Though I doubt you'll find deals on a mac, Thanksgiving is probably your best bet on finding hot tech deals. Last year I got a 5400 RPM 60 gig WD harddrive for $50.00 after rebates. Here we are a year later and I still haven't been able to match that deal.
For keeping an eye on the day to day bargains, try keeping an eye on: http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?ca tid=4 0 and http://www.gotapex.com/deals.php
for good product reviews and comparison shopping, try: Epinions
and the old standby for price comparisons, Pricewatch
Typically, if you can beat the pricewatch price, it's a good deal, Like these in Tomorrow's Best Buy ad: 256 megs of 2100 DDR ValueRAM (by kingston) $40 after rebates. 48x12x48x Memorex burner $45 after rebates. 40x12x48x Digital Research burner $30 after rebates. Mintek brand DVD/CD/MP3 player $56.92
> There's a difference between people dying in a natural disaster and people being murdered as a deliberate act. You know that as well as I do, and pretending that you don't is dishonest.
Nor does it make the lives lost on 9/11 worth more than the lives lost in India or anywhere else. The point the original poster was trying to make was that 9/11 was hyped by the media in a sickening way.
I can respect a company that can admit it screwed up. This is going to cost them tons of money, but unlike the actions other companies, Palm may have just earned my trust.
> Imagine being able to surf the net at speeds faster than DSL from anywhere, at any time - you could watch a live video webcast while waiting for the bus
I'll be the first person on the bus using this technology!
then either get rid of those half-height PCI slots or find me a TV tuner card that will fit in one!
I want to buy a Book PC for my home entertainment center, but I can't for the life of me find one that I can put a TV tuner card inside. USB tuners suck, so don't waste your time pointing me in that direction.
Measuring the speed of light. For our experiment, we used a mirror set up to rotate at 6000 RPM. A laser is aimed at the rotating mirror, bounces about 20 meters across the room and back. The theory is that the rotating mirror will slightly rotate by the time the beam of light returns to the rotating mirror. Even at 6000 RPM, the mirror only rotates a very small amount, but enough for the laser's endpoint to change a few fractions of a mm.
By knowing the displacement between the endpoints of the laser at 6000 RPM and 3000 RPM, we could easily calculate the angle that the mirror rotated from the initial path to the return path across the room. Using this info, we solved for the time required for it to rotate that angle. That is the time required for the Laser to travel across the room and back. The distance:time ratio is the speed of light. Mad props to the dude/chick who designed that experiment.
> I noticed that there is a phone jack on the back. [ideamaster.com] But I only have a cell phone. Is it likely I'd be able to use some VOIP box for this thing to connect? Could it connect using the USB porn intead? Also, I have an apartment, so permanently installing this thing wouldn't be an option for me. Is it likely I'd get a decent signal through my window? (assuming I can get a good path)
The real question would be what do you plan on buying one of these for?
> You can build your own water cooling system out of scrap parts such as a radiator from an ATV
like any motorcycle or ATV parts, this sounds expensive to me.
Why not try an aftermarket automatic transmission cooler like This one at Jegs? This one is kinda big since its made for race-cars, but I think you could find one at a Napa store for like 30 bucks.
A heater core might be better suited but you would need to adapt to garden-hose sized tubing.
I'm sure its been thought of before, but why won't this at least help?
Imagine thousands of people running a script to generate webpages with thousands of generated ficticious e-mail addresses. Wouldn't this cost the spammers more money?
Of course, I'm making the assumption that they get their addresses from webpages, but why wouldn't it help?
They don't care if this is a legitimate lawsuit. By merely naming the website in the lawsuit surely hundreds of ISPs will block it for fear of being next.
Unfortunately, what they didn't count on was a bunch of Slashdotters bookmarking the site.
You're missing the point. By making the diamond purchase sound unethical for the bride to be, she will be more likely to decide against the purchase, leaving the future groom more money to spend on other stuff. I'm sure if given the choice, many women would rather have a corvette than a ring. A ring isn't meant to be shared, but a Corvette has 2 seats.
so the rule is, You're supposed to spend 2 months of income on a ring.
Here's my fix: Pretend that you got laid of from your job. Go buy yourself a Burger King uniform and tell her you're now only earning $6 / hour instead of $40.
40-6=36 $36*40 hours * 8 weeks = $11,520 in savings to spend on laptops and stuff.
If you get caught, DO NOT take her up on her offer to have you appologize on the Jerry Springer show.
Slashdot Mirror
Wait until the terrorists hear about this one!
Gee Whiz!
Thanks Slashdot!
I wonder if they are responsible for Pornster?
Though I doubt you'll find deals on a mac, Thanksgiving is probably your best bet on
a tid=4 0
finding hot tech deals. Last year I got a 5400 RPM 60 gig
WD harddrive for $50.00 after rebates. Here
we are a year later and I still haven't been able to match that deal.
For keeping an eye on the day to day bargains,
try keeping an eye on:
http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?c
and
http://www.gotapex.com/deals.php
for good product reviews and comparison shopping, try:
Epinions
and the old standby for price comparisons,
Pricewatch
Typically, if you can beat the pricewatch price, it's a good deal, Like these in Tomorrow's Best Buy ad:
256 megs of 2100 DDR ValueRAM (by kingston) $40 after rebates.
