Wii will play DVD movies, though it's a hack and not covered by warranty (how they get away with this is quite beyond me, as it has been found time after time that jailbreaking any computer hardware should not void the warranty)
All you need is a Wii with system version 3.2 (easily done if you have a wifi connection available), a FAT/FAT32 formatted SD card, an SD card reader/writer, DVDX, Homebrew Channel Installer and MPlayer, and a working knowledge of Google.
it wasn't a flaw in all Wii's, it was only in a few* of the launch-era consoles. Later ones (and the ones that got "cleaned" (actually, completely replaced) under Nintendo's aftermarket free warranty after the flaw was discovered) were equipped with better quality optical drives.
I'm not exactly sure how one would go about checking a secondhand console (as mine is) short of actually trying a SSBB disc; I do have a SSBB disc and it plays fine. I'm either a lucky launch-era console owner or I managed to get my paws on a late model.
*according to Nintendo's official statement, the flaw affected around 3% of the launch era consoles.
Hindenberg: avoidable. Hydrogen filled envelope?? Even back then they knew the stuff was explosively flammable (yet they still had a smoking room in the gondola), my thinking is that the grounding cable wasn't properly secured. Spark. Bang. Oh, the humanity! Titanic: avoidable. Though nobody can say for certain, I don't think the lookout was paying full attention to his duty.
skydiving isn't dangerous at all, especially compared with some other pastimes such as fishing - people die as a result of falling in ponds, lakes and rivers or getting washed out to sea every day, belting themselves in the head with lead weights on a bad cast (or someone else's bad cast), or from exposure. There is practically NO safety equipment used in fishing. Skydiving? You got five point chute restraints, quadruple-checking open chutes, packing your own pack, cinching your own belts, cinching your buddy's belts, him cinching your belts, checking and rechecking. At any point, damaged gear is extremely likely to be spotted. In ten years I can think of maybe five incidents where equipment failure has resulted in the death of a skydiver, and still less than a dozen where someone doing something amazingly stupid like releasing the canopy early (as you'd have a QR buckle in a HALO water landing setup) has met similar results. Fishing? Doesn't even need for equipment to fail.
no... the impact is what killed him. We are all subject to the effects of gravity 24/7. Difference is how far off the ground you are when you start your freefall.
what I consider a sharp knife, is something that does what it's designed to do with little effort from me. When I rest my carving knife on a tomato, I want it to slide through under its own weight. If it doesn't, it's not sharp enough or there's not enough metal in the blade. My cleaver will go through a goat leg with one blow (though it won't rest-cut a tomato - it's not meant for that), and my pocket knife will reduce an oak stump to an interesting sculpture (because it's meant for that).
So please, take your pissing contest and kindly shove it up your arse. I'm not interested.
all my kitchen knives are sharp enough to shave with. They terrify my wife*. I treat every blade I buy to a fresh bevel through three different whetstones from 400-1800 grit (washita, waterstone and polish with an Arkansas Black), and I mean practically every blade that'll take a new edge. Once the bevels are done, I never have to go back to the washita on the same blade.
*she has her own set which are finished with the 1000 grit waterstone. I won't touch 'em for use 'cos they're not "me" sharp.
according to io9, there may be proportionately similar quantities of water trapped in Lunar basalt as there is in terrestrial mid-ocean ridge regolith. That is a buttload of water, in potentially viable concentrations.
In 2010 I posted a scathing review of a solicitor who had let me down BADLY. I mean, totally betrayed me and cost me a LOT. Almost my entire family, in fact. The solicitor wrote me via email and threatened to sue *me* if I did not retract the review.
I told 'em to fill their fuckin' boots, I know and they knew that I'd bury them under the one thing I was willing to provide to prove my case against them: EVIDENCE which THEY had provided!
only a COURT OF LAW has the legal authority to impose a "fine". What this is, is tantamount to extortion. If she paid money (ie it left her account), and didn't receive the goods, then she has every fucking right to complain! My advice (IAAL, IANYL): take this upstart company to the fucking cleaners in a private criminal prosecution. Obtain the judgement in favour (this is open and fucking shut!) and use that to sue for punitive damages (NO LIMIT!)
not true, apparently there are copious deposits of water ice in the permanently shaded polar craters. On top of which, if you had to make it in situ (you wouldn't have to carry water) you would only need to carry oxygen, there is oodles of (albeit charged and otherwise highly energetic) solar proton mass flying around out there. You just have to find a way of slowing it down. Nowhere would you ever have to store hydrogen for transport from one planetary mass to another, it's the most abundant element in the entire universe.
no, this wasn't a shotcrete application, the cement was in the covering cloth already, a bit like two part epoxy composite where one part of the epoxy is already in the fibre and just needs a liberal spraying of activator (in this case, H2O) to set it. The clothcrete used non-reusable bladders, though there's nothing stopping you leaving the bladders on the inside walls to offer an insulating layer... you might try and pull the bladders out and reuse them but they didn't offer flat doped sheets to achieve this (if you managed to extract the bladder without breaking it). I guess it's down to the heat given off by the cement reaction as well that might damage the bladder material (polythene?) that would negate the possibility of reuse.
