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Geek Gift Ideas 2001
Once again its time for Slashdot readers to chime in on what they think would make good gift geek christmas presents. Please put approximate prices in the Subject so Santa can more easily decide your gift ;) I'm still stuck for ideas for a few people yet. Of course I'll have to post my ideas anonymously so people don't know what they're getting ;)
I think the Apple iPod will totally kick ass this holiday season...
What else would I need?
"First you gotta do the truffle shuffle."
I want the Slashdot boardgame, with carry on tote for easy traveling.
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Tippmann 98 custom $135
CO2 tank - $25
Case O' Balls - $50
Face Mask - $20
Great fun and great exercise. Stay away from speedball and keep it in the woods.
Yep, I never spell check.
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1000 mp3s on your belt, in a tiny, light package that doubles as a firewire hard drive. What more could you want?
A new game console, plus a Star Wars related game... what else could a geek possibly want?
I just heard on the radio that Richard William Wheaton III (Wil Wheaton's full name) was found dead today at his home in LA. We will all remember his wonderful performances as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek:TNG and Gordie Lachance on Stand By Me. Wil has contributed much to society, and I'm sure he will be greatly missed by the readers of Slashdot.
CmdrTaco obviously got his gift early this year. It was a spelling and grammer checker.
A job
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I'm still stuck for ideas for a few people yet
Yep, think up some people to give pressies to first..
http://twitter.com/onion2k
1000 songs in my pocket (not just my hand) plus an external bootable firewire hardrive with an easy interface and a cool look. drool. Geek gadgets need to be more than one trick horses, and this one definetly has a lot of tricks (even Breakout!). Apple has replaced the limited, undependable floppy drive with the iPod. Brilliant!
Now if only my parents could scrape up the $399 to get me one, and I'd be set.
F-bacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
A girlfriend of course, all geeks want those !
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotele
1) Donate money to charity and give your friend the card saying you did it in his/her name. Charities other than the Red Cross, please, 9/11 has drained many "regular" charity coffers.
2) Help, recommendations, and hookups in finding a job.
3) Prayer.
Goat sex free since 2001
A sony playstation 2 with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.... FearLinux.com is running a very simalar question and poll...
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FearLinux.com
Great idea for those with limited desk space
www.gerberblades.com
better than a swiss army knife and a leatherman. you can even build your own.
JediLuke
-Do or Do Not, There is no Try
Compaq iPaq (hint hint)
more memory
fresh batteries
Jolt Cola IV drip
Think Geek gift certificate
Useless opinions, worthless observations, and more!
Or not.
The Independent: Reverend Spooner Arrested in Friar Tuck Incident - ISIHAC, Historical Headlines
A nicly wrapped box of Hot Grits! Complete it with a bow, and a card with Ms. Portman on the front.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
It's all about the classic sets and Mindstorms.
....a nice pair of wooly socks? They're always handy !
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My two front teeth...
My two front teeth...
Hey, don't blame me, that's the song. :-D
Most geeks could really use a trip to Prague, where the girls are very friendly!
They kick but http://www.despair.com
I think this will be the year that everyone get's digital cameras and mp3 players. Sure all the real geeks already have them, and probably most of the script kiddies too. But anyone who doesn't will have to catch up.
and maybe some cipro.
this year, i'd like to be surprised by wealth.
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PS2 grand tourismo edition all the way, baby.
xbox is doomed to failure
gamecube doesn't have any games
and check it out, you can actually find ps2s in stores this holiday!
"It's OK, my sheet's got a hole in it!"
I was over at FREE GEEK for their open house a couple weeks ago, and they were selling wind chimes made of old hard drive platters and other computer innards. Looked kinda cool for a low budget gift. Maybe they'll mail order. (And it's for a good cause.)
I just got done reading Black Hawk Down, true story of the Battle of Mogadishu during Operation Restore Hope. Best documentary you'll ever find on it, and a great read in general. But don't expect a happy story.
:) you know which ones I'm talking about. Or Linus' book. Or the Making of Microsoft (i enjoyed it).
And of course, any book with a mammal on the cover
Someone else has to have some good reads.
Blessed be he who reads this post, Cursed be he who tells my boss.
that was used to make that really neat christmas tree logo for the topic. Who's responsible for that one, it looks really nice!
I know it's offtopic, but it really threw me for a second, I thought maybe it was a new category (then I realized it's been 11 months since the category was last used.)
BTW, someone buy me a Soul AVC player. That thing rocks!
Black holes are where the Matrix raised SIGFPE
And without port 80 blocked.
Best Slashdot Co
$52 from http://www.Dockers.com.
:)
Just like they say.. "Stowaway seam pockets on each side designed for your Compaq iPaq Pocket PC or Motorola phone" - jeez
Would be useful nonetheless.
1 MB RAM, touchscreen doesn't work.
Don't think old and useless, think antique.
As a student, there's always a bunch of books I want/need but can't afford. Personally, my plan is to make a wish-list on amazon.com to point my family to.
You can find more information about this unit on Amazon. The first generation of this unit needed some help, but this one seems to have gotten the problems fixed.
Have fun: Join D.N.A. (National Dyslexics Association)
I want my shiny New Economy back!
I don't know what would be a good geek gift, but whatever it is imagine a beowolf cluster of them for sure!
...to replace my current 15-inch one.
Last post!
Since that is not going to happen, I'd really like a nice and shiny iBook (~$1500).
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
I'm still wating for the US release of the Sony PS2 Linux kit. I am also looking at cameras, both video and still, but Santa would never buy what I want (Nikon F100 for film and Nikon D1x for digital.) Any hackable hardware would be nice, and also lots of electronic componets on the lists of parts needed for my prodjects I am working on for hobbies. Tools would also be nice like a 110 punchdown tool or a cable tester.
Who wants Pork Chops?
I made it easy for my spouse MONTHS ago ... I just did some browsing on ThinkGeek, came up with over $1000 worth of stuff I wanted, and forwarded the list to her. She can now pick and choose, and eventually, that list will be empty. And I'll never have a problem with not liking a gift again! horrah for the net community!
A woman.
Preferrably a cute one.
The RealDoll. Never have to talk to a real girl again!
And, for you geekchicks out there, they now make a male realdoll!
Brant
Argle. Bargle.
Specifically the RapidFire 20, 30 bucks from thinkgeek.com
Listening for the sound of the coming rain...
I'm using a Sega Genesis, Santa! I bought it in 1989! Please send me a GameCube with Super Monkey Ball, Luigi's Mansion, and a football or baseball game! I've been good all year (I've been good since I got the Genesis in 1989, for goodness sake).
"Send an Instant Karma to me" - Yes
$159 at Amazon
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For kicking ass
The first time I read your post I thought you said: "all geeks want hoes." Which makes sense; when's the last time you saw a nerdy pimp? ;)
F-bacher
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
With InterAct's $150 LCD monitor and a GameBoy Advance! Having Rogue Leader on my honeymoon would be cool. :)
No more Jon Katz articles.
Thank you and have a Merry Christmas!
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"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
a porshe.
I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
Cash. Not digi-cash, cyber-dollars, or Paypal credits. Hard, fresh, cash.
However, my sister's kids are getting a Dreamcast with Samba de Amigo that I picked up several months ago. Really, it is more of a family gift (my mom loves that game), but I like to play the rich uncle who shamelessly spoils his niece and nephew (since their mother doesn't).
The middle mind speaks!
12. 36 gig SCSI drives
11. Mosix Nodes
10. Thousand dollars
9. Monitors
8. Cases of DVD-Rs
7. OC-3's
6. Cases of beer or caffinated beverage.
5. Golden fingers
4. Dual-Head Matrox g550s
3. Months of rent
2. Mylex raid controllers
1. Copy of Manos!
...is a console system which will play the current systems on the market. GameCube, PS2/PSX, XBox and Dreamcast. Though, it would be hard to read those GBA carts while spinning on the spindle.
My gift idea needs more thought, maybe.
Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different. -- Earl of Chesterfield
oh yeah, and world peace, and for Debian woody to go stable
~ a low user id is no indication I have a clue what I'm talking about.
I've always enjoyed brewing my own beer.
For under $100 you can get all the stuff you need to brew and bottle your own beer.
If they are the handy person type, gift cards for your local Home Depot, Loews, Menards, etc. are good.
Bookworms always like gift cards to Barnes-Noble, B. Dalton, Waldenbooks, etc.
Or Lego Mindstorms whan all else fails
Carpe Scrotum - The only way to deal with your competition.
..most ideas I've read here are rather strange.
The ultimate geek gift is a computer.
Always.
Ever.
All the time.
If a geek has 1 computer he can always use another one.
If a geek has n computers he can always use n+1 computers.
In fact, the necessary (but no sufficient) condition for being a geek is to have always use for another computer. If someone hasn't he isn't a geek.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
I'll take the boxed version of BlitzBasic. Very easy 2D and 3D game programming:
http://www.blitzbasic.com
I also want some Daily Feed archive CDs: http://www.dailyfeed.com
Thank you for thinking of me Taco.
I personally would really enjoy a high-powered high-tech remote control helicopter myself.
:) Maybe even a sensitive omni-directional mic?
Arm it with a video camera to not only spy on friends or surprise them when they are backing out of the driveway... But also to travel over long distances and see where you are going at the same time
Hook up the A/V and R/C to a high-power transmitter and sit in your equipment van in the park with the dish spinning.
I think it'd be a blast.
orgnine
What could be better than a brand new coffemaker (espresso, please)?
With all the hype of Xbox, Gamecube, and even remaining hype of PS2, people seem to forget that lonely Sega Dreamcast sitting on the bottom shelf for $80. It runs linux! It has an ethernet port! It's the ultimate geek hacking toy for Christmas. Info here.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
Usama Bin Laden's head on a pole
Get every Geek what he really wants: A CowboyNeal Picture of the day calandar! That way, they could look forward to each and every day of the year knowing that there is always someone with a more pathetic existance than they have!!! :)
Hard drives (more room is always welcome)
RAM (as is RAM)
Gamecube with smash bros and super monkey ball
A digital camera (Canon powershot G2?)
Gigabit router + gigabit ethernet cards (to make NFS faster)
Nice new set of computer speakers
A 24" monitor, or perhaps just another 21"
A nice old clickety IBM keyboard, cleaned (for people who don't want to spend much but can track things down)
One of those CD-MP3 players
plenty of blank CD-Rs
A new computer bag
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Inexpensive and wise.
Oh, yes.
30 discs of the Complete National Geographic from 1888 to 2000.
Every article, Every picture, and of course every Cool ass map
Lordbyron
www.wylywade.com
Great little computer game, runs on both windows and linux. Basically hacking as a video game. You take jobs, crack systems, destroy data, try not to get caught.
http://www.introversion.co.uk
Has a neat demo, if interested.
Why don't you ask your [put any family member here] a really NICE gift ? such as a TV, HI-FI or other stuff from the same kind ?
B&O has IMO the most perfect design in TV sets, and I really want one for x-mas !!!
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nico
Nico-Live
How about a job? I'll be happy with *any* job right about now!!
Sony Aibo - $1500
For the newer ERS-220
75 spoken commands -
wireless navigation
read email and websites (needs $150 addon SW)
If you can put up with the high price, fact that it WONT lick your face, WILL run out of battery power in a couple hours, and sony's practices of shutting down cool attempts at SW for making it better due to supposed copyright infringments... Its pretty cool.
"You never truly understand a thing until you can explain it to your grandmother" -Albert Einstein
All the Sluggy Freelance Books!!!
Is it not nifty??
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Best Stuff for geek who has, or wants, these systems:
Playstation 2: Metal Gear Solid 2
XBox: Dead or Alive 3 (High Kicks)
GameCube: Star Wars Rogue Leader
Dreamcast: European Shenmue 2 and an all-country disk (plus, you should probably get him another game system)
PC games are a toughie. I think the geekiest PC gift is a pre-purchased voucher for Neverwinter Nights.
That would be sweet
1. Some of those yellow food packets like the ones they are dropping on Afghanistan.
This thing is great. It runs bsd, linux, emulators for other systems, mp3 players, etc. Plus, it has great, cheap games. Retail it's $80, but it can be found for $40.
All I want is some job security... I'm lucky enough to still be employed, but for how long.....
-sigh-
Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away. -Rob Malda
How about one of these, as seen on slashdot?
--sean
Other ideas:
Diamond Rio CD/MP3 Player
Kodak Digital Camera (Probably windows only for now, but it will eventually get Linux support and they are CHEAP! 1.3 Megapixel=199!)
That's what I would like anyway besides the obvious game things like Xbox, PS/2 and Gamecube.
Gorkman
I have three must-haves on my list this year:
:)
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1. Boondock Saints DVD- One of the best movies of all time. Not available from most online DVD stores for some reason, but it is available.
2. Mr. Potato Head- I got a Rubik's cube 2 years ago, a Slinky last year, and this year I want a Mr. Potato Head. Christmas just isn't fun without something that takes you back to your childhood.
3. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Ringworld, and Narnia (Lion-With-Wardrobe, etc) book sets- I'm trying to read more non-technical books.
One thing over $30 that I want... a T1. I don't think Santa will be that nice, though.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. --Winston Churchill
Think Geek has RF Dealbolts. Basically, deadbolts for your home that have a remote control.
Digital picture frames are cool. The ones that plug into your computer via USB don't require a subscription. Kensington makes a good one (640x480) around $200. People ooh and ahh over it. (For the rich geek, get him 20 and let him make a collage over a wall. Sorry. That's more Martha Stewart than Slashdot.)
