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I was going to suggest you try ebaY, but at those prices, I'd stick with dumpster diving.

Try Ebay. There's one without a monitor for $10.49 and a complete one for $11

Try Ebay. There's one without a monitor for $10.49 and a complete one for $11

Try Ebay. There's one without a monitor for $10.49 and a complete one for $11

I have the ring part of one of these in storage somewhere. It's actually kind of cool looking, another relic of the 80s future that never was. I never tried it out as a game controller, assuming it would be as hard to use as the Powerglove (which I do not like despite the "it's so bad" factor), and the Konami voice-activated lightgun headset.

There's a couple for sale on eBay if you want to have a look.

Try this one on for size.

Hey Sean,

Very happy SliMP3 user, here. I did have problems with the unit shutting down after a few seconds of play when streaming from a P2 266 w/128MB running RH 8, Debian Woody, or Win 2k quite a while ago. Never solved those problems, but I wanted to let you know that I'm now successfully streaming from an RS/6000 workstation that I bought off ebay for about $100.. similar to this, but with 256MB RAM, running Debian Woody. Love the SliMP3.. I'll be ordering one for my in-laws for Christmas.

Also, I've been able to point Winamp and XMMS at the server software, but I haven't gotten the server software to figure out that my Winamp player is another streaming device. Still working on getting that going.

Thanks for a great product!

"I'm sure I can find many... uses, for it... **cough** SETI@HOME **cough**"

I think I could find some better uses for it, such as financing a massive Cocaine-smuggling operation. Now all I have to do is look up smuggling in an encyclopedia so I'll know how to go about my brilliant plan. (obligatory Office Space reference)

or you can get a "like new" copy for as low as 11.78 (shipping not included) here:
http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1169199 569&domain_id=1856&meta_id=1 at half.com

I enjoy hacking systems as much as the next guy, but when I can get something much better for much less and it's more reliable (no bubble wrap), I don't see the point.

So please, someone explain why the Qube is so great compared to Mini-ITX systems because I fail to see the advantages.

• Sonic Mega Collection includes all the 16-bit Sonic games plus a few nifty extras and bonuses, such as Ristar and some history of the blue hedgehog. It retails for $40. Keep in mind that's for Sonic 1, 2, 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic 3 + Knuckles, Sonic 2 + Knuckles, Sonic Spinball, Sonic 3D Blast, Mean Bean Machine, Flicky, and Ristar. That's a great deal if you missed out on these games the first time around. They're aged very well.
• $40 also picked up a port of the first Sonic Adventure title for the Dreamcast, now upgraded to Sonic Adventure DX. It also includes all the Sonic games for the Game Gear as hidden unlockables. The port's a little rough around the edges, but it's still a great buy if you missed out on it the first time around.
• Part of the Player's Choice series includes Sega's port of Sonic Adventure 2, now redone as Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. This one costs only $30 and includes some multiplayer enhancements that weren't present in the original Dreamcast version.

Happy shopping and happy holidays!

The Paypal scammers, with only your password, can literally take you for every cent you got AND every cent of credit availability.

And where is the mention of the origin of it all, the AOL phishers? I guess you only see it on AOL but it is a huge problem over there. The main purpose seems to use compromised accounts to spam AOL members from inside, it happened to my dad, who is still "not budging" from AOL.

The ideal solution would be a distributed deliberate response, using the form provided by the spammer, by the targetted companies, who could load predetermined user/pass combinations and disinformation (I have a script) into their database. When access is attempted using the provided login/password combinations, the criminal is detected in real time (he is not safe by proxying - he is still dead meat when seen in action. Logs will exist on the proxy servers to point right to him, the more the merrier.)

You can buy these games at:

Funagain
Games Surplus
Fair Play Games
Boulder Games

You can also sometimes find them on Ebay (a good place to look for out of print ones) and The BoardGameGeek marketplace

Why bother with Amazon? It's $8 on Half.com

The Scar on Half.com

Most of the pics are absent, but oh well.

Poor guy... I should have found a more reliably-hosted site with pictures of 8-track tapes as a preferable form factor. How 'bout an eBay auction? That would have worked out a lot better.

If he wins his case, this will open up a can o' worms due to all those guys who bought 1-acre Moon tracts on ebay and elsewhere.

Alas, no automated helicopters. You CAN get a badass 1966 military helicopter, though.

First, let me agree with the previous poster who said that if they want games, they should buy a console system.

Next, let me point out that Gamers have system requirements that far exceed those of "average home users". These requirements are usually measured in FPS or in Mb of video card RAM.

Finally, let me point that many people have claimed that "average home users" (i.e. my grandmother) want to:

• surf the web
• send and receive email
• write the occasional document or spreadsheet

Given that KDE and Gnome are both eminently qualified to support that short list of applications (on eight-year-old hardware, no less), then why in the name of all that's holy shouldn't the "average home user" be running a Linux box?!? New systems are available for less than $300; $200 if you'll use a cable modem or DSL!! Toss on an extra $100 if you have to buy a new monitor, or get one at ebay.

