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Re:Math shouldn't be about rote memorization. by mcjulio · 2002-06-12 13:09 · Score: 1 · on Calculators vs. PDAs in the Classroom

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I R0X0R! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-12 08:53 · Score: 0 · on Linux at Industrial Light and Magic

FIRSTUS&nbsp POSTUS&nbsp, BEEEEOTCHAE!
I r #1! All others are #2 or lower!
(You may touch my ewok!)

pleeeease?!!!

Re:Graphics are great by Thud457 · 2002-06-12 08:49 · Score: -1 · on Linux at Industrial Light and Magic

Everybody loved those furry little fuckers!
I can remember all the kids dressed up as Ewoks for Halloween!

Yeah, right

There one on Ebay for 71$ by fungus · 2002-06-12 08:00 · Score: 1 · on Logitech Pocket Digital Review

Here it is. This is a quite attractive digital camera.

I need to place a bid :)

Re:Slashdot accounts by PunchMonkey · 2002-06-10 13:36 · Score: 2 · on Information Valuation - The Most Buck for the Bits?

I am willing to sell this fine, low UID slashdot account for only $10000 (or about $500 per byte stored on the server). If that isn't a bargain, I don't know what is :-)

You call that a low ID? It's 7 digits! Geez.

Even 6 digit ICQ numbers only sell for around $20 on Ebay.

here's a place to start by willconsult4food · 2002-06-10 11:49 · Score: 1 · on Pen-Based Linux Computing?

The Labs has a section on internet appliances, including home-brew refurbishing of older pen-based PCs. They have advice for loading Linux and BSD on the Fujistu Stylistic 1000 and 1200. Both models can be found on eBay.

here's a place to start by willconsult4food · 2002-06-10 11:49 · Score: 1 · on Pen-Based Linux Computing?

The Labs has a section on internet appliances, including home-brew refurbishing of older pen-based PCs. They have advice for loading Linux and BSD on the Fujistu Stylistic 1000 and 1200. Both models can be found on eBay.

Try the Fujitsu 510 by yandros · 2002-06-10 11:19 · Score: 1 · on Pen-Based Linux Computing?

I periodically look at this url: Fujitsu 510 on eBay

To see what the current prices are like. Rumours amoung the handhelds.org group suggest that linux works fairly well on these devices.

Need more input (with apologies to Johnny 5) by ninewands · 2002-06-10 10:39 · Score: 3, Informative · on Pen-Based Linux Computing?

If you mean something on the lines of the IBM 730T I found when I searched ebay I don't see any reason why not. I appears to run Win95 which indicates that it's at least a 386 processor. It uses a Cirrus graphics chip, so getting X to work on the thing might be dicey. My advice would be to do your own research before spending any money unless you make writing device drivers your hobby.

As for anything older than the 730T, I think your probably going to run into problems like sub-32 bit processors that will stop you.

Examples? by Rick+the+Red · 2002-06-10 09:58 · Score: 3, Insightful · on Pen-Based Linux Computing?

A search of eBay for "pen-based computer" turns up nothing. Care to specify the exact make and model you're looking at? (also, how much are they going for?)

Examples? by Rick+the+Red · 2002-06-10 09:58 · Score: 3, Insightful · on Pen-Based Linux Computing?

A search of eBay for "pen-based computer" turns up nothing. Care to specify the exact make and model you're looking at? (also, how much are they going for?)

Re:Engineering Economics by SEWilco · 2002-06-10 05:42 · Score: 1 · on Used Books: An Actual Internet Success Story

Engineering Economics on Half.Com (an eBay company now). In stock.

Re:Playing it in the dark... by Mr_Silver · 2002-06-10 03:44 · Score: 2 · on Game Boy Advance RGB LCD Project

The Afterburner is a great product...as long as you are not the one to install it.

Lik Sang sell GBA's with Afterburner already installed for 109 USD (74.83 GBP). You can also find places who will fix it for about 35 GBP (probably about 50 USD).

Personally I'd look on EBay for an unused/unwanted GBA, buy one of them and then pay someone to install it. Since you're invalidating your warranty anyway, there's no real point to getting a brand new one - it'll also work out quite a bit cheaper.

Contents of Memos? by FrankDrebin · 2002-06-08 13:11 · Score: 1 · on Trek Prop Collecting

...a wonderful source of Star Trek history, but provide a unique, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the production details of each episode, and are absolutely fascinating reading!

All those memos, like this one, start at $150US a pop. Given these are originals, can the purchaser not publish their contents electronically? I for one would find it interesting, but certainly don't have the budget.

Any geeks out there with dot-com-bubble cash (Mark Cuban?) wanna snap these up an publish for the rest of us?

Sorry, I think you're off... by Coventry · 2002-06-08 13:01 · Score: 5, Insightful · on Open Source Limitations?

I agree with the idea that if money was poured into open source software development it would be closer to Microsoft's software (in ease of use) - but it wouldn't get there without something else:

A Clear, unified vision.

Microsoft performs usability studies... they invest a lot fo time figuring out what feature are needed, what can help people - Yes, many times what they make can be annoying (paperclip, anyone?) - but unless we had a unified (no competing projects like KDE and Gnome) set of projects, goals for those projects, and clear and definable end-user documentation and online help, we would not get to the level microsoft has made thier software to be.

Yes - microsoft software can be 'buggy' - but its developers are Good. Microsoft understands that they can make the most money by making software that is Good Enough - making the best, bug free software possible won't make as much money, since it will give users less of an incentive to upgrade and buy the next version. Yes, this strategy stinks - it reeks of marketing, but it works.

I have no doubt that if funded like microsoft, the OS community would develop amazing systems - probably much much closer to bug-free than micrsoft's - however, the end user still wouldn't have the unified ease-of-use of a microsoft (or apple) OS. That comes with a unified vision... and a unified vision needs... A Leader.

We have Linus, but he leads kernel development and champions OS development in general. there is no one, or even any single group of people, in the 'Captain's Chair', defining what the end user experience should be. Even Red Hat just provides a Distribution of the core OS, and lots and lots of other Open Source software that happen to run on it - with thier own install and config utilities, of course.

I guess this turned into a rant about leadership - I guess we know Microsoft is lead by profitering businessmen, but Linux (as a platform, not the kernel... which I guess should really be called GNU/LINUX ;P) doesn't have anyone defining where it should really go, or what the end-user should expect, let alone gets...

This lack of leadership wasn't by design - Linux was, as Linus will tell you, never expected to come as far as it did when he started it. We (the community) spontaneously sprang forth and Developed... and developed and developed...

But an analogy can be drawn to genetics here. Just as it took millions of years of evolution to produce a mouse, it only takes man (an intelligent outsider to the natural process fo evolution) years to effect enourmous changes to the gnome (and thus the phenotype) of Mice and other creatures. Couldn't nature, through random chance and lots of time, produce the same creations we can today from ordinary mice? Yes. Thus, The semi-random headless development community could produce amazing software meetings specific goals... if given enough time.

But just money won't do it... we either need the Money and Lots of Time, or we need the money and a very clear, defined direction...

More cool stuff, affordable by mere mortals by kindbud · 2002-06-08 06:28 · Score: 3, Informative · on Trek Prop Collecting