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http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=CR123+NIMH&_sacat=0&_odkw=CR123+NMHI

You do realize that you just searched for CR123 NiMH, right?
Would you like to retry that search with Lithium instead?
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=CR123a+lithium

Walmart obviously shows 1 hit on their site.. how many more do you need?

I've seen them aplenty in the U.S., they're typically on the racks near the registers.

They're a bit more rare in the EU, though. Plenty of websites that sell them, but step into a local Aldi or whatever and you may not have the luck of seeing them there.

You can find them at Walmart, just not online.

CR123 NiMH batteries are not normal, Li-ion rechargeable are easier to find
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=cr123+rechargeable

If you can't easily find them at Walmart or any big box store, then it's really not 'standard'.
AA Batteries
CR123 Search

Rechargeable NIMH CR123 Search on Ebay
Rechargeable NIMH AA Search on Ebay

If you can't easily find them at Walmart or any big box store, then it's really not 'standard'.
AA Batteries
CR123 Search

Rechargeable NIMH CR123 Search on Ebay
Rechargeable NIMH AA Search on Ebay

> What exactly do you plan on doing when your 10k
> in Cocaine doesn't show up at your doorstep?

http://resolutioncenter.ebay.com/

I bought an item.
[x] I haven't received it yet.
[_] I received an item that does not match the seller's description.

I sold an item.
[_] I received an item that does not match the seller's description.
[_] I want to cancel a transaction.

For the past 6 months I've been putting together a rad experiment unrelated to Fukishima. I've been all over eBay looking for samples and geiger counters.

Many units on eBay are old Civil Defense units. These are all bright yellow and 30 to 50 years old, and come in several varieties. Of the varieties, the ONLY ONE which is worth getting is the CDV-700 model. All others are unusable for your purposes.

For example, a CDV-715 is only useful if there is lots and lots of radiation available, as in the aftermath of a nuclear war. It's measuring range is so high that it simply cannot see radiation at small levels. Here is an example of what NOT to get:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gieger-Geiger-Counter-Radiation-Detector-CDV-715-/120725761857?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection&hash=item1c1bd0ef41

Similar for the dosimeters. Their range is so high that they will be useless for your purposes. Also, the dosimeters tend to go bad after awhile (air leaks into the chamber), so it's likely that any units you get will not work anyway. Here is an example of what NOT to get:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gieger-Geiger-Counter-Radiation-Detector-CDV-715-/120725761857?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection&hash=item1c1bd0ef41

A CDV-700 has about the right range, and is a very robust - if you get a working unit chances are that it will work for decades. Here is an example of what TO get (any model is OK):

http://cgi.ebay.com/Geiger-counter-radiation-detector-CDV-700-Anton-Model-6-/330566290368?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection&hash=item4cf7494bc0

Up until Fukishima, these were going for around $50 USD per unit. Now they are going for around $250.

I've been active on the experimenter's boards for the past several months, and many people are decrying the number of scams and bad counters that unscrupulous people are selling on eBay. People are getting counters with no tubes, which don't work, or are not as advertised. I personally ordered a CDV-700 and received a dosimeter instead - there are lots and lots of bad people trying to take advantage of the situation right now.

(The good news: If you do get a CDV-700 and it doesn't work, they're easy to fix, even for beginner electronics hobbyists.)

I'm also advising several hobbyist groups which are designing their own geiger counters. Of 6 or so separate designs by separate groups, not one of them will be useful for your purpose, for various reasons. These units will work and will detect radiation, but there is no way to assign a meaning to the measurements. They are well suited for the purpose intended, which is measuring radiation over long periods where the measurements can be compared with measurements from the same unit, but these are not useful for your purpose. They also make good hobbyist units, to show the principles of detection.

Measuring radiation, knowing the different types and what to look for isn't hard. It takes about 40 hours of research and reading and some tinkering to get a grasp on the problem. Do that first, then you will know better what to look for and what to buy.

