How about a desk peddler that controls power to your monitor? You have keep the cadence above x RPMs or the monitor shuts off. Pedal faster, it comes back on. You'd need:
1. Desk Peddler with a... 2. Cadence Monitor hooked up to a... 3. Programmable RPM Switch
Hook the switch inline on your computer monitor's power cable and start pedaling!
Imagine if companies installed these under each desk in the office. And... imagine if they were hooked up to a battery that charged from your pedaling and powered your monitor and computer?
"The truth is, you and I owe quite a lot to religious people before us, who put their lives second to the lives of the poor and oppressed. It's hard to find the motivation to do that if life is simply from dust to dust."
That just seems bass-ackwards religious brainwashing to me. If you truly believe in an everlasting sky-fairy heaven following this life, then what does human suffering matter in this life? I mean, what's the motivation beyond the self-centered motivation of getting one's soul into heaven? This is just a temporary hold-ground where you're waiting to ascend up up and away and through those pearly gates, right?
Whereas, if you're an atheist like me, you understand this is the only life any of us has, and that you MUST do the most you can with it! For what? For my children and theirs! For my friends! For my species! For life!
>>* There is no evidence that proves God doesn't exist. Until that is found your stipulation has no merit.
How in the fuck do you find evidence of something not existing for something that doesn't exist? Unfalsifiable BS in my opinion.
How about this: The claims about Gods(TM) made by pretty much all religions, from the shape of the Earth to the origins of the universe, have been thoroughly trampled by scientific advances. Therefore the Gods(TM) themselves, unfalsifiable as they are, do NOT exist.
Sorry, I'm edgy this afternoon. No caffeine for 20 hours and counting.
Where are you facts to back up Finland has a higher divorce rate than the US? I googled and could find stats pointing in both directions. Here's one for the US:
I played soccer for 10 years, from the 2nd grade all the way through high school, and it taught me the value of physical fitness and how to kick a ball into a net.
I played video games starting with Pools of Radiance in the mid-80's on my dad's IBM clone, and throught it used XTREE to hack/copy inventories for characters and PWN the game!
I now work for a large financial institution managing a good portion of their infrastructure. I would have to agree that gaming had a weee bit more of an impact on my life than strafing past the right guard and scoring the winning goal!
I was shopping for a house in North Dallas last weekened. My agent informed me that the city had just recently installed cameras to catch people running red lights. And, by strange coincidence, a new story recently said the occurence of rear-endings was up nearly 400% from the same period last year.
"The Ndoli device was nicknamed "the jewel", monitored by a teaching device, it reads and follows your every thought and and action, corrected faster than thought by the teacher, so that it is identical to you. Someday, the organic brain will be removed and the reins will be handed over to the jewel, which will live forever, and it is you."...or is it?
Why will the consumer lose? Personally, I plan on voting with my wallet for the same format I chose in the DVD-A / SACD wars. The marketplace chose the winner there, and I really hope it will pick the same winner in the BluRay/HD-DVD war
Why will the consumer lose? Ask the people who spent good money on BETAMAX players back in the 80's.
"Last minute talks to unify the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have failed. Matsushita, owner of the Panasonic brand, has stated 'the market will decide the winner."
should read:
Last minute talks to unify the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have failed. Matsushita, owner of the Panasonic brand, has stated 'the consumer will have to pay for our greed and inability to compromise'.
I enjoy the game if I can move around in it faster. That's exactly what the epic mount does. People, please stop trying to tell other people HOW to enjoy the game. If you enjoy the game going at 60% above base movement, fine, enjoy. I enjoy the game going at 100% above base movement. So, just stop worrying about me, I mean, what harm am I doing you? (and now this is where we see your true colors)...
I saw the title of this thread and I was hoping for some new, super-duper way to display images in 3D via ultra-hightech, nano-enabled, smart-technology, other-buzzword, contact lenses. But just extra hydration.. meh.
Exactly my point! Everyone else has different kinds of fun in the game. The faction I was talking about would come from things like PvP. There are few things I like more in the game than running a team in AV and crushing the alliance. The offshoot of that is I get Frostwolf faction points. If I could use those points to buy an epic mount I would DEFINITELY go that route over buying gold. Why? Because I'm getting an item for doing something I enjoy in the game.
