So who is verifying the safety of these ultrasonic output. Maybe I am being paranoid, but the US diplomats in Cuba were recently attacked in their residences with ultrasonic devices that were undetectable, except for the symptoms (severe hearing loss, migraine headaches, nausea).
It's probably several orders of magnitude different in energy output, but I would still like to think some accountable government organization signed off on this usage - not just the company feeling that its okay. After all, if you are playing detectable music too loud then you can hear it and your ears start hurting. In this case there would be no warning signs until damage was done. The FDA did years of testing on prenatal ultrasound devices before they became routine in their usage. So who do these companies go to for verifying the safety of this technology before deployment. Or is just the honor system?
This kind of reminds me of the deployment of back scatter x-ray machines for security at U.S. airports that had not been studied for dosing amounts on humans (and ended up giving extremely high exposures). There are news stories from 2010 speaking about the controversies regarding the health effects of the machines, but there are also news stories in 2007 about the machines being deployed and I believe there were limited deployments between 2003 and 2005 (if memory serves me correctly). NOTE: I used google news to search up the old articles.
We should just pick one state in the U.S.A. where everyone who is not fully vaccinated has to live (with only medical exceptions made). I say New Jersey. And if an epidemic hits, you close the bridges and all roads leaving.
Now the story of a wealthy cadre of scoundrels who lost everything — and the one adopted son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It's Han Solo's Arrested Development.
Keep in mind that usually writers are committing to a show for a whole season at a time. The writers are expected to show up to an office and write and have writer's meetings and table readings and rewrites. The writing is very collaborative especially if the show has a season arc and continuity.
So if the writer used to get $10,000 per episode + 0.01% residuals for helping write a 22 episode season which they spent 7 months working on 9-5 plus occasional overtime. And now they get $10,000 per episode + 0.01% residuals for helping write a 13 episode season which they spent 7 months working on 9-5 plus occasional overtime. Obviously they are getting paid less for the same amount of work. And most people think that the quality of most scripted TV shows has gone up in the past 20 years.
I mean, how many Fast N Furious movies are we at? 8 ?
How many Star Wars Movies?
How many Superman/batman/thor/wolverine/xmen.
None of those movies were made because writers couldn't come up with new ideas. They were made because that was what studios had put their faith (and financial resources in). Some of this low-risk, almost-guaranteed return of franchises is due to the business strategies of the movie studios, but a lot of that just reflects what audiences watch / buy discs / buy toys for.
There are tons of unproduced scripts that are written not based on studio decisions, but because writers feel that something is a good idea and would make a great movie. Some of these eventually get noticed and made into indie, art-house, or mainstream films (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_List_(survey).
It is just bizarre that studios would put so much money into the making and marketing of these movies without ensuring that they follow basic fundamentals of narratives / characterization in cinema. Zack Snyder is definitely obsessed with visuals over storytelling.
Somewhere in the writing process they forgot to make the protagonist likable. This analysis (one of the best that I've watched) points out how we don't connect with the heroes because they don't have believable motivations and they do not make any choices that show them to be interesting heroes.
Another analysis by the same reviewer pointed out how those movies are lacking in compelling villains.
This is a poorly worded (and deceptive) headline. Each Holmium atom is only encoded with a 1 or a 0 depending on the spin or magnetic orientation of the atom (up or down). Therefore only one bit encoded on each atom, hence datum. The headline makes it seem like they are encoding more than that on each atom, which if you learn a bit about electron orbitals is unlikely (at least as a long-term storage) especially at room temperature.
The MIT Tech Review article stated that they will limit the commands per second to something in line with what a human (professional) player can do.
I am not 100% sure of what Deepmind's game awareness will be, but they do have a simplified graphics output for the AI (mostly just friend-foe, not the fancy artist made pixels).
Please give us a simple but scientific definition of each.
I teach high school science, and I currently use the darts analogy but next year I want to find definitions that are either more accurate or more precise...
I assume Mr. Ford has not been around enough heavy equipment to that you consider it live unless you can see the lockout.
Harrison Ford was self-taught professional carpenter. This was probably his best paying, consistent job as he was trying to make it in Hollywood as an actor. So you would think he would know about the potential dangers of machinery, but maybe he mostly used hand tools. Maybe he's gotten soft and careless.