My advice: Get together with the people in your neighborhood, purchase 1 counter and share it. Not everyone needs their own counter, and lots of times only a single measurement is needed anyway (is this area clean?). Designate one person to study up on the techniques and issues, and rely on that one person to make measurements as needed and explain the results.

It's not hard, but it takes a little dedication. Specialize and trade.

For the past 6 months I've been putting together a rad experiment unrelated to Fukishima. I've been all over eBay looking for samples and geiger counters.

Many units on eBay are old Civil Defense units. These are all bright yellow and 30 to 50 years old, and come in several varieties. Of the varieties, the ONLY ONE which is worth getting is the CDV-700 model. All others are unusable for your purposes.

For example, a CDV-715 is only useful if there is lots and lots of radiation available, as in the aftermath of a nuclear war. It's measuring range is so high that it simply cannot see radiation at small levels. Here is an example of what NOT to get:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gieger-Geiger-Counter-Radiation-Detector-CDV-715-/120725761857?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection&hash=item1c1bd0ef41

Similar for the dosimeters. Their range is so high that they will be useless for your purposes. Also, the dosimeters tend to go bad after awhile (air leaks into the chamber), so it's likely that any units you get will not work anyway. Here is an example of what NOT to get:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gieger-Geiger-Counter-Radiation-Detector-CDV-715-/120725761857?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection&hash=item1c1bd0ef41

A CDV-700 has about the right range, and is a very robust - if you get a working unit chances are that it will work for decades. Here is an example of what TO get (any model is OK):

http://cgi.ebay.com/Geiger-counter-radiation-detector-CDV-700-Anton-Model-6-/330566290368?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection&hash=item4cf7494bc0

Up until Fukishima, these were going for around $50 USD per unit. Now they are going for around $250.

I've been active on the experimenter's boards for the past several months, and many people are decrying the number of scams and bad counters that unscrupulous people are selling on eBay. People are getting counters with no tubes, which don't work, or are not as advertised. I personally ordered a CDV-700 and received a dosimeter instead - there are lots and lots of bad people trying to take advantage of the situation right now.

(The good news: If you do get a CDV-700 and it doesn't work, they're easy to fix, even for beginner electronics hobbyists.)

I'm also advising several hobbyist groups which are designing their own geiger counters. Of 6 or so separate designs by separate groups, not one of them will be useful for your purpose, for various reasons. These units will work and will detect radiation, but there is no way to assign a meaning to the measurements. They are well suited for the purpose intended, which is measuring radiation over long periods where the measurements can be compared with measurements from the same unit, but these are not useful for your purpose. They also make good hobbyist units, to show the principles of detection.

Measuring radiation, knowing the different types and what to look for isn't hard. It takes about 40 hours of research and reading and some tinkering to get a grasp on the problem. Do that first, then you will know better what to look for and what to buy.

My advice: Get together with the people in your neighborhood, purchase 1 counter and share it. Not everyone needs their own counter, and lots of times only a single measurement is needed anyway (is this area clean?). Designate one person to study up on the techniques and issues, and rely on that one person to make measurements as needed and explain the results.

It's not hard, but it takes a little dedication. Specialize and trade.

For the past 6 months I've been putting together a rad experiment unrelated to Fukishima. I've been all over eBay looking for samples and geiger counters.

Many units on eBay are old Civil Defense units. These are all bright yellow and 30 to 50 years old, and come in several varieties. Of the varieties, the ONLY ONE which is worth getting is the CDV-700 model. All others are unusable for your purposes.

