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Sure why not Domino jan ... Azat and I will write a nice "virus" and tell you it is the solution. You will run it on your computer and it will send us all your secrets!!! Just wait a couple of weeks and they way it is going, Harut is going to be able to do all your homeworks for you

Yes! Welcome aboard

It is ... it is half a byte, i.e 4 bits ... you you have bit, nibble, byte, word (doublet), quadlet (32 bits) etc (octlet). So another trivial yet not so trivial question that only geeks know ... how many bytes in a mega byte?

Mos jan, du metar@ dur indz, yete yes het dam kez, du kimanas vor voski chi Composen el togh Harut@ pahi ir mod

Ok Harut jan, I really give up. I just have a feeling this is one of those things that don't have an answer! (have been thinking about it on and off for a few days now) Can you measure distances with the straight edge? Can you mark things on it? If so, then I have more work to do but with a simple straight edge and a compass, I don't think I can split 19 degrees into 19 1 degree angles

Ok, time for another one ... this one, you either know it or you don't! Warning: only the trully geeky ones will know the answer. In computers: What is a "nibble"?

quote:Originally posted by MosJan:... Sometimes people would put a metal coin in the bagharg and the one whose piece contained the coin was considered lucky. ... Isn't it funny that the one with a broken tooth is considered lucky? (<--- yet another chance to use my favorite guy!!!) Just like those race drivers that have accidents and are called "lucky". Oh yah, it could have been worse but the lucky guys didn't have the accidents to begin with Very interesting article though.

That French one is really funny ... made me laugh out loud!!! Those guys are always on strike ... I went to Rome last summer with a stop in Paris ... long story short, my bags decided to stay a few extra days in Paris since the loading people were on strike ... It was really funny when I checked my bags and the attendant was trying to shove it into the tunnel where they usually go ... I could see everything was jammed in there and I knew something was wrong ... she told me ... "don't worry, I'll get there on time, it's just a technical glitch" ... yah right!

Is it just me or does everyone have stupid thoughts like me ... So this is the first time I saw this thread ... 9 pages ... starting December 2000 ending about December 2001 ... about daily thoughts ... first thing that came to my mind is that 40 posts per page ... 9 pages ... 1 year ... that's about 360 posts in this thread ... that would mean that there could be at most one person posting in this thread (pigeon hole principle: About 360 posts in about 360 days). And then I thought to myself ... boy, that was very dumb. But that's how my day goes ... just dumb thought, after dumb thought, ... sometimes my thoughts are so dumb I start to laugh at myself ... then people think I am crazy ... but I am not crazy ... just dumb

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Don't even try to understand what the above means. You will never figure it out! (no one can ... well so far ...) I took your request: code:i was born in Yerevani hope one day i'll become computer programmer or something of that sort i like math i'm friendly i do crazy stuff sometimes and ran it through MD5 ... that's the output it provided. I just added "ian" at the end If you want to know what MD5 does, just GO HERE.

6C4F782D81FDF7717951944D9F94EE7Eian

Man, Azat, where do you find these things?

Now that's a LAWN MOWER!!! I LIKE, I LIKE !!!

quote:Originally posted by highflyer:... We Armenians came from the land ... The land IS our roots very much like the native Americans. It seemes how much is forgotten in two generations. Ok, I'll make a fool of myself and show how little I know about Armenia! From what I have heard, the entire country is very rockey and mountenous so I was under the impression that nothing much would grow there (well, at least nothing like the massive crop fields we see here in the US). So I was wondering, is our roots really from Land? Where did/does the major food sources for Armenia come from? And if it is crops, how much of it is imported?

ushimushi? Is that the technical term? It's great that you have discovered what you really want to do! The main problem is going to be the population size though. We have to start coming up with ways to be extremely efficient if we ever hope to feed this quickly expanding population of the Earth. I somehow don't think 10 billion people can survive on vegatalbes and crops alone. Maybe eating meat is not the best way but I see great value in milk, eggs, and fish. Fish is an amazingly abundant source of protein on earth so at least in the short term (next few hundred years) I think they will be a great source of food. But the ultimate answer to your animal cruelty concerns, in my opinion, is controllig the population size. Otherwise, it is going to be very difficult justifying not hurting cows when millions are hungry ... However, I agree that in the wealthier parts of the world (western Europe, US, ...), you may have a valid point that people should cut back on meat because not too many will go "hungry" if they don't eat meat. I try to eat Tuna once in a while instead of hamburgers and steak...

The most common use I can think of is computer graphics. Ever wonder how those FAST 3D graphics cards work? They have to be able to do 3d calculations and polygon math very very fast to be able to give you 60 frames per second in a game that has thousands of polygons in one scene! Now I know you play computer games Movses jan But if you are not a programmer, you probably will never use this stuff directly. So one way to "shade" a polygon is to do scanline algorithm. You start from the left and move to the right pixel by pixel. As soon as you see an edge, you turn on your color and start filling in. As soon as you see the next edge, you turn off your color. Once a horizontal line (scan line) is complete, you go to the next line and repeat. This is the simplest way to FILL a complex polygon very quickly without much complicated math.

