calculating? What about privacy? Again, sorry to sound so ignorant.

[Blue_Tires]

13. why is it called folding?

or is that just the name they chose?

[helderheid]

14. I still don't get it