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Hey this is Reuben with Competition Accessories and we just wanted to make a quick video on how you change the face shield out on the Arai helmet. A lot of people get intimidated by Arai helmet face shields because of the side pod they have where you cant see whats going behind it. What we have done on this helmet here is we installed a clear pod so we could give you a better look at the inner workings of the base plate mechanism and show you how it works. Basically to remove the face shield what I want you to see is this little gray lever here, there are one of those on each side of the helmet. When you raise your shield to the top position those will pop out. Now if your helmet is a little older or a little worn out they might not pop all the way out like a brand new helmet. With the face shield all the way up you just need to lift those levers all the way up. Once you have lifted those until they click, to take the shield off is very simple, you are just going to grab it from the top , rotate it back and pull it off. It comes right off really quickly. You will see guys out at the track if you watch racing at all like the isle of man for instance, they will pull into the pits and they swap face shields on or off in just a matter of seconds. It is one of those things you have to get the hang of. To reinstall the shield is a little trickier, there is a horse shoe shape cut out on the end of the shield here, that's going to line up with the top curve on the helmet or the pod and with the clear ones you can see the round tab that its going to slide over. Your going to slide that in on both sides and its not going to really click or anything, you just have to get it down and on to there like that. Once its in I find it easier to have the helmet facing away from you and then you are just going to close the shield. When you close the shield what happens is this opening this cut out right here slides over that little notch right there, so that is what limits the shield as It opens. That's how to change the Arai face shield out, hopefully that helps you out. You can go to our youtube channel if you click on this link in the upper right hand corner and subscribe to us. We have a lot detailed videos on helmets and other products. You can also check us out on facebook and check us out online, see you next time.
Hey guys this is Reuben with Competition Accessories and welcome to our video review of the all new Arai Vector 2 helmet. This is Arai's entry level helmet and when I say entry level its still going to be a premium helmet. Its going to have the same complex laminate construction, so the shell is still going to be that hand laid fiberglass which is extremely and incredibly stiff. One thing that you see on all Arai helmets is this hyper ridge that is molded into the shell itself. This allows them to make the opening of the helmet a little larger so you can get the helmet on and off easier and still have a helmet that fits snug. Another thing that it does is it adds additional stiffness along the base of the helmet. This is a weak spot on the helmets because its open. If you have an impact here that hyper ridge is really going to reinforce the helmet. It also serves as a shock wave buffer so if you hit up here that energy wave is going to be reflective back up and not continue down towards your body. Looking at the aerodynamics of the Vector, there are some differences between the Vector 1 the older version to the Vector 2. First thing they changed was the chin vent. It doesnt really look a whole lot different from the outside but the Vector 2 has more channeling for that air to get inside the helmet to your face and the face shield. They have redesigned the air wing on the back so if you look at the original Vector and the Vector 2, the Vector 2 actually has scoops at the back of the wing that are going to pull more air over the back of the helmet and these vents draw all the warm air out of the helmet which is the most effective ways to cool off the inside of the helmet. There are also some small static vents at the back towards the base of the helmet. Another thing that they have changed on the Vector 2 is the new face shield is going to be wider. It is a wider eye port so you have better vision. Out of the helmet itself it still has those brow vents that are built in, so talk about the ventilation you have a chin bar vent which has two positions, then you have brow vents. Instead of having vents up on the brow of the helmet itself they put them in the face shield and the reason they did that was because they don't want to compromise the integrity of the shell. You can see that the brow vents are directed through these air channels. Those direct the air down around to your fore head so you get some nice air flow there. This top vent is closeable with a simple slider switch and it operates easy with gloves. The same thing goes for the back you can open and close these rear vents and its actually two positions with that slider switch. Moving on to the inside of the helmet. Arai has actually changed a lot about the inside of this helmet as well. The original Vector just had removable cheek pads. The Vector 2 has a fully removable interior. You will see the neck roll is nice and flush, that helps keep the wind noise down. We will go ahead and remove the cheek pads here. Another thing Arai does with their helmets is they give you an option to take some foam off of the cheek pads, so rather than having to buy a thinner cheek pad you can actually tear away this top layer of foam, its called their micro fitting cheek pads. Pull that off and that's going to give you an extra 5 mm of room up in the cheek pad area. Another thing they may notice is they use multiple densities of foam. You have different types of foam and they are contoured to fit your face. They are also springed as you can see when I push it forward, that helps when you are taking the helmet off. Arai does not use snaps on their cheek pads they are basically little tabs one on each side of the cheek pad. To remove the crown liner it is just basically four snaps, two in the front and two in the back. You can take the whole liner out, you can wash it and replace it. Another part of Arai's micro fit system is the tear away temple pads. This allow you to get a little extra room in that area, so if you feel like there is too much pressure on the sides of your head you can actually tear these off of the interior of the liner. On the inside of the helmet you have Arai's single piece EPS liner, which is basically multiple densities of foam but they mold it into one liner piece so you don't have different pieces of foam inside the helmet. Check out this helmet it is definitely a great option if you don't want to spend the money on higher end race helmets from Arai. You can subscribe to our youtube channel by clicking on the link in the upper right hand corner to watch all of our latest product and video reviews. Also check out our facebook page, and you can take a look at the Vector 2 on our website at Competition Accessories. We will see you next time.
