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Cool! Very nice. More problems will follow for sure

Oh and I just remembered ... this thing is VERY VERY funny. Make sure you have your sound turned on and it needs FLASH: 9 Ways on How to COOK RICE http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/roflmao.gif

Yah Btac, I know exactly what you mean ... with the technical term of course being the "ricer" or the "rice mobile". I am a BIG fan of high quality car stereos. I think the acoustics in the small space provided by a car can be amazing. However, notice I said "high quality" and NOT loud!!!! I can't imagine why ANYONE would put that many subs in a small space like that other than for the purpose of being heard from miles away as Mos said. I have 1 10" subwoofer (square not round) in my blazer and it is more than I can handle and I have to turn the gains down a lot. In the past 10 years, I have been slowly building up my system and it is to a point that I am very happy with it. You will not hear me coming but when inside the truck, the acoustics are really enjoyable (tuned to my taste of course). Here are a couple of pics if interested ... PIC1 PIC2 Right now, I am in the process of completely re-doing the inside of my car and I'll put those on my website in the coming weeks. But if there are any questions about car stereos let me know. There are a TON of info on the web but a lot of it is wrong/inaccurate. Event the so called experts usually don't know what they are talking about since most of them never even had a single electrical engineering course!!!! Of course, my signature always applies . About the "Armenians" in LA:, it seems like the fast, fixed up sports cars were THE things to have among the young crowd. Recently, I see a lot of those "persian" type fully loaded SUVs with 14 TVs, a satellite dish and a washer and dryer inside. Black BMWs also seem to be the car of choice for the "mafia" wanna be types (but some of them are actually that type and seem to be a pretty scarey type of crowd ) I am mainly into offroad and 4x4ing (I actually do take mine offroad a lot). I don't know too many Armenians that are into this but I haven't really looked. Also, mane of the "american"-types have this BIG fixed up expensive 4x4 vehicles that never see any action other than maybe driving on snow once in a while [ April 26, 2002, 02:52 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

ok hint time ... the way "for" works is: for ( expr_1 ; expr_2 ; expr_3 ) ... where expr_1, expr_2, and expr_3 are ANY C++ expression. The first one is usually an assignment to initialize, the second one is a conditional to check for loop termination and the third one is again an assignment of some sort to do the iteration. So now, THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX those expressions can be ANYTHING. Assingment, conditional, function call, arithmetic operation, etc etc ... That's as much as I can say. But this third one is pretty cool to figure out.

I am told they are all song titles: [*]LIGO-...- a little bit [*]I AGAPI INE ZALI-.... love is a headache [*]NA MOTO PIS-.....should read: Na mou to peis -> you should tell me [*]KALIMERA-....good morning [*]STASU-.... wait, or hold on [*]I MANA-... the mother [*]DINATA-... literally means loud, in this song means intensively [*]SE THELO-... I want you " src="smile.gif" />

Very carefully. Oh and I think you may find THIS SITE very interesting. I sometimes wonder that some people have WAY too much free time. http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/roflmao.gif

Very nice. All of them are great ... I also liked the one Domino pointed out. However, I'll be dreaming about that last one for sure. If I ever end up looking like that, someone please put me to sleep.

So let me see if I understood correctly ... you don't like it? http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/roflmao.gif

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/zr2_subs.jpg I am all FOR gadgets and toys and useless stuff but anyone think this is maybe a "little" too much? It's in a pickup truck ... all those are behind the driver seat ... there is a 6-th subwoofer that you can't see on the other side. In any case, although shocked, I am impressed and gotta give the guy credit for "effort"

Just to clarify something ... computers right now are not capable of considering enough possibilities to be able to beat humans all the time ... they have to rely on sophisticated "heuristics" and play based on strategies ... I am not sure what deep blue uses but the old alpha-beta algorithms come to mind. However, with such power (when we start talking trillions of things a second) then starting to look at every option exhaustively, all of a sudden becomes reality! Throw out the old "smart" and "intelligent" algorithms and just look at every possible outcome like a dumb machine

