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Wow! Interesting. I have to say "Armenia, the cradle for the iron ladle" has a much better ring to it than "First Christian Nation" or "Zone D'Ark".

AFFLECK BUYS GEM-STUDDED LOO FOR J.LO Ben Affleck has bought fiancee Jennifer Lopez a $105,000 gem-studded toilet seat. The pop diva's new loo is encrusted with rubies, sapphires, pearls and a diamond. A source tells British newspaper the Daily Star, "The stones are set inside the plastic, so Jennifer's behind won't get scratched." Affleck, who is expected to marry his belle later this year, designed the seat himself. He told a friend, "Jennifer is my princess and she deserves only the best -- even when it comes to toilets." source

huh? Azat jan, ch'haskatsa. inch sign? will code for food

I thought I would pass along this piece of info in case you know someone who is being tempted to give these $10 digital cable descrambler things that are being sold on eBay a try for "educational purposes" of course Article on MSNBC For a while I couldn't figure out why or how a simple filter that can cost a few cents to build can actually work when cable companies have invested billions in developing digital cable encryption technologies. So this all certainly makes sense now! Also, note that most ebay buyers would leave positive feedback since the thing seems to work temporarily but then you're HIT with a huge bill or the company just shuts down your box and you're in big trouble.

he he he he .... in the "reward drawer"?

The Matrix doesn't really start to make sense until the very ends. But you have to have enough patience to put up with Keanu's bull-shit acting and the really fancy razzle dazzle special effects ... I personally thought the plot was very thought provoking ... of course there are details that are just there for the drama/excitement factor. Nairi, I would recommend you start with South Park. That movie is simply brilliant and I don't think it got the acclaim it really deserved. People just look at it as a dumb cartoon but it's obvious there is some brains behind it! Impressive stuff ... of course they did give into some stupid cliche's like the tired old Bill Gates bashing. ... but the first time I saw it, I literally cried at the "shut your f***ing face uncle f***er" musical number. I didn't even see the second half ... basically the part after the canadian traffic cop starts farting to the music. Anyway, it may sound like it's just childish immature stuff but there is a lot more going on than just the superficial fart jokes and foul language.

I am guessing they occur in that order at the ends of the lines of a certain favorite poem of yours?

I think since they were such cool parents, they kept the presents in their "racecar"? Did the presents happen to be a nice "radar" system?

It sure is ... You can do what you want just seize the day What you're doing tomorrow's gonna come your way Don't you ever consider giving up, you will find, oooh It's gotta be the gayest song they ever sang!!! Well, maybe second gayest after "It's a Happy Nation" But I have to admit it's a very good stay awake song when driving on long trips.

Three movies which have really made me think: 1) The Truman Show 2) Matrix 3) Quiz Show People often get distracted by all the cool visual effects of Matrix but I thought the plot really kicked arse. Matrix 2 is coming out very soon and from what I saw from the trailer, it's going to be extremely spectacular in terms of effects but the plot didn't strike me as having anything too new ... just a bunch of ultra-cool fight scenes.

thank! ... bayts 1/2 Woodland Hillstsi em 1/2 UCLAtsi

Did I tell you recently in one of my talks instead of sensor I said sexor? But I kept a cool face and just kept on talking

Also life's too-short to worry-about stuff like-that ... so here's an actual conversation I overheard today between two chinese guys: "What's your sickness that you got?" "I don't know. I am still trying to get it. Did you get it?" "I'm not sure but I think so. Let me check." "Wooo Hooo ... Yah! I got it." Turns out they were doing a homework problem trying to figure out the "thickness" of some slab of metal.

Yah! Also if you look at the one where they drop the ball into the water, the water does not act at all on the ball ... only the ball on the water. Of course doing the reaction calculations is trivial to add to the simulation but it just shows how much stuff they have to worry about. But the movie industry here is really pushing these guys to push the limits. The guy giving the talk was saying that they may incorporate these things on to next next generation graphics processors which I won't be surprised if they do. That's when you'll have some awesomly realistic looking games rendered in real time but looking like DVD movies!!!

