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quote:Originally posted by MJ:I am not claiming that one edition (referenced by you above) is better than the other. I am defending some reasonable censorship. Gotcha and I agree. Nothing worse than sitting around the TV with your grandparents (in my case) and then all of a sudden clothes start flying all over the place on TV and the camera starts panning up and down some bed covers that seem to be moving with the occasional hint of some strange body parts protruding from below ... my grandpa seems to get a kick out of it though ... but my grandma makes all sorts of faces at him with the rolling eyes in disgust. Boghos: Geez! I make like 2 or 3 spelling errors per day and I'm a Tavriztsi now? I sometimes wish there were only 2 letters in the alphabet ... ANY alphabet ... that would drastically reduce the chances of making a mistake

Oh and "A Few Good Men" is not my most favorite movie just because of it's punchlines and fantastic dialogs (not to mention the superb acting talent) ... no, I was much more touched by the message it's trying to send. Who was really the bad guy in that movie? There is no clear cut answer since EVERYONE made the correct decision, yet somehow everyone lost (except the lawyers ) That's how you teach your childeren about life! Well, at least that's how I would if I ever had any childeren. [ November 18, 2002, 03:57 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by MJ:TNT is a basic channel, and each household is equipped with it. It would be nice to be able to sit with your family and watch a movie with your children without an embarrassment. I couldn't agree more. However, in this case, I don't think a "girly white uniform" is any less embarassing than a "fagotty white uniform" ... if not, it's probably even MORE embarassing since they are using "girly" as an insult (where fagotty is already an insult). I hope people don't want to teach their daughters that there is anything wrong with being "girly", cause that certainly what TNT seems to want to imply and it's what ticks me off. In essense, the problem here is that they are affraid of the very vocal homosexual community as opposed to the much larger, yet somehow less vocal female community.

quote:Originally posted by Domino:Sip is human, Sip is human, Sip is human... For the first time in the history of hyeforum we have a recorded event of him being pissed of something. I'll drink for that. :-) ... you better find another excuse to drink since if this is the only "reason", you won't be drinking much But whatever you do, don't screw around with "A Few Good Men" because that will make me Boghos, I fully agree, except for the mandatory "reading" part

... and that's when life suddenly gets VERY complicated.

If I know Glendale and LA, after you sleep with her, the next day, you will very soon find out exactly how you are related to her in some strange way.

quote:Originally posted by vava:I'm actually really excited about the Tranmeta chips. I've seen it used on a Fujistsu sub-note. Truly a wonderful machine. I think they're having trouble with it heating up, no? Transmeta's Crusoe is an interesting design. Theoretically, they can achieve very low power consumption but that eneded up not being so true in real life. What they do, is that they have this "translation" layer which in real-time converts the x86 instructions to their VLIW (I think) architecture which can run several instructions in parallel. Once converted, they can run very efficiently and do some cool stuff. However, it turns out that the translation layer ads a lot of overhead and basically cancles all their gains in performance/power. Their idea was to use caches to save translated parts of x86 code, since many parts of a program run over and over (so they don't have to translate again). Well, at least for current benchmarks, that doesn't seem to work too well, although that may work great in real life. I am not sure at the moment. So I think they still have a lot of work to do but is certainly promising as another "alternative". Unfortunately, they must be compatible with x86 and windows, otherwise they have no chance to succeed. The only transmetta-chip "PC" I have played with in person has been the Sony Picture-book. It's an AWESOME toy

Vava, that was 8 billion in the last QUARTER!!! (I think, ballpark wise I am close) You are also definitely right that current "high-end" PCs, are much more than any novice (or average) user needs, with the exception of the gamers. So I am very sure that the "PC" will change drastically in the next few years. The directions in the "state of the art" seem to be towards "ubiquitous" and "pervasive" computing. Basically, sticking a processor everywhere around you, and make those "computers" more pro-active. The "PC" of today, will most likely become more appliance like in the house of the few years from now with very different philosophies than what we see. The other thing is, you have several computers which you are interacting with now, and that is slowly becoming a HUGE pain in the you know where (processors per person increasing). Slowly, that's going to change and you are going to interact with maybe one or two interfaces that in turn interact with all your other computers (cel, pda, laptop, "PCs", tv/satellite/cable, etc.) But for now, if you just want to do word processing, email, and browsing, either a MAC or a "Windows" PC will do just fine as of now. A Windows PC however has a lot more room to grow as I suspect most users will want to do. Some just want to stay the same, but the majority will want to GROW By the way, you are right ... it is amazing how Apple changed completely from certain death to becoming a "live" company ... when I said "dead" I meant in terms of being on the cutting edge of technology, as they once were.

