Comments on: FreeRice.com – Making GRE Prep Bearable http://www.michaelanuzis.com/2007/11/21/freericecom-making-gre-prep-bearable/ Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:42:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: anuzis http://www.michaelanuzis.com/2007/11/21/freericecom-making-gre-prep-bearable/comment-page-1/#comment-1429 anuzis Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:46:11 +0000 http://www.michaelanuzis.com/2007/11/21/freericecom-making-gre-prep-bearable/#comment-1429 True, that is a vulnerability of the site they've addressed in their FAQ: Q: Couldn’t I just write a computer program to play all day and give a lot of rice that way? A: There are two problems with this. First, it overloads our servers so that real people can’t play and learn vocabulary. Second, without real people playing and buying products, it is no longer cost-effective for companies to advertise. Without advertising, we cannot give any rice at all. True, that is a vulnerability of the site they’ve addressed in their FAQ:

Q: Couldn’t I just write a computer program to play all day and give a lot of rice that way?

A: There are two problems with this. First, it overloads our servers so that real people can’t play and learn vocabulary. Second, without real people playing and buying products, it is no longer cost-effective for companies to advertise. Without advertising, we cannot give any rice at all.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.michaelanuzis.com/2007/11/21/freericecom-making-gre-prep-bearable/comment-page-1/#comment-1428 Kevin Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:48:42 +0000 http://www.michaelanuzis.com/2007/11/21/freericecom-making-gre-prep-bearable/#comment-1428 I was playing this and thinking: it would be pretty easy to write a program that looks up the word in question in an online dictionary, searches all the candidates in the dictionary entry, and finds the one that matches. It might bankrupt the UN in a day ... I was playing this and thinking: it would be pretty easy to write a program that looks up the word in question in an online dictionary, searches all the candidates in the dictionary entry, and finds the one that matches. It might bankrupt the UN in a day …

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