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...which start at about 15 grand. At that point, buy the DVD-A.

No, they start at $12K: http://www.elpj.com/purchase/index.html

Or you can pick one up on ebay for $10K: http://cgi.ebay.com/ELP-Laser-Turntable-Play-records-w-laser-Last-one-left-/170538526748?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27b4e3681c

Looks like someone that got a review copy has listed it up on ebay

Sitting at almost $1200 as I write this.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html

For most categories, sellers need to offer one or more of the following electronic payment choices:
PayPal
ProPay
Moneybookers
Paymate
Credit card or debit card processed through the seller's Internet merchant account

So the seller either A: has to have a verified merchant account, B: has to accept ProPay, Moneybookers, or Paymate, all of which suck, or C: have to accept Paypal. This is basically the natural extension of a "Paypal only" policy, but with a few token bad alternatives thrown in so as to placate certain regulators and large businesses.

Looks like someone needs to be educated on the mini-PCIe.

Both my kids started out with a great little app called Keywack.
I took an old Mac Classic sitting in my basement, ran Keywack and the kids loved it. Never trashed the computer either, which I was sure they would do.

Keywack runs on anything, Win/Mac/Lin, and helped me get my kids learning about tech at around 18 months. The fact they are both capable programmers (one a senior in high school, another im middle school) might have something to do with their early comfort level, or it might not. But give it a try...

Wow...

No Radiant Silvergun on the Sega Saturn?! The one that's been known to go for several bills on ebay, and still goes for ~$150?

That was like the very first title to come to mind.

There's an easier more elegant way than machining a new case to fix a battery cover, that's for sure.

Shanghai's a heck of a fun town - come on over! :) Although I've seen something on eBay that looks identical to what I bought, albeit for twice the price...

"Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me."
Want to "sell all that thou has" really quickly? Try eBay!

Musicians(well, electric instrumentalists) know the term from the AC adapters used to power their effects pedals.

am i the only one surprised that a 19 yr old could afford a $40,000+ car? Even on eBay they're $40 grand http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200504383411

beautiful car, but i wouldn't want to pay the gas bill, with 12/18mpg.

Personally I find traditional non-storage analog scopes pretty much useless for digital stuff. Really you can only use them if you can arrange for the signal in question to output a simple pattern that repeats infinitely.

Never used an analog storage scope but from what I hear they aren't exactly great for high speed stuff either.

One exception: if you can stretch your budget to get a used TDS3000 or TDS3000B series scope, that would be a good way to go.
There is one listed on ebay buy it now right now for the original posters budget of $2000

http://cgi.ebay.com/Tektronix-TDS3014-Digital-Oscilloscope-100MHz-w-HPIB-/300450756657?cmd=ViewItem&pt=BI_Oscilloscopes&hash=item45f442b831

"Trade in value for 2005 Prius in excellent condition is around $11,000 while trade in value of Corolla in excellent condition is around $6,000."

Actually that's not true. I wanted to throw resale value into my post but they're both worth about the same when sold on the market:
$6000 2005 corolla
$6900 2004 corolla
$6400 2005 Prius
$6900 2004 Prius

And all these vehicles have similar mileage and are in similar condition (not salvage, etc).

"Trade in value for 2005 Prius in excellent condition is around $11,000 while trade in value of Corolla in excellent condition is around $6,000."

Actually that's not true. I wanted to throw resale value into my post but they're both worth about the same when sold on the market:
$6000 2005 corolla
$6900 2004 corolla
$6400 2005 Prius
$6900 2004 Prius

And all these vehicles have similar mileage and are in similar condition (not salvage, etc).

"Trade in value for 2005 Prius in excellent condition is around $11,000 while trade in value of Corolla in excellent condition is around $6,000."

Actually that's not true. I wanted to throw resale value into my post but they're both worth about the same when sold on the market:
$6000 2005 corolla
$6900 2004 corolla
$6400 2005 Prius
$6900 2004 Prius

And all these vehicles have similar mileage and are in similar condition (not salvage, etc).

"Trade in value for 2005 Prius in excellent condition is around $11,000 while trade in value of Corolla in excellent condition is around $6,000."