"You are basically defeating the whole purpose of playing the game."
Funny I though the whole point of playing the game was to have fun. I'm sorry if my idea of fun doesn't line up with yours, but please don't imply that I'm wrong because of it.
Summary: I'm paying money not to play the parts I don't like. Say I make $50 bucks an hour in real life. Should I pay $60 bucks for gold to get an epic mount, or spend 3 months of game time doing something I don't like to get that mount? I'd rather blow the $60 bucks, which is only 1.25 hours of my work time. See the logic?
"The fact that gold farmers exist, the fact that leveling services exist, these things speak to deficiencies in the game design. There's this game, that people are paying millions each month to play, and yet on top of the monthly fee many of them feel that it is worth additional money to pay others to essentially play part of the game for them. Why? Because that part of the game isn't fun."
Exactly! My thought on this is the great OR statement. To get any things in the game you should have a variety of choices. Take for instance the Epic Mount of WoW. Would less people be inclined to buy gold if, rather than just paying 800 gold, you could pay the gold OR defeat 10 raid-level bosses OR earn 100K faction rep OR mine 2000 dark iron ore, etc, etc, etc.
If the game had more options for getting the stuff that people buy gold for in the first place, I'm sure they could cut down significantly on the amount of guild being purchased.
"only way to really cut off gold farmers at the knees is not by refusing to take their money, but by refusing to give it to them."
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The only way to really cut off gold farmers is for companies like blizzard to change the game such that there isn't so much focus on "gold". I don't like the idea of having to spend 3 months of farming herbs to be able to afford to buy an epic mount, hence i go buy gold to get the epic mount. If they made it based on completing quests we wouldn't have this issue? No gold necessary to get the epic mount. Just quests. The reason above is the only reason that I've yet bought money in an MMO.
I agree there's a need for some currency to be used in MMOs, but the current implementation of it in games like WoW is the issue.
You banned 5400 accounts! You're really showing those gold farmers who's boss! Boy, at this rate I bet those companies selling gold will be out of business in NO TIME!/runsOverToIgeDotCom
Hrmm... 500 gold on my server was $30 bucks last week... Let's see what's up after blizzard's heroic bans! Arthas Server, Horde... 500 gold. $31 bucks. =|
"Just give up 30 minutes of WoW, 3 times a week, and go run/ride/lift/stretch/something."
Are you freaking kidding?!?!? Giving up 90 minutes of WowW a week is absolutely out of the question. In fact, I'd rather geek out and build a recumbant exercise bike that shut of my monitor if I didn't keep a pre-defined RPM, and thereby keep my WoW fix... So, I did.
1. I'm an alchemist in wow and gather herbs to make potions, making about 20 gold a day in wow at MOST. This takes me about 2 hours per day to gather and put on Auction. 2. It would take me about 25 days and 50 total man hours to make 500 gold 2. 500 gold on my server is ~$35 bucks 4. I make $50 bucks an hour at my real-life job.
So, either I can buy 500 gold for the cost of what I make in 45 minutes at work, or spend 50 hours over a month's time making potions. Really, it's an economic no-brainer.
Two articles on the front page. These guys have developed a paint that will stop cell phone signals. And the airlines are worried cell phones will eventually crash planes. Shield the cockpits using this paint? Slashdot saves lives.
Obviously you do not appreciate the melodies of Avril Lavigne, the emotional maturity and unpretentiousness of Alanis Morrisette, the economy of expression of the Bare Naked Ladies, the understated phrasing of Céline Dion, or the raw production style of David Foster.
Hey, I thought Alanis and Celine were US citizens?!?!
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How about a desk peddler that controls power to your monitor? You have keep the cadence above x RPMs or the monitor shuts off. Pedal faster, it comes back on. You'd need:
1. Desk Peddler with a...
2. Cadence Monitor hooked up to a...
3. Programmable RPM Switch
Hook the switch inline on your computer monitor's power cable and start pedaling!
