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I got one of those prepaid Visa cards in the mail a few days ago, and it claims to have $180 on it. There's an immediate red flag in my mind because they seem to market prepaid cards to poor people. The issuer is some bank called MetaBank. It has my name on it, as well as an indication that...

A law allowing concealed carry on public college campuses, among other places, just passed in the state house in Georgia. People at my school are freaking the hell out, which I feel is partly due to ignorance. Several faculty members have threatened to not come to work. Somehow, concealed...

Are you having at least weekly meetings with your team? If there's one thing I learned from my team-based senior design project, it's that even guys with good credentials can be serious slackasses. Then again, I was one of those slackasses; I had a whole semester to design/build/test a circuit...

I think this fits here. Here or business/finance. It's mostly hypothetical at this point. I recently finished the first iteration of what will be a fairly useful utility-type app that I'll call App X. I think it would be a very powerful tool if there is some way to easily distribute...

Yeah, I will rent for sure. All of my labmates bought houses when they moved for their jobs in Portland, Austin, etc., so I just kind of expected to do the same. Living a nomadic lifestyle for another couple of years will suck when you're paying $2k/month for a studio in Mountain View all the...

Seems like a good place to put this. I've been official with a girl for about 4 months now. We're both PhD students in the same field, but she lives on the west coast and, well, you can see where I live. We met over the summer through a mutual friend at work, and things progressed pretty...

Nah. Well, there are certainly those who played MMOs way too much and work crappy retail jobs to make ends meet, in WoW I was in a hardcore (top 10 on and off) raiding guild for 3.5 years and a middle of the road guild for a couple more, and there were quite a few people who went to top schools...

Currently uninsured thanks to the retarded way health insurance works at my university. I pay for insurance every semester but on long breaks, like right now, last semester's insurance expires on the 31st and I won't get coverage again until Monday at the earliest when the new semester's...

Where do you work? GT What do you do? (Title/keywords) Ph.D student (might as well mention that I'm graduating this semester and looking for jobs) What field/industry? Electrical Engineering Wages? 30k, but I work summers. I think I made about 60k this year because I was working a...

Do you have a faculty adviser for this? I think I saw the old thread, and it seemed a little ambitious for a senior design type project. Would definitely be interested to hear how it's going along from time to time.

I don't have insomnia, but if I have something big the next day, I tend not to be able to sleep. My strategy is kind of weird, but I just imagine that I'm listening to what I can best describe as talk radio, and I let my mind wander about that the speaker is actually saying. The sentences are...

Not a New Year's resolution per se, but continue to gain (muscle) weight. Currently 6'1" and 160 lbs. I have a bad habit of skipping meals when I'm working.

My old laptop bag is finally almost completely fallen apart (the last of 5 zipper tabs just broke on my last flight, messenger strap is long gone, big tear in the case itself). Here are a general list of features: 1. A few places to store a book or two, miscellaneous papers, pens, usb flash...

Just wanted to point out that OLED is a completely different technology than what marketing people are calling "LED". The RGB pixels are not made of little LED's, they are LCD's with LED (as opposed to fluorescent) backlighting. Just going out on a limb, but the reason we do not see true LED...

Would be surprised if you saw this again, but I didn't play it for 15 minutes because it was bad, it was just crunch time at work and by the time I had time again my friends had far outleveled me so I had no interest in continuing to play.

I know several programming languages: C++ and MATLAB at the level that I could do them as my job, and Java, Perl and BASIC at the intermediate level where I can do something in it if I have to. My approach has been the following since I started programming ~15 years ago (using Perl as an...

I don't like the idea ofabortion, but I don't think it can be banned outside of a mortal risk to the mother until procreation is a 100% "opt-in" process, by which I mean some combination of science/government makes us all sterile by default and requires both parents to take a pill, shot, etc. to...

I played the game for less than 15 minutes after buying it but I would feel downright wrong about asking for a refund 4 months later.