Many businesses hate parking meters, it doesn't help their store, but it definitely keeps people from ever parking as they head off to a big box so they don't need to deal with the crap of a city nickel and diming them, as they have to consider a constantly running down meter, and the cost of even looking at one of our stores is higher than our competitor due to the meter, as well as the downtown it out of the way compared to a mall shopping plaza.
Many businesses including my own offer to pay for your ticket if you get one when you are in the store, its about the only thing we can do besides lobby the city to get them removed, which has been successful at some stores and has improved business. In other places we have a jar of nickels which we give away free for the meter (Nickels work best so people don't take too many) Meters cost us thousands of dollars a day and probably make the city 20 bucks after the cost of collections.
The real solution to the issues you presented are parking enforcers chalking tires, and towing cars that are parked for hours, a meter could actually keep a broken car on a street if people kept feeding it, (I have seen it) a chalker can just know its the same car that has been there all day and get it towed. It is just as effective at keeping spaces moving, but doesn't keep customers away. If there is a broken car in front of a store, you call the police and it gets removed.
Obsessive perhaps, but it hasnt been without a positive reward.
We run a few high profile servers scattered around the country, not just for TF2, we need people on call 24/7 to deal with server problems, hacking/DDOS attacks, social problems, network problems, backend database problems, that kind of thing. And unlike CentOS, having one guy in a certain role has proven to be a surefire path to failure, So we have DR plans of "In case X fails, contact A here, then here, then contact B here, then C here and here." At least three people are capable of performing any specific task, in scattered timezones and countries one should be up. The only thing which isn't as distributed as we would like is some of our source code is only truly understood by the original coder and one of the physical pieces of hardware is only accessible by one person as it finds itself in a university datacenter on a very fat pipe.
And to the guy below me, it sounds like you need a DR planner, I should get you my card;) .
I'm in a online TF2 clan, and we have the Real Names, addresses, phone numbers, and work phone numbers, of the 10 highest ranking members. The top two members have shared all important info so a absence of one is annoying, but completely survivable. Perhaps its because we have so many active duty military in our group, but I would expect everyone to take such basic precautions.
Please don't tell me my TF2 group is more organized than CentOS, (Please!)
Sure if the network is truly adhoc, but these aren't, the hacker needs to get the wifi from somewhere, and more often than not it is the official airport/coffeeshop wifi.
This is someone connecting to a wireless access point with their laptop, running the sniffing suite on the laptop, and running a portable access point out another ethernet jack or through USB. I have a great USB based access point that is able to repeat and share any signal I can get, I use it to route wifi over great distance over a cantenna and repeat it to all my devices, it will not show up as an ad hoc network. Mine is old they make them even better, smaller and cheaper now. Nobody is going to bat an eye at the hacker with a usb cable running into his laptop bag.
PS: Firefox with a proxy including DNS + Putty running a dynamic proxy + A linux box at home (such as a low power tomato router) with SSH access + Priv/Pub ssh keys + DynDNS static IPs = 3 second complete encryption of everything no matter how sketchy the access point.
PSS: People saying this isn't a problem, so much webmail is unsecured by default, so many passwords are emailed to users. Please just trust the security geeks, you are really really vulnerable to deep packet inspection and transparent proxies. Secondly you are trusting the blackhat's DNS, are you really going to notice when you go to paypal/etc and the HTTPS is missing just one time?
I'm not ignorant, I was born with a working smeller and it worked fine until I was twenty, as smells began fading away I was conscious of it and made a conscious note to look for variation in flavor, since I too doubted my grandfather as you doubt me, I once said all the same things until experiencing it first hand. It really is a weird feeling, when you realize nothing smells like anything, or the one time my wife cooks something and I sniff and go... What is that, what are you cooking, I smell something! Wow! (that doesn't happen much anymore)
And yes, its a scientific fact, until you really start digging and find out how few scientists really give a crap about anosmia and olfactory research, the "foremost expert" on anosmia was dubbed that by others, after writing a single paper, as the "foremost expert" he gets tons of mail from sufferers, and aggregates some of the info, but no formal or scientific study has been conducted. Also most research backing up the claims you put forward never studied an anosmia sufferer, and while some may lose full taste as the first reply to my post did at birth, clearly it is not all. The idea which you just want to throw out and explain away mine and others in this threads personal experience is bad science, since you are presented with data which doesn't fit in the established commonly held belief.
