Uh - how much storage space does gmail give you? Two gigs or so, right? When I "archive" my mail, I move it to a local folder in mail.app - so I have about a half terabyte of storage space.
I don't understand what is unique to gmail here. You're saying you can find any message by searching for keywords - so can just about any modern mail client. I do this all the time in mail.app, and my emails aren't being scanned to present advertisements to me. Am I missing something here?
The cheapest I've seen the 24 in recent memory is about 700. I, too, am waiting to see it for around 500. You can never have too many big-ass LCD screens.
My big hope is that Dell will respond with a big price drop in their 30" displays. Dell used to be a couple hundred cheaper than Apple, and you could get the refurbs for 1500 bucks. If I can pick up a refurb'ed Dell 30" display for 1200-1300 bucks I'll pull my credit card out tomorrow. I could relegate my Apple 23" cinema display to macbook external monitor use.
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Detecting "major" quakes - those measuring a magnitude of 7 to 8.9 - which occur frequently is being investigated. NASA's planned extension of the current mission, dubbed GRACE 2, and its enhanced instrumentation should aid in that effort.
However, Han is hopeful that NASA's planned expansion of the current mission, dubbed GRACE 2, and its enhanced instrumentation, might allow the detection of "major" quakes - those measuring a magnitude 7 to 8.9 - which occur frequently.
seriously though, at a lot of campuses, dorms or near-campus apartments are so freakin expensive that it's actually cheaper to live off-campus and commute, even when you factor in the price of a car. I ended up buying a house 20 minutes from campus for grad school - a lot cheaper than the uppity rich kids with rich parents apartments near the school.
Many federally subsidized student loans have payments deferred until graduation, and the gub'ment pays your interest until that point, too. I know tons of people who used student loans to buy a car, because they basically get four years to save enough money to pay it off without paying a dime of interest.
And how exactly should it check for valid cards? Should it have a record of every single ATM card on the planet? Should it know some sort of ID code for every single bank? Or, should it search for some string that's common in all ATM cards, and very well might exist in other cards, too, like, say, a grocery store discount card that carries personal information about its user?
Either way - you've made a gross assumption that is in no way backed up by any factual information, and phrased in such a way that, no matter what you insist, I doubt you did RTFA.
TFA answers your question - most card reading entry systems have a feature which will allow any ATM card to open the door, because these systems are often used to secure ATM machines, and banks want people from other banks to be able to use their machine and pay the 2.00 service charge.
Maybe next time, instead of trying to get a first post by asking a question based solely on skimming the summary, you'll RTFA?
Is this some sort of religiously inspired ID nonsense?
You know, I have come up with the perfect compromise for the creationists. We scientists will gladly start using "might have evolved" and "may have lived millions of years ago" if you will change the Bible to say "Moses may have parted the red sea" and "God could have said 'let there be light'".
Of course, you're completely ignoring the fact that quantum mechanics did, in fact predict accurately many things that weren't tested until many years later.
What you're arguing is semantics - no science can possibly COMPLETELY understand something by your reasoning - science explores the "how"s, not the "why"s. Stick to religion if you want to know "why" light does what it does.
No, you can count on one hand the number of times you've had a "feeling" that you remember. As the GP said, the human brain is very selective about remembering these sorts of things. Document it rigorously, writing down your "feelings" BEFORE you make the call, and people who have a scientific mind might start to believe that you aren't utterly full of shit.
Amen - shit I've personally carried out the calculations that explain the double slit experiment. Now that the true pioneers have laid the groundwork, it's an advanced undergrad-level problem, at best.
You're a jackass. The double-slit experiment has been explained completely via quantum mechanics. Your anecdotal evidence of "unexplainable phenomena" can be explained very easily... by the word COOINCIDENCE! Wow, two people with identical genetic structures, raised by the same parents and undergoing many of the same experiences in life, happen to have the same taste in birthday cards, and maybe even shop at the same stores? STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES!
When you break into your "can you really feel object" metaphysics tirade you really show your jackassitude. Macroscopic physics is a result of the statistical interaction of a bunch of smaller things. That doesn't make the real world any less real, or Newtonian physics any less accurate, for the situations in which they are appropriate. God do I hate when people who don't understand it latch onto particle physics as an attempt to use science to justify some mysticism mumbo jumbo.
You say there's a lot we don't know about ESP - there's one thing we DO know about ESP. NO ONE has EVER been able to reliably and reproducibly produce any statistically significant evidence of ESP and have it published in a major scientific journal.
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Have you ever seen www.stikfas.com? These are some of the coolest toys I've ever seen - buy a couple of kits and you can create crazy battles between normal guys, or crazy battles between crazy six armed beasts. I've completely replaced my retro action figure shelf decorations with stikfas. I wish they had toys like these when I was a kid, I would have been ALL OVER that shit.
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Man, am I glad I had my dog's balls chopped off. Nearly all of his humping instinct is now gone... we might have dodged a bullet!
Uh - how much storage space does gmail give you? Two gigs or so, right? When I "archive" my mail, I move it to a local folder in mail.app - so I have about a half terabyte of storage space.
