Quote from somasleep :

The words religion and Faith have clear meanings. You can't redefine words. Being arrogant is not a kind of faith. Your new definition of "faith" now includes arrogant atheists?

I'll judge and go by the dictionary (thus differencing faith and religion, and giving the proper, wider than simply religious meaning to the word faith)

If the arrogant atheists you're talking about are unwilling to challenge their own beliefs they're faithful, no matter if they're religious or not.

If they want to challenge their own beliefs, they simply may or may not be arrogant, and just as some arrogant or non-arrogant people, spot on.

Edit: I challenged and still challenge my own religious beliefs or disbeliefs. So far God didn't complain.

What about 'sometimes' as an option? I sometimes do or did.

It's just an unpolite form of self gratification that tries to establish one's superiority over someone else.

If you see someone using such expressions in a serious way you know he/she's a childish idiot.

Wouldn't it have been easier to get to the Wikipedia, take the list of the wars with the highest death toll and carefully review which ones have been dubbed as having a religious origin and not, instead of, well, instead of this? I'm not going to read it wholly, sorry.

Quote from scania :

maybe when the journalists don't lie.
but, the Chinese government is very close-handed.
the local government was afraid that the central government will blamed them, so they don't want to do too many thing.

So you know what they want you to know. It sounds like censorship, it is censorship. Sorry, but there's no way I could believe in your (pathetic, since you have NO source except propaganda) ideas. I'll stick to the imprecisions (and subsequent corrections) of occidental journalists and not to the total lack of news imposed by an oppressive regime that is too coward to let journalists in to have fresh footage.

And so, when will China let journalists in Tibet instead of expelling them? Is this question too hard to answer?

The cars were both on the racing line when Heidfeld passed them. The fact that one of them (not sure of the identity, I've read controversial reports) moved off the line after his passage demonstrates some kind of awareness of being in the wrong place, but only after Heidfeld passed.

Whether this grants a different level of punishment for each McLaren driver or not, I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. And if it is, should the 'more offending' McLaren driver be punished for more than five positions, or should the other one have a reduction to say, two or three positions on the grid? Not that I care to know since I'm fine with FIA's decision about the punishment; but like many others I feel disturbed by FIA's apparent lack of awareness.

Last edited by Albieg, Sat 22 Mar 2008, 23:44. Reason : Removed some psychobabble.

It was a McLaren.

The onboard camera is impressive, just imagine what Heidfeld might have thought.
This is a longer version with additional footage that shows the situation from the outside.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3_GjtJ9SIY

Edit: the video has been removed due to copyright claims, so it's no longer available.

Last edited by Albieg, Sun 23 Mar 2008, 14:15.

Did you review the footage, duketoaster? Any good LFS racer should have enough common sense to know such situation was potentially dangerous and had to be avoided. Don't blame Ferrari, blame McLaren. They deserved it fully.

And stop shifting attention to Ferrari, it's really annoying, and makes some people look very, very stupid.

Quote from Racer Y :

@ Scania....
And that's what Tibet really needs. Instead of hiding behind some dude in a robe from mindless goof balls from the Chinese Government, they need to realize they have about a billion potential customers in the form of heroin addicts.

Racer Y, please give up with the dope, it hurts you. Tibet isn't a place renowned for heroin production. I'll refrain from commenting the rest to avoid wasting space.

So there's a lack of accuracy in journalism that the Chinese media are ready to point out. There's a way to improve MASSIVELY accuracy, Scania: let the journalists in Tibet instead of expelling them. Hell, even in Iraq they can do their job... why not in China, or Tibet?

Quote from mclarenmatt :

FIA (Ferrari In Action)
^^ Say's it all.

Totally wrong. I'd say McLaren inaction. Says it much better, since it seems they won't appeal. They know they don't have a case and no one to blame except themselves, mclarenmatt.

You're right, five places docked.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66021

You could try DXTweak2 to see if there's any problem in the readings.

http://www.wingmanteam.com/latest_software/gadgets.htm

You can use DXTweak to check raw inputs and adjust them if in need. You can also use it only as a test tool to make sure the values are correct, having much better visual feedback than the one normally offered by Logitech drivers. I'd check with DXTweak first to see how the pedals really perform and what values they give out.

There's also an utility to clear all calibrations, but I never used it, so I don't know how it performs. Of course, the readme files are there for a purpose...

Check also this thread on Clear Calibration Utility and G25:

http://flatoutjoint.com/index. ... =26&topic=535.msg5714

Those utilities seems unsupported in Vista, but maybe running them as administrator could help. I can't check since I don't have Vista at home.

Hope it helps.

The latest news I read talk about the last two journalists in Tibet being expelled. No news, bad news.