TiVo! If you haven't already joined the revolution, join it. You'll thank yourself. It will *completely* change the way in which you use your television. Oh, and for the better, too.
An 80's Arcade Game. One of those real-life 6' stand-up arcade games. Any self-respecting geek wouldn't snub his nose at one... well, unless it was a really bad title. "Oh, wow! Pit Fighter! I've always wanted one of THOSE."
Along with the idea of the RF deadbolts, various places sell mechanisms which are used for opening and closing outside gates ($800?). Would be awfully handy for the geek to fit that on a door. Bringing in the groceries or heavy electronics, having the door swing open on command (wireless or touch-pad) would be really handy. [Insert standard disclaimers about potential for misuse.]
X10 remote control stuff. 'Nuff said.
Satellite radio for car. If you've got a musical geek.
Roller Shoes. If they haven't gone out of style already. Like normal shoes, but at the flip of the button, wheels pop out from below and turn into roller skates. Yes, they make these.
Bawls is hard to find locally and expensive to ship. I want a lifetime supply for Christmas.
6.95/mo Subscription to Phil Hendrie's Live Audio Feed It's friggen hilarious.
I kept expecting you to say something like "Shooting some shmuck in the crotch... priceless."
Not sure if this is for someone you love or hate, but I recently picked up ($18 at Target) a Nemesis Factor puzzle. It's a little electronic puzzle game that will keep your vict^H^H^H^Hfriends busy for a long time. Kind of hard to explain but the puzzles involve everything from colors, sounds, words, numbers, lights, music, even the position you're holding the thing in! Some are easy, some are tricky, all are different. Up to four people can play with it at a time (it saves the status of up to 4 users as well as allowing a "guest" user) and keep separate scores.
Not a bad toy for under $20 (plus the cost of 3 AA's). Probably something for people 10+, definately not for someone who gets frustrated easily and will hurl the thing at a wall.
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A new violin would be a great gift... hmm, I suppose playing a musical instrument exposes me as a non-geek.
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
How about a girlfriend that doesn't complain when I get on the computer?
I would come back to the MAC side.
I want a 2Ghz PowerPC G5 Apple Macintosh in some inhuman o Gee modled glow in the dark organic case.
Hey if all you use is Adobe and Q3 why windows?
Give your geek what he/she/it really wants: Junk! Go around to reuse and recying centers and scoop up old 486 PCs, dot matrix printers, and mono-chrome monitors. The geek'll love it. This stuff's better than lego for hours of geek enjoyment. If you have an industrial liquidator outfit in your area, poke around and buy a few bags worth of unidentifiable electronic odds and ends. This will entertain both you and the geek as you watch to see what he/she/it will build next. The kind of junk I'm talking about here is things like transformers off of old TVs, insides of microwaves, starter coils, big ass capacitors and so on. The real mad scientist stuff.
I'll buy my Star Trek-loving girl friend property on the moon. She'll appreciate it.
Tolkien Calendar
Fellowship Movie Calendar (wall)
Fellowship Movie Calendar (desk)
Fellowship Movie Action Figures
Fellowship Movie Coffee Mugs
Fellowship Movie Companion Book
Gift membership to Fan Club, getting their names listed in the credits of the movie on DVD (60 bucks, I think?)
Not representing or approved by my company or anybody else.
I want an AIBO! I figure its going to cost the same amount of money to get a cool "real" dog (ie. Italian Mastiff,etc), why not get one that my lazy ass doesnt have to clean up after.
100% Insightful
Every once in a while I pull out a soldering iron and rediscover the fun of building widgetry from the ground up. Project books giving an introduction to electronics and a set of simple but neat building block circuits are still kicking around, and would be a useful addition to the pile as well.
I'll dig out my own pile of each someday. Geek appeal comes from trying to build things that most people would never think of (a working mechanical clock out of Construx was my biggest accomplishment with that medium).
This falls under the "intricate hobbies" category, and so has a good chance of being welcome. I know I'm not the only geek with folded paper critters gracing his cube (a dragon, a Pierson's Puppeteer, and a Federation starship - yes, it can be done!).
At $50-$100 Cdn apiece, one reference book costs as much as a large stack of sci-fi books. Help with getting new ones is always welcome, and I'm sure I'm not the only geek who likes documentation on the nifty tools I'm thinking about using (or am already using, for that matter).
There's no need to stick with hardware that will be obsolete in six months
Caveat with most of these - make sure your recipient is interested in them first. Yes, it ruins the surprise, but it's better than getting a bucketful of transistors when the sight of copper and lead make you cringe.
...gotta be one of these!
Saw it at the Denver Supercomputer Conference last week. You an either run six standard hi-res screens simulataneously, or anti-alias to 200 dpi resolution. Print quality images on the screen. Fabulous! About $18K.
This is my geek inventory:
iPod: $399
Canon s110 Digital Elph: $399
32 Meg USB Thumbdrive: $40
Nokia 8290 (or 8260): $99 (with activation)
eTrex GPS: $99
Of course, if you wait until January, ditch the Nokia for a Treo.
Kevin Fox
There is a company making software for iPod for Windows but you really need a Mac to experience the real power of this amazing MP3 player. So the best gift I think you can give this holiday season is an iBook w/ and iPod. Apple Flavored UNIX and Firewire Music, what a great gift!
P.S. Steve Jobs wants me to say, "Don't Steal Music!".
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Vintage D&D set (Player's Handbook, DM Guide), plus a set of crystal dice and lead figurines.
Anywhere from $1 to $200.
Wireless ethernet setup (base - $200, card $100)
Books ( old calculus texts from 1920's-1950's, science fiction pulp novels from 1950's, reproduction of daVinci's notebooks)
Anywhere from $1 to $1000.
Firearms (Remington 700VS Sendera in
Tickets to a movie (LOTR, Potter, no SW).$20.
Micro-fine pens, 10 pack. Zebra ballpoints. Micro-fine pencil set.
$5-$35.
Dremel kit ($45)
Radio Shack science kit ($25-$200)
Back Massage ($50-$100)
Telescope ($300)
Grin on my face on Christmas morning? Priceless.
but still want (a) Halo...
Mac OS X.1.1.X? version, of course.
If it is not on fire, it is a software problem.
Like crack, but digital. But so gooooood.
You do realize that they released these precisely to eat up my disposable income, right?
A dremel tool is great for case mods, toy mods, grinding things so they fit, as well as light drilling/polishing/making purty sparks.
Second place goes to a set of car speakers: the stock (usually paper) ones invariably suck, and they are in really bad shape after 2-3 years. Hit crutchfield.com for car-specific sizing specs. A whole new set of four for less than $200, and they will likely be enjoyed daily for years.
I think a trebuchet for Christmas would be fantastic! ~$100 USD. Ahh, the power to smite mine enemies from afar... what more could a geek ask for?
"Now gluttony and exploitation serves eight!" - TV's Frank
I'm on my third broadband provider this year,
because the other two have gone bankrupt.
Will there ever be stability?
One of the best gifts: the $99 DirecTIVO at Circuit City. Helluva good deal if you already have a DirecTV setup. (And even if you don't -- it's a penny more for a dish and free installation.)
Good way to get TIVO and a boatload of sat channels.
The back of the iPod is mirror like which allows the fiancé to check her lipstick and makeup.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
All I want for Christmas is gift cards. Why? Because I don't know what I want. I got a $50 gift card for the Gap last Christmas and finally used it last month. I got something like seven shirts all on sale with that one card (no corporate logos - i'm not wearing a company's logo unless they gave me the shirt for free). That way I'm not stuck with an item I don't want and can spend the money when I really need it. I don't need any electronic gadgets - I have too many as it is. I need to ebay some of this stuff I don't use. Simplify, man.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
Two highly geeky DVDs (amongst many) are:
The Matrix/Matrix Revisited Box Set
The Star Trek Box Set (Treks one thru nine)
And not quite as geeky, but with heavy Internet overtones:
Serial Experiments: Lain Box Set
I want the m-systems disk-on-key.
It's a flash memory stick on a keychain that has a USB plug on it. Plug it in an copy files to it. Works under Linux too.
there's the Black Adder DVD box set, available wherever (got mine at Media Play, looks like there's a discount on the included Amazon link)... full of quotable lines and sound bytes for the creative desktop near you.
I'd have a personalized plate on my car, but "toxic bachelor" won't fit into 7 letters.
a classic that you young bastards wouldn't remember.
Uhm... Those you want good transfer rates?!
Like 160MBs/sec burst transfer rates!
High speed SCSI is sweet...
I pased through the mall yesterday and saw many toy store pushing "robo-bugs". The gift for little boys, or shelf-filler on Dec 26?
Maybe /rob should give back some of the dough he garnered when he sold some of his 'gifted' shares of VA Larry, while his loyal 'followers' were buying IT at 100-300$ per. know?
SPAM!
Need Free Juniper/NetScreen Support? JuniperForum
so I'm quite keen on the bear with the nuclear bomb-making diagram on his chest. The jaunty red bowtie makes a nice counterpoint
Then again, I like the insults-by-venn-diagram t shirt mousemat
all here
http://www.cafepress.com/myrtle
Eleven Science Vessels
Ten Ultralisks
Nine Battlecruisers
Eight Archons Burning
Seven Zerglings Swarming
Six Zealots Fighting
Five Newborn Queens!
Four Hydralisks
Three Marines
Two Terran Wraiths
And a brand new SCV!
Get it here.
Got Apathy?
Anyone who wants to use 12 drives on one (dual channel) controller card, and still get decent throughput.
80 IDE drives means 80 channels of IDE - or 40 channels of IDE and only 40 drives working at a time...
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I want a blimp! a remote controlled Blimp!!!!!
see www.plantraco.com for the grrrrreeeeeaaaaaaaaatttttttttttt blimp !!!
Best of all, (and unlike the Rio Volt SP250), it has a quite usable UI that lets you search your disks for MP3's by Artist, Title, Genre and so on. (On the other hand, the Rio has an FM tuner, and plays WMA files too). The UI is what sold me on this unit, it really is the make-or-break.
$128 at buy.com
I think that Apple is counting on a nice holiday season to bolster sales of the iPod. It's a shame that it isn't a little cheaper but I think the true geeks out there will get one regardless.
I wouldn't mind a Pan-Tilt-Zoom Internet camera either!
Dear Santa,
What I would like:
Karma {sigh}
Also:
Some caffinated mints or beverages
and a couple of cool ThinkGeek t-shirts.
If you've never been modded as "flamebait" or "troll," you've never tried to argue a minority viewpoint here!
Nothin but trouble....get a bootie call.
Osama bin Laden's nuts on a stick planted at ground zero!
~price = $25,000,000
I would like for my website FearLinux.com to get slashdotted.
--
FearLinux.com
1,000 songs, a removeable hard drive, FireWire... What's not to like, right? Sure it's a little pricey as some say, but think about what you're getting for it. You can use it for digital photos, MP3s, or anything else. It also makes a nice portable drive for laptops!
Or, you could spend $70 more and get an iPod and a casset adaptor for the headphone port. More storage and longer battery life.
Come on guys, Christmas is the time for giving ;-)!
>> 6. Cases of beer or caffinated beverage
WHOA! An invention for Christmas...
Caffinated Beer! - its what every geek knows they don't know they want!
Who's with me on this?
For the BSD sysadmin in your life, get 'em a BSD Daemon statuette:
http://www.linuxjewellery.com/catalogue.php/bsd/
Some money from the sales also goes towards FreeBSD development, too, which they ought to appreciate!
Dear Santa,
Please bring me the head of Sanford Wallace.
Thank you,
Timmy
A unique pointer, but it costs ~ $ 310h tm l
http://store.yahoo.com/deharpport/greenbeam3mw.
These have a wave length of 532 nm instead of 635 nm for the usual read pointers. They are much more powerful. Moreover, the green light is closer to the wave length perfect for the human eye to see!
Star Wars Clones proviews have the Princess in a white military getup, resembling her daughter Leah. I guess she must kick-butt in this episode.
how about the Archos Jukebox Studio 20 MP3 Player? its only 329 and would make a great stocking stuffer
For those who cannot get some this year because ma and pa are in the next room :)
Reelect Gore in 2004
Hand carved stone, stone board, etc.
Except all my music is currently encoded in .ogg. Has someone got it working with Linux yet?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
12. Thousand dollars
11. Months of rent
And then keep going to #1 in order of decreasing monetary value, so as to maximize profits when I sell some of the stuff off.
The coolest voice ever.
Anyone who wants to use a protocall that doesn't suck ass. As well as allow more than 1 drive per buss to work at a time, because god knows that Zip Drive is usein up all the bandwith.
I'm a fan of intricate hobbies myself. One book that's on my wishlist is Polyhedron Models by Magnus J. Wenninger. It contains instructions for making all sorts of incredibly cool models of complex polyhedra
What geek wouldn't want one. BTW, I think you can make one out of just about anything ;-)
Who is the master of foxhounds, and who says the hunt has begun? -Pink Floyd
Oh well...
How about some of the new HP, Compaq, or Toshiba Pocket PC's as stocking stuffers.
Copies of Windows XP under the tree for every adult.
and of course, an XBox for each kid and me.
For next year, a Tablet PC would be nice.
