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Expect to receive a 1x1 inch piece of yacht by mail within two to three months.

Awesome. That will go very well with the Titanic piece my girlfriend got for me.

Can I buy a Juicero on eBay for $50 (shipping included) yet? There are probably things I need to crush, now I'll be set. (Yeah I know I'll have to Arduino the controller.) Yes, I see people trying to recoup their losses by offering their ill-advised purchase for $180 (and up) starting bids on eBay.

But this guy has the right idea selling a "Juicero 2.0", a hand cranked roller press, which he says (no doubt truthfully) is twice as fast as a Juicero, and costs only $150.

With these cheap adapters you can run 5.1 digital audio over the cables. Just plug in one end to the coax out on your sound card, and the other to the input on an amplifier anywhere in the house.

You could use it for audio cabling, but it wont work by just pluging it into your sound card.

If you have a comp with hdmi out. Connect it to a A-NeuVideo HDMI to HDMI and Optical Toslink through coaxial to a 5.1 Audio Rush Digital Sound Decoder. If you had a splitter in the basment you could possible send the audio to every room in the house. A-NeuVideo HDMI in the basement and a 5.1 Audio Rush in each room. could be a cheap way to wire every room for 5.1 audio from a singe source.

With these cheap adapters you can run 5.1 digital audio over the cables. Just plug in one end to the coax out on your sound card, and the other to the input on an amplifier anywhere in the house.

You show us anywhere that you can buy even a broken macbook Air for $100. Go ahead, we'll wait

Here are 220 sold listings on eBay in the last three months alone, all of which sold for under $100.

Given that the one I have is a 2010 or 2011 model and can't even operate without being plugged in, I'd say that many of those are comparable to what I have.

well, i'm sure you could buy some of these; maybe they'll work for you. lemme google.

here you go! http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Qt...

$2.50 each with free shipping! you'll be beating them off with a stick in no time.

eBay also reduces their liability by prohibiting both legal & illegal items which they think would lead to bad PR and/or legal issues.

Fuck you and fuck these shit "laptops". Just drop $100 on one of these and be done with it. They're upgradeable, cheap, plentiful, fast, light, thin enough, and you can collect them all for the price of one of these non-upgradeable, chiclet keyboard bearing pieces of trash.

From memory, thirty years ago.

Blue Bug and the Bullies.

Run
Jump
Skip
Hop
Slide
Roll
Crawl
Dig
Hide

BOO!

This shows that I missed 3 words.

But get this -- to use it you have to wind it up -- every day! Can you imagine such a thing?

I'm not the same you wrote to, but that was pretty much situation till mid 70's for almost everyone who did not have automatic winding which was still pretty expensive feature, especially in women's smaller watches. I got my first automatic winding Omega (Genéve Dynamic like that but steel not gold coloured) when I entered secondary school 1970, before that I had some old cheap watch my brother had worn before and wich had to be wound every day. Automatic winding never became commonplace before cheap electric knock-off numerical only LED (seven-segment display only) watches became popular end of that decade because of being hip, cheap, didn't need to wound just change batteries once a year at that time. I never had those LED display clocks, didn't need one I was happy with the one I had which only downside was that because it was bit more expensive I had take some care not to break it accidentally. I've still got that Omega and use it occasionally, its nice watch, but I've got couple of newer watches I have bought later that I prefer every day use and which are lighter to wear. I don't consider myself a watch aficionado with having just few watches bought over the years, but none of yet which are smart watches.

I own tons of production equipment. Literally. Some of that stuff is really heavy. And that's not including all the computer equipment that I own. Which exceeds that of many companies that I've worked for.

So why is it no longer the means of production?

I noticed that too, but assumed it meant they had a hardware codec chip. Something like: http://www.ebay.com/itm/AKM-AK...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1206-1... RS did not have that big of a selection of anything, I'm sure you could match their entire inventory for a few tens of dollars - the price that you'd pay for 10 of them at the store. At least get a big enogh supply to keep you busy for a few days to order the exact part from digikey

Do what I did and stock up before you need it.

I'm sure you could bank a larger selection than RS for less than $30.

Do what I did and stock up before you need it.

I'm sure you could bank a larger selection than RS for less than $30.