Quote from JJ72 :

Guess I am really fed up with a lot of press just jumping on the bandwagon that China is evil/a dictatorship while most of the european countries had the same sort of act in their history.

History. Not news. That's a huge difference, exploited by most supporters of the Tibetan invasion.

And don't get me started about Countries which still have masked forms of colonialism. My position should be well known about such issues. If you think that the wrong actions of a people or of a government justify the wrong actions of another people or government, you're dead wrong.

I'm lucky I only have to deal with the propaganda of governments that don't block YouTube and don't put people in jail for having an opinion that differs from the mainstream one, or the totalitarian one.

So here you have it, flawed news from a government who censors dissenting opinions...

My opinion on Tibet won't change, especially when a government plans an influx of 40 million Chinese to overwhelm the existing majority of about 7 million ethnic Tibetans. And the principle of self-determination goes down the drain.

Have a greek one from the voice of Demetrio Stratos. At the start and from 1.08 on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... njfg4&feature=related

Last edited by Albieg, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 23:34.

I'm with NGI, which isn't cheap but there's no throttling and has extremely fast responses, although it's only 2Mbit in downstream. It's one of the best for gaming, though, and fairly reliable, and with excellent technical assistance (although I can't say the same about the same about administrative assistance). You must pay in advance, minimum contract 3 months.

The best offers are, in my opinion, those of Telecom Italia (www.187.it) since Telecom owns almost totally the phone lines in Italy. This means that every single tech assistance request on ADSL, if it involves the lines, has to be passed to their technicians. Telecom doesn't apply throttling and it's quite stable. Not the fastest response, anyway. Help phone lines are a disaster. The contract can last less than a year, but in that case you must pay €40 to end the contract (in case of the 7 Megabit offer at 19.95 a month plus €3 a month to rent a router from them).

These are the two ADSL providers I used at home, so I can only talk about them. There could be cheaper alternatives (such as Tele2), but I can't say if they're reliable or not since I have no personal experience with them, except for knowing that Tele2 applied throttling but had to give up because of angry customers. But things can change very quickly and tech assistance can be a nightmare with every provider, and that's why I went with a provider which has serious contractual guarantees.

Fastweb could be a nice alternative too, but it doesn't assign public IP addresses normally (only by request and it's not cheap), so you have to stick with all the limits of its architecture (no access to the PC's IP ports, except from the Fastweb network). Most people are fine, but I wouldn't be.

As a general note, did you try running fraps as administrator?

Edit: and what fraps version do you have? 2.9.4 is supported by Vista (I just took a look at the site).

Also, check if other full screen games do the same or not.

Last edited by Albieg, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 12:39.

Quote from beefyman666 :

I'm getting that problem too. Just like pretty much every attachment on RSC.

Same result here, maybe it happens because of their recent troubles with their servers.

Quote from David33 :

Trauma surgery, for example, is often initiated with considerable doubts about what will be the precise procedures to be performed, while the "exit strategy," I suppose, is to discontinue the surgery when the patient has been returned to a state of health or, at least, when one has achieved the closest approximation to that goal, that he thinks that he can; and whatever may be the doubts, one attempts such surgery with a general expectation that the result will be preferable to the expected result of not attempting it.

Problem is there was no trauma, there was no surgery needed and everything was done by incompetent medics who thought they could get away easily with their bad science.

As for the state of health, it should have been achieved years ago, and there have been lots of milestones which have turned out to be completely meaningless: the overhyped fall of Saddam's statue in a square which was almost deserted (watch for the right photos, not closeups!), the capture of Saddam, Saddam's hanging, the battle of Fallujah... All fake milestones.

Wait, wait... Somebody talked about civil war being the outcome years ago... They knew better. So the next question should be: when will the Americans be able to return Iraq to a pre-war state of health, and that means an acceptable puppet regime which kills less than Saddam, or equally? The answer is, quite simply, never, and some people (a very long list of liberals, conservatives, anarchists, communists, socialists, name your flavour, it's there) knew that from the start because they analysed available evidence much better and had no personal interest in evaluating it. Nihil is damn right, and I fully understand his discomfort.

Edit: I failed to mention anyone in the list of people who knew better. I only want to mention two soldiers here, the first one is Ehren Watada, the second one is Pat Tillman, the fake poster child of the neocons, whose story is much more interesting than the one the mainstream media portrayed. Pat Tillman is a clear example of a soldier who paid the betrayal of his government with his life, and - much more hideously - with an unacceptable manipulation of his memory. He was a man of principles and he's been killed and smeared after the killing.

Last edited by Albieg, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:45.

If your OS is Vista 32 bit and you identified your chip correctly, yes. Otherwise, no. Just read some of the documents there if you're unsure.

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel945g/

Identify the chipset, read docs before installing.