Amazon is selling this “audio” cablefor a “discounted” price of $499. That in and of itself is funny, but what had me rolling on the floor is reading through the customer reviews.
Now UserFriendly has picked it up for the past couple of days in their comic strip. 1 2 3
Somebody pick me up off the floor !! ooohhh the pain !! i haven’t laughed so much in ages. that is absolutely hilarious 
:D.
Andy
I guess it’s not really an “ethernet” cable, but at that price, and with their claims, it’s not important. This is the mother of all cables. Imagine, a cable designed for use in a home audio system that will “eliminate adverse effects from vibration”. Son of a … I had no idea my music was feeding back through my cables, and screwing up things. I gotta get me one of these!
And I can save a dollar too! :rolleyes:
‘Free shipping’ though …
Maybe it is rat proof 
Or maybe it is burn proof, or nuke proof?
kgroneman wrote:
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> Amazon is selling 'this “audio” cable ’
> (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1X6PM/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top)for
> a “discounted” price of $499. That in and of itself is funny, but what
> had me rolling on the floor is reading through the customer reviews.
>
> Now UserFriendly has picked it up for the past couple of days in their
> comic strip. ‘1’ (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080618)
> ‘2’ (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080619) ‘3’
> (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080620)
>
>
It think the point people are missing is that the cable housing is sanitized and hermetically sealed, which prevents your valuable data from being infected by viruses. Security carries a price, you know.
The best part about it, though, is I don’t feel so bad for paying $79 for a fricking HDMI cable, now.
Cheers,
KV
Hurry!
Only 5 left in stock–order soon (more on the way).
lol
It just adds weight to the saying: “There’s one born every minute”!
kgroneman wrote:
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> Amazon is selling 'this “audio” cable ’
> (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1X6PM/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top)for
> a “discounted” price of $499. That in and of itself is funny, but what
> had me rolling on the floor is reading through the customer reviews.
>
> Now UserFriendly has picked it up for the past couple of days in their
> comic strip. ‘1’ (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080618)
> ‘2’ (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080619) ‘3’
> (http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080620)
>
>
Over twenty years ago, I was looking in a high-end audio magazine and
noticed speaker stands that cost £10,000. Some audio nuts will pay
ridiculous prices for kit that may produce sound improvements that will
only benefit passing bats.
–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
I just don’t get all this “perfect audio” nonsense! It all sounds the same to me, I can’t tell the difference between vinyl records and 128kbps mp3 files!
Well, apart from the scratches and jumping of course :D.
I kind of miss scratches, I had a “Police” record that had a scratch, and it always jumped in “Man in a suitcase”, I always heard the song with the jump in it, and was thoroughly confused when I heard it without the jump! ö_Ö.
wehrmacht wrote:
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> I just don’t get all this “perfect audio” nonsense! It all sounds the
> same to me, I can’t tell the difference between vinyl records and
> 128kbps mp3 files!
>
> Well, apart from the scratches and jumping of course :D.
>
> I kind of miss scratches, I had a “Police” record that had a scratch,
> and it always jumped in “Man in a suitcase”, I always heard the song
> with the jump in it, and was thoroughly confused when I heard it
> without the jump! ö_Ö.
>
>
I wish I still had an old set of 78s we had fifty-odd years ago (and they
were old then!) if only to prove to doubters that two of them were not 78s
but 80s!
–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
You gotta be real quick, it’s now discounted to $451.24, it’s not gonna last long!!!
And
I think THIS is hilarious
Reminds of this one story…
So this tailoring lady made a bunch of dresses and tried to sell them. She put them up online for $40 bucks a dress, yet couldn’t sell any. Baffled, she lowered to $20, $15, and on yet still couldn’t sell any.
So she sought professional advice, which was even more baffling. The man didn’t tell to lower price even more, not to improve the quality or try advertising, he recommended that she throw some ridiculous price.
So she put them back up for $2000 each and sold out in an instant.
superppl wrote:
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> Reminds of this one story…
> So this tailoring lady made a bunch of dresses and tried to sell them.
> She put them up online for $40 bucks a dress, yet couldn’t sell any.
> Baffled, she lowered to $20, $15, and on yet still couldn’t sell any.
> So she sought professional advice, which was even more baffling. The
> man didn’t tell to lower price even more, not to improve the quality or
> try advertising, he recommended that she throw some ridiculous price.
> So she put them back up for $2000 each and sold out in an instant.
>
>
My uncle did something similar but nowhere near the same scale. He’d dropped
the price on some beach shoes he was selling from his shop but sold none.
He then doubled the original price and sold out.
Most people think there’s bound to be a direct relationship between price
and quality. One possible reason why so many still buy Microsoft products.
–
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
Every cable that has the minimum required number of wires is fit for Ethernet. I guess you could even abuse an UDMA cable for transporting Ethernet frames…
I had no idea my music was feeding back through my cables
Yeah dude! 
FFS, data is transmitted digitally hence the audible part is much less prone to mistransmission effects like crosstalk, feedback or magnetic field influence. Say you had a big electromagnet that magically dampen the voltage levels from -5V,+5V] to -1V,+1V]. In the analog world this would mean an amplitude loss (which you could hear), but -1V is still distinct enough from +1V in the digital world, so the bit is not lost.
Quote: “Every cable that has the minimum required number of wires is fit for Ethernet.”
True, many years back I needed a 30 metre Cat5 cable, but had none.
I had plenty of 2 core speaker wire, so I seperated the wires and twisted about 35 metres together and managed to put cat5 connectors on each end.
It worked :D.
I feel bad laughing at this 
I think I paid $5-$6 a pop for my HDMI cables through NewEgg. NewEgg is incredible.