Simple hardware hack to reverse the polarity of the disc motor in the DVD drive.
Actually, it won't work. Drive motors aren't like the simple DC-brush type motors that you're thinking of. They're stepper motors that have to be "controlled" by an external circuit. A big advantage of this design is the speed can be precisely set, allowing for faster RPM speeds while the head is near the hub, but slower speeds when it's near the rim, permitting "constant velocity" reading. You'd have to reverse the polarity of each field winding, which might be tricky depending on how they're brought out to the controller.
I think the easier way to handle that would be to reverse the order the external control circuit is running the motor (i.e. instead of running the coils 1-2-3-4 you'd run it 4-3-2-1). then again I realy hate working on motors and it's been a while since I've had to deal with a stepper. and I tend not to disassemble drive while they still work, because I always have extra parts left over
No. My point is that property rights are not an artificial construct. Copyright law is a construct to protect property rights. And the right to privacy ("you have no business having a copy of my poetry") and the right of freedom of association ("I have the right to give copies of my poems to my friends without it meaning any random person on the street now has the right to read them")
so your friend Billy gives his copy of your poems to his friend Cassandra, She in turn trades that copy of your poems to David for.. let's say a bagel. David turns around and snail-mails that original copy to Edgar who launches it with his Air Anchor over Franz. Franz is hungry so he trades the poem to Gerald for a belgain waffle. and so on down the alphabet to me Zanthas. At which point in your argument of right to privacy do you get to come to my house and take back that original copy of your poems that you gave to Billy?
And for somebody who seems to champion many flexible definitions (i.e. 'the public good' as served by copyright law) it seems odd that you're now trying to establish a rigid defintion of 'the only true democracy that can exist.' There are obviously people smarter than average who 'know better' than 'the people themselves do.' This isn't an elitist notion, any more than it's 'elitist' to defer to the judgement of a medical doctor in the operating room of a hospital.
Yes, there are obviously people who are smarter than average, I'd aproximate about 50%. Then again we should avoid the Tyranny of the Majority, wait didn't they try that in South Africa? Since the MD is much more informed than you you obviously never have to give him permission to aputate the wrong leg, and would obviously never think of sueing for malpractice
I'm not sure how he was trying to 'establish a rigid definition' for the only true democracy that can exist... From Mirriam-Webster Online Dictionary : Democracy
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
... That seems a bit like there already is a rather rigid definition that already says what you accuse him of trying to define democracy as.
I can't see how a 'tyranny of the majority'(democracy) is any worse than a 'tyranny of the minority'(aristocracy) or even the 'tyranny of the one'(dictatorship)
The american form of government (representative deomcracy) more likely based on the fact that they wanted an informed electorate, which would be much larger now than back then
Yeah, but that has issues in and of itself. Waiting sucks, it favors those who don't have jobs, and you can't simply beat line-cutters to death on the street without having to explain yourself to the police.
well, almost nothing beats having the guy that runs the local Gamestop as a brother in law that will personally gaurantee that you will have a Wii ready for pick up as soon as they come in. My EB Edge card has accumulated enough from trade ins (mostly from the PS2 games collecting dust) to almost pay for a Wii so he has that and $10 to ring in as a legit sale for me. whenever they can start taking pre-orders... or before open on release day if they don't take pre-orders.
Orcs? Cool. Elf slaughter? Cool. Pig roasts? Still cool.
Running around in tights and underroos doing good? Creepy.
Count me out.
I think both WoW and their own City of Villains may have taught them that not everyone wants to be a hero. Running around in tights doing evil? Not as creepy. Flying around in spaceships, mining asteroids and shooting down pirates? Where my ISK is already going. It'll have to be really fun to get me away from Eve
I do... but I also think Fievel's sister is a total fox (despite, obviously, being a mouse... er, a cartoon mouse), so I'm not sure if you're in good company - probably not.
Pssh.... Gadget was more of a fox in the cartoon mouse category. But I only ever saw the first American Tail movie though (and a few minutes of her singing in a saloon from the second one I think) so I don't know if she was hotter in the later movies.
A DVD player with HDMI is only 10 pounds or so more then an equivalent DVD player without (based on Philips prices).
Well, those ten pounds make it a much more effective blunt weapon... Imagine what those ten pounds worth of electronics could be doing if it weren't being used for Evil (tm) incryption
And yes I know you were probably talking the monetary unit, but that isn't as funny.
Someone explain to me how changing out a font or two constitutes a large patch without there first being some ridiculous method of storing said text in the first place? Like maybe storing every dialog box as a separate JPEG...
Don't be foolish... they store the texts as a bitmap... with 24 bit color. Oh, and don't forget an alpha channel as well, beause we don't want to have to use a completely different font if the text is going to be on a different background.
