Sip

quote:Originally posted by MJ:Isn’t something that has a sole purpose of preservation called parasite? It very well maybe. But I can easily make the same argument for the entire human race (as far as the Earth is concerned).

What I found a bit hard to understand, is why the pictures were so low quality and amaturish in general. Also, the girls, at least look-wise, don't seem to be the "cream of the crop" so to say. I can't believe for some of those countries, those were the "best" they could offer. I mean, sure, looks aren't everything but their bios aren't that impressive either. I just hope the world has more to offer than this!!!! Example of a bio from the Miss Spain: quote:I come from the beautiful city of Seville in Spain. I have completed a Secretarial course and a modelling course covering make-up, nutrition, protocol, hairdressing, drama, interpretation photographic and the catwalk. I love to practice my make-up skills on my friends. My ambition is to work in the world of image and fashion. Hobbies include: swimming, to dance the official dance of Seville (similar to the flamenco) and to collect articles and news in fashion. I also enjoy travelling and have visited Japan and Las Vegas in the USA "I love to practice my make-up skills on my friends"??? "...collect articles and news in fashion"??? traveled to Japan and Vegas???? Are these really "positive things" for a "Miss World" Candidate? For Gamavor: Miss Bolivia ain't bad either http://www.missworld.org/Contestantsspic/x_71.jpg http://www.missworld.org/Contestantsspic/S_71.jpg [ December 11, 2002, 01:11 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/roflmao.gif Just realized "i n p u t s" was deemed a bad word and thus censored above. I appologize. It won't happen again. --- By the way, it took me like 5 minutes but I finally figured it out ... I know this is like the boy who cried wolf but I really didn't mean the other meaning ... I REALLY had no idea. I'm guessing this has happened before though [ December 10, 2002, 11:29 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

I have to say I do agree with Rubo here. There is a definite need for "perseverance" (whether driven by fear or not I don't know) if "Armenianness" is to be maintained. I am NOT that well versed in the history of the region, so I can only offer my in**** on the current state of things. The Armenians' fear of assimilation, at least now, is very justified. With this information and communication revolution that has been taking place in the last 100 years, and the fact that "everything not Armenian" is soooooooo much more than "everything Armenian", I think it's obvious that assimilation is a very definite possibility if not strongly fought against (assuming it is something to fight against ... I'm not arguing for or against). And not just for Armenians, I'd say for any "strongly a minority" culture. I'm just saying the hatred of mixing and the strong rejection of some for anything in the "everything not Armenian" category, is for me, a very understandable phenomenon. Before, you could keep things fairly well protected and preserved by physical borders. Holding those borders in place was a difficult task, but at least it was well defined and understood as mandatory, given the objective. Now, with the information age, those physical borders are meaningless as there is a direct path to people's brains! Unless there are STRICT blocks (as so well displayed by Varduhi here), or firewalls as we CS crowd like to call them, minds WILL be influenced by other more "dominant" forces (cultures). [ December 10, 2002, 11:27 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by Arpa:...However, we must also make sure that the world spins clockwise otherwise the light bulb will be unscrewed. You may notice that I said Juggy should be the one to do that ... since he lives down-unda in Australia, that will not be a problem since I've heard things spin the other way down there.

Forgot to say ... a definite honorable mention goes to Miss Australia .... http://www.missworld.org/Contestantsspic/x_95.jpg

For me, this is how I'd rank the top three. Notice that I can't really make up my mind: 1) Miss Poland http://www.missworld.org/Contestantsspic/x_76.jpg 1) Miss Cyprus http://www.missworld.org/Contestantsspic/x_31.jpg 2) Miss Uruguay http://www.missworld.org/Contestantsspic/x_98.jpg 2) Miss Columbia http://www.missworld.org/Contestantsspic/x_58.jpg 2) Miss Albania http://www.missworld.org/Contestantsspic/x_73.jpg 3) Miss Spain http://www.missworld.org/Contestantsspic/133.jpg That Miss Turkey is alright ... I think she's definitely in my top 10 ... but not top 3.

I was actually reading about that C3 processor not too long ago ... seems very interesting and has the potential to kick some serious butt in the low-end stuff ... they use a .13 process and the chip is supposed to be ultra small and power efficient. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up in some low-end ultra-cheap PDA/Laptop hybrids.

