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Bob Smith
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Also sometimes expressed as the number of kilos each horsepower has to move.
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That's how many kilos are in a short or long ton.
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Yes, the tyre spring effect is independently damped.
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Due to...
a) I don't believe LFS can be the cause of your issue here
b) Your complete lack of ability to communicate in a civilised manner

I'll close this thread.

If you calm down and wish to state how your think LFS the cause of this issue, with exact steps as to how the issue occured, then that may well be useful, and you can create a new thread for it.
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Quote from Jakg :I see literally hundreds of people who dont indicate on roundabouts weekly, but never seen anyone pulled for it

I don't think I've ever seen somebody indicate correctly round here. Most people indicate on to the roundabout, and stay indicating right as they pull of left. Pisses me off when I wait for someone at a roundabout, only to find they turn off the exit I'm joining from.
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Do you have seven kids?
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No need to worry about the standard brake system, you can outbrake everyone simply by the fitting (and subsequent throwing of) a good in-car anchor system. Much like a boat anchor, but made from lighter materials so as not to slow you down as much on the straights. Make sure your track day insurance covers the track having to be resurfaced every few laps, else you could face a nightmare bill.

Parachutes are great for high speed braking too, if your car is fast enough to warrant them. It's clearly put to great use in dragsters, I'm surprised that most riced cars aren't fitted with them. You could even stick custom decals and go faster stripes on the chutes for maximum coolness and impress the ladies.
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Quote from th84 :Same as the last 5 yrs.....

Wake up at 5am to the sounds of a screaming 6yr old telling me how Santa stopped by.

Is your house forever repopulated by 6 year olds, or do you just have one that doesn't age?
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There will reach a point where increasing parallelisation has diminshing returns, even once software has been engineered to be as parallel as possible. It's going to be an interesting decade ahead though.

Imagine two pass video encoding where all the keyframe points are decided first, then each short video segment is encoded concurrently. On a 48 core machine, that will encode video far faster than machines today. Assuming other hardware doesn't bottleneck it (like memory and storage), in fact I see other hardware like that having to go parallel to keep up. 100+ cores will be permanentaly waiting for data without a RAID array, or ridiculous quantities of memory.
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Quote from Hallen :I'm no expert in this area, but from what I understand LFS dampers are linear.

Correct.
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I'm forward! (thinking, that this thread is on the road to nowhere)
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Quote from duke_toaster :http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2 ... nst-eu-immigration-powers



Food for thought?

Well, that totally depends on where you are. In rural locations try finding an immigrant. In the cities, there are various areas where spotting the white man is a hard task. And of course immigrants come in all colours too. The west end of Newcastle has a very high percentage of Indians and Pakistanis, I used to live next to a school there, and you could count the white kids in the playground on your hands.

So if the people surveyed were in or nearby such areas, I can totally see why the perceived immigrant population is higher than the real figures.
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The modelling could be as simple as a vertical spring under the wheel (assuming they are not specifying anything). Lateral or longitudinal flexing, or carcass twisting, may well not be modelled. If they're not drawing it on screen then you have to wonder.
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I don't see the point in the smaller speedbump, I see some people take the ones on my road at 5mph, and then accelerate back up to 15-20mph in between, whereas I did a test at the weekend with my friend, and we could drive at a constant 45mph over them no problem. Less comfortable but there's no reason to actually slow down for them, considering it's a 30mph road. Long term effects are more concerning, though.
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Improving your grammar would make things easier to read. Too many commas all over the place put pauses where there shouldn't be any. Some focus would help too, tackle one topic at a time, think about it and try and write something interesting.
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If you're running a firewall, won't it show all the open connections? Of course that won't tie an IP to a username, which I presume you want for some reason?
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Quote from Becky Rose :Pacejka is the library used by a lot of indi's doing car physics in games that aren't really about cars, it 'suffices' rather than gives you an accurate car physics model

As empirical models go, Pacejka is pretty damn flexible. What it needs is decent input data. Crappy numbers give crappy curves, give an unconvincing experience. It's just a shame that such numbers can only be obtained by running fitting programs to real data, but from what I've seen it can reproduce real curves very well.

Its main limitations are a) it's not easy to use or adjust b) aside from slip, it only works across a small range of input parameters, so you need to add something to it, to cope with the full range of loads and camber angles and c) being purely empirical, you can't just tie in real tyre properties and have the curves changed appropriately (like dimensions, construction, pressure, deformation). It excels at reproducing one tyre, it's awkward as hell to try and use as a general solution.
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Does it matter what physics engine it uses? This is a vehicle simulation middleware package, which can be used with a different physics engine (they are not the same thing!), in any game. Whichever physics engine they chose to use is irrelevant. LFS uses it's own model, afaik. Also there are at least two points on their feature list which are different to LFS. Of course this doesn't mean that they didn't reverse engineer LFS at some point and start working from there. Or just use bits from the engineered code.
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Quote from BOSCHO :Its 3.0 dual core that makes 6.0

It's this same flawed logic that lets memory manufacturers advertise silly clock rates. In theory there is twice the computing power available but you'll never get double the performance even with a highly parallel piece of software (which LFS isn't, btw).
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Quote from nihil :Pretty much destroyed everything in my flat.

Damn. Can't you take the affore mentioned idiot to court for vandalising your property, or something similar?
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It's been raining? It was a little damp here on Saturday but I've not been out in any real rain yet. Maybe that's because I'm always stuck inside, either at home or at work, and miss it all. To think I was at the beach the day before these floods happened. I always thought that grey and raining was business as usual over here.
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Quote from bunder9999 :please note that using a keylogger in most countries, and most instances, is illegal.

Surely that depends on their use (i.e. when an invasion of privacy or to steal data), rather than their mere existence?
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Well there we have it, Tristan is most famous. Not surprising since he seems to be one of the few people who can manage a high post count and maintain an interesting life outside of these forums.
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Quote from Bmxtwins :maybe he cant afford one?

Then go without? It seems the OP has been contacted with an offer so it seems this thread has served its point.
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Pure speculation until the masses can try the changes out.
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