This isn't about psuedo-number generation, it is about using a seed that is easy to determine.... like 0.
The claim that random number generation using the timer/tick count can be easily guessed is, at best, misleading. Your application has no idea what services are running, what priorities they are running at, etc, and to discover those would add even more entropy to the situation as it takes even more unknown amount of system time to determine their impact
Colonels Bequest was a fine example of such. I played that game for years, and still to this day I find different ways to advance the story, which changes who is shown in the protagonist/antagonist light.
I have to agree about becoming part of the story through gameplay, vs cutscenes. Take Bioshock for instance, there was a part of me that related to those Little Sisters as little girls, like I do to my own daughters. It made it practically impossible for me to kill them for their Adam. It was a real emotional struggle, just like a good piece of art
As an old classic Visual Basic programmer, there was a good reason to use hungarian notation. You had a sorted dropdown list of the classes/types, from which after choosing one, could then choose the method/property to implement in an adjacent dropdown list. Point being, your textboxes were grouped together and your enums were grouped together, and so on. It made managing the code easier.
As a matter of fact, DOSBox is superior to DOS in a virtual machine. Try running a multimedia CD-Rom game of the era, like Burn:Cycle, 11th Hour, Phantasmagoria in DOS virtual machine and you get terrible frame rates, popping and cracking audio, goofy mouse problems, etc. DOSBox seems to "Just work".
Also, DOSBox is not only still being poked at, a lot of games on Steam use DOSBox to run.
That is a pretty declarative statement. Something has to power those masses of Pentium4/256MB machines, and something has to play those ancient games your mom buys in the clearance aisle of the discount supermarket.
I remember the good old days, back with the MCSE certification tests, such as Windows NT 4.0 administration. It was almost completely of questions about integrating/migrating to/from/with a Novell network. My favorite, however, which was the Visual Basic Developer exam, which had no questions about code at all. There were just questions about the 'watch window' and the 'Package and Deployment Wizard'. I'm so glad work paid for those.
This has been going on forever right in front of your face everyday, and you don't even know it. Tomorrow there is one less ravioli in your can, or your block of cheese is 20g less, however, you pay the same price. This is how they increase the cost of things. Games offer so much more content than your random games of yesteryear, and they have to pay the folks to keep cranking out this DLC stuff. This is how they increase the cost.
Apparently, you never had the pleasure of running an Acer Aspire "budget PC", which cost $1800 in 1995, used a Cyrix PR 120/150 that crashed and burned under ZERO load. THOSE were crap. The goods you get nowadays are significantly cheaper, even WITHOUT cost/inflation differences between here and there, AND they are a billion times more stable/usable.
The FBI cannot use NSA resources like Echelon.
Carnivore is very limited in what it can do
New communication systems can be exploited in different ways, and so new technologies need to be developed.
The value of Facebook is not just in what people are typing, but in what their friends, friends of friends, etc. are typing as well.
Burma Shave.
The law backs them up. Being explicitly exempt from things like overtime, we get the stigma of being "rented mules". You don't like it? Fine, we'll find someone else, until we have no other choice but to hire cheap overseas talent!
I had to check that you were actually replying to me and not some hidden troll, because I have no idea what you are talking about. I said nothing about deregulation. I said your privacy is in the hands of the lowest common denominator here, which HIPAA can't even stop. The point being that one can't just say "fuck it, I give up. It'll be better that way anyway."
Common sense dictated that doctors and hospitals could be found liable for revealing confidential records. Why overreact with massive legislation that does more harm than good?
Because it didn't work. Sure, the current legislation may be shitty, but that doesn't negate the fact that we need a better idea. HIPAA, even of itself isn't enough. When you can become a "medical transcriptionist" at home, in your own time!, from a "course" sold by washed up actor on TV, it is obvious you can not trust these people any more than the random Joe bagging your groceries.
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Seriously, you are going to make the same post twice? http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2671717&cid=39040039
This isn't about psuedo-number generation, it is about using a seed that is easy to determine.... like 0.
The claim that random number generation using the timer/tick count can be easily guessed is, at best, misleading. Your application has no idea what services are running, what priorities they are running at, etc, and to discover those would add even more entropy to the situation as it takes even more unknown amount of system time to determine their impact
I can say feeling pretty certain that NO politician will come up clean.
