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1. Attorney General's Office gets nice PR by claiming a big settlement
2. RIAA gets good PR by claiming big donation
3. RIAA gets tax writeoff
4. Consumers get screwed
5. School districts get screwed.
6. RIAA profits

Here ya are! Go nuts!

Maybe they could make shrunken memento ships and airplanes like the cat on eBay does with the coins...

So I had been waiting for Suikoden 2 to drop from it's $49.99 price when it first came out. A few months later, the price was still the same and there wasn't a copy to be found. Years later, I still look for a copy some where in some bargain bin. It still sells at $49.99 used at Game Stop. Even Ebay prices are exorbitent reaching up to over $100. And here I thought that no one would be interested in the game. Bah.

You mean like THIS one for $399.99? I misplaced the manual for my Casio CFX-200 scientific calculator watch a few days ago and in the process of looking for a manual on the web, I ran across the Ebay advertisement above for one of those 80's calculator watches. To the best of my knowledge, no one has manufactured a scientific calculator watch (try finding one!) since Casio made the CFX-200. Mine is serial number 579857. :-)

one shitty cd with just a fraction of working emails cd cost 300$

Odd - you can get a CD with 450 million e-mail addresses off of eBay for a mere $55... At least that's what it's currently at, though looks like it hasn't met the reserve yet.

eBay gives you the option.

CheckFree gives you the option.

A lot of sites have optional Passport logins.

It's far from a flop, but it's just as far from the raging success Microsoft hoped for.

First off, get a nice patch panel and run your cables through that. Make sure that everything's labeled, and then you can have all the fun that you may want to with your home network/sub nets/whatever.

Also just get a mini (or a full-sized if you want to be the big dog among your geek friends) rack and mount the panel in there, as well as all of your other servers or whatever, and you shouldn't have to worry about noise from fans or even heating/cooling (assuming that your basement is all underground, and not one of the semi-basements).

Ebay has a lot of those goodies for cheap if you can wait the time for them to be delivered.

You could always purchase it, legally. Froogle and eBay would oblige.

When the Dreamcast first came out, I abhorred it for a number of reasons, such as lackluster 1st party games, poor 3rd party support and just a general disdain for Sega's marketing (their track record isn't so hot in that department). But right now, I'm loving the Dreamcast :-)

Right about now, the Dreamcast is somewhat prematurely in its "glory day". While most Dreamcast games sucked to no end, it had many decent PC ports (Quake III, Unreal Tournament) and a handful of other good games. Generally, you can find these games in the bargain bin at GameStop for $5-$15, usually new. The Dreamcast's current online pricepoint is often less than a new GBA game, and usually is bundled with some games. Frankly, if you're a cheap gamer who doesn't have a lot of time, the Dreamcast is the way to go.

But the main appeal of the Dreamcast to me is the "geek" community that's brought Linux, BSD and most of the APIs that they connonate (Hell, you can even use Windows APIs for the built in Windows CE ROM). This is great for people like me who want to get their feet wet with basic game development for consoles, but don't have time to learn a hacked-up graphics API, or for someone who just is looking for a fun weekend project. It makes me happy to see that the Dreamcast homebrew community is still alive and kicking, and I'm hoping that this kind of thing will continue for a while.

Why would you use an emulator when you can have the real thing?

Google's Gmail does this. The whole thing is run with incredibly fancy JavaScript/DHTML, which is why only a few browsers are currently supported (they're working on a plain HTML version, thankfully). The messages in "conversations" may be expanded and collapsed as desired. Perhaps you should buy an invite from somebody on eBay so that you can check it out yourself.

For less than that consider the Sigma SD9 - they newer model, the SD10, is more expensive but the SD9 is starting to go for cheap on eBay. Right now an SD9 plus a really good lens and professional flash is listed for only $650!

The disadvantage of the SD9 over the 300D is that the camera does not have as high an ISO support, and the camera does not do in-camera JPG. But it produces great images, just take a look at the SD9 users gallery on pbase. You'll also get more advanced features like mirror lock-up that the 300D only supports through a user created firmware update (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I'm building a submarine using a PC/104 stack. Found almost all the parts on eBay, including a relay controller and 20 channel servo/stepper motor controller, as well as the PC/104 mainboard. This is exactally what I bought, but there are others.

My requirements are way different than yours, however. I'm going to require a rather large control program onboard the sub to reach the level of atonomy I'll need for deep dives.

