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My favorite part about ebay is that you can find expensive electronics for anywhere from 30-150 dollars less than typical retail prices

Hajimemashite - How do you do?Akijikan desu - (I) am akijikan (don't need to use "watashi wa" (word for I) because of context).Doozo Yoroshiku - Pleased to meet you.

otaku is literally "freak" but has become more generalized in the states as a person who is obnoxiously obsessed with anime. It was really just a tease on my part. Most real otaku wear the name like a badge of courage, even though it was never really meant as a term of endearment! lol

Hajimemashite. Akijikan desu. Doozo Yoroshiku.What ideas would anyone get just because you're Japanese?

I agree with this, they are completely overrated and under powered. When I got an mp3 player I bought a neuros 20gb. Even though it was bigger in physical size, it was better. It had a built-in FM broacaster so I could listen to it through the car stereo without a tape adapter, it had a FM tuner that you could record off of and it had a on-board mic to bootleg your favorite shows, as well as a line-in to record off of. Plus it played MP3, WMA, as well as OGG! How many mp3 players cover OGG? Certainly not the precious iPod! Now to get the FM brocast to stereo or record from mic with an iPod, you had to buy overpriced attachments and that was on top of the rediculous 300 price tag (for 20gb at the time, I think it's lower now). How much did I pay for the neuros? 200. Clearly, you waste a lot of money on a over-priced, under-powered status symbol when you buy an iPod. Oh, don't forget that regular use and recharging of your iPod caused the battery to wear out in a year to year-and-a-half. If you called apple, they wanted you to pay a price to have it replaced that was near the price of a new iPod! Not that my neuros didn't have the same battery-wearing-out issue (it's un-escapable with these devices) but how much did they want to replace it? 9 dollars. Apple are real rip-off pros. So yeah I agree, and BTW if you want a neuros they are actually selling the 80 gig models for 200 now because they're closing the mp3 player division in favor of another product. You can buy one of their closeouts at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

ugh, otaku is not a good thing!

I agree with you in general, but I'm thinking when I'm sending a file from a harddrive on one computer, to a harddrive on another computer, the higher max speed of my connection, the faster the transfer. Am I wrong?

Wired LAN is faster and much more secure, since you're not broadcasting anything through the air. That means anyone who wants on your network needs a lin connection, they can't just park in your driveway and get on it. Wireless LAN is near painless to set up though. No wiring needed and you can have a network up and running in no time. It's also not that hard to make it fairly secure through use of passcodes and such. If you want to secure a wireless connection here are some steps you can take. They are from this website, visit it to see what I shortened with elipsies. [quote name='http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/) Don't use TCP/IP for File and Printer sharing! Access Points are usually installed on your LAN, behind any router or firewall you may be using. If someone successfully connects to your Access Point... 2) Follow secure file-sharing practices This means... 3) Enable WEP Encryption 802.11b's WEP encryption has had a lot of bad press lately about its weaknesses. But a weak lock is better than no lock at all... 4) Use WEP for data and Authentication Some products allow you to separately set the Authentication method to "Shared Key" or "Open System"... 5) Use non-obvious WEP keys and periodically change them While the limitations that some wireless client utilities have don't help... 6) Secure your wireless router / Access Point (AP) Your router or Access Point should require a password to access its Admin... 7) Disallow router/ AP administration via wireless Unfortunately, this feature is usually only present in "Enterprise-grade" APs... 8) Use MAC address based Access and Association control Previously available only on "Enterprise-grade" products... 9) Don't send the ESSID ORiNOCO and Apple call the ability to stop their products from sending out the... 10) Don't accept "ANY" ESSID ORiNOCO and Apple's "closed network" feature also won't accept connections from clients using the default "ANY" ESSID.... 11) Use VPN Of course, if you really don't want to take chances with your data... I didn't mean to submit the above reply, I still had more to go so here it is: Typically your speeds on a wired network are going to be much quicker. Most ethernet cards today are 10/100 Mbit/sec and 1000 Mbit/sec is becoming increasingly common (especially in corporate fields). Wireless has two standards and a third that is going to be introduced soon. 802.11b is 11 Mbit/sec 802.11g is 54 Mbit/sec There are also some "Pre-N" products (referring to 802.11n) that are labeled as such because the maker is almost certain that the MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) technology deployed by them is going to be used in the 802.11n standard. The current "Pre-N" products do deliver better speeds than their b and g counterparts while maintaining compatibility with them. Pre-N products are also often capable of further range. PC world tested a belkin router and card that could communicate over 50 feet. Much better than b or g. However when the 802.11n specifications are finalized, they likely won't be compatible with these "Pre-N" products that manufacters are developing outside industry standards. One other thing that should be noted about wireless is that the weaker the signal you have (be it becaouse of distance or walls, etc) the slower overall rate of transfer you'll achieve. So after all that information, to answer your question about which is better, like most things it depends on what you need. Wireless is good if you're mainly interested in sharing a broadband connection in your house. The fastest home-consumer broadband options commonly top out at 8 Mbit/sec and are usually operating under that. That speed is within the capabilities of wireless connections. However, if you are going to move a lot of data from computuer to computer, you are going to feel limited by wireless. Even though 802.11g is max of 54 Mbit/sec, you usually see transfers around 20 Mbit/sec average. If you're moving gigabytes of data between computers, a 1000 Mbit/sec wired LAN is going to serve your purpose much better than wireless. Those who are security freaks should also stick to wired. While you can secure a wireless network, there have been cases of some wireless security measures being broken. Hope that answers your question!

