Shuffling movies

Does anyone know if it is possible to shuffle your movies? Say I created a playlist of short movies and I wanted to watch them all without manually starting each one every time the last one just ended. Is this possible?
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Create a new playlist for the movies by going to File|New Smart Playlist. I think the easiest way would be to make sure each movie is listed as "Movie" under genre then make the playlist "genre contains movie".
Also, you will need to right click on each movie and click "Get Info". Click on the Options tab. Uncheck the box that says "Skip When Shuffling"
iPod 5th Gen 30GB Video - iTunes 7.0.2.16 - Firmware 1.2.1 - Sony Vaio PCV-RZ44G Windows XP Pro A+ Certified PC Technician. PC, not Mac

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With a 2nd (and 1st) gen shuffle, the shuffle itself acts like a playlist. So when you have the shuffle selected in the iTunes sidebar, on the Contents tab to the right, where the list of songs is shown, make sure the left-most column heading is selected (as I noted above for playlists in general). If another column, such as Name, is select, it sorts by that column and you can't move the songs around on the list.

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I have a 160 GM ipod classic that holds all my movies. I would like to buy a 16 GM ipad 3 but I know it won't be able to hold my movies. Can I stick with the 16 GB ipad 3 but play my movies on it from my ipod classic? I want to buy a wifi ipad and not a 4G one so when I'm driving in the car and I want to show movies to my kids in the back I won't be able to access the icloud or dropbox, etc. Can I connect my movies from my ipod classic directly to the ipad with a cord to watch them on the ipad?

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Review my shuffling algorithms

I've started developing a card game and got quite interested in shuffling algorithms.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuffle#Shuffling_algorithms it seems that there are two popular ones.
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2. Knuth Shuffle
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I might as well add the following, in which I use the built in shuffle method in Collections, it may be useful to someone.//Shuffle using the built in shuffle in java.util.Collections
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JosAH wrote:
Martin... wrote:
Any more comments about the shuffles? Maybe a better way to code the AssignRandomNumberShuffle()?Well, Knuth's method has already been implemented by the Collections.shuffle() method; read the API documentation.I have read that; read my first post, I use Collections.shuffle().
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Hello Shona,
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