Friday, October 04, 2002

* Goooooooooooogle !
This site is wonderful, when I see the number of ideas they are using it seems that they are more than smart !! After google search engine, google groups (from deja news) , Images, and Directory, they are proposing the News, which is a news portal 100% edited by computer algorithms!

But how? Are these algorithms intelligent to understand which news is important ? In fact they are using the intelligence of the newspaper editors worldwide, which put the headlines in an order. Google simply takes them all, and chooses the most repeated topics ... Wonderful, nah?

I like the idea of a computer algorithm using human intelligence to produce a better thing...
* Typical GATES joke: HOW DOES BILL GATES GO BANKRUPT



1. Bill Gates earn US$250 every SECOND, that's about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!

2. If he drop a thousand dollar, he won't even bother to pick it up coz by the 4 second he pick it, he already earn it back.

3. US's national debt is about 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates will pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.

4. He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still left US$5 Million for his pocket money.

5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he don't drink and eat, and keep his annual income US$30 Million up, he'll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates now.

6. If Bill Gates is a country, he is the 37th richest country on earth, or US 13th biggest company, even bigger then IBM.

7. If exchange all Bill Gate's money to US$1, you can make a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 plane to transport all the money.

8. Bill Gates is 40 this year. If we assume that he still can live for 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish his money before go to heaven.

9. BUT!!! If Microsoft Windows' users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will bankrupt in 3 years.

Thanks from Hanif for sending that.
* Negative... always!

Since I started working in my company, its stock price decreased without end! -5% everyday in average! And the employee firing comes with that, surely!

We hope for the future... always! One day that telecom industry relaunch... the day that you can see enterprises are hunting computer and telecom engineers, as it was before 2000!

will we see that again? God knows!
* What the hell...

Today when I was back home, I got a wonderful email saying that you've been proposed a termporary job with a good salary (to work in a company sometimes the weekends).

I was too happy, I called back the guy:
- Yeah I am calling you on the subject of the work you proposed...
- Sorry but it is late! We've already chosen another person!
- But, you have sent you email just one hour ago!! Am I supposed to check my email every 10 minutes?!
- No sorry, but you were late!

And I was late because I was assisting in a course about opto-electronical components, not obligatory but just for learning more!
This is the moral: Learning more, Earning less!!

Thursday, August 15, 2002

* Call at work

Yesterday when I was working, my telephone rang. I picked up the phone and it was a british lady speaking with a huge british accent :

Me: Oui, bonjour...
She: Hello, do you speak english?
Me: Yeah, sure...
She: I want to talk to somebody in your company's accounting!
Me: But here is not accounting. What's the name of the person you want to call?
She: I don't know his name... I know only that he's working in accounting!
Me: At least, give me his function, I can search it on the intranet.
She: Well, in fact he doesn't work anymore at your company!
Me: Ok, so you want me to give you the number of somebody that you don't know his name and he doesn't work here anymore... I wish a good luck for you, ma'am!

It was just like the stories when somebody calls back 9 months later...!!! :)

* Dans le bureau de visa

Chapeau à l'administration française... maintenant pour prendre sa carte de séjour il ne faut pas attendre la nuit dans la queue, mais on reserve les places sur internet... bien ça!

Une fille chinoise est venu pour avoir sa carte de séjour... L'employé du service de la carte de séjour la posait des questions...
Employé: Est-ce que vous êtes un garçon?
Elle: .....?
Employé: Je vous ai demandé si vous êtes un garçon ou une fille?
Elle: .... garçon ....?
Employé: C'est quoi votre sexe ?
Elle: Sexe... ?
Employé: Ecoutez mademoiselle, il faut cocher F si vous êtes une fille, et pas M !!

Je me demandais s'il a jamais eu de voyage dans un pays où il ne comprenait la langue... mais est-ce qu'on est obligé de faire chier à quelqu'un si on peut le faire d'une manière plus élégante?

Sunday, August 11, 2002

Shift+X,Shift+X,Shift+X.....
خودمو کشتم تا اين مشکل "ی" توی ويندوز 2000 رو ياد بگيرم باهاش کنار بيام!!!
Shift+X,Shift+X,Shift+X.....
نمايش �يلمهای ايرانی در پاريس
در پاريس تابستونها آدم بهونه ای برای بيکار بودن ندارهء چون کلی �يلم و کنسرت و تئاتر و اين چيزا هست... يکي از اين برنامه ها يه سري �يلم تو �ضاي باز هست. جالب اينجاست که امسال از توي حدود 30 تا �يلم که از کشورهاي مختل� هستء 3 تا از ايران هست که به نوبه خودش خيلي خوب محسوب مي شه. مخصوصا که اينجا چون ايراني خيلي کم هست چيز غبر عادي اي هست...

اسمهاي �يلمها اينه (اگه توي ترجمه اشتباه نکرده باشم!!):
- تخته سياه (سميرا مخملبا�)
- زندگی ادامه دارد (کيارستمی)
- رقص گردباد (جليلی)

باز اين خودش نشون ميده که سينمای ايران حر�ی برای گ�تن داره!

Wednesday, August 07, 2002

AZERTY keyboard and QWERTY keyboard
Maybe many people don't know, but it exist keyboards other than standard american QWERTY. In France, people use the AZERTY keyboard, which differs a lot from the standard one, and is very complicated to program the computer with it, because the programmation languages is based normally on QWERTY.
However, in France the people aren't used to QWERTY one, because by French law, it is virtually forbidden to sell QWERTY keyboards!

I made a joke with one of my colleagues, by replacing his keyboard keys to make a QWERTY-style arrangement. When he was back from vacations he noticed that his password doesn't work, and after looking well, he saw that his keyboard is replaced by a QWERTY one. He was wondering why someone replaced his keyboard with a QWERTY one!

Another guy noticed that it's not really a QWERTY one, because you can see french work like "Verrouillage Numero" for "Num Lock", or "Suppression" for "Delete" ! So he could guess that it's not his keyboard which is qwerty, it's only the key arrangements...

Monday, July 08, 2002

ظاهرا توی اين دهکده جهانی، آدم بی وبلاگ مثل زنبور بی عسل هست، نه؟
پس ما هم برای خالی نبودن عريضه يه وبلاگ می ديم خدمتتون!
تا چه قبول ا�تد و چه در نظر آيد!