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While it is true that some of monitors listed have dead pixels, some don't. Just add "Perfect Pixel" to your search to find ones guaranteed to be free of dead pixels. These can be found for under $400 shipped. While I am sure it is obvious, I forgot to mention in my previous post that you need to sort by price low to high.

You can get them for around less than $350 shipped from South Korea. Just do an ebay search for '2560 1440 27"'. You should find a lot of really nice high resolution IPS monitors.

That's because you can accesorize them into pink!

http://compare.ebay.com/like/170541070215?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar
http://www.otterbox.com/strength/strength,default,pg.html

those are just the two i found off the top of google. I'm not sure about laptops, but for phones there's a huge market out there of customizations to make it "you" just like the thousands of others of people who buy the same cover.

You are not serious, are you?

...I'll be by to take it because you don't seem very bright.

You announce on Twitter when you leave your house ("Off to IKEA!"), you're too cheap to pay for ADT (or even ADT signs and stickers), yet you don't mind paying for equipment so you can sit around and monitor your home.

Let me know when you get the webcams up and running...I'm sure you'll fail to change the default password. I'd rather use the webcams to see when you leave rather than following you on Twitter.

The interesting question is whether, if the US stops printing dollars, the existing physical dollars would become less valuable (no more state backing) or more valuable (no more state printing).

It would follow the pattern of every other country that stopped printing their own money and started using "something else". We have fine examples all over Europe from when all those countries changed to the Euro.

For a while, the dollars would not change in value. Then the backing country would stop honoring them so they'd drop drastically. After a (probably long) time, they would regain some value as rarities.

I don't know, how much can you sell a Dutch guilder for on the open market these days? Here, or here, or best answer here. Until 2032 a guilder in paper is still worth a guilder. Coins, not so much. Old siver and gold guilders are valuable, just like any old gold or silver coin. Run of the mill modern stuff? Less than the cost of the metal, probably. Just like the US penny currently.

So send them Zimbabwe dollars instead. Better message, and legal. I have a few quadrillion Zim dollars laying around here somewhere, but you can buy yours on ebay.

The problem is that good dance pads are expensive. Example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/M04133-Dance-Revolution-ION-Master-Arcade-Metal-Dance-Pad-raised-buttons-/230548163725?pt=Video_Games_Accessories&hash=item35adbdcc8d Also they used Hottest Party rather than Stepmania with an endless supply of Stepmania packages from Zenius-I-Vanisher.

Wrong.

This is the first Pi :)

You can not convert MS points back into cash.

I beg to differ

Microsoft Points is just like any other currency. Microsoft can create money from nothing by just "printing" points. There is an exchange rate for the points to other currencies. I really don't see the difference.

Here you go (Polaroid not Kodak). I'll leave it to you to find the film.

Too difficult to produce at scale.

Nonsense. Maxwell and other manufacturers mass produce them right now. There are so many out there you can buy them on EBay, for crying out loud. And they can be paralleled and stacked in series ad nauseum for any voltage / capacity you require, AND they can be fused / controlled in any geometric arrangement that is convenient, so if by scale, you meant in high power arrays, no. You can do it now. It's just more expensive and volume consuming than it needs to be for a .consumer level practical storage system. But the ratios have been constantly changing in our favor and show no signs at all of slowing down.

Even lab samples of experimental ultra caps store no more than 85 kWh/ton.

[stares] I specifically said Right now, UC's are below battery storage capacities... when they pass batteries, they'll be the tech to use... The only issue is capacity, and that is rising steadily. Just how comprehension challenged are you?

