Sip

Related but unrelated: Thanks a LOT to whoever decided to sign me up Unfortunately, I am still a LOOOOONG way from being able to afford Armani ... although I promise that one day I will be that cool ... But I did get a big KICK out of it though. Thanks!

By the way, Harut jan, shat shnorhakal em ... che gidem kani dari er vor yes ayd votanavore chei lsel!!!! (yerevi mi 20 dari ke lini) Ah .... good memories ...

Ok here I am again ... I really need some sleep but I find this topic very interesting ... just forgive me if I seem to be blabbering at times ... First about the "mainstream" thing: I am under the impression that the "mainstream" advocates the reading of books as the thing to do! Actually, here I am going against the mainstream ... if you don't believe me, just read all the replies and you'll see I am alone in my thinking about books Now about "reading": I am not disputing the value of reading. I think reading is a basic means of communication which will not go away so easily. Whether digital or not, interactive or not, reading will be around for a LONG time I think. About books: I am talking about the 1-dimensionality of it. You start on page 1, you work your way to page n, moving your eyes over word k-1 before going to work k. Word after word, page after page, until you're done. I just get extremely bored with that. My mind typically wonders around and I can't focus since the process is sooooo sloooooooow (maybe I need speed-reading practice?) On a computer however, I can do 5 things at the same time, switch back and forth, jump forwards and backwards, search (yes, it is VERY important to me and I do it all the time while reading), lookup words/concepts I don't know, and even get side-tracked and follow a different tangent than where the flow of the text is trying to taking me. About TV: I think it is a fantastic medium. Unfortunately, it is not being used the way it should. Most "mainstream" programs SUCK. BUT, a huge book can be efficiently condensed into a short 1 or 2 hour program since instead of spending 30 pages describing the scence, they just show it to you in 1 frame!!!! The 3 paragraphs used to describe a sound ... you just hear it! Example: How long does it take to describe an elephant, how it moves, how it behaves, how it eats ... in a book? How long does it take to do the same on TV? Which one is really better? I think the difference is obvious. Another example: I always hated "History" in school. It was torture for me to read about history. But I actually love the History channel we have here. I have learned A TON of stuff about ancient egypt, Word War II, US History, European History, etc etc just by watching that channel. I would have to spend hours and hours reading books to get the same info. Here, I just have the TV on while I am working on my PC. I pick up an amazing amount of info that way. The beauty of it is that I don't even really have to pay attention (as opposed to a book where you have to read each paragraph carefully). I just glance over every few seconds and I can immediately reconstruct what happened in between because things are so visual and auditory (as opposed to plain text). About communication: I have read very few books. Most of them were required in school. Yet, I am often told that I have good communication skills both in terms of speaking and writing ... hmmm or should I say "well communication skills" ... I have never really had formal training in any language except maybe one college class in English (required). I obviously can't attriubte it to reading books. All I can conclude right now is that clear and organized thinking leads to clear and organized communication abilities. Do reading books help? Maybe ... are they necessary? I'd say no.

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/bathroom.jpg You guys have all made very interesting points. I will reply to them shortly (I am crazy busy at the time ...) I just couldn't wait to post a picture of my bathroom to clear up any confusions you may have. PS: It's not my real bathroom but I do have wireless internet at home and at UCLA (as well as several laptops and PDAs) so sometimes you DON'T want to know where I am posting from

quote:Originally posted by highflyer:You forget Jesus taught faith not religion. ... I think I am slightly confused. What would you say is the difference between the two?

Wow pretty interesting ... I also had lots of problems with memory. These VIA-based boards are fairly picky when it comes to mem. I bought mine from a website that claimed it was compatible with the A7V boards ... First thing you should do, is get a stable bios ... for me, 1007 has been very good. Then install XP on a freshly formated drive with all latest drivers. Then, before doing anything else, install 3D Mark from madonion (you can download for free or let me know and I'll give it to you). Let it run it's benchmarks for a day. If it doesn't crash, then you can be sure your hardware and drivers (RAM, Graphics, AGP, and Windows are doing GOOD!). That 3d mark is very good. It always crashes if there is some problem with drivers, ram, instability ... it also lets you know how fast your PC is running. Once you have basic windows with 3D mark running stable, then you can start adding different components and software. For me, I haven't noticed the delay for a few days. The only time it seems to delay now is when it's seaching for drives (and checking CDs) which is not very often.

