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How about an Amiga?

Many network stations in non-major [not NYC/LA/etc] markets still use NewTek's Amiga-based Video Toaster and Toaster/Flyer systems (The Toaster is a 4-input digital switcher/SEG, the Flyer is the NLE addition) for editing and effects. The Toaster comes with Lightwave (it is a bit slow on the Amiga systems, but it is still a great 3D package). You can pick up full Toaster/Flyer systems on ebay for cheap, and they do wonders. Then, you can transfer flyclips (the Flyer's video clip format) to your PC or Mac and do compositing/rotoscoping/insertion work on it using Mirage and/or Lightwave 3D if you need to.

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The Amiga may well outlive us all.

WoW on, seems to be selling a decent amount above retail (~40%).

Ok, so since Laptops were first created, their whole idea was to be a way someone could do work remotely or in areas where having a desktop was hard or near imposibe for one reason or another. in 2003 "November 2003 survey of Penn State University undergraduates found that freshmen were more likely to own laptops than upperclassmen. Of 1,838 respondents, 73.7 percent own a desktop, 32.2 percent own a laptop, 9.2 percent own both, and 3.4 percent own neither." http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stori es/2004/08/23/focus1.html
"t). Currently, one-quarter of Americans own a laptop or notebook computer (23 percent)" http://www.thegoodsteward.com/article.php3?article ID=1513
What does this tell us? it says that laptops are becoming more and more popular, and as they become more and more popular, there is a bigger drive towards creating the "ultimite laptop"
As far as i see it, Apple and IBM are the only good laptop companies. i know thats a dramatic statement, but look at it, any laptop over 6LBS is WAY TOO HEAVY to carry around. Most HP/Compaq laptops are 7 to 9 lbs. Most dells are in that same range.
what the laptop industry needs is a re-working of laptops. Sony has just released the X505 VAIO laptop, this laptop is built in the way all laptops should be built. It weighs a mear 1.73lbs WITH battery in it, and has enough power to run almost anything exept games and video editing.( But trying to play games on a laptop is just stupid anyway, small screen and no mouse or full keypad) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=31558&item=6736232824&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW (sorry if i am not suposed to link to auctions, it was the only english page i could find since its a japanese laptop)
The new centrino chips are amazing, to put it simply. If you put a 2ghz Pentium M into a desktop and slap on a liquid cooling system, you can overclock it to be way more powerful then a 3.46EE or even a 3.8ghz P4. The pentium M is just years ahead of its time, and people having figured it out yet! Its kinda like black lotus for all you magic players!

Great apology, GeckoX. Would you mind telling us how using ATL would help and why those mechanisms have not been put back into MFC? The problem is seven years old because Microsoft did a bad job seven years ago and has not fixed it yet.

It's all too obvious that this article was posted because it fits the anti-MS slant quite well. ... this article brings absolutely NOTHING to the table except another excuse to bash MS and an OLD MS technology.

Once again, enlighten us, GeckoX. What nasty piece of crap does Microsoft have to replace this old nasty? Tell us the wonders of .NET single sign on or something.

The author has done a service to people contemplating this kind of work. The neophyte designer should know the general reputation of the players involved and that comes from looking at old stuff too, especially if it's currently used. People in the past have been suckered by M$'s huge PR budget, which includes astroturfing of discussion forums.

Gecko, the name rings a bell. Let's look at what we find in your posting history. Oh yes, lots of M$ apologizing and insult for Slashdot readers:

1. Here you are telling me I'm stupid for not wanting to pay MP3 fees. Must be why your name rings a bell.
2. Here he acts as if you can audit DiBold's paperless and hoplessly insecure M$ based voting machines. This kind of undermines trust in GeckoX security advice if telling us that ActiveX could be used was not bad enough.
3. The idea being that a happy geek is a productive geek, but the problem of course was that no geek could ever truly be happy as they can never hope to bag a spouse, let alone get laid and have kids.. Nice insult, your sense of humor on April first is different to say the least.
4. Here he is telling us .NET and C# are the tools for the job. He must mean every job, but mono is impossible. He must have enjoyed the chance to beg for M$ compatibility, swipe at a free project and say M$ rocks all in one thread.
5. Bash Java this seems to be a consistent thread. Praise M$ efforts, bash others at the same thing.
6. Claiming Microsoft invented Virtual Desktops and Pagers, give me a break.
7. Open Source is not secure, he tells us, as if OpenBSD did not exist.
8. Of course IIS is wonderful. I suppose that's why banks using it upload trojans to IE users.

It's easy to find junk like this from GeckoX using a Google search, geckox slashdot. Thanks for playing.

Well, it is the land of milk and honey...

If you just want an organizer you could go for a VR3 and get good battery life. Forget the expansion cards though. And devolepment is static.

The other option is a Sharp Zaurus, but forget long battery life. The newer models are better, but well out of your price range.

Or you could try finding and IPAQ- iPAQ H3100, H3600,H3700,H3800,H3900,H5400, and H5500 series. Or SIEMENS Simpad: CL4, SL4, SLC, T-Sinus, GMate YopY, M&N Ramses. Still same problem with battery and usually less choices on expansion cards.

Basically you need a device that runs GPE or Opie, or comes with Qtopia.

The Zaurus SL-5500 fits your requirements for hardware and software (SD and CF expansion; runs linux and java natively; hardware fully supported by OS) but it's battery life is nowhere near double digit. With a good battery, I've had about 3 hours of solid use per charge, or somewhere a little less than a week of just standby. Plus, it started at $400 retail, so now on ebay it's running at $100 for a starting bid, only to go up. There's one on ebay now for about $165. If you're willing to go over budget slightly, that's a good choice.

Well, it is the land of milk and honey...

Well, it is the land of milk and honey...

In fact, a friend of mine does make a living off ebay.

A couple of hours a day of doing what she likes (well, probably a bit more now as she's painting two pictures a day) leaves her enough time for her family and brings enough money for their needs.

It is actually quite simple.
All you need is talent, energy, determination and an acute business sense.

Way to go, Osnat!

21st century pawn shop

Funny you should mention that. While driving around in Dallas, we passed by a pawn shop that had a help wanted sign for an "eBay Consultant", or some such. Looks like they're still online: Home > eBay Stores > Uncle Dan's Pawn Shop, but they don't have much listed. I suspect they wanted someone to work for little of nothing, in return for 'net access or something like that.

"* - Allegedly"

He appears to be collecting video tapes of rock videos, performances and interviews. And by video tapes, I do mean low quality VHS. Then he'd just sequentually burn them to DVD-Rs and sell them for full retail price.

He's got to have the fat wallet from this operation. And, of course, if you buy one thing, he'll offer you several other items after the purchase.

I see that other people's negative feedbacks don't do any good, so I'll report him to eBay for violating the CR-R/DVD-R policy, and for selling video he recorded that he does not own.

johnnymadness

*-Thown in only to avoid legal hassle of an angry person getting caught.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =5156008114

who wants to advertise on someone's forehead http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5949275091&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
will do it on his ass...

High bidder will get to place an ad for exactly one week on this man's forehead. His name is Whag, he is a co-worker of mine. Whag gets around alot, a pretty social guy. Aside from working here at the office (where he interacts with about 20 people a day), Whag also volunteers for his local fire company. On top of that, he spends a significant amount of time at the local hosey, and you know that ad's just going to look that much better after a couple of beers. Overall, the ad on his forehead would probably reach anywhere from 20-100 people per day. Any actual placing of an ad on whag's forehead is entirely at whag's discretion, and i must warn you that i haven't told him that i'm selling his forehead on ebay, so he may be a little opposed to the idea at first. But with a little prodding and some cold hard cash, i'm sure it'll all work out.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1 &item=5539052347/

The billboard apparently has yet to be notified of his participation: Whag the billboard

You think that's bad? These guys are auctioning their co-worker's forehead off on eBay , and he doesn't even know yet.