Hey guys this is Reuben with Competition Accessories and welcome to our review of the Arai RX-Q. Now if you have been around on our website for a while you may have seen the older Arai RX-Q video we had and it was out of date and I wanted to do a better one, the older one was from before my time so lets get into the details of the Arai RX-Q. Arai calls it the ultimate street helmet, they have taken a lot of inspiration from the RX-7 line or the Corsair V which is their high end race helmets. It is a replacement for the Quantum 2 which was a very popular helmet choice. It is an all new model, if you are in Europe you probably know this one as the Quantum ST. Some specific changes from the Quantum 2 in mainly the head shape. Unfortunately a lot of riders are not happy with that, if you have a very round head shape in other words you have a lot of width to your head and just a very round shape, that's what the Quantum 2 was designed to fit. The RX-Q is an intermediate oval, so if that's your case and you want an Arai helmet the RX-Q is going to be your best bet in that line up. The intermediate oval is what Arai finds to be what most people are most comfortable wearing. You are going to spend anywhere from 500 to 700 dollars on the RX-Q depending on the graphic or the solid that you go with. First of all lets talk about the weight I have a scale we can throw it on and you can see it is fairly average for a motorcycle helmet, it is 3.5 lbs. This helmet is not super heavy but also not super light either. However when you have this on your head, it is designed for comfort, long distance riding, and high performance riding as well. The reason it doesn't feel super heavy when its on your head is it actually has a very low center of gravity and that's thanks to this hyper ridge that is built in along the base of the shell. Arai also does something that is unique that a lot of other helmet manufacturers don't do is they maintain the same shell thickness all the way down to the bottom of the shell. That provides again a low center of gravity but also some additional support and structure in the base of the shell. That hyper ridge also provides an additional level of rigidly along the base of the shell, so if you take a hit along this area on the shell, the shell is designed to spread impact so its going to spread that impact as far as it can so you don't want it to continue down passed the shell. Sometimes you can see a less expensive helmet in a bad crash will leave a crack down in this area here because there is no more support for the shell to continue to spread that impact. This hyper ridge will help transfer that impact back up the helmet so its not transferred to your body. I have a raw shell here that is a unique thing to take a look at and it is an RX-Q shell and it is actually hand laid fiberglass. All Arai helmets are hand made and they have true artisans and craftsman that build these shells to exact specifications. These helmets go through three separate quality control checks throughout there manufacturer and they do some really neat things. Not only that hyper ridge along the base of the shell but also peripheral belting. Anytime you have any kind of hole in the shell for ventilation or for the face shield it is a weak point so they provide additional belting along those areas to provide additional rigidity to the shell so they can manage that impact as best as possible. Another thing you can see is they take the same shape as an egg and that's something Arai has done for years, the rounder the helmet the more strong it is going to be and also your not providing for any means of catching on the pavement or the ground in a form of a crash. The purpose for that is so it will slide right along the ground and wont catch and cause even more injury because of it catching. Even the vents on the top of the helmet and the spoiler on the back are designed to break away in an accident. They are attached with basically and industrial double sided tape so it is stuck on very well for regular use but in accident it will break off. Taking a look at the inside you can see the reinforcement here, they do put on a spoiler and drill holes for the vents. Again just a very very strong shell construction. Last thing I want to talk about on this raw shell is you can see where most helmets have a significant recess where they would install the base plate mechanism for the shield, you may notice all Arai's use this pod system which is essentially a cover over the base plate and that's because the base plate does not sit or does not have a home in the shell. It has a very shallow recess where that goes where as most helmets use all sorts of springs and other things to clip a shield in which requires a little bit more of a detente in the shell itself. Arai's method is to try and keep that round organic shell shape consistent so you don't compromise on the shell strength and protection. The EPS liner is no different it is a one piece EPS liner and the one I have here has several different colors that's not what you would see traditionally from the factory, they usually cover them in a black coating. This one details the different types of foam that are used and you can see its the one piece liner so a lot of times you will see other manufactures claim they have a two piece EPS liner or a multi-density EPS liner where what they have found over the years in all helmets different impacts require different types of foam. When we see a serious impact you want that foam to be able to absorb the impact along with the duration of that impact which is going to require a firmer foam or multiple impacts that Snell 2010 requirement is for it to absorb the same impact multiple times. The liner takes different densities of foam especially along the face shield area and chin bar. The biggest thing with Arai is it is a multiple density one piece liner. They do not use any glue on softer foam they make it so everything works as one and uniformly. Lets talk about the ventilation it is fairly straight forward it does have some really nice features to it. You do have a chin bar vent that directs air up onto the face shield to prevent fogging. There are pinlock shields available for this no anti fogging coating on the inside of this helmet so it will fog up on you if you don't do something about it you can get the pinlock insert and that is just the way Arai has chosen to go with there anti-fog, the advantage there is no anti-fog coating to wear off over time. Arai face shields do run a little bit more money as well. A lot of that is thanks to the face shield vents. The reason they put these vents on the face shield so it does not compromise the safety of the helmet. They know that the shell is already weak due to the eye port so they did not want to take any more away from that shell construction. The vents on the face shield channel the air through air passages that go throughout the helmet. This also vents to your temple area where a lot of helmets fail to direct air. You do have two chimney style vents on the top, it does have ram air type scoops that will push air down into the helmet. If you look at the back of the helmet there are some exhaust vents. This is the most effective way to keep a helmet cool because it draws the