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What sort of lame museum exhibits things you can buy for $5 on ebay?
Tetris the Classic PC Puzzle Video Game 5.25" 3.5"

Indeed, 468s on ebay are bit more than Pentium IIs. But isn't this like comparing cars to cpus?

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GENUINE signed print of ol cross eyed hillbilly bob

$340,000 does not sound low to me.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1467&item=5566490560&rd=1

You know what else is fuel efficient (and cheap and very convenient and fun)? Go-peds, those engine-powered scooters. I had one and it got upwards of 100 miles per gallon, and it could do 33mph which is nothing to sneeze at. If the efficiency of these fuel-cell bikes grabs your attention, go grab yourself a go-ped or a minibike on eBay for less than $200. Get one before your state bans them.

Point taken, but her autographs are going for about $8.95 on ebay. Not a bad tip for a pizzaman. And I ought to know (see handle). :)

Spend USD$700 at Wal*Mart? For a low-income family (you know... the type who would shop at Wal-Mart) that's a 1990 Honda Civic for your wife to stop asking you to drive her to Wal*Mart.

(yes it is)

Alright, I checked and it was the "Tom Swift IV" series, Book 4 of 13 "The DNA Disaster," published in 1991.

Page about the books
Half.com to order it

What are the odds that the boat will end up being called the goldenpalacecasino.
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-Don

I'm a UKanian, so http://www.ebay.co.uk/ has a link at the top to http://pages.ebay.co.uk/ebay_SUN.html, saying they're Sun hardware and Solaris users.

http://www.ebay.com/ has an IBM logo in the sam place, which links to: http://pages.ebay.com/ebay_IBM.html. That's not Windows, as far as I understand (and will apologise if I'm wrong).

I'm a UKanian, so http://www.ebay.co.uk/ has a link at the top to http://pages.ebay.co.uk/ebay_SUN.html, saying they're Sun hardware and Solaris users.

http://www.ebay.com/ has an IBM logo in the sam place, which links to: http://pages.ebay.com/ebay_IBM.html. That's not Windows, as far as I understand (and will apologise if I'm wrong).

http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/f-agreement.html #3
Frequently Asked Questions about the User Agreement:

Why is there a User Agreement?
Will the User Agreement change again?
What does "eBay is only a venue" mean?
Why can't I bid on my own item?
If I place a bid, how exactly am I obligated to the seller?
Why was one listing removed, while other similar items remain on the site?
How do I know if an item is potentially illegal or not?
What happens if someone violates the User Agreement?
How do I report a potentially illegal, infringing or fraudulent item?
What does Section 6.3 of the User Agreement regarding Your Information mean?
Does Section 7 prohibit me from using auction management software to track my personal transactions on eBay?
Does Section 7 prohibit me from discussing or linking to eBay on other websites?
What does Section 17 of the User Agreement regarding arbitration mean?

Search the Help System
Search for help on:

(e.g., what is a Reserve Price Auction?)

If you can't find an answer to your question here, Ask eBay.
Q.
Why is there a User Agreement?
A. The User Agreement is a legal document that spells out the relationship between you and eBay. It outlines the services, pricing, Privacy Policy, and the buyer and seller relationship for listing and bidding on items in eBay's auction format.

Q.
Will the User Agreement change again?
A. It may change periodically. When revisions are needed, changes will be posted on the site 30 days before taking effect. You also have the option to receive email notices of any revisions as they occur. To select this option go to the preferences page, by choosing Change my notification preferences under My eBay at Services.

Q.
What does "eBay is only a venue" mean?
A. eBay is an exciting electronic marketplace where you can buy and sell to your heart's content. However, eBay does not ultimately participate in the transaction between buyer and seller, verify that items are genuine, or guarantee that you will receive payment or auction items. eBay is very concerned about your safety and offers the services of third parties that can provide authentication, insurance, and escrow for your transactions.

My friend's father Maynard Webb has an AA in criminal justice and makes a Fairly nice bonus

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =6372056442#ebayphotohosting

I used to LOVE this one...
Link to eBay.

This is one of the most ergonomic pointing devices that I have ever used. It is sort of like a trackball, and it uses your fingertips. But you can use your thumb too, if you want to. Lots of buttons.

Tragicly, Logitech stopped making them. They are PS/2 (no USB), and are not detected as a scroll mouse from Linux. Very comfortable, though.

And they were optical before optical was cool.