Never mind! I am retarded (I just noticed you said XP). 1) In this case, you want to look under C:Documents and Settings[Your User Name]Local Settings Try to get rid of everything in the TEMP sub folder. 2) Go to Start->Settings->Control Panel->Internet Options, and click on "Delete Files". That will get rid of all your internet cached files (you don't need them). 3) After all that, on your desktop, right click on the Recycle Bin and choose "Empty Recycle Bin". This should free up quite a bit of space. The next important question I have, is when was the last time you ran the "Windows Update" feature from the start menu? At the VERY least, you should have installed Service Pack 1 (through the update) as that fixes a LOT of security things. If not, a reinstall of XP will not protect you from anything! It is always a very good idea to keep up with the latest updates and patches through that windows update feature. If you do that, most often you won't even need a "firewall" unless you have a totally exposed computer to the net and you have something that some hacker would really want.

Vow vow vow ... hold on a sec! Are you sure it was "hacked"? First thing you should do, is figure out where the space went. Depending on what operating system you have, I can tell you exactly where to look for extra stuff that can be deleted. They add up over time and sometimes windows doesn't clean them as it should. Is there any other signs other than the mysterious space issue which is leading you to believe your system was tampered with?

quote:Originally posted by EZ:... you must have a djvar kjank. How old are you? My 16 year old son seems to be more in control than you. Djvar kjank? Actually my life is quite EeeZea relative to other's kjanks that I can see!!! As far as my age, technically I guess I am a bit older but I definitely feel like a 12-year old most of the time. So hopefully by the time I turn 16 I'll learn that whole "control" thing but I hear adolescence is a very difficult period so I am going to delay and push it back for as long as I can.

ok these just hit me .... 12) We can give the bulb to Nairi and then she will make us realize that instead of us sitting around and complaining that the bulb is burnt, we should think of a more practical and logical way to approach the problem and try to come up with a solution which will work in real life. We'll then ignore her and just take the bulb and give it to Hagarag anyway ... just to see what would happen next. 13) We can give the bulb to sen_vahan, but that would be pointless since he will tell us that with quantum and optical computers, one doesn't need light bulbs anymore. Quantum CPUs will produce all the necessary light by burning spam emails as fuel ... ... back to work... [ December 08, 2002, 09:29 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Now that we are on a roll (good stuff Azat!!! ... especially the list) 8) We can give it to Thoth and he will tell us how there is really nothing wrong with the light bulb and how the burnt bulb is ok the way it is. Then I would agree with him and we'd go and play some fantasy football. 9) We can give it to Twilight Bark and he can tell us how changing the bulb is the influence of the mainstream on our minds and that maybe we should think differently. Of course he would find a MUCH better way to say it with much more poetic words and phrases But he is the provably optimal choice for this task. 10) We can give it to Hagarag and he will tell us his life story with lots of nice juicy details ... and we would just forget about the bulb. 11) We can give it to TigranesIII and he will immediately throw the new bulb in garbage noting in complete anger that having light bulbs is not the traditional Armenian thing to do and that we should be ashamed of what we have become. More to follow ... [ December 08, 2002, 09:28 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Ooooo Oooo .. I just came up with some other ways! 1) We can give the bulb to Harut, and he will write a program in C++ that will change the bulb automatically. He will use inheritence and object oriented methodologies, as well as the latest debuggers to ensure "trouble-free" execution. 2) We can give the blub to Vava, Domino, or Nairi, since they have MACs and I'm sure MACs can change light bulbs too. 3) We can give the bulb to Mosjan ... then we will sit in the dark until we also invite him for some nice xhorovats and a nice bottle of you know what so he will change the blub for us 4) We can give the bulb to Juggy and he will stand there holding the bulb, and the world will revolve around him until the bulb is in place! (sorry, dude, I am under MJ's spell ) 5) Or you can just give the bulb to Garo, and he'll change it in 10 seconds flat. [ December 08, 2002, 06:27 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

2 ... otherwise it'd be an orgy and thus against forum rules.

quote:Originally posted by Arpa: So what happened with this jogger thing. I heard something on the news about some new discovery or something but didn't quite catch exactly what it was. Did they catch the bad guy?