As a side note, it seems that with its emphasis on practical effects, real sets, and locations, that The Force Awakens was a dangerous film to work on. Mark Hamill almost fell to his death off of the island Skellig Michael shown at the end of the film.
Games like Super Mario Bros. got it right with the ability to have extra lives, but forcing you to start from the very beginning if you run out.
While it is not in the Super Mario Bros. NES manual, anyone who owned an NES in the 1980's knew that pressing A+start on the start screen let you continue from the same world you last reached. (ex. died in level 8-2; continue in level 8-1). These secrets were sold in Nintendo Power and strategy guides, but most kids would share them with each other in class or when they went to there friend's home. Even without GameFAQs back then, everybody knew about A+start, the Konami code, and Justin Bailey just from word-of-mouth sharing.
The reason is that cockroaches are already near perfect for what their niche is. Scavenge for food of any kind and reproduce like crazy. It can take several foot stomps to kill some cockroaches.
They are like sharks and crocodiles that way. Once nature has found an optimum solution in that ecosystem for finding food and reproducing, there is little pressure to adapt.
The truth though is that all 3 of them have evolved and even had spin-off species, but overall their phenotypes are much more stable than birds or mammals over the same time-span.
I can think of lots of lucrative non-game applications for good VR.
1) virtual tourism - digitally scan all of the exhibits, and background aesthetics of rooms and exteriors in the Louvre. Charge art students / fans $50 per day to visit the museum online. It's cheaper than a trip to France, takes in more money per day, and helps those planning a real trip figure out where to go and what to see in advance. Eventually cities will offer tours of their historical districts complete with local flavor "AI characters" and optional amounts of fellow tourists. (And if you listen to most people the real life crowds is one of the main things that hold back enjoyment in these touristy destinations).
2) high end real estate tours - probably only worth it for 1,000,000+ (USD) homes and high end office space, but there is surely a standardized way to be discovered to quickly and cheaply scan the textures, geometries, and views in a house/building and translate the data into downloadable/streaming "level" that potential buyers/leasers would want to see without driving all over just to find their perfect place. Upsides include that the hardware could just be purchased by the real estate agent that is assisting the buyers. The sellers would pay to have the location scanned and uploaded - just another advertising expense that is necessary to get the place sold.
3) being "in the middle" of a live event - Instead of sitting 1 km away from the stage at a concert or the field at a sporting event, fans will stand where ever they want. A 3D model of the live event will be constructed by software processing numerous HD camera feeds (probably the hemi-spherical kind) that now hang from the ceiling and stand at intervals among the audience and sidelines. "Sold out" will now mean that the servers are at capacity.
All of these applications are things that mainstream and affluent people would probably spend money on if the experience were good enough. Furthermore, except for the scanning and processing aspects, the actual digital delivery has just the same technical requirements of an MMO with high-end graphics combined with the Occulus Rift (which will be rebranded Being There (TM)).
Will Facebook do this? Do this without having onerous privacy/advertising features? I don't know.
Glen A. Larson, the creator of the BSG of 1978-1980, was Mormon. That show was highly influenced by Mormon theology (e.g. space lost tribes of Israel, space pioneer trek, space-Satan showing up, space eternal marriage). However, only the most basic concepts of the original show carried over to BSG of 2003-2009. That the new show had religion at all could probably be blamed on Larson, but the shape that the religious concepts took in the new show lays squarely on the shoulders of Ronald D. Moore, who "describes himself as a 'recovering Catholic' and is currently agnostic."
And as side note, why does Caprica series barely seem to match up with the 2003 BSG backstory. Because it was based on a unrelated sci-fi TV script that was reworked (or perhaps shoe-horned) to fit into the new BSG universe. That little detail seems to have become buried in history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica_(TV_series)#Concept
Get yourself a cheap version of the original Fallout 1 & 2. Should be around 20$US. And while your at it go to the fansite No Mutants Allowed look up the games projects that have the same non-linear spirit as Fallout: Arcanum, Age of Decadence, Zero Projekt.