warm air right out the back of the helmet by creating an area of low pressure and it acts like a vacuum. You also have some static ports on the back here and it functions by also drawing the warm air right out the helmet. Finally out the base of the neck roll your also getting some exhaust vents, so that air that is pushed in will be able to flow through the entire helmet all the way out the back to keep you comfortable. Lets talk about removing the face shield because there is not a base plate system to use to remove the shield. What you do is you open this all the way and a little gray lever will pop right out. There is one on each side on the shield, all you do is simple pull up on those levers until they click and then once you have done that you can take the face shield and continue rotating it up and it will come right out. Very easy to remove and replace it just takes some practice to get used to it. Finally to replace it you will see there is a notch and you want to point that top corner to the top corner on the pod here. You simply push the shield back in until it does go any further and then close it and that's it so its back in and ready to go. There is no ratcheting system on an Arai face shield its just a smooth friction. Lets take a look at the inside at the features of the Arai RX-Q. First and for most it is a fully removable interior so you can pull this out you can wash it, or replace it if you need too. Another thing you will notice is they have brought over their emergency cheek pad release system from their race helmets, so it provides EMT's a way to remove the helmet without causing further neck injuries. You can see you just pull on that tab and the cheek pad is going to come right out of the helmet. You will see the orange tab has a note to notify emergency staff how to operate it. They can pull those right out while you are still wearing the helmet. What that does is it provides a much larger area for them to remove the helmet without them to cause further neck injury, you can see the neck roll comes right off as well. Now you see how much larger that opening will be so they can slide the helmet right off of your head. One thing that is unique about Arai helmets as well is when you pull the cheek pads out that is actually the raw shell, they actually put the EPS foam liner on the cheek pads itself. This is going to do a really good job at absorbing impact and you can see it is labeled 30mm which is the size of the cheek pads. Of course you can go up or down with the size depending on how they fit for you. What Arai has that is very unique is two things a facial contour system and a customizable cheek pad. There is a thin piece of foam here that can be removed or taken off. This helps for better fitment with the helmet if it is causing you be uncomfortable and it causes any pressure points. This is one way of customizing the fit of the helmet without having to go out and by brand new cheek pads. You will also notice they use different densities of foam throughout the construction of the cheek pad and they use their facial contour system. What this actually does is craddle you face and makes for better fitment of the helmet. You can remove the liners of the chin strap as well they just have a little yellow snap at the top, this is another area if your sweating a lot you want to be able to clean these up. The crown liner itself is attached with a couple of snaps and Arai uses a very low profile snap design. You will see some manufacturers have more larger snaps and that can get uncomfortable at times. The snaps from Arai actually stick to the snaps in the EPS liner and they run flush to the shell. You are getting very high levels of construction here with lots of different types of material to absorb moisture and wick it away from your head and also provide for lots of ventilation. They do this so when air does come inside the helmet it has a lot of space to transfer to your head and keep you comfortable. Last but not least you can see the interior here as I mentioned it is painted black for the factory model so it does look nice and finished. One thing you might be able to see here is you can see the exhaust port for that intake vent for vent on the face shield. This will direct air through a tunnel and down around to the side of your temple. You see the cheek pad is attached with a nice secure attachment point and it goes right into the shell itself. Last but not least you do have a small chin spoiler built in which you may think is kind of on the smaller side but what is really neat is you can extend it. Little attention to detail like this is what sets Arai different from other manufacturers and im not saying that there arent other good helmet manufacturers, definitely shop around and watch other product videos but the attention to detail that Arai puts into safety its very apparent in their construction. They are going for safety above all else. They don't look for any modern wild designs they look for safety first. You get a lot of bang for the buck even though it is a lot of bucks, Arai helmets will last you a long time. If you have any questions about them we have a lot of experienced people on the phone here at Competition Accessories and you can give us a call or shoot us an email, leave us a comment on our youtube channel and we will get back to you. Don't forget to like our facebook page and also if you subscribe to our youtube channel you with stay up to date with all of our product and video reviews. 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I pre-ordered this and waited for a while for Arai to finally release it. Wow.. so worth the wait. I think the sunvisor was the only thing missing for Arai. They already had the best helmets, now they have this sunvisor. I installed it about 3 weeks ago and use it daily. I just ordered a 2nd one along with an new Arai for my wife from compacc. I got a nice discount too, because of the CA cash I had earned on my shield and sliders kevlar jeans order..Great company.. Great product.. Thanks to Davie in customer service for putting up with all my questions and emails
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Arab PRO Shade System fits need
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Good fit. Covers field of vision well.
At the time I order it had very limited availability.
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Anti-fog inserts are a must on Arai helmets, so when I needed a new Corsair V, I bought one of these at the same time. The difference is night and day from the old-style pinlock shields. There is no limitation to the clear field of vision from the rider's point of view. The last reason to prefer an older helmet is now gone well, except for the paint schemes -- I really miss the Tommy Gun paint job -- they don't have anything that evocative any more. Yes, I know that the Corsair V is supposed to be a racing helmet, and they therefore think you don't need an anti-fog visor, but this is safety equipment, guys, and should be standard on every helmet it fits. Oh, one more note if you have a spare old-style pinlock insert, be aware they won't fit the new design. Buy an insert at the same time, and you won't have to wait to be safe go ahead, ask me how I found that out.