Well, the fact of the mater is that computers are getting faster and faster and faster ... at some point, they will be able to consider sooooo many possibilities within the "allotted" time, that no human will be able to beat them. The best they can hope is probably a draw. I don't know too much about chess (I know the basics and I can beat the computer in level 1 about 10% of the time). BUT I am assuming that there is no "solution" to chess. Which means there is no game that you can play which will guarantee that you will win. From what I have learned, I think that it is a valid assumption. I don't remember seeing any proofs for this so there could I guess be a "solution" to chess... anyone know if there are any existance proofs regarding chess solutions? In any case, if the above assumption is ture, there is little doubt in my mind that the computer will easily WIN or get a DRAW against any human chess player ALL THE TIME. Just think, if the computer can exhaustively search ALL outcomes for lets say 10 moves, there is not much that a human player can do! I don't think any human has the capacity to see ALL POSSIBILITIES anywhere near 10 or more moves much less even try to plan for it [ April 22, 2002, 09:02 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

It does 30 TRILLION THINGS a second!!! Sure, it's still no match for the human brain for performing complex tasks because as Garo said, it's hard to "program" those things. The problem is that current chip hardware are static. They internals don't change during the lifetime. In our brains, the neuron connections keep changing and updating throughout our lives. Now we have billions of neurons and they have many many connections which "update". These computers are soon going to have billions of transistors but they will still be no where near the adaptability and "learning" of a human brain since their connections will still not change (much) as they run. But for "specific" tasks .. Wheeeeeeooooooooo ... 30 Trillion things a second!!!! And it's only going to grow exponentially as we know

I just saw THIS ARTICLE ... about the current fastest computer in the world ... pretty amazing!!! It's made by NEC and is called the Earth Simulator. It is intended "to analyze climate changes, including global warming, as well as weather and earthquake patterns". It has 5,104 processors and could reach a theoretical speed of 35,600 gigaflops. They said yesterday it reached 87% of the peak theoretical speed Just mind boggeling!!! In the time it takes you to blink, this thing can do about 30 TRILLION OPERATIONS ... just to put it in perspective ... I have been alive for 26 years ... if I had done one operation every second of my life, I would have done less than 1 billion things so far ... it would take me about 1 million years to do as many things as that computer can do in 1 second ... that's without any rests!!!!

YAY!!! I hope those strikes really hurt

They make the problem sound sooo serious! They hack, you fix! It takes them hours and days to hack, it takes you minutes to restore from backups !!! That simple

Well, then I'm sorry That google thing is much better than what I can do !!!

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/gps_alaska.jpg After I posted the message I remembered about this pic that I took last year. It was a hundred miles from Anchorage in Alaska I think but I am not exactly sure. Those bars show the sattelites and the signal strength. I could see about 12 satelites with VERY good signal levels. Here in California, Nevada, and Arizona, I can barely get 4 or 5 satellites. I didn't get a chance to play with it much in Europe and when it did work, I could see about 3 satellites with good signal. But the sky was very cloudy ... In Alaska, the signal was so good, I could drive by just looking at the GPS screen especially since there was no one else on the roads. It was tracking the road perfectly!!! I would like to hear from others in different parts of the world. If you use GPS, how well does it work where you are?

Anyone here use GPS for hiking, backbacking, hunting, driving, etc? If so what device and software? How do you like it? Anyone use the TOPO Maps that Garmin sells? (I am having some problems with topos and the eMap ... but I am also using their MetroGuide maps) I have been using the eMap from Garmin for a couple of years now. It's just excellent ... I don't use paper maps anymore but still carry them sometimes "just in case" Like when I was in Paris last summer, my eMap wouldn't lock since it was a cloudy day and there were a bunch of buildings around. I was totally lost for a while until this old guy who couldn't speak english helped me out. Good thing was that I did have a map with me but I had no idea where I was on the map [ April 19, 2002, 03:43 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Although I know a bit, you should go to HERE. I think you can probably figure it out

Domino + Harut ... thanks for the clarifications .. I thought it's about time to bring this thread back on top So ... I hope you haven't seen this before: http://home.earthlink.net/~Sip/misc/triangles.gif

