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Very good work electriic ink. I found the practical activities particularly interesting, and they were a great way to demonstrate the concepts you have posted about. Since you seem to know a lot about resonance, I hope you might be able to answer this question for me: What can one do in order to increase nasal resonance on vowels (specifically, while singing)?

Not exactly. It's 3 to the power of 3. Then that number to the power of 3, then that result to the power of 3, and so and and so forth until you have raised a number to the third power 64 times. In other words: 33 = 9 93= 729 7293 = 387420489 3874204893 = 5.8149737 ? 1025 (5.8149737 ? 1025)3 = 1.9662705 ? 1077 Keep going and going, until you have done raised a number to the 3rd power for the 64th time.

I originally had an XP OEM copy with no disc, but then I had to send in my computer for major repairs at a local store, and he had to back up my media, wipe the drive, then reinstall. I'm pretty sure my current (post-repair) copy is a fake, but it works just fine. I've been looking to switch to a dual-boot system (XP and Linux) but I'm currently waiting to buy an external drive to back up stuff on a partition before repartitioning it to give back all its space to C:/. After that, I'll remake the necessary partitions for having OSs and Page Files on separate drives.

I was first introduced to this concept in a movie entitled What the Bleep? Down the Rabbit Hole which I would highly recommend to anybody with the slightest interested in physics, or a curiosity to find out something new about the world. Basically, one part of the movie claimed that no two objects ever actually come into physical contact with each other in the real world. One might immediately say something like, "Then how come I can feel something when my hand gets close enough to it?" The answer is that when you get close to an object, what you are actually feeling is the force created by the repulsion between the electrons in your hand (or other body part) and the electrons of that object. Different objects give you a different sensation because their unique chemical composition and physical structure causes varying amounts of forces (in the repulsion between your electrons and the electrons of that object). The example given in the movie specifically refers to the bouncing of a basketball on a basketball court. You initially give the ball a downward velocity (which over time increases due to gravitational acceleration) and send it falling towards the concrete (or whatever substance the court floor is made of). As the ball starts approaching the floor, there is a slight repulsion between its electrons and those of the floor. As the ball gets closer, the force of repulsion becomes greater and greater (to keep the approaching ball's electrons from ever coming into physical contact with the floor's electrons). Eventually, this force becomes so great that it 'bounces' the ball back up towards you. I just found it very interesting to imagine that at this moment, as I type on my keyboard, I am not actually touching the keys. The force of repulsion given off by the electrons on my fingertips is simply greater than that given off by the keys, which is why I am able to force them down and type this post. Kind of makes you question some of your basic perceptions on the world when you find out that something you that was so obvious or knew so much about turns out to be completely different than you had originally thought.

Personally, I don't believe that violent video games turn people violent. Most "evidence" that is presented to try to prove that there is a connection resembles somthing like a line graph showing an increase in violent video game play next to an increase in violent crime. While this may at first seem substantial and plausible, basic Psychology tells us that correlation does not imply causation. An example that is given in my Psych textbook talks about how if you graph the length of a marriage vs. hair loss, as one increases so will the other. Does this mean that a long marriage causes hair loss (or vice versa)? No, it simply means that there is a correlation, but that neither is a cause or effect of the other. In this case there is a third factor -- aging. Age increases as the length of a relationship increases, and an hair loss usually starts or becomes more apparent as a person ages. The same is with video games. While people who commit violent crimes play may play violent video games, it in no way implies that it is the games who lead them to commit such acts (or the acts lead them to play the games). On that note, one has to doubt the data presented that shows a correlation between violent crime and violent video game play in the first place. This is because there is much data that contradicts the claim that a correlation exists in the first place. Example (2005): Kimheng, while this at first seems like a good philosophy to go by, the problem is that the rating system itself is flawed to begin with. I remember reading somewhere that a video game rating of T(een) is closer to the movie rating of PG than it is to PG-13. Then you have M(ature) which is closer to the movie rating of R than anything else. Therefore, there really is no PG-13 equivalent rating. This is problematic because you have games like Halo and Manhunt have the same rating while there obviously is a HUGE difference in the content of both games.

Last book I read was Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. It was pretty interesting and he has a style all his own that no author I've read or heard of so far has ever imitated (or at least been able to). Currently I'm reading A Confederacy of Dunces by James Kennedy Toole, and when I finish that, I hope to start the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin.

Yea, a googol is big, but it's nothing compared to g64 (a.k.a. Graham's number). Imagine taking the number 3, then cubing it, then cubing the result, then cubing that result, and so on and so forth until you have done a total of 64 cubing operations. Now that is a fantastic number.

Hello everyone, just wanted to introduce myslef. On the inter-tubes I go by the name Suberatu (and occassionally SteelRaptor3). I'm currently a senior in high school looking to go to college for Computer Science (dream school would be Carnegie Mellon or MIT). I took a one year high-school course in C++ and am currently taking what is supposed to be the equivalent of a one semster college course in Java. I am also into Photoshop, toying around with CSS, and have just recently started to get into Flash.Outside of programming/web design, my interests span anime, RPGs (Japanese and Western), DDR, video games in general, technology, mathematics, D&D, Warhammer, sci-fi, fantasy books, guitar, music (favorite genre is NWOBHM [New Wave of British Heavy Metal], second favorite is black folk metal), and last but certainly not least -- Asian girls. (I'm Egyptian by the way).Interestingly enough, I came upon Trap 17 while googling the answer for the age-old question 'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?' I now know that the answer is indeed the egg (because the first chicken had to come from a [mutated, non-chicken] egg). After taking a look at Trap 17's hosting philosophy I really took an interest in it and decided that Trap 17 was probably the best free hosting provider that I had ever come upon (I have seen hundreds and tried a dozen or so).In just a small cursory glance of the forums, I have found the community to be lively, creative, and intellectual. I hope that I myself can add something to the forums and be a participating member for a long time to come.P.S.: Sorry for the lengthiness of the post, I just wanted to give you all an idea of what kind of person I really am.