I am guessing she is reading it as "yez".

I read it as "eeee zeeee" as being the opposite of HARD ... D'oh I said it again. [ December 07, 2002, 07:50 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by Arpa:BTW. In this case, as in many others "Armenian" actually means "the son of Armen". Is that what ian means?! Wow. First time I am learning this. Very thanks Arpa! quote:Originally posted by wh00t:Massis Araradian: Best. Name. Ever. Wh00t, even better than this? I appologize, especially for doing it in this thread. I've actually read a couple of Dr. K's papers but just about lost it when I heard his name being introduced at a conference once [ December 07, 2002, 07:22 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by wh00t:... Sarig Armenian, a Greater Washington AYF "Ani" Chapter member... That's a fricking GREAT last name! At first I thought it was made up but I guess it's not. [ December 07, 2002, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by nairi:... and the list keeps growing (Azat and Sip, don't even dare!)! I wouldn't even think of it quote:I guess it depends on how you define hard.Not gonna say a WORD. Must resist temptation ... keep mouth shut ...

quote:Originally posted by nairi:Hope this helps you to "den Faden wieder aufnehmen"... Yah I should, shouldn't I! It's so easy to get distracted at times like this! Even by rediculous thoughts like this. But it is interesting ... thanks ok ok I'll go back to work

Just wondering if any of you language experts have any input on this. I was just thinking about the phrases: "Mdkis tel e kdrvets" and "I lost my train of thought" Firt of all, is the Armenian version in common use or is it maybe just a barska-hye thing because I personally have heard it used a lot? Second of all, those two phrases got me curious since they seem to be conveying the same concept but using different metaphores. So I am curious of why that is and if anyone happens to know how those things came to be. Seems to me like they are too similar not to have a common root somewhere... I am guessing the train one is "newer" but was there a similar phrase before that in english? Like: "The yarn of my thoughts got cut" or "I lost the rope of my mind" ... neither of those two sound good though. [ December 07, 2002, 01:25 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by Harut:can you please write a little what "parse" really means? I decided it's probably better to put this in a separate thread. Parsing is a term that can have a lot of meanings. In the general sense, computer science people use the term "parse" when referring to the process where you read and understand some formatted input in your program. In the simplest cases, "formatted" input comes as a series of special "tokens" separated by "delimiters". If your program can go through the input and figure out which ones are the tokens and which ones are the delimiters, then it is basically a parser. An example may be a spellchecker program which recognized english words in a document. The tokens are any english word and the delimiters are space, punctuations, etc. If the parser finds something it doesn't recognize, it complains. Parsers are the main "front end" to compilers. Whenever you write a program in a specific language, the parser goes through the program and tries to understand the "program parse tree". I can go into the details of this if you want to understand how REAL parsers work. In general, parsers are very complicated as they have to keep track of a lot of things at the same time. For example, think of a 'C++' program. Depending on what part of the program you are in, you may or may not be able to use certain tokens and keywords. If you use the wrong token in the wrong place, the parser will come back with a syntax error, telling you that you either forgot a bracket, didn't have the right operator or delimiter, or used an invalid "keyword" in the wrong place. It has to basically keep track of EVERYTHING and know what is allowed where and what is not allowed. All those rules are specified in the "grammar" of the language. Every language has grammar. So basically, a parser is something that given a "language grammar", processes an input text according to the grammar rules. Our computers can only process very special types of grammars so they will have a lot of trouble with something like english. But they can do VERY good with languages like C. The details in what is exactly the difference between the types of grammars is what you would learn in a "automata theory" course But I can give you some basic info about that too if you are interested. It's not as complicated to understand as it sounds at first!!!

quote:Originally posted by Harut: quote:Originally posted by Sip:Oooooh ... and another thing... take a close look at where you say "sizeof(methodCall)" can't figure it out. what do you mean? My bad on BOTH things. The sizeof the way you are using is correct. However, one often uses the strlen function to check for the length of a string as sizeof() doesn't work for dynamic arrays. Also, you are right ... your code works I didn't compile it correctly in my head