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Well, my office mate a few years ago was doing some traffic studies on gnutella (one of the first peer-to-peer nets) and that's how I started to get some idea of what really may be going on in such networks. It would be interesting to find out how much of the internet bandwidth is consumed by pornography, adult spam, and things like that

There are a few pages on the topic for your enjoyment in this thread. I don't know why the original poster changed his question but it was similar to what you are asking if I remember correctly.

Seems to me like they have basically "solved" the problem. She talks about a 17 second algorithm to solve the cube. I didn't read and analyze it carefully but those moves they are doing are much more complicated than just random trial and error ... there is a clear strategy to solve it. Now I don't know too much about the Rubic's cube problem but the feeling I got from her page is that it is probably easy to solve (computationally) since she talks about an average of something like 56 moves being needed.

This lady is just incredible!!!! Here's her page on speed cubing (Rubik's cube) ... and this is the video page Here system for solving Rubik's cube is also pretty cool! I have personally never been into "cubing" but those videos sure are AWESOME!

Arpa, I think you'll appreciate this one ... A few months ago, a few friends and I had gone on a trip somewhere. Some of them are Hyastantsis, one is Leninakantsi, and a couple of braskahyes so there's a mix ... Anyway, we are all standing around and all of a sudden the leninakantsi friend comes from behind, bringing something in his hand, saying this (I'm not sure who he was referring to but I only heard what he said): "Esik dir eli" (requesting that the item be placed whereever ... not important). But I think you can imagine the look on ALL our faces since we all thought he was pissed off at something (say that quickly and in a loud firm voice and you'll know what I mean)

Ara, Arpa, ap jan, you haven't heard "ara ari desnem", "ara mi hat araghe ber eli", "ara inches asum ara?", "ara, enor e arain desar?" ... etc?

Well that's certainly very interesting to hear! I guess people in general aren't as slow to make the online mental shift as I thought they would be!!!! And Halys80, I do agree with you and I have also said this before that the internet is really no different than any other "communication" medium and will only end up being as "successful" as what people utilize it for! (i.e. the internet by itself is nothing too useful ... it's what you do with it that can be very interesting).

Just a reminder ... do NOT forget this! A few new ones (bad ones) were discovered and the fix was made available by Microsoft (windows update) a few days ago. So if you haven't updated your windows machine recently, do it. details here I feel bad for modem users because these updates can take a long time with a slow connection ... but if you don't do it, your machine is very likely to become hit with one of these worms that spread like crazy. If you have no idea what I am talking about, and you are running windows of any sort (after 98), make sure you do windows update from start menu often ... at least once a month if not sooner.

If you are looking for efficient data structures for SAT solvers, this site will help you ... link But if you need help with Efficient Isotropic BRDF Measurements, then you should check out this site. Hope that helps

First of all, welcome to the forum. Second of all, I am going to venture out and make a guess that the reason for that is you are probably closer to more "Armenians" and that's why you notice that phenomenon more in the "Armenian" circles. Of course I could be wrong ... or it could be that the "odars" aren't as comfortable with you to discuss such things But in my experience, this is a very common thing ... it gets worse with "bparabputiun". When there is not much to do, people often find ways to gossip to pass time and gossip is only fun if it is done in the forms you describe! The other thing I would add about the mothers issue is that due to cultural reasons, Armenian parents are much more involved (in general) in their childrens' lives than for example average euro-Americans (once the kids have grown up of course). This is why the gossipping, "cattyness", etc may be more intense among Armenian mothers. But then again, being a guy, I wouldn't know

Some of them function under the title of "moderator" A book burning hooligan is a book burning hooligan no matter how you slice it. The only difference is which book you burn. My only point is just because a bomb is packaged in the form of a book doesn't make it a book! But at the end who's to say ... there were those who considered the spherical earth theory to be a "bomb"

Ok I'll take this a step further ... There are books with internal time bombs that can blow up entire libraries. Sometimes a book burning hooligan is actually saving the library All I can say is, I just wish people had 1/2 the self control and self restraint as you have!!!!

But won't chaos ensue if the hooliagans aren't ignored? Doesn't ignoring hooligans require some internal censorship? If that internal censorship mechanism is not functioning ... Then what?

There is a chance my welding class dream can come true? ... and Vava, I love flashdance!

That's what I thought Azaticus. I'm guessing you can lecture on stuff like this to industry experts if you wanted to

Azat, are you serious or joking? http://www.unicode.org/ ... you can think of it as the new extended extended global ASCII

One thing is for sure. I am NOT going to say what 'I' am seeing in the current one. Maybe it's the size of the picture that is the culprit or just my mind playing tricks on me...

That is not a complete sentence.

I doesn't make sense since I have not said ANYTHING about Armenians being white or not. I think it is a very very very very stupid question to ask and even stupider to try to answer it. Hope that answered all your questions.

My cat? What the hell does that have anything to do with it Did you read any of the forum rules before you joined? Did you listen to anything moderators have said before? Obviously not. SO either just leave already, stop your whining, or you WILL be banned.

In other words "You can't ban me, I quit". Have a nice life and hope one day you'll figure out what "browser hijacking", "communist mentality", "freedom of speech", "fair", "utopia", and all those other buzzwords you keep throwing around really mean.

Actually that was my bad! For some reason I read that as "I am not" equipped ... It's too early in the day for me.

I thought you are black?

Guys and girls kissing in parks? That's so gay. http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/gay.gif

hahahahahaha .... Sasun ... a "tsaghik" ... hahahahahaha ... that's awesome!!!!