From: James Smith (shaun******@hotmail.com)
To: Everyone in Shaun's contact list
Subject: JORDAN2007 WAS HERE ON SHAUNS HACKED ACCOUNT!
Message: NOOBS
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From: James Smith (shaun******@hotmail.com)"
To: Everyone in Shaun's contact lis
Subject: A MESSAGE FROM THE HACKER: Post on LFS FORUMS
Message: This y i hakd him [url]REMOVED (sorry)[/url] need moar?
reply 4 sauce. and thanks for the lfs account. kthxbai.
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This person seriously has no life. Most likely BRT having some Christmas 'fun' because he has no friends to chill with.

Just posting to let you know. Carry on.

Last edited by Mp3 Astra, Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:46.

My goodness, the last part of this thread makes me want to delete LFSforum from my bookmarks and log out for good.

I'm going to buy F1 2010 and enjoy it.

Laters.

Quote from sinbad :

Pretty sure Mondello Park is near Dublin.

You're right. I should research before I write.

Looks like that wiki article is wrong; it puts Kirkistown and Mondello in Ireland, whereas they're actually Northern Irish, therefore in GB.

Paying £9 per month for 8megabit broadband from O2. But, I live on the edge of the middle of an Internet blackspot, so I'm getting 1.3megabits on average. It's not too unreliable (although a few years ago, we couldn't connect for more than 20 mins at a time as a BT engineer had installed some kind of filter twice, underground, outside our house. Awesome!

Tomorrow I'm moving to my student house, which will have 10mb cable broadband from Virgin. I think I may have a 'crisis' when I see how fast stuff loads.

Apparently one of the images was a virus. Avast said so. It said this was the saucy source:

http://newdimensionracing.com/index.php/news/15-error-pages/6-404-not-found\{gzip}

Quote from Joris :

Yes, it's clear that it does help at a certain speed but not off the line.

Maybe I took "off the line" A bit too literal.

You're barely 'off the line' when you're going at 50mph

Quote from Joris :

Having more wing does not affect the traction off the line. The launch relies more on mechanical traction.

In the British commentary, Martin Brundle said the added downforce would help once the cars are up to about 50mph off the line.

Keep on bumping, it gets me more views and gives me a happy.

[Shameless plug] Having burned out with making H2H broadcasts, I salute you for doing this series! It's looking pretty good; looking forward for more!

Quote from DejaVu :

That looks like a full length career (i.e all 19 races) and not full length races themselves, does anybody have any further info on what max laps you can run? Would be pretty shitty if you can't run 100% distance. Will buy regardless though, looks amazing haha

You can run a full race distance. There was a blog post about the devs doing a full-race distance and failing epically.

"This week: The European Finals, the biggest event of the season.

Next week: The World Finals, the biggest event of the season."

All of the rivalry will come to a head and the families end up racing their stupid motorhomes round the track while the kids look on in despair, wondering what they did to deserve parents as insane as these.

It's an awful show, but I have to watch it because of that very reason. It's an interesting exercise of looking at how reality is twisted by the producers of the show.

Quote from squidhead :

Could have been great, but your lazy a** didn't finish it

I lost all enthusiasm for LFS videos, and I couldn't actually bear to finish it. Just imagine the colourful lines are some camera views from the default TV cams without Shift + F.

Quote from Glenn67 :

Star fruit

I had one of those. But it just became a black hole for taste.

But seriously, in my opinion, star fruit are the worst. Maybe I just had a bad one.

Quote from Gnomie :

Really?? That's great news! Honestly this comes as a big surprise, but I'm happy to hear it! Glad to have contributed in my small way.

Let's do some maths:

10000 subscribers x ($100 subscription fees + $100 content - $50 promotions/discounts) = $1,5 million pr year income. Over two years that equals maximum ~ $3 million income (august 2008 -> august 2010)

Then the expenses:
40 employees (at present). Let's say an average of 20 employees since 2004 (assuming it's been growing at a constant pace).
20 employees x $40000 x 6 years ~ $5 million

So before we even get to all the other stuff like rent, employer's fees, scanning fees, business deals etc etc we're in the reds... even at current, it looks like they have to be losing money if the subscribers are their only source of income..

Which begs the question: where does the rest of the money come from??? What other sources of income do they have besides us subscribers?

Do we not think that they have sponsors, like the ones that you can put on the cars, as well as the permanent sponsors on the car? Maybe not. Do we think NASCAR might be funding the development of the NASCAR content? Again, I don't know. Stuff to consider.

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

0:24... Kenneth and Shayne teammates? I don't think so

They were in that race. Don't ask me what team they had named for themselves, but they were team mates.

The protest worked! The video is back on YouTube. I'll add a link now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w0kqF7szNc

Thanks Niko!

Kiwi Fruit: Not from New Zealand. It's true!

Quote from GreyBull [CHA] :

Looks extremely choppy for me, almost not watchable. I have no idea why is that. Probably a problem with metacafe since the soundless version on YouTube works fine.

Been waiting for this one for ages anyway, shame I can't have a look.

Did you turn off HD on Metacafe?

Quote from nikopdr :

You could always "avoid" the WMG thing, by doing this:


But nevertheless, it's an awesome video

Thank you for the comment. I might try that dispute. Although, they can take actual legal action if they decide your dispute isn't genuine. How long ago did you make the dispute?

Whoops. Fixed!

Why hello there.

I wasn't able to 100% finish the 2010 Kyoto 250 montage, so I've uploaded what I have, plus the final lap and a post-race interview with the winner, Phil Diaz.

There are a few gaps in the video which I have replaced with coloured lines.

This was going to be on YouTube but, once again, WMG owned the copyright to the music and took the audio off like the bastards they are.

Enjoy!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/ ... plus_post_race_interview/

Last edited by Mp3 Astra, Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:12.

Why hello there.

I wasn't able to 100% finish the 2010 Kyoto 250 montage, so I've uploaded what I have, plus the final lap and a post-race interview with the winner, Phil Diaz.

There are a few gaps in the video which I have replaced with coloured lines.

Added YouTube link after they accepted my copyright protest! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w0kqF7szNc

Last edited by Mp3 Astra, Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:34.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3WNFj1047o

A 'gameplay' video with the 2010 cars. They have to work on their video editing, but it does show a decent amount of cars and tracks, and Lewis Hamilton.

Quote from The Moose :

Not sure, but I just have the feeling that they will both be released around the same time. We know they are building it already. I cant see it taking them 3 months to build a track these days with all their experience.

It would be criminal to have an F1 season without Spa

Fingers crossed

They did say some time ago on their Facebook page that it would be next year. But maybe things sped up a little, who knows.