It's actually something else. The discs won't spin. I bought a new drive motor for $15 and replaced it. The new motor does the same thing. I will probably buy an entirely new optical drive and replace it myself rather than send it in to Nintendo.
That is: UNLESS SOME GENEROUS SLASHDOTTER WANTS TO SEND ME THEIRS.
I'm undoing my mods by posting to this, I know. Sorry. I just can't take it anymore.
To all of you who saying your Wii is never used anymore: please SEND IT TO ME.
I pre-registered and had a Wii on day one. This is the only time I've EVER bought a console at launch. We have ~50 games and they get played a LOT (I have 4 kids).
So much so that the optical drive in our Wii is now dead. I know I can send it in to Nintendo and pay $75 plus s/h for repair. But WTH...it seems there are many people on slashdot with Wiis sitting in closets or in a bag or on a shelf collecting dust, so won't somebody think of the children and send one my way?!
Singer: Real women of geeeEeeniuuus...
Narrator: Today we salute you, Miss LOL inventor woman.
Singer: Miss LOL inventer woman...
Narrator: In March of 1952, upon receiving a humorous letter from a friend, you wished to write back and express your amusement.
Singer: I'm laughing out loud!
Narrator: Unfortunately, having hurt your wrist the day before in a tragic lacrosse incident, you were forced to simply scratch out "LOL" on a postcard with your off-hand
Singer: But I'm not rolling on the floor!
Narrator: Hoping to explain the abbreviation in a phone call later, you made history by inventing the acronym most often mistook for "Lot's of Love"
Singer: OMGWTFBBQ!
Narrator: It is to pioneers like you that we owe our modern internet vernacular. So, kudos to you, Miss LOL inventer woman...may you RIP.
Singer: Miss LOL Inventer woman...
There's a mobile handset platform, recently downgraded to redheaded step child status and soon to be locked in the basement by the largest cell phone manufacturer in the world. It's a very nice platform. It could use the boost a company like Motorola investing in it and joining up with Intel in supporting it.
Useless? Obviously not. Major content producing companies and their lobbying groups have found uses for DRM.
Useless as a means to prevent copying? Yes. If it can be read, it can be copied.
I was just thinking about this earlier today
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I'd like a device roughly the size of a key fob or an old simple (not text) pager (anybody remember those?) that would have GSM, CDMA, and 802.11n circuitry in it, that would simply tell me based on standing where I presently am, how strong the various mobile wireless signals are.
I could stand in the place where I am...now face north, think about direction, wonder why I have no signal now.
Storing your CC# may be illegal. Transmitting it to the merchant processing company for authorization who can assign and return a unique ID along with the approved/declined info isn't necesarily.
This is precisely what I was thinking. I wouldn't mind having no privacy so much if the people who had control and power also had no privacy. If every government official, every corporate executive and every law enforcement officer had 100% of everything they do and say tracked, monitored, and freely accessible to every person in the country.
I want to just mount one of these on my mailbox so I can give my address to people using GPS to find me and say "when your GPS freaks out, you're here."
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Sorry, but tax day this year is April 18th.
In the next five to ten years, they will be discovering a lot of new fish species off the coast of Japan.
You know what else throws a wrench in their methods? Seven proxies.
It's actually something else. The discs won't spin. I bought a new drive motor for $15 and replaced it. The new motor does the same thing. I will probably buy an entirely new optical drive and replace it myself rather than send it in to Nintendo.
That is: UNLESS SOME GENEROUS SLASHDOTTER WANTS TO SEND ME THEIRS.
nudge nudge...say no more...
I'm undoing my mods by posting to this, I know. Sorry. I just can't take it anymore.
To all of you who saying your Wii is never used anymore: please SEND IT TO ME.
I pre-registered and had a Wii on day one. This is the only time I've EVER bought a console at launch. We have ~50 games and they get played a LOT (I have 4 kids).
So much so that the optical drive in our Wii is now dead. I know I can send it in to Nintendo and pay $75 plus s/h for repair. But WTH...it seems there are many people on slashdot with Wiis sitting in closets or in a bag or on a shelf collecting dust, so won't somebody think of the children and send one my way?!
What if I want to look at and not have the stupid mouse pointer blocking those nipples I'm staring at?
I know. Like when they never sued Motorola or Barnes & Noble.
So long as we maintain a first past the post voting system in the US, gerrymandering remains rampant (not to mention other vote-rigging tactics), and the fuckup started by Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad equating corporations with persons and the subsequent boosting of corporate rights since then (culminating in the recent Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision) remain in effect, we're all screwed.
Which means for the foreseeable future, we're all screwed.
+1
Singer: Real women of geeeEeeniuuus...
Narrator: Today we salute you, Miss LOL inventor woman.
Singer: Miss LOL inventer woman...
Narrator: In March of 1952, upon receiving a humorous letter from a friend, you wished to write back and express your amusement.
Singer: I'm laughing out loud!
Narrator: Unfortunately, having hurt your wrist the day before in a tragic lacrosse incident, you were forced to simply scratch out "LOL" on a postcard with your off-hand
Singer: But I'm not rolling on the floor!
Narrator: Hoping to explain the abbreviation in a phone call later, you made history by inventing the acronym most often mistook for "Lot's of Love"
Singer: OMGWTFBBQ!
Narrator: It is to pioneers like you that we owe our modern internet vernacular. So, kudos to you, Miss LOL inventer woman...may you RIP.
Singer: Miss LOL Inventer woman...
D'OH!
There's a mobile handset platform, recently downgraded to redheaded step child status and soon to be locked in the basement by the largest cell phone manufacturer in the world. It's a very nice platform. It could use the boost a company like Motorola investing in it and joining up with Intel in supporting it.
MeeGo.
Unfortunately, I don't think Motorola has much interest in putting an actual open platform on their phones. Pity.
and say "NA! NA! NOT LISTENING!"
But don't let that stop you.
I wish I knew. I really wish I knew.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk
Useless? Obviously not. Major content producing companies and their lobbying groups have found uses for DRM.
Useless as a means to prevent copying? Yes. If it can be read, it can be copied.
I'd like a device roughly the size of a key fob or an old simple (not text) pager (anybody remember those?) that would have GSM, CDMA, and 802.11n circuitry in it, that would simply tell me based on standing where I presently am, how strong the various mobile wireless signals are.
I could stand in the place where I am...now face north, think about direction, wonder why I have no signal now.
Except when I don't want to be.
Storing your CC# may be illegal. Transmitting it to the merchant processing company for authorization who can assign and return a unique ID along with the approved/declined info isn't necesarily.
This is precisely what I was thinking. I wouldn't mind having no privacy so much if the people who had control and power also had no privacy. If every government official, every corporate executive and every law enforcement officer had 100% of everything they do and say tracked, monitored, and freely accessible to every person in the country.
No more secrets, Marty..
I have my God was only realized later that it was at least two previous posts about the same thing.
...was originally:
My god I posted this and only later realized there were at least two earlier posts suggesting the same thing.
(English->French->German->Afrikaans->Greek->English)
Or run your text through a google translate twice like: NativeLanguage->Foreign->Native. Hey, the translation is 80% accurate!
I don't believe you. Mostly because you purport to be a female on slashdot.
"That's a joke, son! A joke I say!" - Foghorn Leghorn
Yeah but most of the making a big deal out of it comes from the people who aren't having much of it.
I want to just mount one of these on my mailbox so I can give my address to people using GPS to find me and say "when your GPS freaks out, you're here."