Just because the finding has been printed and repeated ad-nauseum, doesn't mean the original research ever was, or wasn't flawed. Also, any unquantifiable thing like "% of taste" which is able to be pinned down with an exact percent should raise some red flags. Really, 70%, not 60%, not 80%? but 70-75 percent exact. It sounds a lot like it was pulled out of somewhere just like all old wives tales to lend an air of credibility. "Most" you can question, "70-75%" now that is obviously hard science.
It is no obsruction, I can breath just fine, but the idea of smelling with my mouth isn't impossible. Of course then calling it smelling and not taste becomes something of a convoluted argument. If some taste/smell hybrid fuctions still work I don't doubt it, but 0% of them come through the air and my nose. This has been independently and scientifically verified on a car ride, windows rolled up, with my father, after he ate a lot of chili. We really can't smell.
The real point is this, the "When you have a cold things don't taste right, so that's why sense of smell is 70% of taste" Obviously is wrong, something else is at work in that instance where it negatively effects the taste of those who cannot smell.
Perhaps I am able to taste what others must smell. I have always placed my taste buds above many of my peers. (Hey, I can't smell, nobody faults the blind man for saying he can hear better than most) Maybe my tongue is taking over for what is missing elsewhere.
Perhaps that is your situation and I believe you, but I doubt my grandfather fills in the gap 50 years later.
I can taste all those things fine, but it is not a memory, since I can easily discern quality in all these things, not just "this tastes like coffee, mmmm memory of coffee smell." I have a full range of likes and dislikes in coffee, bitters, sweets, carmely notes, stale coffee, strong coffee, my work serves starbucks and a better local brew, if someone fills up my cup with the starbucks blend not thinking there is a difference I can immediately tell, I cant smell coffee at all, my grandfather really is a wine connoisseur, he runs large taste testing events, you can't fill in the gap to taste the subtleties of wine, the casks they were aged in, etc.
"For example, about 70% of what you think of as "taste" when you are eating food comes from your sense of smell. Without a sense of smell, your food will taste rather bland and you probably wouldn't be able to appreciate the more subtle flavors (and definitely the aromas) of various foods. Try it yourself. Next time you are stuffed up with a cold, try eating one of your favorite foods and see if it is still as full of flavor as you remember."
Bullshit. My grandfather and myself both have anosmnia, this lie gets perpetrated as fact time and time again with only the cold "evidence" as backup.
My grandfather is locked in a trunk with a skunk and not noticing smell-less, I am 90% there, I didn't believe him when he said taste was not affected, he is a wine connoisseur. I can't smell most foods, and I was conscious of my gradual loss of smell since I knew he couldn't smell. Everything tastes absolutely 100% A-OK. If we have colds, everything tastes wrong and dull just like it does for everyone else.
Smell is important for many reasons, gas leaks mainly, (my grandfather almost died) 70% of taste is not one of those reasons.
The is almost no research done into anosmnia, so somehow this smell myth has never been challenged. We taste great, I am an excellent cook, and a connoisseur of many items, with an ability to taste subtle flavors most miss, often accurately pinning down variations in ingredients, compared to my smell-full family have unrefined tastebuds and any X is an X, with no variation in quality.
It was a trivial fact, a submarine was listed as having four times the horsepower it really contained, since there were four engines some fuzzy math took place and this submarine just under four times more powerful than it's direct successor.
The problem was the fact stood for years, I worked at a museum which actually had one of these submarines, Among my sources were A, the number written on the engines, and B, Dead tree books and manuals clearly stating the engine size.