In order to store 3.5TWh you would need 100 million tons of capacitors

Sigh. Look, this problem only rationally gets solved -- financially, installation-wise -- at the house level, not at the national level. No nation stores power in one installation, nor are statistics that imply any such thing worth paying attention to. It's like observing the US has 255,917,664 passenger vehicles, so assuming 40 lbs lbs for each car battery, that means the US has invested in a battery weight of 10,236,706,560 lbs (five million tons+), which of course is a vast underestimate because there are all those non-passenger vehicles and other battery users. Yeah, it's a big number, but no, it isn't particularly meaningful or a significant roadblock. And you should keep in mind that the batteries all are dying from day one, whereas the UCs can last so much longer they're effectively immortal. You could literally will the ones in your first car, bought when you were a teenager, to your kids. Nor are estimates of UC weight today particularly relevant when you're replying to an assertion that IN THE FUTURE, the rising curve of storage capacity will cause UCs to beat batteries.

which is just enough for short-term variations of Germany (about 1% of world population).

No one needs more than 64k of RAM. :o/

USR5686E

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=USR5686E&_sacat=0&_odkw=USR5637&_osacat=0&_from=R40

http://www.usr.com/support/5686e/5686e-ug/tech-ref.html

just look for about any actual External hardware modem from the past 15 years.. (do remember you have to have the service from you local bell)

If you love these games so much why don't you invest in them? Congratulations on being part of the problem. A whole Google search away: Spy Hunter

Destroy All Humans PS2 $5.95 you cheap fuck. Let me guess you spent all your money on your iSlavery products manufactured with borderline slavery?

If you love these games so much why don't you invest in them? Congratulations on being part of the problem. A whole Google search away: Spy Hunter

Destroy All Humans PS2 $5.95 you cheap fuck. Let me guess you spent all your money on your iSlavery products manufactured with borderline slavery?

Because the stores don't pay very much for used games.

Indeed, but you're forgetting that you can bypass used game stores and sell directly with sites such as Amazon, half.com, ebay, etc.

So, for example, when I buy a used game for $30 -- because I never buy brand new games, and I don't care to play online anyways, I can sell it again in a few weeks for approximately the same price, minus the cost of shipping.

The used games stores are bad for the industry.

I disagree. If buying new were the only option I had, I would simply do without. It's the same argument for pirates -- if they had to pay full price, they'd simply do without. This isn't something that I personally lose any sleep over. It's very easy to stop consuming (overpriced) entertainment, and there are many alternatives in the world to occupy one's time with.

Fair disclosure: I'm a software developer in the video games industry. (And I'm supposed to be writing some code right now. :-X)

Here ya go, I googled it for you:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Quad-band-one-Sim-A-GPS-Android-2-1-Cell-Phone-3G-Mobile-Qwerty-Unlocked-New-Wh-/260936117519?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item3cc1012d0f

60 fscking dollars for an unlocked Android phone. This has been happening for a while now, your vision impairment aside. Cheap generic low-end Chinese Android phones have been coming down in price and permeating developing countries' markets and eating Nokia's lunch. Just because Samsung can't profit from competing with Nokia, doesn't mean no one can. Tell me again that in another three years there is "no chance" these will be cheaper. And if Nokia has the largest market all sewn up, why are they failing and desperately trying to change their business model?

And 5 1/4 floppies.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/7-BASF-5-25-FLOPPY-DISKS-/140338067360

Have some USB dongles by the metric tonne - if you are about to do something that I wouldn't advice you to, use one for some mins and then pass it around.

Use it for whatever you like.

Arduino and Raspberry Pi are not competators in any way. They target two different markets whereby they have very slight overlap for hobbiests. The Pi simply can not compete with Arduino/AVR on the low end and Arduino/AVR can not compete with RPi on the highend. There's only a tiny intersection between the two and that's likely only because you have one or the other whereby a "close enough" solution is satisfactory.

AVR/Arduino has solutions in the $1-$6 range, if you want to use an inexpensive ISP and break out the coresponding pins on your bare bones or really bare bones controller. Not to mention, the pins are easy to access with a multitude of more pins available. It also has some capabilities which are simply not available without a Gert board, which makes the pi all the more expensive. Furthermore, an RPi is basically as barebones as you're going to see - at least for a while - if ever. Whereas for the AVR/Arduino solution makes it easy to transplant your Arduino project into a barebones $3-$9 project.