Actually that's not true. I wanted to throw resale value into my post but they're both worth about the same when sold on the market:
$6000 2005 corolla
$6900 2004 corolla
$6400 2005 Prius
$6900 2004 Prius

And all these vehicles have similar mileage and are in similar condition (not salvage, etc).

ATMs can be had for ~$2k on ebay

Hell, there are even ebay listings for companies that'll ship you an ATM for free, have somebody come out and fill it with money, and give you a percentage of the surcharges they collect from cardholders.

~$500 right now. Hurry! This opportunity won't last long!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Triton-Atm-Machine-Used-/270611229186?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f01afaa02#ht_500wt_1070

http://cgi.ebay.com/FC-TWIN-VIDEO-GAME-SYSTEM-2-1-NES-SNES-PEARL-/270611106201?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Video_Games&hash=item3f01adc999

I'm holding onto my Atari 2600 console, and basket of games to sell to one of these collectors someday. Alas, only worth about $23 on EBay. Oh well. http://cgi.ebay.com/ATARI-2600-Video-Game-System-controllers-and-games-/190421866960?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Video_Games&hash=item2c560719d0#ht_522wt_935

My answer is Ebay: http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m570.l1313&_nkw=joystick&_sacat=See-All-Categories

go on ebay/craigslist and just buy some comcast boxes. http://cgi.ebay.com/MOTOROLA-COMCAST-DCH70-Cablebox-SHIPS-TODAY-LOOK-/350370650862?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5193b7daee

I bought this when I was an undergrad, great deal: http://cgi.ebay.com/50-Value-1-4W-Metal-Film-Resistors-1R-10MR-1-2000x-/300373016446?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45efa07f7e#ht_926wt_1085

The day time photo of the country boy with reversed baseball cap and ill fitting jeans is slightly less impressive....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Custom-Built-Motorcycles-Pro-Street-LightCycle-Tron-Lightcycle-Light-Cycle-Bike-Full-Size-Running-/220627957724?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item335e7377dc#v4-39

I'm quite impressed by the fact that it's a "Tron Lightcycle Honda Yamaha Kawasaki Suzuki Harley" though!

Although by value I was not necessarily referring to dollars here is a 1 watt diode currently listed at $43 bucks for a lot of 5.

You can get a lasers and related materials off of ebay, United Nuclear and Sparkfun at much better values.

the joker was actually created in 1942 (batman #11 - which has an awesome front cover)

Must be nice to have the money and time and modern hardware to get rid of optical media!

Unless you're living under a bridge (yes, pun intended) you should have no problem embracing the future, either.

Why buy a BD-R or flash drive when you only have 1 GB of photos to give to Aunt Mabel, anyway? A blank DVD only costs a few cents.

Yeah? And a 1 gig flash drive is often bundled free these days with purchases because they're so cheap. I mean, really, come on. Ninety-nine cents new on eBay. That's, like, two postage stamps.

Burning CDs to listen in your car is cheaper than buying an mp3 player.

You can get a Sansa Clip for $30.00. That also plays FLAC, OGG, MP3, WAV, has a built-in radio and can record from the radio. Combine that with any run-of-the-mill car stereos that support USB, or just go old-school and use a tape-adapter.

CD/DVD-ROM discs will outlast a frequently-used USB drive.

But you're not using it for archival storage. You throw some files on to copy for a friend. Or listen to some music. Short durations. The longevity of the medium is basically irrelevant since you won't be needing it to store things for longer than a couple of months, max, anyway.

In the business world, $100,000+ software is still distributed on CD and DVD, or an image thereof.

Sure, DVDs are still cheaper to produce when you're a business making a few thousand copies. When you're Joe Consumer, you usually only need one.

So, just because something's obsolete on the cutting edge, doesn't mean hordes of people aren't still using it.

Of course, but there's no reason they couldn't be using something better. Certainly not price.

Or see if you can get a CISS system for your existing printer.