Good luck to you.

I somehow received a free Zinio subscription to EGM, and as far as digital reading software goes it's quite well designed. It's intuitive, streamlined, clean, and clear. You can tell Zinio has attempted to replicate the reading process digitally with its turning pages and fold out ads. I was impressed.

That said, when a subscription to the Zinio/digital EGM costs $19.99 and you can easily find a four year paper subscription for under $5, why bother with the hassle? If I subscribe to the magazine, why can't I pay a few dollars more and get access to the digital version as well?

I remember reading an interview with the suits at NetFlicks in Wired a year or two ago. They said it was still cheaper, and practically faster, to snail-mail data on CDs to someone than to provide it over the net. Zinio's pricing proves this hasn't changed.

I suppose the only advantage to Zinio is not having magazines pile up somewhere. Of course, I have yet to find a game magazine that's worth keeping anyway. They're so filled with hyperbolic previews, barely edited junior high level writing, and gratituous screenshots that they're not worth the hard drive space to save them on.

I'm sure glad I still have my PANASONIC DURAMAX EB-TX220. Tough as nails, and too old for this sort of crap. TDMA, but still working like a champ!

Your already winning!
1% should equal to about $17 now :)
The auction

And ofcourse, by the time you read this, it might be even higher. Congratulations! Pretty damn good ROI in just few hours :)

It looks like the Ebay price is now above the valuation implied by the initial stock sale!

Specifically, 1% of the company at $11 USD implies a valuation of $1,100 for the company. And Ebay now values the company at $1,225.00, with 18 hours to go in the auction.

So as per dot-com tradition, it looks like the IPO did in fact flip at a higher price than the pre-market investors paid!

(Although I don't quite know how/if pre-IPO investors cash out with this pseudo-IPO... And we'll have to follow over a longer time-frame how the post-IPO investors do... let's hope its better than your standard dot-com. But hey, by IPO-ing, these guys are already way ahead of most dot-coms that ever existed, right?!)

See Also: eBay

I don't know if you can find LTO gear on the cheap (haven't looked), but DDS and AIT gear is readily available.

You can get one for 5-10bux....

Try EBAY! :)

The seller is listed as living in Hong Kong, says so himself, and from "Member since: Mar-17-00" (Source) I would suspect he's been there for a while. His eBay name is "lingjr", which is probably stands for Ling Junior. That's not a Japanese name. Lastly, the romanization of Dreamcast is "", or if that doesn't render, "doriimukyasuto" (Source).

I'm not trying to be a dick. I just think he isn't Japanese.

While we're shamelessly advertising this guy's shit, for what it's worth he has some other stuff on sale if you can't fork out 100k (more Japanese console stuff, I imagine it's rare, not really a connoisseur though) including familiar-looking NES, Sega and Playstation units/devkits and some Pippin thing I've never heard of.

Some of the 'OMG RARE 500 PCS ON EARTH' items are kind of interesting (well, would have been before discovering girls)

-fren

Look at his selling history and active auctions. He's been selling this stuff on eBay for over FOUR YEARS. He has about 100 seperate items on sale right now. He is probably bored as hell of it. This auction was a great idea, even if no one bids the $100,000 dollars. It has generated HUGE amounts of publicity for him(it had 20,000 hits before it hit /.) If no one bids on it, he'll have no problem selling the items seperately. And maybe, just maybe, there's a video game obsessed nut rich enough to bid the 100k.

Look at his selling history and active auctions. He's been selling this stuff on eBay for over FOUR YEARS. He has about 100 seperate items on sale right now. He is probably bored as hell of it. This auction was a great idea, even if no one bids the $100,000 dollars. It has generated HUGE amounts of publicity for him(it had 20,000 hits before it hit /.) If no one bids on it, he'll have no problem selling the items seperately. And maybe, just maybe, there's a video game obsessed nut rich enough to bid the 100k.

My Palm Tungsten has been sitting unused ever since. I guess I should sell it on eBay before it's worth nothing.

Anybody remember Hasbro's "Clueless Organizer", in bright pink, aimed at high school girls?

What we really need is a standard for hot-synching all the low-end devices.

Somebody please overbid me!

Seems exceedingly lame to me, given the Google toolbar, Firefox search box and keymarks, other meta-search engines, etc. Too bad, when I first read the term "internet command line" I thought it was going to be something much cooler.