Colonels Bequest was a fine example of such. I played that game for years, and still to this day I find different ways to advance the story, which changes who is shown in the protagonist/antagonist light.
I have to agree about becoming part of the story through gameplay, vs cutscenes. Take Bioshock for instance, there was a part of me that related to those Little Sisters as little girls, like I do to my own daughters. It made it practically impossible for me to kill them for their Adam. It was a real emotional struggle, just like a good piece of art
As an old classic Visual Basic programmer, there was a good reason to use hungarian notation. You had a sorted dropdown list of the classes/types, from which after choosing one, could then choose the method/property to implement in an adjacent dropdown list. Point being, your textboxes were grouped together and your enums were grouped together, and so on. It made managing the code easier.
Don't you remember porn->pr0n->n0rp? It doesn't have to make sense.
SpongeboooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB! Get back to work!
We are talking PHP, not C or anything like it.
Well, WINE is leagues ahead of how capable ReactOS is. At least WINE will have a stable kernel and drivers behind it
As a matter of fact, DOSBox is superior to DOS in a virtual machine. Try running a multimedia CD-Rom game of the era, like Burn:Cycle, 11th Hour, Phantasmagoria in DOS virtual machine and you get terrible frame rates, popping and cracking audio, goofy mouse problems, etc. DOSBox seems to "Just work".
Also, DOSBox is not only still being poked at, a lot of games on Steam use DOSBox to run.
That is a pretty declarative statement. Something has to power those masses of Pentium4/256MB machines, and something has to play those ancient games your mom buys in the clearance aisle of the discount supermarket.
What does quality PHP code look like?
Just like everywhere else, it's subjective. REALLY *don't* use goto. I am serious.
I remember the good old days, back with the MCSE certification tests, such as Windows NT 4.0 administration. It was almost completely of questions about integrating/migrating to/from/with a Novell network. My favorite, however, which was the Visual Basic Developer exam, which had no questions about code at all. There were just questions about the 'watch window' and the 'Package and Deployment Wizard'. I'm so glad work paid for those.
Shit, name a corporation of note that isn't deep into China's questionable manufacturing practices.
Honestly? Toys "R" Us.
Bad editing on my behalf. Hate accordingly.
This has been going on forever right in front of your face everyday, and you don't even know it. Tomorrow there is one less ravioli in your can, or your block of cheese is 20g less, however, you pay the same price. This is how they increase the cost of things. Games offer so much more content than your random games of yesteryear, and they have to pay the folks to keep cranking out this DLC stuff. This is how they increase the cost.
What's the story behind the story here? Why was that website defaced?
"Some men just want to watch the world burn". Regardless who's side they are on
Apparently, you never had the pleasure of running an Acer Aspire "budget PC", which cost $1800 in 1995, used a Cyrix PR 120/150 that crashed and burned under ZERO load. THOSE were crap. The goods you get nowadays are significantly cheaper, even WITHOUT cost/inflation differences between here and there, AND they are a billion times more stable/usable.
Is that you, Rocky? Peter Petrelli perhaps?!
The FBI cannot use NSA resources like Echelon.
Carnivore is very limited in what it can do
New communication systems can be exploited in different ways, and so new technologies need to be developed.
The value of Facebook is not just in what people are typing, but in what their friends, friends of friends, etc. are typing as well.
Burma Shave.
The law backs them up. Being explicitly exempt from things like overtime, we get the stigma of being "rented mules". You don't like it? Fine, we'll find someone else, until we have no other choice but to hire cheap overseas talent!
It was a line from the movie Real Genius
I had to check that you were actually replying to me and not some hidden troll, because I have no idea what you are talking about. I said nothing about deregulation. I said your privacy is in the hands of the lowest common denominator here, which HIPAA can't even stop. The point being that one can't just say "fuck it, I give up. It'll be better that way anyway."
Common sense dictated that doctors and hospitals could be found liable for revealing confidential records. Why overreact with massive legislation that does more harm than good?
Because it didn't work. Sure, the current legislation may be shitty, but that doesn't negate the fact that we need a better idea. HIPAA, even of itself isn't enough. When you can become a "medical transcriptionist" at home, in your own time!, from a "course" sold by washed up actor on TV, it is obvious you can not trust these people any more than the random Joe bagging your groceries.