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jayb2000
macrumors 6502a
Possible Names
1) Reality Distortion Team - after all, we are distorting real proteins 😎
2) iFold
3) PowerFold
4) Mac Community Folders
5) Bad MF - Mac Folders 😀
Just a few thoughts to get the discussion started.
I looked and found over 120 Mac, Apple, or OS X teams. Did not count exact numbers, but we could put up some HUGE numbers if we got together.
1) Reality Distortion Team - after all, we are distorting real proteins 😎
2) iFold
3) PowerFold
4) Mac Community Folders
5) Bad MF - Mac Folders 😀
Just a few thoughts to get the discussion started.
I looked and found over 120 Mac, Apple, or OS X teams. Did not count exact numbers, but we could put up some HUGE numbers if we got together.
That's not my point.
My point is, this topic was brought up to combine groups with mac names into one group to show the power of the mac faithful. I am a mac faithful but I use windows machines for work, so they are on the team. I'm not saying we shouldn't or can't use windows machines, just stating in a matter-of-fact tone that there will be the problem which I stated before--a mac faithful team lead by members who are majority windows is weird. In my eyes, I am adding the power of my amd and intel chips to the motorola and ibm chips to increase the ranking of a team that will say: `here is a team devoted to a minority in computing but we are not small nor irrelevantthis is how many there really are of us, and how strongly we want to be recognized.
Nothing against using windows machines (I use them ) just stating the obvious.
I dont want to get in an argument with the team leader anyway 😉
- bert
MrMacMan
macrumors 604
You are all forgetting that there are a good 4 other powerful teams...
Anyway, as I said, joining any team doesn't mean you are a mac user, if I give a WU to Team Linux do I use Linux?
No, but I agree that other teams would question this.
Our response should be that 'The only good thing for these windows computers, is folding itself' 🙂
Anyway, as I said, joining any team doesn't mean you are a mac user, if I give a WU to Team Linux do I use Linux?
No, but I agree that other teams would question this.
Our response should be that 'The only good thing for these windows computers, is folding itself' 🙂
mc68k
macrumors 68000
i see what u're saying now. points vs. philosophy
i feel the same way when i recruit windows machines. i think it shows the duality of mac users, that we love our platform, but are able to use others well also. i bet the top 10 teams have almost no macs comprising their points. i'd say macs prob make up ~30-40% of our points from what ppl have said in the past.
not too shabby urself. 🙂 keep up the great effort.
🙂 it's all good, I'm a blabber mouth and know it so I have big run-on spurts of thought every once in a while.
my order for new comps hasn't come through yet, but soon I'll be getting 22 new comps crunching away 😀.
- bert
(side-note don't know if anyone else uses a P4 with Hyper threading, but it acts as a dual processor. I set one up two days ago and found that I couldn't get folding to take up 100% cpu use, only 50%,with hyperthreading enabled, so I setup another folding exe as if it was a second cpu and it uses the other 50% 🙂)
wsteineker
macrumors 6502a
Re: Possible Names
Oooh, you're close here. What about TeamRDF? That sounds somehow cooler I think.
MrMacMan
macrumors 604
Oh well no one likes my idea.
Anyway, who has relations to the other teams forums? Anyone friendly with MacAddict or Team Mac Os X? (or even MacNN?)
BTW, someone needs to e-mail one of the head people seeing if there will be a major reset of scores or a update for folding as a whole.
Anyway, who has relations to the other teams forums? Anyone friendly with MacAddict or Team Mac Os X? (or even MacNN?)
BTW, someone needs to e-mail one of the head people seeing if there will be a major reset of scores or a update for folding as a whole.
Re: Possible Names
Hehe - just though of this one - blatant rip off, but so what. How about a name with one of those annoying brackets? Such as General [M]acintosh?