I guess I'll never understand then, I don't see the point of spending $300+ on such a niche product that will never compete with less expensive devices with more capabilities and better support. I haven't read one good argument for purchasing this:
--Emulator/Homebrew? Buy PSP.
--UMPC with keyboard? Buy a real UMPC for $350 or $275 or hundreds of others
--small HTPC with S-Video? buy a $3 cable and you can do that with a iPod Touch or iPhone

In fact, a jailbroken Touch offers almost everything the Pandora does except the physical keyboard, but I think the millions of apps make up for it.

I guess I'll never understand then, I don't see the point of spending $300+ on such a niche product that will never compete with less expensive devices with more capabilities and better support. I haven't read one good argument for purchasing this:
--Emulator/Homebrew? Buy PSP.
--UMPC with keyboard? Buy a real UMPC for $350 or $275 or hundreds of others
--small HTPC with S-Video? buy a $3 cable and you can do that with a iPod Touch or iPhone

In fact, a jailbroken Touch offers almost everything the Pandora does except the physical keyboard, but I think the millions of apps make up for it.

I guess I'll never understand then, I don't see the point of spending $300+ on such a niche product that will never compete with less expensive devices with more capabilities and better support. I haven't read one good argument for purchasing this:
--Emulator/Homebrew? Buy PSP.
--UMPC with keyboard? Buy a real UMPC for $350 or $275 or hundreds of others
--small HTPC with S-Video? buy a $3 cable and you can do that with a iPod Touch or iPhone

In fact, a jailbroken Touch offers almost everything the Pandora does except the physical keyboard, but I think the millions of apps make up for it.

Here you go. We already have that.

It also looks like something out of the 80's.

You can get ARM9-based devices off of eBay for a third of the price:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Arm-Arm9-S3C2440-Dev-Board-NEC-3-5-touch-screen-/230443507542

This is the one I ordered (at least, the picture looks identical): ELM 327 Interface.

I've been very happy with it, it's handled every protocol I've tried it with, and it's never failed to pair or connect.

The GP neglected to mention which bluetooth device he bought and for how much. This is a price gouging hole because of the lack of options in the market. I found that the OBDkey you linked to costs $160 for the bluetooth, and $350 for the WiFi version.

I had discovered this $50 alternative when I had been looking, but don't know if it will work as well as the more expensive ones. ~$50 is surely a much more decent and reasonable price though.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.16921

You can read the reviews which are ok, and it even works with the open source scantool.net software, ScanXL, Scanmaster, etc. So it can't be all that bad.Several Free OBD2 software tools are listed on this page:
http://www.webpg.net/sc/pages.asp?pageid=60
More open source ones here:
http://www.geekmyride.org/wiki/index.php/Open_Source_OBD_software

I also noticed a similar one on ebay which is more like $25. Again, no idea how good these actually are.

I have also read that bluetooth may not support sufficient bandwidth for realtime monitoring of modern ECUs with a large number of sensors, data etc. Wifi is better, but I haven't found anything actually affordable.

My own goal was a laptop-less self contained logging device that can be handed to my friends to simply plug in and go. That would allow me to log sensor data and analyse it later to diagnose intermittent issues that we cannot reproduce on demand. I didn't quite succeed in this. The most obvious option is the "Carchip", which turns out to be pretty lame. It can only record about 10 or so parameters and that only at 5 sec intervals. Many intermittent issues only last a few seconds so this would be useless for diagnostics. Its more a fleet management solution.

There aren't many other affordable datalogging devices. I finally bought the very expensive Auterra dashdyno, which turned out to be a huge disappointment also. It can log several times a second but is also limited to 16 pids. This wouldn't be such a problem if the user interface was not an absolute horror to use. I will leave that review for another post. This precludes it being used as a plug and go tool. It is for geeks only and needs babysitting.

I guess the next best idea is that I will buy that bluetooth device next and see if any data logging software is available. Also need to upgrade my phone to Android I guess. At least a laptop is not required, but still not the plug-and-log that I want :/

well.. at least FF7 wouldn't so hard to get anymore.

Dude...E-Bay I got replacement copies of FF7 and FF8 maybe 2 years ago for $15 each after my PS2 scratched the original discs all to hell.

Incidentally, I've always been curious about where Star Trek style replicators get their matter from. I mean, sure, E=mc^2 and all that, but the energy and/or matter has to be stored somewhere. I keep thinking that maybe they recycle everything and there's more or less perfect conservation of mass-energy in a starship. Like the cup is disposed of and converted back into energy along with any waste products...but still it seems like a heck of a lot of effort to produce so many cups and crap.

