In turn, if a reader wants to provide feedback, they have to reply and specifically send to previous readers and writers. The letter is a fixed product, and is only accessible based on the efforts of the participants, i.e., to give access to the letter, someone who has it has to send it to someone who doesn't. With email (and snail mail before it), the basic idea is to communicate one set message to one or a few people, and maybe there is a reply. All it did was take the snail mail paradigm and transfer it to the digital environment: send-receive.Īs I understand it, a "wave" is a rethinking of the communication paradigm.
If you overlook the fact that the processing power and computer networks that we now take for granted were at that time only the wildest speculation of the smartest and most studied people in computer science, email is a very unimaginative advance. One person talks to one person, and maybe the second person replies. One way this affected the way email works is that it basically mimicked the only existing way (at that time) of sending information from one person to another over long distances and asynchronously: normal mail. Google Wave is a response to the following question: What would email be like if it was invented today?Īs the speaker notes, the original protocols for email were created more than 40 years ago, pre-dating internet as we know it. The whole thing is long, but the first few minutes are very interesting. You may have heard of this in other games where people really are doing this: Link Not bad for for the spare time I've put into the game while checking facebook. This means that if I could sell my in-game dollars at the same rate they sell them to us at, I would have.ĩ00,000,000 MF$ * 1 / 108150 USD/MF$ = 8321USD (rounded)
Since I can also earn in-game money by playing the game, I can reverse this calculation and find out how much my in game money is worth in real dollars. Okay, so, so far we seen some interesting stuff, but I'm sure you're asking yourself, "Damn Dave, you need to get out more." You're probably right, but the point to all this is the following: You can puchase reward points at the rate of 42 for 8 dollars.Ĥ2 Reward pts / 8 US Dollars = 5.25 R pts / USDĪnd you can purchase in-game money as follows.Īllowing for a calculation of an exchange rate between in-game money and out of game money. You can also pay real US dollars for reward points, making it possible to develop a conversion factor between the two. The Reward points you earn in the game can be used to buy other goods, including in-game money. Some math on Mafia Wars.fair warning: Geek alert.
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