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CPUShare: Buy and sell CPU cycles
CPUShare is an interesting and ambitious
distributed computing venture. As with most distributed computing projects, you share your computer's spare CPU cycles.
With CPUShare, however, you get rewarded in "CPUCoins," which you can pay other users with to buy CPU cycles
for your own projects. Moreover, you can sell your CPU cycles for real money. The project is in its infancy, and as
such there's really nobody buying, but if it's able to gain some critical mass it could become an interesting new
marketplace.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
