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it's called 'eBay'...

Gone are the days of walking thru musty warehouses full of neat stuff you can take home for a song.

After all, this is 2003, and virtual rummaging from the comfort of home is all the rage.

I think the site you wanted is here.

Very hard to come by these days, though...

$18.45 on ebay ebay.com

The Showstopper is a ReplayTV, only without a subscription fee. Be warned, they're old models (Unless you get one of the ones built into a TV, which I think are current), and thus you're somewhat likely to have to send it for a costly repair to get the newest version of the software in it, so that it can actually work. So the costs, especially for one "still in the box, never opened", are about $200 higher than they look.

That said, I can honestly say that, despite the repair costs, it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. You can't really grasp how awesome these things are til you've tried one.

Hexcel skis are still popular among backcountry skiiers for their extremely light weight.

Original Playstations still seem relatively popular, given the usual console lifespan. (/me regrets buying a $50 Dreamcast instead, and finding no cheap games available any more.

You know, despite all the whining about "they don't make 'em like they used to", most new major purchases last a long time. You expect 150,000 miles out of a car or 20 years from a refrigerator, which didn't used to be the case.

Sapphires and rubies got clobbered in the 1970s, when processes for making them were discovered. Linde Chemical introduced the "Linde Star", a perfect star sapphire, and manufactured them in volume, which killed the gem market. Today, you can buy sapphire and ruby bar stock, and it's not expensive. You can buy a 9" long x 0.125 diam. ruby rod on Ebay for $28.88 Sapphire, because it's used for semiconductors, is produced in high volume as large-diameter bar stock. When you see something like this:

• We can currently supply sapphire ingots, blanks, windows and wafers up to 200 mm in diameter, bar stock up to 100 mm square and ribbons up to 80 mm wide. All sapphire products are available in stages ranging from raw through polished for epitaxial growth. With six grades of synthetic sapphire, Maintech is sure to meet needs of the customers. Processors and end users now have an opportunity to take advantage of extraordinary prices from Maintech, Inc. Normal turnaround time is FOUR WEEKS!

It looks like something similar is starting to happen to diamonds. Don't put your money in them.

You've hit on something.

Much like eBay, if this "core offering" proves to have a solid business foundation, then one or a dozen satellite services will surely spring up.

It would be great to have a music-oriented variant to ResellerRatings.com but for music - songs, groups, venues, etc etc.

Or how about a "song of the day" service, where you got a random song from your chosen list of genres, once per day, and you could hear 1 minute of a song. If I had a link to click to spend $0.99US on a single song that caught my fancy, I'd spend $100 every year, without blinking.

But it'd better not be "just for Mac users" as the article states. It'd better be MP3 without any "encumbrances".

You could always buy one of these.

You didn't buy a Performa. Nobody wants them.

--sex

NOT OFFTOPIC:

I just submitted a story to slashdot about Frito-Lay...apparently they let another anomaly slip through the crack of their quality-assurance eyes...

A MONSTER CHEETO! CHHHEEEEEEETO!

My story is more important than this trusted computing interview because: TRUSTED COMPUTING IS STILL AND ALWAYS WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE.

Hint: as long as there are keys, the keys can be used by entities you don't approve of.

PS: where do I go to check the slashdot story submittal que?

1) Yahoo! Mail - our motto: "Better than Hotmail!"
2) Slashdot - News for Nerds
3) Washington Post - GF takes the morning paper with her
4) ArsTechnica - always looking for new hardware
5) eBay - not news? it's kinda like my price checking engine...

--trb

This looks like a nice Guitar
Happy now?

echo audio sells digital multitrack recording products. one product of theirs that my friend bought on ebay for only like $50 (retails for only a few hundred, i don't remember) is the Layla 20bit, which is a combination rackmountable piece of hardware for all the inputs, and a pci card for your computer connecting to the rackmount...they include software for it, and my over all opinion is its very good. I believe its a 4 track, but again, i could be wrong. Ebay search for Echo Layla, lowest price first

a friend of mine recently pointed me to
this ebay auction: Real Time IDE Hard Drive Encryption Kit (Bay)
the link has lots of pretty pictures.

i like the physical usb key that the drive bay has.
loopback seems a better solution than $50+ for this.

Target, 15 bucks or so. Money WELL spent. How long has it been since YOU held a joystick like that?

About 5 minutes... you do realize you can Ebay the real thing for not much more (if any) than that, right? (Sure, it costs a bit more to buy one with a collection of games, but not much.) I can understand the appeal of having something that takes up less space, but really, when half the games in that 10-in-1 were paddle games anyway, I'd rather have the real thing. You can never replicate the feeling of slapping a cartridge in a real 2600, switching your RF switchbox over to "game" and sitting there playing in front of that big, ugly piece of woodgrain.

There seems to be a very healthy market for Commodore 64 products...

~Berj

People collect them, but the prices don't seem to be very high. Maybe the hardbound AD&D books from a few years later would be more expensive (if mint).

It hardly looks worthwhile to bother putting onto ebay.

PS. It doesn't beg the question, it raises it.

