Pariahpism's Gaming Journal

I am sad to see this cool social experiment was over. A good friend said that he and his wife were so, so that every time you had a wrong answer, he "accidentally" burn his hand with a cigar. I regard it as a powerful computer system. Hundreds of thousands of minds splitting off towards a single goal. Certainly, in this case their exercise Trivia (pun), but goes just to show.
It gives me a second look at a game, I was theorizing. The goal was something along the lines of the players make a population of a genetic algorithm. Making something the reader to solve a problem.
And this is from a different set of my profound insight. Back when the Internet was a real novelty, I read an article about his future. There were so-called Web 2.0, code name of the grid (these names were meaningless). The article had no sources and was completely wrong about the future of the Internet. But that is hindsight from the perspective of things. What the article says that the grid did not have to share bandwidth, but the exchange of the processor. It was said that you do not have access to your computer, but every computer. It was synonymous with time-sharing clock cycles. She explained that most of the time anyway computers were sitting there, why not share some of your computing power.
This is not quite absurd when you think about it. Then and now there was the SETI project, which when running, you get a large package of necessary data processing. So if it is turned off for the day of the work has contributed to the computer share the load of all those who literally astronomical data.
There was another who helped decode all the amino acids in the double helix. And another to determine the chemical properties of new molecules. Here is an excerpt from a Wikipedia article on grid computing:
"Grid computing offers the possibility to solve Grand Challenge problems such as protein folding, financial modeling, earthquake simulation, and climate / weather modeling. Grids offer a way to make optimal use of resources to information technology, the internal organization."
Then, of course, was the author of this article stirred some old ideas. But it got me thinking. One of the problems that the author was the fact that each computer on the Internet was different. It was obviously a new concept of software portability, but so was I. So I asked how to create this situation. I lowered the magazine and was in my line of sight to the PS2. "This is a computer, right?" I thought.
I mentioned this revelation a few friends and have so decided, that their understanding was poor as mine. That would be nice to this problem in the pocket and the name of the guy who did connect.
It's definitely a dream, at least from the perspective of the consumer. To say that someone in line all the PS3 from the PLAYSTATION Network. You would have the computing power but many thousands of PS3. But it would create time for them to exit. Too much effort. I think that was the objective of the authors, but not just for entertainment work. People have hardly enough to show patience for a Web server, the task of their bookmarks. An alternative to connect to the PS3 over the Internet is a Beowulf cluster, but those are their goals.
But as a solver Grand Challenge, says the Wikipedia article, it could work. A problem with the service life is reduced it. You PS3 would always be 100% busy. Would you agree more? One solution might be to offer free use of online content, if you accept a certain amount of hours to process. Fourteen hours per week (two hours) takes you free Xbox Live or something to that effect. This is only fair.
But then I read Bungie hidden skulls in Halo 2 The developers expect to last for years, they were to find them all. Where, in a few days after the release of the game found. This was unexpected, to say the least. Nor, is that the hidden skulls or evil developers were immediately arrogance towards their hiding capacity of the skull. That was the power of a vast network of people who meet at a single target. They were the people in a vast and incredibly Genetic Algorithm
What other possible problems could be solved this way? All you need is a necessary condition to create. I say this lightly, but it is a premise that is the exercise of a whole area of work.