PS3 cures cancer!

[squidman]

My problems with this is simply down to Sony making this public and rather than reporting along the line's of "New technology has been made avaliable to scientists from Sony to help reasearch cure's for diseases." it's gone with "PlayStation 3 to combat the world's ills"

Wheter the BBC went from this angle or Sony did I don't know but it's so hard to read an article when it feel's like PR.

Reads like a pretty standard BBC article, to be honest. I think you've got to be reading into it the article with a significant bias already established to try and claim Sony are trying to weave an elaborate PR stunt here. The article doesn't even contain any loaded quotes from any Sony execs!

Sure, it might have been implemented to be a pretty crafty way to spread the PS3 image into the public, but that's just the world we live in. It's hardly fair to lambaste one corporation for it. I think it's a pretty nifty little idea, personally. If anything, it will give the allegedly mighty cell processor something decent to do when everybody is playing technologically underwheming games (Warhawk!) come Christmas.

Would be cool if Microsoft and Nintendo implemented it, too. Just as a bit of a karma thing, really. Kind of like giving blood. You could be sitting there, in the dashboard, download some demos or updates or something and have the processor whirring away in the background folding up proteins and performing complicated science stuff.

[Matt]

My problems with this is simply down to Sony making this public and rather than reporting along the line's of "New technology has been made avaliable to scientists from Sony to help reasearch cure's for diseases." it's gone with "PlayStation 3 to combat the world's ills"

Wheter the BBC went from this angle or Sony did I don't know but it's so hard to read an article when it feel's like PR.

Who knows, and who cares.

Just keep it mind that if Nintendo were doing this, the whole thread would be populated with little fanboys whooping with delight and wondering if they could help the process by waving their magic wand at the screen.

And if MS were doing this, they'd get 95% of the way to curing cancer before a screen popped up demanding 1200 more points to complete the cure.

I for one say if Sony make this "software" downloadable, so the PS3 can chug away while I'm not playing it, then great.

Is it REALLY a bad ****ing thing? If Sony can help cure cancer, good for them, and good for us.

Too much conspiracy and negativity in these parts. It never used to be like this

[randombs]

shut up honestly..

everything a conspiracy or marketing..

you have just read quotes from people who obviously know what they are dealing with, speaking about it capabilities of thousands of trillions calculations per second or what not and even being shown demonstrations of capabilities

for once in your life wait and see.. you really didnt read the article comparing it with the Wii... it's cell processor not PS3.. dont really know how, but Cell chips can be networked\bundled together in hundreds.

so this is blatantly possible !

yes, everything IS a conspiracy or marketing. what is so saddening about the whole thing is this is cancer research we're talking about here.

i mean it sounds to me like a bloody simpsons joke.

wait and see what? a bunch of networked ps3's? wow, i can hardly contain myself. what they're talking about is just distributed computing and is nothing new.

there are more people with pc's than there ever will be with ps3's or any other console for that matter, that's what gets me most. like wools said, it's a case of ps3 curing illnesses

[VR46]

Yawn, this thread has run it's course.