Thanks for providing your viewpoint OldChap. I would venture to say many people who contribute here and actually take an interest in the community as opposed to those who just install and forget, feel much the same way. I certainly do.

While many of the teams here provide a strong base of support for the members who belong to them, the fact of the matter is that people who belong to this community should be able to find that support here on this forum. Beyond that, while there is much that we can do to support one another, aside from the fact that we have to do that offline because of the pathetic state of this forum software, there is a great deal that requires the participation of the WCG staff. And while they normally respond quickly to brush fires such as system failures, virtually everything else seems to take years if it happens at all. And I strongly suspect that the only reason they are so responsive to the system issues is because that's their actual job and it reflects badly on them if they don't.

Personally I've gotten to the point where I regard them much like I did old version of my state's DMV - slow, lethargic and resistant to change. I used to dread going there since I knew no matter how minor and insignificant whatever I needed from them they would somehow manage to turn it into a task worthy of Mission Impossible.

However so many people in the state became so dissatisfied with the state of service that the agency was completely restructured and the last couple of times I've gone there it was actually a pleasant experience. The last time was just a few days ago to renew my registration since there was some confusion about my tags. I was in and out in under 15 minutes.

But that only happened because a) people cared enough to complain and b) because the govt cared enough to do something about it. I'm afraid that we can look forward to neither of those things happening with WCG. There seem to be only a handful of us that actually give a s*** about what happens here and IBM's level of interest is questionable at best. The continued existence of this PoS forum software is sufficient proof of that fact.

IBM hasn't manufactured consumer hardware for a while now. I'm not sure how many years exactly but they I think they sold their PC business to Lenovo about 10 years ago and I think they sold their server business to them last year. They are essentially a computer services company and have been such for many years.

Not only that, but their sales have been flat for the past 6 years. The only reason that their earnings per share continue to grow is that they borrow money at low interest rates and buy back their own stock. So IBM as a company really isn't doing all that well. They're definitely not going to start throwing cash around to folks like us. Heck, they won't even increase staff at WCG - something I'd much rather see than have them give anything to us.

Looked in google play store and thought 'what is familiar about this logo?' The htc ptg is a rebranded boinc agent for android. The video presented on gps names 5 most recently running wcg projects + seti of dr anderson's, i.e. they advertise to contribute to wcg. Would ibm/wcg not have participated in this program development?

What's of interest is, that the ptg agent can be installed on htc one's and is shown as incompatible with my tablet. They show having updated to android 4.4.3 kitkat, so wonder if they're running the same science apps or an adapted version and what their stability experience is? Certainly these 'one's can be found on wuprop i.e. there's liberty to add other projects to those agents.

HTC Desire HD 12.0 (9.4 - 14.6)
HTC j 8.2 (8.2 - 8.2)
HTC One M7 6.3 (5.2 - 7.3)
HTC One M8 8.3 (5.0 - 14.3)
HTC One mini 8.1 (5.2 - 12.8)
HTC Thunderbolt 18.0 (18.0 - 18.0)

In what form would you like to be recognized ? Would an email congratulating you for your contribution suffice ? A certificate of appreciation ? A coupon for 1/2 off on your next cup of coffee ? A credit towards your electric bill ? A squeezable stress relief toy with the WCG logo ? Please be specific with how you think the accomplishment of particular goals should be recognized, either to you privately or to the world publicly.

BTW you have my admiration for crunching well done.
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OK, good. A specific answer, one which I happen to like too. Anybody got any more ?
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