I think there are a few possibilities:

1) Newer Apple stuff does run on older hardware
I think that basically anything with an older G4 might run OS X, though sometimes in an unsupported way and might be slow. But a lot of older slower users (like 333mhz users) seem fine with running OS X.

2) Hardware quality is high so components last longer
So the machine is probably going to be in a better condition to sell.

3) Early adopter (some would say driver) of new standards. Apple is a lot of times the first company to push new standards like USB and firewire in a big way. So even a mac from a few years ago will probably have decent options for interfacing with newer peripherals. In my opinion, that might even be the primary reason why older machines sell so well.

4) OS does not degrade much over time.
This might not be true of Windows 200 or XP so much, but older versions of Windows simply get more broken over time, as evidenced by my old Win98 box at home... I also have linux in it and that at least as remained usable over the years while the Win98 side is barely functioning. Sure you can reinstall and reimage, but as a seller why would you bother (if you can find the software) and as a buyer you are probably looking for something that works for you as-is.

People ignore the resale factor, but I find it nice to know that if I do decide to buy a newer Powerbook someday, I'd be able to sell my current one and not loose too much money... PC's depreciate at a worse rate than cars.

You could also probably learn something by examining the sales for other sorts of computers - a few years ago a friend of mine was lamenting she couldn't even give away an older 486 PC she had, while I was able to sell my old Atari Falcon for a few hundred bucks to a musician. And from the look of things it seems to be selling for about the same price still!!

I see some used telescopes on eBay for $20-100. I'm sure the telescopes aren't perfect, but get a couple of new lenses, repair a wobbly stand, and you'll be able to see quite a bit.

And as I said, I can see the spots and rings, and I live in a pretty urban area with lots of light pollution (Near San Francisco & Oakland). I go out on a cool, clear night with little fog, huddle in a dark corner of my yard, and set up.

Now, that said, I do dream of buying a new one that has a sturdier stand, an automatic tracking, and a way to hook up a webcam.

But I need a job first :) and will probably buy everything piecemeal.

Register immediately. Get ID #001.

Wait until 2003. Go to a site called 'ebay'. Sell said slashdot ID. Let your mind boggle that you now have $81.

Let me reformulate that....

1. register the name $$$$$exygal
2. throw naked pictures at geeks
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!

And of course, point 3 includes a transaction like, I dunno, selling your account on EBay .

So yeah, $$$$$exygal is really motorbikerboy...

Repeat after me.. bid-re-trac-ta-tion..

A Winblows PC I put together...

You mean Windblows like the one you can get on Ebay? Or the image itself?

go here

... here.

..did *his* soul go for on e-bay?

Or *his* SlashDot Account for that matter?

Admire that string of X's in the "Legal Requests" column.

Was that before eBay?

--sex

--free porn links for all my fans

You can also get it $10 cheaper than B&N on Half.com.

Dell Financial Services sells computers on Ebay with No-OS and they are factory refurbished to like-new condition. Many still have an original extended warranty which is transferrable! DFS Ebay Store.

Dell 's Ebay Store currently there's 75 laptops, and most of them are naked.

I've seen this laptop on half.com, it's one hell of a deal:

P4 2.4Ghz/512mb DR/40GB/DVD/CDRW/USB 2.0/FireWire/56K/LAN/15" TFT for ~1200
No OS, no brand name. I have no idea if they are good are not, but they look decent.

-Jon

I've seen this laptop on half.com, it's one hell of a deal:

P4 2.4Ghz/512mb DR/40GB/DVD/CDRW/USB 2.0/FireWire/56K/LAN/15" TFT for ~1200
No OS, no brand name. I have no idea if they are good are not, but they look decent.

-Jon

Maybe you should consider this "premier" slashdot account on eBay.

Maybe you should consider this "premier" slashdot account on eBay.

Maybe you should consider this "premier" slashdot account on eBay.

Get an SGI keyboard, preferrably one of the granite ones with the "cube" logo. Though they're made by SGI, they're standard US 101-key PS/2 keyboards, and will work on anything that accepts US 101-key PS/2 keyboards, including PCs.

They have excellent tactile feedback, and are juuust clicky enough, but you don't have to bang on them.

And they don't have those annoying Windows keys.

AFAIK, they only come in the PS/2 variety (no USB).

I'd suggest not buying one directly from SGI, though. Try going to a place like Reputable Systems or Mashek, or maybe eBay.

Maybe you should consider this "premier" slashdot account on eBay.

Maybe you should consider this "premier" slashdot account on eBay.

Maybe you should consider this "premier" slashdot account on eBay.

Positively BRILLIANT satire!

Maybe you should consider this "premier" slashdot account on eBay.

Sure you COULD put your faith in the authorities, but do you seriously think they're going to interrupt their donut break to help out another slashdot thug on the RIAA hit list? Why wait around for them when for a small fee you can start off fresh, fully karma loaded and with a "VERY low user id number". Act now! While supplies last:

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Japanese aren't the only ones paying large sums of money for UO houses and accounts.

Japanese aren't the only ones paying large sums of money for UO houses and accounts.

Japanese aren't the only ones paying large sums of money for UO houses and accounts.

Japanese aren't the only ones paying large sums of money for UO houses and accounts.

Japanese aren't the only ones paying large sums of money for UO houses and accounts.