Armenian Eagle

September 30, 2008

People Wouldn’t Be Mean To Others, If They Only Knew…

Posted at: 11:31 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Rants and Randomness

Do you ever wonder why “people” (in general) treat others badly either offensively or defensively. Offensively is they make the first move causing the issue while the defensive player will only attack when attacked upon. This is a very interesting subject because depending on how you look at the situation, you can either react “hotheadedly” and get mad or take the time to figure out why a person either made you mad or got mad at you. I have seen people react about a situation in one scenario, change the parameters a little bit and that same person will react a completely different way.

For example: Let’s say you’re driving down the street and another car flies around you doing 30 mph over the speed limit in that area. Some will get mad and call him an asshole, while others might calmly process that it is not worth it to get mad. That is the obvious difference between reactions. However, put two different people in that situation and tell them prior to the experiment that someone was hit by a car and they were being taken to the hospital to save their life. If they only knew that vital information, they would understand why the person had caused the problem and they would change their opinion. The point is that until you know all the details, you should try to see the situation from a different angle…I try.

I guess this is just one of my psychology rants!

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September 29, 2008

Comstar Completes First WiMAX Network In Armenia

Posted at: 11:47 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Armenia

Back in July, Armenia completed a WiMAX network that was carried out by Comstar

The 3.6-3.8 GHz frequency range was allocated for the network on the territory of 9 regions of the Republic of Armenia. The network has a high data transmission capacity and enables the provision of a full range of telecommunications services, such as data transmission, digital telephony, high speed internet access, conference calling, creating virtual private networks (IP VPN), for residential and corporate subscribers. – source

Now when I go back to Armenia, I should have a better internet connection from 2001. It was good that I had internet that the government provided us, it wasn’t much. Armenia is a great country, it just needs a little help financially.

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September 28, 2008

Woman Died While Watching TV, 42 Years Ago

Posted at: 11:56 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Rants and Randomness

“Hedviga Golik made herself a cup of tea and sat down to watch some television in her hometown of Zagreb, Croatia. Sadly, she died in her chair. This was in 1966. She was just found, 42 years later, in her time capsule mausoleum where she’s been sitting ever since. She never finished her tea.” – source.

They say that she were reported missing, but no one checked her apartment. I find that hard to believe since she would have needed to pay rent or the landlord would have come in sooner. I wonder if it was similar to a condo where you take out a loan and she paid it all off, no one would have checked I guess. I guess it is a unverified rumor going around the internet, either way it is a interesting (funny) story.

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September 27, 2008

Media Temple Web Hosting, Armenian As A Language

Posted at: 11:30 pm by Timothy Haroutunian
Categories: Armenia, Tech and Web

Yesterday, I saw a tweet from John Resig, creator of jQuery, that stated that he will be moving all of the jQuery files/data to Media Temple. Media Temple is a Tier IV web hosting facility in El Segundo, CA that features one the most advanced technology used for their data center.

The space is in approximately 7,000 square feet currently with room for expansion up to 40,000 square feet. The center is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year. On-site armed security is around-the-clock. They monitor the alarm system and security cameras that are on all perimeter points of ingress/egress to the building. Bulletproof security station and shipping/receiving areas with a Biometric security system are also in place. Our personnel require authorized escorted visitations. 24” raised floor manufactured by Maxcess covering every square foot of our cages, MDF and Network Operation Center.

– source

When I was reading up about them, it says:
“English is our primary language. We also speak Spanish, Japanese, Swedish, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Armenian and a few other languages.” – source

That’s awesome, but out of all the other languages, Italian or German would be next on the list, I would think. It must be since they are located about 30 miles away from Glendale, CA which has the largest concentration of Armenian-American population. Just thought that was pretty funny.

Speaking of jQuery, I am heading to the jQuery Conference in Boston in the am