Resistor? No problem!! Go to Ebay.com. search string: resistors assortment --Scroll down for the 130 resistance values! 2,600 pieces @ $12.93..! Example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2600pc...

Or you can buy a cheapo multimeter, which is far more versatile, for less than $10....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digita...

Granted, not as cool, compact and easy to use.

Ebay doesn't allow Western Union payments. What the hell are you talking about?

They are selling for as much used as I paid for them new 25 years ago. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html...

Are they actually selling for that? Those are all "buy it now", so it could be that they're all chancers and are having a hard time selling. There are no auctions.

Clearly you haven't been paying attention. If you find a cassette deck for $.25 I strongly suggest you pick it up and throw it on ebay. My broken tape deck is selling in the neighborhood for $100 on ebay currently. I tried to buy an old 4 track recorder to salvage some band recordings I made in my teen years and I couldn't justify the expense at the current rate. They are selling for as much used as I paid for them new 25 years ago. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html...

Secure phone - here!.

And to fix the battery pack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

it helps: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cover-... ?

I learned on a Royal 440, such as this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/1.... A close look at the keyboard shows a zero, but not a one - exactly as I recalled. The fun part was going home where my dad was an early owner of the variable spacing Selectric - I was so accustomed to slamming down the 440 keys that I could barely touch the Selectric keyboard without triggering unexpected keystrokes (fortunately, it also had the self correcting feature).

If you're looking for a small bump in the mean time you can get a i7-3940XM. It shares the rPGA988B socket with the 3630QM. They're ~$300 on eBay.

In Benchmarks it's ~20% faster than what you have currently.

• PassMark 3630QM: 7599/Single Thread: 1686
• PassMark 3940XM: 9372/Single Thread: 2025

It's still faster than the 6820HQ (8765/1891) or E3-1505M (8699/1887) CPUs that Dell ship in their newest 7000 Precision lines.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2Pcs-E...

LEGO Mindstorm has Simulink Support.

They have cheaper home licenses. If your kid can play Minecraft, they can use Simulink. I could hand away half of my job to highschoolers if they knew Simulink. (Job search Indeed in any part of the country).

For younger kids I really wish they still sold Capsela. My parents swear it's why I became an engineer.

On the cheap end of the spectrum: Go to a thrift store. Buy a electronic thing for under $10. Take it apart. Google the chip numbers. (For some things it's a digital scavenger hunt to find a PDF of a part that has been out of production for 10 years). I started off, expensively tearing apart VCRs. You can usually find an old tower PC for $20.

Please visit my eBay store for a variety of astronaut food and genuine space clothing (as worn on the ISS!)

http://www.ebay.com/stores/roc...

Or worth a bunch more, like the original AppleDesign book which is now a collector's item:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Appled...

VRT® Technology Samsung washers use VRT® Technology (Vibration Reduction Technology). VRT® is a system that Samsung has developed to reduce high RPM vibrations drastically.

Important

With VRT®, when the washer spin cycle reaches approximately 400 RPM, it pauses and vibrates for a few moments. As it pauses and vibrates, it checks the load balance, and then the VRT® technology identifies the spot where the load is unbalanced. Once the washing machine "sees" the load is properly balanced, the spin cycle continues and ramps up to maximum RPM with minimal vibration.

That is pretty much the opposite of saying no to a feature. In fact, they worked hard to develop it and make it work better.

We certainly had rechargeable batteries in the 70's, how could you not have heard of them? My family had a cordless phone that sat on a recharging station.

The NiCad battery, heavily used in portable consumer electronics was invented in 1900. Having 1/4th the energy density of a LiIon battery only meant that you could only talk for an hour instead of five on your phone. A limitation certainly, but not a show stopper. I had NiCads in my radio shack 150-in-1 electronics kit and that was early 70's. I remember my dad bought a charger and tried to charge alkaline batteries ca. 1973.

Yeah, real hard - it took me almost a minute or two to find 10 packs for $3/disc (including shipping).

Apple has given us volume controls on the headphone line - yes, the same tech that people bitch that apple will pull, Apple finally made super useful with volume and logic controls. I go nuts with headphones that don't have these controls - a non-ironic Thanks Apple here.

Holy shit, that's innovative! It's not as though anyone made headphones with media controls on them now after all!