For example, a CDV-715 is only useful if there is lots and lots of radiation available, as in the aftermath of a nuclear war. It's measuring range is so high that it simply cannot see radiation at small levels. Here is an example of what NOT to get:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gieger-Geiger-Counter-Radiation-Detector-CDV-715-/120725761857?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection&hash=item1c1bd0ef41

Similar for the dosimeters. Their range is so high that they will be useless for your purposes. Also, the dosimeters tend to go bad after awhile (air leaks into the chamber), so it's likely that any units you get will not work anyway. Here is an example of what NOT to get:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gieger-Geiger-Counter-Radiation-Detector-CDV-715-/120725761857?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection&hash=item1c1bd0ef41

A CDV-700 has about the right range, and is a very robust - if you get a working unit chances are that it will work for decades. Here is an example of what TO get (any model is OK):

http://cgi.ebay.com/Geiger-counter-radiation-detector-CDV-700-Anton-Model-6-/330566290368?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection&hash=item4cf7494bc0

Up until Fukishima, these were going for around $50 USD per unit. Now they are going for around $250.

I've been active on the experimenter's boards for the past several months, and many people are decrying the number of scams and bad counters that unscrupulous people are selling on eBay. People are getting counters with no tubes, which don't work, or are not as advertised. I personally ordered a CDV-700 and received a dosimeter instead - there are lots and lots of bad people trying to take advantage of the situation right now.

(The good news: If you do get a CDV-700 and it doesn't work, they're easy to fix, even for beginner electronics hobbyists.)

I'm also advising several hobbyist groups which are designing their own geiger counters. Of 6 or so separate designs by separate groups, not one of them will be useful for your purpose, for various reasons. These units will work and will detect radiation, but there is no way to assign a meaning to the measurements. They are well suited for the purpose intended, which is measuring radiation over long periods where the measurements can be compared with measurements from the same unit, but these are not useful for your purpose. They also make good hobbyist units, to show the principles of detection.

Measuring radiation, knowing the different types and what to look for isn't hard. It takes about 40 hours of research and reading and some tinkering to get a grasp on the problem. Do that first, then you will know better what to look for and what to buy.

My advice: Get together with the people in your neighborhood, purchase 1 counter and share it. Not everyone needs their own counter, and lots of times only a single measurement is needed anyway (is this area clean?). Designate one person to study up on the techniques and issues, and rely on that one person to make measurements as needed and explain the results.

It's not hard, but it takes a little dedication. Specialize and trade.

First off, a smoke detector is not a good source for testing a geiger counter. The high voltage gas canister inside is usually tuned for Cesium and Americium (the source in a smoke detector) usually gives a false high reading.

To test properly, you need a known source. The better counters come with a source, usually taped to the side of the unit, but you can get sources off of Ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Radioactive-Mantle-Geiger-Counter-Detector-Test-Source-/160587370187?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2563c0cecb

I don't have much time this morning, so here is an excerpt from my radiation monitor manual for how it works and what it detects. Good luck.

How the Radiation Monitor Works The Radiation Monitor senses ionizing radiation by means of a Geiger-Mueller (GM) tube. The tube is fully enclosed inside the instrument. When ionizing radiation or a particle strikes the tube, it is sensed electronically and monitored by its own display, a computer, or by a flashing count light. When the switch is in the AUDIO position, the instrument will also beep with each ionizing event. It is calibrated for Cesium-137, but also serves as an excellent indicator of relative intensities for other sources of ionizing radiation. Gamma radiation is measured in milli-Roentgens per hour. Alpha and beta are measured in counts/minute (CPM). About 5 to 25 counts at random intervals (depending on location and altitude) can be expected every minute from naturally occurring background radiation. The end of the GM tube has a thin mica window. This mica window is protected by the screen at the end of the sensor. It allows alpha particles to reach the GM tube and be detected. The mica window will also sense low energy beta particles and gamma radiation that cannot penetrate the plastic case or the side of the tube. Note: Some very low energy radiation cannot be detected through the mica window. The Radiation Monitor does not detect neutron, microwave, radio frequency (RF), laser, infrared, or ultraviolet radiation. It is calibrated for Cesium-137, and is most accurate for it and other isotopes of similar energies. Some isotopes it will detect relatively well are cobalt-60, technicium-99m, phosphorus-32, and strontium-90. Some types of radiation are very difficult or impossible for this GM tube to detect. Beta emissions from tritium are too weak to detect using the Radiation Monitor. Americium-241, used in some smoke detectors, can overexcite the GM tube and give an indication of a higher level of radiation than is actually there.