My vandalism was taken down because this fact stood so long it couldn't be false, I said it wasn't cited, how can you prove me wrong, He quickly found citation, hundreds of sites got their stats info from wikipedia, and as we all know "The Internet" is a more trustworthy souce than a real navy manual any day of the week.
Really they are only (supposedly) oversubscribed during prime time.
If top tier users get some QOS that sounds reasonable. As a top tier user, I don't care that all my bandwidth is at 10meg all the time, I just want to be able to use the internet without worrying it's THIS episode of The Office or SUSe ISO or Ubuntu update that will push me over the edge.
They Could make QOS transparent, If you use more than X (say 100Gigs a month) You will be QOSed between the hours of 6 and 12PM. All your traffic will be "bulk" except for DNS and small HTTP query's.
In good cameras perhaps the difference between 7, and 12 MP camera is really just optics and CCDs. But when you are talking about Camera-phones it is back to the late 90s, the difference between VGA (.3) 1.5, and 3 megapixels is a massive shift. Especially since they usually all have the same crappy optics.
There is really going to be a rush when they go out. I don't know how many waiting rooms I have been in where the TV is still getting static.
Then all the other places where people will have forgotten until they don't get a signal. For example, in the RV (For storm information, the radio is irresponsibly awful) the TV in the garage, the up north cabin television, basement TV for the kids, etc, etc, there will be a rush when the TVs go dark, the 2 coupons just covered the living room and a bedroom.
When I work on a client's data I keep everything related to it safe and separated until the job is 100% complete.
Then if my raid array makes a dupe of corrupted files, my hard drives fail, my computer explodes, and my backups degauss I always have the baseline originals, which could potentially be worth thousands and thousands of dollars. When something is worth 4 dollars, there is no way to justify adding an additional risk, no matter how small.
Indeed, my father in law is stuck on dialup, and wondered why his computer was so slow. (I hadn't been supporting him previously so I didn't look at his patch status) A quick speedtest (20 minutes later) showed he was downloading at less than a kilobyte per second.
Thats when I noticed it was downloading SP2 every single time he connected to check his mail. It has probably been downloading SP2 since it came out, years prior.
I think he was almost 70% complete with sp2 it probably would have been done in another year of intermittent use, but not before sp3 came out;)
Edit: Sorry for the snarkyness. Apparently "a302b" was full of crap, and after I RTFA it looks like those exclusions he listed are for a different program.
I don't know if it is really a learning experience, the knowledge that fire=bad doesn't help when you just aren't thinking about it.
All you need is that split seccond of mixed signals in motor skills in your brain, to not switch from the note you just wrote with a pencil and the soldering iron you just picked up.
I had to write right handed for a week.
Though really, the main reason I would think of to keep a soldering iron of of a young kid's hand is not personal safety, but avoiding a house fire. That kind of wattage is a lot to entrust to a 6 year old. I think keeping them confined to battery power is a good idea at that stage.
Assuming equal quality speakers (which indeed cost a lot more than headphones) The difference is your room. Many people don't enjoy the sound of being in an isolation chamber with your headphones, An effect that would be mimicked listening to speakers in a sound dampened room. A lot of people enjoy the effects of sound unfolding like in a music hall.
I'm sure the best sound in the world comes from those ridiculously expensive listening rooms you see, baffled and shaped like an opera house. But if you put the same expensive speakers in the average living room with vaulted ceilings hard angles and whatnot, the sound will not be equal in all places, there will be echos and some sounds will be scientifically and measurably deadened. Speakers are always at the whim of their environment, while headphones are only manipulated by your ear canal.
Anything that requires a key requires basically any lackey who works in that department to unlock. No seniority at all. At many stores security usually does an audit at the end of each night to check for theft in all locked areas, If an employee stole something, they can just review the tapes, and they have their name, address, and social on file. Not quite the perfect crime, or much of a risk to the store.
Wii Shop and IOS51 installer From WiiBrew Jump to: navigation, search
Wii Shop and IOS51 installer is a very quick modification of PatchMii modified by Muzer that does one thing: It installs the new IOS51 and Wii Shop Channel, without installing the patches to all the other IOSes. This means that as long as you didn't update, you can now install this to use the Wii Shop Channel but keep all the benefits of not having the update.