Human nature has already has a solution. After a society's founding and golden age, some people attempt to amass power and control the rest through force. Eventually this control pisses off a large enough number of the populace that civil war results. It has eventually happened to every single emergence of civilization since time began -- assuming they were not conquered midway through the process.
that sounds close enough to encouraging the people to rise against the government in a civil war to probably alert homeland security and flag you forever as a terrorist.:)
I wouldn't suggest going out to buy fertilizer any time soon...
that light bulb is heating the house most of the year. if you replaced it you would turn up the heat. This would in turn burn more heating oil, propane, wood, coal.
I live in florida, we use the heater possibly 10 nights over the course of a year. We would actually save more energy moving to CFL because those lights are heating the house less meaning the A/C doesn't work as hard.
All of my home lighting is LED using the luxeon 3 and 5 watt models. I use about 1/20th the energy that I used when I was using CFs. Granted, I had to build nearly all the fixtures and powersupplies myself, but the 5 watt units only cost about 7 $US and put out light equal to an 80 watt tungsten. They cost far less and use way less energy that CFs, I don't know why they haven't caught on.
It's not uncommon for power leveled players to "ninja loot" (steal an item that drops for a party, then immediately leave the group) and cause other forms of grief to others.
heh, earlier on in WoW i remember when us warlocks were the rarest class... and there'd always be that one person, on the rare occasions that I would group, that would tell me to not ninja all the soul shards.
These types of players end up getting a bad reputation eventually, so it becomes easier to avoid them; however, it's still a giant pain in the ass, especially if you're trying to get a group together to do something and you need to fill a spot with someone you haven't played with before. You take a huge risk when you invite a random person along to go do a quest or complete an instance. Will they know how to play their character or will they suck and end up causing the group to die and have to start over multiple times?
There will always be people who just aren't good at playing their character, but usually anyone who plays from 1 to 60 (or 50 or whatever) becomes at least decent at their role.
I'm a very casual gamer and I actually prefer to not group, which is why I have a hunter and a warlock and everything up to level 60 can be done solo, but there is very little end game content that I would solo... then again I haven't touched the game since last october except for the 2 times I tried to play and ended up either downloading patches I missed or the servers being down.
I never got the knack for doing the total damage output that warlocks are supposed to be doing during raids, because I spent 50 levels trying not to pull the monster off my blueberry and 40 levels making sure I wasn't waking the monster up with my DoT spells while charging up a bolt.
I had an okay reputation with my guild and always had all the other stuff down that warlocks are supposed to do (what's that, summon the entire raid group?... well I need two other people to walk there with me at least), i just never got the rhythm or the +damage equipment to add a lot to the raid (my soloing gear was pretty decent, and the Engineering profession ended up being a gold-sink... but an entertaining one)
Shows that Slashdot is going to the dogs, Goofy, Pluto or other.
I'm sorry, but Pluto no longer qualifies as a dog and has been downgraded to some random body orbiting the sun... and since pluton is already taken we will call this class of bodies... plutettes.
But you'd win by selecting him... and everyone else is just fighting for second place. He would also only have one attack, roundhouse kick. and come in multiple costumes including Walker Texas Ranger and Chuck Norris from Karate Kommandos (yes the cartoon series)
On a related note, this should be rated +1 Chuck Norris
Still, it will be interesting to see how Nintendo's previous designs and considerations color !!M.
Well, obviously it's going to be colored red... and then placed in a white circle on the hat of some chubby red-overalled italian guy who cleans the princess' pipes for a living.
Somewhere, in some parallel universe, the Phantom Console is capable of running Duke Nukem: Forever at 120fps. And it can provide you all the services of a loving wife.
You mean aside from blazing thru DNF It'll also vacuum the the floor, dust the bookshelfs, drive the kids to school, and fsck the pool guy? Thank the gods, I hate doing those chores
Slashdot Mirror
I think the easier way to handle that would be to reverse the order the external control circuit is running the motor (i.e. instead of running the coils 1-2-3-4 you'd run it 4-3-2-1). then again I realy hate working on motors and it's been a while since I've had to deal with a stepper. and I tend not to disassemble drive while they still work, because I always have extra parts left over
Future News from December :
Sony announces "controller design still not finalized. We should have our heads out of our asses by boxxing day."
Sorry, had to fix that
so your friend Billy gives his copy of your poems to his friend Cassandra, She in turn trades that copy of your poems to David for.. let's say a bagel. David turns around and snail-mails that original copy to Edgar who launches it with his Air Anchor over Franz. Franz is hungry so he trades the poem to Gerald for a belgain waffle. and so on down the alphabet to me Zanthas. At which point in your argument of right to privacy do you get to come to my house and take back that original copy of your poems that you gave to Billy?