BTW the search engines supported are user submitted and it is already being spammed with junk. Ha!

How does the story not include an e-Bay auction link!

Current bid is $434. Remaining bidding time is 2 days 22 hours. The dotcom is dozomo.com, but the site does not appear to exist.

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Not bad for 24hrs work!!! :-)
Auction Page

The current price is $51:

IPO on EBay

You could hop over to one of the surplus dealers and replace that raggedy pp200 with a box at least five time faster - I see 500-600mhz PIII machines go out the door all the time for $99.00. If an upgrade to five times the performance you are getting now isn't even worth a hundred bucks, then you simply don't count. You may have found it "refreshing" to read about a ceo who isn't hyping clock speed above all, but in the end you don't matter to him or the industry because your money never makes it up the food chain. You're not "the type" he's trying to reach because you obviously don't consider even a $300 laptop or $99 desktop a worthy upgrade - so when would you ever appear on his radar? Five years after, when the machines are so antiquated they're not even worth freight charges?

I'm not saying this to dis you: I'm also into being a green geek and recycling everything I can get my hands on (thus my collection of old "giveaway" desktops and cheap refurbished laptops). But those Via boards are not designed for sub-$100 desktops. At best they'd make a sub-$300 desktop, and you can buy machines right now that would trounce such a low end machine for much less than $200 on the surplus market. And you wouldn't be generating any new pollutants (except the packing materials and the fuel for shipments) with the surplus system.

So, are you really sure you're "the person he was thinking of?"

You can buy 500mhz laptops for under $300 if you're patient with your bidding and expect to do a bit of parts swapping. And yes, if you buy the right systems you'll find a machine that is very well upgradeable just by swapping a few parts. My own portable pet is a 500MHz PIII frankensteined from no less than three previously dead machines (only one of which is now still dead). I do this all the time and my only concession to new is to buy a new hdd (if needed) since brand new (warranteed) 20gb drives are only about twice as expensive as worn out 4gb drives.

You can do exactly what you're wishing, but you can't do it with new boxed parts and a three year warranty. If you want new then you got to get out the cleaning materials and spray paint and create!

Your construction
smells of corruption
I manipulate
to recreate
in this air
to ground saga
gotta launder my karma...

If what you want is a working 380 laptop there ya go. Why anyone would want such a dead end machine, though, is beyond me. At least the relatively power hungry 600 can be upgraded to nearly 1GHz and a good bit of ram using standard parts... those old 3 series are just... portable i-openers: underpowered, but "too good to throw away" only because they have a reasonably high quality, portable display.

You can always increase the framerate yourself...

1.) Apple admits they won't hit their 3 GHz promise :

Jobs further excited the crowd when he said that Apple would release a 3GHz model within a year -- with two weeks to go before that deadline, Boger said Apple will not meet the 3GHz promise.

"It's actually quite simple," said Boger. "When we made that prediction, we just didn't realize the challenges moving to 90 nanometer would present. It turned out to be a much bigger challenge than anyone expected."

2.) Downgrading from a Superdrive to a Combo drive now saves you only $100, not $200 (on the 1.8 DP model at least; all I checked), even though the hardware is twice as fast burning now. This makes the cost of entry into PowermacLand now $1900 and change, not $1600. Though you almost certainly get that extra $300 in goodies, if you don't have that $300 you ain't got it.

3.) No great deals on older models from the [online] Apple Store as some rumors suggested.

4.) Even the super-cool geek quotient for liquid cooling is apparently only in the 2.5 DP. No, I'm happy that cost doesn't appear [directly] in the other models, but if I'm spending enough to pay the going price for three vintage police crusiers, I need something extra to brag about.

Oh well, at least AirTunes is kewl.

check it out.

I bought the one that's being pounded on through Ebay. I'd recommend NOT buying the Beta Brite. Get the Pro Lite instead.

The Pro Lite has many advanced features and an open protocol that you won't get if use buy a Beta Brite.

The sign runs off of 9v, so it could easily be wired to work in your car. A little bit of work on a controller and you could probably create a simple pre-programmed series of messages accessible by button press in the front.

The car also plays a key roll

Exactly. Remember playing with you first RC car? It got stuck on all sorts of things and flipped over and got stuck upside down.

Then they came up with those dual track-driven machines that didn't even have servos, just cheap DC motors. Not only did they do all steering via the "tank-treads", but by designing the body to fit between the belt/track/treads, the designers ensured the machine could be flipped completely over without getting stuck. Not to mention that it navigate terrain much more treacherous than a wheeled RC car.