Hehe - just though of this one - blatant rip off, but so what. How about a name with one of those annoying brackets? Such as General [M]acintosh?
hehe, I mentioned the specs a few weeks ago when I put the order in--the purchasing department just took their time sending out the money...
they are all P4 2.4g's which is all that really counts for folding 🙂.
they are to replace a room of comps I have that have PII 300's and a few athlons. I think I'll be able to keep the athlons running, because they are just moving to another office down the hall from me. The PII's are dropping like flys though, so I'll make them into foot stools 🙂.
anyway, come monday I should get a big jump in crunching because they finally come in today--just got the call 🙂
(glad to see someone else excited besides my lan party friends!)
- bert
on to the topic again 🙂
We should probably keep the words mac or apple or something like that in the name.
maybe a name dealing with Apples the fruit?
or something simple like "Folding with Macs" <-- sounds like a kids show though 😉
also, jayb2000, I liked "PowerFold", but how about "PowerFolding" instead?
and "Bad Mac Shut Yo Mouth's" <-- for the retro bit in us all 😀
alright, Im done... I suck at naming things!
- bert
We should probably keep the words mac or apple or something like that in the name.
maybe a name dealing with Apples the fruit?
or something simple like "Folding with Macs" <-- sounds like a kids show though 😉
also, jayb2000, I liked "PowerFold", but how about "PowerFolding" instead?
and "Bad Mac Shut Yo Mouth's" <-- for the retro bit in us all 😀
alright, Im done... I suck at naming things!
- bert
Team BigMac
Guys, we get recruits from general-interest websites (news sites generally) which also support healthy forum populations. The sponsor sites in turn support us to get free advertising and more regular site traffic - some of those will certainly follow the handy links back to the root news pages.
I can't think of a reason for our various sponsors to continue supporting us on a different team, except Mac pride, and pride does not help pay the server bills.
Here on MacNN, we get an email about once a month from someone who wants to combine all the higher Mac teams. Usually on one project, but sometimes they are ambitious enough to argue combination across all projects. In most cases, the email authors make the mistake of assuming our members will do whatever the team leaders tell them to do. Heh, most of the MacNN members have never posted in our team forum ... some may not have even found our forums.
My reply is always much the same, a link to our team forum and the suggestion that they present their reasoning to our members. So far, not one emailer has followed through. We've discussed it a few times ourselves like you are here, and nothing has come of that either.
On mature teams, most members are inactive. They crunched for a time, got bored, and moved on. Without a general website and forums to supply a steady supply of new members, a team will gradually die off. If we jump off to found our BigMac team, we also need to build our own site - but each major Mac team already has one. It would cost a ton of money, steady attention to news content probably, and would just get us competing with our current sponsors for banner ad bucks and active members.
My opinion is that only Apple could set something like that up. There are a few problems though...
If you want to take a crack at the reasoning, feel free to hit our team forum and talk our members into it. You will more than likely be taken for a spy, trying to recruit for macrumors. I'd expect the same to apply on MacAddict and MacOSX forums if you tried those instead, but if you can present a good enough arguement, who knows where it will go.
Guys, we get recruits from general-interest websites (news sites generally) which also support healthy forum populations. The sponsor sites in turn support us to get free advertising and more regular site traffic - some of those will certainly follow the handy links back to the root news pages.
I can't think of a reason for our various sponsors to continue supporting us on a different team, except Mac pride, and pride does not help pay the server bills.
Here on MacNN, we get an email about once a month from someone who wants to combine all the higher Mac teams. Usually on one project, but sometimes they are ambitious enough to argue combination across all projects. In most cases, the email authors make the mistake of assuming our members will do whatever the team leaders tell them to do. Heh, most of the MacNN members have never posted in our team forum ... some may not have even found our forums.
My reply is always much the same, a link to our team forum and the suggestion that they present their reasoning to our members. So far, not one emailer has followed through. We've discussed it a few times ourselves like you are here, and nothing has come of that either.
