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الجمعية الوطنية للتغيير - الموافقون على التغيير

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شعر / جمال بخيت مش باقي مني غير شوية ضي ف عينيا أنا هاديهوملك وامشي بصبري ف الملكوت يمكن ف نورهم تلمحي خطوة تفرق معاكي بين الحياة والموت مش باقي مني غير شوية نبض ف عروقي خُدي.. وعيشي.. وافتحي لي تابوت أفرح بريحة ورد فرعوني وربنا ف عوني إذا دخلت الجنة ولاّ النار هاشتاق إلي ضحكتك وقعدتي ف الدار والقهوة متحوجة من طيبة العطار.. ف كل يوم الصبح باشرب حليب قبطي وف النهار والمسا بامسك ستار الكعبة لو

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A flashy name for a novel I read a few months ago for Joe Abercrombie. I am not a critic (and god send that I never become one), and I hate being harsh on writers, but the novel is mediocre at best. Weak plot, flat characters that are anything BUT original, no premise I could detect, and peculiarly, I couldn't (by reading the book) discover what blade the title was referring to. The book has all

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I recently faced the situation where I needed to employ an on-disk dictionary that supports O(n) or O(log n) lookup complexity. The need for a dictionary (aka map, associated array, etc.) is clear enough and very common, I can hardly remember any piece of software I wrote that was completely free of one, but the requirement of this data structure to be on disk is the less frequent one. So I set

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I am a tomb raider, a grave robber, and I do it with great pride.For hundreds upon hundreds of years our kings have devised techniques, architectural, mechanical and magical to prevent their tombs from being robbed. I derive my pride and satisfaction from unravelling these puzzles and smashing these barriers one after the other. Of course the loot is a welcome bonus, I don't just work for the fun

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الجزء الثاني من الملللم يكن يدري على ما أظن أني لم أكن أقصد السلطان محمد الظاهر، فلم يكن خبر وفاته إنتشر بعد حيث ابحرنا. كان هذا قبل أيام قلائل من وصولنا إلى ميناء الزرقاء في عاصمة السلطنة الألفية. ودعت البحارة على عجل وحزمت حقائبي وكتبي وأخذت أول مركبة متجهة ناحية القصر السلطاني. لم أنزل بالقصر ذاته وانما تركت حاجياتي ببيت لي على مقربةٍ من القصر وسرت راجلاً دون أنا أغير ملابسي أو اغسل عني أثار

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I recently stumbled upon this very interesting paper:Web Document Clustering: A Feasibility Demonstration , by Zamir and Etzioni. PDF here The paper presents an attractive technique for clustering documents using Suffix Trees, the merits of which can be summarized as: The algorithm is incremental, meaning that documents can be added at any time and clusters can be re-evaluated accordingly

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I try to watch a technical lecture or two every weekend, this week I actually stumbled upon two good lectures. http://videolectures.net/is04_munro_sds/ About succinct data structure, … how to index stuff without using much memory, … in other words, … compressing trees. http://videolectures.net/solomon_langford_fenna/ Spatial data structures for fast and exact nearest neighbor queries, in high

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“I thought, … there would be an island”, said Dangerous Beans (a rat) in a crestfallen and resigned tone, and I started to cry, weep and howl openly. I was driving to the CMIC Maadi office. Listening to an audio-book, written by Terry Pratchett. In less than ten minutes the book (The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents) made me laugh again, an effect only Sir. Charles Spencer Chaplin

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سحقاً، كم هذا ممل!لطالما حلمت وأنا صغير بالإبحار والسفر، ولكن لم يخطر ببالي أبداً كم يمكن أن يكون البقاء معلقاً بعرض البحر شيء غاية في الإملال. توقفت عن التفكير في الدقائق والساعات، أجوب سطح السفينة جيئة وذهابا حتى مل البحارة رؤيتي وأصابهم بعض من توتري. اللعنة، بل إن الأيام ذاتها تفقد معناها بهذا الشكل، ليس فقط الدقائق والساعات.ولما كنت قد أوشكت على الإنتهاء من الكتب التي جلبتها معي، وبما أنه لا

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Read part one first: Project Halawes...It was an instant success, the effect in workers' health and moral was beyond expectations, it was as if the spark of life was rekindled in the hearts of these men, for some of them lived every night in the middle-earth playing with hobbits and seeking for Gandalf, some lived each of the Arabian nights many times, enjoying the harem and the extravagance,

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Once upon a time, a time that is yet to come, at the second era of space-traveling for the human race, called by some The Colonial Age, a planet was found that was so rich with metals, energy sources and rare elements, that it was at once acquired by the Union of Enterprises to be turned into a gigantic factory, it was moreover in a strategically position that was almost equally distanced from

