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al heeley
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I'd be glad to sell you some. The pure pigment powder sells for upwards of £12 to £80 per gramme. It goes a long way though.
Now how much would you like?
al heeley
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rest assured you will get in return far more content and stable gameplay than many full-priced retail games that profess to be 'finished'.
al heeley
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Quote from glyphon :that's pretty cool. what options do those of us in the states have? are they going to be sold here, if not, online ordering?

They're going up in Walmart in a couple of weeks. Europe a couple of months later.
al heeley
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I think this discussion has reached a natural conclusion. Thanks
Serial skinning
al heeley
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Paint my ride
Our company's just secured a good sized contract with Corgi Toys to provide the special photochromic pigments for this new kids toy;

http://toyology.typepad.com/pl ... le/2007/02/paint_job.html

The pigments in the plastic car are activated by a tiny LED torch in the near-uv range which fade back to clear (white) after about 30 minutes.

These will be in the shops soon. Remeber, you saw it first here!

Hint: Store the car in the fridge and the colours will be brighter for longer. But please mind the butter.
al heeley
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There's a possible good deal coming on a little HP model with AMD 64 x 2 3800+ processor. Are these a serious proposition or old hat now?
al heeley
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I'll send you a £1
al heeley
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Quote from Racer X NZ :In my opinion we're actually looking at 2 issues and people are getting very confused trying to apply one argument to them both.

1: The mess we (humans) are making of the planet.
2: "Global warming tm" or to be more specific "Whats going on ?"

Actually there's a third issue and that really concerns me, its the manipulation of these situations by the lobbyists and politicians in order to gain power/money from the common folk by exploiting their ignorances, feeding in to them little bits of the story as best fits their cause. That's what I really despise.
al heeley
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good start, needs some drift decals, keep the cf hood. Please no need to post S U C H a big screenie, 800 px wide is way big enough.
The black line running along the side is part of the 3d model on that car and cannot be removed.
al heeley
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Becky please don't encourage him.
al heeley
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So, err, you say the earth has stayed the same temperature even though the sun has got hotter, and this is because the greenhouse effect must now be far weaker than it was 4 million years ago?
Then it's true, the greenhouse effect is in fact receding and we can all rest easy in our beds knowing the global warming scientists are speaking , as I suspected all along, a big load of tosh.

Trouble is where lobbyists and politicians get hold of science and statistics, they can manipulate it to show their own points of view and ignore the rest. Very dangerous.
[cough] millennium bug[/cough]
al heeley
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Shotglass, are you going for the most irrelevant reply of the week award? You're running in the top five so far if it makes you feel better.
You take O/T to a new level of artistic endeavour.
al heeley
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You have a nice vision of our Government, we often lose sight of the fact that they are in fact at our beck and call doing our bidding, and not riding roughsod over our civil liberties.
We do still have a queen and voting, but we don't really know if it works.
And yes, sheep do remain a big problem, especially round my area on the edge of the peak district.
Internet-based pressure groups/email petitions are a laughable failure: too many armchair activists too content to sit at home in the comfort and warmth of their front room typing away in blissful anonymity. Nobody cares enough but everyone like to have their say.[/irony]
al heeley
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It's important to remember that there is always natural culling of mods (not moderators ) by the community that helps preserve only the good stuff, yet I agree on the whole with the argument in keeping LFS pure until the project has reached the end of its natural life.
al heeley
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Quote from Damo74 :
And I've seen many an electric car do plenty good burnouts.

I'm intrigued. What electric cars have you seen doing good burn outs?
Are these real (commercially available) city runarounds or special showcase technology ones?
Just I've never come across an electric car that could do this, or ever seen one doing it. Do you have any interesting links?
Maybe its because of the limited practicality of wrecking your tyres that the electric engines in commercially available vehicles (ok, I'm thinking milk floats here) don't normally allow burnouts to happen.
al heeley
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Quote from JTbo :
S3 maybe in 6 years...

I reckon there will have been such immense advances in 6 years that S2 will be unrecognisable or unplayable in its current form, in which case it might as well be shelved and something new started from scratch to take advantage of the latest DX15 technology.
al heeley
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You know, i never realised it was that sort of money each month to provide a free service to the lfs community. I'm amazed!
Who exactly are UKCT, and do they cough up out of their own pocket each month to keep the servers running for people?
Can they apply for advertising revenue to help fund this?
al heeley
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Nice skin, you stick with Marlboro if you want, its a free world, only put the castrol decal on the green stripe on the door, not beneath it and pre-shrink it so it doesn't look stretched when its mapped onto the door side panel.
al heeley
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I reckon the government are on to a great thing with green tax on the back of all this global warming bunkum. It's little more than a conscience tax for the well off middle classes who are told that the earth is spiralling towards disaster unless they allow the government to take more of their hard earned wages away from them. It's similar to the premium prices people are willing to pay for free-range eggs or organic tomatoes, even though the true validity of some of these items leaves much to be desired.
Anyone standing against higher green tax issues can so easily be painted as an irresponsible and uncaring villain, the government are laughing all the way to the bank.
Remeber how all the government bodies and so-called expert think tank scientists, engineers and IT consultants hyped up the millenium bug beyond all proportions? They must have creamed it for all it was worth, all that extra pay for checking and rewriting systems. Now I suppose there are some that say it was because of all the early planning that a massive crisis was prevented, but I think I'm too cynical for that. They hyped it beyond all reason to turn itself into its own industry and it was a very profitable short-term exercise. Now exactly the same thing is happening on environmental lobbying, global warming and general CO2/carbon tax issues, only it is morally reprehensible to stand up and announce that the panel of scientists and experts don't know what they're talking about.
No, they've managed to pull a really slick number on us with this one, we're paying through the nose while whats left of our industry battles to remain competitive against rising costs of environmental issues and immense commercial pressures from Asia who are allowed to go dumping and spewing all sorts of nasties into the environment with no control or regulation whatsoever.
al heeley
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Quote from Dru :http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=20125

hi Al,

I got my new system for £530 and built it myself - see the attached link

Basically

E6600 Dual 2 Core
775 Mobo
1 GIG of Ram
DVD whatever
250GB SATA HDD
450PSU in X Blade Case

with full settings i get 200fps
goes to 100fps with a FULL grid


Thx, looks a good way to go
al heeley
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You are:
  • very brave
  • very talented
  • plain mad
delete as applicable
Looking forward to seeing it finished
al heeley
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I hope he's big enough to accept your polite explanation and apology. Accidents do happen in on-line racing, not every knock or bump is intentional. Undue use of horn should be regulated by common sense though in the heat of a fierce battle the adrenalin does run high.
al heeley
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Actually I have a damned good set of speakers for my pc, but I'm gonna stick with the on board realtek chip, i think they're good enough for me. No point playing compressed mp3 files and expecting audiophile quality, as long as the sound is reasonably decent then I am happy. So the £2 soundblaster card gets the thumbs down as does the £XXXX fancy X-fi jobby, just not worth the dosh for the limited benefit, IMO.

Now what about AMD's version of the dual core chips? Worth a look?
al heeley
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Big LOL! That's cheered up my afternoon, thanks!
al heeley
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How does the Intel Pentium D 915 / 2.8 GHz processor compare with the likes of the dual core E6300/1.8GHz or E6400/2.1GHz's? Is D915 last month's technology?
Whats up with ddr1? Is that generally a bad thing? Stop your s****ing at the back!
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