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http://cgi.ebay.ca/MICROSOFT-XBOX-360-PREMIUM-IMAG E-OF-JESUS-ON-BACK_W0QQitemZ8237687928QQcategoryZ6 2054QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Why ebay of course...here is a similar item:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item= 5993972425&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

No, that's my: other auction...

Consider it done.

Until the hard drive crashed last month I was running Win 2K on this old Fujitsu Lifebook D765X Pentium Laptop. My sig other took the "good" laptop to Nova Scotia, so I travelled to San Francisco with this one.

Although slow, the machine actually ran quite OK, even logging into wireless networks and surfing the 'net. Office '97 ran just dandy, as did everything else that I usually have installed.

Pentium 166, 48 megs RAM. Stable as a rock.

I doubt very much that XP would even install on this machine, but 2K was happy as a clam.

Jeez, it's not like this is a new idea. If they patent this, good for them, but I don't see a reason for it to be patented in the first place - this idea has been in the air or in some form of implementation for a long time now, just watch Minority Report.

I am sure that the patent is not too hard to get, all they have to do is say: but we have a seperate display on every button! Not like that has never been done before, right?

Ncix is not too bad
Other Canadian sites that i like are
http://www.mdcharlton.ca/
http://www.atic.ca/
http://www.fronet.com/
and of corse
http://www.ebay.ca/

If everyone commenting in this article took 15 minutes to report all the listing policy violations they found, that would send a message to them.

I send about 15 or 20 reports a month. Don't know how many of them get taken down though. My latest report decided he was going to charge $250 shipping for his LCD monitor. But he'll take $20 if you pick it up. What a deal!

That's 28 cents canadian.

... go to the next exciting /. article, "27 Year Anniversary of the Mattel Electronics Football Game"

*grins* Eve is so great :)

In semi-related news, I did this for my summer job. Eve, I mean. :)

And, it's not too late to support my tuition! Check out my Eve-Online store at Ebay :P

http://stores.ebay.ca/Ungodly-Sales-for-Eve-Online _W0QQsspagenameZl2QQtZkm/

I'm trying to shut-down for the fall, and have quite a bit of excess cash/items and characters unlisted. So if anyone wants to haggle with me feel free :)

What happens if you lose your CueCat?

You simply buy another one.

and what's funny is that it's a copy of the original disc. The original is sitting in a drawer filled with stationary crap and other misc junk that only sees the light of day at Christmas time.

Originally when I bought it, I thought "hey, this shiat is gonna be worth like a lot of money someday at the pawn shop.. maybe even full price!" but oh, how I was wrong about that.

If I would have known that public libraries would just be given Willenium for free in 2004, I would have waited to listen to this masterpiece.

Anyone want to buy this historical album from me?

It also features a built-in video screen, a cooling system, pressure-bearing titanium struts, protective airbags, shock absorbers, a robotic third arm, built-in regular arms and swivel shoulders.

"Good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now it's another one, and another. They look like tentacles to me. There, I can see the thing's body. It's large, large as a bear and it glistens like wet leather. But that face, it . . . Ladies and gentlemen, it's indescribable."

Actually, the Neo-Geo is the longest lasting game console, it was released in 1990, and just this year the last game for the system was released.

Of course, you had to pay lots of money (hundreds of dollers per game), but they had a decent following, although it never had the success of the PSOne. They're still quite expensive. Gabe from Penny-Arcade is a collector.

One time payment category
Cheap terrestrial antenna : $40
HDTV decoder to pull stuff off antenna : $130

Monthly stuff
Netflix for unlimited DVD rental: $20/month

Grab your local news off the antenna (in HDTV if available), watch your favorite TV shows with your Netflix account

FYI: There is some unlimited DVD rental folks that work exactly like Netflix here in Canada
Movies for me
Cinema Flow

I'm interested in trying one of them, anyone have previous experience with them?

The search on "Jennifer 8. Lee" brought back an interesting blog comment: If it's simply the number eight, why does it have a period after it?

My grandfather's name is A C (let's call him Jonesmith for privacy). When he married my grandmother (first grandpa died before I was born), I thought his name was "Acee", like the local milk company. But his first name is "A", and his middle name is "C". And his full name is A C Jonesmith, not A. C. Jonesmith.

So the blogger is right -- if her middle name is "8", it should be "Jennifer 8 Lee", no period.