"Any actual placing of an ad on Whag's forehead is entirely at Whag's discretion, and I must warn you that I haven't told him that I'm selling his forehead on eBay, so he may be a little opposed to the idea at first. But with a little prodding and some cold hard cash, I'm sure it'll all work out."

doing it too

But he's auctioning space on an unsuspecting coworker's forehead... hehe...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5949241580&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5949232126&rd=1

just kidding Mr. Taco please dont hurt me

I first heard about advertising on people's foreheads in 2003 in this article.

Although it does look like this guys current $15,099 is slightly better than the £88.20 offerend in the Guardian article.

"The agency, Cunning Stunts, is offering students up to £88.20 a week to wear a corporate logo on their head for a minimum of three hours each day. The brand or product message will be attached by a vegetable dye transfer and the students will be paid to leave the logos untouched."

Direct Link to the eBay auction.

It has over 100 bids and a price of over $15,000. Still not enough for me to give up my dignity though. I'm sure most of those bids are bogus.

You can see the auction at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5947720145&rd=1
Currently the selling price is over $15,000. Not a bad chunk of change.

Your spider sense is correct. Here is another:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5949256699&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

And this is not realted to another auction?

Here's the action: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5947720145&rd=1 which is currently at $14,999.00.
Also the homepage: http://www.humanadspace.com/
... and another guy : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5949241580&rd=1 trying the same thing but for a week instead of 30 days.

Here's the action: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5947720145&rd=1 which is currently at $14,999.00.
Also the homepage: http://www.humanadspace.com/
... and another guy : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=317&item=5949241580&rd=1 trying the same thing but for a week instead of 30 days.

Here's the auction here (which of course is up in the high bid ludicrousphere), but it looks like he won't be the first.

I predict there will be several hundred of these within 24 hours on eBay. Just goes to show that whatever great heights mankind can reach, stupid people can stoop much lower.

Here's the auction here (which of course is up in the high bid ludicrousphere), but it looks like he won't be the first.

I predict there will be several hundred of these within 24 hours on eBay. Just goes to show that whatever great heights mankind can reach, stupid people can stoop much lower.

His auction.

It looks like the ebay trolls are going to kill his auction, though. I think this is more of a 'stunt' by someone desperately seeking attention. Kinda funny... but still a 'stunt'.

Here is the auction. The bidding is up to nearly US$15K.

here's the link to the ebay item...

it appears that since the story was written, the advertising space is now up to 99 bids, with current high bid of $14,999.00, placed by http://www.pitronix.co.uk/...

Apparently nothing, as one of the first users of the service, even before I become a formal member in 1996, eBay had a way different feel in the early days than it does now. It really was a bargain hunter's and hobbist's paradise before eBay got greedy for listing fees and starting adding stuff like "Buy It Now" items and storefronts. Now, the former AuctionWeb's visibility causes many items to be bid above and beyond market value anymore.

(And before any of you wannabe economists try to correct me on my concept of "market value," what you are thinking of only exists in an aggregate, transparent economy free of perverting influence which eBay no longer is. eBay prices are no longer on the median of the supply curve.)

Now pardon me, I have to go bring up Hitler on a usenet discussion that is showing too much civility.

Now pardon me, I have to go bring up Hitler on a usenet discussion that is showing too much civility.

Well, that was software (parental control, no less) working in conjunction with the router -- not the router itself -- to blame. The customer paid the typical price of "free" commecial software.

So, Belkin is into spyware. Who isn't these days in one form or other?

Why in the world would I want to trust them? They've shown contempt for the consumer.

Better start stockpiling your dollars under your bed. Who you gonna trust?