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"I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed. But there is in my nature a strain of asceticism, and I have subjected my flesh each week to a more severe mortification. I have never failed to read the Literary

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"I take it that conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. It is the policeman in all our hearts, set there to watch that we do not break its laws. It is the spy seated in the central stronghold of the ego. Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has

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For the last few years I've been looking up to some people, ... wanting to be like them, getting inspirations from their work or life, among those are: Steve Jobs is the CEO, chairman and co-founder of Apple Inc., and is the founder of Pixar Animation Studios and was its CEO until its acquisition by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. Jobs is currently the Walt Disney Company's largest individual

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by George R. R. Martin The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake. Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

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Living up to the bill of rights!

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For years now I have been quite cynical about love, believing that it's a self imposed illusion, ... not deliberately of course, but self imposed nevertheless. Imagine 50 men and 50 women on an island. Each man will unconsciously choose a woman and target those feelings he needs to feel, feelings of need, trust, admiration, and sexual attraction towards her. Now let them be 20 men and 20 women, .

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Among the ideas we have for our companies next computer game, is something GTA-like that heavily incorporates toktoks, So I was thinking about the game, how to make it challenging, and what to name it of course, ... so I thought about the plural of toktok, ... in arabic!! I came with TAKATEK :)

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We are currently registering our company "Khayal" officially as a limited liability company, and I was thinking of a slogan, ... something like "Khayal, ... benkassar sa2f el seya3a, ben3eed tawzee3 el a7mal" :) or "Khayal, wala kan 3al bal, wala 3ad fee mo7al". Any suggestions?

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Know here, I do not swear undying, unfaltering love, not to you nor to any other, not now nor ever, my experience taught me that love dies, fades, and changes, even the fervent type, ... sometimes converts to even more fervent hatred and spite.But let's agree, to love, respect and care for each other, support and relief each other, enhance each other's lives, as long as we both want to, until one

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Some of you might already know that I was bitten by a tokok, (ajall, laqad lada3'any al toktok) as I was driving slowly in a small street near home (Agouza). It came from my side, slowly but surely, didn't stop, didn't falter, I couldn't have helped it, only change the spot where it hit me :) However, it was a minimal accident and I reckoned it a local Phenomenon and didn't give it much care

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As I have been used to brief here about my readings, I send this to declare that for months I haven't found a readable novel. please whoever can help is welcome, my favorite genre is high fantasy, but I don't mind anything really good.Anyway, I would nevertheless brief about my readings in the last few months.In the last few months I read the Beautiful book "Sophie's World". Thanks to my friend

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For a long time I thought of myself as a liberal, ... a new liberal to be more specific, but then I don't find the definition of Libertarianism (especially that of rights theorists) to be away from me, and to be honest, ... the subdivisions and sub-subdivisions of political currents and philosophies got me a little mixed up.Quoting wikipedia: Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual

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Yes, I would, it's strange and made me think a lot, he's so not like me!! And he's not close to any of my former inspirers (will talk about them later) either.But there's something no one can deny, ... he's so sure of himself, so sure of his place in the wold, so sure of his morals, he plays by his own rules, however peculiar you may find those rules and morals.He has his own set of morals that

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I can think of very few things in this universe I despise more than religious authority ... no don't miss my point, I'm certainly not against religion, I'm simply against using it to control, subdue and rule people.The church's history is full of such black eras and horrible acts that I would rather not talk about it.The Islamic world is also not without precedents in this area, ... and rather

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Hehehehe, ... that sounded very weird as a headline.I was recalling my old Karate team, as I practiced karate for most of my childhood years.The thing that puzzled me the most was the difference between old and new team members. While new members were a bunch of undisciplined rebels, unordered, eager to jest, call names, and just run about doing mischief, old members to the last one of them

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Malazan book of the Fallen I write this, not as a review of the novels, many of those can be found on amazon.com, I write instead my feelings about the characters, yes ... the writer was so successful that I have strong feelings for most of his characters. Anomander Rake, … who cannot feel awe when Rake is involved? The dark, tall, silver haired, almost immortal lord of the Tiste

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Ain't Humanity spiraling down?I got this idea some months back while I was reading about Socrates, the man that long long ago, so bravely died for his ideas, while he could easily avoid it. It struck me hard that this man who lived thousands of years ago (and is no prophet nor claims any divine inspirations), surpasses me (and just about anyone I know, and anyone I can think of in our

