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No I can do that all by myself thank you But you may have to drag the two of us in case you want one of them to marry you (us? eh whatever).

It's obvious what the ladies want! Someone who looks like me, thinks deeply and philosophically like Domino, and has the flirting skills and charm of Azat. Simple!!!! And Anoushik, just kidding about the kerats xmats thing .. I know what you meant

Need a new job title for yourself? Are you looking to hire someone and need a title? Let the Job Title Generator do the hard work ... Azat, for some reason I thought you may find this useful ... and of course let's not forget the good old Computer Science Research Topic Generator which I think I posted a while back for the CS/techie guys out there looking for a topic.

HAH! I usually give my order to the person that seats me at the table. They're like oooookaaaay I'll let your waiter know. But most of the time I'm at a buffet anyway ... I have my food all picked out before they even tell me where to sit.

Well, there is definitely this one kind of relaxation that comes after a few minutes of intense work but I think it's my favorite kind. Your forearms are all tense but the rest of the body just goes numb and feels like jello... that's until your mind comes back to reality and you realize you have to move and clean up the mess you just made.

Well, the basic concept of TCP/IP is sound ... it sends data in form of small packets from source to destination while not everything follows the same path. So when posting this message on the forum, part of the post may have gone through china to end up at the server while other parts may have come more directly. The main problem with IP (v4) that is used almost everywhere is the IP address space limitation. The IP address that is a unique address assigned to every device connected to the Net is in the form of 255.255.255.255 (4 pairs of 8 bit numbers that can range from 0 to 255). Some are already reserved for specific tasks but there are only 4 billion total unique addresses possible (in reality much less) which as you can imagine is becoming very very limited. In addition to that, there were some that were predicting the net come to a screaching halt in the mid 90s. The way TCP works is that if there is congestion in terms of packet delivery on the communication lines, it backs off for exponentially longer and longer periods of time until the congestion is relieved. Of course things are a lot more complicated and is hard to explain it in a short post but just trying to give you a flavor of "why" ... when it was invented, it was used to connect a handful of machines ... maybe hundreds or thousands. Now we don't even know how many there are!!! Ok and now for the most amazing part ... why did TCP/IP become the defacto standard? Because it was available for free as part of the BSD Unix package long ago. Basically some poor and hungry Berkeley grad students stayed up long nights to write the code to do their masters and phd dissertations. If you look at some of the stuff they did is pretty funny! Like to do the "Internet checksum" as it is now known, i.e. to detect whether an arriving packet has bit errors, they just sum up all the bytes and do a simple modulo calculation. Well, it's easy to see that if you sum everything up, if there was a bit flip from 1 to 0 and another from 0 to 1, it'll all cancel out and you won't detect the error. Stuff like this that may have seemed like a great idea at 2AM in the morning before a deadline ... but after a couple of decades of intense research by MANY many bright minds you can imagine how they can seem quite childish. Well, essentially the entire protocol stack that we use to communicate these days has sorta evolved on its own in slow bits and pieces and different standardizations and many different organizations having their hands in it ... as well as simply market forces and having to keep backwards compatibility in mind. There are many redundant things and there are things like security which is VERY important but were only added later so they are not really integrated into where they maybe should be. Add on top of that things like "multicast" where one server sends the same thing to many users (as you can imagine that happens a lot) ... the original TCP/IP, wasn't designed for that so the server would have to send a different message (albit the same data maybe) to every single user that requested it. But with multicasting, that can be done much more efficiently (like for broadcasting some video to a bunch of subscribers on the web).

Microsoft just started a big arse research group on search engine and it looks like they are trying to position themselves to take over this area as well big time. I know a couple of guys that just got hired there with recent PhDs. The problem with current search engines (ala google) is that it takes some time for them to crawl the web (updates to a site might take weeks to show up) ... plus a lot of the web now is not "static" pages ... they are dynamically generated content. So the "search" arena is very very hot in terms of research both in academia and industry. The other thing is that not too many users are willing to wait more than a second or so for their search query answer There are also some things in google's page rank algorithm that can be improved upon so I'm sure we will see some competition for google in terms of technology. The problem is going to be muscle and Microsoft definitely has that. Then again, we are still stuck using 1970's technology for our internet ala TCP/IP. Why is it still around? Cause it's too expensive and complicted to make the switch to the much better things that have been developed since then.