Imagine if companies installed these under each desk in the office. And... imagine if they were hooked up to a battery that charged from your pedaling and powered your monitor and computer?
I'm not drunk... I promise!
"The truth is, you and I owe quite a lot to religious people before us, who put their lives second to the lives of the poor and oppressed. It's hard to find the motivation to do that if life is simply from dust to dust."
That just seems bass-ackwards religious brainwashing to me. If you truly believe in an everlasting sky-fairy heaven following this life, then what does human suffering matter in this life? I mean, what's the motivation beyond the self-centered motivation of getting one's soul into heaven? This is just a temporary hold-ground where you're waiting to ascend up up and away and through those pearly gates, right?
Whereas, if you're an atheist like me, you understand this is the only life any of us has, and that you MUST do the most you can with it! For what? For my children and theirs! For my friends! For my species! For life!
>>* There is no evidence that proves God doesn't exist. Until that is found your stipulation has no merit.
How in the fuck do you find evidence of something not existing for something that doesn't exist? Unfalsifiable BS in my opinion.
How about this: The claims about Gods(TM) made by pretty much all religions, from the shape of the Earth to the origins of the universe, have been thoroughly trampled by scientific advances. Therefore the Gods(TM) themselves, unfalsifiable as they are, do NOT exist.
Sorry, I'm edgy this afternoon. No caffeine for 20 hours and counting.
Where are you facts to back up Finland has a higher divorce rate than the US? I googled and could find stats pointing in both directions. Here's one for the US:
US Divorce rate!
I played soccer for 10 years, from the 2nd grade all the way through high school, and it taught me the value of physical fitness and how to kick a ball into a net.
I played video games starting with Pools of Radiance in the mid-80's on my dad's IBM clone, and throught it used XTREE to hack/copy inventories for characters and PWN the game!
I now work for a large financial institution managing a good portion of their infrastructure. I would have to agree that gaming had a weee bit more of an impact on my life than strafing past the right guard and scoring the winning goal!
Wow! Your post probably resulted in cardiac arrest somewhere on the planet! I'm sitting here giggling like a catholic school girl!
I was shopping for a house in North Dallas last weekened. My agent informed me that the city had just recently installed cameras to catch people running red lights. And, by strange coincidence, a new story recently said the occurence of rear-endings was up nearly 400% from the same period last year.
"The Ndoli device was nicknamed "the jewel", monitored by a teaching device, it reads and follows your every thought and and action, corrected faster than thought by the teacher, so that it is identical to you. Someday, the organic brain will be removed and the reins will be handed over to the jewel, which will live forever, and it is you." ...or is it?
Well, what if by studying it, scientists disprove the Big Bang? That's probably what they're afraid of...
Why will the consumer lose? Personally, I plan on voting with my wallet for the same format I chose in the DVD-A / SACD wars. The marketplace chose the winner there, and I really hope it will pick the same winner in the BluRay/HD-DVD war
Why will the consumer lose? Ask the people who spent good money on BETAMAX players back in the 80's.
"Last minute talks to unify the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have failed. Matsushita, owner of the Panasonic brand, has stated 'the market will decide the winner."
should read:
Last minute talks to unify the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray formats have failed. Matsushita, owner of the Panasonic brand, has stated 'the consumer will have to pay for our greed and inability to compromise'.
I enjoy the game if I can move around in it faster. That's exactly what the epic mount does. People, please stop trying to tell other people HOW to enjoy the game. If you enjoy the game going at 60% above base movement, fine, enjoy. I enjoy the game going at 100% above base movement. So, just stop worrying about me, I mean, what harm am I doing you? (and now this is where we see your true colors)...
I saw the title of this thread and I was hoping for some new, super-duper way to display images in 3D via ultra-hightech, nano-enabled, smart-technology, other-buzzword, contact lenses. But just extra hydration.. meh.
Exactly my point! Everyone else has different kinds of fun in the game. The faction I was talking about would come from things like PvP. There are few things I like more in the game than running a team in AV and crushing the alliance. The offshoot of that is I get Frostwolf faction points. If I could use those points to buy an epic mount I would DEFINITELY go that route over buying gold. Why? Because I'm getting an item for doing something I enjoy in the game.