There is NO doubt that Apple has had a great history and strong influence in the development of the "Personal Computer" ... YES, a "MAC" is a "PC" too But as far as I am concerend, they are a dead company Just in chips, intel, AMD, and Transmetta are really at the cutting edge while IBM, Apple, and Motorolla seem to have pretty much abandoned the PowerPC The PowerPC and "RISC" in general is a great design philosophy, but I wouldn't say CISC is nesessarily worse either. By the way, the 1394 (Firewire), I LOVE IT. I wish it would become a standard instead of this stupid USB we had ... now they have USB 2 but it's too little too late. I think Wireless will put all those to shame very soon (Ultra WideBand and BlueTooth being the two main buzzwords).

By the way, I didn't want to sound like Microsoft or PC hardware components have NO flaws ... NO actually quite the opposite. Did you hear about the very widely publicized Pentium FDIV bug that they found in the floating point division part a few years ago? Well, they have found THOUSANDS of bugs in the original 8086 chip with more bugs still being discovered each year. This chip has been around for DECADES, is 1000s of times less complicated than a Pentium, and they are still finding tons of bugs in the design. We can't even begin to imagine how many bugs just the original Pentium has. Same thing applies to ANY chip (even the PowerPC). Hardware bugs are a fact of life and usually software has to deal with it! Don't even get me started on software bugs though They are often much much more and much much worse. (but much much easier to fix as well). [ November 17, 2002, 08:08 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Don't you wonder where your precious MAC got the idea of the mouse and the "GUI"? Almost all these cool ideas originated from Xerox PARC!!! It is certainly true that windows took a long time to get to where it is, but after Win 2K (after they switched to NT basically), I think Microsoft has become more superior than anything Appple or anyone else has ever offered in terms of Operating Systems. I can't remember the last time my PC has crashed. The one at UCLA has been running for about 18 months straight, side-by-side with my Sun Ultra 5 Solaris workstation. The home one, I keep turning on-and-off everyday. My laptop running XP, I keep hybernating on-and-off which means it goes for weeks before I actually reset it. NO CRASHES! No viruses, no problems ... just awesome, almost trouble free computing (as a user). The problem people have with PCs is that they try to do too much. They buy a PC, then want to add all sorts of peripherals, scanners, printers, digital cameras, and run 100 different games with different controlers and 5.1 surround sound while getting MAXIMUM frame rates and performance. Try to do that with a MAC, and you will also run into trouble. It's not that the current "PC" operating systems or hardware are flawed ... NO, I think the majority of problems come from sub-standard 3-rd party "add-ons". This was a HUGE headache before, now, Microsoft is slowly getting a grasp on it and preventing stupid programmers of add-on drivers/components/software from crashing their OS (which they should prevent anyway!). The advantage that MAC had, was that they strictly controlled EVERYTHING. That's why you didn't see too many "extras" being sold for macs, and of course that way they can gurantee much higher compatibility levels and reduce chances of crashes. But, I guess it is apparent how horribly the MAC strategy worked, and how hugely the PC market is dominating everything now ... even with the crappy history which many wrongly attributed to substandard Microsoft products. It's like going and adding a crappy intake system to your car, and then when the engine dies, you blame the car manufacturer for the problem caused by YOUR modifications!!! Win XP is a great piece of software. I had high hopes with linux but it's not going to get anywhere close to what's being offered by Microsoft anytime soon. There's just no way when there is a company behind the product that had 8 billion in revenues just in the last quarter A few years ago, there was reason to own a "MAC". The main thing was well, it doesn't crash. But now, that reason is not there anymore! The "virus" thing, it's just because it's not worth writing a virus for a MAC because only 2 people in the world would probably get it ANY system has vulnerabilities. Don't think for a second your MAC is more secure!!!! You always have to watch out if you have important stuff. If your MAC was ultra secure, believe me, many companies would have switched to it as their server solution long ago! OS X 10 is basically UNIX/Linux anyway, right? Don't be surprised if you soon see some amazing new flaws being discovered in Linux as it slowly becomes more mature and more complex. You know what's Linux's weakness here? The source code is available. [ November 17, 2002, 07:52 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Was just checking it out Not a bad week at all! I'm glad I didn't go with Maddox ... it's pretty horrible what happened to him. Right now, I'm watching the Raiders systematically break down the Patriot defense !!! I have very high expectations of the Raiders this year and have Gannon in almost all my other leagues.

Sure, a plastic knife is much more "user friendly" and safe than a sharp swiss army knife with 20 different attachments. You also probably won't hurt yourself too seriously with a plastic knife. If it's a plastic knife that you want for only cutting a birthday cake, go for it ... have your MAC You'll love it.