You can get the bare chassis from the vendor of your choice for under $300. The problem with buying a bare chassis is that you'll have to find the hot-swap sleds seperately, which can be a real PITA, depending on the model. You can get fully populated arrays for under $1000, which even if you throw the drives away is probably cheaper than buying the sleds individually.

For the $3000 the yutzes in the article spent, anyone could pick up a fully populated storage array plus a pair of dual P3 servers. I'd much rather buy 3 year old enterprise-grade server hardware than to cobble together a bunch of OEM parts.

The OS of choice is FreeBSD 4.8 right now. Runs a email/web/fileserver.

For my work, I'm thinking about using an older Powermac 9500 to set up as an iTunes server. Since I'm a musician, I have a TON of MP3s ripped from CDs and obtained off Emusic (before they switched their subscription thing :-/). Anyhow, the other teachers would love to be able to access my 150+gigs of music, and having it on the network (yeah, imagine a music store that has a network......) where they could pretty much pull up any song.....pretty cool.

SO, that server is going to be a 9500 running OS X 10.2.8, with at least 2 250 Gig hard drives either Mirrored or Stripped using OS X's software, and I'll be backing it up via Firewire drives using something like Retrospect 5.1 or FolderSync or something. Haven't gotten to that point yet!

Probably a good deal on ebay. Looking on there now, they go as low as $54 before shipping, but he might have found one lower at the time.

If you'd consider a phone that's less than $10 as "disposable" than it already exists. It's the Nokia 5160 or 5165. Quick search of ended items on ebay turns up hundreds of Nokia 5160/5165 phones that have sold in the past 2 weeks, most for less than $10, some as low as $1.

If you'd consider a phone that's less than $10 as "disposable" than it already exists. It's the Nokia 5160 or 5165. Quick search of ended items on ebay turns up hundreds of Nokia 5160/5165 phones that have sold in the past 2 weeks, most for less than $10, some as low as $1.

OK, as far as I can see, it goes something like :

1) Make a character. Max it out.
2) Camp a rare drop item from a rare spawn that everyone else wants.
3) It tells you to delevel, and max out another character of class $random
4) Camp a rare drop item from a rare spawn that everyone else wants.
5) It tells you to delevel, and max out another character of class $random2
6) Camp a rare drop item from a rare spawn that everyone else wants.
7) It tells you to delevel, and max out another character of class $random3
8) Camp a rare drop item from a rare spawn that everyone else wants.
9) It doesn't tell you what to do. You just max out 2 other classes and hope that's them
10) (Possible) Visit every location.
11) Max out a serious number of tradeskills
12) Camp some rarespawn items for the lightsabre
13) Make the first step of the lightsabre to make the Training Sabre.
14) Camp some more items for the real lightsabre.
15) Do the final combine, and it's bugged, and doesn't work.

Meanwhile, over on Ebay, SWG Bria ~Force Sensitive Jedi Slot~ Jedi characters are up for sale for $510.00

Damn I'm glad I never started that game. I wonder how Luke had time to do all that between making runs out to Toshi Station for power converters.

If you want to argue that the router is rerouting traffic that is destined for kiddie pr0n fine (as it its got some parental/offensive controls built in). But it isn't, its rerouting random requests. The device isn't censoring content, its delivering spam. If you can't see the difference please hop onto eBay as I'm sure there are a ton of these listed for your pleasure.

Ebay auctions here

Be prepared to pay... people are bidding these up to around $50 a ticket.

One guy bid $1299 for 2 tickets to the Hollywood screening.

Ebay auctions here

Be prepared to pay... people are bidding these up to around $50 a ticket.

One guy bid $1299 for 2 tickets to the Hollywood screening.

Why lookey here

Might be exactly what you are looking for...but I would personally get a new 10 gig at least -- the new design and extra features make it more worthwhile -- besides, who couldn't use an extra firewire hard drive for back-ups and portability?

DES MOINES, Iowa (Dow Jones)--McDonald's Corp. (NYSE:MCD - News) characterized a published report that it plans a massive digital song giveaway promotion as "pure speculation."

It's "pure speculation". Notice they didn't say anything against/for it. Speculation is a very neutral term. Merriam Webster says:

Speculation: an act or instance of speculating

And speculating means: to meditate on or ponder a subject

McD is still WORKING ON IT! Doesn't mean they've decided one way or another, it's just that they're thinking about IT! Before /. issues a retraction, try RTFD (Reading the F**king Dictionary). Can we set up some kind of dictionary fund for /. editors? Like this or this?

Total cost: $77

And you don't even get a Gamecube!
Yes, this bundle is truly a steal.

Total cost: $77

And you don't even get a Gamecube!
Yes, this bundle is truly a steal.

Total cost: $77

And you don't even get a Gamecube!
Yes, this bundle is truly a steal.

Total cost: $77

And you don't even get a Gamecube!
Yes, this bundle is truly a steal.

Total cost: $77

And you don't even get a Gamecube!
Yes, this bundle is truly a steal.

Total cost: $77

And you don't even get a Gamecube!
Yes, this bundle is truly a steal.

Not sure why you're led to believe that no one else can sell RedHat Linux and say that it is the real RedHat Linux.

That's what fleaBay is for.