48x12x48x Memorex burner $45 after rebates.
40x12x48x Digital Research burner $30 after rebates.
Mintek brand DVD/CD/MP3 player $56.92
> No replies yet, and it's slashdotted already?!?
:-)
It appears slashdot has also been slashdotted.
Take note of your 10:04 EST post and the 9:38 posting of the story.
I'd like to see one of these towers put to better use with some bungi cords
Anybody else notice that the newest story has been there for like 30 minutes with still no first post?
What's going on?
> There's a difference between people dying in a natural disaster and people being murdered as a deliberate act. You know that as well as I do, and pretending that you don't is dishonest.
Nor does it make the lives lost on 9/11 worth more than the lives lost in India or anywhere else. The point the original poster was trying to make was that 9/11 was hyped by the media in a sickening way.
The main problem with wind power is that it is mostly available during the spring and fall (during temperature changes).
Unfortunately, we need our electricity mostly during the summer and Winter months. Now if only we could cheaply store this energy in 3 month blocks.
I can respect a company that can admit it screwed up.
This is going to cost them tons of money, but unlike the actions other companies, Palm may have just earned my trust.
Can you imagine the weight you'd lose running FSCK on a 120 gig drive?
How about a new category named Free Advertising?
> Imagine being able to surf the net at speeds faster than DSL from anywhere, at any time - you could watch a live video webcast while waiting for the bus
I'll be the first person on the bus using this technology!
Thanks Slashdot!
then either get rid of those half-height PCI slots or find me a TV tuner card that will fit in one!
I want to buy a Book PC for my home entertainment center, but I can't for the life of me find one that I can put a TV tuner card inside. USB tuners suck, so don't waste your time pointing me in that direction.
You can't be serious!
15 hour days?
How's a guy supposed to have enough energy to
shoot his nerf-gun while rollerblading for even a ten hour day?
Measuring the speed of light.
For our experiment, we used a mirror set up to rotate at 6000 RPM. A laser is aimed at the rotating mirror, bounces about 20 meters across the room and back. The theory is that the rotating mirror will slightly rotate by the time the beam of light returns to the rotating mirror. Even at 6000 RPM, the mirror only rotates a very small amount, but enough for the laser's endpoint to change a few fractions of a mm.
By knowing the displacement between the endpoints of the laser at 6000 RPM and 3000 RPM, we could easily calculate the angle that the mirror rotated from the initial path to the return path across the room. Using this info, we solved for the time required for it to rotate that angle. That is the time required for the Laser to travel across the room and back. The distance:time ratio is the speed of light. Mad props to the dude/chick who designed that experiment.
Must be a slow news day!
I believe this is the funniest Slashdot comment I have ever read.
MOD THIS GUY UP!
> I noticed that there is a phone jack on the back. [ideamaster.com] But I only have a cell phone. Is it likely I'd be able to use some VOIP box for this thing to connect? Could it connect using the USB porn intead?
Also, I have an apartment, so permanently installing this thing wouldn't be an option for me. Is it likely I'd get a decent signal through my window? (assuming I can get a good path)
The real question would be what do you plan on buying one of these for?
$25.00 plus shipping (coverprice is $49.99)
http://www.addall.com/
remember to copy & paste the
ISBN 0735710015
> You can build your own water cooling system out of scrap parts such as a radiator from an ATV
like any motorcycle or ATV parts, this sounds expensive to me.
Why not try an aftermarket automatic transmission cooler like This one at Jegs?
This one is kinda big since its made for race-cars, but I think you could find one at a Napa store for like 30 bucks.
A heater core might be better suited but you would need to adapt to garden-hose sized tubing.
I'm sure its been thought of before,
but why won't this at least help?
Imagine thousands of people running a script to generate webpages with thousands of generated ficticious e-mail addresses. Wouldn't this cost the spammers more money?
Of course, I'm making the assumption that they get their addresses from webpages, but why wouldn't it help?
They don't care if this is a legitimate lawsuit.
By merely naming the website in the lawsuit surely hundreds of ISPs will block it for fear of being next.
Unfortunately, what they didn't count on was a bunch of Slashdotters bookmarking the site.
you caught me. :-)
My excuse: It was really friggin late.
You're missing the point. By making the diamond purchase sound unethical for the bride to be, she will be more likely to decide against the purchase, leaving the future groom more money to spend on other stuff. I'm sure if given the choice, many women would rather have a corvette than a ring. A ring isn't meant to be shared, but a Corvette has 2 seats.
so the rule is,
You're supposed to spend 2 months of income on a ring.
Here's my fix:
Pretend that you got laid of from your job.
Go buy yourself a Burger King uniform and tell her you're now only earning $6 / hour instead of $40.
40-6=36
$36*40 hours * 8 weeks = $11,520 in savings to spend on laptops and stuff.
If you get caught, DO NOT take her up on her offer to have you appologize on the Jerry Springer show.
I can see the Base Jumpers getting ready to conquer this one!