Yup, I know what you mean insofaras getting fed up and thinking of quitting crunching. It gets rather discouraging at times. The effort is to find primes. Points really don't have anything to do with that. However they do have a use for teams and folks competing against one another. Without that friendly competition the whole distributed computing thing wouldn't have taken off like it has. However as you point out it is getting more expensive all the time. Then the mining thing came along and really changed the game. Now we have jerk writing code to take over other folks computer to mine, and then the mining addicts wonder why others don't want to have anything to do with the mining assets on boinc science and math projects. I'm glad PG is against the monetizing thing. It would be nice to know any other projects that are not supporting it also. Been crunching since the early times, but this monetizing and greed thing has me seriously thinking of hanging it up as this just isn't a fun thing now like it used to be. Specially for those of us running only our own personal equipment. The sad thing is that the mining diehards are giving the PG admins grief over their decision. The Borg is a good name for it! :-)