Ok, I'm not your parent poster, but I got it too. He didn't re-add the link, which was lost in the paste https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&Us ingSSL=1&pUserId=&co_partnerId=2&siteid=0&ru=http% 3A%2F%2Fcgi4.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAP ICommand%3dRedirectToDomain%26DomainUrl=http%3A%2F %2F62.193.211.236%2FeBayISAPI.php&pageType=1883, and it still works! Just for the really incredable stupid... this is the Phishing attack. The page is a valid Ebay sign in page, but the action will send you to the phisher's site. I'm not sure what they do there, I'd guess that they just say that your password was invalid and to try again. Anyone got a throw away Ebay account they would like to try on it?

http://cgi4.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPIComm and=RedirectToDomain&DomainUrl=http://siag.nu/

That's a link to ebay.com which redirects to siag.nu. And it doesn't look like a glitch, it looks like it's on purpose.

1,225.00 USD http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&it em=5559909107

Did the public ever get to see the Pippin console, btw?

Yep. you can still buy one.

As mentioned previously, shop somewhere else than BN.com. Try fetchbook.info, which is a search engine for new and used books from 110 bookstores.

What I gleaned was that it's sold used at half.com for under $25 shipped and new at Overstock.com for less than $30 shipped.

Intel Earings on ebay - $19.99

These are guaranteed not to be DOA. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Honey, I'm just going to plug this in while you're wearing them to make sure they work...

Interestingly, these will make the perfect duo for your ultra-g33k

"UID's are irrelevant as long as they're available on eBay"

You're kidding me right? I had to go looking anyway, but this was the best I could find.

Kinda Like You?

Stumbles on Ebay

Ebay's pricing policy: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

their final fee is a percentage of the selling price.

What right do they have to that? Ebay doesn't risk any capital in the sales, they never take posession of the items or add value (by say.. inspecting items) so what claim do they have on the selling price. Now a price per bid, i could see maybe if they wanted to nickle and dime it like that. They sure do make a lot of money for a company that doesn't sell ANYTHING.

4.125 cents.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

One thing I can say is good, though, is that eBay doesn't nail bidders for a fee as well. I've had to shell some $$ in the past on other auctions and thought that was pretty scurvy, but it actually is practice at many large auction houses. Sothebys and the like didn't become famous for their charity to buyers and sellers.

Yeah, but acccording to themselves (IIRC) EBay are not auctioneers:-

From Ebay.com and also at Ebay.co.uk, they say that:-

3. eBay is Only a Venue.

3.1 eBay is not an auctioneer. Although we are commonly referred to as an online auction web site it is important to realise that we are not a traditional auctioneer. Instead, the Site acts as a venue which allows registered users to offer, sell, and buy just about anything which is legal, at any time, from anywhere, in a variety of price formats. We do not review listings provided by users, we never possess the items offered through the Site and we are not involved in transactions between buyers and sellers.

In short, they do a lot less than Sothebys and friends, so I don't consider this largesse in any way.

In the bad form of replying to my own post I found the help section on eBay that explains this policy. To quote:

Let's say you are tied with another bidder and you hold the official high bid because you placed that bid amount first. If you place another bid, you will lose your favored "early bird" status. As a result of putting in another bid (causing you to become a later bidder), the system will increase your bid to one bid increment more than the previous bid just so that you can keep the position of high bidder.

Another instance where it would appear that you are bidding against yourself would be if your current high bid is between bid increments. If you were to place another bid, your bid will increase to the next round bid increment.

The high bid will always try to be a full bid increment over the next highest bid. If you are currently less than one bid increment over the next highest bid, then raising your maximum bid will increase the current high bid to a full bid increment above the next highest bid.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Tivos, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Tivo that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Tivo's faster Linux architecture.

Well, let's see. TiVo's these days are going for $50-100. So to be fair, you should compare a Wintel system in the same price range. A 386, maybe?

AMD 450 MHz. $50
Intel P2 450 MHz. $50
Grape iMac (333 MHz.) $50.
Pentium 333 with 17" monitor. $50.

I could go on disproving you by counter example, but I think that this is enough.

(Those are all completed auctions, by the way: ones where there was an actual winning bidder. I even excluded auctions below $50. Why, for $10, I could have picked up a 486!

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Tivos, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Tivo that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Tivo's faster Linux architecture.

Well, let's see. TiVo's these days are going for $50-100. So to be fair, you should compare a Wintel system in the same price range. A 386, maybe?

AMD 450 MHz. $50
Intel P2 450 MHz. $50
Grape iMac (333 MHz.) $50.
Pentium 333 with 17" monitor. $50.

I could go on disproving you by counter example, but I think that this is enough.

(Those are all completed auctions, by the way: ones where there was an actual winning bidder. I even excluded auctions below $50. Why, for $10, I could have picked up a 486!