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Call it a necessity
Duke W
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Product actually works as advertised, really wide, tall field of clear vision
Shouldn't these be on every Arai helmet
Anyone who's ever worn a helmet in the rain knows that you either anti-fog, or you don't see. While there are lots of ways to anti-fog, the best way is to not have to in the first place. If your face shield is anti-fog, you don't have to worry about whether you treated it or not, or whether you put the anti-fog in your pocket before you left. That's why this product rocks so hard. It flatly works. Unless you're a mouth-breathing troglodyte, you won't fog this. The combination of pinlock pocket and silicon seal works to provide a clear, fog-free view that will last a couple of rainy seasons of daily use ask me how I know. Another plus this new design puts the edges of the anti-fog area outside the seals for the eyeports, so your view is unrestricted. Nice The only drawback this doesn't come standard on every Arai helmet. It really should. They're one of the safest helmets on the market, so why doesn't this vital piece of safety equipment come standard on every helmet they sell Don't know, but if yours didn't come with one of these, you need to get one -- before you need it and don't have it. Don't delay, buy today
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Fog Free and Happy in my Arai
Side Road
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Easy to install, Love it.. Now I am Fog Free..
No fogging issues with this visor. Now, if it would only keep my glasses from foggingRiding last winter with the RX-Q, I had a lot of fogging issues. While it was easily mitigated with the front vent, who really wants to open it at 30 some odd degreesI have read that other people had issues with the pins. I just straightened out he visor, as shown in the video, and popped it in place. Very simple and took but a couple of seconds to install it.It does take a little bit to get used to as it gives the impression of being cracked open on the bottom when all you are seeing is a small area that is not covered by the insert.
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Works good, certainly fog free
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Fog Free, Good Fit
slight reflection in some conditions
Works well. I have the dark smoke and light smoke on separate shields, easy interchange. Dark for sunny, light for daytime cloudyovercast. Only negative is minimal ... slight reflectivity off the inner surface, so on bright days the lens is not crystal-clear ... but it's close, and it doesn't fog.
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Corsair V Helmet Shield Cover
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Jim J
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Provides a quick sunshade option, no need to carry multiple visors.
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I love Arai and have for years. But I have been caught after dark with my tinted visor and also needed a sunshade on my clear visor. Arai needed a solution, this is what they came up with. I used it on a 600 mile trip last week and it worked perfectly on my Signet Q. In and out of tunnels, did a great job. In the raised position gave a nice shade and lowered was just like a dark visor. No problem with distortion, noise, wind drag. The main issue I see is that now you have an inner and outer dark section that accumulates bugs and dirt and of course the clear section to clean. Any one of those surfaces could get dinged and the total package is not cheap. You can't just add the sunshade to a normal visor.Arai claims this is a better solution because they do not have to change the design of helmet for an internal drop down visor and, in their opinion, affect safety. I'm not an expert so I won't dispute the claim but bottom line, this is the Arai solution. It was worth the price to me.You really want to know what works The Transitions visor that Bell and Akuma use. THAT is the perfect solution and could be adapted by every helmet manufacturer. I don't know why Arai and Shoei and others resist that elegant and effective solution.
Sizing Chart & Specs for the Arai Base Plate Set - Corsair V, Vector 2 and RX-Q Helmets
Arai Helmet Sizes by Head Circumference
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Head (in)
50.8 - 52.1
20.1 - 20.5
53 - 54
20.9 - 21.3
54.9 - 55.9
21.7 - 22
57.2 - 58.1
22.4 - 22.8
59.1 - 60
23.2 - 23.6
61 - 61.9
24 - 24.4
62.9 - 63.8
24.8 - 25.2
64.8 - 66
25.6 - 26
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- Constructed of brass ensuring durability and dependability
- Covered under Kohler's one year limited warranty
- High quality finish – will resist rust and corrosion through everyday use
- Coordinates seamlessly with the Devonshire and Memoirs Collections
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Brushed Chrome - Kohler K-484-BN
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Linux wins at nearly everything but graphics related work. Just goes to show how far behind Linux drivers are compared to OS X.
Phoronix: OS X 10.8 vs. Ubuntu Linux: A Battle With No Clear Winner
Since Apple released OX X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" last month, there have been tests going on at Phoronix of this latest Apple operating system not only on the Retina MacBook Pro, but other Mac hardware as well. In this article is a comparison of OS X 10.8 versus Ubuntu Linux -- when trying out both Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and the latest Ubuntu 12.10 development version.
Linux wins at nearly everything but graphics related work. Just goes to show how far behind Linux drivers are compared to OS X.
please in your title please write that THIS TEST ITS TRUE JUST FOR MAC NOT FOR PC BECUASE YOU DONT TEST IT IN OSX AND UBUNTU IN PC!!!
soo please please please bold that its just for MAC computers
On the bright side, it shows how mature the other facets of the linux/gnu/debian stack have become.
I am 'really' surprised by just how big the OGL performance difference is, though significant gains have been made on intel/mesa which may not yet be incorporated into U12.10.
