* Surrender ( only available as first decision of a hand ): Some games offer the option to " surrender ", usually in hole card games and directly after the dealer has checked for blackjack ( but see below for variations ).

Some card games are designed specifically to be played as drinking games.

Some of these games, such as Pyramid from Battlestar Galactica, become real card games as the holder of the intellectual property develops and markets a suitable deck and ruleset for the game, while others, such as " Exploding Snap " from the Harry Potter franchise, lack sufficient descriptions of rules, or depend on cards or other hardware that are infeasible or physically impossible.

Some private car owners, known as white card drivers, provide a taxi service for a nominal fee.

Some third party hard disks for IBM PCs were sold as kits including a controller card and replacement power supply, and some were integrated with their controller into a single expansion card, commonly called a " Hard Card ".

Some retailers run their own rewards programs, such as The Body Shop's Love Your Body Card, Shoppers Drug Mart's Shoppers Optimum Card, Staples Business Depot's easyRewards Savings Card ( formerly Dividends ) and Sobeys Club Sobeys card.

Some systems use dedicated hardware to reduce the load on the host CPU, as with Symbolic Sound Corporation's Kyma System, and the Creamware / Sonic Core Pulsar / SCOPE systems, which used several DSP chips hosted on a PCI card to power an entire studio's worth of instruments, effects, and mixers.

Some early PDAs were able to connect to the Internet indirectly by means off an external modem connected via the PDA's serial port or " sync " connector, or directly by using an expansion card that provided an Ethernet port.

Some prepaid card companies allow accounts to be recharged online manually or automatically via a method called auto-top-up. Roots Tel is one of the top companies providing the Virtual Phone Cards.

Some telephones have facilities to make calls through a calling card service whose access details and PIN are also stored in the telephone's memory.

Some role-playing game systems which describe themselves as " storytelling games " nevertheless use randomisers rather than story in the arbitration of the rules, often in the form of a contest of Rock, Paper, Scissors or a card drawn from a deck of cards.

Some hospitals and SAMU organisations now use the " Cruciform " card referred to elsewhere.

Some use word processors for letter writing, résumé creation, and card creation.

Some readers may have additional features such as LCD and function buttons for data collection purposes ( i. e. clock-in / clock-out events for attendance reports ), camera / speaker / microphone for intercom, and smart card read / write support.

* Some modern CPUs and microcontrollers ( for example, TI OMAP ) or sometimes even DSPs may have boot ROM with boot code integrated directly into their silicon, so such a processor could perform quite a sophisticated boot sequence on its own and load boot programs from various sources like NAND flash, SD or MMC card and so on.

Some argue that the benefits of playing this team strategy card game extend to those skills and strategies used in business and that the playing of these games help to automate strategic awareness.

Some variants require the player to announce when he only has one card left in his hand.

Some card readers have their own numeric keypad.

Some Type II cards, most notably network interface and modem cards have a retractable jack, which can be pushed into the card and will pop out when needed, allowing insertion of a cable from above.

Some nations have an identity card system to aid identification, whilst many, such as Britain, are considering it but face public opposition.

Some imagery remains close to that found in earlier decks, but overall the Waite-Smith card designs represent a substantial departure from their predecessors.

Some interpretations also suggest a link between the card and the myth of Isis and Osiris, a claim made about many cards.

Some say the card corresponds to the astrological sign of Taurus, others Leo.

Some decks, such as the Tarot of Marseilles, omit the name from the card.

Some gracefully soared from the backs of their wounded, screaming mounts to make one last defiant charge before the lead split their hearts or tore their guts.

Some of the aphoristic poetry he wrote on the backs of postcards and scraps of paper were set to music by composer Alban Berg.

Some stringed instruments are made with one-piece poplar backs ; violas made in this fashion are said to have a particularly resonant tone.

Some carried their grain twelve miles ( 19 km ) on their backs to grist mill, and then home again.

Martin Windrow notes that: Some 130 of the Legion parachute battalion out of the 500 that had jumped emerged from this breakthrough fight ; they had only escaped by clambering down lianas shrouding a 75 ft cliff with their wounded tied on their backs.

Some cameras capable of using both 120 and 220 film will have a two position adjustment of the pressure plate ( e. g. the Mamiya C220 or Mamiya C330 ) while others will require different film backs e. g. the Pentax 645 or Kowa Six ).

Some companies had bulk film backs that used 70mm double-perforated that allowed up to 75 feet of film to be loaded at one time.

Some nudibranchs have smooth or warty backs and have no visible gill mechanism, such that respiration may likely take place directly through the skin.

Some of his own children denounced him as their leader and turned their backs on The Salvation Army, including his daughter Kate Booth and his sons Herbert and Ballington Booth, the latter founding a separate organisation, the Volunteers of America with himself as ' General '.

Some species perch on the backs of cattle, which they use both as a vantage point and because the cattle flush up insects.

Some Hindu folk-myths have a snake ( Adisesha ) circling the tortoise Kurma that supports the eight elephants which support the world on their backs.

Some species communicate warnings to rivals by exposing white feather patches on their backs or shoulders.

Some large format cameras have rotating or sliding reduction backs, which mask off part of the film sheet, allowing several smaller photos to be placed on a single sheet of film.

Some N-S variation with birds becoming blacker on backs, local populations once separated as M. m. cooperi and M. m. mailliardi.

Some other features were the tilt steering wheel, deep zippered pockets on the backs of the front seats, and tonneau cover under the liftback.

Some of these " preferred lenders " allegedly rewarded university financial aid staff with " kick backs.

Some small reconnaissance shows Holmes that Oberstein ’ s house backs onto an above-ground Underground line, and that, owing to traffic at a nearby junction, trains often stop right under his windows.

Some Series 1½ cars also have twin cooling fans and adjustable seat backs.

Some have g-string style backs, while others provide full coverage of the rear.

Some of the most important players of that squad were goalkeeper Ubaldo Fillol, backs Roberto Perfumo and Daniel Passarella, midfielders Juan José López, Reinaldo Merlo and Norberto Alonso and strikers Carlos Morete and Oscar Más.

Some backs, primarily older ones, require multiple exposures to capture an image ; generally one each for red, green, and blue.

Some of the 6. 0 L Power Stroke engines have proven to be problematic, and speculated to have cost Ford millions of dollars in warranty repairs and buy backs.

Some targes, usually those actually used in battle, had their backs covered in a piece of red cloth taken from the uniform of a government soldier ( a " Redcoat ") that the owner had killed in battle.

Samuel Wells Williams, a translator on the Perry mission, backs up this record: " Some of the flags seen ashore, and the red jackets, too, to-day had on them.