WOW ... that was the nicest way ever anyone's called me fat!

I can just picture it!!! Anoushik jumping up in class and screaming SIP!!!! Must be an exciting prof !!!!

OH!!! I get it now .. hahahaaha ... well, the pronounciation is quite different. In vochxar, the 'a' in xar is pronounced similar to the english word "bar". The xhar in Farsi meaning donkey is pronounced more like the 'a' in "after" and a strong "R".

Not sure what's "best" but I usually use mpeg4 these days ... either divx or microsoft mpeg4. But if you are going to make a dvd, then you may want to just stick with mpeg2.

As far as hardware, I'd recommend an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard and an ASUS Radon 9600XT (or similar) video card. The Asuses have video in and unlike most other cards can run dual monitor with DVI and VGA at the same time (running different desktops and not simply cloned). Other cards either don't have video in, only do DVI or analog VGA at a time, or do 2 analog VGAs or some other stupid combination. Haven't used ATI wonder .. I find most software that comes bundled with hardware to be completely crap. I use my card to watch TV on my second LCD monitor all the time ... I haven't spent much time recording anything but pretty much all of them seem to come down to the codec used ... the actual software itself is only good for editing and the other fancy features. The codec is what does the actual encoding and recording (that's where the quality will come in).

An unhappy person named anna from Paris? Or are you telling him to dance? Bari as in Bari Luys ... NOT "Pari" as in Pari luys meaning dancing light or Light in the city of Paris pronounced the French way.

First of all, welcome aboard! Second of all, I don't know where you got the first name "bari" but I certainly understand the last name I would just go over and appologize and say you were just messing around and that now you want to make it up by cooking a "non-cat" dish for her Funny stuff.

Oh one more thing that just occured to me .. "xhar" in armenian could also mean "mixed" or "confused". So "voch-xhar" could mean "simple" or "uncomplicated" ... and we all know that a voch-xhar is the ultimate among the dumb farm animals ... maybe just second behind the chicken.

I read it as "Fruit"

Sure about that one? I don't think I've heard that before. Although there is a bad word in Farsi with that as it's start (Nairi? anything to add? ) I am guessing farm animals mostly have one sylabble names because 1. Farmers are not usually the brightest of the bunch 2. People who started coming up with words to describe things probably started with farm animals and stuff they had around and thus the easy and short names went to them first. Then when time came to name modern things like the television, microwave, refrigerator, and coronary artery bypass, we had obviously ran out of simple names.

Yah you heard me! Virus or trojan from just viewing a JPG image Microsoft Security Bulletin Here is some info about it. Some more here So get your windows updates before the MAC guys and gals have any more chances to make fun of you!

You just reduced your ass kicking number by another 25% !!!! I would say that was also a wise move

Well, I have to admit that I have put on a bit of weight since that picture was taken but all I need is a month of training and I'll be back in the same shape.

Yes ... that's exactly what I was thinking! ... that "jeez, Maral looks pretty darn young for a 25 year old" Happy birthday Maral

Hahahhaah jugs you SUCK ... hahahahahaaha ...

Not sure as I haven't had any problems.

I am from West Hills California but now live in Wisconsin.

Tell the bastard he is full of sh!t and that you want to talk to the service manager ... if you already talked to the service manager, tell them you are going to contact the regional manager. Trust me they will come around very quickly ... a cd changer is no big deal for them when it comes down to having to deal with higher levels up and all these customer satisfaction requirements they have to satisfy. Don't take no for an answer ... saying a CD player jamed on a recorded cd because it was a recordable CD is just stupid dude! I have used recorded CDs for years in all sorts of different players and never had a problem. Sometimes the player skips (especially older models) but now, no one would be stupid enough to carry original CDs in a car!!!!