Hence, why there are so many USB MIDI devices.

For example, I used to have a bunch of Family Guy and Futurama episodes available. Now that they've been released on DVD, I don't share them any more. The same for Tenacious D's HBO series. I scoured the web for them and made them available, noting that they were wildly popular. As it turns out, HBO initially refused to release Tenacious D (the series) against the wishes of the band because HBO maintained that they were sole owners and hte band had no legal right to royalties. Now that Tenacious D are huge rock stars, Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks is available for sale. Even though I have every episode, I bought the DVD because I wanted a really good copy, AND I wanted to pay the band what they were due. And because I don't want to rob the band of income (cuz, you know, Jack Black is clearly starving to death), I don't share those files any more.

Rumor has it that it was rampant filesharing of "Family Guy" episodes that convinced Fox to release them on DVD. Again, even though I have most episodes, I paid to have good copies and because it's the right thing to do.

Here's a thought: the MPAA should digitize copies of their files at a low bitrate (say 750 kbps mpeg-1) and release them to P2P. IF the files turn out to be popular, they can be released commercially at a higher quality (4.5 mbps). This way, the work is promoted and if it turns out that there's an audience for it, a commercial release can follow.

By the same token, why not take advantage of "just in time" production? Make the files available at the low bit rate as a promo, and tag them with a url where a better quality copy can be purchased. That way, the copyright owners could create a continual stream of income even from "failed" series and pilots. As long as there's a market for it, why not exploit it?

I look forward to the day when I can buy a high-quality legal copy of the complete run of Duckman. After all, there's clearly a market for it.

They did. They sent him a free 700:1 LCD. It may not be cash, but it has definite value. Bribery only depends on the currency accepted.

Here is a $200 Auction

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Enjoy.

I don't know why people don't write letters any more. Well I do, but they should still have some respect for what they're giving up.

You should check out these books. They're pretty funny, but they also provide an unexpected insight.

From the people who brought you ebay Lazlo Toth and Ted L. Nancy nom de plumm for this man.

A lot of this has to do with expectation. And if one sets out expecting nothing, they shouldn't be too shocked if that's what they end up with.

His worst case scenerio, after all, might be a book deal. :)

I don't know why people don't write letters any more. Well I do, but they should still have some respect for what they're giving up.

You should check out these books. They're pretty funny, but they also provide an unexpected insight.

From the people who brought you ebay Lazlo Toth and Ted L. Nancy nom de plumm for this man.

A lot of this has to do with expectation. And if one sets out expecting nothing, they shouldn't be too shocked if that's what they end up with.

His worst case scenerio, after all, might be a book deal. :)

no, it's sir haxalot

Thank God you all are not math majors or even business majors... Hopefully you're not working stiffs in those areas either.

One would deduce that the last post in this thread is the most correct, although you could expound upon that.

Gift Cert $50
Markup $15
cost of Cert $50

Pre-sale profit (Gross)= $15 per cert.

But there are additional costs of doing business that may NOT be accounted for:

DIRECT COGS (Cost of good sold)
Less ebay Listing Fee (variable) approx 4% listing fees
Less Paypal transaction fee 2.2-2.9%+ paypal fees
Less your cost of doing business (variable)
- electricity of the computer you use
- expense of equipment (scanner, computer, software...)
- ISP connection charge...

Less possible labor expenses (if you had to pay someone to do this)

INDIRECT COGS
Less lost opportunity cost (what you could have made doing something else)

and finally less your opportunity cost of Capital (what you could have made putting your $ in a bank/CD/money market, if your $ wasn't tied up waiting for an ebay bid to happen) calculating Weighted Cost of Capital and/or Opportunity cost

So perhaps the actual transaction resemble something like this on a monthly basis:

Gross Profit ($15 x 4 certs) = $60
Less direct costs of goods sold (guessing 10% of sales price $5 x 4 items) = $20
Less indirect cost of goods sold (guessing 5% of sales price $5 x 4 items) = $10

Leave you with roughly $30/ month in Earnings Before the real issues ....

Your Time... at $???
(What you should pay someone to do this crap)
Assumne what you will, but I wouldn't bother with anything less than $20 / hour and this will take someone at least 10 minutes to do manually.

Calculate that per hour, unless your Bill Gates who earns $4,000 per minute

Then you compare that to opportunity cost of capital and....

Geese.

No wonder why Apple hasn't tried this.

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>Why Gen-Xers do it better
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I guess I remembered what my DA-P1 cost incorrectly, though I found it for $1600 new and you can get a used one on ebay for well under a grand. I could've sworn I only paid $1200 or so.

Here is proof of at least one other commercially available pre-recorded DAT. My local music store had a small DAT section (one rack) with a bunch of choices for a year or two.

None of this changes the fact that you bitched about SCMS as though it was an unsolved problem, and you made it sound as though there was only one DAT deck available (not true, even in 1987). Slashdotters will repeat the things they say on here, they must be accurate or else somebody will start claiming it's true (I SWEAR, there was only ONE DAT EVER!), and then history gets distorted.

It appears someone else is selling gift certificates as well as music in general for people that cannot access the store. The auction is here

Good luck I guess.