Clothcrete. Now, since I can't find a link, here's the SP:
What this stuff is, is what it sounds like: a heavy canvas-type material doped in cement. What the inventor had was an air bladder which he'd fill, this would be wrapped in this cloth. When the bladder's fully inflated (various shapes available), you'd spray this stuff with water, wait an hour or two for it to set hard, then set to cutting holes for windows and hatches. After about a day it's cured and a: strong enough to lean on and b: basically invulnerable to small-arms fire. Apparently the MoD were all over this as an alternative to lean-to shelters for troops in semi-permanent encampments.
got a pile of tape drives as well, they've come in useful (you'd be surprised at the number of people who have tapes but somewhere along the way they've "lost" the hardware...). One I wouldn't mind getting my stickies on is a PlusDeck MK.I - the IDE model, which had a high speed option (read/write a C60, both sides at once, in about 90 seconds!). I don't know why they dropped the high speed option for the II or record facility on the IIc... but for now, I'm making do with an ever dwindling supply of portable cassette decks as I burn through them ripping my mixtapes and conference audios (I got bloody millions of 'em!).
the distribution of matter in the universe is uniform if you view it on the scale of the entire universe. Which, if held to be infinite, definitively proves the theory.
I have a (n opened) box of virgin Verbatims and two Dell USB floppy drives (not to mention a Mitubishi IDE LS-120 which also reads floppies!), somewhere around I've also got a still shrinkwrapped box of 20 Sony DSHD disks.
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Wii will play DVD movies, though it's a hack and not covered by warranty (how they get away with this is quite beyond me, as it has been found time after time that jailbreaking any computer hardware should not void the warranty)
All you need is a Wii with system version 3.2 (easily done if you have a wifi connection available), a FAT/FAT32 formatted SD card, an SD card reader/writer, DVDX, Homebrew Channel Installer and MPlayer, and a working knowledge of Google.
it wasn't a flaw in all Wii's, it was only in a few* of the launch-era consoles. Later ones (and the ones that got "cleaned" (actually, completely replaced) under Nintendo's aftermarket free warranty after the flaw was discovered) were equipped with better quality optical drives.
I'm not exactly sure how one would go about checking a secondhand console (as mine is) short of actually trying a SSBB disc; I do have a SSBB disc and it plays fine. I'm either a lucky launch-era console owner or I managed to get my paws on a late model.
*according to Nintendo's official statement, the flaw affected around 3% of the launch era consoles.
is this going to turn into another lift-the-heatsink hack-fix?
yeah, that might have had a lot to do with the aftermath...
"Oh noes, duh eisberg maked hole! We iz zinkin!"
"fatal fishing accidents" on google returns 18,000,000 hits. Good place for you to start...
"Fatal fishing accidents" on Google returns 18 million hits. Start there.
see, if he'd had the car on axle stands he'd've been fine.
Whose incredibly stupid idea was it to work under a car supported by a jack??
Hindenberg: avoidable. Hydrogen filled envelope?? Even back then they knew the stuff was explosively flammable (yet they still had a smoking room in the gondola), my thinking is that the grounding cable wasn't properly secured. Spark. Bang. Oh, the humanity!
Titanic: avoidable. Though nobody can say for certain, I don't think the lookout was paying full attention to his duty.
Next?
skydiving isn't dangerous at all, especially compared with some other pastimes such as fishing - people die as a result of falling in ponds, lakes and rivers or getting washed out to sea every day, belting themselves in the head with lead weights on a bad cast (or someone else's bad cast), or from exposure. There is practically NO safety equipment used in fishing. Skydiving? You got five point chute restraints, quadruple-checking open chutes, packing your own pack, cinching your own belts, cinching your buddy's belts, him cinching your belts, checking and rechecking. At any point, damaged gear is extremely likely to be spotted. In ten years I can think of maybe five incidents where equipment failure has resulted in the death of a skydiver, and still less than a dozen where someone doing something amazingly stupid like releasing the canopy early (as you'd have a QR buckle in a HALO water landing setup) has met similar results. Fishing? Doesn't even need for equipment to fail.
no... the impact is what killed him. We are all subject to the effects of gravity 24/7. Difference is how far off the ground you are when you start your freefall.
what I consider a sharp knife, is something that does what it's designed to do with little effort from me. When I rest my carving knife on a tomato, I want it to slide through under its own weight. If it doesn't, it's not sharp enough or there's not enough metal in the blade. My cleaver will go through a goat leg with one blow (though it won't rest-cut a tomato - it's not meant for that), and my pocket knife will reduce an oak stump to an interesting sculpture (because it's meant for that).