I don't think SNA has been enabled in Ubuntu 12.10, yet. Since from yesterday's benchmarks, which were tested on the mac mini http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag..._intel21&num=1, the graphics performance on every benchmark went up, yet in these benchmarks we see that the graphics performance for 12.10 goes down in comparison to 12.04, which makes me believe that SNA was not enabled. If it was, then the graphics performance of linux would have been a bit better and more comparable to the OSX graphics stack.
The upcoming OS X 10.8 vs. Microsoft Windows 7 Pro vs. Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Ubuntu 12.10 vs. Ubuntu 12.10 + Git should be more representative of linux performance vs other OS's.
Could someone comment on this?
While it's entirely possible is SB's driver lagging on Linux (I do recall something being absent or lagging in a article not too long ago), I was also thinking it's probably because of Unity's noted effects on FPS. I want to see some cross reference for this as these numbers are fishy.
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These numbers are too close for having the extra workload and having it perform better at a higher resolution on high is whack all over.. Somethings gone wrong.


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I was doing the hot swap method with ps2 games and then take in the disc stopped working. It wouldn't budge and it didn't make any noise. I got it unstuck but it wont take in DVDs. Can someone help me?
I was doing the hot swap method with ps2 games and then take in the disc stopped working. It wouldn't budge and it didn't make any noise. I got it unstuck but it wont take in DVDs. Can someone help me?
Ya, you and many other people who used the swap method to played ps2 games have ended up with broken dvd player.
So far there isnt a way to repair it w/o changing your blu-ray drive parts. Sorry.
Did u break a part or something? I made it successfully, but is kinda hard to break something in there. Can u give details?
It happened to me. See this thread: http://www.ps4news.com/forums/playst...elp-77513.html
I repaired mine by changing the circuit board on the bottom of the BRD as the last picture in that thread shows but I do not actually know which part of the board it is malfunctioning.
Sorry but I find it plain dumb to fiddle with a $600 piece of hardware just to play some PS2 backups.
I saw a working ps3 drive on Ebay today. Bid was up to $110. That would be an option. An expensive option, but an option nonetheless.
your gonna need to give more details bud. Your original post may not seem vague, but it doesnt exactly give much detail either. EG did you force anything were it wasnt supposed to go.
Also, if you have disconnected any cables and replugged them, i would go back to them replug them making sure there connected.
try again and see what cracks on.
Well when I took the drive apart and inserted a game when i took it off it shot out at me and I replaced the disc fast. but after that it locked up. I am so screwed I put it back together and hid it in my closet.
Dude, I dont think thats gonna fix it
Can you explain abit more what actually happened? Did you take the drive apart with the disc still in? If so, when I have done it before the black runner down the side of the blu ray drive needs pulling back. Also, when you put the top section of the blu ray drive to the bottom section, flick the white plastic leaver back and it should align up better.
If you replace the entire blu ray drive I know for certain you must have a drive from the same region as you PS3. For example, if you have a PAL system, you need a PAL blu ray drive. A Jap blu ray drive would not work in a PAL system and viser verser. If you can only get a different region drive, swap the circuit board on the bottom of the blu ray drive as this holds the data for the drive being married to the console.
Hope ya sort it mate,
Thats not really going to help him now is it.


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The faith of celebrity singers
Just joined this forum and wanted to start a discussion..*LOL* Hopefully it won't get deleted. I was wondering what are the beliefs of the singers in the entertainment industry? Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, don't believe anything, etc...etc..? Anybody know? Thanks again for responding to this post if you choose to.
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RecordofHeart 02.07.2012
They all have different beliefs so you have to do some homework so to speak because they are all different people so it can vary im pretty sure that there are several different religions among artists.


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Public Health Director Mimi Hall explained the action would add a veteran services administration division to her department.
The director said a revised job description would be forwarded to all the applicants seeking the veterans services officer (VSO) position, which would now be a "division director" in her department.
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The director indicated she would be considering what other tasks the position should take on.
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County Human Resources Director Gayla Trumbo said the new job description gave applicants a year to get properly accredited as a VSO.
Hall told the board the regional office promised her it would handle any claims that arrived while the new hire was in training.
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Thursday, January 05, 2012
Doves + Food + Gravel
There's water for them in a plastic box. OK, it's a cat litter box, all right? But cleaned! In fact, I don't think it was ever actually used as a cat litter box. It just holds more water but is still shallow: they like to get in and splash around. So we use this:
for the food. Actually, mostly we use the top of the water meter cover, but food falls down inside, and horrible nasty bugs (aka water bugs, aka roaches--aieeeee!) get in there and creep me out.
There were a TON of birds eating here the other day, and then there wasn't a speck of food left. But what's this?
I know it's something from the doves, but what? It looks like cat litter, but surely not. I've noticed it before where they eat, and I realized this is something I should know but don't.
So I googled "dove food gravel," and I discovered that doves have to have small bits of gravel (or large grains of sand) with their food. It's stored in their gizzards and used to grind seeds with hard shells.
Cool, huh?
I don't want to know why it's in the place they eat coz if they're throwing up gravel while they're eating, that's just way, way too nasty. So I just go "Lalalalalalala" and don't think about it.