How about a little bit of astroturf too?
this is not a sig
I would like my DSL paid up for the whole year, or an iPod to go along with my Apple rigs
NOBODY mentioned a video card. I thought sure there would be someone who wanted a 3d accellerator, even if it is a second-class Geforce.
A Radeon 8500 costs about $190, and the geforce 2 pro is pretty appealing at $90, these things will outdo any xbox, and overall less cost, assuming you have a system.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
That's right, in the spirit of the genius who wore the same style of suit every day, we are offering 7 shirts! Yep, that is one for every day of the week! You will never again have to waste your precious thoughts on that annoying question "What should I wear today!"
How about a HacKer Hat or other super cool propellor beanies?
How about this Christmas tree Hack? :-) A blatant attempt to start a new Christmas tradition based on our merchandise... 20 of our great buttons and a propellor beanie... Christmas tree not included!
For Sci Fi Geeks, try our some posters of Arthur C. Clarke conversing with the ghosts of Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, or the button set.
and in the bargain bin, heh, there's the Slashdot Gladiator t-shirt!
cue up announcer voice... that's right folks, at the Geek Culture Webstore!
A LIFE!
And what do you get a wookie for Christmas when he already has a comb?
"Information wants to be paid"
Nikon CP5000
Sony NetMD MZ1 Minidisc player
Suunto Observer (titanium of course)
ahh its good to dream
Gad, that's the scariest thing I've seen in a long time...
Far Side Off the Wall 2002. Always a good staple gift. And it gives a person some places to write notes that will be subsequently lost.
Brant
Argle. Bargle.
- A Vacation
- More caffiene
- A Suntan
- Lose 20 pounds
- No more hand cramps
- A raise
- No more eye strain
- An empty bug list
- A caffeine detox center.
Damn, I just realized I am a developer.But ultimately, I'm just glad I still have my job.
So far, the Nomad is a great MP3 player. I only have the 6G model, so I can't take many CDs with me (only about a hundred), but it's my favorite 100, so that's okay.
The Archos 20G looks nice in theory, but I purchased one, and it didn't work. I2C error while booting. I figure it's probably a loose wire, but didn't want to void the warranty opening it up.
So I purchased another, and it worked great. The sound was kinda muddy, even with good headphones, but I figured I could live with that. Then, I discovered that pressing one button (one important for navigation), the entire thing shut down. A little creative troubleshooting indicated that one entire area near the faulty button had a "soft spot," that, when pressed, caused a short, shutting the entire machine down. Then, it started shutting down spontaneously. After a while, it wouldn't even run.
All this was within one day.
So, I believe the Creative Nomad is a far superior product, even if it looks lame. It has great sound, as well. I figured the EAX processing was a gimmick, but it's really kinda cool. Yeah, the environmental processors are kinda cheesy (who the hell wants to listen to Gus in a cave?), but the concept is neat.
All-in-all, I say the Nomad is a great choice.
On the other hand, a cool case wouldn't be bad, either.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
I think a fun gift would be a book of all the posts from the Slashdot Trolls. I hate to say it but sometimes, I only read Slashdot for the Trolls. Some of their posts are just so freaking funny!!!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
I mean real normal.
I'd like to not pass by "Ground Zero" and feel an instant of depression, I want cnn to stop showing only things about this war. I'm tired of wondering where anthrax will strike next..
I want to be employed again and be able to buy my brother (+ sis in law) that DVD player I promised. Not like he twisted my arm about it, I offered since I know he'd like it. I'd like to buy myself a beer after playing v-ball like I used to all the time.
I'd like for the economy to be in a good state. Is it being inflated right now? Maybe it is. I'd like the economy to be in the state it was last year, without all the hype and silly IPO's.
I want peace for the World... and Peace of mind.
-
ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
What I want is open source non-linear video editing software like Broadcast 2000... Shame it's no longer available.
What??? No thinkgeek plug?
Must be introducing more inventory into thinkgeek. They need to decide what to sell, so they are writing this article so they can stock up.
And you all are taking the bait!
And, taco, you think we can wait until -after- thanksgiving to talk about christmas? Geeeeez...
Although I've only won a free baseball cap and a copy of Office 2000 (Premium, no less) It's been quite a while since the "giving away free stuff" gods have visited me.
The one big issue is that the programming environment is set up to run under DOS/Windows. I'm guessing Wine may be able to run it, but I've never tried. If you can get over your distaste for DOS/Windows (let's face it: most of us have at least one dual boot machine anyway), I can not recommend BASIC Stamps highly enough. They're true geek toys without being childish.
Come on, you know you wanna get some...
Let's hope for a speedy conclusion in Afghanistan too, and a little more "world peace" wouldn't hurt, either.
Me: C'mon baby, who loves ya?
Her: I dunno... I'm not in the mood...
[click - fire comes on]
Her: Ooooohhhh....
Mr. Ska
- An "appliance I can't do without"
- An algorithm loved by all
- Goes great with steak
- A favorite display device of many
What is this wonderous gift of all gifts?!? Why CowbowNeal, of course! Get 'em while they're hot!IWARS.
People, in general, disappoint me. Politicians even more so.
Last year I asked for, and received, the coolest gift I ever got in my 25 years.
1000 blank white index cards
There has been enough infighting.
Please bring cohesion amongst linux development
projects.
1. A unified linux distribution
2. A open source windowing library w/ an X emulation layer (die X die)
3. A POSIX like adoption of a modern system call interface (mach + newer stuff)
4. Paring down stuff included in a linux distribution to a minimal amount (drop sed and other outdated utilities)
Dude, if you even tried anything on that date Mrs Torvalds would kick your ass. So be careful! No footsie, no handholding, no gazing into his eyes.
Best Slashdot Co
Once you use the logitech optical wireless mouse, you won't ever want to go back using another mouse. Price is 65 dolls on thinkgeek but you can find cheaper.
Also don't forget a battery charger and another set of batteries as this mouse eats them FAST.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russel
A Terapin Video CD Recorder, $499 is a bit steep, but less than $1499 for the Video DvD Recorder. Works just like a VCR, except you use a CDR disc instead of a tape. It burns the disc as a standard VCD so it is also playable on most DvD players and Computers.
"Our products just aren't engineered for security,"
-Brian Valentine,VP in charge of MS Windows Development
Jeff
Get one on the cheap at www.trackerpod.com!
"If you are on fire you can just stop, drop, and roll. If you fall into Lava you are just dead." - my 5yr old daughter
cold hard cash to piss away at macworld
geek on
there's more than one way to do me.
Pretty sure it would make me a hero... on the cheap!
If you really want to run servers, and you need a static IP address, you may want to look into seeing what ISPs in your area charge for business class, if they offer it at all.
/27 (2^5 = 32 addresses), and have no port restrictions.
Yes, I'm only getting 192 SDSL, for the same price that other folks are getting higher download speeds, but they'll handle my DNS, give me up to a
My roommates would probably prefer faster download speeds, but the static IP address means that I can open up my box at work to our firewall, so that I can do work from home.
Obviously, if you throw enough money at a problem, it'll go away, but well, sometimes dropping the max speed for a little convenience, while still saving cash is worth it.
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
Is peace on earth and good will to men.
Oh and Osama Bin Ladens head on a pike.
The difference between Canada and the USA is that in Canada healthcare is a right and gun ownership is a privilege.
I am buying cheap laptops with CDROM players. I am turning them in MP3 jukeboxes...
You can get old Pentium laptop for very cheap these days. I bought 5 for less than than $200
Black holes occur when God divides by zero.
anyone who wants to use commercial quality hardware instead of low-quality consumer grade stuff..
you dont see real servers without SCSI
Only problem I had was that I folded the thank you note in the "baby in a cradle" pattern to commemerate my "new time wasting project" (the origami). She mistook it and thought my wife and I were expecting...
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Grand Theft Auto 3... it may not be a geek game but where else can you steal cars, kill innocent people, run from the cops, put out fires, give people ambulance rides, kill criminals, kill gang bosses, listen to the GTA3 radio, beat up prostitutes, be a taxi driver, and drive boats all in the same game?
Hours and hours of fun, if you ask me...
A baseball bat, a 20,000 volt power supply, and osama bin laden asleep and/or tied down
Brrrrrr! You said it! On a cold winter morning, I'd bet that the lump of coal will burn a lot longer than that worthless stock certificate.
A cheap quartz clock, some hands and a failed
CD-R makes a beautiful (geekish) wall clock.
Either assable it your self to make it a home-made
gift or give it as a kit.
(Personally I have a purple DVD-R on the wall with golden hands...)
Think! It is not illegal yet.
(y'all already know the tune -- think "7th inning")
It's time to buy some Congressmen,
Not just a few but a crowd:
Spare us the iPods and Gamecubes and crap,
We need to know how to stop a bum rap;
Cause it's vote, vote vote down the bad laws,
They'll vote with whoever will pay --
Only one, two, three bribes will do,
In the Congressional game!
MOO;IANAL.
There used to be a picture linked here.
If you haven't found them the last two years I've made this post, you're missing out. Several small time game companies make cheap games often with a delightfully geeky bent:
A self-modifying card game where the rules of the game are the cards played.
No, not the beer. A Unquestionably cool set of plastic pyramids suitable for playing a variety of games, and designing of your own games.
Imagine real-time (as opposed to turn based) blackjack on speed.
All of these games are perfect for sitting in restraunts waiting for food, or other such awkward time slots that normally get wasted.
Erskin
geek.
X-10 based home automation stuff, of course not from x-10.com, their ads are far too annoying (not that I've seen one since I installed junkbuster, but I still remember). Maybe from another source.
An iPod would be nice, but too expensive, and while my MP3 player only holds 64 MB, that's enough for now.
I'm considering a Playstation 2, if the price drops. Why not an X-box?
Another idea -- maybe I'll buy myself an Apple iBook. I'll be able to choose either OS X or Linux. Not too overpriced, and cool looking...
Of course there's always Lego Mindstorms, or just plain Lego. Some of that advanced "Technics" stuff is pretty cool.
I also want a DVD player, though if I get a PS/2 that might do for a while. I've also thought about getting a surround sound system...
Disposable income is nice.
Basically, nursery rhymes for geeks. With math and science and all that.
It's on my husband's list and he's an ubergeek so it must be good.
or sister.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Nothing worse than when non-geeks buy geeks presents.
"Gee thanks! A new mouse! ummmm yeah it's great...it's got a ball on the bottom. How quaint."
Someone I think has already tried to get the iPod working with Linux, with limited success. While it wasn't completely clear, it seemed to be more a Linux (FireWire) problem than an iPod problem.
One can hope, though!
If things go as they have in the past, watch for an iPod clone within months that has twice as much storage, many more features, and costs half as much.
Available here, it's the perfect adjunct to The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving. Considering the economic climate, esp. for tech workers, this video could be the key to a Christmas dinner with presents for all the family this year.
(it's funny. laugh.)
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
preferabley purple and on a stick
--
Burt "Out of my mind back in 5 minutes"
I want LEGO MINDSTORMS RIS 2.0!!!!
I found a cool site which found some nice gifts for my girlfriend. Beware, it's German.
http://www.xmasagent.com
the Delux DVD player?2 06 &mode=flat
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/29/098
For the geek who has everything, a bottle of ... nothing. Zero volume, to be precise. Get yours at Acme Klein Bottle. Geek klein trivia: this company is owned and run by author Clifford Stoll.
I just want an entire keg of Guiness, and a keg-er-ator that can hold it!
Not only do you reap cultural value for your investment, but etoy also pays tangible dividends. Like the etoy.AGENT-PACKAGE (30 shares). But for the truely paranoied geek, the etoy.PROTECTION-PACKAGE (100 shares), which includes a personal data locker on Sealand , comes in mighty handy.
Remember, nobody invests to lose money...
ich bin der musikant
mit taschenrechner in der hand
kraftwerk
Personally i'm looking for some caffinated egg nog. Perfect for some hardcore yuletide coding!
:-)
- Gotta get that automated defence network online before Santa gets here. Now where did i put that anti-aircraft missle
"We deal in lead" - Roland of Gilead
Lots of models to choose from but I've liked the Wilderness Systems ones that I've paddled. How about a Cape Horn 17 Pro in Kevlar, only $3095! But if my wife is reading this, I'll settle for on in rotomolded plastic...
"Love is a familiar; Love is a devil: there is no evil angel but Love." --William Shakespeare ('Love's Labors Lost')
...and saw the Samsung booth:
I think you can agree, the 241MP and 211MP displays (24" and 21" respectively) would be excellent gifts for the geek who has everything.
Granted, either will set you back over $4000 (the 24" more so, of course).
But they've got some great features:
HDTV ready, optional TV tuner, remote control, Picture in Picture, and more.
They're beautiful displays, and the only drawback is that they only seem to come with Analog (VGA) in and not DVI like some of the other (240T/210T) displays.
Here's the smaller 17" version, it doesn't look like Samsung has the larger versions on their website yet:
171MP @ SamsungMonitor.com
Or, you could spend even more and get a nice 40" (or even 63") LCD HDTV...
nice rant, you nailed it, completly. i've been a traffic whore, karam whore and pretty much in every way you said. google mirroring, linux boosting, etc..
this should be mirrored, mirrored or trolled repativly so that people can see it
Just about everyone out there knows how hard and strenuous(on the wallet mainly =]) shopping for a geek can be. We all seem to have a fascination with hi-tech gadgits and such, but why does it have to be that? For girlfriends/boyfriends/wives/husbands why not start off by cooking a dinner or something. Making a day special is a gift all in itself. And maybe a nice little gadget or 3 =] but it doesnt need to be based on that. How about things the he or she might need. and then add a bonus with something that will make them drool. If your looking past that and your ONLY talking about things you can wrap why not take a look at some of the newer hardware out there. It might be more cost effective to go with that instead of a 400 dollar gadget, not only that but youll still have money to spend on other things if you find that perfect gift at the last minute, you wont be grabbing at your hair screaming "Why oh why did i spend so much!" That is unless your only shopping for one.
every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people every year trying to find it.