Try selling your OEM copy of Windows on Ebay sometime.

I wonder what these things are if they are not OEM copies of Windows being sold on ebay.


veracity:

conformity to facts; accuracy.
habitual truthfulness.

I assume the majority of people here have either worked in a callcenter or are working for a callcenter as IT or have done so.
Remember when you had to buy a headphone that was available only for that specific brand and what the prices where for those headphones? That is going again to be the case.

So what are they going to do with all the extra cash they are going to get for the more expensive headphones? They will build a war chest because I forsee now that in the near future Europe will knock on Apples door to use a standard connection. People here will blame Europe for being Anti-American and the whole shabank will start anew with anything else they can come up with.

I really, really, really wish Microsoft hadn't bailed out Apple when they where almost banktrupt.

And seriosuly, I would LOVE a thicker phone, because that would mean more place for a battery and that means increased battery life.
Because what they do now is go larger, but thinner. That decreases the usable volume. And if siwe matter for you:
here is a small waterproof phone that you can buy for a 'bit' less than an iPhone.

Where do we get snorkels for our vehicles?

Seriously? Google: can snorkel. Here's one result: 4x4 Snorkel

With the Nexus 5x and 6p Google seemingly lost the remainder of common sense by offering them at the prices comparable to first tier smartphones like Galaxy S6 or Note 5.

Earlier this year I bought my two 32GB Nexus 5X for $290 and $320 IIRC. Now they can be found for $240 new.

Where are you finding a Galaxy S6 at a comparable price? The S6 still doesn't retail for what the Nexus 5X retailed 8 months ago and is at least $100 more expensive than what you can find the 5X now.

Smartwatches are a way of saying 'look how tech I am'

No, THIS watch (or perhaps THIS one) is a way of saying "Look how tech I am".

BTW, Woz has worn a Nixie-Tube watch for years

The pentalobe screws are your warranty sticker.

Right. Because you can only get Pentalobe Drivers and Pentalobe Screws from about 10 sources on Amazon, and also from iFixit, and on eBay, and...

Well, as you say, it is the Gig economy. Doesn't anyone know what a Gig is anymore? http://www.ebay.com/bhp/frog-g.... A Gig is not something you want used on you. What would people expect from a Gig economy? You get Gigged.

A bill providing information on how to repair government would not be introduced either. Government 'works' as it is intended. As to consumer electronics - companies can advertise products based on 'repair ability' but until the market starts caring there will be no money in that. Minituriasation ensures that people will not be able to repair much. Once the entire computer is in a single processor what are you going to repair? You can replace some parts, but even knowing what to look for and what needs to be done will not make it economical to repair certain things. Where things are repairable they can be repaired without any government intervention but simply because the market wants it and pays for it. Let's say you need a tool like this one to do a repair, and that is one of the tools and you need many more of them to do the work.... What is the next thing, forcing companies to repair stuff regardless of the economics of it?

How about repairing the government instead, making sure it does not oppress, steal, redistribute, get its hands where they don't belong? How about not starting wars that create economic and environmental problems that they will try to 'solve' with more oppression and aggression?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/3...

That could be painful...

Does this look like an allen wrench to you?

I agree that it was actually a T-15 Torx bit; but many people at the time used a long Allen wrench, because it worked, and back in the day, Torx wrenches were considered somewhat exotic.

Unfortunately, I can't find a teardown tutorial old enough to show using an Allen for this; but I assure you, that's what was popular at the time (probably because making a drawn piece of hex-stock was much easier than milling a Torx end onto a shaft).

Does this look like an allen wrench to you?

Not a TFT colour LCD, but still better than a simple LED matrix. It's under USD$6.00 too.

Well, I think they were trying for the most authentic look rather than a full-on electromechanical streampunk score.
Still, I get you - a mechanical flip display would have been cool; something like this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Signal...

no it's not

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/8-flop...

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html...

To answer the top level question, yes. Easily.There was even a company(ies?) in the early 90's selling a host of controllers based on the x10 protocol

On ebay

You can buy this ESP8266 instead for $2, it has wifi and more memory:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1PCS-E...

$1.75 with free shipping and pin headers is effectively less than $1.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Pr...?