I ended up buying my android online. I got it unlocked straight from the manuf. and of course with no contract. I made sure that the supported frequencies matched my preferred carrier and dropped my SIM card into it. Worked great. I liked the Samsung Galaxy S series, but did not like the current trend of making phablets instead of phones. I didn't want the Galaxy Ace, so went with the unlocked Galaxy S Advance. Not necessarily the best choice, but I find it amusing that I have an unlocked phone that was *never* made available in my country through the usual carriers. I also truly detest 'plans' and just use pay-as-you-go. My phone was 250$, and I only pay about 18$/month in services. HTH.

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FYI, it's yeast (a member of the fungi kingdom), not bacteria. Bacteria can spoil a good brew.

Craig, is that you ?

At home: National parks

At work prod: Functional names and/or numbers
At work DMZ: constellations, planets

You mean like the plants on Gilligan's Island ?

I used to curse at my Win98 machine every other night (I still prefer to shutdown desktops nightly at home) as I observed it's inability to shutdown the O/S. It always froze during shutdown and I never found a solution for it. How hard is it to quiesce the disks and shutdown ? Fast-forward to today and I've got a Dell laptop with Vista running, and it gets 'sleep', 'reboot', 'shutdown' mixed up. So I'm still cursing. The cursing is always about Windows for me. My linux boxes never had a problem.

I see what you mean, but for me, it's not so much the science content as the acting. Anna Torv is great (and easy on the eyes too), and John Noble is amazing with what he does with Walter's character.

I've noticed this phenomenon as well.

It appears to me that many families strapped for cash wear wealth on their sleeve, Cars, Christmas and all. Always trying to show off.

Meanwhile, we sometimes see wealthy folks driving cars long past their prime.

What seldom gets mentioned is that most internal combustion vehicles get is 25% efficiency "under the hood".

Even if you're electricity supply is 100% coal, electrical plants are probably 90% or better efficient at turning heat into electricity.

mkgmap is a java program that will convert OSM data to Garmin map format. It's not perfect, but I've found it works well with my GPSMAP 60CSx.

Be sure to check out Openstreetmap.org. It is basically a collaborative mapping project where you can upload your own features in a patent unencumbered manner.

I've been mapping a lot of my local bike and wooded paths in my area using GPS.

Your area may already have this information.

FYI, There were 6 books, but I also agree that 6 2hr+ movies would've been better. My wife usually falls asleep after the first 1hr, so watching/re-watching movie #3 is a chore.