I think steve martin said it best, when he said this
Fun little BEAM robot, relatively cheap for a robot kit. High geek-factor.
I'd be much more impressed if someone gave me one of those little robots that you hooked up to your computer, and controlled via. LOGO.
[okay...I played with LOGO for much too long... I harrassed my instructor until he told me how to pass variables between functions]
Logo Robotics
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
...the gift of the English language. Take time out from your day and teach a poor, semiliterate computer nerd how to spell. Make space in your day to instruct him on the difference between "loose" and "lose". Get him a Concise Oxford English Dictionary.
The editorial staff of Slashdot certainly could use this gift, from what I've seen.
hyacinthus.
Someone port Linux and XFree to the X-box...
it makes sense that apple do a cut down version for windows so it would prevent things like this going on
plus when you install it the quicktime plugin would be installed and set itself up to default for everything just like the way windows media player installs on mac and makes itself the default for every format !
plus you could proberly charge for an iTunes for windows while give the mac version away for free
makes sense to me
regards
john jones
Would be best said like Mastercard.... (Come on, you all know it was coming sooner or later)
Shotgun ~$500
Converter to transport you to a movie ~$1 billion
Shooting that damn Jar Jar and watching him die - priceless.
%blow
%blow: No such job
^how did the sex change go?
Modifier failed
The ONLY thing thing the iPod does better is transfer music faster. Period.
This is cheaper, has more capacity...
http://ssiamerica.com/products/neojukebox/
A nice and simple 8 or 6 inch Dobsonian telescope and the necessary accessories.
Meade and Celestron make acceptable models, but Stargazer Steve's 6" scope is probably the best value.
Make sure they have some decent eyepieces (Plossls or better) and then they can be cruising the heavens in short order.
..something useful?
i'm sorry but i know other people who drool over the iPod, i just find it totally useless. when exactly am i going to need this little device?
i have a book of CDs i carry around, it has 98 cds in it.. at an average of at least 10 songs per CD that's nearly 1k songs with superior audio quality.
granted it can't sit on my hip, but really, i'm not that concerned. it sits in my car or on my desk most of the time.
i suppose if you are a student with no car, who walks and/or rides the bus a lot it might be useful but for most IT-geeks i don't think it's useful.. we have high bandwidth connections at home and work, it really wouldn't take much longer to just d/l the mp3s you want vs. copying them back and forth over the iPod.
...dave
Think different? I'd be happy if most people would just think...
Chocolate covered expresso beans, Jelly Bellys and some chocolate licorice.
Oh, and as long as you're going out, a Toshiba 3000-S304 (with 512MB) with RedHat 7.2, nicely tweaked. No need to be greedy.
Can You Say Linux? I Knew That You Could.
Skip the commercial crap altogether -- exchange gift exemption vouchers and do something relaxing on Buy Nothing Day.
A digital SLR camera would be nice but not likely. Blowing a couple $K on a digital camera would be good and geeky and I know I would actually use it, but without any return on the investment, it would be difficult to justify.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
Think Geek has Neon Light Strips that would bring out the best in any gamer. I believe they come in Blue and Green and are around $50 USD. They are formable and use very little power and they can plug right in to your power supply! Very Kewl!
"I think you know what I'm talkin' about, Mr. President; We're gonna kill us a mummy!" - Bruce Campbell as Elvis Presley
Useful as a doorstop, paperweight, etc.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Even though I don't work for them, I feel compelled to tell you all that ANYTHING from American Science & Surplus is an excellent stocking stuffer. I've been buying off-the-wall presents from them for years. Models of robots, magnets, goofy pieces of plastic and odd parts from electric gadgets.
Geeks that like to have lots of odd shit around that they might someday hook together to make something that blinks or hums will have a great time with anything from these guys.
Plus it's surplus, so the stuff is practically free! Cheaper than an iPod, certainly.
A Transmission From PlanetJIM.[end trans]
Apple offers the educational discount for people that either work in almost any school (K-12 or higher) or attend college. Check out the Apple Store @ http://store.apple.com then click Education @ the top for the details.
As well as various other Cray-X bits and pieces. Get 'me while their hot (well, cooled in Fluorinert, anyway) at Memorybillia.
"We had my Aunt Val's memorial service yesterday..."
55" HDTV = $2500
DSS Satelite = $50
Progressive Scan DVD Player = $250
Bose 5.1 Sourround = $800
Watching a cheap porn through STATE-OF-THE-ART equipment: PRICELESS
One of those from the runway that you see out of the plane... I've always wanted one of those.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Especially since GameCube supports OpenGL whereas the PS2 and XBox are both proprietary interfaces (yes, Direct3D is proprietary to Microsoft).
Tiny, little flake, actually. These are being sold by a NASA worker who took home a bunch of discarded tiles early in the shuttle program (before it became illegal to do so, as it is now) to insulate his fireplace. Get yours at The Space Store.
Lian Li Aluminum Mid Tower ATX Case. Nuff Said.
"We're all mad here." --Cheshire Cat
How could anybody want anything other than The Complete James Bond Collection on DVD??
PRICE: £254.99
Peace of mind.
(no, I spelled it that way on purpose)
The ultimate laptop. Wireless, Widescreen, gigabit ethernet port. Runs Mac OS X (and Linux).
Man I wish I had one of them.
-> Capt Cosmic <-
I just checked out your site hoping that you'd have a few pictures of the covers, maybe some scans from interesting pages. No such luck :(. I'm very interested in how the notation has changed from Newton/Leibniz onwards.
Heelys http://www.heelys.com/ allow you to transition from walking to skating without bending over to pop out our wheels.
I want to be first on my block to have one.
That's all.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
With this
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
Just sit on the flat bed scanner/color copier.
Beware the perilous crevASSe.
At its heart lurks a hideous beast.
Depending on age you may see more/less "rivers."
Dirt doesn't need luck.
A great gift for youngsters and oldsters alike.
The Harvard Classics. You can find them on eBay every now and then.
Next year, you can give them the Shelf of Fiction (scroll to the bottom).
The huge variation in price depends on how you acquire the lot. You can buy book-by-book in flea markets (making a charming shelf of odd-sized and colored books), or all in a lot, if you by a collection (making an impressive shelf, appropriate for a lawyer's TV commercial).
This is also a good gift for those who don't get much out of school: if you read through the entire shelf, you've basically acquired a liberal-arts education.
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
I look at it this way: Accepting Jesus as your personal savior in excange for enterance into Heaven would be a sweet deal. There's no risk. You don't actually have to DO anything (insert bible passage about good acts and heaven) and the reward, although not guaranteed, far outweighs the value of what you must do to get it. BUT you can't MAKE someone believe. I've read every religious text ever written (nearly) trying to find one that made sense. None of them did (the closest one was Taoism). I could possibly fool other people, and maybe myself, into thinking that I believed in God, but when it comes down to it, God wouldn't believe me....and that's where it counts....so what's the point?
My cubemate got me a 2002 Easy Origami Daily Boxed Calendar. It's printed on origami paper and every day gives you a different origami to fold (you're supposed to use yesteray's paper to fold today's project, but I might just buy a separate supply of paper - not sure yet). It gives you exactly what you want from a daily calendar - a minute of fun to kick start your morning without derailing the rest of the day.
Only problem I had was that I folded the thank you note in the "baby in a cradle" pattern to commemerate my "new time wasting project" (the origami). She mistook it and thought my wife and I were expecting...
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Follow the arcade link from my home page.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
which has been discussed on /. before, more info at http://broch.subnet.dk/projector/start.htm
"Science will win because it works." - Stephen Hawking
I have speakeasy's /sdsl/root/pro which gives 768k sdsl and 4 ip addresses. It's a little pricely(almost $170/month with taxes), but if the the upstream isn't that important to you, you can save about half or more.
You mean those come in combo packs? ;-)
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
For those of you who are Seinfeld fans out there, you can always appreciate a nice gift in your name to the Human Fund.
Fesitvus for the rest of us!
I gotta have more cowbell.
Beer Can Crushing Monster. 1/6 scale, 112 lbs of German Tiger Tank. $3250, but with add-ons that you would obviously want... $4000. Pant...Pant... Add on a .50 Cal single-shot and a wireless camera on this baby, and you can have good fun that is funny without the Cat in the Hat (or the doll from realdolls.com)
1/6 Scale Remote Controlled Tiger Tank
Yep, that's what I want....
How about a t-shirt with a picture of an all-powerful attack-penguin on it? Come on, you know you want one.
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Free P2P Backup, Windows & Linux
I want my HDTV.
The Raspberry seems like it can do a helluva lot more than just play MP3s.. Now *THAT*s the ultimate geek toy.
for 20$ more info at http://www.kensington.com/products/pro_cas_d1334.h tml
"Science will win because it works." - Stephen Hawking
That's okay, though... my old job sucked ass, and my fiance has a good staff position at a local university, makes enough to cover bills...
So I get free tuition! I may just stop working, and do a masters degree or two... eastern philosophy, anyone?
Besides, it's a welcome break from the crap IT work that is commonly available now.
Of course, I could always sell my soul and settle for an MCSE...
When I grow up, I want to have Christopher Walken hair.
My wife has become quite the geekess. Last month she decided the ethernet cable in her laptop bag was the wrong size, so she got out our spool of Cat5e and crimped a new one. Damn, I love her.
Anyways, she's tired of carrying her phone and her Palm and her pager. So we found the Treo, SmartPhone, and I300. Anyone have hands-on tales about them?
Do any of them really work as well as the separate components do? I've heard some of them are like a complete Palm with a crappy phone strapped on, while others are a decent phone with a weak PDA wedged inside. And do any of them have good synergy across the features?
imbeciles. if you don't get enough exercise in your daily activities you need a better hobby.
...dave
Think different? I'd be happy if most people would just think...
Yes, it's a PDA, but it a PDA with that wonderful extended range in the IR department so you can go over to your friend's house and goof around with his AV setup and say, "What's wrong with your system, man?"
It's also in COLOR. It's also available only in Japan right now. 16-bit color at 320x320 running PalmOS 4.1. 40,000 Yen ~= $325, so it's not even that crazy of a gift. Read more about it here.
Where the wind blows, the tumbleweed goes.
Books are great gifts, especially those that aren't related to computers. Unplug your mind for a bit and read some nice sci-fi or mythical fantasy, and let your imagination wander.
:-)
Relax your brain!
... is a little karma ;)
http://www.cyic.com/pendrive.htm
(us english people can get them through innovations.co.uk)
andy
who had a QDrive until it fell out of his pocket. didn't work under Linux anyway...
Some way to keep Zeus from screwing our women!
oh wait, thats Greek gifts.
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We ended up going with Peak To Peak DSL -- their service and prices are good (in the Colorado Front Range area). In the Bay Area, I'd recommend CLIQ internet service -- they offer high powered "geek-friendly" DSL.
Don't get me wrong, Speakeasy are good -- but I think they shot themselves in the foot by getting rid of their intermediate-level uplink speeds.
Be sure to check out the low cost alternative to the recently announced iPod, known as the "iPod LC." :-D
;)
I want:
iBook
iPod
Gamecube
Gameboy Advance
Games and Music
Ice Cream
http://pixelcort.com/
If Apple had really wanted to sell iPods, they would have made it for PC first, and then made a Mac version much later.
I'd really like some slippers.
100ft (or thereabouts) radio antenna for my wireless accesspoint, with appropriate power to allow me to connect from anywhere in the greater metropolitan area.
Cost? Who cares?! It would rule!
You should go for an iMac ...
I currently commute between NJ and CA. I had been carrying a CD player and ~ 20 CDs.
I now carry an iPod.
The differences are quite noticable. Size does matter. And I love the larger selection. I admit it, I'm lazy and didn't swap out the CDs often enough and found myself listening to the same things over and over.
And as other posters have noted, it is perfect for walking, running, biking, and the like.
It is also perfect for waiting rooms in doctors offices, train stations, airports, etc.
It is a comparable change from my first to second cellphones. My first cellphone was a Motorola Digital Personal Communicator my current is a StarTac. While both are hand helds and both can fit into a pocket only the StarTac leaves room in the pocket for other stuff. I used to leave my cellphone in my car or in my briefcase. Now I carry the cellphone everywhere (some might argue that this is not an improvement :-).
Both the CD player and iPod are portable. But the size of the iPod makes carrying music much more convient. And as with the phone, I find myself carrying my iPod with me most of the time.
Steve M
1.-a wall of 61" plasma displays (at least US$20.000 each)
:)
2.- All Farscape DVDs (at Amazon NTSC or Blackstar UK PAL) (US$ 20 each)
3.- A 500GB Ultra2 SCSI array of solid-state drives with the proper Ultra2 controller
(no idea about the cost, probably US$500.000)
4.- An ever available sex partner (whatever your preference no matter how kinky >:]) (priceless)
Check http://www.thinkblank.com/santa/ for automatic presents! Join and give joy to the world! Your amazon wishlist will be bought for you by complete strangers.
