People pay money to grind in an MMO. People do not pay money to review images and mark their damage level. Foisting such an activity in an MMO will not result in people paying money to do it, but rather it will result in people leaving the MMO.
But you're missing something important. You can get achievements for reviewing images.
Zack Johnson of Asymmetric Publications once commented that many gamers "would rather get eleven points for stabbing themselves in the dick than ten points for [mumble mumble] the prom queen". That eleventh point is the one that McGonigal is talking about.
"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the number of pages in 1984 to three hundred and twenty seven. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the book was reduced to three hundred and twenty eight pages."
You can create shell companies with other people as board members and put any wealth not already spoken for by the court in there. It becomes untouchable.
Why not? It worked just fine everywhere else. Besides, if they discover that they need additional systems admin help they can just outsource to Hyderabad for a tenth the price.
I was also disappointed by that, but then realized that it is small enough that, with a little creativity, you could put it _inside_ a pineapple.
Cooling might be a minor problem, and the smell of Hawaiian pizza may tip people off to the illicit contents of the fruit basket which was just delivered, but at least it wouldn't need a pineapple-shaped sticker to justify its name.
Traders are typically working with monster servers outfitted with over a hundred gigabytes of RAM, not tiny desktop workstations that need to swap just to move the mouse. I won't say that memory usage is no object, but there is almost no reason not to throw extra memory at a process if it wants it.
Your trading engine runs in Java and leaks four gigabytes an hour? No problem. Just give it 64G of stack and do half an hour of garbage collection after the market closes. Is that not enough? Okay, give it more. Don't have that much available? Get more. Can't afford it? Now you're just pulling my leg. Buying extra memory is cheaper than debugging a live system where any slip-up could cost you thousands of dollars in missed trades or penalties.
It's a weird world, but somehow it works that way.
Shocking, isn't it. It's almost as if he's working in the exact same organization, with the same goals, same supporters and made up of the same people as his predecessor was.
For a people who staged a revolution to remove the English monarch, the USA really loves to pretend that their President has the powers of a King.
I prescribe a little more Schoolhouse Rock and less belief in presidential Divine Fiat.
(No, that wasn't a car analogy. The United States of America isn't run by Bitchin' Camaro either.)
"Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. I therefore resolved not to have any equations at all. In the end, however, I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = mc^2. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers."
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Maybe they just don't have the technology to request additional info from the reporter.
That makes sense. After all, why would you expect a company like Facebook to have any way of communicating with their own users?
Judging from the amount of education you've demonstrated, you're lucky if you can dress yourself in the morning.
Remember something Canadians, you exist only because the US allows it
This from someone whose entire nation only exists because the French allowed it.
People pay money to grind in an MMO. People do not pay money to review images and mark their damage level. Foisting such an activity in an MMO will not result in people paying money to do it, but rather it will result in people leaving the MMO.
But you're missing something important. You can get achievements for reviewing images.
Zack Johnson of Asymmetric Publications once commented that many gamers "would rather get eleven points for stabbing themselves in the dick than ten points for [mumble mumble] the prom queen". That eleventh point is the one that McGonigal is talking about.
"It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the number of pages in 1984 to three hundred and twenty seven. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the book was reduced to three hundred and twenty eight pages."
No worries. I know a large employer which should be looking for a lot of people with his skillset by the time he gets out..
You can create shell companies with other people as board members and put any wealth not already spoken for by the court in there. It becomes untouchable.
And the best part is, you don't even have to tell those people that they're on the board, and can even use made up names. And nothing bad will ever happen to you as a result.
It's foolproof!
C: "And the layover in Hong Kong?"
N: "Was the only way to get a cheaper flight."
...that thanks to inept handling, all of their data is now being indexed by Google, Yahoo, Bing and Astalavista?
Why not? It worked just fine everywhere else. Besides, if they discover that they need additional systems admin help they can just outsource to Hyderabad for a tenth the price.
"What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?"
I tried playing something a lot like this on OnLive a while back, but somehow I didn't do very well.
"NSA Launches Pro-Leak Website"
I need to slow down and read the headlines a little more carefully.
I'm waiting for a four minute informational video on the topic, directed by Michael Bay.
If that technology is too arcane, perhaps this helpful tool might be useful.
On the other hand, it might backfire and wipe out half of the site's users, so maybe that's not such a good idea.
The same way that this assassination weapon, cleverly disguised to fool metal detectors while still providing enough punch to shatter the target's skull and this terrorist training handbook are also legal.
I was also disappointed by that, but then realized that it is small enough that, with a little creativity, you could put it _inside_ a pineapple.
Cooling might be a minor problem, and the smell of Hawaiian pizza may tip people off to the illicit contents of the fruit basket which was just delivered, but at least it wouldn't need a pineapple-shaped sticker to justify its name.
Thanks jackass... now I just lost 35 minutes reading shit on the Onion before I got back to this stupid article.
Could be worse. Someone could have sent you to the appropriate tvtropes page.
The consequences of that would have been unthinkable.
When your car breaks down and you need to use duc[kt] tape to hold it together, maybe you're a bit late in getting home that day.
When the systems which run the world's financial markets are treated the same way... well, just open your window and take a look outside.
If you want a keyboard that badly try the Blackberry Q10. Its not terrible.
I saw those new billboards just this morning. "Blackberry: It's Not Terrible".
They're a bit of a step up from last month's campaign, "Blackberry Q10: At Least It's Not The Playbook."
Traders are typically working with monster servers outfitted with over a hundred gigabytes of RAM, not tiny desktop workstations that need to swap just to move the mouse. I won't say that memory usage is no object, but there is almost no reason not to throw extra memory at a process if it wants it.
Your trading engine runs in Java and leaks four gigabytes an hour? No problem. Just give it 64G of stack and do half an hour of garbage collection after the market closes. Is that not enough? Okay, give it more. Don't have that much available? Get more. Can't afford it? Now you're just pulling my leg. Buying extra memory is cheaper than debugging a live system where any slip-up could cost you thousands of dollars in missed trades or penalties.
It's a weird world, but somehow it works that way.
That's a good idea since the last time someone from Samsung offered $500 for Orgasmic publicity, they got arrested.
I can't believe that nobody has linked this yet:
What's the worst thing that can happen if you misuse a pressure cooker in an ordinary kitchen?
Me too. Well, that and my arms got too tired.
Shocking, isn't it. It's almost as if he's working in the exact same organization, with the same goals, same supporters and made up of the same people as his predecessor was.
For a people who staged a revolution to remove the English monarch, the USA really loves to pretend that their President has the powers of a King.
I prescribe a little more Schoolhouse Rock and less belief in presidential Divine Fiat.
(No, that wasn't a car analogy. The United States of America isn't run by Bitchin' Camaro either.)
-- Stephen Hawking, "A Brief History of Time"