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quote:Originally posted by hagarag:... The only male who I can think of as a true Christian is Christ himself. How ironic that the most "true Christian" and probably the "best Armenian" person that ever lived was a Jew.

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/moon_flag.jpg I would want to be American.

quote:Originally posted by HOVSEP KASHISHIAN:... come on gayes you are going to far... Yah no kidding! Hovsep, are you saying we shouldn't even try to change things? Shouldn't we even at least try to tell the thousands of people that keep sending their hard earned money to those dumb ass TV clowns on the religeon channel that all they are doing is fattening up some fat rich guys belly? But on the other hand, I do watch the religeon channel once in a while ... it is much better than the comedy channel we have! Oh I feel tha powuaaaaaa ... LORD HELP ME FEEL YOUR PRESENSCE ... Yeeeeee haaaaaaa ... Hallleluia ... I think I could be a good TV "evangelist" priest type.

I have played several card games but usually, I am not very good at any. In games like poker, "havatum em chem havatum", and "durak" for example, although I think I have a good enough grasp of the rules, mechanics, and the probabilities involved to play well, I typically don't do too well because of the human factor involved! I am ok at keeping track of the cards, figuring out who has what, what are the odds of certain scenarios but when it comes to trying to figure out what the other player is going to do, I often guess wrong. Humans are pretty unpredictable game players which is what makes them so fun!!! Bridge requires a lot of practice and thinking if you want to be good. I played a little bit and I think it's a great game but never played enough to be good at it. I would say it is THE granddaddy of all card games

quote:Originally posted by nairi:Okay, I'm vaguely beginning to grasp something, but I still don't get how you got from 11010 to 26. How do you calculate that? Nairi If 11010 were decimal, we would have: 1x10^4 + 1x10^3 + 0x10^2 + 1x10^1 + 0x10^0 = 1x10000+ 1x1000 + 0x100 + 1x10 + 0*1 = 10000 + 1000 + 10 = 11010 ---- in binary, it is the exact same way, except the digits correspond to powers of 2: 1x2^4 + 1x2^3 + 0x2^2 + 1x2^1 + 0x2^0 = 1x16 + 1x8 + 0x4 + 1x2 + 0x1 = 16 + 8 + 2 = 26 ---- similarly, if the number 11010 were in "base 5" we would convert it to decimal using: 1x5^4 + 1x5^3 + 0x5^2 + 1x5^1 + 0x5^0 = 1x625 + 1x125 + 0x25 + 1x5 + 0x1 = 625 + 125 + 5 = 755 Nairi, your patience and attitude about this stuff is great! Most people would have just given up the second they realized it is something they have never seen before.

Did you bury the survivors? I did!

quote:Originally posted by hagarag:Do you think that we can start a movement to bring our wordwide diaspora and the ROA into the present age without losing our uniqueness as a people? I definitely think so. However, from what I have seen so far in my brief life, people in general are typically terrified of change. Unless there is a huge (and immediately obvious) advantage to be gained, the masses seem to stick with the old rather than embrace the new. Of course in addition to that, changing anything too quickly has it's own unique dangers. Most "real" things seem to be such that we cannot completely predict their responce to some stimuli, in advance. So, what I am trying to say is that change must come in very slow and methodical doses. First, to help not to create undue panic and irrational actions in the masses, and second to give enough time for adjustments in case of unforseen effects! In cases pretaining to the church, I think certain changes are way overdue. The animal sacrifice point which you brought up is a perfect example. I think in the contexts of being a "traditional" and/or a "festive" event, it has many intriguing aspects (such as our roots, customs, our old ways of life)... But once the church associates religeous and other "divine" attributes to the activity, then it begins to show it's "Naziness" as you put it! The other thing I have been pondering for a while is "prayer". Have you noticed how ridiculous our prayers sound? It is almost to a point of briging man to the level of "god" ... to a point where man is demanding things from God! I think it is time for the church to wake up and realize that IF in fact there is a God, we must be much more humble than we have been. Making deals with god, such as: "Oh Lord, I will be good, I will behave in such and such way, if you will grant me this and that!" does NOT qualify as "prayer" in my book. Actually, if I were God, I would be PISSED if a lowly human was trying to coerce me into a deal like that (oh Gee ... did I say the church must wake up and conform to my book? Sorry! It just slipped out ) [ August 17, 2002, 05:47 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Very well said!

