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I thought this article by Jim Gray from Microsoft Research was pretty cool ... really puts things in perspective ... for the few techies around here (even the Macies ), this may be interesting reading. Here are a couple of quote snips: Another interesting point was that he says that the google database is about 2 petabytes in size!!! ... yah, that's mega, giga, tera, peta http://www.clustercomputing.org/content/tf...c-5-1-gray.html

I also had a slight hint of sadness that hit me when I saw the headline on CNN a few hours ago. It's a huge bummer But if it were me in the same situation, I would have preferred to go out like this rather than spend another second living like that. About the surprise, GOD DAMN! Have we been first in EVERYTHING?

or every day Funny stuff Azat! I just recently got this virus disguised as a .PIF file, packaged in a .zip file! These are some of the files you should worry about on a windows system: exe com bat pif vbs scr and document files like: ppt doc xls Of course this doesn't mean other files can't hurt ... the above files are just really easy to make to do horrible things.

Nice! Is that an LCD in the sun visor? 1" lift ... will you be able to fit 32s? or 31s? I am thinking with some cutting in the front, you may be able to fit 32s (32x11.5) but I'm not sure. Are you changing the wheels? I always like the look of black rock-crawler rims ... plus they are CHEAP ... something like $50 a wheel and you can destroy the hell out of them and it doesn't matter. Very very nice .... and somewhere down the line, you can put dual transfer cases and it will go over ANYTHING. I've seen several toyotas like that running dual transfer cases. For tires, if you are going to do rock-crawling at all, I highly recommend the new Goodyear MTRs ... they are very very good. Even better than the BFG MT KMs (BFGs are also great by the way). The MTRs come stock on the jeep Rubicons. But for normal highway and some offroading, I would go with BFG AT KOs. They are also really good on snow (BFG MTs suck on snow)... but for crawling, MT/Rs are just fantastic.

Great ... why the hell did I expect to see a cooking recipe here? Don't tell me that title is not deliberatly written like that. Maybe I spent too much time in the sun today? 7 hours straight in 102 degree heat

Yerekshapti karogh a gnam ... ke gas? Miller Jeep Trail near Gorman ... nothing too tough and will take 1/2 day. It's not 100% and I may not go since I will be getting back in town Monday and leaving again on Wed but just let me know if you want to go ... It's NOT a good trail for full size .. (no tahoe) you want to have small jeep or toyota for this. Note, it's not the same as the picture above ... that one is John Bull trail in Big Bear.

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/pdw_stuck.jpg This is the blazer of someone I know ... don't ask me how he did that since I wasn't there but I think the picture says it all!!!! YIKES! http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/rubi/bull3.jpg This is me going over the same rock from a different angle about a month ago. Key is to stay a bit on the passenger side

Programmers' Drinking Song 100 little bugs in the code, 100 little bugs in the code, fix one bug, compile it again, 101 little bugs in the code. 101 little bugs in the code..... (Repeat until BUGS = 0)

What ... laziness? http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/sm/forum/images/smilies/confused.gif

109 ... that was the temperature in the garage ... I just came out to again stop the bleeding for a little while and I still have 3 more holes to cut and 4 more bolts to do to finish the rocker guards and sliders on the Jeep. Some days, everything that can go wrong, will go wrong <_<

That isen't a good idea, to have a fair deal, you must roast the typical overweighted Armenian type, like Sip, MosJan and perhaps even you. I'm not overweight ... I'm just gravitationally challenged.

I think the same would have happened to me if he actually posted a picture of himself slapping the monkey.

I think we should roast him

Just call him McFarti ... that's what I do now. It makes things less confusing.

I can only begin to imagine the horror

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/hf/eshmobile.jpg Uzuma mi hat "eshmobile" sarki.

As the famous saying goes ... if you can't beat them, join them. Then beat them.

Sounds awesome! As long as I don't have to give up chinese food, we are in total agreement

Yah sometimes I think and talk too much in terms of food! Sorry What I was thinking is that chinese food is not our native food. But I don't see any reason why we shouldn't learn to cook it perfectly and eat it. Along the same line, even though English is not our native language, I don't see any reason why not try to learn it perfectly. The whole world is switching or has switched to English. Why should we Armenians stay behind?

Does this mean I can't eat chinese food anymore? Don't worry Artak. Your English is good. Good luck in your search.

Wow vava! (try to say that 10 times fast) That's pretty scary. I can just imagine on the tombstone ... "Here lies a guy that got struck by a wine bottle falling from the sky. Literally." At least I hope it was cheap wine. For me, I just get fascinated by people who all of a sudden decide they want to go from 45MPH to dead stop right on the on-ramp of a los angeles freeway, forcing the guy that's tailgating right behind them to either drive over them, or pull right into traffic. I don't know how the hell I did it but as soon as I was done blinking, I was doing about 80MPH in the fast lane and apparently didn't hit anything or flip over.

If I were God, I would make the egg first. It's much easier than having to make a chicken. Also, if I were God, I would have made all chickens boneless and skinless with a hint of lemon already in their blood.

Spoken like a TRUE hye.

Dude, PLEASE don't joke with us like that. That is NOT funny. This was almost like that time when after about 10 minutes I figured out this philipino dude was talking about a set of "fog" lights for his truck and not what it sounded like at first.

Very true. It's not just clock speed but P4 is first of all superscaler, has a 20 stage pipeline, has a very sophisticated branch prediction unit and crazy caches, supports out-of-order instruction execution, and even has built-in support for hyper-threading (executing two different program threads completely in parallel). On top of that, now a lot of things are done off the CPU (like audio/graphics processing) and that releaves a lot of burden from the main CPU. Of course P4 has multiple arithmetic units and two of the interger units actually run at TWICE the clock rate!!! So for a 3Ghz P4, you have 2 integer units that are running at 6Ghz As far as I know, the 8086 is just a single-issue processor (one instruction at a time) and needs an 8087 floating point coprocessor to do floating point!!! Not to mention the fact that it's 16 bits.