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I'm, not really sure the phrase does mean or describe what I wanna say, … I'm talking about mentally coupling two different things, specific food with specific days, specific movies with specific memories, and in particular specific books with specific songs. I do that all the time, … and it's great, ... I'll give an example: While reading The Wheel of Time, I was hearing some specific

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Well, ... ok if someone's interested, ... I'll give brief comments then full reviews if still interested, ...The wheel of time is very special to me, the whole fantasy thing started with it (excepting LOTR)... it's huge, ... really epic in scale, ... and I have skipped some parts of it, bt hell, ... I have read some other parts more than once, sometimes three or four times, ... ten times in the

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The Wheel of Time (11 books till now) Robert GordanThe Sword of Truth (11 books till now) Terry GoodkindMost of Raimond E. Feist'sFirst one of George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire3 of Conn Iggulden's quatro Emperor (waiting the fourth)4 of R.A. Salvatore's Dark Elf stuffMost of Dan Brown's (couldn't complete Digital Fortress)The Rule of FourCurrently reading: Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of

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"العمل, إيه العمل, ماتقولّى أعمل إيــــه تارارا .. , والأمل, إنت الأمل, تحرمنى منك ليه ليه تارارا" --- يا سلام يا ست الشىء الغريب, إنى كل ماشوف حد اليومين دول أو أقعد فى أى قعدة, إلا وتيجى سيرة الحشيش. والكلام عليه دايما بـ استحسان, فلا هو إدمان, ولا بيبوظ الصحة, ولا هوحرام ولا حاجة أبداً. بس ماهو بعد الحشيش, الناس بتفوق, وانا مش عايز افوق. وبرضه مش عايز اتسطل, أنا بس عايز انبسط, ...

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عايز أعيش حياه مش مملة, فيها أهداف محترمة وذات قيمة, وفـ نفس الوقت مش متعبة, و لا فيها عذاب ولا كفاح شنيع, وعلى ذلك برضه تكون مسلية و متوازنة نفسيا وعاطفياً, وده معناه انى الاقى إنسانة محترمة, بتفهم وعندها شخصية وفـ نفس الوقت طيبة و حنينة, والأنيل من ده كله إنها لازم تحبنى كمان (مع إن ده هينفى عنها صفة إنها بتفهم و يمكن كمان صفة الاحترام) مش بس كده, انا كمان عايز يبقى عندى موارد غير محدودة,

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آه ه ه ... أنا تعبااااااااااان تعبان مالشغل و تعبان مالوحدة, و تعبان من كونى مش فاهم نفسى ... أحياناً بحس انى عايز اسيب كل حاجة ورايا واطفش, أروح وانام سبع قرون واقعد لوحدى سبع قرون, والف واسيح فى أرض الله وبلاد البشر سبع قرون, و ساعتها .. هاقعد و أكتب سبع قرون, وأموت وحيد, حزين شريد وراسى عالكتاب أو لوحة المفاتيح.

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وحلمت بيها ... , ياااااه .. , من إمتى مافكرتش فيها؟! لألأ .. دانا لسة شايفها قريب, و كلمتها كمان, ... ماحستش بحاجة ساعتها, غالباً كنت رافع الدروع! حتى فـ الحلم كنت رافع الدروع النفسية و راصص المتاريس. وهى كانت بتقرب, .. طبعا خبطط فـ المتاريس! طبعا ده عمره ما حصل فى الواقع, على الأقل مش فى السنين الأخيرة, ومش معاها هية ... حصل من سنين, وحصل مع ناس تانيين. لو حصل فى الواقع أكيد كنت هاشيل

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It seems the past is really haunting me! My leg was broken about 9 years ago, and now it's starting to hurt again, ... it never really healed completely, but the remnants were distant and faded. Now they pain seems fresher than in the last 8 years!I still remember being broken hearted 6 years ago! But the pain is almost gone now, ... as well it should, it remained fresh burning for 5 years

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Besides being a lot of fun to play, video games are also a major driver of innovation in computer graphics.

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by Edgar Allan Poe (1849) It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE;--And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. She was a child and I was a child, In this kingdom by the sea,But we loved with a

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I'm tired, I'm blocked, don't wanna work, don't wanna talk, don't want anything. I feel that I can't write, can't read, can't talk to people, can't work. I feel damn week and vulnerable. Oh shit, this should not be published. Hooooofffffffffff. Maybe some sheesha would help? Maybe a week in the Himalayas? Or in the sea? Maybe I ned to cry? ... I think that might help, ... well, rest should do, ..

