Research on climate change is regularly being attacked by highly funded campaigns like recently published at streams.cei.org (quote: \"CO2 - they call it pollution, we call it life\"), or by wanna-be \"thrillers\" like Crichton\'s \"State of fear\".

HA, tell me about it, I just wrapped up a flamewar on a \"climate skeptic blog.\" What a bunch of pseudo-scientific sellouts the CEI ilk are. Hopefully someday (even soon) we\'ll get the dough up for an Intel Mac & Fortran compiler, that should be our best bet (if the Intel Fortran compiler works as well on the new Macs as they do on Linux & Win boxes).

IAdditionally, I think Apple users are a very specific group, which (as I believe) mainly consists of two major parts: The one are professionals working in the advertisment and media industry, with their machines located in agencies and companies; they won\'t care a lot for distributed computing, unless they can instrumentalize it for customer relationships.

A large share of the second, non-professional group seem to me to be sumthing like \"lifestyle junkies\", who probably are not at all interested in projects like CPDN. I assume those donating their CPU time here to probably be more or less rare exceptions among the already small absolute number of Mac users.

Good grief. Apple users are just computer users like anyone else.

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