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Not that I can find. ;)

Try selling that one on eBay. Whoops! I guess you can't.
Oh...you mean like a fruit apple...

The Franklin ebookman is a pda designed to read books on, its got a jog-wheel, touch screen, large screen, backlight. I've got one, and I use it constantly. It supports all the modern formats, and handles text files nicely.

search ebay, you can pick up one new with warrenty for under 50 USD last I checked.

Don't get a secondhand one, becuase if its got a fault (looses memory after you change batteries, requiring re-sync) you'll want to send it back under warrenty (franklin provide a *new* unit to replace faulty ones).

OK, the question's been answered. Someone archive this discussion.

i just bought one from amazon last week and i am already really impressed.
just having the internal wi-fi, mic and speaker were enough for me to upgrade
also now that the cf slot is free you can insert a sprint connection card which is supported with an ipk dialer
if anyone wants my old sl-5500, software and accessories: i am selling it on ebay
sl-5500 @ ebay

Check the buyer feedback - the guy sold OpenOffice.org for 1 cents! And then the buyer said "what a deal; great ebayer, arrived perfect, new, much less thatn retail." !!!!

user feedback here

Apparently Tuxgames is sold out of the letfover Linux versions from Loki's firesale, and there's nothing on ebay. Looks like T2 won't work in WineX as well.

Sometimes you just don't get a break being a Linux gamer. Maybe if every third Linux gamer hadn't pirated the Linux version in the first place (since everything in Linux has to be "free", right?) things would be different. But there's so much legal detritus floating around, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting to see a free Linux version.

-B

a simple search on ebay brings surprising results:
Is this what you were talking about?.

No, I'm talking about people who sell programs like OpenOffice under some other name, and do not mention at all that it is free. I'm talking about sellers like this.

Like this?

They could also keep an eye on this link.

wow the eBay sellers work fast.

It's hard to imagine anybody would be so stupid, but then, it wouldn't be the first time.

ebay has plenty

The cops still tell people to check the local pawn shops. How can pawn shops compete with eBay? Here are some Newly listed today DS3 cards

Sprint uses a lot of Nortel equipment. So does someone have a DMS-100 at their house that needed a couple of cards?

I don't see anything unusual yet

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=51264&item=3093986798&rd=1

If sprint bids high, they can have it back in 20 hours.

on ebay

Well... maybe not found it... but sure found a replacement!

I wonder if Sprint can afford it.

Hmm... I wonder if I just put myself, or them, on the FBI watch list...

Well, someone has a sense of humor. The address Bin.Laden@gmail.com is up for sale at eBay... A beautifful opportunity to kiss privacy good-bye :D link

In case anyone is wondering, the ebay auction is here.

Hey, how about a link!
I'm an idiot.

Apparently the last buyer didn't pay, so the auction is still going now.

What have you been smoking? hackers is not already at $200. That's the minimum price and nobody has bid on it yet. Moron!

here, too

Well, hacker@gmail.com may be "pretty", but as for other Gmail addresses, there are numerous Gmail invites which were never bid on at all, sold for a pitiful $5, etc.

One bid currently going for $50.99.. Get it while it's hot.

There's like 4 pages of this stuffs. hackers@gmail.com is already at $200

There's like 4 pages of this stuffs. hackers@gmail.com is already at $200

there are currently over 190 Gmail invitations for sale on ebay. Link[ebay.com]

Dumbasses...

Let's just put a big ass "X" on our computers now why won't we..

You mean like this???

Also, there is this qualification process: "Before you can submit a bid, you will be required to qualify by obtaining a unique bidder ID and by meeting an underwriter's account eligibility and suitability requirements," but I suspect that's less to keep it in the club than to weed out the types of frivolous bids that drive up joke eBay items like "Sense of Decency, hardly used" to seventeen thousand dollars.

Most banner adds, these days, are Pay Per Lead, or Pay Per Sale. Cookies stay around for at least a couple of months, so the "proper" person is credited. half.com (part of eBay) was paying $5/per lead at one point.

Most banner adds, these days, are Pay Per Lead, or Pay Per Sale. Cookies stay around for at least a couple of months, so the "proper" person is credited. half.com (part of eBay) was paying $5/per lead at one point.

Seems there was some confusion with the copyrights of the photos, and ebay closed the auction.
This has been resolved and the new auction can be found here.

Funniest ebay auction ever! Madness!!!

You _could_ also find it for cheap on Half.com.

Or if you really have money to burn, you can get one from IBM at a blistering 3840 x 2400 for a measly $8k

The 3849x2400 IBM T221 is only ~$3000 brand-new on eBay. It is $4000 at tigerdirect.

Bidding has ended, but luckily, it has been relisted. I'm sure it must be a bargain at 10,000,000$US even though there are no pictures.

Step 1: purchase the Ark of the Covenant on eBay
Step 2: travel up Ararat with your purchase
Step 3: Seek the power of the Ark to find the Ark
Step 4: use the Ark to ask for another flood in which you use the other Ark to live (repaired) provided the first Ark works and you find the Ark with the Ark in the first place.