Anybody at all could have made this, just everyone is too busy at the moment, so I figured I would make it. It's literally modifying 4 lines of code and commenting out a bunch of stuff. Because of this I didn't bother to include the source in the package, but if anyone wants me to, I'll happily include it.
This does not have the same effects as updating, so you get the best of both worlds.
You can do this on any system menu version and it will work fine, keeping the system menu version you have.
I made the program as two separate dol files, because it's easier and quicker for me that way, if this lasts a while I'll make a version that combines the two files.
NOTE: TAKE OUT ANY GAMECUBE MEMORY CARDS/CONTROLLERS AND USB DEVICES BEFORE INSTALLING ANYTHING. The first time one person installed the IOS51, and Shop Channel. One person had a Gamecube memory card, and a wireless adapter in the Wii, and it didn't install correctly. But after taking out all Gamecube items, re-installed everything and it worked fine. Axelpaxel was the one that found that USB devices did it too.
Instructions: Simply load one file, then the other. It does not matter in which order you load them. Use any method.
Releases by Muzer Wii Shop and IOS51 installer v1: version 1 Wii Shop and IOS51 installer v2: version 2 (This version includes a bugfix) Source code: Source
Releases by tona This version will install both IOS51 and the Shop Channel in the same installer and will also patch the signature hash check out of IOS51 for you (fakesign bug).
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Many businesses hate parking meters, it doesn't help their store, but it definitely keeps people from ever parking as they head off to a big box so they don't need to deal with the crap of a city nickel and diming them, as they have to consider a constantly running down meter, and the cost of even looking at one of our stores is higher than our competitor due to the meter, as well as the downtown it out of the way compared to a mall shopping plaza.
Many businesses including my own offer to pay for your ticket if you get one when you are in the store, its about the only thing we can do besides lobby the city to get them removed, which has been successful at some stores and has improved business. In other places we have a jar of nickels which we give away free for the meter (Nickels work best so people don't take too many) Meters cost us thousands of dollars a day and probably make the city 20 bucks after the cost of collections.
The real solution to the issues you presented are parking enforcers chalking tires, and towing cars that are parked for hours, a meter could actually keep a broken car on a street if people kept feeding it, (I have seen it) a chalker can just know its the same car that has been there all day and get it towed. It is just as effective at keeping spaces moving, but doesn't keep customers away. If there is a broken car in front of a store, you call the police and it gets removed.
Obsessive perhaps, but it hasnt been without a positive reward.
We run a few high profile servers scattered around the country, not just for TF2, we need people on call 24/7 to deal with server problems, hacking/DDOS attacks, social problems, network problems, backend database problems, that kind of thing. And unlike CentOS, having one guy in a certain role has proven to be a surefire path to failure, So we have DR plans of "In case X fails, contact A here, then here, then contact B here, then C here and here." At least three people are capable of performing any specific task, in scattered timezones and countries one should be up. The only thing which isn't as distributed as we would like is some of our source code is only truly understood by the original coder and one of the physical pieces of hardware is only accessible by one person as it finds itself in a university datacenter on a very fat pipe.
And to the guy below me, it sounds like you need a DR planner, I should get you my card ;) .
I'm in a online TF2 clan, and we have the Real Names, addresses, phone numbers, and work phone numbers, of the 10 highest ranking members. The top two members have shared all important info so a absence of one is annoying, but completely survivable. Perhaps its because we have so many active duty military in our group, but I would expect everyone to take such basic precautions.
Please don't tell me my TF2 group is more organized than CentOS, (Please!)
Sure if the network is truly adhoc, but these aren't, the hacker needs to get the wifi from somewhere, and more often than not it is the official airport/coffeeshop wifi.
