A proven cure for tinnitus. I'd clean out my bank account and cash in all my 401Ks, if need be, to pay for the treatment. For those who don't know what tinnitus is, just imagine having a high-pitched ringing sound in your head that never, ever, ever stops. Ever.
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Europe consists of more than one country you know :-) Please don't judge other countries in Europe based on your experience.
i've lived in two countries, actually, and visited many others. Madrid was the only place where i managed to find decent mexican food.
I had decent Mexican food in London. It wasn't spectacular, but I remember enjoying it.
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#93A REAL sequel to Star Control 2 (a.k.a. Ur-Quan Masters)
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#94A small business server appliance for non-IT based small businesses. I'm thinking: Network attached storage with a built in Samba NT compatible domain controller/windows file/print sharing capabilities. RAID-1 plus an automated backup mechanism ... maybe, attach an external USB drive and it automatically does Sunday fulls and daily differentials keeping as many as it can store. Bonus points if it can take extra SATA…
I think this was called Cobalt but Sun killed it.
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#95Apartment with a pool in Tampere, Finland. Also I would be more likely to rent a place using a site that actually allowed me to search for apartments from a map. Instant helpful per-minute advice from MySQL/Linux/etc. gurus 24/7 when I need it. Similarly graphic design where I could in a few moments get sketches of things and commission them to be turned into finished works. I don't enjoy hunting for talent on forums…
People often laugh at me when I tell them this, but "Awful Mart" on the Awful Forums is a GREAT place to get good graphic design quickly. Lot of REALLY talented people visit the awful forums. http://forums.somethingawful.com edit: Just noticed you said you hate searching through forums. SA is rather large and if you have the patience for a usual 1-2 day turn around its worth it.
What I mean is being able to buy some credits, then going into a realtime environment where I can type "Paul graham eating a tuna sandwich", and after 15 minutes seeing several rough sketches. Then I choose the one I like and get a finished version in less than 24h.
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#96A secure, online back-up solution for all my computers that is dead-simple to use on all OSes.
And I mean dead-simple as in install a client that by default intelligently finds the stuff that I might want to back-up (iTunes library, folders with lots of pictures, My Documents, /etc & /home directories, etc.), with the ability to specify certain folders/directories as well. Or since we're dreaming, why not the whole computer? And of course it always runs in the background, never consumes 100% of my CPU or bandwidth when I'm using the computer, is always up to date, and pretty much never bothers me once I've set it up.
I don't want to think about back-ups. I don't want my family to have to think about back-ups. My dad is interested in getting an iPod and will definitely purchase songs on iTunes. I want a dead simple setup for him to keep those backed up.
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#97Something like a Netflix for books and articles. I'd pay just to rent textbooks for general education classes. It would need to have a gigantic library though, big enough to guarantee that I would be able to find any book through there if it wasn't in a library.
PDF versions of the books would be nice to, so I could access the book anywhere immediately.
And it would need a good selection of scientific books. I have a scientific couple books that I want to read, but haven't because they aren't in any local library systems and used copies are going for over $40 on amazon.
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#99Bachelor Chow (See: Futurama). It doesn't have to be particularly tasty, but a simple meal that has 1/3 of your daily nutrition (with 1/3 RDA of all your vitamins and minerals) would be great. Preferably without ridiculous quantities of preservatives and artificial flavours.
There's Clif bars. You can't live off of those full time, though.
Colcannon? If this is made with turnips, kale, and lots of buttermilk, then it covers a lot of macronutrients. Then take a multivitamin.
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#100A robotic pleasure unit like in the movie BladeRunner...
I wonder if there are nerd-oriented escort services?