So anyway, I found out what I was looking for, and now I know the answer. But I was thinking about how I did it--how I googled the words for what I wanted to know, went right to it, read it, and went away--nothing at all like how I used to find out stuff, where you'd get the encyclopedia and look up the shorter entry on doves, and it would lead you to the longer entry, and while you could skip to the section about food, you would usually look at the photos and then read something else and maybe get hooked into finding out about nesting behavior. Like, for instance, did you know that mourning doves are monogamous and mate for at least a nesting season? Or that both parents feed the newly-hatched young with "crop milk," which is secreted from the walls of the crop, in the throat, just in front of the breast bone? I didn't know any of that, and I could well have missed it today.
What I'm thinking is that this is a problem for us in the 21st century, when everything has become so narrow and specialized. We have no Renaissance People any more. There's so much information available about everything that no one can know it all, and it's so easy to zoom in and find out only that information you need without having to read--or even skim--everything else. You google something, and it gives you results related to your location and what's closest and what you've googled before. Everything is distilled for you before you ever even see it. Think specialty magazines and newspapers and newsletters--you get stuff tailored to you, but even then there's way, way more than you can keep up with.
I think we've lost opportunities to mosey through books, to wander through new information and follow enticing trails of ideas and random facts, to spend time finding out more about something just because we didn't know anything at all about it when we started. We've become a species of specialists, but specialists in what? Celebrity--quick: name someone from a current tv show! Someone who released an album in 2011! (No, I can't do either one. Sorry.) Popular culture--what's hip and current. Politics, maybe--at least the politics with which we agree. Gossip. Advertisements.
But who knows other stuff? Who's learning stuff they didn't know before? I mean, if you have an amazing memory, you may know a ton of stuff from when you were in school. That doesn't count. Sure, you know stuff; but you're not finding out about *new* stuff, and that's what I'm talking about here.
I want us all to learn new-to-us stuff. Random stuff. Useful stuff. Entertaining stuff. Here's a good place to start. I always buy these books--I wait and buy them used when they're cheap, so I'm while I'm behind on Learning New Stuff, I do read all the essays and am often enticed to find out more, either online or by ordering another (used, cheap) book.
Let's talk about this. Are you curious? Do you research stuff that interests you? How? And what do you do with what you find out? Does it inspire you to learn more, or do something with what you've learned? And--here's something I'd love to hear about: what's the coolest/most interesting/most amazing thing you've learned recently? Tell us about it, please! I, for one, would LOVE to hear everyone's stories~~
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24 comments:
- Ellen said...
I'm not sure I follow you on this post. I find that I am learning more because of "googling." If I have a little time, I can learn a small amount of information on a subject and if I have more time, I can study more on that subject or a related subject. I can also get differing information (viewpoints) on a topic and then decide which I value/believe.
As for my new piece of information, I did not get it on the internet. I was talking to an orthopaedic doctor and he told me that a male's height is mostly determined by his mother's relatives. A female's height is determined by both the mother's and father's relatives. Interesting, eh? - Thursday, January 05, 2012 6:44:00 PM
- Jeannie said...
I love to research. I thought the perfect job would be a research assistant for a group of scientist or professors with varied interests. I really am not a geek, but I love to solve problems, mysteries, etc. I used to like to go through the card catalogue at the library. I liked that I could see a summary of what the book was about and if it sounded interesting, check it out. Now, I will look on the internet, but as Ellen said, you may get differing opinions. The library is still my source for learning. I can see what books they have or can get on inter-library loan and make my list. Recently I learned about owls, how they can be heard over a mile away. Now, I am reading about Norwegian folktales. It was a clue on the crossword puzzle the other morning that prompted that diversion. I will always want to learn and read things other than what is found on the internet.
- Thursday, January 05, 2012 8:07:00 PM
- Kim G said...
LOL, I was the one who had trouble writing research papers in high school and college because I lost myself in the library and couldn't focus on the subject about which I was writing.. There were just so many other interesting things to read in the encyclopedia.. (Yes, I'm that old. We didn't have the Internet in college).
- Thursday, January 05, 2012 8:45:00 PM
My problem with googling things (which I do all the time) is that on the internet the "one thing leads to another" is a very dangerous rabbit hole to fall down.
- Thursday, January 05, 2012 9:02:00 PM
- Ricë said...
My problem with the internet is that I don't trust the information there. Oh, some of it, sure. But much of it is just out there, with no way to check who put it there or whether or not they have a clue about what they've posted. Forums are the worst--I've read the most idiotic stuff on forums. About cats, for instance. Since I worked in that field for 6 years and have had cats since birth, I know stuff about them, and the stuff people post on forums, as if they know what they're talking about, is staggering. And makes me question everything else I read, too. Alas.
- Thursday, January 05, 2012 9:13:00 PM
When I was in college as a nursing student, I used to get side-tracked while looking for information on one topic by finding other more interesting topics in the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). Now it is online and you only get what you ask for and I think that students get short-changed.
I am also not impressed by the quality of some of the information on the internet. Some of it is so poor as to be dangerous some of it only humerous. However, there are times when I do appreciate being able to type in a request and get immediate satisfaction without having to drag out numerous texts or journals. I do miss the days when I could find more interesting things than that which I originally searched. - Thursday, January 05, 2012 11:34:00 PM
- Steph said...
When I'm interested in something, I try to learn as much as I can about it... through books and through the internet... Both ways are good for me... And about trusting the internet I think the same goes with books... you have to cross check the info...and that is maybe something most people won't do because it's much more easier to rely on wikipedia and stuff like that...