These fucks charged 20 bucks for a fan, 20 bucks for a fan install, 50 bucks for a hard drive install (Just labor, no parts) and $180 for OS reinstall.

• $20 for a fan is a reasonable price. There are cheaper fans and more expensive fans, I don't know what computer your parents have. But $20 is not $200.
• $20 is rather low for a fan replacement. On my notebook it takes about 30 minutes to swap a fan; the 27 screws are not quick to remove. This amounts to a measly rate of $40/hr, of which the employee sees only half.
• $50 for HDD replacement - this is kind of high, given that laptops are designed for easy swappage of HDDs. If your parents have a desktop then it's not a big difference. I guess they charge based on the price of the part itself.
• $180 for the OS reinstall. The reinstall takes about 2 hours, if you have to sit by the computer and wait until it finishes everything. Don't fail to include updates, service packs etc. This can be easily more than 2 hours. This is still on the high side, but I guess they have to make their money somewhere...

The ugly fact is that labor is so much more expensive compared to the cheap Chinese production that it hardly makes any sense to pay for repairs nowadays.

For those of us who need accurate clocks and don't have $1500 to spend, highly stable temp controlled oscillator chips are cheap and common right now. (Search eBay for OXCO)

For example, this one (which I'm using) is accurate in the PPB range:

An OXCO has excellent phase noise and short term stability, but drifts. A Cs reference has better long term stability. An Rb device has pretty good long term stability once you factor out the linear "aging" (i.e., a constant change). GPS-DO combine GPS receivers with firmware and discipline another oscillator, usually a quartz crystal because of the low phase noise.

So the right way to compare these various references is with an Allan deviation plot, which rates the stability across different time scales.

For this new Symmetricom product, they list the following Stability in their Allan deviation chart (no plot, hmmm):
Tau = 1s ADEV = 2e-10
Tau = 10s ADEV = 7e-11
Tau = 100s ADEV = 2e-11
Tau = 1000s ADEV = 7e-12

They similarly give phase noise, aging, initial calibration accuracy, etc.

FEI's 5680A Rb product at http://freqelec.com/rb_osc_fe5680a.html shows their ADEV plot, so I squinted at it and read these values:
Tau = 1s ADEV ~ 3e-11
Tau = 10s ADEV ~ 3e-12
Tau = 100s ADEV ~ 7e-13
Tau = 1000S ADEV ~ 3e-13

Further than that (days) and you start running into aging corrections.

An Rb unit you buy off eBay isn't likely to perform like this; you'd need a temperature-controlled room, and need to keep it away from 60Hz fields (the magnetic field is used to "tune" the transition, I think due to the anomalous Zeeman effect, but I could be wrong). Also, a NIST scientist told me that gravity effects are strong as well, so it must be calibrated at the same altitude as use to get these 10^-12 and better numbers.

Still, for about $100 for either an Rb or a GPS-DO, they're pretty good. The OXCO is pretty good too, but beats the Rb or GPS-DO only in phase noise. (Oh, and cost and power consumption.)

Yes, you can use OCXOs, but they aren't technically atomic clocks. Further, an OCXO (like the one you showed) requires 1.5W, which doesn't sound like much, but the unit linked to above needs only 100mW. A true atomic clock (a rubidium oscillator, for example) is significantly larger than this unit and also draws much more power (11W, steady state).

All things told, though, a OCXO or rubidium frequency standard from eBay should be good enough for most users.

For those of us who need accurate clocks and don't have $1500 to spend, highly stable temp controlled oscillator chips are cheap and common right now. (Search eBay for OXCO)

For example, this one (which I'm using) is accurate in the PPB range:

How non-technical, and after how thorough of a look?

I'll just leave these here...