Easy there Domino ... before you jump to the hard question, first, let's talk about the easier ones: What is "Life"? What is "Social Life"? What is "Armenian"? THEN What is "Armenian Social Life"? Good luck trying to answer ANY of those.

http://moon.yerphi.am/Free/Fonts/ArmenianTEX.zip That zip contains a whole bunch of fonts to be used in TeX/LaTex. Not sure if that's what you are looking for since I have never used a mac You are probably the only mac "guy" out there If you search for "postscript armenian font" on google, about 1400+ links come up so I'm sure you'll be able to find something there. Unfortunately, I can't be of more help in this case Dear Nairi: PostScript is the name of a language which was defined and is owned (I believe) by Adobe. It is intended to be used to describe a "document" that can be printed on highquality printers ... It has become a very popular standard with the most sophisticated desktop publishing crowd. So most likely, the document which you create in your word processor, is converted to PostScript and then sent to a printer to be printed. It is not easy to create postscripts directly by typing it in since it's not a very human friendly language Therefore, one almost always relies on a tool of some sort to create postscript documents (such as a word processor). PostScript files usually have the ".ps" extension. Let me know if you need more details on how it works.

That's a good one!

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quote:Originally posted by wh00t:... Sip has recently said that Hye Forum is the only Armenian activity he regularly participates in... My case is a bit strange since I don't have time (by my own choice) to participate in almost ANY sort of activity other than research and then ALT-TABBING once in a while to some of these forum-type places just to shoot-the-shit and take my mind off of 1's and 0's for a while during the day. The reason I liked Hyeforum was that I eneded up learning (and continue to learn) quite a bit of stuff on topics which I had NO prior knowledge what so ever. I like the fact that there doesn't seem to be any political or commercial affiliations, plus of course the fact that it's strictly moderated and most "trash" is dumped in the recycle bin on a regular basis. Plus it's great making fun of Azat, Harut, Movses, and Jug sometimes [ November 17, 2002, 02:03 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

All I know is that it better be a damn good movie cause I've been going around the net recently and giving it the highest ratings the different sites. Somehow, I couldn't understand why so many gave it 0's in their ratings so I figured my "biased" rating would at least act as a balancing force against those. Hopefully I'll get to see it sometime this week.

What's the topic? I see it as money well spent --- Edit: I am referring to the 70 mil spent bribing the field commanders to make the war end sooner. [ November 16, 2002, 11:00 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

This is one of the rare instances that I am trully pissed. I didn't know exactly where to put it, but I guess in this instance, this section is somewhat appropriate ... in any case, I had to get it ouf of my system so sorry! I was just watching "A Few Good Men", my MOST FAVORITE movie EVER on TNT (a US cable channel) ... and they have as usual, butchered one of the BEST dialogs ever in a movie (in my opinion), to make it more "appropriate". In one of Col. Jessup's lines he says: "I want you to stand there in your faggoty white uniform, and with your Harvard mouth extend me some f-ing courtesy." They replaced the word "faggoty" with "girly" I mean COME ON! First of all, why screw around with such a GREAT movie? If not the best movie of all time? Second of all, why is putting down "girls" better than "homosexuals"? Isn't both of those just as bad? These TV censors in the US make me SICK. They try to do something right, but it comes out completely wrong. I hope they get out of this censorship phase soon. Either show it correctly, as it was originally intended to be, or don't show it at all. This is one of those things that disturbs me a lot when I see it, but I usually don't care about it because they change "ass" to "butt" or "bull shit" to "baloney" or the f-word to "freak". It usually is just a simple meaningless "word substitution" (most of the time, when the bad words don't really have any bearing on the content I don't care at all). [ November 16, 2002, 09:36 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Hahahahahaha ... First there was "Azat, ankax kanayk" Now there is "Azat man gal" That was good! But still, I'm going to go run and hide as amusnanal sounds like a SCARY thought at the moment

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu//hf/harut2.jpg Hey Torontonian, how do you like this guy? I happen to know he is a very nice guy and currently available (as far as I know).... best of all, he hangs out at this forum a lot. Is he maybe "the one"? [ November 16, 2002, 07:37 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

But do we really care about the other forums? Let's just stick to what we have here and not try to bring trash from other forums to be discussed here. Just my .02

Can I have a math problem instead? Ok first of all, let me say I am NO where near qualified to say anything in this case. But having said that, I am going to say it anyway ... If Kelly likes John so much, she should have told him long ago. Obviously they just can't go on being "pure friends" if kelly feels like that. BUT, now that there is some other girl in the picture, it's a much more complicated situtation. I think it's best in this case to wait to see what happens between John and the new girl. So, as of now, I'd say Kelly should stay out of John's "romantic life" and try to be as good a "friend" as possible. If it is impossible for her to maintain the "friendship", then she should slowly cut contact with John and move away if she has to. I don't see anyother way. Unless, if John is not too serious about he new girl, then maybe it's best for him to find out about Kelly's feelings as soon as possible. Good luck, and don't blame me for anything if a big fight breaks out and everyone ends up much more unhappy than before! I warned you right from the beginning.