"You are basically defeating the whole purpose of playing the game."
Funny I though the whole point of playing the game was to have fun. I'm sorry if my idea of fun doesn't line up with yours, but please don't imply that I'm wrong because of it.
Summary: I'm paying money not to play the parts I don't like. Say I make $50 bucks an hour in real life. Should I pay $60 bucks for gold to get an epic mount, or spend 3 months of game time doing something I don't like to get that mount? I'd rather blow the $60 bucks, which is only 1.25 hours of my work time. See the logic?
"The fact that gold farmers exist, the fact that leveling services exist, these things speak to deficiencies in the game design. There's this game, that people are paying millions each month to play, and yet on top of the monthly fee many of them feel that it is worth additional money to pay others to essentially play part of the game for them. Why? Because that part of the game isn't fun."
Exactly! My thought on this is the great OR statement. To get any things in the game you should have a variety of choices. Take for instance the Epic Mount of WoW. Would less people be inclined to buy gold if, rather than just paying 800 gold, you could pay the gold OR defeat 10 raid-level bosses OR earn 100K faction rep OR mine 2000 dark iron ore, etc, etc, etc.
If the game had more options for getting the stuff that people buy gold for in the first place, I'm sure they could cut down significantly on the amount of guild being purchased.
"only way to really cut off gold farmers at the knees is not by refusing to take their money, but by refusing to give it to them."
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The only way to really cut off gold farmers is for companies like blizzard to change the game such that there isn't so much focus on "gold". I don't like the idea of having to spend 3 months of farming herbs to be able to afford to buy an epic mount, hence i go buy gold to get the epic mount. If they made it based on completing quests we wouldn't have this issue? No gold necessary to get the epic mount. Just quests. The reason above is the only reason that I've yet bought money in an MMO.
I agree there's a need for some currency to be used in MMOs, but the current implementation of it in games like WoW is the issue.
You banned 5400 accounts! You're really showing those gold farmers who's boss! Boy, at this rate I bet those companies selling gold will be out of business in NO TIME! /runsOverToIgeDotCom
Hrmm... 500 gold on my server was $30 bucks last week... Let's see what's up after blizzard's heroic bans! Arthas Server, Horde... 500 gold. $31 bucks. =|
"Just give up 30 minutes of WoW, 3 times a week, and go run/ride/lift/stretch/something."
Are you freaking kidding?!?!? Giving up 90 minutes of WowW a week is absolutely out of the question. In fact, I'd rather geek out and build a recumbant exercise bike that shut of my monitor if I didn't keep a pre-defined RPM, and thereby keep my WoW fix... So, I did.
"Micropayments will be their downfall."
Yeah, just like micropayments were a huge downfall for iTunes...
Seriously, why the outrage? You see ads while driving IRL, so why wouldn't you in-game?
So, vice-versa, I get to beat prostitutes with golf-clubs and kill cops in-game, so does that mean I can do so in real life?
...as long as it is
a) contextually correct
b) not overy distracting/annoying
If they replace Morning Glory Dew with Mountain Dew in WoW you're gonna see one angry dwarf.
.
Let's take the following as givens:
1. I'm an alchemist in wow and gather herbs to make potions, making about 20 gold a day in wow at MOST. This takes me about 2 hours per day to gather and put on Auction.
2. It would take me about 25 days and 50 total man hours to make 500 gold
2. 500 gold on my server is ~$35 bucks
4. I make $50 bucks an hour at my real-life job.
So, either I can buy 500 gold for the cost of what I make in 45 minutes at work, or spend 50 hours over a month's time making potions. Really, it's an economic no-brainer.
Two articles on the front page. These guys have developed a paint that will stop cell phone signals. And the airlines are worried cell phones will eventually crash planes. Shield the cockpits using this paint? Slashdot saves lives.
Obviously you do not appreciate the melodies of Avril Lavigne, the emotional maturity and unpretentiousness of Alanis Morrisette, the economy of expression of the Bare Naked Ladies, the understated phrasing of Céline Dion, or the raw production style of David Foster.
Hey, I thought Alanis and Celine were US citizens?!?!