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New Wii Menu Update Targets Homebrew Again 258

Nintendo has tried to block homebrew during firmware updates in the past, often unsuccessfully. Now, as it rolls out version 4.3 of the Wii System Menu, stopping homebrew modifications once again seems to be its primary goal. From Nintendo's support site: "Because unauthorized channels or firmware may impair game play or the Wii console, updating to Wii Menu version 4.3 will check for and automatically remove such unauthorized files." Since it's hard to bill that as an upgrade, they vaguely add, "In addition, there are some behind the scenes enhancements that do not affect any prominently-used features or menus but will improve system performance."

Comment Re:What do you mean by "Science"? (Score 1) 322

A quick comment about those so called science shows. I was watching a show called something like "The Physics of Sports" or something like that. They were trying to settle the long term debate as to whether it is harder to hit a baseball or a softball.

The voice over guy says "We have a machine to measure the impact of a softball and a baseball hitting the backstop. The harder each hits, the harder it is to hit"

He was referring to the increased mass of a softball compared to a baseball. Um, an 18 wheeler traveling at 2 mph hits harder than either and I guarantee you I will hit it every time. There wouldn't be any, you know, scientists on your science show would there?

--Joey
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Journal Journal: hi

I am appealing the citation issued on May 12th 2005 (301 In Disabled Space/Ramp) for the amount of $275.00.

I will be submitting photographic evidence tomorrow in a separate folder. Please contact me if during review this evidence is not present.

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Journal Journal: Wami Lab 6

This lab was to create an impedance matching circuit to a 50ohm load. To do this we calculated the dimensions of the line with line calc. Which is pretty much what corresponded to our mathcad prelab. We used two gigahertz as a reference frequency. Quarter wave matching is the principle behind this lab.

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Journal Journal: Programming Assignment 1

Source:

#include
using namespace std;
#include
#define MAX_DIMENSION 10
#define MAX_ENTRY_LENGTH 5 //this is for field width purposes

struct dimensions
{ //matrix dimensions sans the data
int matrix1r, matrix1c, matrix2r, matrix2c;
};

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Journal Journal: HOT SE2

My essay for history of technology

The United States Consititution clearly assigns Congress the right to govern protections matters of intellectual property with the sole restraint enumerated being that such protections on creative works must be limited in nature. Since 1790 there has been a struggle to maintain a thriving public domain while at the same time encouraging creativity by granting creators exclusivity over their works. Our founding fathers meant for intellectual property la

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Journal Journal: Bright Futures

By now many of you have heard that the continuation of Bright Futures as we now know it is jeopardy. There are three causes of the deficit that can be addressed.

1. We can raise the standards (either retroactively or not)
2. We can raise money via taxes, tuition fees, etc.
3. We can lower the cost of attendance.

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