This is someone connecting to a wireless access point with their laptop, running the sniffing suite on the laptop, and running a portable access point out another ethernet jack or through USB. I have a great USB based access point that is able to repeat and share any signal I can get, I use it to route wifi over great distance over a cantenna and repeat it to all my devices, it will not show up as an ad hoc network. Mine is old they make them even better, smaller and cheaper now. Nobody is going to bat an eye at the hacker with a usb cable running into his laptop bag.
PS: Firefox with a proxy including DNS + Putty running a dynamic proxy + A linux box at home (such as a low power tomato router) with SSH access + Priv/Pub ssh keys + DynDNS static IPs = 3 second complete encryption of everything no matter how sketchy the access point.
PSS: People saying this isn't a problem, so much webmail is unsecured by default, so many passwords are emailed to users. Please just trust the security geeks, you are really really vulnerable to deep packet inspection and transparent proxies. Secondly you are trusting the blackhat's DNS, are you really going to notice when you go to paypal/etc and the HTTPS is missing just one time?
I'm not ignorant, I was born with a working smeller and it worked fine until I was twenty, as smells began fading away I was conscious of it and made a conscious note to look for variation in flavor, since I too doubted my grandfather as you doubt me, I once said all the same things until experiencing it first hand. It really is a weird feeling, when you realize nothing smells like anything, or the one time my wife cooks something and I sniff and go... What is that, what are you cooking, I smell something! Wow! (that doesn't happen much anymore)
And yes, its a scientific fact, until you really start digging and find out how few scientists really give a crap about anosmia and olfactory research, the "foremost expert" on anosmia was dubbed that by others, after writing a single paper, as the "foremost expert" he gets tons of mail from sufferers, and aggregates some of the info, but no formal or scientific study has been conducted. Also most research backing up the claims you put forward never studied an anosmia sufferer, and while some may lose full taste as the first reply to my post did at birth, clearly it is not all. The idea which you just want to throw out and explain away mine and others in this threads personal experience is bad science, since you are presented with data which doesn't fit in the established commonly held belief.
Just because the finding has been printed and repeated ad-nauseum, doesn't mean the original research ever was, or wasn't flawed. Also, any unquantifiable thing like "% of taste" which is able to be pinned down with an exact percent should raise some red flags. Really, 70%, not 60%, not 80%? but 70-75 percent exact. It sounds a lot like it was pulled out of somewhere just like all old wives tales to lend an air of credibility.
"Most" you can question, "70-75%" now that is obviously hard science.
I would agree with you there.
It is no obsruction, I can breath just fine, but the idea of smelling with my mouth isn't impossible. Of course then calling it smelling and not taste becomes something of a convoluted argument. If some taste/smell hybrid fuctions still work I don't doubt it, but 0% of them come through the air and my nose. This has been independently and scientifically verified on a car ride, windows rolled up, with my father, after he ate a lot of chili. We really can't smell.
The real point is this, the "When you have a cold things don't taste right, so that's why sense of smell is 70% of taste" Obviously is wrong, something else is at work in that instance where it negatively effects the taste of those who cannot smell.
Perhaps I am able to taste what others must smell. I have always placed my taste buds above many of my peers. (Hey, I can't smell, nobody faults the blind man for saying he can hear better than most) Maybe my tongue is taking over for what is missing elsewhere.
Perhaps that is your situation and I believe you, but I doubt my grandfather fills in the gap 50 years later.
I can taste all those things fine, but it is not a memory, since I can easily discern quality in all these things, not just "this tastes like coffee, mmmm memory of coffee smell." I have a full range of likes and dislikes in coffee, bitters, sweets, carmely notes, stale coffee, strong coffee, my work serves starbucks and a better local brew, if someone fills up my cup with the starbucks blend not thinking there is a difference I can immediately tell, I cant smell coffee at all, my grandfather really is a wine connoisseur, he runs large taste testing events, you can't fill in the gap to taste the subtleties of wine, the casks they were aged in, etc.
"For example, about 70% of what you think of as "taste" when you are eating food comes from your sense of smell. Without a sense of smell, your food will taste rather bland and you probably wouldn't be able to appreciate the more subtle flavors (and definitely the aromas) of various foods. Try it yourself. Next time you are stuffed up with a cold, try eating one of your favorite foods and see if it is still as full of flavor as you remember."