If replicators did work like that in the real world, economies would collapse overnight. The second some jackass published the replication patterns for nuclear weapons we'd all go up in an inferno. That of course is after everyone replicated ten tons of gold for themselves and discovered it's now plentiful and worthless. No, no replicators please. I'm not ready for the end of the world.

4 of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145276 (or whatever your fav is)

1 of these that supports 4 drives
http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Servers-/11211/i.html?_nkw=1u+server&_catref=1&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282

and then install this
http://freenas.org/freenas

$800 4 TB server (raid 10)

Except when you try to exercise your right of first sale.

If I recall correctly, Valve's games are tied to the Steam platform even if they come on a physical disc, and there is no way to "unregister" a game. I could be wrong, or they may have changed that, but given that only two of the seventeen eBay results for the Windows version of the Orange Box are used, I'm guessing they haven't.

Here's one for $80.

That can't be bought anywhere

And here's one for $90.

That runs WinCE 6.0 - and the one that comes with it isn't legal. Not to mention the specs that where low in 2003 already - 2 GB Hard Drive?

And another for $130.

Which happens to be the exact same one as the $90 one.

Here's one for $80.

That can't be bought anywhere

And here's one for $90.

That runs WinCE 6.0 - and the one that comes with it isn't legal. Not to mention the specs that where low in 2003 already - 2 GB Hard Drive?

And another for $130.

Which happens to be the exact same one as the $90 one.

Here's one for $80. And here's one for $90. And another for $130. And of course there is the Archos 7 tablet which runs Android, and has an MSRP of $199.

Here's one for $80. And here's one for $90. And another for $130. And of course there is the Archos 7 tablet which runs Android, and has an MSRP of $199.

I have some Microsoft LifeCam Cinema cameras. Running them for a security camera and also for a bird / nest cam. I have it at 640x360 right now on ustream : http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bird-nesting-cam I was able to buy some 30' USB cables that you can string 3 together from Monoprice http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10303&cs_id=1030304&p_id=6149&seq=1&format=2 and then also used a dome from ebay : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170449248831&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_3432wt_1040 To house the camera. it is not PTZ, and you have to hack the dome a bit to get the camera to fit, but it is what is doing the feed for the nest cam.

That's how I felt about NES Track&Field 100m dash. It was fun pounding the A button for the first 20-30m, but I never seemed to get past 60m. But one day I found a cheat code and I was about to finish it

Powerbook G4 circa 5 years ago or so? $385

How much will your netbook sell for in five years? Could you even sell it? I had a Dell desktop about that age, I couldn't have sold if I wanted to.

Modern Intel Macbooks hold value very well, and of course the many years you are using them you have a more stable platform. I still have a Powerbook G4 667MHz system (7/8 years old I think), that our family uses daily.

I chose not to argue because it is irrelevant. I am choosing to extend that to the remainder of your talking points. I'm sorry, but I'm really done here. Allow me to forward you to a place better suiting your needs.

Back in the early sixties, there was similar concept using using rail cars. In fact, we had them as toys: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220553322344&ih=012&category=4146&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1

There are tons of "found" cell phones sold on EBay. Will the police investigate them? Here's a good example. This guy found a Verizon Droid in a mall in California and sold it for $235. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250597638336 How hard is it to drop it off at a Verizon store and let them return it to the rightful owner? My kids have literally lost half a dozen cell phones, and I'm sure a good number have been resold. Verizon is no different than Apple. Report finding a lost phone and they wont try to get it to the owner. Much better to get them to buy a new phone. Let the crook set up a new account.

There's a small problem with your plan. Of the two PowerBook Wall Street G3 avaiable on eBay, the first one is complete; however , it does not work, and the seller has no idea what the problems are. It could have multiple issues. And the second one is also complete; however it does not work and the seller also has no idea what the problems are. It could have multiple issues. Obviously the keyboard is bad.

We're doomed!

Dooooooooooomed!!!!!*

* extra !'s added for emphasis.