This argument has been pulled apart a million times before. Children Do Not Work In Sweatshops Because They Are Being Forced To, But Because The Available Alternatives Are Worse. It is more than a little insulting that you think the natives of the area are so stupid that they would work for pennies in sweatshops when there are better oppurtunities available.
Because they transmitted customers credit card information in plaintext over an unsecured wireless connection. Not saying they shouldn't be held responsible for their incompetence, but I'm shocked that they actually had to pay out $60,000,000 for it instead of just passing the blame.
But rather an over-reliance on turnkey solutions to the problem. The overwhelming majority of places that use them all use the same format (hard to read words) which in turn creates an incentive for someone to break it as it will be easily applied to other CAPTCHAs. The solution is for there to be a wide variety of them that come up at any given time of the "what number is on the picture of the girl in the blue shirt" one day, but "pick the picture of the elephant" a week later. I predict that a company like google will step up to implement a turnkey system like this for adwords users and the like in the near future.
Its actually the exact opposite, myself and a lot of other AVG users consistently get false generic Trojan reports for files we know to be clean. The only reason I continue to recommend it as the free Anti virus of choice to family and friends is because Avast has one of the absolute worst user-interfaces that I have ever seen in a commercial product. And no scheduling automatic scans in the free version without additional scripts? Fuck That.
Working out the exact odds is actually quite a difficult problem (from a bet sequence, to guessing the actual cards the opponent has), and thus Monte-Carlo methods may be used to estimate the odds. But you can always throw more computational horsepower at a Monte-Carlo simulation to get more accurate estimates.
This could not be any farther from the truth. Any competent player is already very familiar with at least a ballpark figure on the odds of any given situation, (ie: if i am drawing at only a flush with two cards to come, i am about a 2-to-1 underdog)
A computer player that plays "perfectly" according to the odds and math alone is doomed, as what the computer has in any given situation becomes incredibly transparent and inherently exploitable (the CPU would likely only play around the top 10% of hands, all other times you could bluff it over and over with impunity until it was broke) A successful player MUST make "mistakes" in order to cause a degree of uncertainty to their betting patterns and what they can hold at any given moment.
Furthermore, separate strategies must be devised against each and every other player, in order to win the most $$$ possible when you have the best hand, and lose the least $$$ possible when you are beat. (It may be the mathematically correct play to bet amount X against player A, but player A will only call amount X if he has you beat, but WILL call smaller amount Y even when you have him beaten)
Of course perfect play is often unintuitive and involves things like taking the safe bet rather than higher payout options - not something most people in Vegas are renowned for.
its actually completely the opposite for most video poker games, such as throwing away a made flush (already a winner) that is almost a straight/royal flush --an example would be like KQJT2 all of clubs, the correct play is to give up the guaranteed win of a flush, and draw for the jackpot hands (royal and straight flush)
You are fundamentally mis-understanding the importance of variance. Try to think of it in the REALLY big picture of the long term. If I offer you a game you spin a wheel where the bet is $1000, and 999 out of 1000 times you will lose everything, and 1 time out of 1000 you will get paid $100,001 dollars, my game is now paying out OVER 100%. Now this is a simplified example, but almost NOBODY is willing to take those swings of variance for such a ridiculously small edge. The casino has almost unlimited amounts of money, and can ALWAYS bear the swings. This is also besides the point that there are MAYBE only a handful of them on the casino floor and they are always filled in the WAY back of the casino, ensuring that for giving up a tiny edge, hundreds of gamblers will come in and try, and give up.
Because Chess is a game of complete information, and is largely a matter of brute forcing out the best move from tons of choices.
Poker is a game of incomplete information (You do not know your opponents hand), as the decisions your opponent will make influence what the "correct" decision for you to make is.
Chess was a matter of computing power, whereas poker is a matter of implementing game theory abilities in the AI.
the problem with the comparison to the DS and PSP is that the iphone has no dedicated buttons, and is absolutely awful for the type of games that play on those systems. this is not to say that games on the iphone wont take off, but expect way more "traditional" phone style games than people are predicting (read: board/card games)
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This argument has been pulled apart a million times before. Children Do Not Work In Sweatshops Because They Are Being Forced To, But Because The Available Alternatives Are Worse. It is more than a little insulting that you think the natives of the area are so stupid that they would work for pennies in sweatshops when there are better oppurtunities available.