quote:Originally posted by nairi:Believe me, it's MUCH more difficult than you think. I believe you! Most likely it is because I am trying to say too much too quickly. Actually, this is very useful info to me since I will have to teach this stuff probably very soon. I just have to learn to express things clearly. quote:Originally posted by nairi:What does "^" mean? And how do you calculate binary into decimals? For instance, how did you calculate 11010? And where did you get 16, 8 and 2 from? '^' means to the power. 10^5 (read "10 to the 5" or "10 to the 5-th power") means 10x10x10x10x10 (5 times) which is 100000. With binary, you get things like 16,8,4,and 2 because those are the "powers of 2". 2^1 = 2 (1-st power of 2) 2^2 = 2*2 = 4 (2-nd power of 2) 2^3 = 2*2*2 = 8 (3-rd power of 2) 2^4 = 2*2*2*2 = 16 (4-th power of 2) ... Note that any number to the 0-th power is 1. So 2^0=1 and 10^0=1. So now take a look at the previous post. Do you understand what I mean when I say for example a decimal number 123 is the same as (decompose): 1x100 + 2x10 + 3 (i.e. 1x10^2 + 2x10^1 + 3x10^0) ? If so, then the above posts should make more sense now. [ August 17, 2002, 03:00 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by Sip:Next problem? Let's say you have 1000 integers between 0 and one million and you want to put them in order. What is the fastest way to do it? SOLUTION: You make one million + 1 slots numbered from 0 to 1000000. You mark them all emtpy. Then for each number, you put it in it's corresponding slot by marking the slot FULL. So basically with one pass through the 1000 integers, you have them in sorted order! You may need one more pass to "print them out" but that's about it. Fastest way to sort 1000 integers (or integer-numbered objects)

quote:Originally posted by nairi: quote:Originally posted by Sip:1+3 -> 9 (5) This one doesn't make sense to me. Where does (5) come from?It is the difference of the left and right side of the '->'symbol I use for jump. For for 1+3 -> 9, we have 4 jumping to 9 and thus the difference 5. For 1+3+9+27 -> 81 We have 40 "jumping to" 81 and so the difference is 41. Sorry for my confusing notation.

quote:Originally posted by nairi:Actually none of this is making sense to me. I never studied binary numbers, so I don't know how to use or calculate them either. It'll only take 5 minutes. Believe me, it's MUCH easier than you think. Actually, you already know it. You have been using base-10 numbers which is much more complicated!!! In any case, I'll just post this in case, but feel free to ignore it. Take a number like 5421. That number means: 5x10^3 + 4x10^2 + 2x10^1 + 1 Actually, an arbitrary 7-digit number in decimal let's say "abcdefg" (each letter is a digit) is: ax10^6 + bx10^5 + cx10^4 + dx10^3 + ex10^2 + fx10^1 + gx10^0 Right? That's it! For base n, all you have is powers of n in the sum instead of powers of 10. The other thing you have to know is that for base n, you need n digits to count. For base-10, you need 10 digits, for base 3, you need 3 digits. For binary (base-2), you need 2 digits: 1 and 0. So let's say you have a number 11010 in binary. What does that mean in decimal? It is: 1x2^4 + 1x2^3 + 0x2^2 + 1x2^1 + 1x2^0 = 16+8+2 = 26. I fully realize how strange this must all sound. But believe me when I say the concepts are quite simple (otherwise, I would NOT have put it up here). We spend our whole life messing with decimal numbers so it seems very natural to count 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 But our computers are not that smart so they count 1,10,11,100,101,110,111,1000,1001, ... (only 2 digits). All you have to do is to understand this sequence and you know how to count in binary quote:Originally posted by nairi:Nice one. This isn't a real sequence! Don't try to fool me! Nairi You got it. No fooling, honest! And I think it is a sequence 1 3 1 1 2 2 2 1, ... [ August 17, 2002, 01:17 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Dear Nairi, since sequences and series seem to be so interesting to you, here's another one. It is definitely one of my favorites! 1, 1 1, 2 1, 1 2 1 1, 1 1 1 2 2 1, 3 1 2 2 1 1, ...

