Is Microsoft Fun? (Aka View

A question I usually get, is working at Microsoft fun compared to other companies like Google? Or it's just a place for geeks :)?

Will answer this question through the next days, stay tight ;)

Allah made me funny

Those guys are really funny :)

http://www.allahmademefunny.com/

Poll #4: How do you think about us Egyptian as whole?

So finally, now regardless of "we've kind hearts" and we "live in peace", and issues like that, I am talking professionally, what do you think about our value as "Egyptians" (only those who live inside Egypt) for the man kind?

And please give reasons for your opinion.

N.B: I don't hate being Egyptian, but I see a HUGE amount of negative issues more than any other nation in the history (as a nation which was one day the most advanced one on the planet)

Poll #3: How many Egyptian do you think will take any professional criticism personally?

Again, in continue for the last post, the final question:

If you went to your college, and told any professor that his way of teaching is not good and that you can't understand anything, what do you expect that he'll do?

1. Give you bad grades in his subject (or even make you fail in his subject)?
2. Tell you that you're rude and then you'll probably find that you've lost one year in the college (or may even lose the whole college).
3. Tell you "Thanks for letting me know, you're a honest person"?

Knowing the fact that you told him this sentence exactly:

"Dr. X, I am just having an opinion about the way you Sir are teaching us, I just don't like it because I can't understand very well from it, can you please Sir just try to make it slower?"

And just apply the same issue on any other person (police officer, your neighbour, etc).

Poll #2: How many people do you think will accept to marry a rapped girl?

In continue for the previous post, and taking this post as a reference, this time the question is simple:

We all know that when a girl is rapped that she's a victim, we all agree on this and I am sure than about 80%-90% of the population actually agree on this, but the question, how many people do you think will accept the following:

1. Marry the rapped girl (or letting their son marry her) and at the same time all the people around them know this fact (someone may marry a rapped girl as long as no one know this fact).
2. Accept her as a best friend for their daughter (again while all the people around them know that she's rapped).
3. Accept their daughter to bring her to the home normally.
4. Don't look into her as someone who "did sex before" and look into her as normal as them?
5. Finally, looking into her as a completely normal girl which doesn't have any difference than their virgin daughter or sister?

For me, I see that most of the population won't allow any of the above, so if anyone saw any case which is not like this, please let me know, because all the cases I knew about won't accept any of the above.

UPDATE: If you don't believe that this is true, and Egyptians will treat her well, then can you tell me why only 5%-10% of the rapped girls and rapped girls family actually report the rapping?(From ministry of interior reports and some un-official reports and organizations).

Because if people are treating them well, then why they don't report it?

Why they feel it's shame and they shouldn't report it?!

Poll #1: What do you think about Egyptian youth in colleges?

A debate has been going on lately about the current generations and whether they are good or they don't even deserve to get the free education they are getting, in my opinion, 85%-90% of the students in those college don't even deserve to be there for the following reasons:

A- Students in colleges like Arts, Law, Commerce, etc.

1. Most of them care only about what they will be wearing tomorrow, and how to approach the other sex, and how to get the most recent mobile phone and stuff like that.
2. They don't have any idea what they are doing in this college.
3. They don't have any plans for their future.
4. They hardly succeed in the college.
5. They graduated without any much knowledge about the issue they were studying.

B- Students in what called "Top Colleges" (i.e. Computer Science, Medicine, Engineering, etc), I'll be talking about Computer Science but I know that this issues apply on the other colleges from my friends inside them:

1. When you find a student who took a place in the college and doesn't even like computer (actually he/she hates computer so much!!!!)
2. When learning programming and computer science for him/her is only for the sake of getting higher grades.
3. When he/she is in his final year, and doesn't even know a very primitive terms like Object Oriented, break point, #include, namespace, dynamic link library, linker, etc (I am not talking about the meaning that you can get by typing define:word in Google, I am talking about understanding it).
4. When their graduation project is anything as long as it gives them more grades.
5. When they do the same subjects' projects without even looking into the code (just get the code from anyone).
6. When they ignore anything related to the field as long as it doesn't give them any additional grades.
7. When they look into anyone who do anything normal as a "genius".
8. When reading for them means "shit".
9. When talking with them in technology means that you either "a geek" or just "showing off" even if what you're talking about is really nothing!

I know that the system itself sucks, but I am talking about a specific issue, now knowing the fact that we got a percentage of about 10%-15% successful graduates from these colleges, then now we know that anyone could succeed inside, so if you failed, it's your fault.

Now to the poll question, do you agree with these issue and that they actually exist or not?

Macworld Boston 1997-The Microsoft Deal

It's really weird how years can change people really much, in 1997 Microsoft Saved Apple's ass by buying $150 millions worth of shares (non-voting shares and MS agreed not to sell them for at least 3 years) in Apple to save its ass and save Steve from bankruptcy, and at that time Steve Jobs was very kind, and he said Microsoft is our friends, our partners, bla bla bla.

And after 10 years and when he came back by the help of Microsoft, he doesn't leave any moment without making fun of Microsoft and Windows!!

Really people are so bad, I am just putting this video as a quick reminder:

Tagged Again

In continue for the tagging waves which are happening now, I got tagged again by Myra, let's start :D


SECTION 1 - Last 1s?
1. last beverage? Oroe Shake
2. last phone call? Hany
3. last instant message? Someone I don't know
4. last cd played? Savatage Transiberian Orchestra
5. last time you cried? Last Year
6. last text message? What's the difference between this and point 3??