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Tivos, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Tivo that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Tivo's faster Linux architecture.

Well, let's see. TiVo's these days are going for $50-100. So to be fair, you should compare a Wintel system in the same price range. A 386, maybe?

AMD 450 MHz. $50
Intel P2 450 MHz. $50
Grape iMac (333 MHz.) $50.
Pentium 333 with 17" monitor. $50.

I could go on disproving you by counter example, but I think that this is enough.

(Those are all completed auctions, by the way: ones where there was an actual winning bidder. I even excluded auctions below $50. Why, for $10, I could have picked up a 486!

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Tivos, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Tivo that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Tivo's faster Linux architecture.

Well, let's see. TiVo's these days are going for $50-100. So to be fair, you should compare a Wintel system in the same price range. A 386, maybe?

AMD 450 MHz. $50
Intel P2 450 MHz. $50
Grape iMac (333 MHz.) $50.
Pentium 333 with 17" monitor. $50.

I could go on disproving you by counter example, but I think that this is enough.

(Those are all completed auctions, by the way: ones where there was an actual winning bidder. I even excluded auctions below $50. Why, for $10, I could have picked up a 486!

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Tivos, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Tivo that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Tivo's faster Linux architecture.

Well, let's see. TiVo's these days are going for $50-100. So to be fair, you should compare a Wintel system in the same price range. A 386, maybe?

AMD 450 MHz. $50
Intel P2 450 MHz. $50
Grape iMac (333 MHz.) $50.
Pentium 333 with 17" monitor. $50.

I could go on disproving you by counter example, but I think that this is enough.

(Those are all completed auctions, by the way: ones where there was an actual winning bidder. I even excluded auctions below $50. Why, for $10, I could have picked up a 486!

The biggest fraud in the graphics accelerator market is when the graphics adaptors were slowly abandoning the VGA-disable switch on them. The best 2D graphics adaptors have always been along the lines of Matrox chipsets, and moreseo the G200MMS Quad adaptor the best. There are countless S3 graphics adaptors that have excellent 2D support. Some of us want a great 2D graphics adaptor with proven drivers to sit forever and not swapped out for a oversized 3D graphics adaptor with shit 2D processor that will be forever to have a good-enough driver come along that doesn't shake or bleed. With the 3D graphics changing at such a higher rate than the proven iceberg 2D industry, it would be good to choose and install any 3D graphics accelerator and flip a switch to prevent it from conflicting with an already existing 2D graphics adaptor. And let me say, a Matrox G200MMS is an excellent graphics adaptor; especially for a justified price for a five year old that is pricey to this day!

I want four framebuffers active on a Matrox G200MMS, and DRI Radeon 9100 drivers allow windowing to either framebuffer on the Matrox G200; but I can't because they are all anti-competitive and conflict with one another. Some specialty motherboards have a specialty BIOS that allows manipulating the PCI bus to allow multiple displays, but the source of the problem is anti-competitive companies. You can mix differently rated Voodoo2 adaptors in any combinations with 3Dfx, STB, Hercules, BlackMagic, Creative Labs in SLI mode, but today's graphics accelerators will not allow overide for a graphics adaptor to coexist with a competitor? I call bullshit.

There are a number of computer architectures that are not popular for this one fact: a recent graphics accelerator's 2D processor and BIOS is not compatible, and in truth the 3D GPU is compatible, but the entire adaptor is useless due to the non-compatible VGA BIOS being in conflict. Need a recent example? I just sold a Permedia2 graphics adaptor pulled from an Alpha architecture computer, for $350 dollars! Here. There are people clawing tooth and nail to get a good compatible graphics adaptor for a superior computing environment that is limited to IBM 16bit VGA initialization code for the video subsystem; and the adaptor I sold on eBay, for example, has a VGA-disable switch and can allow it to be mixed with ANY other graphics adaptor such as a Matrox G200. All of today's graphics accelerators would function in such an architecture, but their 2D VGA prevents such from happening when it conflicts with an already existing compliant 2D graphics adaptor.

Oh well. Let them be anti-competitive and run the market down to the lowest quality part: Only in United States do they shoot you in the foot with a bullet made in Mexico, China, Taiwan, Japan, or Brazil; through an American made gun barrel, and a Russian KGB silencer.