The family has decided on ornaments. Basically, each of us buys a Christmas tree ornament and they all go into a pool. Then we each take one. The money we'd otherwise spend is going to charity.
Well, I guess that's cool and all, but it's really not very exciting. So this morning I set my brother up with infinite email addresses. anything@the.virtual.domain.i.created.for.him gets forwarded to his regular address. Merry Christmas, bro!
I like to play children's songs in minor keys.
"We're all sons of bitches now." --J. Robert Oppenheimer
Or a stuffed bun-bun doll, for the discerning geek.
# (/.);;
- : float -> float -> float =
What every computer geek needs... or just to help stay awake waiting for Santa.
A nice assortment of coffees.. maybe a new mug... penguin mints, caffeine pills.
I had DSL from verizon with a fixed IP at the regular price (I signed up early). Port 80 was unblocked...
Then my linux server was attacked, by code-red. The server survived but port 80 hasn't come back yet....
Here's my list:
Visor accessories - modem, Ethernet, camera, etc.
Memory sticks - better than a sweater and cheap.
Swiss Army Cyber Tool - handy.
Starbucks Gift Certificates - Geek=Hardware+Coffee
iPod - big MP3 storage and it's bootable too!
GameCube - Maybe it's time to upgrade my Sega.
Docker Mobile Pants - lots-o-pockets.
A boxed Linux distro - manuals...yeah.
DiskOnKey - cute little floppy alternative.
MST3K DVDs - push the button Frank.
Backpack notebook carrier - better than my uglybag
And don't forget a bottle of Cipro as a stocking stuffer!
Added a Firewire card to my work PC. One 6-pin to 6-pin cable and a copy of MacDrive 2000 later, and the drive mounts right up with no additional effort on my part. It even charges, too! Go into View options and show all hidden files and you can see where the MP3's are stored. The annoying thing is that your collection gets spread over dozens of folder with no rhyme or reason for the organization, but they're all there.
A pair of shorty headers and a pair of 3" stainless steel exhaust pipes.
For my birthday I got a disc brake upgrade. Maybe for my next birthday it'll be an engine rebuild kit with a tricked out cam and time to put the Vortec heads on my car. In fact, I have the next few years booked with requests and none of it is computer stuff.
Of course, that's because I test stuff for work at home and it's usually much better than I could afford anyway.
But I really do hope you were trying to make a joke.
~ now you know
If you really wanted a geek paintball gun, why go with a tipmann. Buy an electric one. You don't have to spend all the money you would have on previous electric guns. The Angel used to run people almost $2000, but you can get lower priced, and almost as good electric guns for as low as $200. The Intimidator is probably one of the better electric guns, especially for it's price.
I had an idea a while ago for a permanent website of this type.
:-) The site provides links to shopping sites, allows you to search by category, price etc. You then give people your site ID and your friends and family have access to a list of what you _actually_ want, making present giving potentially simpler. Wouldn't be that hard to set up, organise a small commision payment from the sites you send customers to and this could make money. Pity I don't have the time or energy to actually do it :-)
;-) <duck>
:-)
:-)
:-)
:-) but any reasonable, boxed model car will be appreciated. Honestly, little £5-10 cars make me very happy...
;-) Or, if you happen to be determined to throw money at this one, an SLR body using a more modern lens mount than M42 please :-)
:-( and I _prefer_ keyboarded PDAs. I want another.
:-(
:-)
6 0144) I was discussing what I'd enter into Robot Wars / Battlebots if I was up to it, had the time & ability and so on. I'd love to see a robot of that rough type built and entered, just to see how good an idea it would really be.
;-)
You log on, create a list of things you like, things you don't like, things you already have, things you like but you're so picky about that anyone buying for you is a bad idea
Anyway, what _I'd_ actually want:
* Sorry if this makes me sound like I'm trying too hard, but I'd be delighted if someone gave money to a charity I support (or one I didn't yet but whose aims I agreed with) as my present. Let's be honest, I make good enough money and there's only me to support, so I don't need generosity particularly and could get pretty much anything below myself if I put my mind to it (and in some cases, not for very long, either). Others need it more than I do.
* Pretty much impossible to give, but I wouldn't say no to a larger circle of friends. If I came out of the Christmas season with nothing listed below (or similar) but having met just one or two people whose company I genuinely enjoyed, I'd consider it a good Christmas. On the same line, I'm single, ladies, fuzzy photo at the out-of-date URL above...
More traditionally:
* Books. Good fiction or several different non-fiction areas.
* Films. Has to be Widescreen, beyond that I'll try most films _once_
* Music. Play it safe and get me rock or metal, play it slightly more adventurous and get me orchestral music, try pushing the boat out by getting me some jazz or blues. Pretty good chance I'll like any, though, in some places
* Chocolate. Pretty difficult to go wrong with a big box full of chocolate
* Model cars. Don't care what size (though bigger is preferrable
* Camera equipment. I'd feel guilty if someone spent a fortune, but if you happen to see some M42 lenses, filters, tripods or gadget bags going cheap...
Less practically...
* Those desktop RC tanks with the laser tag are _too_ cool. 3 of them shipped to the UK and we could have some cool deathmatches at the office...
* My Psion 5 seems to have packed up
* Hovercraft are cool. Either give me a working R/C model hovercraft, or a good set of plans and components. Or, let me know what will make a good liftfan because I can't find one so far when I'm trying to build my own
* No DVD here yet, so, please, a region-switchable DVD with 5.1 out and ideally a Macrovision defeater so it'll work with a video projector. Oh, how about getting me that projector, I've already got a large empty white wall that would make a lovely screen...
* One of these days I'll get round to building a _serious_ video jukebox (thinking 100+ hours of storage here...) to replace large piles of VHS cassettes and just make it all more practical. If anyone sees them ready-made and upgradeable, that'd be cool.
* Left Europe for the first time this October, visiting my sister in Ontario, Canada. Loved it. All offers of trips to interesting parts of the world gratefully recieved, as long as they come at least half board and flights paid
* Over in a recent poll thread (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23631&cid=25
* I need to replace my car at some point...
Greg
(Inside a nuclear plant)
Aaaarrrggh! Run! The canary has mutated!
Some grammar books and maybe a list of topics already done Maybe i would get some slashdot insurance for sites about to be slashdotted.
my big ol' list
bandwidth (I'd like dsl but verizon isn't moving fast enough and cox isn't either so all i can get it sat which I'm not interested in
tivo so i never miss an episode of buffy
pda (handspring deluxe would be fine)
moped (my driving record is rather shady so i figure i jsut better get a vehicle i don't need a lic. for, plus how geek is that?)
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The latest AIBO is directly aimed at nerds. It no longer looks like a dog, but more like an evil little droid.
$1500 for a basic unit, and then you need to buy all the extra crap for wireless networking so it can read you your e-mail and wander your home under your control from a PC, but if you want an expensive toy, this one is feature rich
Here's one, if you'll forgive the Amazon link, that actually works, and is designed for hacking. Stiquitos are really cheap robots that can be used for all sorts of useful scientific applications -- like freaking out your significant other or allowing you to do a remake of a movie that no one but true geeks remember.
Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. -- Aaron Burr
iPod
iPod
iPod
oh and maybe one of those sexy new G4 PowerMacs... I so love OSX...
This
I was at a local Apple store recently, and there were many, many people who had the same feeling about the iPod - I very nearly bought one myself and may still do so before the year is out (though I'd really rather spend the money on others at the moment!).
They had an employee come down the line with an iPod while we were waiting for the store to open, not to mention you could play with them in the store. They really are worth the money.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
All I want for christmas is an industry standard removable media to replace that 1.44mb POS floppy drive (and someone to slap Iomega for not being a good citizen and opening up their proprietary zip/jazz formats like a good industry innovator should).
I hope they fixed the containment problem the old Wildfire had - every one I've seen died between a month or five after purchase (out of a sample size of eight or so). Some came dead in the box! The basic problem was the plastic clamp used to hold shut the pressure tube always broke... I'm going to try a repair with a clamp but have no idea if it'll work.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
However It can't read hfs+... that I know of.
I don't know what the ipod it though hfs or hfs+.. hfs+ is sort of the window equivalent of fat32..
My computer and CD-R can do that
It helps if you have a large HD
I use EasyCD Creator (yes I am lazy)
I wish that AVI->MPG2 was much faster on a k6 233
Aside from that, a Denon AVR 4802 would be nice... http://www.del.denon.com/catalog/pdfs/AVR4802.pdf.
"Smokey, this isn't Nam, there are rules." -Walter
A meaningful outcome to the MS/DOJ suit, one that truly restores competition to the desktop software market, but without unduly punishing MS's employees and stockholders.
A year free from the closed minded fools in this industry who think only about themselves and not about truly helping their customers or giving anything back to society.
Decent Server System with a 64bit PCI bus: ~$700
:P
Nine (9) 100GB WDC ATA100 Hard Drives: ~$1800
3Ware Escalade 7850 64bit ATA-Raid Card: ~$475
Yes it runs Linux!
Having 700GB of fast online storage at home with RAID5 reliability, all for ~$3000, is how you tell your geek-girlfriend you love her. At least, that's the best excuse I can find for spending that much on it.
I'm waiting until they start making drives in the 150GB range to build mine, so that with the 8-drive setup it'll still reach a terabyte in total. You'll lose one for the parity info, and you have to order 9 drives so you have one on hand in case of a failure... after all, backup devices that can back up that much data will cost you more than the system did in the first place.
Trust me, it beats sifting through folders of CD-ROMs looking for data... especially when you realize your CD-ROMs are starting to flake from age and abuse...
Hell is being intelligent in a world full of idiots.
As is traditional with us, my gf and I exchange gifts a month or so early to avoid that Chistmas morning consumerism hangover.
This year I lobbied hard for a Lian Li aluminium PC case and got it. Let me tell you it's pretty sweet. Very easy on the eyes and my case temp went down considerably.
Now my PC and Canon S100 match!
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Systems Administrators: We read the manual so you don't have to.
I shot the hooch!
(refer to song "chattahoochie" by Alan Jackson)
~ now you know
Click on the sheep icon over at EthioGift Service. Tell 'em Anonymous Coward sent ya...
Let's see, a GeForce3 is pretty much analogous to the xGPU (or whatever name they made up for it), but I've got bucket's more RAM, roughly 10 times the storage capacity, various other peripherals and CD related devices, and I believe "craps all over in a very embarassing way" is the proper way to describe the relationship between my T'bird 1.3 and their Celery 733.
I don't think I need an XBox.
sic transit gloria mundi
That blunt katana that Kenshin uses so that he won't kill people would make a BITCHIN' LART!!
Like Fakk2
Kohan
Mindrover
And just about everything here.
There really are plenty of non-FPS games available, like Kohan, and Mindrover.
Mindrover isn't really as silly as it sound either.
For the budding mercenery my recommendation is Jagged Alliance 2
Check out ioquake3.org for a great, free, First-Person Shooter engine!
"I wish that I understood how people could be happy yet lack curiosity,
because I would no longer find them so alien, so frightening, so unlikely to
care about anything beyond their own comfort." --Jonathan W. King (adapted)
I want me one of them LinuxDA's I read about the other day. You can buy em for $100 at http://www.linuxda.com . They are made with the same hardware as the Palm IIIxe but are $130 cheaper than any other place I've seen. And it runs linux ;-)
http://www.wowwee.com/biobugs/biointerface.html
How about the 20GB studio mp3 player from archos (archos.com) 20GB usb hard drive/mp3 player, plays for 12 hours straight on 1 charge, the studio model even records.
muhahahahah!
...I would like a Philips EXP503 eXpanium Personal CD Player with CD-MP3 Playback and Car Kit [amazon.com]
It has ID3 tag support and the user reviews are saying that it still plays while dropped down the stairs!
I did my research, unfortunately it's not available for shipping to Canada :(
However, its a blast, and you get to spend time with your friends to boot.
http://www.wizards.com/RoboRally/Welcome.asp
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
Having someone register your own domain name for you might be an interesting gift. Imagine being email@soandso.tlc rather than sso14@city.state.provider.com or even worse Bigsoso1@aol.com.
You could also get one of these fly-by-night operations to send someone a certificate saying that a star was named after them. Might be nice for those who have large egos, but aren't going to dig too deeply into how this illegitimate process actually works.
Whatever the reason, I think a Grant would rock. For some of us, it would enable us to walk away from some job that we've been laboring at for years; for others it would solve financial problems, and for some it would just be a bonus.
I suggest this because I know that for years I have dreamed of writing programs and doing things that I've never had the time or money to do...and it's frustrating to have even minor talents, but no leisure or legal standing to accomplish something. And the terms of the grant could be non-specific to the point where writing a working open-source program would suffice. Hey, maybe I'd finally have a reason to beat my head against CVS and finally learn it (I've been in denial and avoidance for too long).
If nothing else, it would be nice for those folks who have talent but have been layed off, to have some room to recoup their edge while hunting for a job. And nothing sucks like being unemployed through the winter holiday season.
With all the extensive tech-layoffs this year, I think we're going to see many proud people taking the easy way out this year. I hope I'm wrong.
Every new form of media has it's own Requirimento
A quick search on Google found this place, which acts as sort of a wish list/gift registry. I have no idea how popular it is or how it works, though.
Many of the big online stores have their own wish list/gift registry systems in place. Oddly enough, GiftRegistry.com has links to some of these places.
