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Submission + - An Online Game of Skill, Played for Money

Capt.Albatross writes: Jason Rohrer, a game developer with an artistic flair (Passage, Sleep is Death) is developing a new game, Cordial Minuet (an anagram of 'demonic ritual'). It is a two-person game of skill, to be played online for money. Rohrer believes that, as a game of skill, it avoids falling foul of U.S. gambling legislation. Emanuel Maiberg's interview of Rohrer discusses the game play, Rohrer's steps to avoid legal problems while monetizing it, and whether games of skill avoid the ethical problems of gambling.

Comment Re:Then don't sign the contract (Score 1) 189

This isn't uncommon in industry (it's also not the normal way of things). If we want to to be certain that a supplier builds something the right way, we might specify every detail of the tooling, and sometimes buy it and install it ourselves.

I think the fact that Apple did not indicates that it did not think there was much chance of success, and was not, by then, expecting (or even much hoping) to ship with a sapphire screen.

Comment Re:Then don't sign the contract (Score 1) 189

My guess is that at some point Apple decided the new manufacturing technology was unlikely to work in their timescale, and was not going to make its plans dependent on it (I imagine this was shortly before it backed out of acquiring the manufacturing equipment.) At this point, GT became the party desperately seeking a deal, and Apple effectively said 'show us, and we will consider it.'

Comment Re:And this concept is standard in Aviation (Score 1) 82

But I watched the video, and then I thought, this for $35k? Intel? No, they must be more concerned with the work not getting done.... I hope.

I believe some of that chip-making equipment is pretty expensive - I am surprised that its protection was not given as the primary benefit. Perhaps they already have a solution for that environment, and this is for basic facilities maintenance.

Comment Re:writer doesn't get jeopardy, or much of anythin (Score 1) 455

This is a level of manipulation of time (causality) which is completely out of reach of the most powerful computer.

Why exactly ? Computers can also run simulations.

The child not only manipulates time as an abstract concept, but also demonstrates a theory of mind. AFAIK, no simulation has yet achieved a theory of mind.

Comment Re:Or just practicing for an actual job (Score 2) 320

Just out of curiosity are there any professional programmers out there who don't regularly copy functions from the Internet?

Part of being a contemporary coder is making use of available code. Libraries of functions are "other people's code". Languages are other people's code. Etc. it's all about other people's code.

This defense always comes up when cheating is the issue, and it is always wrong. The purpose of an examination is to determine if an individual understands the subject matter, and no argument how programming is done in practice alters the fact that a cheater has failed to demonstrate that he understands the subject matter (and has, in fact, provided good evidence that he does not.)

Furthermore, one should not be spending the time and money a degree from Duke costs, just to be a cut-and-paste coder - a semester at a community college should be enough, if you can't teach yourself. The purpose of a university education is to develop a thorough understanding of the subject matter in order to become the person who finds solutions to problems, rather than the people who copy them.

Comment Just cheating themselves (Score 4, Insightful) 438

Cheating only harms the cheater...

There is one other group harmed, and quite seriously, by widespread cheating: those who have worked hard and honestly for the best diploma they can both achieve and afford, but see it devalued to worthlessness because too many holders of the same diploma are cheaters, and incompetent.

Comment Re:I'm not a scientist... (Score 1) 99

According to Anses, the process of assimilating a three-dimensional effect requires the eyes to look at images in two different places at the same time before the brain translates it as one image.

Isn't that how normal vision works anyway?

In normal vision, we look at the same place from two slightly different directions. Furthermore, it is well-established that the neural 'wiring' for assimilating these two views into a single stereo image develops during childhood, in response to the stimuli. (I am not so sure about this, but I think this is also true for the wiring that controls the eye muscles and therefore the convergence of vision.) I am not a biologist, but I think there are grounds for concern here.

Comment Re:Well... no. (Score 1) 126

1) Even assuming you are right, just because it 'only' sucks wouldn't lead me to think this issue can be disregarded. Dealing with credit card fraud while travelling, especially in a foreign country, is not something to shrug off.

2) At least in the UK, credit card companies have used the alleged security of EMV to transfer some of the risk to the cardholder (see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm21... )

3) I don't think transferring the cost to the merchant is an acceptable solution. As explained in other posts here, the merchant who accepts the stolen funds is rarely the perpetrator of the fraud.

Comment Re:But where are the potentional profits? (Score 1) 116

Water is one of a large class of substances that we would like to find in space for local use, rather than to send back. Any mining materials return operation will want to minimize human presence, but for maintainability that presence cannot be zero. Hence the need for life-maintaining consumables.

I think you have missed the point of my second paragraph, "If you want to justify space exploration on economics, then you must accept that economics will set the schedule." In economic arguments, you cannot simply treat imagined future needs as if they were actual current needs.

A lot of space boosterism displays confusion over the proper use of the present and future tenses.

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