Yes, you are expecting to make more than a tiny amount of money for a tiny amount of effort. That expectation is horribly wrong. If anyone told you mining was a get-rich-quick scheme or a way to get free money, then you were lied to. Mining with a PC is simply not profitable under most circumstances, and hasn't been for a long time, and makes about as much sense as digging for gold with a garden spade.

EDIT: Typo.

Fees can be (and, in fact, already have been) reduced in response to rising exchange rates.

It's for beginning game programmers, ie, programmers who are experienced at writing other applications and wish to move on to the more specialised field of game programming. This tutorial assumes basic knowledge of C++. If you have never done much programming in C++ before, you should probably start with the basics before continuing.


I'm pretty sure this tutorial is up to date with SDL 1.2 (the latest stable version). SDL 2 has a lot of changes, but I think it's mostly the addition of OpenGL and haptic support, I'm not sure how much (if any) of the 2D graphics stuff is being changed. Anyway, SDL 2 hasn't been officially released yet, so it's a moot point.

You won't if the prices are going up. In that case, your method forces you to wait 24 hours before buying, by which time the prices are even higher. But if the prices are going down, you should wait longer than 24 hours to buy, otherwise you're stuck with the higher price, so that's no good either. In order to buy at a lower price than average, you need to know whether the price tomorrow is going to be higher or lower than it is today. But you don't, so you can't. You just have to accept that day-to-day fluctuations mean you can't always get the best price.

If you're in it for the long term, you shouldn't bother even caring about day-to-day fluctuations at all. If the price goes to $1000 or even higher, what difference does it make whether you bought at $124 or $125 or whatever?

Rubbish. You're just as likely (actually, slightly more likely due to the house edge) to lose 10-15% initially, and if you keep on gambling to try to "recoup your loses", you're just going to end up losing all your money.

What you suggest is the same idea as the Martingale strategy, in which the gambler bets increasingly large amounts, so that a single win will recover all previous loses with change left over. It doesn't work. It just turns a small chance of winning a large amount and a large chance of losing a small amount, into a large chance of winning a tiny amount (in relation to your wager, which quickly grows to be enormous) and a small chance of losing everything, giving you the same odds as Russian roulette.

There must be no comma between char* and args[], as they're part of the same declaration (that you have a array of pointers called "args" of type "char"). With the comma, it thinks you have an anonymous pointer of type "char", and something completely separate called "args", though it doesn't know what this thing called "args" is supposed to be, hence the error.

You need an underscore between SDL and Init, with no spaces. "SDL_Init" is one function. With a space, it thinks they are two separate functions called "SDL" and "Init" (which don't even exist, causing the first error), and expects a semicolon between them (you always need a semicolon between statements), which is the second error.

You forgot to declare it (or you declared it in the wrong place). You should have "SDL_Surface* screen = NULL;" immediately after (or immediately before) "SDL_Surface* test = NULL;".

Just like the samurai did before going into battle. Though they did it less to increase their awareness and more to avoid shitting their pants when they got killed.

Say what? I think something got lost (or added) in translation here.

Dammit, if you're going to be wrong about something, at least be consistently wrong in the hope that nobody will notice. Is that really too much to ask?

Actually, you couldn't. That would result in a normal distribution (in which numbers closer to 32,000 are more probable) instead of a uniform distribution (all numbers equally probable). To get a random number from 0 to 65,535 (which is what SatoshiDice actually uses, not 64,000) from real dice, you would need five 8-sided dice (or roll one 8-sided die five times) and one 2-sided die (or coin). Roll one for each octal digit, then convert to decimal.

First of all, your payout from SatoshiDice won't confirm until the original transaction does. SatoshiDice does this to prevent cheating: if the wager transaction is any way fraudulent or invalid, so is the payout, so the cheater wins nothing.

As for the original transaction not confirming, that is because the sender did not pay a transaction fee, even though a fee was required for this transaction. As a result, it (and your payout) will likely take an extremely long time to be confirmed.

What's strange is that you were actually able to send this transaction in the first place. Most clients do not allow you to spend unconfirmed funds, precisely to avoid this kind of issue. What client or wallet service were you using?

EDIT: Typo.

The private keys must be readable by the software. It can't send transactions otherwise. Encryption is the only way to ensure that the private keys can be read by the software that needs to read them, and only when it needs to read them, while preventing the private keys from being read by anyone else. Though even that won't work if you've got a keylogger.

It's not possible. If someone a) can decrypt your private keys (ie, they know your password) and b) has access to your system, they can steal you coins. The only solutions are to a) keep keyloggers off your system, and/or b) make it completely impossible for anyone to access your system at all (cold storage).

Bottom line, if someone or some program has access to your computer, they can do anything that you can do, including access your private keys and use them to steal your coins (using their own software, if your software has "safeguards" which don't actually provide any real protection). No lock is safe from someone who has the key.

Please do, I'm hungry. I'm thinking enchilada de conejo... con chile colorado... mmm... I mean, uh, welcome to the forum. Where absolutely nobody wants to eat you. Or your offspring. No matter how mouthwateringly delicious they are. ¬.¬

Ah, yes. That was the other goal of the cloning project: to clone spare body parts, so that if you lose one, the doctors have a convenient transplant option. Although you can't see it, both these guys also have a bunch of ears growing out of their backs.

Yes, it is a secret cloning experiment. But what the government isn't telling you is that the experiment was a failure. You see, the cloning process has a horrible flaw. For reasons which are still being investigated, all clones have a different eye colour to the original person. However, unless you already know the original person's eye colour, there is still no way to tell which is the clone and which is the original (clones are usually evil, unless the original person was evil, in which case the clones are usually good, so that's no help either).

It isn't and it never was. The following is a complete list of all printable ASCII characters:
See? No euro symbol. Or many other symbols for that matter. That's why nobody uses ASCII anymore.

^ This.

Um, ASCII doesn't have all other currency symbols, or even any currency symbols other than than the dollar sign. ASCII also cannot be changed, but that's okay, because hardly anyone actually uses ASCII for anything anyway.

"Great Rates"? Your price is higher than SpendBitcoins! SpendBitcoins can at least justify their price with their brilliant service and reputation for reliability. You, on the other hand, didn't exist until three days ago, don't even use SSL on your site (an absolute must for any site handling money), and have a photo of a stereotypically attractive woman (a well-known hallmark of scam sites), who, to be completely honest, looks like she wants to rape me. Lose the woman, get an SSL cert, and lower your prices. I can't even begin to take you seriously until you do that.

What a ripoff! It should have been $9.11.