Please?
MIDI data in, sound out. USB so no extra interface, and since it' s bus powered it doesn't need YASVCB (Yet Another Voltage Conversion Box)
Theres the iPOD too, but I'm not trusting my relatives with that, I'm getting mine (mwhahaha) in two days at Apple UK expo.
Oh, and a replacement for my iMac DV/400. A replacement that has no fan. I'm a musician, I hate fans. The cube was ALMOST the thing, but too expensive for the perfs.
I want that new iMac replacement thingy with a FTF screen please Steve.
sure to be a classic this season:
/* i like the white one */
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Please contact either malda@slashdot.org or hemos@slashdot.org for further details. Help a soon to be orphaned web site.
Probably a good source is the KLOV entry for Pit Fighter. Well, maybe not all that great.
It does indicate it to be JAMMA+. However, what it doesn't indicate is that the credit and start buttons, for example, are placed on a special connector. (I think alone with one of the fire buttons? It has been a bit since I played with the PCB.) And, of course, the 3rd player connection is on another propriety interface that is outside of the JAMMA connection.
You'll have problems putting a JAMMA PCB inside the cabinet, or using the Pit Fighter PCB in a JAMMA cabinet, for those reasons. I don't know why Atari decided to be so non-standard at that time.
But actually, I'll go ahead and agree with you, in general. You can pick up a Pit Fighter at auction very cheap (say, $50?). But, you'll have to put a little bit of work in rewriring it for it to become mostly JAMMA compliant. If you're looking for an entry-level arcade game, and don't mind the work to trade off for a very good price, this isn't a bad deal.
One the first day of Christmas my geek friends gave to me, 1 GEForce3. On the Second Day of Christmas my geek friends gave to me, 2 tins of Penguin Mints, and a GeForce3. on the third day of Christmas my geek friends gave to me, 3 tech support calls, 2 tins of Penguin mints and a GeForce3. On the fourth day of Christmas my geek friends gave to me, 4 sticks of Rdram, 3 tech support calls, 2 tins of Penguin mints and a Geforce3. On the Fifth day of Christmas my geek friends gave to me, 5 on my /. post, 4 sticks of rdram, 3 tech support calls, 2 tins of Penguin mints, and a Geforce 3.
On the sixth day of Christmas my geek friends gave to me 6 bottles of Bawls, 5 on my /. post, 4 sticks of Rdram, 3 tech support calls, 2 tins of Penguin mints and GeForce 3.
Someone else finish I'm too wired from all the caffeine......
http://www.medtronic.com/neuro/paintherapies/pain_ treatment_ladder/drug_infusion/pumps_pump_sel/sync hromed_pumps.html
Forget about those tiny little dictionaries -- get some deserving word geek a copy of the Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition. They may at first be speechless with joy, but your gift will allow them to find the exact word to express their feelings, with quotes to illustrate how the meaning of that word evolved over time. :)
Give them a copy of The Professor and the Madman at the same time; it's the story behind the creation of the OED, and an excellent book in its own right.
Buy them from Powell's City of Books. I now live in NYC, but even here there is nothing that can compare to the wonder that is Powell's. Hallelujah.
* * *
It is a dada story -- it has no moral.
Does Santa know how to set up a DSLAM?
"To become educated is to move from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty."
Wizardry 8 is getting consistently rave reviews - if you like RPGs this one to get.
The Star Trek DVD collection, besides being the only way to get ppl to buy Ep V - was selling for $100 below retail according to my last Best Buy circular.
And of course the perennial favorite, the Dilbert calendar.
Charge-N-Run in-device PDA charger
it's only $40US
It exists. It is great. A battery powered CD burner to take with your laptop. It acts as a stand alone MP3 player if you want. USB 4X write. You just need 60 Mb free on the computer to "rip it onto itself".
I just finished burning yet another CD with it.
Sony CRX10U/A2 Digital Relay Drive
Lifetime membership to a naturist club?
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.
This is what I plane to get my geek bf, if I can afford it!
Night Owl Optics Cyclops Compact NOCC3
mediadiva
The design is often notably inferior: (Come on, how is a pinhole better than a friendly button for ejecting disks... or how about the cable nest required by the Cube and the iMac to attach features built into most PCs.). The Ferrari example might hold if this Ferrari can't go as fast as a Ford, is missing door handles, won't let you use the radio and the AC at the same time, and won't run on most roads. But boy, it sure looks cool in the driveway!
Cachet? Can't deny that. That is the main selling point. Good enough to bamboozle ILM. Pixar doesn't need bamboozling: there is enough of a conflict of interest there to prevent Pixar from choosing the best graphic design environments.
Now if only the powells staff would get there heads out of there butts, I might go back.
Used oracle book 29.95.
New oracle book 29.95.
Gosh, I wonder why they had so many used ones.. hhmmmm...
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In his own words...
"Oh, and the rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated."
What more can be said
I want a Winnebago, a nice one,
peace on earth
that cute girls phone #
.......
yeah I know what's its from, but it describes my life perfectly.
lapdance gift certificates 8-)
Revising a monument from a more humane and confident time by Adam Kirsch
The gist of the article is that much has changed in the world since the Harvard Classics were chosen, and that we shouldn't be bound by the errors of the past. Oh, and on the Harvard Magazine home page, they are collecting suggestions for what a revised, modern, list of Harvard Classics should look like.
There is a certain amount of knee-jerk political correctness in the article, but it is definately worth a read.
I may just be speaking for myself here, but the best Christmas present for this geek wouldn't be the latest toy. I lost my job earlier this year in my former employer's desperate attempt to cut costs by firing all of its employees.
For Christmas, I'd like a new job, so that my wife and I can continue to pay the mortgage, feed the cats, and maybe vacation somewhere other than with our parents.
Definitely the Rio Car. It's by far the best car MP3 player you can get. And since it was recently discontinued, they dropped the price dramatically on the player. You can now get a 10GB version for only $699. Compare that to the $1499 for a 6GB when it first came out. What's great about the product is that even though it's discontinued, the software is open source, so people are continuing to update and hack the software.
A gift ark:
http://catalog.heifer.org/giftark.cfm
Or anything else from the Heifer Project. Imagine being able to get your mom a goat for Christmas and having her be pleased...
I guess that's not very techy, but its a damn good present.
Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.
You poor kid. Think bigger, say, the Meade LX200GPS (http://www.meade.com/catalog/lx200_gps/pdf/b_lx20 0gps.pdf).
Anything under 8 in. ain't a dream gift.
All a geek needs are ThinkGeek gift coupons, of course! Duh..
This is a totally unsolicited plug:
Safari is O'Reilly's online, fully-searchable book database. It has about 350 titles available already, including some non-O'Reilly books.
They don't have a formal automated gift subscription yet, but if you go there and phone customer service you can have them help you set up an account that starts empty, is billed to you with receipts to your email address, but is owned by someone else's name and email address.
Only thing is, they bill monthly, so at some point you have to cut off the subscription manually. Hopefully by that point the giftee will be hooked :-)
I just did this earlier today, so I know it works.
It sounds silly, but I passed up a deal on one of these about 3 yrs ago (Don't remember what model it was) and I've been kicking myself ever since...one of these would almost inspire me to start a museum of archaic computer technology
http://www.kleinbottle.com/
Drink beer from a volumeless glass vessel...
These things are sweet. Ten minutes to roast fresh coffee, like a popcorn popper. Green coffee beans are half the price of pre-roasted beans, anyway.
http://www.sweetmarias.com/prod.hearthware.shtml
Of course, if you're a tea drinker, never mind.
Weeks of coding saves hours of planning.
I really want a vacation for Christmas.....so that I can enjoy my xbox, gamecube, dvr, and other toys that everything is going to get me.
"yak yak yak, get a job"
And to make it worse, you replied to a perfectly good post. A post with a link to an interesting outside site with relevant information is the best kind of post in my mind. It's better than random uninformed people rambling.
...if poorly implemented:
http://www.giftsiwant.com/
What does it mean to wake out of a dream
and be wearing someone else's shorts?
BNL, Born on a Pirate Ship (1998)
give the gift of karma!
Truth is, Linux never crashes (you all knew that though ;^) ), but XFree86 *does* crash, particularly when you try to run Konquerer or Mozilla on an ancient 2MB Matrox Mystique which has been beaten up and down, hot plugged, etc. etc.
So I told her: The video card is broken. We need a new one.
I suggested a replacement, one of the neat-o cards based on the GeForce3 and loaded up with memory.
And she wrote it down.
Woo-hoo!
Those kick so much, and thinkgeek.com has them at such a sweet price of 459, or at least they had them at that price.
A social life, binge drinking by yourself tends to be.. boring
"All I can tell the "lesser of two evils" folks is that if they keep voting for evil, they'll keep getting evil."-Lp.org
:)
I however, am neither omniscient nor eternal (as a human). I do not know what I will do *EXACTLY* tomorrow or what will happen to me.
Just because God DOES know doesn't mean I didn't have free will to do it. And unlike a later poster, I believe He knows in a precise fashion, not through brute-force iteratons. I suspect that, due to His eternal nature, the entirety of this universe is just a DVD to Him - We're stuck in Chapter 18 and He's checking out the Special Features.
MiataMX5 has done a good job answering these questions, but I'm going to give one of my own: People have asked me the "Why does God let good things happen? etc, etc."
My answer is this: This universe is God's version of SimCity. For whatever reason He felt compelled, He built a cosmological system with fairly stable rules and populated it. He gave us intelligence and we took free will (but He knew that was coming ;) ). He alters things here and there, but He isn't the only one in the game - Satan gets some play.
He also gave us the rulebook. He may have thrown some misinformation into the mix (carbon-dating, aliens, etc), or others may have. He set up a somewhat confusing, and to many, bizarre win condition - Believe in Him and His Son. That's it. Believe and win. Get your wings and live in paradise, so to speak.
Maybe it's BECAUSE I'm a science-fiction-fueled geek that the concepts of a triune God, infinity, and SimUniverse don't bother me. If I had that kind of power, I'm sure I could concoct some odd experiments of my own.
GTRacer
- Does sacrificing Karma for Him count for anything?
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
Should warm the hearts of all of you IP haters.
What about the Jewish geeks amongst us? --joshua (guess: either un-modded, something, funny, or 0, flamebait.)
Seeing as how this story was posted right after one about the economic slump, I would say a popular gift will be a home-made card assembled out of construction paper and glue on sprinkels.
Mmmmmm...Glue on sprinkels.
Me and Bill Gates...in a Boston headlock.
--This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
I don't know if they're great geek gift ideas, but here's what I'll probably be getting:
GameCube
Super Monkey Ball
Tony Hawk 3
Wave Race
Star Wars
SSB Melee (rated "T" for comic mischief and mild violence? must be some pretty bloody comic mischief)
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XBox
DVD Kit
Project Gotham
Tony Hawk 2x
Airforce Delta Storm
SSX Tricky
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Tennis 2K2
(for the dreamcast. wonderful dreamcast)
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Civilization 3
Excellent.
Is a girl who's 4 feet, ponytails, no teath, and a flat head for my beer.
* ignore this if your a female!
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive
I vaguely remember Nerf (or a company making Nerf knockoffs) actually making a big shoulder-mounted bazooka... That would be really cool.
Or the Hackmaster (www.kenzerco.com) books, for those of us who remember the flavor of AD&D 1st ed and miss it.
-THX®-Certified
-500-watt BASH® amplifier
-113dB maximum at listening position
-25Hz-20kHz Freq range
-Subwoofer with dual 8" side-firing drivers
Price: $399.99
Full specs available HERE
For under $10, there's a few Cheapass games that are a ton of fun with the right crowd. Give Me The Brain, Deadwood, and Ben Hurt are good. We also dig Ebola Monkey Hunt from Placebo Press. Both can be had for ~$7.
Did I mention including the beverage of choice?
it's all about the Phatbox. a mobile mp3 player that you can control via your head unit's cd-changer controls. it even installs just like a CD changer. since the unit spoofs discs and the tracks, you can have up to 999 discs and up to 999 tracks on each disc. if your head unit does text, it will display track/album info too. right now they support factory Audi, BMW, Honda, Toyota, VW head units and Kenwood aftermarket units. support for other head units is based on demand. i'm currently in their Sony test program and it works great. it uses a 20Gig cartridge (basically a 2.5" laptop drive in a rugged shell) to hold data and syncing is done via USB cradle. you need Windoze to use their playlist manager software, but someone there has Linux scripts which can do the same. tech specs are here and comparisons to other units are here.
what do i like aboot it?
- runs Linux. nuff said. =)
- firmware can be updated via syncs with the cart. so if you get a new head unit or car, or if a new audio format emerges, no worries.
- i've encoded my entire library and i have access to all 170+ of my CDs. my truck no longer resembles a CD warehouse.
my other computer is your Windows(tm) box...
My dvd player, vcr, tv, and surround sound receiver all have separate remotes. I need a good universal remote. Recommendations?
"Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens." - Schiller
That, and plenty of cat-5, should make my dream home a reality.
Total cost - $3 mill or so.
Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. -- Aaron Burr
www.geomag.it
"It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved"
The latter is my case, so I bet I don't know what I'm talking about. It's a cliché anyway :-/
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
Assuming you know a geek or are a geek that is still employed, chances are, you could use something to relieve stress. Here are a few gift ideas in that vein:
1. A one-hour professional massage. Or a whole day at a spa.
2. Some nice fresh loose-leaf herbal tea. Tea teaches you patience, and forces you to sit down and relax for a while.
3. Some yoga or martial arts lessons.
4. An eighth of an ounce of weed and a blow job.
Merry xmas!