Ark Ark Ark

"Until OO.org figures out a way to interact with specialized programs in specialized fields (legal, medicine, engineering, etc), I think it will be hard for many companies to make a switch."

But that's not OO.o's problem. Microsoft has nothing to do with these third party program vendors; they do not make MS Office "interact with specialized programs" any more than they make Excel interact with that VB macro you just wrote. All they do is publish an API, and let the third-party people go nuts. OO.o is doing that, too, because they are open-source. Everything they do is published and available for easy integration.

It's possible to have some sections of the company running MS Office and other sections (that don't need to use the proprietary third-party software) using OpenOffice. The transition can be gradual. But as soon as the bottom-liners start to notice how much money they are saving by not buying into MS's forced upgrade and support scheme, they will put pressure on the company to aquire third-party accounting programs that DO interface with OpenOffice, and the transition will be completed.

Additionally, third-party software developers should be *jumping* at the chance to also support OpenOffice format in their output documents. First of all, OO.o is far easier to code for, since the documents are all in PLAINTEXT XML and FULLY DOCUMENTED. Compare this with the proprietary binary format used by MS Office. Secondly, OpenOffice is clearly becoming a viable competitor for MS Office; any third-party company that refuses to support them can kiss their market-share goodbye.

"So, we've been buying copies of Works 2003 which contains Word XP/2002 at 40 bucks a pop on eBay. We just don't need Excel or PowerPoint to pony up for MS Office, and can use OO.org when we need those programs."

eBay, huh? I hope it wasn't this one, since I have a good feeling it's pirated. The real MS Works Suite comes on CD, not DVD, and the box design is very different. The real thing also costs $99. It would be highly ironic if a legal firm ended up using pirated software they bought on eBay...

"Until OO.org figures out a way to interact with specialized programs in specialized fields (legal, medicine, engineering, etc), I think it will be hard for many companies to make a switch."

But that's not OO.o's problem. Microsoft has nothing to do with these third party program vendors; they do not make MS Office "interact with specialized programs" any more than they make Excel interact with that VB macro you just wrote. All they do is publish an API, and let the third-party people go nuts. OO.o is doing that, too, because they are open-source. Everything they do is published and available for easy integration.

It's possible to have some sections of the company running MS Office and other sections (that don't need to use the proprietary third-party software) using OpenOffice. The transition can be gradual. But as soon as the bottom-liners start to notice how much money they are saving by not buying into MS's forced upgrade and support scheme, they will put pressure on the company to aquire third-party accounting programs that DO interface with OpenOffice, and the transition will be completed.

Additionally, third-party software developers should be *jumping* at the chance to also support OpenOffice format in their output documents. First of all, OO.o is far easier to code for, since the documents are all in PLAINTEXT XML and FULLY DOCUMENTED. Compare this with the proprietary binary format used by MS Office. Secondly, OpenOffice is clearly becoming a viable competitor for MS Office; any third-party company that refuses to support them can kiss their market-share goodbye.

"So, we've been buying copies of Works 2003 which contains Word XP/2002 at 40 bucks a pop on eBay. We just don't need Excel or PowerPoint to pony up for MS Office, and can use OO.org when we need those programs."

eBay, huh? I hope it wasn't this one, since I have a good feeling it's pirated. The real MS Works Suite comes on CD, not DVD, and the box design is very different. The real thing also costs $99. It would be highly ironic if a legal firm ended up using pirated software they bought on eBay...

Is the classic 35mm wet/dry film camera. Nikon optics, rugged, just what you need. I don't think they are currently produced, but there are plenty of them available on ebay.

Anonymous Coward, your soo lame, its right it the ballpark see. You can get even more if you have the box it came in.

Might be OT, but I'll trade anybody for my nearly unused HP-48G.
Email jollyleprechaun@yahoo.com to trade through ebay.
Everything works. It's a good deal, actually (auction is not actually mine, but similar).
Comes w/soft case, orig. box, both manuals, batteries, NO MODS to orig. hardware :)

goodbye karma

Small buttons, too small of an enter key. Not the same quality as a real HP calculator. Sellers of HP32SII (sub-$40 new) are now getting over $200 on ebay.

is this the original holder of sd 56, or the guy who bought it for $115?

That's not weird. Now, an Erdös number of 5 for US$354, that's weird. I'd bid, but my Erdös number is already 5.

Gettin way off topic here, but from that page, Hopelessly addicted to ebay Barbie"

Look at the bid history. It looks like he ended the listing early. And if that page were to be believed, the retractors have stated that they have been unable to get in touch with the seller.

And immediately thereafter, an "ad" for this gets posted on Slashdot? Makes you wonder you know...

Yes, and here is a link to the eBay search. Oh, and this is the submitter's website. Oh, and why not this here, it's a link to this very story!

C'mon, if the parent deserves +3 informative, so do I!