Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2007 September 27

= September 27 =

A Man for All Seasons
Meaning of the title ? (I have a theory, but want to hear other answers first). StuRat 13:43, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The [article] suggests that Erasmus coined it for Thomas More, but doesn't give a meaning. SaundersW 14:47, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * This suggests that a man named Robert Whittinton used it as well (click on the "meaning of the phrase" link), though Erasmus came first. In the context of this article, I take it to mean Erasmus, a great friend/admirer of More, thought of him as a man adaptable to any situation, happy in good times, serious and somber in bad, but always the appropriate mood for the appropriate time. Of course, that's just an interpretation and not really a scholarly fact.--Sethacus 15:11, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * [This] is nice, I think: § “a man for all seasons”

This phrase is used by both Robert Whittington in 1520 and by Erasmus, in Latin, in 1521. Here is the immediate context:

“More is a man of an angel’s wit and singular learning. He is a man of many excellent virtues; I know not his fellow. For where is the man (in whom is so many goodly virtues) of that gentleness, lowliness, and affability, and as time requires, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes and sometime of steadfast gravity — a man for all seasons.” --Robert Whittington, Vulgaria, 1520 1

“…it would be hard to find anyone who was more truly a man for all seasons and all men…” (…omnibus omnium horarum homo…: Here Erasmus alludes to 1 Corinthians 9:22, “I become all things to all men, that I might save all.”)                --Erasmus, Letter to Guillaume Budé, 1521. 2

Dr. Clarence H. Miller3 on "a man for all seasons" --Thomas More Conference, 5 November 2005 SaundersW 16:37, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the answers, everyone ! StuRat 12:53, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Updating Wii without wireless connection
Does anybody know of a way to update the Wii without having a wireless connection? I'd consider it really useful if I could download an update, burn it to a CD/DVD, then put that CD/DVD into the Wii and "run" it. Thanks! RobI 14:39, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * You can buy broadband cable adaptors that plug into the USB ports on the back. That's how I get online and stuff.  They're like 30 bucks at Best Buy.  Simply plug from the cable internet box to the converter to your machine.  Easy peasy. Beekone 15:12, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The Wiili group has documented information about Wii upgrades, including where the actual files can be found and downloaded from. However, you'd then have to set up your own network with a spoofed update server.  It really isn't practical.   On the other hand, when I loaded up Metroid 3: Corruption for the first time, it triggered an update.  I don't know if the update files themselves are on the disc, but at least the trigger was there. --Mdwyer 00:40, 29 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Was it for the Metroid 3 preview upload? That's available to all Wii users for free, but it may have triggered a prompt when you started playing the game.  Self promotion type of thing?  Beekone 14:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Royalties for books in british libraries
I was wondering whether an author gets royalties for everytime their book is borrowed from a british public library.

 Dom ' mc ' cas  15:01, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * There is a scheme called the Public lending right to pay authors when their books are borowed. DuncanHill 15:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

DIGITAL8 - What happens if I use Video8 tapes?
The wiki article says Standard grade Video8 tapes can be used, but it is discouraged. If I ignored that advice and did it anyway, how will the Digital 8 recording appear? Is it similar to my attempts to record Digital VHS onto standard VHS? (It works, but with lots of pixelation.) -  Theaveng 16:23, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes. It's pretty much the same. Hi8 and Digital8 need finer metal particles to record its higher frequency signals. --24.249.108.133 19:58, 2 October 2007 (UTC)