On mature teams, most members are inactive. They crunched for a time, got bored, and moved on. Without a general website and forums to supply a steady supply of new members, a team will gradually die off. If we jump off to found our BigMac team, we also need to build our own site - but each major Mac team already has one. It would cost a ton of money, steady attention to news content probably, and would just get us competing with our current sponsors for banner ad bucks and active members.
My opinion is that only Apple could set something like that up. There are a few problems though...
- They don't seem to be interested. The Apple Fold team has fallen out of the Top 100 because Apple didn't do anything to continue interest. There was the one article, and that was it. The team lasted ~6 months before wilting away.
- Even if Apple got interested, they have a control attitude that I would not care to be under. Post something not-so-complimentary in their support forums, and start the stopwatch. Your post/thread will vanish pretty quickly. Our current sponsors are far more tolerant of criticism, and by extension, all other forms of free speech.
If you want to take a crack at the reasoning, feel free to hit our team forum and talk our members into it. You will more than likely be taken for a spy, trying to recruit for macrumors. I'd expect the same to apply on MacAddict and MacOSX forums if you tried those instead, but if you can present a good enough arguement, who knows where it will go.
MacBandit
macrumors 604
I don't think you need to have one unified website. I think that the members could just come from there prospective forums like they do now and sign on to the main team rather then the individual teams like they do now.
In any case I don't think one main team is the end all answer. All it will do is encourage a few PC teams to joing up and beat us. I think the answer is in more aggressive recruiting. As I have mentioned before most people don't even know what folding is. Even those that do sort of know they don't know what the different causes it helps. Finally even those that know all the previous don't know that it will most likely not affect there computing experience one bit. We just need to educate members about folding. This includes getting their curiosity up so they are interested by getting a few small banners placed around the site.
In any case I don't think one main team is the end all answer. All it will do is encourage a few PC teams to joing up and beat us. I think the answer is in more aggressive recruiting. As I have mentioned before most people don't even know what folding is. Even those that do sort of know they don't know what the different causes it helps. Finally even those that know all the previous don't know that it will most likely not affect there computing experience one bit. We just need to educate members about folding. This includes getting their curiosity up so they are interested by getting a few small banners placed around the site.
How many PC teams are there? I just don't see that many joining and rising up against a single powerhouse Mac team.
We are, after all, united for the Mac.
I just think it needs to be an effort across the boards so it's not a huge burden to any one person. There should be no "leader" of this team, everyone who does it should just change teams because they think it's an awesome idea.
For example, find out who knows PHP and have them design a board (by who I mean multiple entities working to an end). Find out who is experienced at web design and have them collaborate and banter over a final result.
The static nature of message boards allows this non-leader thing to happen, because anyone who wants to take initiative can. I can post a new thread on the boards here at MacRumors that discusses web design of the new, unified site. We could decide what should(n't) be included, etc. on the thread, even though I have no "authority" standing here. I don't even have enough posts for an avatar.
I just think that if we all stopped talking about it happening and started making it happening, we'd get a lot farther.
We are, after all, united for the Mac.
I just think it needs to be an effort across the boards so it's not a huge burden to any one person. There should be no "leader" of this team, everyone who does it should just change teams because they think it's an awesome idea.
For example, find out who knows PHP and have them design a board (by who I mean multiple entities working to an end). Find out who is experienced at web design and have them collaborate and banter over a final result.
The static nature of message boards allows this non-leader thing to happen, because anyone who wants to take initiative can. I can post a new thread on the boards here at MacRumors that discusses web design of the new, unified site. We could decide what should(n't) be included, etc. on the thread, even though I have no "authority" standing here. I don't even have enough posts for an avatar.
I just think that if we all stopped talking about it happening and started making it happening, we'd get a lot farther.
Phatpat
macrumors 6502a
I just started folding again after a long break. I'm all for a Mac team. I have a website, but don't know much about forums. A few people should get a site going and start creating interest. We need to prove that we have a lot of people that will sign up before the switch is made. Combining our forces would help a lot.