So please, take your pissing contest and kindly shove it up your arse. I'm not interested.
I think it goes without saying you don't use a whetstone without some form of lubricant.
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all my kitchen knives are sharp enough to shave with. They terrify my wife*. I treat every blade I buy to a fresh bevel through three different whetstones from 400-1800 grit (washita, waterstone and polish with an Arkansas Black), and I mean practically every blade that'll take a new edge. Once the bevels are done, I never have to go back to the washita on the same blade.
*she has her own set which are finished with the 1000 grit waterstone. I won't touch 'em for use 'cos they're not "me" sharp.
according to io9, there may be proportionately similar quantities of water trapped in Lunar basalt as there is in terrestrial mid-ocean ridge regolith. That is a buttload of water, in potentially viable concentrations.
this based upon the assumption that the average airline passenger can find a remote control without having to pull their tits up over their ears...
you could just mirror recipesource.com and dump it on an old notebook. Made the missus well happy, that did.
replying to myself, I know, I know...
In 2010 I posted a scathing review of a solicitor who had let me down BADLY. I mean, totally betrayed me and cost me a LOT. Almost my entire family, in fact. The solicitor wrote me via email and threatened to sue *me* if I did not retract the review.
I told 'em to fill their fuckin' boots, I know and they knew that I'd bury them under the one thing I was willing to provide to prove my case against them: EVIDENCE which THEY had provided!
only a COURT OF LAW has the legal authority to impose a "fine". What this is, is tantamount to extortion. If she paid money (ie it left her account), and didn't receive the goods, then she has every fucking right to complain! My advice (IAAL, IANYL): take this upstart company to the fucking cleaners in a private criminal prosecution. Obtain the judgement in favour (this is open and fucking shut!) and use that to sue for punitive damages (NO LIMIT!)
not true, apparently there are copious deposits of water ice in the permanently shaded polar craters. On top of which, if you had to make it in situ (you wouldn't have to carry water) you would only need to carry oxygen, there is oodles of (albeit charged and otherwise highly energetic) solar proton mass flying around out there. You just have to find a way of slowing it down. Nowhere would you ever have to store hydrogen for transport from one planetary mass to another, it's the most abundant element in the entire universe.
no, this wasn't a shotcrete application, the cement was in the covering cloth already, a bit like two part epoxy composite where one part of the epoxy is already in the fibre and just needs a liberal spraying of activator (in this case, H2O) to set it. The clothcrete used non-reusable bladders, though there's nothing stopping you leaving the bladders on the inside walls to offer an insulating layer... you might try and pull the bladders out and reuse them but they didn't offer flat doped sheets to achieve this (if you managed to extract the bladder without breaking it). I guess it's down to the heat given off by the cement reaction as well that might damage the bladder material (polythene?) that would negate the possibility of reuse.
Clothcrete. Now, since I can't find a link, here's the SP:
What this stuff is, is what it sounds like: a heavy canvas-type material doped in cement. What the inventor had was an air bladder which he'd fill, this would be wrapped in this cloth. When the bladder's fully inflated (various shapes available), you'd spray this stuff with water, wait an hour or two for it to set hard, then set to cutting holes for windows and hatches. After about a day it's cured and a: strong enough to lean on and b: basically invulnerable to small-arms fire. Apparently the MoD were all over this as an alternative to lean-to shelters for troops in semi-permanent encampments.
got a pile of tape drives as well, they've come in useful (you'd be surprised at the number of people who have tapes but somewhere along the way they've "lost" the hardware...). One I wouldn't mind getting my stickies on is a PlusDeck MK.I - the IDE model, which had a high speed option (read/write a C60, both sides at once, in about 90 seconds!). I don't know why they dropped the high speed option for the II or record facility on the IIc... but for now, I'm making do with an ever dwindling supply of portable cassette decks as I burn through them ripping my mixtapes and conference audios (I got bloody millions of 'em!).
the distribution of matter in the universe is uniform if you view it on the scale of the entire universe. Which, if held to be infinite, definitively proves the theory.
I have a (n opened) box of virgin Verbatims and two Dell USB floppy drives (not to mention a Mitubishi IDE LS-120 which also reads floppies!), somewhere around I've also got a still shrinkwrapped box of 20 Sony DSHD disks.
I had a 1975 P plate Ford Escort Ghia 1300 block that got 43mpg (urban). I have yet to see a car in common use *today* that comes near that.