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/roflmao.gif That just made my day !!! Yah, I wouldn't want anyone to get the wrong idea here ... we're talking about "clean" stuff ... like the beautiful love between a man and his PC Thanks for the clarification Domino. Yah, thanks a LOT

Funny the feeling is completely mutual at this point. I don't mind a nice debate or a conversation. I tend to think that I am very open minded. But you gotta admit this thing is getting old. Yah Jews are bad. Yah Jews hate Armenians. Yah Jews are really good friends with Turks. I know you think you are helping "the cause" somehow but you are NOT. You are only making all Armenians look bad by saying such ridiculous things so often and in so many places. Worst of all, you are not even saying in your words. You are just repeating things like a tutak (parrot). It's amazing because I was probably the only one around here (actively posting anyway) that would have been influenced by what you say since I don't have any preconcieved ideas and agendas and I don't know much about Armenian History ... just here trying to learn some things because I feel that I should (for whatever reason). But you somehow managed to bring me to a point of starting to make fun of you. Think about it! I am totally serious now. I admire you a lot for standing up and working so hard for the cause which you believe but on the other hand I really pitty you since in the long run you don't help worth a damn. Yah, what do "I" know ... I agree. I don't know shit. But unfortunately, you probably won't be able to teach me things since you managed to somehow lose all my respect right from beginning. It's not worth much to you I know ... just sad So much energy, so much effort, all going to waste (as I can see).

quote:Originally posted by gamavor:In my legal and life practice I have met many idiots, but I have never met an idiot of your caliber and this time I'm absolutely serious. Really? Even in your "legal" practice? That's hard to believe (sorry, had to take the crack at Lawyers ) But I agree the forum is really fun. Where else would you hear the word "asymmetric" used as insult?

quote:Originally posted by A.R.:“In the contemporary world there are two nations that are the carriers of evil of the most concentrated and ag-gressive type. These are the Jews – the nation-destroyer with a mission of destruction and decomposition, and the Turks – the nation-killer with a mission of devastation and crushing.” Roman Yepiskoposyan Author of the Armenian Book " National System" [VERY SARCASTIC REMARK] I am once again totally shocked to find there are people that believe the Jewish and Turkish nations are evil in their policies and actions. Thanks VERY much for making me and all other Armenians aware of this very little known fact by quoting some other guy. [/VERY SARCASTIC REMARK] Dude, if you find that you copy-paste 99.9% of the things you "say" during the day, then you should realize that you really have nothing new to say and it's probably a good idea to be quiet and listen for a while (in your case, a LOoooooNG while). You are almost like those annoying friends I have that forward me some chain mail after I have already received it from 50 other people. A.R.: When you copy-paste things out of Microsoft Word, you have to turn off the auto-hyphenation feature first. Otherwise, you'll end up with extra '-' in words like ag-gressive.

Very interesting stuff Nvard. I had no idea !!! But I have to say I really like the Iranian version ... it sorta gives us "class". Armani ... I am Armani ... I wear Armani glasses ... I have Armani shoes .... Very very cool What are you? Oh, I am Armani. What kind of Jeans are those?! Oh, those are Armani. I just can't get enough ... I feel so cool

quote:Originally posted by hagarag:If you are located where you claim you are, you are posting for the last few nights at 3AM to 4AM in the middle of the night.... Oh Oh ... I am busted! By the way, on a lighter note, I really thought it was funny when A.R. called you Jewarag. I know, I am ashamed, but never the less, I did laugh at that remark. It was pretty unexpected

A.R. YOU DON'T GET THE POINT DO YOU? I am NOT arguing what Jews or Turks DID or DIT NOT DO!!!! I don't really care at the moment. Just saying "the way" you are saying things DOES NOT WORK! You CANNOT win people's trust by bombarding them with stuff. Now-a-days, people are smarter than that. Get used to the 21-st century. By the way, I started wondering, how many of your Russian friends (that you so love) trully believe in Jesus as the savior and lord as you do? From what I have heard/seen, religion is not that big with the communists. A lot of the Armenians that I see coming here to US from Armenia also don't strike me as too religeous. So what gives? Also, I never said turks and jews are our friends. Friendship has to be earned. But that doesn't mean I automatically hate everyone that is not my friend. Hagarag, Einstein was a JEW. A.R. and Anoush ... doesn't matter how much you talk, you will NEVER convince me that Einstein was garbage. NEVER

