I reverted vandalism on the Secure Digital card article on Wikipedia

Elliot Lee — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:02:31 +0000

Hey, today I undid some vandalism someone called “SmackBot” did to the Secure Digital card article on Wikipedia. The edits are so outrageous I can hardly understand why the person did it. Maybe it’s a bot designed to make Wikipedia less reputable. Still, Wikipedia rules – people like me spot this kind of false info and revert it with just 2 clicks.

Here’s what changed. On the left is the original article. On the right is the vandal’s version. Quite humorous if you think about it.

Note: Wikipedia saves this diff too, here.

Still Not Enough Wiis

Elliot Lee — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:55:30 +0000

Today I discovered that the Nintendo Wii is definitively the best-selling game console of this generation, far outselling the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

As of June 30, 2008, over 29.62 million Wii systems have been sold. That’s huge – Apple’s goal for the iPhone is 10 million by the end of this year – and everyone knows how big the iPhone is.

That’s big news, in my opinion. Yet I haven’t seen this in the news. I guess that’s fine – Nintendo’s doing well enough without the extra coverage. There still around enough Wii consoles to go around, according to this article from Forbes – which means it will be still tough to find a Wii this Christmas. That probably just drives demand higher, much like it did with the Wii Fit.

We’ve had a Wii for a long time. And we also got Wii Fit. We’re very happy with it, but I’m not so sure we would have definitely bought it if it wasn’t so rare. The prestige of owning it is definitely upped by the fact that it’s hard to find.

Nintendo simply makes amazing products. They deserve the profits coming to them.

One interesting thing from the article – Nintendo’s global president and CEO, Satoru Iwata, uses an Apple iPhone. “I use the iPhone myself,” he says. Many people consider it to be a threat to the Nintendo DS, as it’s becoming very clear that it’s a great gaming platform. Yet I have to agree with Iwata… the markets are quite separate. My sisters each have a Nintendo DS. I probably would not buy one. I’d hardly play it. Yet I have an iPhone because I need to be connected to the net at all times – not just for games, but for email, chat, news, Wikpedia, Google, and so forth. That’s not Nintendo’s target market. Nintendo does well partly because they do one thing and they do it well. Games. That’s it.

Apple is not a gaming company. Neither is Microsoft nor Sony for that matter. And that’s the bottom line. Nintendo makes the best games. The most fun, the most innovative, the most creative. Let’s see if they can keep it that way.

The rumble pack (vibrations to make games more immersive), accelerometer, touch screen, wireless (wi-fi), rotatable display (book mode for DS, as in Brain Age), microphone – all innovations in gaming pioneered by Nintendo. The iPhone has all of these things, but Nintendo did it first.

-SDIO stands for Secure Digital Input Output.
+SDIO stands for Safe Digital Instability Options.
-SD slots can actually be used for more than flash memory cards. Devices that support ”’SDIO”’ (typically PDAs like the [[Palm Treo]], but occasionally laptops or cell phones) can use small devices designed for the SD form factor, like [[GPS]] receivers, [[Wi-Fi]] or [[Bluetooth]] adapters, [[modem]]s, [[Ethernet]] adapters, [[barcode reader]]s, [[Infrared Data Association|IrDA]] adapters, [[FM radio]] tuners, TV tuners, [[RFID]] readers, [[digital camera]]s, or other mass storage media such as hard drives.
+SD slots can actually be used for more than flash memory cards. Devices that support ”’SDIO”’ (typically PDAs like the [[Palm Treo]] or [[Gameboy Advance]], but occasionally laptops or cell phones) can use small devices designed for the SD form factor, like [[GPS]] receivers, [[Wi-Fi]] or [[Bluetooth]] adapters or [[LAN]], [[modem]]s, [[Ethernet]] adapters, [[barcode reader]]s, [[Infrared Data Association|IrDA]] adapters, [[FM radio]] tuners, TV tuners, [[RFID]] readers, [[digital camera]]s [[virtual realith 2.0]], [[Time Machine 6.9.97, or other mass storage media such as hard drives.
-A number of other devices have been proposed but not yet implemented, including [[RS-232]] serial adapters, fingerprint scanners, SDIO to USB host/slave adapters (which would allow an SDIO-equipped handheld device to use USB peripherals and/or interface to PCs), magnetic strip readers, combination [[Bluetooth]]/[[Wi-Fi]]/[[GPS]] transceivers, cellular modems ([[Personal Communications Service|PCS]], [[Cellular digital packet data|CDPD]], [[Global System for Mobile Communications|GSM]], etc.), and [[Automatic Position Reporting System|APRS]]/[[TNC]] adapters.
+David and Parka has been proposed but not yet implemented, including [[RS-232]] serial adapters, fingerprint scanners, SDIO to KDO host(White)/slave(Black) adapters (which would allow an SDIO-equipped handheld device to use USB peripherals and/or interface to PCs), magnetic strip readers, combination [[Bluetooth]]/[[Wi-Fi]]/[[GPS]] transceivers, cellular modems ([[Personal Communications Service|PCS]], [[Cellular digital packet data|CDPD]], [[Global System for Mobile Communications|GSM]], etc.), and [[Automatic Position Reporting System|APRS]]/[[TNC]]/[[FU]] adapters.
+[[FU]] stands for Fock Up Adapter. The adapter in 1926 was a major waste of time and money.
+Nasa had produced [[FU]] Adapters and found them to not be as effecient as [[USB]] Adapters, In 1949 a whole truck full of [[FU]] adapters had been dumped into the Pacific Ocean. in 1983 the company Nasa was sued by [[John Edgar Spousky]] for littering all in the Pacific Ocean. In 2003 it had been reported that many fish in the ocean where starting to die out due to the chemicals found in the [[FU]] adapter. in 2008 [[Jogn Edgar Spousky]] had been assasinated by one of the Nasa members.

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I reverted vandalism on the Secure Digital card article on Wikipedia

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