Sip

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

Arthur jan, in case you come back ... Argue [*]To put forth reasons for or against; debate [*]To attempt to prove by reasoning; maintain or contend [*]To give evidence of; indicate [*]To persuade or influence (another), as by presenting reasons So which one of those have you been doing again? I am not going to comment about your direct conversations with the others on this board ... but just to keep the record straight, I have never called you any names, been rude, or disrespectful. On the other hand, many times when you face a direct and simple question which seems to undermine your position, you resorted to name calling and/or slander ... that's not arguing! If you want to argue about something intelligent, I am always ready. But don't expect me to change my thinking just because you say so. You have to present a logical, valid argument if you want to be taken seriously by me (or hopefully any other intelligent person on this board). Can you count how many times I have asked something like "Arthur, what to you think about (this and that)" and you have replied by "Oh Sip, grow up" or "Sip you don't make enough money to ask questions like that" or "Sip you are gay" or "Sip you are not serious" or "Sip you are not a true Armenian" or ... I could go on and on! Can you find a single time where I have avoided answering a direct question? I doubt it. [ March 15, 2002, 07:11 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by ARTURian:Sip, with that example you sound as a kid, lol. Be serious... I am sorry that I am below your intelligence level. Maybe one day ... but the way the world seems to me right now, I will always be a "kid" trying to make sense of this complex thing we call life. (pretty ironic considering what I am saying in my signature isn't it?) [ March 15, 2002, 01:17 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Actually, now that I think about it, I do that sometimes too. My cat wanted to go out and play the other day. I had seen this big dog in the neighborhood running around. So I didn't let her go out. I can really see parallels between the way I feel and care about that cat and the way you talk about your wife. No disrespect intended. You have the right to do and feel as you please but I don't really respect my cat. I own it and play with it when I feel like it. If you want to call that respect and care, that's fine. But I think we are using 2 different dictionaries.

quote:Originally posted by ARTURian:... If she comes up with such idea of driving a car, first thing i would ask is "what for?" ... Second thing is she will respect my word as being a husband and will not argue with such. Does that sound complecated for you ??? I don't see a problem here... you can call it disrespect, but from my position, i do it because i care of her. It does not sound complicated at all! It sounds actually very very simple. She asks for something she wants and you say no (out of utter respect for her). I understand. I understand perfectly.

... and ... some more for you dear Arhtur: Try to answer the same questions that Thoth asked about the education level of your wife about your sister. Would you want your sister to be able to pursue a high-level college degree? What if she really wants to and her husband says no. Should she give up her dreams and ambitions and listen to "the man"?

quote:Originally posted by Boghos:... By the way, Armenian organized crime is an oxymoron. Sorry I didn't understand that ... are you saying there is no organized crime among Armenians?

Ok Domino, I havent understoud a s...t of what you told If you have seen the kinds of questions I ask, you should know that there is usually some clear, neat, and easy to describe way ... otherwise I wouldn't ask them here If I understand th beginning of your algorithm, you connect points farthest from center ... how do you define this far from center? How many such points? There could potentially be many many points with random places.

I guess that means it's time for a new problem? I don't have too much time right now since I actually have to design a final exam question for the class I am teaching in the next hour so here's a quicky: Bounding Polygon Problem Suppose I give you a bunch of points in the plane using their (x,y) coordinates. Tell me a way to find the points which when connected together, will form the polygon that includes ALL the points. So, tell me a way to find the vertices of the polygon that surrounds all points.

quote:Originally posted by hagarag:Sip, It only takes a small percentage to make a bad impression. My dates would think that I am like these Armenian men that they had met at the discos. I know that's unfortunately how many people think in the world. However, I just wanted to point out that generalizing from a small sample almost never works. If I do that when writing a technical paper submitted to a big conference, I would instantly get rejected and people would laugh at me! I have learned it the hard way that in order to make any kind of meaningful conclusion about anything (computers, bacteria, stars and planets, people, ANYTHING), one has to study them very deeply and for a long period of time (i.e. many many "experiments"). But I agree, unfortunately its almost in our nature to jump to conclusions, to make judgements, and to assume many things which may or may not be true ... and since we almost never have complete information, we always tend to generalize (I do it too)

Hagarag: after reading your post, this is what I understood: Barska/Libanana Hyes = Bad because a few that you used to hang out with were doing something in Beverly hills and you got some "feedback" from some Women. Is that what you are saying or did I misunderstand something? ----------------- Arthur, Arthur, Arthur: what will happen if your wife decides she wants to drive some day? Will you not raise your masculine voice? Will you not raise your hand? I know almost exactly what you are going to say ... I am fairly sure you are going to say something along the lines of "well, a real Armenian woman would respect her husband and wouldn't even think of disagreeing with him. That way, I would never have to raise my voice and I would continue to respect her" ... yah, the same way I respect my toilet plunger. Why don't you just make it simple? Why not just say that you feel superior to women and they should live the way you think they should live? Why is everyone trying to sugar-coat their beliefs and ideas? Just say it like it is! In almost every post you have ever made you say: 1) You respect all Armenian women 2) You would never ever imagine verbally abusing or hitting an Armenian woman 3) Your woman would never disagree with you 4) If a woman disagrees with you (e.g. Kazzaa) she is not Armenian 5) If a woman is not Armenian, she can be disrespected, beaten, insluted, treated in the worst possible way. Am I wrong? Well, that's what has been going on. Once again, I say it as I see it. [ March 13, 2002, 01:25 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by hasmiek:... i left the dishes to do after the dinner party or the next day or whatever... but now, 7 years later, i catch myself cleaning up the mess immediately after dinner... YOU LEFT THE DISHES FOR 7 YEARS? No no no, that's not what I was talking about ... maybe an hour, a day, NOT 7 years (just kidding but that's what I thought the first time I read that post) --- Ed kan oodelu yev xhemeloo masin xhosatsik, vor yes areden sovits mahanoom em [ March 12, 2002, 08:42 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