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-297432.html
http://gigaom.com/2008/08/31/dont-like-the-iphone-check-out-these-touchscreen-phones/
http://www.gsmarena.com/newscomm-769.php
http://www.telecomasia.net/node/5199
http://www.google.com/search?q=SPH-1300&hl=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jjfATeTDOIL30gHT_tXuBA&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=1680&bih=947
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ET&p_theme=et&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EEF6B3EB0A8C768&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
http://cgi.ebay.com/SPRINT-PCS-PALM-OS-WIRELESS-PHONE-SPH-1300-DUAL-BAND-/180613037497
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2000-09-25/news/18143226_1_cell-phone-palm-os
http://www.geardiary.com/2006/11/30/the-palm-treo-700p-palm-os-smartphone-review/
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=1690
http://www.gizmag.com/go/2306/
http://www.google.com/search?q=sony+p900
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/10/13/lg.debuts.new.prada.phone/
http://www.esato.com/phones/compare.php?phone=433&cp=439
http://gizmodo.com/#!190670/cect-a1000-touchscreen-phone-with-1000-hours-standby
http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/at-t-8525/4505-6452_7-32133413.html?tag=lia;rcol

these aren't phones, but what the hell... they could still be mistaken for an iPhone at a glance...

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/handheld.html
http://www.suddenlink.net/pages/curtismc/palms.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_III

Auction the data on Identity Information Auction: Ebay

Have a day.

Yours In Miami,
K. Trout, C.I.O.

You really just need something that either has an extra interface for your wireless network, or can do 802.1Q vlan tagging and a vlan capable switch. I think even with a LInksys and DDWRT, you can put the built-in wireless AP on it's own VLAN. THen you just give the wireless it's own subnet, disallow traffic from the wireless subnet to your personal subnet. I think you can even do multiple SSID's and put each SSID on it's own VLAN, one for the public and one for you. Then just allow egress traffic on port 53,80, and 443 for your guest subnet, set up the traffic shaping queues with whatever amount of traffic you want to donate, and set it and forget it.

Of course, this doesn't address the issue of people using the connection to do illegal things, but I've been doing exactly what I described above in a very densly populated are of San Diego since 2002 and haven't had any problems yet *knock on wood*

Also, keep in mind, that this violates the TOS of most ISP's. I have a business class cable connection at home, which has a much less restrictive TOS, which makes it legal. I also have multiple public IP addresses, and run all my guest wireless traffic over it's own IP, so if anyone gets banned from say Ebay or something for fraud, it won't effect me.

But to answer your question, no, I don't think you can do this on many consumer grade router/AP's without flashing the firmware with DDWRT, and not all consumer routers are flashable. I think Buffalo sells a model that comes with DDWRT preloaded.

If you wanted to make a project out of it, you could buy a used Cisco Aironet for $50 and pair it up with an old PC with multiple NICs and install PFSense on it and have yourself a grand old time. The tools in PFSense can actually be quite entertaining when you collect anonymous statistics about what sort of things your neighbors do with your connection. NTOP will entertain you for hours :)

If you don't take your store online that's your fault. Amazon helps you sell online. As does eBay. A couple of weeks ago I placed an order with Amazon, and will place another in the next couple of days, and the items come from other businesses. J&R Music and Computer World is one of Amazon's stores. Etsy is a community and market place for artists, deviantART is another. And obviously the net makes it easier to find jobs whether permanent full-time employment or short term contract work.

Pretty soon, brick n mortar stores will die off and you'll never be able to see an item before you order it, and/or you'll be complaining about the walmartization of cities that destroy local mom n pop stores. I know way to many people who complain about $4.50 cables costing $40 at brick n mortar and buying online, and then complain about lack of good jobs locally.

Actually the net levels the playing field. Brick and mortar stores can only sell locally but open an online store and you can sell anywhere. Partner with an big online seller and marketing will be easier.

