Life with Playstation (Formally known as Folding@Home) was an app that you find on your PS3, It has been their for since March the 22nd 2007. With the recent patch that went through, Life with Playstation is no longer on the system. An official statement was released from the website.
Dear valued PlayStation®3 customers,
By the beginning of November, 2012, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) will terminate the services available through Life with PlayStation® application which enable users to enjoy content on the internet centering on two themes, “place” and “time.” Prior to the termination, SCEI will also stop offering of the application to new users on October 24th.
Life with PlayStation has also helped Stanford University's Folding@home, a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding and studying the causes of a variety of diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and cancers.*
More than 15 million PS3® users has participated in the program in total and more than 100 million computation hours have been donated to the Folding@Home project to date. As a result of discussions with Stanford University, SCEI decided the termination considering that the PS3® system has made a significant contribution to the project.
“The PS3 system was a game changer for Folding@home, as it opened the door for new methods and new processors, eventually also leading to the use of GPUs.” said Vijay Pande, Folding@home research lead, Stanford University. “We have had numerous successes in recent years. Specifically, in a paper just published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, we report on tests of predictions from earlier Folding@home simulations, and how these predictions have led to a new strategy to fight Alzheimer's Disease. The next steps, now underway at Stanford, are to take this lead compound and help push it towards a viable drug. It's too early to report on our preliminary results there, but I'm very excited that the directions set out in this paper do appear to be bearing fruit in terms of a viable drug (not just a drug candidate).”
We would like to thank all the PS3® users for their support to “Life with PlayStation”.
I never used it much, like many I forgot that it was still there, I remember logging on to it when I got my PS3 and just being impressed by the globe. When you loaded it up you would see a 3D version of Earth, there would be a small golden dot on multiple parts of the earth, each one of those dots would be people using Life with Playstation. It's sad to see it go, I hope they try something with the PS4.
Posted on 24 October, 2012 at 3:04 am by Dark-Twisted
Oh god, NO. NO. NO.
I don’t care if it’s anywhere on the XMB just not under Game. Do you even comprehend how many people you’re going to [DELETED] off? I understand moving the trophy collection but a pointless icon in the way of games I actually want to play is NOT the way to go. You must scrap those plans ASAP or people will be moaning about it at every chance for months to come.
[DELETED] were you thinking?