Furthermore, these two projects are really far and away much more complimentary technologies than they are competators. Basically, let the RPi do the heavy CPU lifting and the AVR's do the GPIO and bit flipping. Its a combination made in heaven.

Knock off nokia phone data cable (CR42): $2.68 + free shipping. About $4.00-$20.00 to say 'USB TTL' or want some type of connector. In addition to arduinos I talk to a guruplug with one, an unfortunate POS device that will most assuredly be dumped in favor of a pi.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=nokia+ca+42+cable

Then wait for them to hit ebay. You will survive havingto wat ot buy one 3 moths later.

The laptops started hitting ebay at $99.00 less than 5 months after they did the buy one get on program. A lot of people bought it and really had no clue as to what they bought, were unhappy with them, and then sold them.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OLPC-XO-1-Laptop-Computer-Runs-great-/150730806444?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item23184194ac

There's one for $75.00 I would buy one for my bug out bag if they would take AA batteries.

That was an idea that I came up with after reading the parent's post and haven't had time to see how feasible it would be but a setup similar to the one described by the parent doesn't seem to hard but using high output LEDs instead of lasers. I would think having an acrylic/fiberoptic like connection between the diode and the windshield (similar to what printers and other devices have to move light from the diode to the outside) would work. Then having a clear IR reflective coating on the inside so it all goes out would be my thoughts. It may be costly given the cost of high output IR LEDs but then I don't know how much power would be needed.

Every three months? At 900 dollars you can get 900 silicone keyboard protectors which will give you a clean keyboard every DAY for nearly the next 3 YEARS. And here's an other crazy idea: Silicone is more heat resistant than bacteria. Perhaps you don't want to toss away those silicone covers in the bin after a day, but sterilize them and re-use them.

I bought my wife a woot refurb 16gb Thrive for Christmas ($300), and its AWESOME. Full-sized ports are the key for her usage (reading journal articles [USB Thumbdrive plugs right in], watching Netflix [HDMI out], revising her thesis [keyboard plugs right in too], working on photos [full-size SD Card slot+Photoshop Touch] and using SplashtopHD to use her research computer at work). The added bulk/thickness isn't an issue for either of us. I rooted it in, oh, about 10 minutes. It seriously took me longer to download DaleP's files from the thriveforums than it took to root. Just install ADB, boot into fastboot, install CWM, flash image, voila. I like the transformer, but the price doesn't justify it for me, even with the dock. Why bother having to have a proprietary dock when you could just use a case and a regular USB keyboard. I think there are still refurb 32GB ones on eBay for $349, yup: http://www.ebay.com/itm/370564672605. That's a screaming deal.

The chinese have embargoed Japan over a border dispute. They hare restricted export of raw rare earths because they want to retain manufacturing in China. They have not restricted export of toys, etc that contain rare earth magnets.

The reason to use rare earth magnets is that they are very strong compared to normal ferrous magnets. In construction sets such as this contain rare earth magnets. At each end of the bars is a rare earth magnet. They hold the steel spheres very strongly. A regular ferrous magnet will not work. There are even magnetic push pins that are used because they are strong enough to work through several layers of paper. Ever have a regular magnet fall of you fridge because you tried to put a few pieces of paper between it and the metal? That won't happen with rare earth magnets. They are also used in workshops to hold tools on the wall to keep them organized. Anywhere that strong magnets are used they are probably rare earth magnets. Despite their name they are not rare or special.

The 1970 super beetle has a simple relay for the turn signals. You have picked what is probably one of the most modular, easy to work on cars in existence for your example (which is incorrect, btw).

http://compare.ebay.com/like/320758052912?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&_lwgsi=y

If you have a P-Key, a Cable lock terminator tool and a Jonard F Connector Torque Wrench, Speed Head, 30 in/lbs, you can always cancel cable completely, wait until the cable guy disconnects you, and then go downstairs/out to your cable box and hook yourself for free. Just be sure not to tell anybody.