quote:Originally posted by Twilight Bark:A more crucial point to consider is what one has to communicate. I'd rather listen to a stuttering man that sprinkles his torturous and tortuous speech with lots of "ums" and "aaa"s but has deep insight, than a smooth talking "communicator" whose discourse has perfect "left-brain" logical connections and perfect internal consistency but is based on a completely false or fatally superficial view of reality. Ouch! All I got to say is touche' quote:Originally posted by Twilight Bark:Your "mainstream" is the geekdom in which you spend your "professional" part of your life Your "mainstream" and, say, highflier's "mainstream", although intersecting, are significantly different in many areas. I am starting to realize that your statement is very true. Most of the kind of knowledge I seek is not in the from of a book yet. I was actually thinking about this quite a bit today ... it is not uncommon to refer to a computer related book from the early 90s as "that classic piece of work by so and so" Actually, I was recently contacted to write an article to be included in a new encyclopedia ... it took a few months and the book is about to be published ... but as I realized that several things in that article are already out dated!!! quote:Originally posted by Twilight Bark:As I agreed earlier, TV and radio have their place. I enjoy learning a lot from both of these sources. However, there is a level of depth and proficiency that is simply impractical to achieve regardless of how excellent the program is. I wonder why that is. It is clear to me that books do not have any advantage over the type of medium that TV provides. Yet TV is mainly being used as purely an entertainment tool I am thinking that maybe the costs of achieving that "depth" and "proficiency" in a program do not justify the effort. Maybe it's that they will not have a large enough audience to even recover their initial costs of "publishing" ... never the less, it is very puzzling to me. I find that people in general are very slow to accept change ... and usually only when there is significant gains to be made to they actually do a "switch" ... for examle, it is obvious that the land-line telephone is by far an outdated means of communication. Yet people still insist on having one at their house !!! They often get shocked when I tell them that I don't have a phone number where I can be reached ... they think I am trying to brush them off or show-off my "geeky-ness" whatever that is ... but I don't think that's true. If I were to approach a random person on the street about 10 years ago and tell him that 10 years from that date he would most likely be sitting in front of a computer, browsing, chatting, emailing, playing games, he would have looked at me and called me a geek and a feak of nature! The geeks were the ones messing around on usenet groups and the BBS'es. But now, it's like you can't be cool unless you have an email account or instant messaging! About History: FYI, I have only been in the US for the past 11 years. Most of my pre-highschool and elementary education I got in Iran ... a couple of years in Germany. My hatred of history (it's not really a hatered of the subject ... just hatred of the massive amounts of readings it requires) manifested itself long before I ended up on the North American continent.

Mos: Ok urem e mi hat el yes asem ... yerevi lsats ke linek ... ------------------- Mi or IBM e irents amenits nor yev aragatsats computer e joghovurdin tsuyts i hamar er drel ... darber mardkants asum ein vor gnan, portzen ayd computerin ... inch harts vor kuzein, computer e ke patasxaner. Urem e, hert e hasav mi hat Hay mardun ... inke mi kich spasets yev mtatseluts heto harstrets: "Inch ka che ka?" Computer e gejvets! Sksets lriv inch vor kar yev che kar grel yev batsatdrel ... arden tsux er sksum durs gal vor verjatsrets patasxane. Ed Haye mi moment mtatsets u hartsrets: "Lav, bayts el inch ka che ka?" .... (boom, @%@$@!, tsught, verj, computer e satkav !!!!) ------ Ok gidem ed meke shat anham er bayts yes shat em sirum ed joke

quote:Originally posted by MosJan:i do have one, SONY Vaio PCG-C1X Picturebook i do not liek it i'm gooing to listed on Ebay in a week or so. Any specific reason or just the design of the thing? It was too small in my opinion to be used for long periods ... but I haven't had any first hand experience with the Crusoe processor.

Now that's what I'm talking about Very nice Azat. That thing would be ideal to go in my car. I am trying to stuff a PDA (IPAQ) in there at the moment but a 1GHz PC with a 10Gig drive would sure be nice! I actually did a bit of reading on Transmeta last year ... I decided to pick them as one of my homework projects for a class. They are a very interesting company and their processors are fairly sophisticated ... one of their first "PC" was the SONY Picturebook ... I don't know if you have seen it but it's that cute little laptop the size of a small book with a rotating digital camera on top of the lid. ... hmmmm ... I gotta start saving up !!!

vow vow vow ... hold on a sec ... that's a BIG jump going from celebacy to child abuse. I know it is somewhat natural (as our friend Twilight B would say "mainstream"-ish) to assume that just because you don't do "wink wink", you would naturally think about abusing childeren and maybe even farm animals but come on now, I don't buy that! Those that engage in child abuse have something really screwed up in their brain ... I don't think celebacy "leads" to child abuse... that's all I am saying!!! [ April 16, 2002, 02:52 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]