Yes, there are obviously people who are smarter than average, I'd aproximate about 50%.
Then again we should avoid the Tyranny of the Majority, wait didn't they try that in South Africa?
Since the MD is much more informed than you you obviously never have to give him permission to aputate the wrong leg, and would obviously never think of sueing for malpractice
I'm not sure how he was trying to 'establish a rigid definition' for the only true democracy that can exist...
From Mirriam-Webster Online Dictionary : Democracy
I can't see how a 'tyranny of the majority'(democracy) is any worse than a 'tyranny of the minority'(aristocracy) or even the 'tyranny of the one'(dictatorship)
The american form of government (representative deomcracy) more likely based on the fact that they wanted an informed electorate, which would be much larger now than back then
well, almost nothing beats having the guy that runs the local Gamestop as a brother in law that will personally gaurantee that you will have a Wii ready for pick up as soon as they come in. My EB Edge card has accumulated enough from trade ins (mostly from the PS2 games collecting dust) to almost pay for a Wii so he has that and $10 to ring in as a legit sale for me. whenever they can start taking pre-orders... or before open on release day if they don't take pre-orders.
I think both WoW and their own City of Villains may have taught them that not everyone wants to be a hero.
Running around in tights doing evil? Not as creepy.
Flying around in spaceships, mining asteroids and shooting down pirates? Where my ISK is already going. It'll have to be really fun to get me away from Eve
The Daily Show is "The News"...
In much the same sense that The Weekly World News is "The News"
I have served my purpose then
Pssh.... Gadget was more of a fox in the cartoon mouse category. But I only ever saw the first American Tail movie though (and a few minutes of her singing in a saloon from the second one I think) so I don't know if she was hotter in the later movies.
You american have such biiiig consore... our japanese consore very very smarr.
Well, those ten pounds make it a much more effective blunt weapon... Imagine what those ten pounds worth of electronics could be doing if it weren't being used for Evil (tm) incryption
And yes I know you were probably talking the monetary unit, but that isn't as funny.
Does anyone (who understands what they are buying) actually buy the Core Bundle?
Don't be foolish...
they store the texts as a bitmap... with 24 bit color. Oh, and don't forget an alpha channel as well, beause we don't want to have to use a completely different font if the text is going to be on a different background.
that sounds close enough to encouraging the people to rise against the government in a civil war to probably alert homeland security and flag you forever as a terrorist.
I wouldn't suggest going out to buy fertilizer any time soon...
I live in florida, we use the heater possibly 10 nights over the course of a year. We would actually save more energy moving to CFL because those lights are heating the house less meaning the A/C doesn't work as hard.
I think you may have answered your own question.
heh, earlier on in WoW i remember when us warlocks were the rarest class... and there'd always be that one person, on the rare occasions that I would group, that would tell me to not ninja all the soul shards.
I'm a very casual gamer and I actually prefer to not group, which is why I have a hunter and a warlock and everything up to level 60 can be done solo, but there is very little end game content that I would solo... then again I haven't touched the game since last october except for the 2 times I tried to play and ended up either downloading patches I missed or the servers being down.
I never got the knack for doing the total damage output that warlocks are supposed to be doing during raids, because I spent 50 levels trying not to pull the monster off my blueberry and 40 levels making sure I wasn't waking the monster up with my DoT spells while charging up a bolt.
I had an okay reputation with my guild and always had all the other stuff down that warlocks are supposed to do (what's that, summon the entire raid group?... well I need two other people to walk there with me at least), i just never got the rhythm or the +damage equipment to add a lot to the raid (my soloing gear was pretty decent, and the Engineering profession ended up being a gold-sink... but an entertaining one)
Over anyone else? *shrug*
How should I react? These things happen... to other people
I'm sorry, but Pluto no longer qualifies as a dog and has been downgraded to some random body orbiting the sun...
and since pluton is already taken we will call this class of bodies... plutettes.
Wait, how was I insightful?
can I get a -1 Confused now?
someone mod me down
Aye dares ye!
But you'd win by selecting him... and everyone else is just fighting for second place. He would also only have one attack, roundhouse kick. and come in multiple costumes including Walker Texas Ranger and Chuck Norris from Karate Kommandos (yes the cartoon series)
On a related note, this should be rated +1 Chuck Norris
Well, obviously it's going to be colored red... and then placed in a white circle on the hat of some chubby red-overalled italian guy who cleans the princess' pipes for a living.
You mean aside from blazing thru DNF It'll also vacuum the the floor, dust the bookshelfs, drive the kids to school, and fsck the pool guy? Thank the gods, I hate doing those chores
A related question would be "Is ESRB rating going to be required under this?"
Embargo On!
Now. Who. Runs. Barter Town.