I know. Books are good. All smart people read books. You read books you learn a lot ... but do you? I have never liked books. I think they are outdated as a form of conveying information and that they are not too effective. They have been the only source we have had since the beginnings but I want to see what you think about this. But let me first be clear! I think books are great for "fiction", "novels", and that type of stuff which exercise human imagination, feelings, etc. I see great value in letting the mind sometimes form the picture of what is happening as opposed to just showing it. But I also don't think that one necessarily "learns" by reading too many of those types of books. I am talking more about human learning. I don't know how many times I heard teachers and adults say don't watch too much TV. Read a book instead. But I really don't see their point. I can learn SOOOO much from television and computer (audio-visual sources). We have these stations in the US called Discovery channel, Learning channel, History channel, etc that are simply amazing in their content! I have seen and learned things from there that would have been almost impossible for me to learn from books. And most important of all, they are VERY efficient and don't bore me. I know that the right side of my brain has porbably been on vacation since the early 80s. But ... what do you think? Don't you think that books are fairly inefficient and archaic means of communicating knowledge? Every book that I have ever read has bored the heck out of me. So boring ... word after word after word ... Ever heard the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words"??? (amazing that only childeren's books have lots of pictures ...) So what do you think? Are you one of those people that claims to have a "great time" reading books? Do you read books for entertainment?

quote:Originally posted by A.R.:One Question, Are you Armenian? Yes Or No Yes. But you can decide on your own (whether I fit YOUR definition). My parents are Armenian. I was born in London. I know the language (conversational at least). My last name ends in 'ian'. My first name is the name of a mountain that is in Turkey right now. I don't hate Jews. I don't even hate Turks. By the way, I do use my real name and I am proud of it (it is fairly unique especially for someone my age - 25). [ April 12, 2002, 01:20 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

One more thing that just came to mind ... There were these really dumbass "Armenians" here in the US ... very close to "little Armenia". Those geniuses went out after the terrorist attacks waveing Armenian flag and screaming death to America, and cheering the terrorists (I saw some in person). Those A-holes were waving the Armenian FLAG!!! I couldn't believe what I saw. I was trully ashamed of calling myself Armenian at that instant. What is a normal working-class American going to think when the first time in his life he sees Armenian flag waved cheering those that killed his family or friend in the trade center? You really think those "Armenians" help in ANY WAY? What's the point? I see people like you (A.R.) and Anoush having the same mentality. I can easily picture you dancing around and singing when a Bomb blows up in Israel killing women and childeren just because they were Jews. These are women and childeren and innocent men that die. Even worse, there are poor teenage and young palestinians that blow themselves up (that is the saddest part about the whole thing ... just think of the mental state in which they are in). You call them garbage. I call them humans. Worst of all, you do it waving the Armenian flag [ April 12, 2002, 01:51 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

HELL YAH!!! Lakers ALL THE WAY!!! Did you see that last game against UTHA after Shaq got ejected? Man they are kicking BUTT. But so are the KINGS. it's going to be a blast watching the 2. Forget about the EAST this year. [ April 12, 2002, 07:46 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by Domino:... Could someone really love more then one person in the same time ? You probably already know exactly what I would say so I'll spare myself the embarassment of making yet another dumb comment.