Actually, many vehicles that navigate extreme terrain or that are required to have extreme durability or strength use tracks.

This reminds me that our hilariously 6-wheeled mars rover can't even navigate a loose 25 degree slope.. heh.. even jeeps can do that!

I hope the next time an idea like this starts to shine like a bright strobelight in its inventor's mind, at least they'll have a look at some hardly known websites like these:

1. Search eBay for "infrared filter"
2. Search Google for "photosensitive epilepsy"

nah it's fun to play with when i'm bored, but this is where i got it from for pretty cheap if you really want one.

it is fun to mess with in sphere xp too.

but if your looking for something for serious FPS gaming, it's not worth it.

interfering with nature / the divine plan
you don't hear people going around debating the morality of having toilets.

Speke for ye selfe. I tosse me shite out the windoe as olde tymes. This I wolde beseche thee hertely, rid ye selves of the infernal toilets! To be carnally mynded is to be emnyte agaynst God! Look ye and fynde how bleste to lyve.

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You mean this stupid thing?

Robo Rally has to be the #1 geek board game out there. Unfortunately it's out of print and you can only get it used and abused from places like Ebay

I still create RoboRally parties and spend hours playing this game with friends and co-workers. And when I can't get together a group of people to play, there are variants online that are really cool to play too.

It was created by Richard Garfield (the same guy that made the Magic the Gathering game) and published by Wizards of the Coast back in 1994

It won 2 awards that next year

• 1994 Best Fantasy or Science Fiction Board Game at Origins International Game Expo & Fair, July 21, 1995
• 1994 Best Graphic Presentation of a Board Game at Origins International Game Expo & Fair, July 21, 1995

RM-TP504

which they discontinued in 2003? and replaced with:

RM-TP1

These were used on the ES line of stereos and amps.

Forget programming. It's not worth it. No one learns programming because they're bored. They learn it because a) they need it for a job or b) it's interesting. She clearly doesn't really have b and doesn't need it for a. What she need is a purpose.

Start her off with a blog. She can keep it as a diary and mark most of the entries as private if she wants and just mark certain ones public when they're notable, funny, or she has something worth sharing. When she realizes that it can't do everything exactly the way she wants, she'll get more sophisticated with HTML, Javascript, PHP, and whatever else she needs. She doesn't need to learn tools for the sake of learning tools -- she needs a purpose for using her computer. Nobody gives a shit about learning "Hello world" programs or even writing sophisticated encryption algorithms. They get excited when it makes their own lives easier. Or profiable.

If she's looking for trying out a few things to try to make a few bucks, she can join an affiliate program and get paid to learn how the web works. eBay has a great affiliate program that's free to join and pretty popular. As long as she's not doing it as a job, it could be a fun way for her to try to make a few bucks. There are some good guides out there to help web novices get started.

Sadly Apple has discontinued Hypercard development for some years, and recently stopped selling it on the Apple store.

Still, it is a great learning tool, and if she's got an OS9 Mac (or is OK with Classic), copies can still be had on everyone's favourite global Garage Sale

Anybody who wishes to license this technology, please contact me at 1 (800) 426-8686

As others have mentioned, the TIGER data is free and good. And not rocket science to figure out. However, you can also purchase ESRI shapefiles fairly cheaply, eg on ebay, and use a 3rd party program to view/change.

Where I work we use mapserver (mapscript actually), which I think is fairly smooth. One example of street annotations being directly read from shapefiles is here [beta version]. Right now the street annotation shows up only when zoomed, but is automatic and decent; you can export PDF's to print, and soon it will interactive in terms of adding comments for specific places. All open source.

Also, many many cities and counties have freely available gis data, usually in shapefile format, for download. This is often a touch more accurate than the tiger/esri files, but those are a great start.

Point is: There are lots of freely available sources for national and local street coverage. Most conform or are easily converted to a standard (often esri shapefile oriented) format. The data often comes with no license. There are lots of [open source] programs that do a good job of allowing changes and display of annotation.

I think this would be a good source.

That's OK, but for the man of the 50's on the go what do you do? You get a CURTA calculator. They were said to be popular with rally drivers for instance.

They are relatively valuable and pretty nifty calculator. You can try to get a feel for it with the simulator. Enjoy!