You will get all of the extended basic lineup, the digital channels for your local feeds, and probably your cable company's "premium music service" for free if you have a standard television with an ASTC tuner. Once you hook yourself up, do a channel scan, and you'll have a package somewhere between the Digital cable package, and Basic extended, (since you will still recieve local digital and "Radio on TV" stations.

If you have a P-Key, a Cable lock terminator tool and a Jonard F Connector Torque Wrench, Speed Head, 30 in/lbs, you can always cancel cable completely, wait until the cable guy disconnects you, and then go downstairs/out to your cable box and hook yourself for free. Just be sure not to tell anybody.

You will get all of the extended basic lineup, the digital channels for your local feeds, and probably your cable company's "premium music service" for free if you have a standard television with an ASTC tuner. Once you hook yourself up, do a channel scan, and you'll have a package somewhere between the Digital cable package, and Basic extended, (since you will still recieve local digital and "Radio on TV" stations.

One thing's for sure, if St Steve of Jobs ever threw a chair it'd be one like this, not some tat from Ikea.

Iodine isn't available without a license from the DEA.

Not here, or here, or even here.

In fact, I can only find 32 results in the first web site I thought to look in.

Looks like the system works!

Iodine isn't available without a license from the DEA.

Not here, or here, or even here.

In fact, I can only find 32 results in the first web site I thought to look in.

Looks like the system works!

Iodine isn't available without a license from the DEA.

Not here, or here, or even here.

In fact, I can only find 32 results in the first web site I thought to look in.

Looks like the system works!

considerable money?

2 meter stuff is pretty cheap. Same price range as dicking around witrh Arduinos, once you've included breadboards, power supplies, blah blah blah. Addmittedly, some hams don't think of 2 meter as 'ham', but it's cheap, a busy band, and if you get the urge to go SW you'll be able to sell off your stuff. Probably. Real hams never sell anything.

Now, it does get more expensive for better stuff. But there are licenses today that don't seem to require as much tech as before. Learn up and you can buy some used stuff, it up, and be on the air.

If you want a cheap hobby, try QRP!. And be a *real* ham and build yer own.

Oh, and antennas are the coolest part of all this, to me. Clever antenna designs make all the difference...

considerable money?

2 meter stuff is pretty cheap. Same price range as dicking around witrh Arduinos, once you've included breadboards, power supplies, blah blah blah. Addmittedly, some hams don't think of 2 meter as 'ham', but it's cheap, a busy band, and if you get the urge to go SW you'll be able to sell off your stuff. Probably. Real hams never sell anything.

Now, it does get more expensive for better stuff. But there are licenses today that don't seem to require as much tech as before. Learn up and you can buy some used stuff, it up, and be on the air.

If you want a cheap hobby, try QRP!. And be a *real* ham and build yer own.

Oh, and antennas are the coolest part of all this, to me. Clever antenna designs make all the difference...

considerable money?

2 meter stuff is pretty cheap. Same price range as dicking around witrh Arduinos, once you've included breadboards, power supplies, blah blah blah. Addmittedly, some hams don't think of 2 meter as 'ham', but it's cheap, a busy band, and if you get the urge to go SW you'll be able to sell off your stuff. Probably. Real hams never sell anything.

Now, it does get more expensive for better stuff. But there are licenses today that don't seem to require as much tech as before. Learn up and you can buy some used stuff, it up, and be on the air.

If you want a cheap hobby, try QRP!. And be a *real* ham and build yer own.

Oh, and antennas are the coolest part of all this, to me. Clever antenna designs make all the difference...

Best I can do: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hot-Wheels-Chevy-Citation-Gold-Hot-Ones-Brown-Dark-Red-1983-Very-Nice-FREE-SHIP-/300618256682?pt=Diecast_Vehicles&hash=item45fe3e912a

You can find GammaMaster radiation dosimeter wristwatches on eBay. They're expensive but they come calibrated and they look decent as well.

