Mustang Mac wrote:
You are right. Objection sustained. Sometimes a man's judgement can be clouded when the perception of personal insult is involved.
Keep on folding on!
To
Mustang Mac and NoahJ:
For the record, my posts are merely in the spirit of 'locker-room' humor between strong evenly matched competitors in a heated race, and are not intended to be taken by anyone on any Folding team very seriously. The whole Folding for points race is rather abstract in nature and some of us just try to keep it lively and fun. Come on guys, really, there is already enough pain, suffering, and individual stress in the world to go around. So, just laugh about it, it's good medicine for the soul
OK, now just to be fair, I have been snooping in on the MacOS X forums for weeks and have noticed there is plenty of similar, or sometimes even harder hitting banter over there about ARM and team SPCR, more-so using words than actual graphics though, so I was actually quite surprised at how many feathers got ruffled during this last leg of the race between the two teams.
Since you brought it up more than once, (both in the MacOS X and SPCR Folding forums), I need to set the record straight and to be absolutely certain that everyone clearly understands -- ARM Systems
DOES NOT Borg customer computers with Folding@Home and then ship them out that way! Not only is that just plain silly from a customer relations perspective, but, SHEESH!, if we actually did do that, team SPCR would already be folding well into the
RED ZONE, and it wouldn't be too long before SPCR would be picking off the top 10 teams one by one with ease. We ship out very large numbers of extremely powerful systems to customers all over the USA, and that aggregated customer CPU horsepower easily dwarfs anything the highest producing Folder in the whole F@H program could possibly dream of assembling/borging together. As for our in-house systems, Roy and I didn't even bring all of our firepower online, we ran around like crazed monkeys at the end of our long days to add what turned out to be just enough horsepower to help catapult SPCR into the lead, keep everyone motivated, and hopefully... keep it fun and interesting! The reality is, we actually have a lot more CPU power here at the shop just lying around in our spare parts bins but we simply don't have the personal time or bandwidth to even load F@H on them, and we certainly aren't going to pay our employees overtime for that purpose either.
For those that want a little more background about the burn-in process here at ARM, previously we used Prime95 to stress test our production system's CPUs during overnight burn-ins, it works very good for that purpose and helps to ensure the customer get's a healthy CPU in their new computer. However, once MikeC of SPCR introduced us to the Folding@Home program, we thought, you know... it might be better that we actually use those burn-in cycles for medical research rather than let them crunch away trying to find some new gargantuan prime number --NOTE: this comment is not intended to slight anyone using Prime95 or part of that organization's distributed computing program.
In closing, I would like to ask
everyone (on any Folding@Home team) who reads this post to just lighten up a bit, don't take things too personal, and try to have some genuine fun with the Folding races. At the end of the day, we all know that we are Folding to help our fellow man, but I have to ask, 'Why should we treat the process like going to a funeral?', I say make it as fun as you can, like going to a good lively football or basketball game... Hey, some cheer louder than others, but to each his own....
Stevo
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Off the Soap-Box and Back to Folding
I know, I'm surrounded by those guys. 
Taunting is a lot of fun during a race, but not afterwards, out of respect imo.
Team Panther is on the prowl! Don't worry. Predation is a good thing, honest!