Oh no! end of vacation? that sucks! Actually, I was trying to make heads or tails out of your post. You are definitely on to something but I think at the end it just comes to the actual pattern. So as I said before, the real pattern is: "All binary integers, assumed to be in base 3, converted to decimal." Quick review: With binary, we have 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000, ... We are counting 1,2,3,4,5,... but only with digits 1 and 0. After 1, you have to go to 10 (which is 2 in decimal) and then 11 (which is 3 in decimal). In binary, each digit represents a power of 2. With base 3, each digit represents a power of 3. In base n, each digit is a power on n. For our traditional decimal (base 10 system), each digit is a power of 10 (1, 10, 100, 1000 and so forth). So the number 123 in decimal is: 1x100 + 2x10 + 3x1 The number 123 in base 5 is: 1x25 + 2x5 + 3x1 Now in base 3, a number such as 1011 is: 1x27 + 0x9 + 1x3 + 1x1 = 31. Hopefully this was a short refresher on number bases. If you need more info, let me know and I'll be glad to give more details. ------ So, now that we have numbers of the form 1, 10, 11, 100, 111 (counting in binary) ... you will notice that the "jumps" occur anytime a number of the form 11111 changes to 100000 (next sequence). In binary, that is simply the "next" number. However, in base 3, we jump by a full power of 3! So 111 (in base 3 is 13 dec) goes to 1000 (in base 3 is 27 dec) thus the difference 14. The next jump comes at 1111 -> 10000 (27+9+3+1 -> 81) giving the difference 41. So essentially: The differences are between the next power of 3 and the sum of all previous powers of 3, just due to the nature of this sequence. 0 -> 1 (1) 1+3 -> 9 (5) 1+3+9 -> 27 (14) 1+3+9+27 -> 81 (41) 1+3+9+27+81 -> 243 (122) ... Did I make any sense?

Ok I know what some of you are thinking ... "Oh no, here goes Sip again with another one of his mental diarrheas!" ... but sorry I can't help it! I just have to know. All my life I have heard over and over and over how one must "work hard". "Work hard and you will succeed," they all say. Parrents tell their kids, teachers tell their students, bosses tell their workers, minsters tell their parishioners, etc etc. Especially in Armenian circles, I hear it over and over. But is it really true? Does working hard equate with success? Ok let me say that you don't have to convince me that the converse is not true! Yes, if you don't work hard, you will not succeed. I agree! But especially in the past few years, I have seen it many times ... several of my "colleagues" really working hard. Acutally, working their asses off ... much harder than I ... but they just don't seem to succeed. I really feel sorry for them. If there was any justice in the world, they should have been ultra successful by the amount of effort and time they put into their "work". Another example ... I see these poor, low-income, middle aged workers spend hours and hours at low paying jobs with no future ... REALLY working hard (for example at McDonals)... much harder than many others (probably including me). Yet it is obvious that they will probably never "succeed" by any meaning of the word. Unfortunately, in this second case, most often there is no other choice. It is a matter of survivial. But in the first example above, many of those lives could be spent in much more fruitfuil ways ... only if they realized that just "working hard" and just spending days and days suffering, will NOT guarantee success. So what do you think? Do you think we are fooling our kids and ourselves by saying things like "work hard and you will succeed?" Shouldn't we instead say things like: "think first, set goals, then work hard towards those goals, but then realize your limitations and do change your goals accordingly (i.e. think some more)" ??? or maybe we should tell them the truth: "There is no guarantee you will succeed so work hard enough and always think". ... or maybe I am just thinking too much into this. Let the kid just "work hard" and figure out life on his/her own? [ August 17, 2002, 02:01 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