- Friday, January 06, 2012 12:50:00 AM
Hi Rice,
Two interesting things I have come across lately are:
1.) A fascinating book called, "The Brain That Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge, M.D. about the neuroplasticity of the human brain. It shows how our brains are adaptable and not static, as was once believed.
2.) One of my favourite artists, Laurie Anderson and her new album, "Homeland" especially the piece, "Only An Expert". I love this woman; I love how she thinks and, especially, that she makes me THINK.
Thank you so much for your wonderful blog and your insightful "rants". You too have made me THINK about a lot of stuff.
Moni - Friday, January 06, 2012 3:28:00 AM
- Stories They Tell said...
When I was a kid, I used to read the dictionary--seriously!-- and when I was home sick from school I would gather several volumes at a time of my parents' Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia to read. Just random choice. So I've always been an information omnivore. My husband is like that too. Since we are historical reenactors, we devour all kinds of arcane subjects: teas from plants, how to grow linen in Vermont, building a clay bake oven, etc. Although I am a mixed media artist with an emphasis on polymer clay, my newest and favorite information has come from books/articles on paper cutting and ways to recycle old books. Don't know where this is going yet, artistically, but it's very intriguing!
- Friday, January 06, 2012 5:39:00 AM
You couldn't always trust what was in a book either. Misinformation about "the princes in the tower" or that "everyone thought the world was flat before Columbus" were pretty prevalent before the internet.
But there is still no single place where "everything" is. I find that reassuring.
Marilyn the (mostly former) Research Librarian - Friday, January 06, 2012 6:41:00 AM
- jinxxxygirl said...
You Rice when i first read your post i agreed with you wholeheartedly. But then i'm a big book reader. And i haven't crossed over to all things digital. Nothing like holding a good book in your hands. But as i read thru your comments and read the arguments i say it makes me think. The internet sure is alot easier. And i don't know if the info in books is anymore accurate than the internet. Sure i can pop in and get a quick answer but if i'm interested i can poke around and get more info.
- Friday, January 06, 2012 8:20:00 AM
- Ricë said...
Don't get me wrong: I love the internet. I love finding info there and do it every day. I wouldn't have taken time to go to the library to look up doves + food + gravel (esp. since I'm boycotting the library and have been for almost a year now). I used to have a set of Encyclopedia Britannica--I was so proud of them, buying them brand new when we first got married. I grew up with Encyclopedia Americana because my mother figured Britain didn't have anything on the US--anyway: a Good Set of encyclopedia was a must-have. But then the internet came along, and it no longer made sense to try to keep up with new volumes of EB. Things were no longer valid--maps of the USSR, for instance. Sections on technology. So, yes, indeed, I love the internet. And I think you can learn a ton of stuff there; I just don't think most people do.
- Friday, January 06, 2012 9:39:00 AM
- Maddie Can Fly said...
I miss the old card catalogs from the libraries. You could just open a drawer and start browsing through the cards and find titles or subjects of books that you didn't even know you were interested in until you saw it. Now you have to know exact title, author name, etc. -- boring.
- Friday, January 06, 2012 10:22:00 AM
- Sharon Robb-Chism said...
I love the internet for gathering information, but always back up what I find, or go to many different sites to get a good overview of what I'm interested in. LOVE the library. It's like my second home. I'll just stroll down the shelves of books looking at titles. Never know what I'm going to find.
As for recent insights/discoveries...they have to do with dealing with horses, so I won't bore you. One was a training issue, and one was an outlook kind of thing. Both were very "slap my forehead and go 'Duh'" moments. :=D
But, over the last year especially, I've had those "Duh" moments with jewelry making and drawing...all accomplished via the internet, or a good book. - Friday, January 06, 2012 1:31:00 PM
Oh my God! You too! I was so happy when two years after we got married (1992) we bought a brand new set of Britannica Encyclopedias. Anyway, I love to learn and research new things. After following Mary Ann's (Dispatch from LA) blog posts about her trip to San Cristobel de las Casas, Mexico, I've become fascinated with southern Mexico and the history of the area. I have spent a lifetime knowing hardly anything about Mexico except its location. I've googled it, and then not being satisfied, I've combed the library and today I order three used books from Amazon. One about Mayan history, one about Chiapas and lastly a novel(Song of the Hummingbird). I can see an obsession starting. I like the internet, but books are my primary learning source.
- Friday, January 06, 2012 2:55:00 PM
- Michele said...
I don't think the information delivery system has changed basic human psychology. Those of us who used to (and occasionally still do) get sidetracked by random "interesting" stuff in the library will get sidetracked by odd links on the internet. The "other people" who wouldn't be convinced by the evidence before won't bother reading anything that contradicts their worldview.
- Saturday, January 07, 2012 9:19:00 AM
- Jukebox said...
One of the most interesting facts I had ever come across was part of a conversation on the radio in the 1980's. Some one had said that Native Americans did not invent or use the wheel until Europeans came over. With my recent obsession with googling, I was able to find lots of reasons and theories explaining this.
I use Wikipedia a lot, mostly for my amusement and curiosity. So I'm not worried about 'misinformation.' There are always references at the bottom of each entry if one would want to verify the truth or basis of their facts. - Saturday, January 07, 2012 11:15:00 AM
- Enelya said...
