I’m shocked that the roulette article doesn’t prominently mention previous reports of prediction in the game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie was published in 1985, and described pocket computers with toe-input and ankle-shock-output.
Like card counting in Blackjack, this has been known for a long long time, and since at least the ’90s, the problem has been finding casinos that make it possible to actually make bets in a way that has a player edge. For blackjack, more decks, changed rules, and early shuffles killed the possibility in most places. For roulette, most places don’t give very long after the ball is spun to get new bets down.
For the pay-per-article option, I don’t hold out much hope that it’ll be a reasonable discount over subscription. Likely about the same ratio as movie rental to subscription cost—maybe 3-5 articles costing the same as a month of sub. There are plenty of also-ran services I might be willing to spend on a very occasional article, but any of the big ones I want JUST enough that I’m not willing to buy the articles if I’m not willing to subscribe.
I expect you’re right about the per article price if an individual consumer is buying individual articles. My guess is we’ll see pan-journal subscription services that can negotiate better deals with their affiliates.
I’m shocked that the roulette article doesn’t prominently mention previous reports of prediction in the game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie was published in 1985, and described pocket computers with toe-input and ankle-shock-output.
Like card counting in Blackjack, this has been known for a long long time, and since at least the ’90s, the problem has been finding casinos that make it possible to actually make bets in a way that has a player edge. For blackjack, more decks, changed rules, and early shuffles killed the possibility in most places. For roulette, most places don’t give very long after the ball is spun to get new bets down.
For the pay-per-article option, I don’t hold out much hope that it’ll be a reasonable discount over subscription. Likely about the same ratio as movie rental to subscription cost—maybe 3-5 articles costing the same as a month of sub. There are plenty of also-ran services I might be willing to spend on a very occasional article, but any of the big ones I want JUST enough that I’m not willing to buy the articles if I’m not willing to subscribe.
I expect you’re right about the per article price if an individual consumer is buying individual articles. My guess is we’ll see pan-journal subscription services that can negotiate better deals with their affiliates.