So you think you are smart? Then try this test. Let's see how many you get right. Try to answer the questions first and then read the answers as you scroll down. Remember, you are on the "honor system" So no cheating --- 1. What do you put in a toaster? . . . . . . . . The answer is bread. If you said "toast", then give up now and go do something else. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, "bread", go to question 2. 2. Say "silk" five times. Now spell "silk". What do cows drink? . . . . . . . . Answer: Cows drink water. If you said "milk", please do not attempt the next question. Your brain is obviously overstressed and may even overheat. It may be that you need to content yourself with reading something more appropriate such as "Children's World". If you said, "water" then proceed to question three. 3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a greenhouse made from? . . . . . . . . Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said "green bricks", what the heck are you still doing here reading these questions????? Dang..... If you said "glass", then go on to question four. 4. Twenty years ago, a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany. If you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into West Germany and East Germany. Anyway, during the flight, TWO of the engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing procedure. Unfortunately the engine fails before he has time and the plane crashes smack in the middle of "no man's land" between East Germany and West Germany. Where would you bury the survivors - East Germany or West Germany or in "no man's land"? . . . . . . . . Answer: You don't, of course, bury survivors. If you said ANYTHING else, you are a real dunce and you must NEVER try to rescue anyone from a plane crash. Your efforts would not be appreciated. ...... If you said, "Don't bury the survivors" then proceed to the next question. 5. If the hour hand on a clock moves 1/60th of a degree every minute then how many degrees will the hour hand move in one hour? . . . . . . . . Answer: One degree. If you said "360 degrees" or anything other than "one degree", you are to be congratulated on getting this far, but you are obviously out of your league. Turn your pencil in and exit the room. Everyone else proceed to the final question. 6. Without using a calculator - You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, six people get off the bus and nine people get on. In Swindon, two people get off and four get on. In Cardiff, 11 people get off and 16 people get on. In Swansea, three people get off and five people get on. In Carmathen, six people get off and three get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven. What was the name of the bus driver? . . . . . . . . Answer: Oh, for heaven sake! It was YOU ! Read the first line again! ---- For the record: I just wanted to say that I think it's ok for cows to drink milk and I also think it's ok to bury survivors sometime

quote:Originally posted by Azat: quote:Originally posted by Sip:Hey that info may have a virus! I count 410 bits instead of 385 Oh God, only you would count that. I wasn't going to ... seriously! I just couldn't understand why MS would put out an ODD number of bits of info and why there was a full WORD missing from the end. Then I got even more confused when I saw it was 6 lines ... 6 lines of anything cannot be an ODD number. So I just copy-pasted it in Word and looked up the number of characters (yah, I know, I am turning off the computer right now).

Hey that info may have a virus! I count 410 bits instead of 385 (and no, I did NOT count every single one ... there are easier ways!)

Ara, you took the words right out of my mouth! At some point I thought there was some discussion about Mosjan having a sex change operation but I could be wrong.

I can see we all seem to have a "faillia to commmmunicate". I think we should all refer to THIS TRANSLATION . (click on the dialectize button)

quote:Originally posted by Mher:Dear Sheaphan ... Hahahaha ... good one . I think if I were born a sheep, I'd just kill myself immediately. Can you imagine the boredom those poor creatures have to live with? quote:Originally posted by Mher:... who says you can't be spiritual and be a man of a science at the same time The way I understood, Yoggi is saying just that. In order to be a "man of science" you have to be special ... you have to question everything. You have to open your mind and think different. Otherwise, if you just become one with existance and disappear in the background of how nature works, you will live like a sheep ... probably a very relaxing and long life ... but to what end? I always believe living for just the sake of being alive is not a good reason.

quote:Originally posted by ES:What does ISLAM stand for? I SCREW LLAMAS AND MULES I find this "American" type pop-jokes fascinating sometimes. It really shows how much some people know! I think this is the thought process some of them go through: 1) Islam not from US. 2) Islam and llama share the letter sequence "lam" 3) LLama not from US. 4) Therefore ISLAM and LLAMA highly related. 5) Make joke ... send to everyone on email list! http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/barf.gif

quote:Originally posted by Accelerated:YAY! Bitch fight! Fight Fight Fight Fight ..... Hey, do you want to be kicked out again? http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/roflmao.gif quote:Originally posted by nairi:Would you mind doing me that favor, please? No Problem. Dear MJ, Could you please clarify what you mean by "the heavy stone dragging it down"? I ( since it's too early in the morning for me to start to think) figure that "it" stands for "The Republic of Armenia", but I can't place "the heavy stone".

Dear Vahan, Since the soles must be stored in hell ( ha ha ... guess where this is going! ), they must be converted to binary. If we assume that no two soles are identical, then we must conclude that new bits of information must be added to hell. This conclusion holds under arbitrary (even optimal) compression schemes. Since sole streams are continuously entering hell, any compression scheme used must be adaptive and "on-line". Even if we assume that Hell has complete knowledge of the arrival orders of the different soles, it cannot achieve optimum compression due to finite storage. Since hell has finite storage, and since optimum compression cannot be achieved under these conditions, then Hell storage space must continue to expand as more soles enter it.

WOW! So Harut jan, let me see if you have been paying attention ... in a class of 25, what is the probability that someone will have the same birthday as you?