• 8" XGA lcd panel - $155
• 5 x lumina 2000 LED lights (500 lumens, 25W) - $100
• Fresnel, diffuser, lense - $62
• box, fan - $15

If lcd panels can be found (with vga/dvi connector) that do SXGA or better in similar form factor, please reply. DVI input for the lcd panel of that form factor would be nice. Comments?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =5754382679

A Firewire cable is $20 at Apple's store (or less on eBay) and an AC adapter is $30. With these two accessories added back to the price of a 4 GB iPod mini, the iPod mini costs exactly the same as it did before.

The lack of an AC charger is really lame on Apple's part. It assumes that you have a laptop to bring with you everywhere you go. I thought the point of a portable music player was to bring your music with you wherever you went so you wouldn't need a laptop!

It's amazing that someone who also bought THIS has enough brain cells to make 386000$. Life really is unfair.

Sorry to reply to myself... I just found the EBay auction site again:

Whatismyip.com Auction

The final price? $386,100.00.

Is the service still available for people who, for instance, buy old boxes on ebay?

Well, you can buy new boxes if you like. But yes, people do buy the older boxes (RTV5040 models) because they feature the auto commercial skip and show sharing without any hacking required...

No ReplayTV info is complete without mentioning DVArchive, Poopli (like Napster for RTVs), and PlanetReplay.

Inkjet was always touted as the 'razor' for any company coming up in the ranks. The problem is ... much much much research $$ goes into finding pigments and dyes that are permanent and light fast... as well as fit the receiver requirements.

And companies want to recoup that cost as fast as possible.

I worked on some yellow dyes and can tell you it's a very difficult process. Very expensive- you might have 6 months of failures.. and the floor lab might be stained a million colours.

But when it's done (and your scale up engineers have done it right) you'll get the cost of your ink way down.... I seem to remember some were down around 30$/kg. Pretty cheap. But that was the 'cost' of making the ink, not including all the $$ into research.

And being a chemist I can tell you inks in suspension aren't good after sitting for awhile. Yes, it's in a dark cartridge, but I don't know many people that will tell you it's safe to take a drug /pill thats been in a bottle for 4 years. Ink's not a drug (tho as expensive as cipro!) but it is used to print a photograph that will, if said photo should fade, be lambasted as a "cheap ass company" for producing a bad product (See http://www.wilhelm-research.com/ ... mind you I dont have a very high opinion of his work... but it's still a consumer 'start' ... he'll be re-inventing quite a bit of knowledge because he's refused help)

Anyways.... this shouldn't surprise anyone that works with inkjets. The high-volume people will never see the problem, only the low volume people. And those that know will probably do something like this instead http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1246&item=6746041397&rd=1 - note I am not endorsing this seller or product, only that I'm currently contemplating buying it...)

I know of several Laserjet 3 printers in active use that still have their origional drive trains. It's too bad you can't get any replacement parts for them any more.

Like hell you can't!

I've riced my 4si up with a duplex adapter ($25 if I remember correctly) and 16 MB of RAM (too cheap to remember) from eBay... and I won't buy toner anywhere else. At 80K pages, it's not quite 10% through its useful life.

India and China now own the Internet industry.

Some people would beg to differ.

Are there any Indian or Chinese companies with this kind of web presence? I doubt it.

Also, remember that outsourcing isn't happening to be traitorous, but to cut back on costs and increasing costs (although some people are finding it cost-inefficient after all). So, technically, the US economy is making money by outsourcing.

There is a cost to the job market, of course, but introducing robots on production lines got lots of people fired - while creating new supervisory posts. From what I hear on Slashdot, it sounds like many companies are hiring again. If that's happening, it might well be the best of both worlds - outsource the codemonkey jobs, while doing the important stuff in-house, paying programmers well for their time.

Of course, as an Indian, I have no particular problem with something which is creating jobs in my home country, as well as resulting in plenty of foreign inflows :).

Dang you beat me to it. I was just going to say that. There is this though: Weapons grade plutonium

With such low power consumption, they are a fanless CPU, and a fanless power supply would probably be feasible I imagine. True silent computing sounds good to me... or is that doesn't sound...?

Will this do?(check it fast. The link won't last) The price is right. If you want quiet, don't try to print.

you could always buy windows 2k or small bus server from ebay... you will only nead one seat licence to run IIS.....

You may not want to use eBay from within your Tivo, but on the other hand, you are a big computer-head. We didn't do this for people like you. (My team put the eBay/Tivo app together.)

Look for it http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=79865&item=5752076358&rd=1

$20 example

Webcam image sensor have been sensitive to infrared for ages.

Finally, some manufacturers have got the sense to leverage that by removing the infrared filter in front in the lens, and adding some infrared LEDs for illumination.

I've got one, and played around with it to get a similar picture as the guy in the article got with his image intensifier tube.