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The site is running now, www.boo7athegame.com the official web site of our first game title. And although I wasn't very positive about this game, I am happy that its almost there, the demo should be released within a week.Comming next might be "7arb el sa3eed" or even "Al Andalus".It seems that we are really making games :)

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I suddenly got interested in photography. I read the theory, the techniques, the manual of my fathers cam. Yaqeen is attending a cinema school, so he's interested too. So we decided that once a week, we're gonna go out, pic some place in our stunningly rich country that we barely know, and start taking photographs. First friday was at "El Khalifa" , the photo shows the Sultan Hassan mosque,

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ALONEby Edgar Allan Poe(1830) From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone. Then- in my childhood, in the dawn Of a most stormy life- was drawn

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A general feeling I live by lately, ... maybe it deepened after my second interview with Microsoft (but that is to be told later) maybe after I realized I was a total retard in my plans for marriage. I'm not sure, ... but I know I had the idea before, but now the feeling, the constant feeling that I'm not good enough. I reveled for years in the feeling that I am actually good, in many aspects

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The physics engine project we've been working on lately has witnessed a lot of enhancements and upgrades in the past few weeks, thanks to the brilliance of our chief programmer Ahmed Sabry, He has really done a great job, solved a lot of problems in such a smart ways that we in many aspects are doing much better that the rival products currently available on the market.Truth to tell, ... I don't

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Yes, it's true, ... well, .. not totally, we still have little experience in the field, but we will do it (insha2allah), I know we will.I hope in the following year we would be known as the middle east's pioneer company in interactive computer graphics and games.We have acquired multiple game development engines and platforms that we hope will help us achieve good results in reasonable time spans

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Who knows some of what happened to me the last few months, knows I have participated in the first egyptian Business Plan Contest (2005) with two teams. And won the third place with one of them.Currently we are establishing a small company that should be pioneering its field in the middle east.Anyway, 2006 is here now I have heared of two arab-wide Business Plan Contests (more information here and

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I wish for my country:- a good education system.- 5 great religion intellects and preachers.- 3 really great cinema directors.- 3 more really good music composers (and yes, much less singers :)).- another very much more effective government.For myself I wish:- success in work, love, business, and developing myselfby developing myself I mean mentally, intellectually, spiritually, and all other

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Dear God, ...Thanks you, for everything, the good and the bad, ... whatever comes I accept, just please accept me in your mercy, and inspire me the right thing to do.

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Al Dustoor is an independent newspaper published in Egypt (independent on the government I mean). Over the few past months it has gained a lot of inertia and public acceptance in the educated community in Egypt, especially after most of the government dependent journals have lost credibility (long ago actually). Not only has the so called "official" journals lost credibility, it has (IMHO) dulled

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Kol sana we kol el nas atyab wel 7'eir feehom ba2y, ...Ramadan mabrook (mosh Mubarak :) ) wa 3eed sa3eed we gameelYa rab e3'fer lana war7amna wahdena wa 3afena warzoqnaIn the coming days I'll try to revise and add contents to the physics engine's web site, read about the DirectX shaders, read about external hashing, B-trees, and external sorting and revise an algorithm for space division for the

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A little more than two years ago, at my final year at college, I started to read Robert Jordan's epic "The Wheel of Time". I was so fascinated by it that I almost finished the first nine books in a few months, and started to read Terry Goodking's "The sword of Truth". Again I was so fascinated that by the end of that college year, I had finished finished the first eight books of SoT.It's been

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The past few months, I've been busying myself in starting a new startup. My two partners and I have abandoned our jobs (both of them were working at IBM Egypt for the last few months) and started to lay plans and continue work in our main product (the yet unnamed physics engine).Meanwhile we realize how immensely greater challenge it is to plan and manage your own work in the real world. But

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For so long I wanted to get a Mac. The elegance of the operating system has always allured me, but it was simply too expensive. Lately and at last, I got a Mac-Mini, the cheapest one, as good as any for me, it's the OS that I'm concerned about.I had panther for a couple of days before I installed tiger, so I'll mainly speak about my tiger experience.First of all, the installation is really,

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I feel especially lazy. Having just returned from a thrilling journey across Rome in the company of Robert Langdon. In other words, I have just finished Dan Brown's beautiful novel "Angels and Demons". It's simply beautiful, full of mysteries and theological debates. Compared to its more dominant successor "The Davinci Code" I think "Angels and Demons" is emotionally richer, although surely less

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I've been sleeping too long in the arms of C++, and lately I've been searching for a dynamic language to adopt. Having written some perl and php myself, read some python and heard a lot of good stuff about ruby, it shouldn't be a problem for me to adopt any of them for simply playing around. But what I'm really looking for is a long (marriage-like) relationship, where I will try to know all the

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I've intended to do this for what seems like ages :)I finally fooled my own lazyness to set this up.Better late than never, I tell myself.

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