Spaceships might be helpful in transporting people, robots, factories, colony modules, raw materials or solar collector satellites throughout a solar system, but interstellar distances are so vast that transportation cost quickly overrun any trade of something with mass. Information on the other hand only costs as much as a good, clear signal (likely with an Earth-based broadcast, a Earth orbiting relay satellite, and a Pluto orbiting relay satellite). Plus information can travel at the speed of light and can be encrypted to prevent easy theft. Information could include scientific data and discoveries, works of art, biological organisms and compounds (via DNA sequences), as well as technological know-how.
Spaceships might be necessary to initiate digital trade with alien civilizations or to rekindle economic ties with rogue human colonies, but if a solar system does not have the natural resources to build advanced technology then why would anyone settle there?
Extrasolar human colonization will likely be motivated by curiosity, courage, and the desire to spread human civilization - not by economics. Any shipments to established colonies likely won't be motivated by money but rather by sympathy. The hope that said colony may survive. Sure there may be economic benefits for having extrasolar colonies, but it is unlikely that they will justify the costs.
The sad truth is that interstellar economies using spaceships will never happen unless someone figures out hyperdrives or instant wormholes or something of the sort.
There was recently a public service announcement on TV that went somewhere along the lines of: Yeah, your friend may flake out on you, or act withdrawn sometimes, but what someone suffering from a mental illness needs most is a friend.
I know that it is human nature for people to make friends with people who fit in similar niches as themselves. And maybe in an idealized view of smaller communities of yesteryear, someone suffering from a mental illness would be more accepted, if only out of necessity (or maybe not). But it is not hard to imagine how in modern society, with so much emphasis on a mobile society and independence, that a person with only a mild case of mental illness could find themselves suddenly isolated and without a support group of family and friends. This could make an illness that was once barely noticeable to become dishabilitating.
Yes, people are free to choose to improve there circumstances or seek assistance, but if there is anything which Nazism and Stalinism taught us it is that even normal people can act in horrible ways given the (im)proper environment. And before this analogy is lost on you, remember that people with mental illnesses generally have either genetically-determined imbalances in their brain chemistries, or else traumatic past experiences. Most people don't wake up one day and decide to become mentally ill.
So instead of making jokes about people that we know as being "the next mass murderer/serial killer/etc" and effectively shunning said person, we should try to include them into our social circle. Otherwise we are just complaining about the symptoms without bothering with the inoculation. It's our society, if everyone did something small we could avert at least some of these tragedies.
Once they get to Earth, they will find that it is controlled by a highly advanced intelligence made of "pure energy." This intelligent energy cloud will force Adama and Tigh to compete in hand-to-hand combat in Vasquez Rocks on behalf of their respective species.
Adama: Saul... I can't... be brought... to fight my best... friend. Tigh: Bill, it is only logical that we fight until we discover a novel solution to this episode's conundrum. [Adama's shirt rips]
This whole thing smacks of Star Trek III. I am sure that once we locate his remains we will find that he has been brought back to life by the Genesis project.
Your idea might work, but this would be a major restructuring for it to be implemented in every sector of the economy. For artists its simple: Well-off people feed them and house them as long as they are famous, and for most of them they are famous as long as they are performing music that people like. Maybe a few big-time acts would get so famous that they could just leech for the rest of their lives.
But where would the food come from? Joe Farmer. And Joe Farmer gets some fame for being the person that gives vegetables to Steve Jobs' mansion or all the Luigi's Italian Restaurant's in New Jersey. But who gives Joe Farmer the bio-diesel for his tractor? Fred Bio-diesel Refiner. And Fred Refiner gets his fame for providing the bio-diesel to the man who provides the vegetables to the restaurant that feeds lots of famous people. I don't see fame trickling-down enough to motivate people on the bottom-side of such an economy (without it turning into bartering, charitable patronage, or true communism). Furthermore you would have to have some kind of scale for how famous you were. And if you weren't that famous and overused your limited fame would you go bankrupt?
Wouldn't it be great to just read a bunch of novels for college and get paid the same ammount as the person that racked their brain while trying to solve differential equations?
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So who is verifying the safety of these ultrasonic output. Maybe I am being paranoid, but the US diplomats in Cuba were recently attacked in their residences with ultrasonic devices that were undetectable, except for the symptoms (severe hearing loss, migraine headaches, nausea).
It's probably several orders of magnitude different in energy output, but I would still like to think some accountable government organization signed off on this usage - not just the company feeling that its okay. After all, if you are playing detectable music too loud then you can hear it and your ears start hurting. In this case there would be no warning signs until damage was done. The FDA did years of testing on prenatal ultrasound devices before they became routine in their usage. So who do these companies go to for verifying the safety of this technology before deployment. Or is just the honor system?
