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  1. Do you have the tax percentage in US? We seem to get so much taxes on different cigarrettes and stuff lately. I'm surprised the Americans aren't dealing tobacco on the black market yet...
  2. Nice. The bad thing is, though, that it's going to be demolished. I'm sure that there's plenty of hungry people in Mexico, who wouldn't mind having this pyramid to eat. I bet if all Mexicans were allowed to come to US, then they could eat this thing in one day...
  3. However, those are only the most common reasons. There are, of course, other reasons. For example, I might have a genetic predisposition to heart attacks because my grandfather had one. So my heart might be just not as strong, and a lot more sensitive to different outside factors than for other people. Also, there is a natural calcification of the arteries that happens with age.
  4. But of course, not everything about black holes is documented, since even that guy in the wheelchair (Hawkins?) was not omniscient; there's still some room for hypothesization. For instance:I've heard that just as liquid forms when the matter cannot stay rigid, and gas forms when its pressure is above that of the atmosphere, just like plasma forms when electrons dissociate and start freely floating, I've heard that there is a phase where even the quarks start freely floating (yeah, wonder how that would feel). So maybe what happens with black holes, is that whatever matter makes up quarks also dissociates, and then there is nothing keeping anything apart. Then it becomes one big goop of matter. Now then, a black hole becomes just one big big element on the periodic table. And as it absorbs more matter, its number on the periodic table keeps going up and up. Apparently the gravity keeps it from radioactively decaying, since anything just comes right back to it. Eventually there are so many decaying particles, that they are decaying more rapidly that coming back. And at that point, they start moving apart, and the gravity becomes less (since the particles are farther apart). Then the gravity is no longer sufficient to bring everything back, and this HUGE element decays radioactively, giving rise to new stars.
  5. Humans are superior to computers because computers cannot identify CAPTCHAs! Of course, that's what it's all about! --err, by "it" I mean "differences between computers and humans in identifying CAPTCHAs", j/k.But on a more serious note, computers cannot distinguish quality (i.e. expensive vs. cheap violin sound); computers cannot generalize (teach computer how to add and multiply, and have it generalize it... of course, humans know that it generalizes to exponentiation).
  6. Hmm, I am very glad that my worst dreams did not come true. Because I remember dreaming of such horrid things as a child, that even now, being grown up and all, I am hesitant to recall and get into the mindset that I had as a child. In fact, it is so morbid that I cannot bring myself to do it here.
  7. Hello,I am by no means a religion expert, or anything of that sort. However, I have come to know the true meaning of speaking in tongues. And in fact, the way most churches treat it, it is indeed just a pressure. Just a pressure, but what happened at Pentacost was real. And Christ said, the Spirit is not just for the apostles, it is for all those who believe on Christ's name. Though we must figure out what kind of spirit it is. One thing to note is that when the Spirit came down, speaking in tongues was not the only thing. There was prophecying. There was reminding of what Christ had said. There was receiving power. And true baptist of the Spirit embodies all these. For a long time I spoke in tongues, just like everyone at my church, and I had the Spirit with me. But apparently I did not have the Spirit *in* me. I did not know it was the Holy Spirit, it was the Spirit which leads to a holy life, life without sin. It was the spirit which was to lead to perfection in Christ. But yes, tongues are definitely a manifestation of the Spirit. But not evidence thereof. A lot more is required to be convinced that the Spirit is there.
  8. So I guess if you are allowed just to copy from the internet, the link above is exactly the program you would need. But probably you would wish to be able to understand yourself how it works. So basically you have the two arrays, and then you assign an invertible function from the double array to the single array. To go one way, you apply this function when copying the array; to go the other way, you apply its inverse.
  9. Or, you could just read the manual. That's the way I learned it, and I used to be a pretty big expert while I had the time to devote to my site... Need something, look it up, now you know how to use it. If you program in PHP faster than they come out with new versions and such, then it's actually a pretty efficient way of keeping up with your skills. This way, you learn stuff as you need it, and don't have to burden your head with needless programs and functions.
  10. Well, first you have to look at the Tamil commands and figure out to which Java commands they correspond. Then you would convert that code to Java. Finally, you would compile that program (since probably they don't expect you to know machine code to do the compilation directly...).
  11. The way I see it (and this is only my feeling about it, I am no expert), is that C++ attempts to increment on C functionality without costing too much efficiency overhead. In other words, C++ will compile C code without losing efficiency. On the other hand, C# is more of a modern-day language, simplified at the cost of efficiency.
  12. So... for the range checking, you could do something likeif (index >= sizeof(str)/sizeof(str[0])) return -1; (error)SizeOf array could be kept as a separate variable.For COUT, you could just forward it to the printf("%s", str); method.Is there anything else?
  13. Hey, you forgot references. My favorite part, though, is the templates. Treated pretty awfully by compilers (very inefficient), but make for nice brevity of code...
  14. Hey, it is just me, or are there tons or rap stuff around? Even this poetic tribute seems to be rap-centred somehow. And looking at the other poetry, there's tons or rap-seeming content around... Maybe it's just me though.
  15. Hmm, I wonder whether it will hit US? Would be pretty funny if it hits New Orleans like the other two hurricanes hit already. Is there a timeline for that?
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