You wanna know what's random? The 70's porno/elevator music. Seriously? Wtf?
The problem I see with this is that it would only give you a random number within a certain range. Unless you were doing it based on the one column in the number (so in 13 it would be 3. I know there's a word for that, and it's not one column, but I can't think of it at the moment) of seconds that had passed, and you only needed to generate numbers 0-9. Otherwise you'd be getting 33, 34, 35, 33, 37, 32, or something to that extent.
And of course there's the fact that there isn't really anything that's random. Randomness is similar to the God of the Gaps. In the same way that primitive societies claim God to be behind natural forces that they don't understand, we claim randomness to be behind numbers that we don't know how they were generated (or other "random" phenomena).
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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You wanna know what's random? The 70's porno/elevator music. Seriously? Wtf?
The problem I see with this is that it would only give you a random number within a certain range. Unless you were doing it based on the one column in the number (so in 13 it would be 3. I know there's a word for that, and it's not one column, but I can't think of it at the moment) of seconds that had passed, and you only needed to generate numbers 0-9. Otherwise you'd be getting 33, 34, 35, 33, 37, 32, or something to that extent.
And of course there's the fact that there isn't really anything that's random. Randomness is similar to the God of the Gaps. In the same way that primitive societies claim God to be behind natural forces that they don't understand, we claim randomness to be behind numbers that we don't know how they were generated (or other "random" phenomena).