This is such an interesting subject. I think there is a tendency to just zone in on one piece of info & then leave it at that. I know I'm guilty of it. At the same time, I can get totally hooked on researching & learning practical knowledge. Just recently I've been looking into soapnuts (aka soap berries) & their uses. I'm attempting to get as far away from the chemical laden products everyone uses nowadays & find healthier alternatives. Soapnuts seemed like a good place to start because, as the name suggests, you can use them as natural soap for all kinds of things. I currently have a handful spinning around with laundry in the washing machine & am boiling some in a saucepan to make liquid soap- pretty cool! And they're easy on the old purse strings ;).
I relied solely on the internet for this knowledge, but I looked at several different sites & checked many testimonials. I can now return that knowledge in some form by documenting what I've done at home & posting it for others to see.
I do believe there's a sort of lethargy in most people today when it comes to learning & skills. In a world where everything's done for you, many people are just content with going to work, coming home & sitting around watching TV. I find at my regular job I have very little common interest with my co-workers because all they ever talk about is celebs, gossip & TV (gah!). I don't even watch TV anymore.
There's very little interest in how things work, how stuff is made & developing a skill, or if there is it's only on a base level & no one wants to learn how to do something well themselves. Which is bizarre, because a lot of information is so much more easily accessible now via the internet. Even finding someone to teach you via classes/workshops is much easier.
I'm in the UK so this is just my opinion of how I find some (or a lot of) people here to be :). I'm sure there's loads of enthusiastic, knowledge craving & curious folks out there ;) - Sunday, January 08, 2012 8:13:00 AM
Hi everyone
I'm posting this anonymously, because I'm going to talk about my day job, and, well, you know...
I've worked as a fact checker/researcher for a publication for over a decade now. When I first started, the internet was not allowed as a primary source. Now it is, but we pay close attention to where the info comes from. Wikipedia is not allowed as a primary source; it is a good place to start, but since anyone can post to it, and say what ever they want, we don't view it as reliable. We've found mistakes.
Encyclopedia Britannica is fact checked, edited, and copy edited. I think that makes it a pretty reliable source, although I'm sure there are mistakes there too.
That said, books can be just as rife with error as the internet, especially since they are usually not fact checked. The truth rests on the author, who, of course, never makes errors or mistakes. mmm hmm.
I am appalled at how little research writers do to back up their articles and their books. So I suggest that anytime you read something (especially about medicine!), better do some other research on your own. Familiarize yourself with websites that are reliable, and always find other voices. And if you are a writer, remember that you'll be a better writer with good research (Ricë, I am sure that you are a darn good researcher).
I love research, and can easily get lost for days in the library or online, and can go off on a tangent on just about any subject. If I had a life to live over again, I'd be a dramaturge, a career that I never heard about until recently, but seems like it would have been my cup of tea - Sunday, January 08, 2012 2:36:00 PM
- Ricë said...
I'm loving this conversation! Thank you all SO much for chiming in. (My word verification (and, yeah, it sometimes makes even me do that--why, I have no idea, since it's random) is "flying.")
Anonymous, oh, HOW I'd love to hear stories. But I understand The Day Job. I hate research, but my degrees were in English, where you live and die by The Research Paper, so--sigh. In fact, hating to do those is the main reason I didn't go on for the PhD: I couldn't bear any more of them. But, yeah, it's pretty ingrained: it took me forever to quit feeling like I needed to have footnotes for everything. - Sunday, January 08, 2012 4:03:00 PM
- Ricë said...
I love research for its own sake. It's the research papers that made no sense to me. Everything you could think of to write about Hamlet had already been written dozens of time before, so what was the point?
- Sunday, January 08, 2012 4:04:00 PM
In my experience, intelligent people tend to be curious people - they just can't help it. Whether they choose the library, the internet, or any source - inquiring minds want to know. While following a trail this morning, I found something completely different, but fascinating nonetheless. See what YOU think -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuEY2bm-W50&feature=g-sptl&cid=inp-hs-edt - Monday, January 09, 2012 8:31:00 AM
- Ricë said...
Oh, wow! That is AMAZING. I watched it and still have absolutely no idea how it works. Oh, sure: I got the part about the super-conductive material, about the layer of gold and the sapphire crystal and the liquid nitrogen. But that means nothing at all to me. What means something is: things we belief are impossible are not necessarily so. We don't need miracles; we need a better understanding of the possibilities of the natural world. More money for scientific research by people gifted on both sides of their brains--artists/scientists could come up with such marvels!
- Monday, January 09, 2012 10:06:00 AM
- Laura Tringali Holmes said...
Birds fascinate me. It started with buying a "Squirrel Buster" feeder on an impulse and then monitoring who was bellying up to the bar. This prompted me to ID the birds, which got me Googling and learning about spread sheets, as I attempted to track my visitors. I added a nyger feeder and a few suet feeders--learned that woodpeckers like to feed upside down, but bully birds usually don't. Which led to further readings in library books and my habit of checking out the Nature Table first in my book-sale prowls. Just lately I was wondering about why there are so many birds at my feeders as soon as dawn breaks, but no woodpeckers. So I began to learn about that and now I know...which, well, makes me feel really good. The knowing, that is. And now I am looking at joining a party of bird-watchers to experience a crane migration....
- Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:25:00 PM