I was at a talk today at UCLA about Level Set Methods and their applications in computer graphics and generating very realistic looking animations ... such as for smoke, water, fire, etc. Just take a look at this site and if you don't have time, just look at THIS animation of pouring water into a glass (about 3MB so sorry to modem users). Note: It may be easier to right-click and save-as first.

1) A Few Good Men 2) Monty Python + Holy Grail 3) Office Space 4) Blood Sport 5) South Park - Bigger Longer and Uncut 6) Spartakus (uncut) in spanish (was actually called Spartaka) 7) Blood Sport in spanish 8) Breakfast at Tiffany's (I love the cat in that movie) 9) Braveheart 10) Bad Boys

Don't you mean 10?

What's up dude! Hey, do you even know what bozo means in Armenian? I'll let nairi the language expert explain it to you.

Azat jan, you are asking me to explain how the human mind works ... which I can't. After looking at it for a while, you will see the solution as in most puzzles. This is one of those things that a simple computer hack will NOT get the job done. The program needs to be much more intelligent in the way it processes the input. HERE is the basic source to my program. It may crash since it uses recursion and the size is set to max. But if you want to use it to parse substrings of the long message, it works well. You may notice a few things there that I used to speed up stuff. Like during the recursion, I keep track of the last character parsed. This way, I can get rid of uncommon pairs like yy or bd or db or things like that. However, since words don't have spaces, it may be that you get rid of a pair that can actually occur (end of a word and beginning of another). The way I solved the problem was to go substring at a time. As a hint, there is a clear way to split the string at the 'p' characters If you want more hints, let me know. If my code is impossible to understand, also let me know. I wrote it in a quick/dirty way so it is by no means a "good" code. It was just the easiest way to write it for me. Three things to keep in mind: 1) I parse from the end of the string back ... for various reasons. 2) I decided to keep track of the message in an array (msg) 3) I consider the characters in reverse order since it's harder to fit a "t" than b's and d's for example. I was using command line parameters to specify what index to what index it should parse ... but I left that and all my other optimization hacks out of it so there will be some chance for someone to understand what's going on.

Wait a sec, I thought the ability to "take care of" roaches and spiders was going to be at the top of the list ... how about taking out the garbage? But I am utterly devistated. You didn't mention a single thing about algorithmic knowledge, programming abilities, or number of gadgets to shoe size ratio.

Nairi jan, all you need to know about binary is this is what each letter corresponds to. The rest is basic pattern matching. For example, "10100" in the message could represent either "t" or "bd". a 1 b 10 c 11 d 100 e 101 f 110 g 111 h 1000 i 1001 j 1010 k 1011 l 1100 m 1101 n 1110 o 1111 p 10000 q 10001 r 10010 s 10011 t 10100 u 10101 v 10110 w 10111 x 11000 y 11001 z 11010

2 Azat, you can't believe how much time I wasted on that binary problem! It is much harder than it seems at first... I figured I could solve it easily by writing a short program ... well, I wrote the program in 10 minutes and went to eat hoping it would find the solution ... came back realizing it had filled up my hard drive and crashed !!!!! The embarassing thing is that my little brother solved it faster than me. Damn he is GOOD. I was estimating that there could be a lot of possibilities but I didn't think there would be that many valid texts that can be decoded from that message

Azat, I am guessing "she" is talking about the teddy bear thing (I remember something mentioned about that a few months ago) But here's my theory: I think hyebruin is tata himself, posing as a young girl who is a huge fan ... why you ask? Cause that will make him seem cooler and more people would want to be his fans ... of course who wouldn't want to have a WHOLE thread with several pages dedicated to himself where he talks about himself all the time?! Yup ... it makes more and more sense the more I think about it

I can't help but to ask again: Would you like http://www.oneworld.net/penguin/genetics/fries.gif with that?

Ok dude, I got good news for ya! It works Right Click on the desktop->Properties->Settings->Advanced->ATI Displays->Select the VGA output port as primary by clicking the circular button.