How can you hate programming? It's such a beautiful science! I actually mean algorithms ... not just simple programming. So here's the answer: Solution to point in Polygon The way to do it is to draw an imaginary line from the point (x,y) to (+infinity,y). Now that you have this line, you just check to see with how many polygon edges it intersects with. Note, checking intersection of 2 lines is very easy given end points of the lines. If you have odd number of intersections, you are inside the polygon. If you have even number of intersections you are outside. There is a special case where a polygon line is horizontal and lies on our imaginary line. That case is easy to handle in software so I won't explain details. Does it make sense? I know of about a million tricks like this and I find them very cool! One of the main reasons I stuck with computer science... [ March 12, 2002, 06:12 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by Domino:... GOD DAMM ANSWER I was working on it ... it requires quite a bit of thinking to see if it will work or not.

You mean like this? () <> {} [] ... they seem to work ? I think < > and [ ] have special meanings at times. Now to your method. I think I know what you are trying to say but I don't think it is too easy to implement (to write a program for it). There will be many special cases I think. Something like: code: .----. / / / . .---------. | | | | x .-------. I think the point x will be a problem for you. Just start deforming that figure (move end-points) and you will see that soon things like "left", "right", "up", "down" are not too easy to determine. There is a clean and elegant solution as you suspected from the beginning

You know I never really make a big deal about evolution and such ... I also don't know about the bible too much ... All I know is that the religeous people claim everything started from Adam and Eve. Well, simple 1/0 logic tells me at some point a brother and sister must have gotten it on (sorry Arthur, I am afraid to use the word) and made babies. Yet, these days, the church at least looks really negatively on that type of "marriage". So what gives? Is it OK for brother and sister to have childeren? How about son and mother? How about Father and daughter? How could humanity have started with only 2 people if the above didn't happen? Does the church say that it did happen? How come no one ever talks about this thing? (it's been on my mind for many years but I've never really asked thinking that people would think I am strange ... well, I don't care anymore )

hmmmm I am not sure I am understanding your method. So you are saying that we can treat each line segment (edge) i as a "function" Fi. Then if the point (x,y) > Fi or < Fi then the point is inside the polygon. Imagine a simple square. The point will be < 2 of the lines and > the other 2 lines according to that definition (if I am understanding correctly). However, a point outside the square, can also have such relationships ... Can you explain more? Maybe the method works but I am not understanding it

Thank you! I always respect a clear and definite answer to a well put question.

So how about answering the initial question instead of changing the topic once again?

I think it's odd I am almost never pissed about anything so if something ever pisses me off, there is no way I forget it (it's a very rare event). Actually, today was one of those rare occasions ... this idiot failed my old car on a SMOG test (it's a CA thing to those not in California ... they just test the "emmisions" from the car every 2 years). My car had everything ok except the "timing" ...he was claiming the timing of the engine was off by 28 degrees ... I knew that there was NO way he was right. So I just took it to a different place, the vehicle passed, and went back to the first place and got my money back. I know if it were anyone else, some huge fight would have broken out with a lot of "pissed-off-ness"!!! Unfortunately I wasted about 4 hours but in the end, I managed not to get pissed or start a fight, got my money back, and even proved to that guy that he was an idiot! (he admitted it). I have a feeling they were trying to convince me to get some expensive repair jobs ... if I KNEW for sure that's what they were doing, I would get really pissed

quote:Originally posted by nellie:... trust me, men aren't having babies anytime soon. Yay!!! I was starting to get worried

quote:Originally posted by Juggernaut:An angry rant Women and men were not created the same, we think differently, we are raised differently, we are treated differently (by society) and we are physically different (except for the Western world where men will soon be able to have children, aparently). Therefore we must have differing guidelines to how we live, and there is nothing sexist in this. I agree with almost everything you said. BUT: Do you think women should be able to vote? (assuming you believe in any type of democracy at all). If so, do you think there should be different issues where men get to vote on and other issues where only women get to vote on? Because from what I understood above, you are saying there should be different laws and regulations pretaining to women than to men. I don't have a problem with that as long as men don't get to decide what are the laws/regulations/ways of life for women and women don't get to decide the same things for men. If you don't agree on this, then we have a topic for debate. i.e ... if women collectively decide that they shouldn't be driving, or have limited driving abilities when caring for young childeren, I am not going to stand in their way! It is their right. But I don't think a male should be deciding that!!!

Wow! Now we know a name for it

Since the math thing was so popular in the "other" forum, I thought maybe we can try the same thing but with computers! It looks like we have some people with software and programming knowledge so this should be fun I'll start but feel free to post questions! Point in Polygon Suppose I give you a 2D polygon with n vertices. Let's say I give you all vertex coordinates (xi, yi) in counter-clockwise order where i is from 1 to n. Or if it makes it easier, you can assume that I give you the edges of the polygon specified by their end points. The question I am asking is that given a point (x,y), how can you determine if it is inside or outside the polygon? So, tell me how you would write an algorithm to check to see if a point is inside the polygon or not. Note that the polygon can have very strange shapes (could be concave or convex). The only assumption you can make is that the edges of the polygon do not intersect each other ... so it's a "nice" polygon

I don't know any of these people. Why are they referred to as Nazis? Do they have a problem with the Jews?