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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    01:20 PM

    In reply to The Seiko UC-2000 Wrist PC: An Awkward '80s Attempt To Live The Cyborg Life
    When is Asus going to see this and throw together an Eee-Watch? #seikouc2000
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    10:32 AM

    In reply to The Six Million Dollar Man's Cyborg Surgery, Adjusted for Today's Dollar
    Inflation and the ever rising cost of healthcare.

    "Ohhhh, dismemberment. Yeah, I'm afraid that surgery costs an arm and a leg, and you look a little... short. NEXT!" #thiscyborglife
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    09:33 AM

    In reply to The Six Million Dollar Man's Cyborg Surgery, Adjusted for Today's Dollar
    Sheesh...$26million! That's like $6 million in 1974 dollars. #thiscyborglife
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    09:16 AM

    In reply to The Six Million Dollar Man's Cyborg Surgery, Adjusted for Today's Dollar
    Too bad I didn't see this article back in May 2008. I would have short-sold the crap out of the 6 million dollar man. #thiscyborglife
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09:14 AM

    In reply to The Six Million Dollar Man's Cyborg Surgery, Adjusted for Today's Dollar
    We can rebuild him for a lot less if we get that Chinese guy to build him out of spare parts laying around his house.

    To all the Veterans who read Giz: Happy Veterens Day and thank you for your service. Freedom isnt free. #thiscyborglife
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    Image of kingcrim84 kingcrim84
    11:14 AM

    @Curves: If you don't throw in your buck-o-five, who will? #thiscyborglife
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    12:13 PM

    @kingcrim84: I am a taxpayer, so thats a Buck-Two-Fiddy. #thiscyborglife
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    Image of Slack3r78 Slack3r78
    06:40 AM

    In reply to The Six Million Dollar Man's Cyborg Surgery, Adjusted for Today's Dollar
    [www.wolframalpha.com]

    So, $6M/.23 = just shy of $26.1M today.

    Wolfram Alpha says that a dollar in 2008 would be worth $1.02 today, so the value of a dollar really hasn't shifted all that much since the CNN report. #thiscyborglife
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    Image of thechansen thechansen
    11/10/09

    In reply to The Seiko UC-2000 Wrist PC: An Awkward '80s Attempt To Live The Cyborg Life
    Sweet, now I can tell SGC to open the iris. #seikouc2000
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/10/09

    In reply to The Seiko UC-2000 Wrist PC: An Awkward '80s Attempt To Live The Cyborg Life
    When I saw the pictures, I got really excited and wished I had one of these puppies in the 80s (or even now).

    Wear your nerd PROUD! #seikouc2000
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/10/09

    In reply to The Seiko UC-2000 Wrist PC: An Awkward '80s Attempt To Live The Cyborg Life
    I am adding, and subtracting... #seikouc2000
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/10/09

    In reply to The Seiko UC-2000 Wrist PC: An Awkward '80s Attempt To Live The Cyborg Life
    Reminds me of the Wrist Computron those Apollo & Starbuck wannabes wore on Galactica 1980... #seikouc2000
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/10/09

    In reply to The Seiko UC-2000 Wrist PC: An Awkward '80s Attempt To Live The Cyborg Life
    I love it, and am really tempted to get the one on ebay, currently listed for just $2.30 with just a little more than a day to go... #seikouc2000
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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/10/09

    @weatherman: Up to over five bucks now - too rich for my blood. Still, I love the color scheme from these 80's computer systems. Sure, our systems today are 50 bazillion times faster, but being limited to black and white is a real downer when we had oranges and blues in the "good old days".

    I see the SX-64 below which I used to write computer bulletin board software on for a couple of years. Great memories (until a thunderstorm destroyed it). I wonder if there was a modem available for the UC-2000. Then again, I had difficulty getting any sort of a BBS running on 5K on a VIC-20, so 4K and no disk drive would be quite a challenge. #seikouc2000
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    11/10/09

    @Monty: oh, up to $36 now. Perhaps if I really wanted to buy it, I shouldn't have told everyone about it... #seikouc2000
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    Image of morcheeba morcheeba
    11/10/09


    @weatherman: it's ok... most of these are broken now - the radio connection between the basestation and watch degrades ... I've got one & have been meaning to look in to it.

    Oh, also, modem is doubtful. But, it was available as an option for the PC-2

    http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/trs-80-computer-line/pocket/ #seikouc2000
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/10/09

    In reply to The Seiko UC-2000 Wrist PC: An Awkward '80s Attempt To Live The Cyborg Life
    And if you're cornered by the football team ready to give you a wedgy, quickly type in the square root of pi and turn it into this!
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    Image of blash blash
    11/06/09

    In reply to Corrugated Steel Fallout Shelter Protects Against Most Mild Rainstorms, Probably
    I think the purpose of a shelter like this was built more for protecting people against nuclear fallout, not against the preliminary blast. Of course, it would still be fairly worthless since there's no room for food or water or even the ability to stretch your legs, but I'm guessing it was contingent on the government finding a way to get rid of fallout rather quickly. #falloutshelter
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    11/06/09

    @blash: Fallout gets rid of itself. The super-radioactive stuff that'll kill you quickly has a very short half-life. After a couple of weeks the radiation level would drop enough to be short-term survivable. At that point you'd evacuate or do a cleanup. #falloutshelter
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    Image of blash blash
    11/06/09

    @jepzilla: "a couple of weeks" - entirely my point. Can you see yourself living for weeks in a shelter that size with 3 other family members, no room to stretch out or store any food, let alone signal flares for evacuation? I didn't think so. #falloutshelter
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    11/06/09

    @blash: It'd be cramped, but if the options were that, or die of radiation poisoning, I'd give it a shot.

    Food wouldn't really concern me; in case of a nuclear war the only food you'd want to be eating would be canned (or otherwise sealed). You can pack a lot of canned food into a pretty small space. And it doesn't take a lot of food to survive when you're just sitting around. #falloutshelter
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    Image of charlestips001 charlestips001
    11/06/09

    In reply to Corrugated Steel Fallout Shelter Protects Against Most Mild Rainstorms, Probably
    The protection factor is the ratio of the dose rate suffered by a person inside the shelter divided by the dose rate in the open. The protection factor changes as a function of time. This is because some of the short-lived isotopes such as 95Zr and 95Nb generate very high energy gamma photons, while the longer lived 137Cs have a lower photon energy.

    As the wall is made thicker the average gamma photon energy for those photons which pass through the wall becomes higher. So each additional layer of concrete has a smaller effect on the dose rate.
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    Image of lpranal lpranal
    11/06/09

    In reply to Corrugated Steel Fallout Shelter Protects Against Most Mild Rainstorms, Probably

    I'm a big fan of the procrastinator's version. You know who you are- waiting until the night before the apocalypse to build your shelter. Luckily, you can still pile a bunch of shit on a table in your basement and end up a-ok*!

    *most likely dying of starvation after killing all your pets for food and developing severe radiation sickness #falloutshelter
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    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    11/06/09

    @lpranal: Can I get more details on this method? Looks about my speed as far as preparedness. #falloutshelter
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