Bullshit. My grandfather and myself both have anosmnia, this lie gets perpetrated as fact time and time again with only the cold "evidence" as backup.
My grandfather is locked in a trunk with a skunk and not noticing smell-less, I am 90% there, I didn't believe him when he said taste was not affected, he is a wine connoisseur. I can't smell most foods, and I was conscious of my gradual loss of smell since I knew he couldn't smell. Everything tastes absolutely 100% A-OK. If we have colds, everything tastes wrong and dull just like it does for everyone else.
Smell is important for many reasons, gas leaks mainly, (my grandfather almost died) 70% of taste is not one of those reasons.
The is almost no research done into anosmnia, so somehow this smell myth has never been challenged. We taste great, I am an excellent cook, and a connoisseur of many items, with an ability to taste subtle flavors most miss, often accurately pinning down variations in ingredients, compared to my smell-full family have unrefined tastebuds and any X is an X, with no variation in quality.
I had this exact problem.
It was a trivial fact, a submarine was listed as having four times the horsepower it really contained, since there were four engines some fuzzy math took place and this submarine just under four times more powerful than it's direct successor.
The problem was the fact stood for years, I worked at a museum which actually had one of these submarines, Among my sources were A, the number written on the engines, and B, Dead tree books and manuals clearly stating the engine size.
My vandalism was taken down because this fact stood so long it couldn't be false, I said it wasn't cited, how can you prove me wrong, He quickly found citation, hundreds of sites got their stats info from wikipedia, and as we all know "The Internet" is a more trustworthy souce than a real navy manual any day of the week.
"it's immoral not to normalise levels. Remember, this would only be bringing the deficient areas in line with non-deficient."
What a load of doubletalk.
Was this a joke and I will soon be moderated +1 Woosh?
You could use this steaming pile of logic to justify pretty much anything.
Really they are only (supposedly) oversubscribed during prime time.
If top tier users get some QOS that sounds reasonable. As a top tier user, I don't care that all my bandwidth is at 10meg all the time, I just want to be able to use the internet without worrying it's THIS episode of The Office or SUSe ISO or Ubuntu update that will push me over the edge.
They Could make QOS transparent, If you use more than X (say 100Gigs a month) You will be QOSed between the hours of 6 and 12PM. All your traffic will be "bulk" except for DNS and small HTTP query's.
In good cameras perhaps the difference between 7, and 12 MP camera is really just optics and CCDs. But when you are talking about Camera-phones it is back to the late 90s, the difference between VGA (.3) 1.5, and 3 megapixels is a massive shift. Especially since they usually all have the same crappy optics.
There is really going to be a rush when they go out. I don't know how many waiting rooms I have been in where the TV is still getting static.
Then all the other places where people will have forgotten until they don't get a signal. For example, in the RV (For storm information, the radio is irresponsibly awful) the TV in the garage, the up north cabin television, basement TV for the kids, etc, etc, there will be a rush when the TVs go dark, the 2 coupons just covered the living room and a bedroom.
When I work on a client's data I keep everything related to it safe and separated until the job is 100% complete.
Then if my raid array makes a dupe of corrupted files, my hard drives fail, my computer explodes, and my backups degauss I always have the baseline originals, which could potentially be worth thousands and thousands of dollars. When something is worth 4 dollars, there is no way to justify adding an additional risk, no matter how small.
When cornered into a room by ninjas with nothing separating you from them but a door of wood, yes, thicker is better, but you will die regardless.
I think you are confusing ninjas with zombies, zombies have thick wood door shredding powers while a ninja is already in the room with you.
S-Video isn't even allowed. Which is a standard def only format.
The misguided motivation behind the congressional law was that they didn't want people with HD-TVs using government funds to buy an extra toy.
The problem is some people have an old HDTV without an ATSC terrestrial tuner.
We have to code the effing drivers anyways.
