please no flaming or as the Latin goes no "argumentum ad homimem "

molti grazie

Now, this is interesting information. I, too, picked the cancer project for personal reasons and it seems my input is meaningless. It's like the scam the United Way pulls on people that object to funding certain charities. They pretend your money is going to projects you support, but in reality, they take money out of the project for "balance." So, you end up supporting things you oppose. Luckily, there is nothing objectionable here.

I don't crunch here for "points." (and that's one reason I rarely post) I want to see a breakthrough in cancer treatment. But, if I'm dedicating my electric bills to one ten-millionth of the cpu cycles going into this research, then my contribution is truly meaningless. It is also unfair to any individual that has a project important to them to have their contribution diluted with other projects. The more projects you take on, the less attention the desired project gets. Why even announce what projects WCG is working on? What is the incentive to join if it adds nothing significant to the project you care about?

As to only posting complaints (see my remark about pointless points, above), I am reminded of the apocryphal story of Einstein who didn't speak until he was six years old. That morning he came down to breakfast and said to his mother: "These pancakes stink!"

Surprised and startled, she asked: "If you could speak, why haven't you said anything before this???" He replied "Up until now, the pancakes were ok."

BTW, I have literally thousands of posts at a couple of other forums and I rarely rant and I never flame.

Hi Gort!
There are different ways to consider this question.
Personally I prefer the optimistic one which I have often given, e.g. to members disappointed that their machine does not fulfill the requirements for their preferred project.

Give it the WUs that it crunches best, and think that for every WU you will return for this project that will be one less to distribute to the "balanced" set of WCG members. So they will receive more of the project you prefer.

By the way this new "Rice" project is becoming my recommendation for all small and/or slow machines because
1. it now has the smallest RAM requirement (from 9 to less than 24 MB for slower machines)
2. it never lasts longer than 8 hours CPU
3. it has very frequent checkpoints, thus losing minimum work between sessions
4. with its 10-day deadline it requires only one hour of CPU time per day.

Cheers. Jean.

Look, I got mine too!!
I would have posted earlier but I was out celebrating my 25th wedding anniversary

edit:spelling, it's late.

True, so true