Which sega rally did you play? 1 or 2?

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The most annoying thing in this thread so far is your signature

Haha, agreed :]

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I Well, must comment on this, as I happen to know all three languages. Chinese is actually quite simple in terms of grammar, the writing system is trickier but just needs a good memory capacity to learn.

And that is what makes it difficult. Saying that this or that just requires good memory simply means: it is difficult.

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I think pronunciation is the only difficult part, but a perfect pronunciation is not needed for getting oneself understood in China.

Well, pronunciation is a part of the language, but I agree that it is not the most essential.

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Russian has some hard grammatical things and some complicated stylistical restrictions, but all in all, not that impossible to learn.

As a matter of fact there is no language which is impossible to learn.
OK, I'll tell why Russian is much more complicated than Finnish.
First, you need to learn the letters, pronuncionation could be difficult for some people, Finns for example. Reading is also a bit tricky as you don't read the way it written. Of course that doesn't mean they won't understand you. In Finnish it is so easy, you just pronounce what you read, the pressure is always on the first syllable.

Other than that, there are lots of suffixes, prefixes, soft sign, hard sign, dictionary words which you can't know how to write by simply hearing it, conjugation of words to get the endings right and plenty more . Such thing as gender doesn't even exist in Finnish.

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Of course I haven't had the experience of learning my native Finnish as a foreign language, but foreigners usually are sent to mental institutions after one month of verbal root mutations, 15 nominal cases and big gap between written and spoken languages.

In my experience foreigners in Finland manage to learn Finnish quite well. After few years they understand most of spoken language, can read, can communicate on the basic level. Foreigners coming to Russia are usually much more terrible after few years.

Finnish, while having 15 nominal cases is very logical language. Many things make sense if you think a little bit. Reading is quite easy and straightforward. No genders, not even future time, few types of words, conjugation again is quite logical.

I've read many times people say something like this on the Internet. Read this.

And those statesments about mental institutions are extremly exaggerated.

In my opinion there are a few languages harder than Finnish. Finnish would come after: Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic, Hungarian which has 35 cases (forms of a nouns accoring to whether it is subject, object, genetive, etc. Found this on google), possibly German and French, and many other minor languages.

This went so off topic

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After all Finnish is one of the hardest languages in the world.

I don't agree on that. Not even close to Russian and Chinese in terms of difficulty. I also think that German and Italian are more diffucult with all those articles and genders.

On topic. I've heard many times people saying it live(as on TV or radio). You can also hear it in one interview which was shown on TV

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cheers for the info m8 very handy if i cant find a x800 for around the £160 mark i will be looking at the 9800 256 meg version ..

need something that will last me a little while and will do hl2 dod2 and quake4 some justice

Well, if you're going to play those games besides LFS and want something that will last a while, then it should be x800. I don't know about Scotland, but you can get that in UK or Germany for less than 160£.

When you put two sticks, say 256x2 or 512x2 and get them working in dual mode you get double transfer speed between processor and memory. This is on 939 socket.

So basicly by putting only one stick you get only half of the speed of memory socket 939 offers.

And by the way, socket 754 is not so much slower than 939. It has less L2 cache and no dual channel. It makes it a bit slower.

Anyway, I recommend you socket 939 because of dual mode memory bus and better upgrade properties (you can put dual core processor for instance).

Take AMD64 3000+ socket 939 (Venice core). It overclocks a lot very easely. It also consumes less power than pentiam4s.

If you buying computer mainly for LFS, there is no point getting the fanciest 3D accelerator. Radeon 9800 pro runs lfs very smoothly even with AA. Take a look at lfs benchmark. http://lfsbench.iron.eu.org/?c=completemax

I wouldn't ask for anything untill christmas. Yeah, that's three month.

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No, it wasn't mentioned anywhere except for 2005 in the video.

My guess:
S2 - christmas 2005.
Rally pack - christmas 2006.
S3 - somewhere in 2009.