Hmmm let's see,
A copy of Windows XP!
Serius, remeber when Win95 came out and that was what your granparents gave you.
hmm... for fun I enjoy launching DDoS attacks against 127.87.42.5
This should have been moded '+1 Sad'
Rent next month.
eudas
Blessed is he who expects the worst, for he shall not be disappointed.
http://www.exoticlights.com sells a flat flexible animated "Linux" lamp. It is made from electroluminescent material. It has a 5-channel controller that runs multiple animations. It is absolutely not something your favorite geek already has. You could add it to just about anything.
Wow! The world's first fatal slashdot posting!
"Derp de derp."
I've had a ReplayTV for two years now, and have been very happy with the hardware and the company. I'm looking forward to upgrading.
- GameCube
- XBox
- PS2
- Dreamcast
- N64
- SNES
- NES
- VCR
- DVD Player
to the same television without having to chain anything together. Bonus if it has more than one output and a remote control!what the hell is a 'junk character', anyway?
X Files Season 1 DVD
X Files Season 2 DVD
X Files Season 3 DVD
X Files Season 4 DVD
So I can watch the new episodes, then afterwards restore my faith in Chris Carter's writing/directing abilities by watching the first four seasons.
"One touch of Darwin makes the whole world kin." George Bernard Shaw
They put it out too early. Now is the time, with the critical mass of DVD players, PS/2s, X-Boxes and other DVD-playing hardware out there.
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
That's exactly the point. You don't need an X-box. It doesn't help you at all by itself. For that matter, you never needed any game console systems, since they were all just readily available hardware.
Oh wait, you want to play a game? Sorry, this game's only available for X-Box/PS2/GameCube. You may have 3x the power in your computer, but still won't run. Nobody is going to buy an X-box for the hardware; they buy it for the games.
Yes! That guy!
A qualified recommendation for this gadget.
It's cute, and it's wonderful. -- But it doesn't install under Win2K ('98 ONLY ) unless you phone up and have a free upgrade CD sent out (that's got to be costing them !) and you can forget it if you're on Unix
Oh, and they have a very ugly website. How's this for a stupidly pointless drag-and drop interface ?
with my !"#%& Compaq Presario!
I have been searching a while for something that would be able to grab video from my analog video cam (PAL) in a decent quality.
I haven't found any that looks likely to install easily in my Presario. Except for USB devices, but they don't seem to deliver decent resolution, probably because of bandwidth restraints.
Probably a USB device that could compress to MPEG4 on the fly or an analog to firewire converter exists, but I haven't found any within a reasonable price range ( US$200).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you're looking for a computer with a few emulators and a TV-out.
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http://www.coomamusic.com.au/chaos
...breathe the chaos in the midst of order...
Hovercraft are cool. Either give me a working R/C model hovercraft, or a good set of plans and components. Or, let me know what will make a good liftfan because I can't find one so far when I'm trying to build my own :-(
Merry Xmas!
BTW - the fan this guy is using looks like a PC case fan, though a bit bigger - I could be wrong, though.
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
New oracle book 29.95.
Which book?
Advanced Oracle PL/SQL :programming with packages (O'Reilly)
NEW, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $42.95
SHORT DISCOUNT, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $42.95
USED, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $25.75
USED, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $30.00
Advanced Oracle tuning and administration (Osbourne)
NEW, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $34.95
USED MARKDOWN, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $20.00
USED, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $21.00
Building Oracle web sites (Prentice Hall)
SPECIAL SALE, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $35.00
SALE, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $35.95
USED, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $27.00
BUILDING ORACLE XML APPLICATIONS (O'Reilly)
USED, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $31.50
SPECIAL SALE, SOFTCVR W/COMP MEDIA, $38.00
NEW, TRADE PAPER, $44.95
ESSENTIAL ORACLE8I DATA WAREHOUSING 2ND EDITION (John Wiley & Sons)
NEW, TRADE PAPER, $44.99
USED, TRADE PAPER, $38.50
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It is a dada story -- it has no moral.
i already have one...i'll settle for an iPod and a new bass though
A brain / computer interface always hits the spot : )
http://www.IBVA.com
you know you want one!
It'd be nice to have my tuition paid (about $1700 here at NMU), so that I could come back to school next semester.
Good point. Then again the only game currently available for the XBox without a superior PC counterpart is Halo.
Kinda makes me glad I don't play games. Sure I'll pick up a game that has made much noise when it comes out (say Max Payne) and then take a few days off work to play it - but gaming doesn't occupy a significant amount of my time anymore - so I would never buy anyther just for a game, period.
Interesting sidenote - how long before XBox games can be played on a PC? I am not sure if "emulation" is the proper term since it's basically the same hardware and software. What actually prevents XBox titles from playing on PCs at the moment? I am sure any impediments there are artificial and will eventually be overcome... just curious.
sic transit gloria mundi
...who aren't quite as geeky as you are, consider buying them a Linux distribution and an O'Reilly book.
My brother is in his sophomore year in college and studying to be an aeronautical engineer. He has always liked to tinker with stuff, and he built his first computer last summer, but all he knows is Windows. He has asked me plenty of questions about my Linux boxen, so I know he's curious.
I think I'll start him on the path. I'm confident he'll be sufficiently intrigued to learn more on his own.
(Note: younger sisters are also acceptable, LOL)
After months of careful study and research, I've finally found the one certain way to ensure peace across the globe. It's so simple, and yet so permanent. All we have to do is kill off everyone on the planet. Once done, there will be no more wars.
You know, now that I've figured it out, I don't really want world peace anymore.
I would love to put an Anywhere Map into my antique airplane; the magnetic compass just doesn't cut the nav mustard anymore, especially with all the airspace restrictions now popping up here around WashDC.
It's a color moving map with aviation database running on an Ipaq. If only there were a Linux version.
HW/SW bundle ~$1200
Ecce potestas casei!
...is for somebody to buy my RV ... I need the
cash for gEEk toys!!!!
... but the thinkgeek gift guide is pretty cool: http://www.thinkgeek.com/2002-holiday.shtml
santa or cowboyNeal, whoever is listening, I'm in file structures, and I want an A!
:-P
so give it to me!!!!!
please........
the GPU in the xbox isn't a geforce 3, but it's close. The key though is the universal memory architecture. Your AGP bus just isn't anywhere near fast enough to keep up.
-Brian
"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness." -Robert A. Heinlen
What geek wouldn't want this sweet little drive? You can DeCSS DVD movies and burn copies of them. Plus it burns CDs as well. About $450-$500 according to pricewatch. I want one of these.... and a T3 :)
got to be a 3D printer, all the 'ink' I want for nothing (ceramic and matalic)to time of to 'play' with the dam think
yeah well, my PC does some useful things in addition to playing lame games - so I think it evens out in the end.
sic transit gloria mundi
keychain usb storage, 32mb, Linux, Windows, Mac compatible. Great for bookmarks/favs, resume, what-have you. Should be bootable with new mb's so small distro with some utils would be cool as well.
:-)
c'mon Santa, it's under a hundred bucks
A Titanium PowerBook G4
Bootable? You mean rootable right? ;) Man you could do some damage quick with a bootable usb storage device. Scary stuff. Keep those server rooms locked up tight.
I want an Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie.
in fact in checking I find He's posted today so i doubt that this is true...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
of the red cross just stepped down over a scandal involving the misappropriation, or perhaps misallocation of funds intended for the 9/11 NY effort, so think twice about who you give your money to.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
but the carrying case hooks to my belt nicely. If you go jogging it will skip a bit every 3 or 4 mins as it loads into the dimm but then it is rock solid. I'd love a nomad the size of an IPOD but I value the extra space more than the small size. :)
Bottom line though the Ipod looks cool
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
need drugs
But the fact is I have a top line laptop, I have ADSL and I have a server system that screams.... so what could a geek want?
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How about a car. I think something smallish (say mid sized), blood red. 4 wheel drive, with computer controlled front, rear and centre differentials, stripped out for maximum weight saving, nice hefty rear wing, racing tyres, turbocharged 2l rally homogated motor, six speed sequential gearbox, roll caged, built and delivered, ready to roll.
And what is it?
The Mitsubitsi Lancer Evolution 7!! You can keep your iPODs and other toys, I WANT THIS CAR!
http://www.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp/motorsports/
"Old Rallydrivers never die - they just fail to book in on time"
why is that spyder owners always talks shit about '98, but when I meet them on the field i never get a chance to put a few in their chest? i'll tell you why, they are always back at the rest area trying to figure out why their gun won't shoot. my '98 has jammed maybe once after 2 cases of paint, i don't think i'v even see a spyder go one game without jamming.
buy a tipmann '98, a lapco bigshot, and if you play in the cold, an expansion chamber. you'll be having a blast while the guys with the fancy sypders and angels are stripping and rebuilding their guns.
heldlikesound
Cloud City Digital: DVD Production at its cheapest/finest
Keep in mind that many of the people who produced the content for this aren't getting paid a cent for their work on the CD.
These people were never paid?
Or these people got paid for their work, and National Geographic, who paid for the work, contiues to use what they paid for.
I have never understood the argument that if I put something in a different format is all the sudden something new.
Steve M
Archos makes several products similar to the iPod. They have a 6 GB player for about $240 -- the only real differences are that it only has a 2MB buffer and it uses USB instead of Firewire. They also carry a 20GB model -- same size and everything. It's only $350.
They also make a 6GB model that allows you to record sound through a line-in (thus satisfying some of what some other people have indicated they want). This one runs about $270.
I don't know how these perform compared to the iPod (the significantly smaller amount of RAM might hurt it), but it's certainly cheaper. And you don'd have to wait for MediaFour to finish their development.
D'oh -- the stuff that buys me beer! Ray -- the guy who sells me beer!
I used a model airplane prop (about a 4 inch, two bladed prop), and attached it to a small "hobby" motor (ie, one of those 3V mabuchi cheapo motors that are in toys everywhere). I then mounted it to a styrofoam plate, using cardboard braces extending from the edges of the air intake hole.
I then hooked the motor up to a 9V battery, and was able to get more than enough "lift" - without a skirt. Strangely enough, I didn't take the experiment further - it was just one of those "one off" deals.
Model airplane propellers can be picked up at most good hobby shops - or online at Tower Hobbies...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
that's a total waste of money. it's not like you're actually going to use all that space. why not just get a normal mp3 player or, even better yet, minidisc?
im going to storm up to washington kick in bill gates door and beat him over the head with a shovel. then ill put on his glasses and take over microsoft....
nobody will know.. i swear
Geeks on the High Seas!. I've been on 7, and they're a lot of fun, and a lot of learning too, having access to experts at all hours during the week.
OK, here is what I have:
This site used to have some pretty slick plans, but is now gone - however, it still exists in Googles cache here - at least a portion of it.
If you follow the last link (off the cache) entitled "Back to Eric's main hovercraft page", it will take you to this page, which seems to hint at a future "new" site - here is hoping it is true!
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
The head of the Red Cross stepped down because of a disagreement over how the Liberty Fund was created and run. It seems there was a question about the need for a separate fund.
This was compounded by the media hysteria of the Red Cross having the audacity to realize that they had received more money then immediately needed and the good sense to but the excess away for future needs.
When the board of directors didn't support her she resigned.
I thought the whole thing was absurd. I gave money to the Red Cross because they have the know how and the ability to deal with these kinds of crises. I had no problem with how it was handled.
Steve M
I will not rest untill I can boot my PC off of my MP3 player, god damnit!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I'd like to get a newspaper that doesn't steal it's article ideas from msn ('Geek Gift Ideas', 11-20-2001).
People to snap out of their consumeristic crazes and stop for a moment to think of the Earth. Join me along with thousands of others on Nov. 23 for Buy Nothing Day.
I would love one of these
a mp le.htm
http://www.terapin-mine.com/terapin/MineManualS
Available through the BBC.
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?
Bought mine on the employee purchase website at IBM. 8MB module for $21 just to play with it. Comes with a 98 driver disk. Didn't work under Win2k or Linux but I didn't build a new kernel to support it yet. Bought one for my friend, too, and it worked out of the box on his XP laptop. I think they go up to 128MB now, with 256MB and 512MB modules coming next year. Half a gig on your keychain.
I plan to keep mission critical documentation for my assignments and my GnuPG secret key on it. It is definitely cool. And the IBM logo on it goes so well with my Pentium keychain.
Intelligent Life on Earth
A) I don't care what it costs: if you are talking cost effectiveness, by all means buy a PC. They are MUCH cheaper.
So are Chevrolet's. I drive an M3. Do M3's suck because they are more expensive than a Cavalier which will get you to the shopping mall just as effectively as my M3?
The Macintosh, Computers for rich effete wankers with too much god damn money on their hands. Although unlike the M3, they aren't actually better then most other kinds of cars, it's just that the users have deluded themselves into thinking so.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I get tech books from work, so now my family has tried some non-tech books on me.
I can really use some 1U rackmount cases. Not full servers, just cases. I have a RaQ-4 and love their case. With integrated audio, one of those with the built-in LCD panel and navigator would be great for an MP3 player to add to a component stereo system.