When the Windows weenies dump last year's top of the range model so that they can finally run SQL Server you can pick them up at a fraction of the cost and use them for what they were made for ;)

US http://computers.listings.ebay.com/Networking-IT_S ervers

UK http://computers.listings.ebay.co.uk/Networking-IT _Servers

You can pick up a used unit, or if that disappears, just wait long enough and the Magma units show up from time to time. Now if you demand a new unit, or like-new, that you can have right away, and cheaply...well, sorry, you're breaking a variation of the fast-cheap-right rule.

> There is no dispute over the fact that it was an ordinary laser pointer
> involved. I'm not sure what sort of "powerful" laser pointer you have in
> mind. Go down to Best Buy and try to buy one of these "powerful" pointers.
>
> Let us presume, however, that you have somehow managed to get a "powerful"
> pointer and a monocular. You will still be unable to do anything more that
> pass the beam over the retina of a motionless man 20 feet away by "blind"
> luck, and only for a fraction of a second at a time. The feat has nothing to
> do with the power of the laser or any possible optical magnification.

I can buy a 47mW green laser pointer on ebay.
I can find a 50mW one or even a 190mW one.

Note that these class IIIb lasers that *will* damage the eye faster than the blink reflex kicks in (read: fraction of a second) on a "sweep" -- no monocular required; and can even cause damage if viewed indirectly (reflected).

I'm selling a much cheaper solution with 2 PCI slots on Ebay right now. If you're interested, I also have an extra docking station available.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1 &item=5548444803&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

You get to listen to the file a couple times. If you like it, you can pay a small fee for the song to be permanently unlocked and put it onto whatever medium you want it on, burn it to a CD, throw it on your iPod, whatever.

The best part of it is that it encourages people to share the music. Send the weeded file to your friends, they can preview it just like you did. If they like it, they can unlock it by paying a small fee. The catcher is that part of that small fee goes towards the artist directly and another part goes back to the person who referred the weed file to the friend.

This solves a number of issues, such as how to generate marketing for your songs, and lowers the cost in buying your music since by actually purchasing it, you have the potential to make a little bit yourself as well. Seems like win-win pretty much all around.

EQ magazine ran a little column in their current issue that bascially outlines all of this. They included the following links to check out:

• http://stores.ebay.com/Weedshare
• http://weedshare.com/

Personally, I find the idea intriguing, will be watching to see where it goes, and hope the best for it.

You haven't been on eBay in the last few days, have you? Passport won't work there soon...

Where someone is referred from is none of your business, mr violating our rights online.

You want your rights violated? OK, here you go. Your IP address is 192.168.0.1 and you were referred here from 127.0.0.1 which is a HUGE porn, warez and mp3 site. Recent items in your browser history include http://msdn.microsoft.com/ and http://goatse.cx/. You last made an online purchase at http://www.ebay.com/ where you bought a pallet of rubber chickens. And you have a browser helper object installed which sends all of your browsing data to http://www.fbi.gov/ because you're under investigation for ... well ... you know.

Dangerous to our freedom? Our freedom is already in the toilet. Hell, even the future isn't safe anymore,it's being sold! So much for all your plans of a "unified id card".

For those of you in need of a good writing instrument, you can't beat this deal on a reliable BIC ball point pen. Check it out!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=88433&item=5547167026

For those of you in need of a good writing instrument, you can't beat this deal on a reliable BIC ball point pen. Check it out!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=88433&item=5547167026

Wish I still had that box, bet it would fetch some bling-bling on Ebay :)

But I want a "Cube", and they are still selling for "much bucks". I'm hoping this thing will be a new cube, or at least something I wouldn't be embarassed to have on my desk, unlike the current eMac. And being able to plug it in to my KVM> Bonus. I'll hide it behind my desk and tell my boss its the new Blue Man Group Linux...

Here you go

Hiding a Cube is a bad idea... Heat management required that it be out in the open. The old G4 Tower, on the other hand, did everything the Cube did and then some, while fitting nicely pretty much anywhere you would put a PC tower. Looks like you could snag one for as little as $250 or so if you get lucky with the bidding.