Falcon

How do you know this? They are just as likely to plexiglass a trainer as a real shuttle. You can touch a piece of lunar rock (or at least the grime and grease of millions of fingers coating it) in Houston and Florida, I imagine they'll let people "touch a tile" or something like that. Alternately, you could just just buy yourself a chunk of meteorite for less than the cost of a family pass to KSC http://compare.ebay.com/like/230209530807?var=binlv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&rvr_id=224679782523&crlp=1_263602_324952&UA=WXF%3F&GUID=49f3655312f0a026824779e7ff56401d&itemid=230209530807&ff4=263602_324952 . Besides, every astronaut has also bought gas at the Hess station just south of KSC, but they aren't putting the gas pumps in a museum. (Most) people want the real thing, not a "trainer".

http://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-NEW-KOBO-eReader-Black-Wifi-100-Free-Books-/330541520167?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cf5cf5527

Neutron Beam Design, Development, and Performance for N
item #280652726952
Buy-It-Now: $67.52
Ends Apr 30, 201112:57:50 PDT http://cgi.ebay.com/Neutron-Beam-Design-Development-and-Performance-N-/280652726952?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item415834c2a8

TERRY JOHNSON KING The Neutron Beam Murder 1965 HB DJ
item #140137094529
Buy-It-Now: $5.00
http://cgi.ebay.com/TERRY-JOHNSON-KING-Neutron-Beam-Murder-1965-HB-DJ-/140137094529?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&hash=item20a0d25d81

Thanks to tibit I found this webpage, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has a website at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ which has a number of papers on health statements of radiation, some include characteristics of nuclear radiation (rest mass, charge, typical energy range, path length, etc.)

Neutron Beam Design, Development, and Performance for N
item #280652726952
Buy-It-Now: $67.52
Ends Apr 30, 201112:57:50 PDT http://cgi.ebay.com/Neutron-Beam-Design-Development-and-Performance-N-/280652726952?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item415834c2a8

TERRY JOHNSON KING The Neutron Beam Murder 1965 HB DJ
item #140137094529
Buy-It-Now: $5.00
http://cgi.ebay.com/TERRY-JOHNSON-KING-Neutron-Beam-Murder-1965-HB-DJ-/140137094529?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&hash=item20a0d25d81

Thanks to tibit I found this webpage, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has a website at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ which has a number of papers on health statements of radiation, some include characteristics of nuclear radiation (rest mass, charge, typical energy range, path length, etc.)

You are incorrect that the music publishing industry can't prevent you from listing your digital copy of a song on Ebay.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/downloadable.html

If you scroll through that page, as an example of what you can't list, Ebay provides the example of "songs you bought from iTunes". I am too lazy to look up the specifics, but I suspect that policy was developed with the help of or in fear of the RIAA.

None of the other items in your list are remotely related to a third party transmitting your own music back to you, so I'm not sure what good they do your argument. The fact is the RIAA have long made a clear distinction between an individual listening to his copy of a song and other uses of that song, such as streaming or public performance or the like. Several of those uses are backed up with solid court cases.

I'm with you that these are the dying throes of an industry that STILL cannot accept the pace of change. But pretending that things are so that aren't so isn't going to do anyone any good.

Prices went up since I got it (11/2010) but here it is: http://cgi.ebay.com/7-Tablet-PC-MID-Android2-1-HDMI-HSG-X5A-ePad-4G-WIFI-/190504613868?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c5af5b7ec

For god's sake don't expect this to be an iPad, I was just commenting on the article. It is quite good for the price though.

Back in 1985 -- before most present-day Netizens were born -- Mentifex jacked into Cyberspace and launched a technological Singularity as described in a self-published AI For You textbook of artificial intelligence. If you self-publish, you will say what _you_ want to say in _your_ own words. You will leave your mark on the world. You owe it to yourself to self-publish your oeuvre.

Ah, but who's laughing now?

Is the one for $199 NIB? Thats the only reason I could see it selling for so much.

Counterpoint:
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=golden+sun&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Oh and I happened to have mine on me, $7.99 label still attached. Cart only, though. Could see it being $25 with box and manual, but it would have to be sealed to be worth $199.