I don't understand what is unique to gmail here. You're saying you can find any message by searching for keywords - so can just about any modern mail client. I do this all the time in mail.app, and my emails aren't being scanned to present advertisements to me. Am I missing something here?
oooooooo, sick burn
Now that's funny!
No, they have actually sucked. Perhaps you meant to say they have virtually no talent?
Seems to me that, unless you're hosting a bunch of internet spyware [...], you're not going to be making much of a gain.
Uh, this is for gamers, right? Don't most gamers run WINDOWS?
The cheapest I've seen the 24 in recent memory is about 700. I, too, am waiting to see it for around 500. You can never have too many big-ass LCD screens.
My big hope is that Dell will respond with a big price drop in their 30" displays. Dell used to be a couple hundred cheaper than Apple, and you could get the refurbs for 1500 bucks. If I can pick up a refurb'ed Dell 30" display for 1200-1300 bucks I'll pull my credit card out tomorrow. I could relegate my Apple 23" cinema display to macbook external monitor use.
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Detecting "major" quakes - those measuring a magnitude of 7 to 8.9 - which occur frequently is being investigated. NASA's planned extension of the current mission, dubbed GRACE 2, and its enhanced instrumentation should aid in that effort.
However, Han is hopeful that NASA's planned expansion of the current mission, dubbed GRACE 2, and its enhanced instrumentation, might allow the detection of "major" quakes - those measuring a magnitude 7 to 8.9 - which occur frequently.
no, it runs mac os X tiger ;)
a car IS a necessity ;)
seriously though, at a lot of campuses, dorms or near-campus apartments are so freakin expensive that it's actually cheaper to live off-campus and commute, even when you factor in the price of a car. I ended up buying a house 20 minutes from campus for grad school - a lot cheaper than the uppity rich kids with rich parents apartments near the school.
Many federally subsidized student loans have payments deferred until graduation, and the gub'ment pays your interest until that point, too. I know tons of people who used student loans to buy a car, because they basically get four years to save enough money to pay it off without paying a dime of interest.
And how exactly should it check for valid cards? Should it have a record of every single ATM card on the planet? Should it know some sort of ID code for every single bank? Or, should it search for some string that's common in all ATM cards, and very well might exist in other cards, too, like, say, a grocery store discount card that carries personal information about its user?
Either way - you've made a gross assumption that is in no way backed up by any factual information, and phrased in such a way that, no matter what you insist, I doubt you did RTFA.
TFA answers your question - most card reading entry systems have a feature which will allow any ATM card to open the door, because these systems are often used to secure ATM machines, and banks want people from other banks to be able to use their machine and pay the 2.00 service charge.
Maybe next time, instead of trying to get a first post by asking a question based solely on skimming the summary, you'll RTFA?
Is this some sort of religiously inspired ID nonsense?
You know, I have come up with the perfect compromise for the creationists. We scientists will gladly start using "might have evolved" and "may have lived millions of years ago" if you will change the Bible to say "Moses may have parted the red sea" and "God could have said 'let there be light'".
Of course, you're completely ignoring the fact that quantum mechanics did, in fact predict accurately many things that weren't tested until many years later.
What you're arguing is semantics - no science can possibly COMPLETELY understand something by your reasoning - science explores the "how"s, not the "why"s. Stick to religion if you want to know "why" light does what it does.
You're half right - it takes a knowledge of quantum principles to be able to manufacture things at the scales needed to create computer chips.
No, you can count on one hand the number of times you've had a "feeling" that you remember. As the GP said, the human brain is very selective about remembering these sorts of things. Document it rigorously, writing down your "feelings" BEFORE you make the call, and people who have a scientific mind might start to believe that you aren't utterly full of shit.
Amen - shit I've personally carried out the calculations that explain the double slit experiment. Now that the true pioneers have laid the groundwork, it's an advanced undergrad-level problem, at best.
You're a jackass. The double-slit experiment has been explained completely via quantum mechanics. Your anecdotal evidence of "unexplainable phenomena" can be explained very easily... by the word COOINCIDENCE! Wow, two people with identical genetic structures, raised by the same parents and undergoing many of the same experiences in life, happen to have the same taste in birthday cards, and maybe even shop at the same stores? STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES!
When you break into your "can you really feel object" metaphysics tirade you really show your jackassitude. Macroscopic physics is a result of the statistical interaction of a bunch of smaller things. That doesn't make the real world any less real, or Newtonian physics any less accurate, for the situations in which they are appropriate. God do I hate when people who don't understand it latch onto particle physics as an attempt to use science to justify some mysticism mumbo jumbo.
You say there's a lot we don't know about ESP - there's one thing we DO know about ESP. NO ONE has EVER been able to reliably and reproducibly produce any statistically significant evidence of ESP and have it published in a major scientific journal.
Have you ever seen www.stikfas.com? These are some of the coolest toys I've ever seen - buy a couple of kits and you can create crazy battles between normal guys, or crazy battles between crazy six armed beasts. I've completely replaced my retro action figure shelf decorations with stikfas. I wish they had toys like these when I was a kid, I would have been ALL OVER that shit.
If you've got a better alternative, I'm all ears...
Or, if you're a mac person who refuses to run X11 on your machine, you could try out seashore at http://seashore.sourceforge.net/