This kind of reminds me of the deployment of back scatter x-ray machines for security at U.S. airports that had not been studied for dosing amounts on humans (and ended up giving extremely high exposures). There are news stories from 2010 speaking about the controversies regarding the health effects of the machines, but there are also news stories in 2007 about the machines being deployed and I believe there were limited deployments between 2003 and 2005 (if memory serves me correctly). NOTE: I used google news to search up the old articles.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/ind...
We should just pick one state in the U.S.A. where everyone who is not fully vaccinated has to live (with only medical exceptions made). I say New Jersey. And if an epidemic hits, you close the bridges and all roads leaving.
In order to detect these minuscule changes, on scales less than a trillionth of a meter
I think these are called picometers (10^-12 m)
Exactly what I expect from Disney: the safest choice.
And this is one of the many reasons that I regard Disney Star Wars as just high-budget fanfic.
How do you think the Episodes 7-9 and the spin-offs would be different if Disney had at least used George Lucas' story treatments?
Now the story of a wealthy cadre of scoundrels who lost everything — and the one adopted son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It's Han Solo's Arrested Development.
Keep in mind that usually writers are committing to a show for a whole season at a time. The writers are expected to show up to an office and write and have writer's meetings and table readings and rewrites. The writing is very collaborative especially if the show has a season arc and continuity.
So if the writer used to get $10,000 per episode + 0.01% residuals for helping write a 22 episode season which they spent 7 months working on 9-5 plus occasional overtime. And now they get $10,000 per episode + 0.01% residuals for helping write a 13 episode season which they spent 7 months working on 9-5 plus occasional overtime. Obviously they are getting paid less for the same amount of work. And most people think that the quality of most scripted TV shows has gone up in the past 20 years.
So what the writers are asking for is more money per episode. They would also like more flexibility in the work schedules. I have heard that they often have non-compete clauses in their contracts, so they cannot write for another show while they are are currently working on a season. http://www.npr.org/2017/04/19/524751648/netflix-and-cord-cutting-era-complicates-writers-guild-contract-talks
None of those movies were made because writers couldn't come up with new ideas. They were made because that was what studios had put their faith (and financial resources in). Some of this low-risk, almost-guaranteed return of franchises is due to the business strategies of the movie studios, but a lot of that just reflects what audiences watch / buy discs / buy toys for.
There are tons of unproduced scripts that are written not based on studio decisions, but because writers feel that something is a good idea and would make a great movie. Some of these eventually get noticed and made into indie, art-house, or mainstream films (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_List_(survey).
It is just bizarre that studios would put so much money into the making and marketing of these movies without ensuring that they follow basic fundamentals of narratives / characterization in cinema. Zack Snyder is definitely obsessed with visuals over storytelling.
Somewhere in the writing process they forgot to make the protagonist likable. This analysis (one of the best that I've watched) points out how we don't connect with the heroes because they don't have believable motivations and they do not make any choices that show them to be interesting heroes.
Another analysis by the same reviewer pointed out how those movies are lacking in compelling villains.
This is a poorly worded (and deceptive) headline. Each Holmium atom is only encoded with a 1 or a 0 depending on the spin or magnetic orientation of the atom (up or down). Therefore only one bit encoded on each atom, hence datum. The headline makes it seem like they are encoding more than that on each atom, which if you learn a bit about electron orbitals is unlikely (at least as a long-term storage) especially at room temperature.
The MIT Tech Review article stated that they will limit the commands per second to something in line with what a human (professional) player can do.
I am not 100% sure of what Deepmind's game awareness will be, but they do have a simplified graphics output for the AI (mostly just friend-foe, not the fancy artist made pixels).
Accuracy and precision are not the same thing...
Please give us a simple but scientific definition of each.
I teach high school science, and I currently use the darts analogy but next year I want to find definitions that are either more accurate or more precise...
I assume Mr. Ford has not been around enough heavy equipment to that you consider it live unless you can see the lockout.
Harrison Ford was self-taught professional carpenter. This was probably his best paying, consistent job as he was trying to make it in Hollywood as an actor. So you would think he would know about the potential dangers of machinery, but maybe he mostly used hand tools. Maybe he's gotten soft and careless.