And my grandpa was 1337 before 1337 was invented.

how about here? Most of the time though, they won't do anything. "We appreciate that you may have in-depth knowledge of this particular item, but without a complaint from the copyright holder..." or some such nonsense.

Hell, it took way too much time to find the link to report the phish emails I got last year.

I just keep the page bookmarked now, if anyone can get to this page in less than 10 clicks from the home page, I'm very impressed: http://pages.ebay.ca/help/basics/select-RS.html

I should have added MOL insurance to the Martian Automobile Association brochure.

Those MOLiens get the IntergalacticNet so screwed up, their email doesn't work right, IE is messed up, and when they installed MOL on the rover it started saying:
"You've Got Rocks!"

i think i've found a winner

(Disclaimer: Not my auction, not related.)

There are legislative attempts to change this, but Wal-Mart is opposed, so it's not likely to sneak through.

If you want either of those movies (in Mandarin), they're advertised on eBay for $7.99.

One day all that old SCO merchandise is going to worth a lot to geeky collectors on eBay.

I'm holding out for a frisbee or baseball cap, myself.

Ebay
didnt take long

Why settle for anything but the best system?

The Power Memory System is the best

Looks like he knows Sun Raq's pretty well too. http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item= 3625502414&category=3779

No, No, No ...

Monopoly money is only good at Microsoft.

For SCO, you need a game like Stock Ticker.

Well, then, why don't you buy this amazing laptop right here! It's got eyepopping silver glitter, so you can do that something else in style!

Fantastic graphics doesn't automatically mean that your limp, soggy title won't sell like shitty beer on a hot night in Toronto? What an incredibly astounding revelation! This discovery will turn the entire game industry on its head, as without graphics they find themselves without a pot to piss in!

( Somebody help me lose this ebay auction ... )

This is the thread in the .ca forum

I for one am finally looking forward to getting one of these new-fangled slide rules all the kids are talking about these days!

I thought you meant they should crash the shuttle into the junk in order to bring it down. I'm sure someone on eBay would buy that even.
Hey, they bought my rocks and empty candy wrappers, so why not a smoldering shuttle with Vanguard impact damage?

As the defacto online payment system in North America, it needs rules, and fast. The current system allows for people to make minor, unintentional typos, and be charged $25US for the mistake. We are not talking math errors, I mean getting a bank routing number wrong. The transaction will fail, and the good forgiving folks at PayPal ding you $25US each time you hit the transfer button.
The documentation on their website interface is lame. There is not one place I could find that explicitly says that the dollar figure you enter will be in USD, even if you are logged in as an international memeber. They also conceal the fact that you will likely never see your $5 sign up bonus, until you complete an un-insurable, $250US, single transaction. How is that for a requirement that isn't even in fine print, it is on another page that the fine print links to?!
eBay chat boards often have discussions about PayPal problems, including one fellow today that was told in an email from PayPal support, that he would have to register 2 credit cards with him, because they lost the registration for his original card! If anything goes wrong with your PayPal account, basically you are screwed, and have no way to get your money other than suing a mega-business.
Good Luck,
Unhappy PayPal user

I ran into the same problem last year - I wanted something that I could take around with me, I didn't even care if it had a battery, AC power is fine as long as it had a NIC and large screen.

I got lucky and found a off-name brand laptop (Eurocom, a Canadian company who sells high-end laptops to education/government types).

Being a low-income student, I had two choices - a $300-400 pentium (P200ish) laptop with tiny screen or start up another loan and go for an off-lease $1000 machine that was far more than I needed. I feel your pain!

I got lucky on eBay - found a Eurocom (14" TFT / 350MHz AMD / 128MB) and paid relatively little for it (similar laptops at the time were over $1000). Off-name laptops have been good to me - do a few searches before hand though, as there may be some problems with embedded sound/video cards and linux support. No problems for me though.

The shameless plug: I lost my job recently and I had to choose between rent and selling the laptop. The upside is in a few months, I hope to have a better paying job (graduating in a month!) and will probably buy an off-name again. Maybe even new.

The auction is up here.

Other tips: Buy a mini keyboard, optical mouse and a few other trinkets for it too - I tried for a while to use the original keyboard, but when surfaces are too high, it gets uncomfortable REAL quick. It's a little more hassle, but bending your wrists in awkward angles for a few hours at a time is *not* a good idea.

A laptop would never replace my home machine but like my Palm VX, it complements wonderfully.

Good luck!