Because they transmitted customers credit card information in plaintext over an unsecured wireless connection. Not saying they shouldn't be held responsible for their incompetence, but I'm shocked that they actually had to pay out $60,000,000 for it instead of just passing the blame.
Has anyone else noticed an unusually high amount of sensational false headlines and Russian nonsense appearing in their inboxes?
I was actually wondering the same thing the other day, as I got a spam titled "Will Smith Dead From Oxycontin Overdose Upside Down In Bathtub"
I KNEW it had to be spam, but opened the email anyway just to reward a subject line that actually gave me a small giggle.
But rather an over-reliance on turnkey solutions to the problem. The overwhelming majority of places that use them all use the same format (hard to read words) which in turn creates an incentive for someone to break it as it will be easily applied to other CAPTCHAs. The solution is for there to be a wide variety of them that come up at any given time of the "what number is on the picture of the girl in the blue shirt" one day, but "pick the picture of the elephant" a week later. I predict that a company like google will step up to implement a turnkey system like this for adwords users and the like in the near future.
...to protect teachers who simply ACKNOWLEDGE the fact that not everyone believes ToE is correct.
So when can I expect the Iranian President's belief that The Holocaust Never Happened will be given equal time in the history classroom?
Its actually the exact opposite, myself and a lot of other AVG users consistently get false generic Trojan reports for files we know to be clean. The only reason I continue to recommend it as the free Anti virus of choice to family and friends is because Avast has one of the absolute worst user-interfaces that I have ever seen in a commercial product. And no scheduling automatic scans in the free version without additional scripts? Fuck That.
Working out the exact odds is actually quite a difficult problem (from a bet sequence, to guessing the actual cards the opponent has), and thus Monte-Carlo methods may be used to estimate the odds. But you can always throw more computational horsepower at a Monte-Carlo simulation to get more accurate estimates.
This could not be any farther from the truth. Any competent player is already very familiar with at least a ballpark figure on the odds of any given situation, (ie: if i am drawing at only a flush with two cards to come, i am about a 2-to-1 underdog)
A computer player that plays "perfectly" according to the odds and math alone is doomed, as what the computer has in any given situation becomes incredibly transparent and inherently exploitable (the CPU would likely only play around the top 10% of hands, all other times you could bluff it over and over with impunity until it was broke) A successful player MUST make "mistakes" in order to cause a degree of uncertainty to their betting patterns and what they can hold at any given moment.
Furthermore, separate strategies must be devised against each and every other player, in order to win the most $$$ possible when you have the best hand, and lose the least $$$ possible when you are beat. (It may be the mathematically correct play to bet amount X against player A, but player A will only call amount X if he has you beat, but WILL call smaller amount Y even when you have him beaten)
Of course perfect play is often unintuitive and involves things like taking the safe bet rather than higher payout options - not something most people in Vegas are renowned for.
its actually completely the opposite for most video poker games, such as throwing away a made flush (already a winner) that is almost a straight/royal flush --an example would be like KQJT2 all of clubs, the correct play is to give up the guaranteed win of a flush, and draw for the jackpot hands (royal and straight flush)
You are fundamentally mis-understanding the importance of variance. Try to think of it in the REALLY big picture of the long term. If I offer you a game you spin a wheel where the bet is $1000, and 999 out of 1000 times you will lose everything, and 1 time out of 1000 you will get paid $100,001 dollars, my game is now paying out OVER 100%. Now this is a simplified example, but almost NOBODY is willing to take those swings of variance for such a ridiculously small edge. The casino has almost unlimited amounts of money, and can ALWAYS bear the swings. This is also besides the point that there are MAYBE only a handful of them on the casino floor and they are always filled in the WAY back of the casino, ensuring that for giving up a tiny edge, hundreds of gamblers will come in and try, and give up.
Because Chess is a game of complete information, and is largely a matter of brute forcing out the best move from tons of choices. Poker is a game of incomplete information (You do not know your opponents hand), as the decisions your opponent will make influence what the "correct" decision for you to make is. Chess was a matter of computing power, whereas poker is a matter of implementing game theory abilities in the AI.
the problem with the comparison to the DS and PSP is that the iphone has no dedicated buttons, and is absolutely awful for the type of games that play on those systems. this is not to say that games on the iphone wont take off, but expect way more "traditional" phone style games than people are predicting (read: board/card games)