Indeed, my father in law is stuck on dialup, and wondered why his computer was so slow. (I hadn't been supporting him previously so I didn't look at his patch status) A quick speedtest (20 minutes later) showed he was downloading at less than a kilobyte per second.
Thats when I noticed it was downloading SP2 every single time he connected to check his mail. It has probably been downloading SP2 since it came out, years prior.
I think he was almost 70% complete with sp2 it probably would have been done in another year of intermittent use, but not before sp3 came out ;)
I now give him service packs on CDs
Edit: Sorry for the snarkyness. Apparently "a302b" was full of crap, and after I RTFA it looks like those exclusions he listed are for a different program.
My mistake, wish there was an edit button.
You are so smart your batteries never die on you and your hinges never crack?
I wish I had your IQ.
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I don't know if it is really a learning experience, the knowledge that fire=bad doesn't help when you just aren't thinking about it.
All you need is that split seccond of mixed signals in motor skills in your brain, to not switch from the note you just wrote with a pencil and the soldering iron you just picked up.
I had to write right handed for a week.
Though really, the main reason I would think of to keep a soldering iron of of a young kid's hand is not personal safety, but avoiding a house fire. That kind of wattage is a lot to entrust to a 6 year old. I think keeping them confined to battery power is a good idea at that stage.
Assuming equal quality speakers (which indeed cost a lot more than headphones) The difference is your room. Many people don't enjoy the sound of being in an isolation chamber with your headphones, An effect that would be mimicked listening to speakers in a sound dampened room. A lot of people enjoy the effects of sound unfolding like in a music hall.
I'm sure the best sound in the world comes from those ridiculously expensive listening rooms you see, baffled and shaped like an opera house. But if you put the same expensive speakers in the average living room with vaulted ceilings hard angles and whatnot, the sound will not be equal in all places, there will be echos and some sounds will be scientifically and measurably deadened. Speakers are always at the whim of their environment, while headphones are only manipulated by your ear canal.
Anything that requires a key requires basically any lackey who works in that department to unlock. No seniority at all. At many stores security usually does an audit at the end of each night to check for theft in all locked areas, If an employee stole something, they can just review the tapes, and they have their name, address, and social on file. Not quite the perfect crime, or much of a risk to the store.
Twelve hours after this story was posted "from the see-how-long-that-lasts dept".....
http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Wii_Shop_and_IOS51_installer
Wii Shop and IOS51 installer
From WiiBrew
Jump to: navigation, search
Wii Shop and IOS51 installer is a very quick modification of PatchMii modified by Muzer that does one thing: It installs the new IOS51 and Wii Shop Channel, without installing the patches to all the other IOSes. This means that as long as you didn't update, you can now install this to use the Wii Shop Channel but keep all the benefits of not having the update.
Anybody at all could have made this, just everyone is too busy at the moment, so I figured I would make it. It's literally modifying 4 lines of code and commenting out a bunch of stuff. Because of this I didn't bother to include the source in the package, but if anyone wants me to, I'll happily include it.
This does not have the same effects as updating, so you get the best of both worlds.
You can do this on any system menu version and it will work fine, keeping the system menu version you have.
I made the program as two separate dol files, because it's easier and quicker for me that way, if this lasts a while I'll make a version that combines the two files.
NOTE: TAKE OUT ANY GAMECUBE MEMORY CARDS/CONTROLLERS AND USB DEVICES BEFORE INSTALLING ANYTHING. The first time one person installed the IOS51, and Shop Channel. One person had a Gamecube memory card, and a wireless adapter in the Wii, and it didn't install correctly. But after taking out all Gamecube items, re-installed everything and it worked fine. Axelpaxel was the one that found that USB devices did it too.
Instructions: Simply load one file, then the other. It does not matter in which order you load them. Use any method.
Releases by Muzer
Wii Shop and IOS51 installer v1: version 1
Wii Shop and IOS51 installer v2: version 2 (This version includes a bugfix)
Source code: Source
Releases by tona
This version will install both IOS51 and the Shop Channel in the same installer and will also patch the signature hash check out of IOS51 for you (fakesign bug).