I also have the US SNES FF III (now 6) cart including box and manual & map...

I'd buy the first tab that lets me read book-quality text, Apple, Android, or whatever.

Have you looked at the Barnes and Noble Nook Color? Sure it has to be rooted to become the full tablet it was destined to be but the display is simply fantastic IMO. And at $199 on eBay right now it's definitely the lowest priced good quality tablet around. You don't get a camera or cellular data and you have to depend on XDA devs for blue-tooth and upgrades but I haven't regretted getting one.

Universal laptop AC adaptors like this one are all over the place these days, surely that's a better solution?

If she's already bought the new laptop, then a layer or two of extra heatshrink tubing over the stress points wouldn't be the worst idea in the world.

There are many reasonably priced audio components that produce great audio..As an example, the Grado SR60 headphones make great sound-and list for 80 dollars. Ebay has many hybrid tube/mosFET headphone amplifiers that sell in the 50-70 dollar range (including shipping). An example is here: http://cgi.ebay.com/Valve-Class-Tube-Headphone-Amplifier-pre-Bravo-V2-h-/250778333891?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a638db2c3. Or, for piortable use, this one is great-and also inexpensive: http://cgi.ebay.com/Micro-Cmoy-headphone-amp-Opamp-2227-Amplifier-/250777688383?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6383d93f If you know how to, you can also roll your own pretty cheaply-start with the National Semiconductor LM4562 dual opamp.True audiophile performance for $1.10!

There are many reasonably priced audio components that produce great audio..As an example, the Grado SR60 headphones make great sound-and list for 80 dollars. Ebay has many hybrid tube/mosFET headphone amplifiers that sell in the 50-70 dollar range (including shipping). An example is here: http://cgi.ebay.com/Valve-Class-Tube-Headphone-Amplifier-pre-Bravo-V2-h-/250778333891?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a638db2c3. Or, for piortable use, this one is great-and also inexpensive: http://cgi.ebay.com/Micro-Cmoy-headphone-amp-Opamp-2227-Amplifier-/250777688383?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a6383d93f If you know how to, you can also roll your own pretty cheaply-start with the National Semiconductor LM4562 dual opamp.True audiophile performance for $1.10!

Yeah, like this sub-$200 junk: http://cgi.ebay.com/8-ePad-Android-2-2-Froyo-Cortex-A8-MID-Tablet-PC-aPad-/280601552204?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item415527e54c

I'm an idiot - converters I linked work in the wrong direction. What you need is $150 from the same site or $50 from eBay (the two devices look identical, except for the price - whether they are or not it anybody's guess).

A friend of mine had a laptop from Dell with a modular slot that would accommodate a 3.5" floppy drive or a slot-load CD/DVD disc drive. The laptop package came with both and promised other accessories were available.

Aside from this, hdd, and ram; what else would you like to upgrade in your average laptop? I have seen Gigabit Ethernet via ExpressCard Slot, clunky video card solution and a few vendors sell USB 2.0 sound cards that beat laptop audio for performance.

These are certainly clunky solutions that probably wouldnt fit in your laptop's case, but they do exist.

You could always bid on a tank.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/WWII-Stuart-M5A1-Light-Tank-/180627788858?pt=Military_Vehicles&hash=item2a0e41543a

Funnily, from all other things they produced at one time including "paper products, car and bicycle tires, footwear (including rubber boots), communications cables, televisions and other consumer electronics, personal computers, electricity generation machinery, robotics, capacitors, military communications and equipment (such as the SANLA M/90 device and the M61 gas mask for the Finnish Army), plastics, aluminium and chemicals" - they decided not to go into the business of making "exclusive $400 rubber boots". Like Gucci did.

Which I guess is exactly what Holy Steve would have advised them to do back then. "Don't diversify - exclusify!"

For the low price of $3,995 you can have your bits or buy a new ride.

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HERE - http://cgi.ebay.com/130481622084

Find me an iPhone that's sold without Apple's restrictions.