As a side note, it seems that with its emphasis on practical effects, real sets, and locations, that The Force Awakens was a dangerous film to work on. Mark Hamill almost fell to his death off of the island Skellig Michael shown at the end of the film.
Games like Super Mario Bros. got it right with the ability to have extra lives, but forcing you to start from the very beginning if you run out.
While it is not in the Super Mario Bros. NES manual, anyone who owned an NES in the 1980's knew that pressing A+start on the start screen let you continue from the same world you last reached. (ex. died in level 8-2; continue in level 8-1). These secrets were sold in Nintendo Power and strategy guides, but most kids would share them with each other in class or when they went to there friend's home. Even without GameFAQs back then, everybody knew about A+start, the Konami code, and Justin Bailey just from word-of-mouth sharing.
I speak Tagalog.
The Ewoks do not speak Tagalog, but the cadence and some of the phonemes are similar.
Ang mga Ewok di nagsasalita sa Tagalog.
I have not verified the DVD special feature source but this seems a likelier explanation. http://message.snopes.com/prin...
The reason is that cockroaches are already near perfect for what their niche is. Scavenge for food of any kind and reproduce like crazy. It can take several foot stomps to kill some cockroaches.
They are like sharks and crocodiles that way. Once nature has found an optimum solution in that ecosystem for finding food and reproducing, there is little pressure to adapt.
The truth though is that all 3 of them have evolved and even had spin-off species, but overall their phenotypes are much more stable than birds or mammals over the same time-span.
I can think of lots of lucrative non-game applications for good VR.
1) virtual tourism - digitally scan all of the exhibits, and background aesthetics of rooms and exteriors in the Louvre. Charge art students / fans $50 per day to visit the museum online. It's cheaper than a trip to France, takes in more money per day, and helps those planning a real trip figure out where to go and what to see in advance. Eventually cities will offer tours of their historical districts complete with local flavor "AI characters" and optional amounts of fellow tourists.
(And if you listen to most people the real life crowds is one of the main things that hold back enjoyment in these touristy destinations).
2) high end real estate tours - probably only worth it for 1,000,000+ (USD) homes and high end office space, but there is surely a standardized way to be discovered to quickly and cheaply scan the textures, geometries, and views in a house/building and translate the data into downloadable/streaming "level" that potential buyers/leasers would want to see without driving all over just to find their perfect place. Upsides include that the hardware could just be purchased by the real estate agent that is assisting the buyers. The sellers would pay to have the location scanned and uploaded - just another advertising expense that is necessary to get the place sold.
3) being "in the middle" of a live event - Instead of sitting 1 km away from the stage at a concert or the field at a sporting event, fans will stand where ever they want. A 3D model of the live event will be constructed by software processing numerous HD camera feeds (probably the hemi-spherical kind) that now hang from the ceiling and stand at intervals among the audience and sidelines. "Sold out" will now mean that the servers are at capacity.
All of these applications are things that mainstream and affluent people would probably spend money on if the experience were good enough. Furthermore, except for the scanning and processing aspects, the actual digital delivery has just the same technical requirements of an MMO with high-end graphics combined with the Occulus Rift (which will be rebranded Being There (TM)).
Will Facebook do this? Do this without having onerous privacy/advertising features? I don't know.
Glen A. Larson, the creator of the BSG of 1978-1980, was Mormon. That show was highly influenced by Mormon theology (e.g. space lost tribes of Israel, space pioneer trek, space-Satan showing up, space eternal marriage). However, only the most basic concepts of the original show carried over to BSG of 2003-2009. That the new show had religion at all could probably be blamed on Larson, but the shape that the religious concepts took in the new show lays squarely on the shoulders of Ronald D. Moore, who "describes himself as a 'recovering Catholic' and is currently agnostic."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
And as side note, why does Caprica series barely seem to match up with the 2003 BSG backstory. Because it was based on a unrelated sci-fi TV script that was reworked (or perhaps shoe-horned) to fit into the new BSG universe. That little detail seems to have become buried in history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica_(TV_series)#Concept
Get yourself a cheap version of the original Fallout 1 & 2. Should be around 20$US. And while your at it go to the fansite No Mutants Allowed look up the games projects that have the same non-linear spirit as Fallout: Arcanum, Age of Decadence, Zero Projekt.