Section 2 - 6 Have You Evers:
1. dated someone twice? Nope
2. been cheated on? Nope
3. kissed someone & regretted it? Nope
4. lost someone special? Nope
5. been depressed? Yes
6. been drunk and threw up? Nope

Section 3 - List 3 Favourite Colors

1. Black
2. Red
3. Blue

Section 4 - This month have you
1. Made a new friend? Nope
2. Fallen out of love? Nope
3. Laughed until you cried? Yes
4. Met someone who changed your life? Nope
5. Found out who your true friends were? Done before
6. Is there something you want to tell someone? Nope
7. Would you kiss anyone on your top friends? Nope
8. How many people on your top friends do you know in real life? How could I've a top friend which I don't know in real life?!!
9. How many kids do you want to have? one or two
10. Do you have any pets? Yes
11. Do you wanna change your name? Nope
12. What did you do for your last birthday? Went Out with Friends
13. What time did you wake up today? 11:30 am
14.What were you doing at midnight last night? Watching a movie
15. Name something you CANNOT wait for? Building my own empire :P
16. Last time you saw your father? More than 4 months ago
17. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life? I need to be more patient
18.What are you listening to right now? Nothing
19. Have you ever talked to Tom? as in Tom & Jerry? Nope
21. Have you ever talked about someone behind their back? Yes
22.What’s the last piece of clothing you borrowed from anyone? Nothing
23. Who’s getting on your nerves right now? No one
24. Most visited webpage? Don't know
25. Coke or Pepsi? Oreo Shake
26. Have you kissed or been kissed by anyone in the past week? Nope
27. Mac or PC? PC, Mac is not good for everyone because it doesn't support everyone (i.e. corporate user as it's missing very important protocols)

Tagged: 5 things you don't know about me!

So I've been tagged by Hany to write this post, I don't think there's much to be written, but let's give it a try.

1. I am so moody, I don't ever like doing the same thing twice, and my dream is not to repeat any day in my life again.
2. I love being crazy, yeah it's real, to do whatever you want in any time without giving a damn to anyone.
3. I am very eastern although it looks like I am not at all.
4. I believe in Aliens :D
5. There are more than 5 things to know about.
6. I am very nervous, although many people think I am calm and many people didn't see me when I am really angry, but here is your advice, when I become really angry just run like hell, because at that time if you even break my leg I won't give a damn and I'll keep fighting you until you die or I die or someone kills us both!
7. When I was a kid I burnt a small paper, then when I found it blowing too much fire for me to handle, I threw it in a container filled with papers and magazines, and when I found it burning as hell and fire started to spread into other stuff like bed and carpet, I closed the room and went outside to watch TV as if it's not me who did anything!
8. When I was a kid I almost killed another kid (refer back to point number 6), he was making fun of me so I took a very huge rock and hit him on his head, he lost his conscious instantly and I left him bleeding in the middle of the street at 11:00 pm and ran home to my bed.
9. When I was a kid I almost got killed when I fall from the ground floor into the -1 floor over a marble stair and I broke my skull from my left ear to the right one (I almost got my brain out).
10. Since I was a kid (and until now) I like breaking things apart and building them again, building stuff from nothing, try to invent something new, and things like that.
11. I write stories and poetry
12. I love kids like hell, and for some reason they get used to me very fast too!
13. I love dealing with smart people so much.
14. I love candies so much too, and can't stop eating chocolates.
15. And I am not as Hany, I don't dream to have a convertible car, I just dream of having my own F-16, I love flying soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much.
16. One day I attended an online lecture in math, I came in the middle of the lecture, so there was a white board out there filled with many theories and stuff, I got bored so fast, so I start drawing into the white board and removing stuff without noticing that the chatting window was like hell as everyone out there was saying: "What's the hell is happening? Who’s that crazy ass hole?" as I just wasted the whole lecture!
17. I am very very very very ambitious and I’ve plans for my life like for the next 20 years, and if I am to get married, she must be very ambitious too.
18. That's enough for today, let's continue later!
    

Microsoft Puzzle Hunt: Atlantis?

Microsoft Puzzle Hunt?!
Never heard about this before?!
Keep tuned and soon I'll post about it and about the currect hunt: Atlantis

Video Blogging?

I saw this idea on youtube, someone there is blogging using videos, it's like episodes on her life and what's going on in it.

I liked the idea, and soon I may be doing that same, who knows ;)

New Year Day in Seattle

We went to Seattle (Me, Hany, Ali and his Wife, and Ramy) to Seattle on December 31 at 11:30 PM to see the new year's event there, also it wasn't as cool as what's done in Time Square in Newyork, but it was fun, I'll leave you with some pictures and video, pictures may be some how blurry, but because I was using a slower shutter speed and I was not using a Tripod (all pictures and video are resized for the sake of bandwidth):

Space needle before the fun :)

Space needle during the fun

I tried to make a fun picture, this was supposed to contain a lot of hourses and people, but because I've used a shutter speed of 15 seconds, every moving object was blurred and removed (try to focus on the left, you'll see some ghosts ;)

And now to the videos, this one was before the fire works started:

Video: Near Space Needle before the fire works


And this one is a part from the firework (it's much bigger than this):


Video: New Year's Fun in Seattle


And this one was after the event, it was really fun :) :


Video: Fun after Seattle's Fire Work

Movie?

Few days ago I got a chance of being a part of something like Jackass movie, and for reasons everybody know (you watched jackass? NO? Watch it and you will be from those who know the reasons), I didn't go, so I thought about something else, you know it?

Think for a while and when you got the answer read the rest of the post :)

Simply I though about something, what if I do my own movie?
What it would take?

1- Good Camera (I got one).

2- Crew (many friends are here).

3- Story (I could write a complete story in less than 1 hour).

4- Cars, clothes, etc (available).

So I decided to do it, I've already made the story, and the only thing remaining is to find the crew who won't refuse to do the movie, it may be in both language, English and Arabic.

Stay tuned :)