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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 96080, member: 3011&quot;]I&#039;m not sure why you keep repeating that.&nbsp; What is the incentive? How are you going to get a group to collaborate to deceive like that from day one?&nbsp; How will you fake the beta testing?&nbsp; How would you successfully launch the product?&nbsp; How would you get customers to pay for a service that is flawed from the start?&nbsp; What evidence is there that the program will operate inconsistently with its coding?&nbsp; Why is it assumed that a rigged program will somehow reward the developer more than an honest effort?&nbsp; What is the incentive for the programmer to spend a lot of time on something that may eventually send him/her to jail?&nbsp; Why do you find it necessary to trust only programs that were not developed by humans?&nbsp; Is this the way you think about all computerized activities?&nbsp; Do you believe ATMs are designed to cheat?&nbsp; Are supermarket price scanners programmed to cheat?&nbsp; Do all medical test facilities purposefully send back false positives?&nbsp; Nothing in that post makes any sense in the 21st century.</p><p><br /></p><p>The comments about eye appeal I can understand.&nbsp; It remains to be proven.&nbsp; But to condemn the entire programming industry as incompetent and dishonest really isn&#039;t much of an argument.&nbsp; If it works, it works.&nbsp; If it doesn&#039;t, it needs more work.&nbsp; Surely there is someone out there interested in writing an honest program to solve an intersting problem.&nbsp; Programmers succeeded with chess computers by collaborating with chess masters.&nbsp; They will succeed by collaborating with reputable, qualified coin graders too.&nbsp; There is much more to gain in money and prestige than by going into a project that will take thousands of hours with the idea that the intent is deception and the goal is ultimate failure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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