Oh MY GOD!!!! Did you know this??? How come no one TOLD ME before ... We must act NOW. Organize the Armies .... call the reserves ... we are GOING TO WAR. We will show those bastards. They dare do Genocide on us ... Thank you A.R. for this amazing new discovery. Why did it take you soooo long to post this thing? 90 years is a long time ... [ April 11, 2002, 12:16 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Is your motherboad BIOS 1007 or later? I think 1007 is one of the most stable ones and 1010 just came out ... for that motherboard. Are you using the Promise Ultra DMA connectors or the standard IDE connectors to run the hard disks (and if you are using Promise, are you using 80-pin Ultra DMA 100 cable?) When it boots, do you see the hard disks detected after Promise Tech logo message? You should go to the Promise website and get latest winxp driver. The product you are looking for is Ultra100. The website is HERE. The driver is dated April 2 so you probably don't have it (If you are using Promise IDE controller, the VIA driver does not have anything to do with you ... the VIA IDE driver only updates the standard IDE drivers which are part of the VIA chipset ... Promise has a different chip) By the way, Promis has BIOS upgrades for the UltraDMA chip but you can't use those. They are for the stand-alone Ultra100 boards. Yours is integrated in the motherboard so the BIOS is packaged in the moatherboard BIOS (from Asus). Let me know if something is unclear

Yah I have noticed that delay too. I don't know what it is. But I just got it working last week so I haven't had much time to mess with it. My system seems to be VERY stable right now (knock on wood !!!). It was a pain to get it there though. I had 1 256 PC133 DIMM CAS-3 originally bought with the motherboard. Then, I bought 2 512 PC133 CAS-3 dimms (no ECC). I could never get all three dimms to work together. So I ditched the 256 and found out that my 1Gig (2x512) was stable only if I set 8ns delay (as opposed to 7ns or auto). Everything else is on high speed (turbo mode) and AGP is in 4x. Everything works great! Until I upgraded to 1010 bios before I was going to install XP. Then I got the beeps (no ram detected). I tried Everything. I narrowed it down to the 8n/7n delay issue. For some reasons, these new chips don't get detected using default bios 1010... and I had no way to set different settings. I put the old memory in (I still had it thank god!) and after a lot of trial and error, decided it was best to flash back to 1007 since I know for sure it is very stable for me. Other details: [*]A7V motherbaord/1 GIG RAM [*]ASUS 7700 Deluxe (Geforce2 GTS) 64MB video card [*]Sound blaster live [*]Dlink 530Tx+ network card [*]Firewire card (not sure on the brand but it has standard TI chips on it ... for my scanner) [*]Promise IDE Channel 1: Maxtor 80Gig 7200 UDMA 100 (mode 5) Maxtor 20Gig 7200 UDMA 100 (mode 4) [*]Promise IDE Channel 2: Yamaha CD Writer (16x?x40) Cheap DVD drive (I bought for $35 !!!! works great) [*]Nothing on standard IDE channels. [*]3.5" Floppy connected. That's about it.Drivers: Latest NVIDIA Detonator drivers, Soundblaster drivers from their site, Promise drivers, I also installed the latest 4-in-1 VIA drivers. I think that's it as far as drivers.

Oh just one note ... I am personally using 1007. I had trouble with the 1010 and my RAM. It wouldn't boot up after upgrading. I had to switch RAM modules with some older 256 DIMM I had to get it to boot so I could flash it back to 1007. I still have to specifically set 8ns option for RAM in bios to make it work but at least it lets me get to that screen! With 1010, it starts beeping. I think the default memory speed option is "auto" and it somehow fails to detect mine. Be very "prepared" when messing with that 1010. If I didn't have another RAM module, I would be stuck with a dead motherboard Oh somewhere above I forgot to say that I have the A7V myself so that's how I know about it I also had hard disk problems (XP got corrupted) until I found out that I should install new Promise XP drivers.

I like that answer a lot!

quote:Originally posted by hagarag:It is time for the Holy Couple to retake the Church. ... Just let me know which specific Church because I want to switch to that one before it's too late. So many churches with so many different beliefs that is driving me nuts! Let's just pick one and stick with it. If you really think about it, out of all these thousands of different churches and religions, only ONE is the true one! It would suck so much for the rest of them to realize they were wrong for soooo long Kinda reminds me of that Indiana Jones movie where he had to pick the holly grail and drink from it. So many glasses to pick from and only 1 chance Actually, the probability that the church that person "x" belongs as being the "correct one" is sooo low, that it is not funny anymore Just depresses me every time I think about it. I really don't want to burn in hell for eternity but all statistics and probability theory is telling me is that it is almost for sure that I'll end up there.

No I am talking about that place where most armenian/persian students at UCLA go to meet girls!!! On second thought ... maybe I should have gone to the library much much more to "study" and "read"