Intelligent Life on Earth
I believe I have just discovered a new rule, similar to goodwins law. At any point that a Christian/atheist flamewar begins in a non religious article, the thread is worthless
I propose we call this the autopr0n.com rule, in honor of myself and rampant crass commercialism.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
At least thats what thinkgeek claims here. Too bad it is not officially supported by archos. The drivers are here.
You simply can't win the game with the escudo, it's not possible. The car handles like a fucking brick with no wheels. To say you're 'done' when you get the escudo is rediculous.
The toyota GT-ONE may not be as fast as the esc, but it handles a lot better, it should tide you over untill you get an F1 car.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I'd be such d' man.
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I want an iPod, if only to spite cmdrtaco's pathetically biased articles and silly promotion of items sold at slashdot.com (also known as think geek).
It's not redundant. It's what I want.
-- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@pobox.com PGP KeyID: 0x0BD32C9B What I'm up to: http://intuitives.mine.nu
Yeh, He should definetly pay more for something that dosn't even do what he wanted (a recorder) and not only would he have to buy a casset adaptor, he'd need to get a MAC as well, and we all know how cheap those are..
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
What about for us Jews? I always feel so left out.....
Yup we all know how difficult it is for the IT folk in these times. Another problem is how much cool geek stuff costs......
:)
But help is at hand!
AfroTech - Ghetto Hardware (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~hsakr/) have many cheap/free mods for the slimmer wallets this Xmas season
Po
A nice new PS2 with Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 & Grand Theft Auto 3 would rock my world.
...and that little reindeer of yours too! (snicker)
A girlfriend would also be mighty nice..
Time to be realistic; after a year of karma whoring, it's a lump of coal for me!
Damn you Santa!
I am BelDion's
I would like a decent Episode II trailer, not this flashy, vague stuff they call a teaser. Release is only 6 months away, we all know they have better footage. Give us a peak!
For all the guys and girls out there involved in long-distance relationships, or even for those who just have friends very far away they haven't seen in a long time, the best gift you can give them is to visit them and spend the holidays with them.
:-)
Or maybe you could just send them a Chocolate Orange. Better still, share it with that person. Eat half, rewrap it, ship it. At least that way they'll be thinking of you for sure when they eat it.
-REPLAY42
Hey, I wonder if I could rig a paintball gun to a remote control helicopter.
Copter wars!
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
I made homemade calendars with my epson wide printer. I gave b/w prints for a number of years and it worked great, but how many can you give...
Now armed with a negative scanner and a printer capable of 11 x 17 my girlfriend and I cranked out a bunch calendars to give to parents and friends. We put a photo on top and the calendar part on the bottom and the "hinge" at the top. We used a photoshop/ illustrator, but almost any program wilil do. the "cal" unix program provided the month layouts..
You could also do it with a middle hinged 8x10 too.
The prints are amazing looking, and since they're calendars they can't be expected to last forever. (ie not archival...). Good paper is expensive though, but not much more than photo paper..
And BTW, I'd love to know how to fold your Pierson's Puppeteer!
One free web account later:
http://www.angelfire.com/d20/roll_d3_for_this/
Enjoy.
$49.99 HoMedics US-2HDB Ultra Spa Pedicure Footbath & Massager (this little gadget is heaven for the feet - everyone should have one - even guys love it though they probably won't admit it)
$69.94 Prestone Jump It! Portable Power Source (ok, so its not exactly romantic, but it does show you care...my dad gave me one of these and I feel much safer commuting and traveling alone with it)
$39.99 Remington Paraffin Wax Hand Spa (so her fingers don't look like she writes code all day
$50.00 DreamTime Microwavable Foot Cozys (one of the ways to a woman's heart is through her feet - again, I bet guys would like these too even though they'd probably never actually buy them for themselves)
$20 gift certificate to Bath & Body Works (sometimes a gift certificate is better than guessing what her favorite scent is)
$49.99 Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II
$40 1 lb. of Godiva chocolates(if you're gonna do chocolate, do it right...Godiva really does taste better
~WBGG~ "And I'm so sad like a good book I can't put this Day Back a sorta fairytale with you" ~Tori Amos
Well I know what I need: a new computer. But what other people need? MP3 players.
They would be such great stocking stuffers if they didn't come in such big boxes.
Time to get away from this damn computer science college bullshit and hit the slopes during christmas break!
It's simple (the best things often are) It helps our Country, our Economy, it doesn't support any Multi-National Borg Corporations, One size *really does* fit all, the color is Always right, and No one ever returns it. Cash. American Green. Can't go wrong.
"the smaller the mind, the bigger the noise it makes"
Same way the flashy graphics have pushed out games (like IF) which use the imagination for the rendering engine.
Why is Grand Theft Auto a much more serious crime than Reckless Driving?
There is excellent simulator software available, such as RealFlight Deluxe and CSM. If you learn to fly a helicopter in one of these, flying one in real life will be much easier and safer.
When first flying a real R/C heli, you use training gear which cushions landings. Initial learning should be done with the pitch of the rotors set so that the heli physically cannot lift off the ground, but the student can nevertheless experiment with the controls and learn to hover without getting far enough off the ground to do any damage to the heli.
Done properly, it can be learned without mishaps. I confess to having a couple of incidents early on with my heli - trashed rotor blades by hitting a tree, and separately got stuck in a tree due to a loose servo linkage (an oversight during maintenance). And certainly, as you become more advanced and are flying for real, accidents will happen. Depending on your heli, an average minor accident - such as trashed rotors and perhaps a few bent or cracked bits - might cost $50 - $100 to repair.
The problem that many people run into is not researching it or getting advice or training. They go into it with the attitude "how hard could it be?", and they soon find out! It takes knowledge which needs to be learned, and if you make little or no effort to learn, you will fail.
Anyone who likes 15,000 RPM drives, and a bus capable of 160 megabytes/second with 320 on the way.
Anyone who wants up to 15 devices operating simultaneously on the same bus instead of 2 operating one-at-a-time.
Anyone who wants hot-swapping that works.
Anyone who doesn't want to be limited to 24 to 36 inches of cable, preferring several meters instead.
So, basically, anyone who wants versatile and fast I/O uses SCSI.
I want all and any of the follwing...
...the Japanese release of "Metal Gear Solid 2" to have an English language track
...to be able to use Linux without being gripped by "the fear(tm)"
1) Armored Core 3 - now damnit!
2) Naotoshi Zin in a gimp suit
3) More money
4)
5) Haro toy (like a Furby, but from Gundam and infinitely cooler)
6) Rob to get some taste in anime
7) More money
8) 1/55 Hi-Metal Bandai "VF-1S Strike Valkyrie" toy
9) Xbox to fail in a sorry arsed pyrotechnic display of incompetence
10)
Cacophanus
Cacophanus
http://cacophanus.net/
A Tivo and a year's subscription pre-paid. That would run about $350. Cheaper than an iPod and at least as interesting, especially for somebody who already has a Rio or some other poor excuse for a non-iPod
.. Blub falls right in the middle of the abstractness continuum. -- Paul Graham
The two things I can't get in Japan.
Christmas requires the smell of pine trees and baked goods.
I made seven gallons of mince in preparation for the holidays, but I can't bake it into anything.
I guess I'll just squat on the tatami mats, eat it all with a really big spoon and sing carols softly to myself. Merry Christmas!
"Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right." - Mao
Oh man, this is what I want. If only they came with beige gravel. :-)
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http://www.redlightrunner.com/redlightrunner/cl
-- Gordon Worley
how about the "AB ENERGIZER"? i'm sure we all want to get rid of that big tummy from sitting in front of the computer hour after hour day after day... ;-)
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Excuse me if I seem a little skeptical. But what the hell are you blathering about? "straw man" technique? What does that mean?
I'd say you've disproved your own arguement. Here's where you made your mistakes:
1. You assume that God wrote the bible. (As a student of classical languages I disagree with that point and it's pretty easy to prove false. But that doesn't matter because you've offered no real proof yourself)
2. Because you assume that God wrote the bible, you assume it's infallable because God is infallable. (N.B. God's infallability or lack thereof is not the issue)
3. You back up your claims with quotes from the bible, which you have failed to prove infallable.
Although you seem to have a lot of evidence it is all built on the same premise. Because you accept the premise you assume that everyone does, and even go so far as to say that using someone else's equivalent premise is a "straw man" technique.
God gave humans the ability of rational thought, don't continue to waste yours! Learn the rules of logic, prove me wrong!
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No way you'll be disappointed. And no, I'm not affiliated in any way with this except customer.
The Planets - BBC
Walking with Dinosaurs - BBC
Intimate Universe - The Human Body
I'd love Linus for Xmas... err, if Mrs Linus doesn't mind
now I'm in big trouble
Designed by the Space Channel 5 guy. Not all that unique (the idea) but a great gift.
A free O...
Oh yeah, linux is already free.
Nevermind.
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Unix is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
...and 20 years of free technical support:)
Thats a gift that keeps on giving.
Choose your allies carefully, it is highly unlikely you will be held accountable for the actions of your enemies
It's been said before, but apparently it needs to be said again: when it comes to portable personal electronics devices, SIZE MATTERS!
I've never used either the Archos product or the iPod but I have worked in the handheld industry and can tell you that a portable device that's half the size of another is, at least from a user experience perspective, simply not the same kind of device. The Archos/Nomad products and the iPod have many features in common and are intended to perform similar functions but the small size and extended battery life of the iPod absolutely qualify as "real differences".
If you don't see the difference, consider the laptop market, where products are also segregated by size and portability. A super-slim, super-thin, extremely lightweight laptop commands a big price premium over a more powerful full-featured model. Or consider the history of the handheld industry. What made the first Palm Pilots a success when the Apple Newton had failed only a year or so before? Size and battery life were a huge part of that..
It's perfectly legitimate to question whether the iPod is worth the price or whether you'd rather have another product. It's a matter of personal preference whether its advantages over other devices outweigh its disadvantages. But it's foolish to pretend that those differences don't exist or are restricted to "only
Perdida is a female -- marginally.
... a life !
#include "coucou.h"
No one expects the spanish inquesition......
If you get Deadwood, make sure to get the expansion packs (they're only $1 each, I think). Deadwood is a great game, but gets old after a few plays, and the expansions help.
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Although I haven't played the game (it's on my list!), this just looks cool. http://www.sjgames.com/frag/
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ooh... sorry...
Fit and finish on the Gerbers, including the Legend, is pretty bad.
Get a Leatherman -- any model. Much better made. The Juice[s] look nice, but I haven't had the chance to [ab]use one yet.
OTOH, I really like the Victorinox SAKs, especially the Ranger.
You mean you'll put down your rock, and I'll put down my sword and we'll try and kill each other like civilized peo
(Qualifier: I don't program and I don't have an engineering degree. No one's looking for sysadmins or tier II-III support right now.)
-Legion
Enlightenment 17 :)
And a 100% accurate "Matrix" term gadget.
Macs use the exact same monitors that PCs do, and the same video chips. any diffrence is going to be in software, not hardware.
Ok, so color correction isn't that good on the PC, but it is getting better, and it is there for people who look.
And for doing web graphics... Color correction isn't going to help you very much (since everyone's monitor is going to be setup diffrent)
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Or maybe you could be some sort of a DJ, using all of your linked iPods and making one groovy IDM mix!
(that's actually a good idea there...)
-- Herder of Cats
I guess it would help if I had spelled it right, they are the Etymotic ER4P, or the ER4S ($269 for either), I'm not sure how the ER6 sounds ($139) since it is new. I also remember the price as higher since I bought the Headroom Little headphone amp at the same time (another $200 or so -- prices were diffrent on the last model).
They are extreamly nice, and they do a pretty good job of preventing outside noise from bugging me. Good when the noise is fans and people on the phone, bad if it is my boss sneaking up on me.
I don't give a damn about the demographic statistics of your childhood friends. I said likely because many people inherit their belief system from their parents and/or childhood surroundings so it seemed likely this was the case with you too.
It comes down to this: you've got one book that you are 100% sure is the word of GOD, and your childhood best buddy (or, if he's been "saved", any one of the other millions of people dedicated to a non-christian faith) has another book that he/she is also 100% sure is the word of GOD. A debate about religion between you and your muslim best friend would quickly result in the two of you reading off translations of translations of books written by people who died thousands of years ago.
Why not think for yourself, live in the present, and stop living your life by what a bunch of people on the other side of the world wrote down a few thousand years ago? Seriously! Get a grip, man! Can you honestly relate to the stories in the bible? They were written for a different people, in a different time! If the men who wrote the bible were brought here today (by time machine or something, stay with me for a quick hypothetical situation) they would be utterly confused by our society. They certainly wouldn't be able to solve our problems! Yet you live your life by what they wrote, after they "talked to god", two thousand years ago (actually, it was probably a little less than that since by accepted records the oldest parts of the new testament wern't written until almost 100 years after christ's death).
If you can't deal with reality and need to pray to the "one and only" god when times get rough, thats your right. But keep that stuff off the "news for nerds" discussion board, because I'm pretty sure most people here aren't interested in being "saved".
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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. --Ben Franklin
I'm tooting my own horn here, but
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does much good, I have reservations about them allocating monies donated to a disaster relief fund for political issues. I am not implying the red cross did anything illegal, I just don't think thay have any business lobbying.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
oh, come on. that's just sad.
the Ipod is groovy!
has anyone got it working with linuxppc yet?
http://www.klub.org/
When can I get that?
without paying the earth!
Jeremy
Melbourne, Australia
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