Spaceships might be helpful in transporting people, robots, factories, colony modules, raw materials or solar collector satellites throughout a solar system, but interstellar distances are so vast that transportation cost quickly overrun any trade of something with mass. Information on the other hand only costs as much as a good, clear signal (likely with an Earth-based broadcast, a Earth orbiting relay satellite, and a Pluto orbiting relay satellite). Plus information can travel at the speed of light and can be encrypted to prevent easy theft. Information could include scientific data and discoveries, works of art, biological organisms and compounds (via DNA sequences), as well as technological know-how.
Spaceships might be necessary to initiate digital trade with alien civilizations or to rekindle economic ties with rogue human colonies, but if a solar system does not have the natural resources to build advanced technology then why would anyone settle there?
Extrasolar human colonization will likely be motivated by curiosity, courage, and the desire to spread human civilization - not by economics. Any shipments to established colonies likely won't be motivated by money but rather by sympathy. The hope that said colony may survive. Sure there may be economic benefits for having extrasolar colonies, but it is unlikely that they will justify the costs.
The sad truth is that interstellar economies using spaceships will never happen unless someone figures out hyperdrives or instant wormholes or something of the sort.
Save a Mentally Ill Person, Save the World.
There was recently a public service announcement on TV that went somewhere along the lines of: Yeah, your friend may flake out on you, or act withdrawn sometimes, but what someone suffering from a mental illness needs most is a friend.
I know that it is human nature for people to make friends with people who fit in similar niches as themselves. And maybe in an idealized view of smaller communities of yesteryear, someone suffering from a mental illness would be more accepted, if only out of necessity (or maybe not). But it is not hard to imagine how in modern society, with so much emphasis on a mobile society and independence, that a person with only a mild case of mental illness could find themselves suddenly isolated and without a support group of family and friends. This could make an illness that was once barely noticeable to become dishabilitating.
Yes, people are free to choose to improve there circumstances or seek assistance, but if there is anything which Nazism and Stalinism taught us it is that even normal people can act in horrible ways given the (im)proper environment. And before this analogy is lost on you, remember that people with mental illnesses generally have either genetically-determined imbalances in their brain chemistries, or else traumatic past experiences. Most people don't wake up one day and decide to become mentally ill.
So instead of making jokes about people that we know as being "the next mass murderer/serial killer/etc" and effectively shunning said person, we should try to include them into our social circle. Otherwise we are just complaining about the symptoms without bothering with the inoculation. It's our society, if everyone did something small we could avert at least some of these tragedies.
Once they get to Earth, they will find that it is controlled by a highly advanced intelligence made of "pure energy." This intelligent energy cloud will force Adama and Tigh to compete in hand-to-hand combat in Vasquez Rocks on behalf of their respective species.
... be brought ... to fight my best ... friend.
Adama: Saul... I can't
Tigh: Bill, it is only logical that we fight until we discover a novel solution to this episode's conundrum.
[Adama's shirt rips]
This whole thing smacks of Star Trek III. I am sure that once we locate his remains we will find that he has been brought back to life by the Genesis project.
Your idea might work, but this would be a major restructuring for it to be implemented in every sector of the economy. For artists its simple: Well-off people feed them and house them as long as they are famous, and for most of them they are famous as long as they are performing music that people like. Maybe a few big-time acts would get so famous that they could just leech for the rest of their lives.
But where would the food come from? Joe Farmer. And Joe Farmer gets some fame for being the person that gives vegetables to Steve Jobs' mansion or all the Luigi's Italian Restaurant's in New Jersey. But who gives Joe Farmer the bio-diesel for his tractor? Fred Bio-diesel Refiner. And Fred Refiner gets his fame for providing the bio-diesel to the man who provides the vegetables to the restaurant that feeds lots of famous people. I don't see fame trickling-down enough to motivate people on the bottom-side of such an economy (without it turning into bartering, charitable patronage, or true communism). Furthermore you would have to have some kind of scale for how famous you were. And if you weren't that famous and overused your limited fame would you go bankrupt?
Wouldn't it be great to just read a bunch of novels for college and get paid the same ammount as the person that racked their brain while trying to solve differential equations?