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Let me break this down:
--easy to use
--not expensive = less than iPad
--iPad-like but not iPad
--no internet
--no "advanced features" (whatever that means)

Nope. Doesn't exist. Closest thing to what you described was the HP Touchpad when it was $99. You can still get a Touchpad for about $200, and if you're really trying to go cheap you can do that, but honestly all tablets are pretty worthless without internet, there's no amount of applications you can put on it that will make up for the fact that there's no internet connection. Does the nursing home not offer wifi for residents? I would think she would love to get on facebook and see how everyone's doing or open Skype and videochat.

So here's the options:
A) ~$200 = HP Touchpad off eBay and install Android because there's very few apps in the webOS market designed for tablets, only a few thousand.
B) iPad

Why: There's other tablets out there, but in the $200-$400 range none offer more than a Touchpad does. Devices under $200 will be small, underpowered, poor battery and might even have hardware issues, you don't want to visit grandma and find out the touchscreen stopped working. Device over $200 don't really offer as much as the Touchpad does until you get to the $400+ range, and if you don't mind spending $400 you might as well just go the iPad route at that point, it'll be the easiest tablet to use in the $400+ price range.

From the article:

"The update means links featured in comments will also enhance websites' standing.

Social is bad for search, and search is bad for social. Every attempt by a major search engine to use social signals has been heavily spammed. Social spamming is cheaper and easier than creating link farms - the social sites host the spam for free.

Google Places was hit hard starting in October 2010, when Places results were mixed in with web search results. It happened fast - within two months, Google Places was choked with spam, with both phony locations and phony reviews. This was so bad that the mainstream press picked up on it, and Google had to deemphasize "places" results. You don't hear Google talking about "local" as much as they did a year ago.

Citysearch and Yelp are choked with spam reviews. Google +"1"s are for sale for about $0.15 to $0.25 each. Facebook fans cost about $0-05 each. Google's "real names" policy was an attempt to crack down on phony accounts, but it didn't work. You can buy phone and email verified Google accounts in bulk. There are rogue phone services that help with the fake phone numbers.

Using social signals for search has reduced search quality and jammed social sites with junk that's only read by search spiders. Facebook (which has to allow Google to do this) just set themselves up for an influx of junk. And Google just reduced their search quality again.

There are useful social signals for search, but they come from systems that see transactions and actually know who bought something, like Amazon, eBay, and Visa International. Even those can be spammed; you can buy an old eBay account, change the name, and inherit the old reputation.

Seeing as how I can get 100 floppy disks as well on eBay I don't think you sell many of those.

Grab one of those battery powered closet fluorescent lights, one that takes a 6" tube. One with a DC jack is preferable so you don't go through batteries. I know you have a box full of adaptors somewhere. Find a germicidal UV tube*. If you can't find one at a hardware store you'll probably be able to find one at a plumbing shop, but it'll probably cost more there than here. Buy an egg timer if you don't have one. It should all be less than thirty bucks. Jam the UV tube in the light**. Leave the plastic window off when you put it back together, it might block UV light. Attach the light to to the lid of any old box, probably with the included Velcro stickies. Program an EPROM all zero and throw it in. Pull it out and check it every 5 minutes or so. Multiply the total time it took to erase by 1.5 and write it on your box.

Super ultra cheap bonus design: leave it out in the sun. Disadvantages: For one, the sun's UV intensity is lower than an actual UV bulb, so it takes longer. Expect 12 hour erases. Two: remember to keep checking it and put it away when it's erased. Leaving it out in bright sun for a week might hurt it.

*Warning! UV light is bad for your eyes! Don't turn it on and stare at it.
**Remember to properly recycle your florescent tubes, or like me keep it forever because there's nothing wrong with it.

To justify spending $300,000, which puts $290,000+ in his pocket Wish I was joking about the price. This ebay powerseller sells large (man-sized) R/C helicopters for $1,500-$2,000 with motor, batteries, radio, etc http://www.ebay.com/itm/200660268060 http://www.ebay.com/itm/200657942941 I understand that the helicopter from Vanguard has a remote camera and screen which I'm sure increases the price but $298,000 for a remote camera seems high.

Service or support? Someone has to train the deputies how to fly it as well as fix it when it breaks. Not to say that that justifies the cost either.