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=iphone+jailbroken&_sacat=0&_odkw=iphone+4+jailbroken&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

Then what are you supposed to do with your $150 mifi device?

Sell it on eBay.

Falcon

They aren't quite that expensive, but you're right, a general-purpose RF spectrum analyzer isn't the right tool for this particular job.

$300?? How about $210?? Strange that you can get a 10.2" one for about $200 but Dell is pushing a 7" one.

I got a 10.2" android 2.1 pad (1ghz, camera, GPS, etc) and love it!

EBay Rocks .

Abstract isn't free. The summary doesn't say what size vessel they use. But cerium oxide is about $15 / lb. At 0.07 percent efficiency, given global average insolation, that gives you about 100 gge / acre / month. Not bad at all. Not as good as corn ethanol, but corn doesn't grow in the desert.

Capsela is the best toy I ever saw that fits your requirements. It consisted of transparent plastic spherical modules with various gears you could connect to build vehicles and tools of various types. My younger brother played with his set for years and now he's a mechanical engineer who builds advanced composites for Ford. You can't buy it new anymore, but there's lots available on eBay.

Sorry, missed the 5.1 thing.

Seems easily dealt with, though. Go to ebay, buy a cheap older receiver (pre-HDMI) that has outputs to drive external amps, and at least one optical audio input with decode support. That'd be most of them from a several year span. Like this one. It's cheap as I write this, but if it doesn't end that way, there's always something on there. Both my Sony and my Denon have analog outputs that can output the decode from the toslink optical inputs.

Even a parts unit would likely work - amps are usually what fail.

Plug in your optical source, set the old receiver to that, set the decoding to 5.1, take the analog signal from the amp outputs, and your problem is solved, no?

People complain about first-sale doctrine with digital goods, and I understand, but the fact of the matter is that the potential for a streamlined secondary market for digital content is a much larger liability than it is for physical goods. Even having to make the trip to GameStop to sell your copy of Prince of Persia is prohibitive compared to being able to purchase a game, immediately license it out to people on the cloud, and then license a different copy whenever you feel like playing it.

I'm guessing you've never heard of these guys?

I was a bit concerned by the large variety of ports, could they all work at the same time or was I stuck using buying a not-yet-available DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport hub?

Seems this image clears that question right up: two monitors are connected to DVI and 4 are connected through a hub, so I see no reason why I can't purchase two cheap DisplayPort to DVI adaptors and have up to four monitors connected by the very common DVI port.

one $180 video card, one PCI-E 16x slot, 4+ LCDs. Sounds good.

It is interesting that the seller is claiming a 7200 rpm spindle speed. If that's true then I don't understand why this would be a Caviar Green. The same seller is also selling an unannounced 3TB Seagate XT internal drive, although he may have just pulled a Goflex drive out of its enclosure for that one.

"Professionaly[sic] Resealed" um, ok... so they probably ripped them out of those MyBooks that are also selling for $200.
DISCLAIMER: I don't know the seller but when you get scammed, blame me. -- A.C.

Ebay has HDMI cables for 50 cents a foot.

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Premium-HDMI-CABLE-6-ft-FULL-1080p-PS3-V-1-3-HQ-6ft-/250660253283?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a5c83ee63

$2.74 for a 6 foot w/ free shipping. Its even shipped from a US company, so no over seas/customs wait time.

Best Buy charges $30 for the same cheaply made cable. I think more then a dollar a foot is highway robbery.

When I went to Disneyland recently I was disappointed all the Main Street shops are just the same, full of Disney trademark Chinese-made trinkets, with little differentiation even between themselves. I thought, 'is it just that I'm a grownup now?' But no, my kids didn't care for it either. Why? Maybe because they're a Disney store at every local mall, and because searching 'Disney' on ebay returns over half a million results. I really think physical location has become less significant in the last 30 years.

Similarly, when I visited the Guang Hua Market in Taipei, I saw nothing I couldn't have shopped for much more easily online.