Wow...I don't know where to start. You obviously don't have the mind to think for yourself! If you don't want to get cheated on eBay, deal with users who have good feedback and you can look at the shipping charges before you bid, so you know what you're getting into. You can also see if an item has a reserve or not before you bid. If you see an item has a reserve and you don't like that, don't bid, how is that getting jipped? Everybody who sells on ebay pads their shipping charges. I do. It's because I'm going to be paid for the time and materials I spend on shipping, not just whatever the place charges me to move it. But like I said, shipping charges are displayed before you even bid, so its not like some big secret. As for faulty, DOA, or broken products, that's why you pay for shipping insurance and deal with trustworthy sellers. You say no one looks at feedback, but that's obviously just you, since you seem to be in the minority of people that have bad transactions on ebay. Maybe if you did look at it you wouldn't have such bad transactions. Feedback is also not your only recourse. You report a seller to ebay and they usually face suspension and more often closure of their accounts. For sellers, if you get a non-paying-bidder than eBay will even refund all your listing-fees. For buyers, pay through pay-pal because all transactions through them are guaranteed and pay-pal will refund you your money if something is wrong. Combine that with the fact that there is almost no one on eBay who doesn't accept pay-pal and you have a fairly nice system. More often than not, any reputable sellers DO offer refunds. I do, but no one ever asks for them since I take the time and care to make my transactions right. And you are falling prey to outright deception if you think Amazon has low prices. Give me a list of the top 100 items sold on Amazon.com and 9/10 can be found somewhere else online (and places other than ebay) for lower prices. Please think things out before you go attacking something you obviously don't know how to use. It's not a poor product on ebay's fault, it's a half-hearted approach to it on your fault. Read through ebay's help section and you would have found everything I've told you. If it's so crappy, then why does everyone use it? I also forgot to add, don't call everyone else stupid because you don't know how to use something. I think anyone who reads what you said and what I said will see whose actions could be considered "stupid".

Not that I doubt you, I'd just like to read up for myself, what are your sources? Thanks.

IF you notice, in part one, the british drive-by joke gets reused in family guy.

These are legit, as there are a lot of people who have completed and earned their product. If you search across the net, you'll find a lot of examples.The ones I trust are run by Gratis Networks (now freepay.com)The deal you have to complete does require a credit card more often than not, and you end up signing up for a free gift card or something like that, but the people giving you the gift card run a service that runs something like 30 bucks a month and you get the card when you've been a member for a couple of months. When you first sign up though, you are signing up for a free trial that you can cancel after you get your credit for your free ipod.That being said, it is fairly easy to complete your offer and get the credit towards your free ipod. The challenge is finding x number of people (5-10 depending on what you're trying to earn, Ipods are usually 5) to sign up and complete their offers.I'm only two refferals away from getting a PSP and though I won't go as low as advertising my own refferal link here, I will say if you want to go for a PSP, let me know and I'll PM you my link. PSPs are your offer completed + 5 refferals.

you're lazier than you imply...you don't even need to search, just scroll up to my post.

If anyone is wondering, and I noticed one person asked, a google mini is a lower-power google appliance search solution. It has the power to index 100,000 documents compared to the full fleged appliance's power to handle upto 15m (depending on configuration and price level see product models). See https://www.google.com/work/search/ If there's one thing google knows how to do...they sure do make their appliances sexy I also agree with guy in that this really doesn't apply to us as most (assumption) of us are not running an enterprise that requires this sort of document search solution.