Dan

Not I... I'm still in the process of getting that goddamn bachelor's and guess what -- only to hang it on the bathroom wall... ADHD = no PhD for me. I can barely live with the material I'm supposed to know/be reading. Bleh.. Talk about wrong decisions in life -- I should've just gone to police college or something.. Meh, I suppose a bachelor's degree would do me good some day... Other than that --> And man, I think those who DO have a PhD are really ummmm how do I say this -- ummm... patient.. lol.

You need to change the file associations -- go to Windows Media Player: Tools > Options > File Types, and go from there, putting checkmarks in the boxes for whichever formats you wanna play with Windows Media Player.

a gig of ram?!?!?! :crybaby: lol... Winamp 3 eats TONS of mem too, but Winamp 5 is MUCH MUCH better in comparison... As for Real Player (real one, etc.), don't even get me started on that one - I found another converter, but now I can't find the codec. lol... it says I need a dnet (dolbynet) external codec... i have the kazaa lite codec pack, but apparently it's not working... so since this is the help forum anyway, and related to players, formats, etc., hmm, anyone know how i can get my hands on the dolby codec pack or whatever, which supposedly comes with G2 or something? Edit note: Ahh, found the codec!!!! I can now convert .rm to mp3!!! lol, anyone who wants to know how (not using wisecroft - that's shareware <_< ) to convert them, lemme know..

windows media player is huge (window-size-wise, that is) -- the new versions anyway, that's why i almost never use it lol I prefer Winamp 2 to that - it's much faster and doesn't eat that much memory. my fav. right now is winamp 5.. and speaking of virii (?), my anti-virus caught two on my laptop today... f-prot is the best anti-v. software ever. :clap:

lol YES!!! that's a good one Shahumyan... hmm

Winamp5 pro is gorgeous - I just got it....

Oh yes, a very good example/satire of family pressure is My Big Fat Greek Wedding... in the end, really, it doesn't matter much (the guy didn't mind being baptised), but it just shows the closed-mindedness of families and cultures.. i don't know... i personally wouldn't want to get baptised in another church or in any church at all, being an atheist.. so you can't just say that all atheists don't mind being baptised.. i don't know..

Ditto. As for kids, PhD - well, I guess it depends on whichever you feel is the right thing for you at this moment - if you REALLY feel like you want to do that PhD, then go for it - but like Sip said, it would be a good idea to finish it once you start it. As for kids, I don't know - maybe you should talk about that with your b/f and see what he thinks about it - maybe he doesn't want kids right now. Bottom line is, it all depends on your choices and decisions, your mutual agreement.

Hehe, yes, she's pretty gorgeous, isn't she?

lol THOTH, a masochist, are you?

OK, here's my contribution to the "woman of the day" : Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852 Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the most picturesque characters in computer history. Augusta Ada Byron was born December 10, 1815 the daughter of the illustrious poet, Lord Byron. Five weeks after Ada was born Lady Byron asked for a separation from Lord Byron, and was awarded sole custody of Ada who she brought up to be a mathematician and scientist. Lady Byron was terrified that Ada might end up being a poet like her father. Despite Lady Byron's programming Ada did not sublimate her poetical inclinations. She hoped to be "an analyst and a metaphysician". In her 30's she wrote her mother, if you can't give me poetry, can't you give me "poetical science?" Her understanding of mathematics was laced with imagination, and described in metaphors. At the age of 17 Ada was introduced to Mary Somerville, a remarkable woman who translated LaPlace's works into English, and whose texts were used at Cambridge. Though Mrs. Somerville encouraged Ada in her mathematical studies, she also attempted to put mathematics and technology into an appropriate human context. It was at a dinner party at Mrs. Somerville's that Ada heard in November, 1834, Babbage's ideas for a new calculating engine, the Analytical Engine. He conjectured: what if a calculating engine could not only foresee but could act on that foresight. Ada was touched by the "universality of his ideas". Hardly anyone else was. Babbage worked on plans for this new engine and reported on the developments at a seminar in Turin, Italy in the autumn of 1841. An Italian, Menabrea, wrote a summary of what Babbage described and published an article in French about the development. Ada, in 1843, married to the Earl of Lovelace and the mother of three children under the age of eight, translated Menabrea's article. When she showed Babbage her translation he suggested that she add her own notes, which turned out to be three times the length of the original article. Letters between Babbage and Ada flew back and forth filled with fact and fantasy. In her article, published in 1843, Lady Lovelace's prescient comments included her predictions that such a machine might be used to compose complex music, to produce graphics, and would be used for both practical and scientific use. She was correct. When inspired Ada could be very focused and a mathematical taskmaster. Ada suggested to Babbage writing a plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This plan, is now regarded as the first "computer program." A software language developed by the U.S. Department of Defense was named "Ada" in her honor in 1979. After she wrote the description of Babbage's Analytical Engine her life was plagued with illnesses, and her social life, in addition to Charles Babbage, included Sir David Brewster (the originator of the kaleidoscope), Charles Wheatstone, Charles Dickens and Michael Faraday. Her interests ranged from music to horses to calculating machines. She has been used as a character in Gibson and Sterling's the Difference Engine, shown writing letters to Babbage in the series " The Machine that Changed the World" and I have gathered her letters and writings in "Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer Though her life was short (like her father, she died at 36), Ada anticipated by more than a century most of what we think is brand-new computing. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/love.htm Go geeks!

lol.. disciplining?? And yes, MORE MORE, anileve jan! This thread is great.

An interesting link about evil: http://www.orientalia.org/article604.html

The Wedding Banquet 6 Three Kings 6 Life is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella) 8 Blade Runner 10 << a must see The General's Daughter 0 G.I. Jane 8 Full Metal Jacket 9 << very realistic movie The Thin Red Line 10 one of my all-time favs. Baby's Day Out 9 http://www.student.yorku.ca/~shoghig/dan/rofl.gif Monkey Trouble 8 Billy Elliot 8 A Prayer for the Dying (Mickey Rourke ) 8 The Man in the Iron Mask 9 (love L. Di Caprio in older-style movies, he's pretty good in those - other than that, he sucks) The Matrix -10 that movie sucks big time, donno what's the big deal about it.. Bowling for Columbine 7.5 (overrated) Chocolat 8

you know - with all those rules and censorship, this forum is becoming as dull as the armenianclub forum...

lol... yes, that movie was so funny and satirical too --- and yes, Nick was hot.. my fav. part is when that woman uhhh what's her name, the one who has the tourism/flight booking place, tells the guy's parents about the twin. lmao...

Johnny English 0 The Hours 2 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 7+ http://www.student.yorku.ca/~shoghig/dan/rofl.gif

gamavor, i have no problem with his points as long as he doesn't claim that western armenians deserve more respect than their eastern counterparts.

Sasun, what was said in that post that you found offensive/insulting? i was simply saying the same thing he was?

I know ---> , but a very good book

wow... not enough emoticons for it..

yes yes, it's awesome. Richard Gere is so great in that movie.. lol catherine zeta-jones is great as well. not to mention --- err, you know what i mean (referring to the opening scene) ----

i'm just saying it's simply pointless to argue with people like Elbayr - someone who says that western Armenians "deserve" more respect is just not worth my time at any rate, no matter how knowledgeable he/she may be in anthropology, history, etc. it's not about thread popularity or anything. i'm probably involved in the most notorious threads, so i'm not into that popularity thing.

and ok ok, kidding... but for making him a believer..

Not tonight - it takes a lot of typing. Will reply to that tomorrow.