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... and yah, that's right Betsy ... I just compared you to a burrito.

Ottoman ... Turk ... that's like freaking Taco Bell that takes the regular dumb ass chicken burrito and adds two more lettuce pieces, and wraps it a bit differently takes the picture from a slightly different angle, calls it the new "burito especial" or something and charges twice as much as before. But to a clever eye, it's still the same damn burrito.

Ha ha ... esa spasi galis em

Optimizing a MAC is a two step process: 1. Throw out MAC 2. Get PC replacement Ok maybe a 3 step process: 3. Run like hell before Domino and Vava get their hands on you!

Ed MAC e dur Zokanchid mayreri ori hamar, mi hat lav PC ar ko hamar

Ha ha .. anyone watching fox news in LA just now? I get it on the satellite and they just said Turkey has banned Arnold's movies because of this

I have an active hyeforum account, therefore I am.

http://www.schwarzenegger.com/news.asp?id=2012

Yah but I just wish these church leaders would start acting like Jesus once in a while I took a nice nap and feel much better now. The pope ain't that bad and I'm not too pi$$ed off at the media anymore.

I was just watching CNN and they were going on and on about how this new pope is conservative and what a great smart guy he is ... one guy even called the pope a "sophisticated intellect". All I can say is WTF? "Conservative Pope"? Hellloooooooo?!!! The guy is the LEADER of the catholic church and you feel it necessary to say he is "conservative?" Wouldn't anyone even remotely associated with any church be by definition conservative? And then all this thing about him being a smart guy and what not ... well, again ... HELLOOOOOOOOO?!!!! The guy is the LEADER OF THE CHURCH! How smart could he possibly be if he still believes in wearing his pointy hat, shaking his stick, and having the gonads to tell everyone what God wants. Sorry, I'm off the soap box now.

or maybe the other ones he was getting bounced

I looked at a few little utilities I found on google. WinAVI (winavi.com) seems to be what I need but it crashes on mine. Then there is DIKO which is freewhere that I haven't yet figured out how to get to work (well, I haven't read the insturctions ) but seems promising. At first I was thinking it would be an easy conversion but then I realized the files are mpeg4 so I shouldn't expect to get good quality if I try to compress them to the same size to DVD.

I have a bunch of downloaded mpeg4 AVI's that are 512 x 384 (4:3 aspect ratio) and AC3 audio. Each one is about 350MB in size. The video streams are 126kbps at 23 frames/sec and the audio streams are 192kbps. Is there a way to easily throw a bunch of these on a DVD such that they'll play on regular dvd players? I realize they have to be converted to mpeg2 but I've searched the web and there are like a gazillion ways to do it and I was wondering if any one here has already done something like this. My regular nero can only fit about 2 or 3 of these files per 4.7 Gig DVD and I want to fit something like 10 or 12 of them. I don't care much about the quality drop.

Pretty easy but cool problem this NIM ... yah the game is over as soon as a player gets to a number of the form '4n+1' where n is a non negative integer. When your opponent gets to a '4n+1' type number, you just keep bringing her down using 4s .. If she subtracts x, you subtract 4-x and continue until she is left with 1. Solution: -------------- 1. Starting value is a 4n+1 number - Starting player loses. 2. Starting value is a 4n+2 number - Starting player must do -1. 3. Starting value is a 4n+3 number - Starting player must do -2. 4. Starting value is a 4n+4 number - Starting player must do -3. In 2, 3, and 4, any other move and it's a guaranteed loss for the starting player. Also note that 4n+5 just repeats since we can substitute n with n+1 and do the above. Problem solved.

What's the significance of the Paska during Easter times in our culture? I searched on the web a bit and there are references to "russian easter bread" and "Ukranian easter bread" etc but I was wondering if it has any special significance or it's just a yummmy holiday treat?

Edward, I also have the 300GB Maxtor OneTouch and it has been VERY good to me. I like that it has both firewire and USB 2 interfaces ... I highly recommend those. Although I would probably never buy an internal maxtor drive again as a couple of years ago I had 2 or 3 of them fail on me within a year. It could have been a bad batch I don't know ... but this external one has been great.

emmmmmmm ... yah ... and so is this: http://tommcmahon.typepad.com/tm/images/abacus.jpg

May I ask why you even care about powerPC? Is there anyone using these for statistical stuff?

PC and PowerPC run different native code ... so a compiled "DLL" cannot be shared unless there is some sort of virtual machine running on the MAC (same thing the other way around). If you compile something for a PC (aka a DLL), it's for the PC. If you compile for the PowerPC, then it's for the powerPC. The two have very different architectures (risc/cisc) and are definitely running VERY different operating systems. You can probably compile your code for either one separately if you use mostly standard C/fortran routines. But I am not aware of a "shared" DLL. Actually, that's where the entire concept of Java comes from. You write something in JAVA, and then can run it anywhere there is a JVM (java virtual machine) ... whether it's a PC, MAC, or anything else.

What? You've got C and want to mess it up with JNI and Fortran? Why are you even bothering with JNI in between the two? Why not just pass the data directly from C to Fortran? In other words, just call the fortran functions from C. Edit: Out of curiosity, I just did a quick search on google ... C-Fortran interface. Passing params from Java to Fortran

Wow those sheep in Armenia leave huge behind

LMAO at Chomsky

I have been getting a bit tired of these slow ass Midwest drivers that tend to take the speed limit waaaaaay too literally at times http://www.seapahn.us/jeep/jeep_move2.jpg http://www.seapahn.us/jeep/jeep_move1.jpg http://www.seapahn.us/jeep/jeep_move3.jpg A roll of bright reflective tape and a few minutes wih the computer and then the razor and WOW! What a difference. I've just been itchin to do this for a while now since both my CA and WI front plates did this: http://www.seapahn.us/seapahn/gal/rubicon/thumbnails/DSCN3000.jpg http://www.seapahn.us/zr2/gilbert1004/photos/thumb3.jpg

Pharming and phishers? Next thing you know we'll have to start forming phamilies, getting phat on phudge brownies, and trying to have phun while whatching Phrasier reruns on Phox