Oh, and if you want to see this thing in action, click on THIS LINK to my website. You can start clicking around to add points. Then choose "convex hull" to see this bounding polygon. You may want to deselect Voronoi Diagram first. The algorithm used in that applet is not the same as above, but the outcome is the same.

Well, I am glad you are trying at least! I hate giving away answers since then the problem is not fun anymore ... also, have been very busy these past few days ... Solution to Bounding Polygon Problem This one is actually kind of fun! So you start with the point with the largest 'y' coordinate (highest point)... call this p_highest. Then, you calculate the angles formed by the horizontal line, and the line connecting this point to EVERY other point. Call the angle to point i, theta_i. For example: code: p_highest .------------------- (horizontal line) theta_i . point i Then the solution becomes elegant! At each step, you simply connect your current point to the point with the smallest theta. And repeat the process. So the way it works is that you basically "wrap" a line around the points by calculating this angle tetha to each point and picking the smallest one as the next point (you start by the higheset point). This algorithm is also called the Gift Wrapping algorithm in some text books.

Wow, in the 10 minutes it took me to write a message, all hell broke lose! I am with Garo on this one. Peronal name calling and attacks are intolerable. Disagreeing and debate is fine ... but name calling and direct personal insult is clearly crossing the line ... (we all agreed to forum rules when signing up).

quote:Originally posted by hasmiek:[QBThe comparing animals with plants is pretty ignorant Sip, [didn't expect that from you !!] Plants don't have a central nerve system, plants don't 'feel' and 'communicate' like animals do. [/QB] I admit I am not perfect My stomach is pretty much the biggest weakness I have. When it comes to my steak, pork chops, and grilled chicken with lemon and garlic sauce, somehow all my values and logic go out the door I think cows, chickens, pigs, and fish are very dumb animals. I admit our actions look pretty horrible once we associate human attributes to those animals. But, I don't think they have the "awareness" levels that we humans have. Other heigher forms of life such as monkeys, dogs, whales, dolphines, and elephants show clear signs of "awareness", memory, learning, and advanced social behaviors. So I would think twice before hurting a whale or an elephant. But I don't particularly feel bad when eating a cow or a chicken. Although I would respect anyone's decision not to eat them (for whatever reason). One of the reasons I am defensive about the subject is some strange claims made by hard-core "vegans" ... I was reading a report that claimed the gases produced by cows contributes a lot to global warming!!! I mean give me a break ... a simple volcano can probably produce much more poisonous and harmful gases than all cows could in 100 years!!!! So for health, religeous, and resource "efficiency" reasons, I have no problems with being a vegetarian. As far as animal cruelty claims ... I am not sure. I don't think it's a big deal. But things like "Global Warming" issues, I seriously question the motivation behind those "reports".

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/portable.jpg Well, I don't know about you guys but I always use my computer like that guy in the picture above. So I look nothing like that last part of the image Azat posted By the way, there is no evidence linking current computer users to the ancient humans that used consturction or farm tools. Evolution is not proven ...

I don't think that is sexual harassment. He is basically saying that it is wrong for a woman to have sex before marriage. However, what I find very interesting is that many people that say things like that, feel it is ok for men to have sex and experiment before marriage!!!! If I am not mistaken, this would mean that men should have sex with married women (otherwise, they would have to have sex with unmarried women which would be very very wrong according to the above statement). Some things just really confuse me in life!

I like EVERYTHING except tomatoes. I am a lot like the garbage disposer in the house. Whatever is left over, I eat (except chunks of tomatoes). This way, the environment is saved from all the trash that we produce in the kitchen On a serious note, I can respect being a vegatarian for health reasons. The only thing I don't agree with is the tortured animals business. What about all the plants that you "torture" and eat? Why should animals get better treatment than plants? By the way, I want to be clear that I don't disrespect anyone's decision to live in any way they want. It's just that this particular choice (about being vegeterian), I don't understand ... and why not just cut back on meat? A chicken a month doesn't sound that horrible.

If you can see it on the monitor, you already got it There is currently no way to fully protect digital intelectual property (like audio, image, video). Anyone who asks for it, probably doesn't know! It is so funny to see these music industry people trying to force the spending of millions of dollars to develop copy protection schemes for musc!!! They don't seem to understand that if a human can "hear" music, that human can use ANY recording device to record the music to any format he or she wants. Unfortunately, the cost is going to end up hitting the consumer's pockets. Same thing applies to images. However, what you CAN do (the theory is very sound at the moment) is WATERMARKING. This way, you can prove in court that something is yours (like an image). But watermarking doesn't prevent from copying. About projectSAVE (I don't know about them) ... You should just do something really simple so if they ask, you'll say you did your best. Don't worry about their rediculous request !!! Oh and on most web pages that don't let you right-click and save images, if you just save the page using the save command in the file menu, Internet explorer will save ALL the files including images ... I would say if you don't have to, don't bother with the right-click disable thing. It just aggrevates your users