Quote from sinanju :

I've just seen a F1 scoreboard where it has;

14th Barrichello 2pts
15th Perez 2pts
16th di Resta 2pts

whereas I think they should all be in equal 14th place, and if anyone else had 1 point, they would be in 17th place.

In F1 (as with a lot of other categories and other sports) when multiple competitors share the same points countback is used to determine the order (the one with the more wins/2nd places/3rd places etc) is ranked ahead.

Obviously I agree with the rest of your post though.

Gear linkage?

Quote from GAVD999 :

How not to do a burnout with a bike :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... p;feature=player_embedded

And another example of natural selection in action.

Quote from Flame CZE :

Can someone explain me 1, 3, 8 and 9?

Quote from http://www.uncommongoods.com/product/geek-wrist-watch :

Cheat Sheet (included with each clock):
12 - a radical
1 - Legendre's constant is a mathematical constant occurring in a formula conjectured by Adrien-Marie Legendre to capture the asymptotic behavior of the prime-counting function. Its value is now known to be exactly 1.
2 - A joke in the math world: An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second orders half a beer. The third, a quarter of a beer. The bartender says, "You're all idiots," and pours two beers.
3 - A unicode character XML "numeric character reference."
4 - Modular arithmetic, also known as clock arithmetic, is a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" after they reach a certain value. The modular multiplicative inverse of 2 (mod 7) is the integer /a/ such that 2*/a/ is congruent to 1 modulo 7.
5 - The Golden Mean...reworked a little.
6 - Three factorial (3*2*1=6)
7 - A repeating decimal that is proven to be exactly equal to 7 with Cauchy's Convergence Test.
8 - Graphical representation of binary code.
9 - An example of a base-4 number, which uses the digits 0, 1, 2 and 3 to represent any real number.
10 - A Binomial Coefficient, also known as the choose function. 5 choose 2 is equal to 5! divided by (2!*(5-2)!)
11 A hexadecimal, or base-16, number.

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Quote from simme181 :

http://www.youtube.com/user/Th ... acing#p/a/u/0/CvALdiAHtkM

Highlights for race 2 is out for anyone that interested

Nice. It's a shame you couldn't quite pull that move on #84, but another fun looking race.

You said you were getting a PSU from a friend but both the systems above include PSUs. The question of 32 vs 64 bit was in relation to the amount of memory you can use (32 bit system you'll be able to use <4GB as main memory, 64 bit you can use a lot more).

Quote from E.Reiljans :

That HDD is totally horrid, don't go for it. Take a HD103SJ I have recommended to you instead.

I agree on drive selection but I think the OP would still benefit from a RAID0 setup.

Quote from PLAYAPIMP :

I have a 1.5tb external that I use to keep all my videos. And the case is mid ATX. Is that a problem?

I meant do you have a copy of an Operating System to install (or do you need to buy one)?

Quote from E.Reiljans :

To get into pagefile?
+ extra RAM really helps alot on video editing due to caching of frequently accessed files

I'd much rather have a lot more disk bandwidth available. Plus we don't know yet if the OP is going to be running a 64-bit OS.

Do you have an OS to install? Also, if it's going to be mainly used for video editing you might be better off dropping to 4GB of RAM and sticking another drive in there on onboard RAID0.

Thanks for the answers. Good luck for the rest of this year and for your new toy next season

Quote from simme181 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPzI-YpShU

Me driving Radical, any comments?

Looks like a lot of fun. I have a couple of questions. Firstly it sounds like you're not heel & toe'ing/blipping throttle on downshift/rev-matching (take your pick). Is that a choice you're making? Secondly, it seems like 3 times on the back straight you were trying to pull for another upshift when you were already in top gear. Did you simply make that mistake or was there something else going on?

To cut down on the amount of time it takes to clean up a spam bot. It's not a bug; it's a feature of lots of different forum software.

Quote from Jonathon.provost :

i knocked allot of that but it's still about 15-20 secs out

Here's a quick and dirty tutorial video. This was the first take I attempted and the lag is around 6 seconds. With a bit of practice and patience you should be able to get it down to under 5 seconds.

edit: Attached image of 16 instances of LFS running an SPR around 20fps on an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T with an ATi 4650 1GB. As you can see, the CPU is hardly stressed, so with a better graphics card (or better cards in Crossfire) 16 instances could run at a solid 30fps no problem.

Last edited by amp88, Wed, 25 May 2011 09:13.

Behold the majesty of a totally wireless Xbox360!

Either that or this is fake like all videos of its kind.

Quote from kart-36 :

:|
Maybe i would notice if there was that many...

4 threads in the Improvement Suggestions subforum have both "setup" and "folders" in their titles alone:

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=39735
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=26462
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=24964
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=819

The words "setup" and "folders" appear in 16 different threads and 30 different posts in the Improvement Suggestions subforum (I won't link to them all here, you can learn to search for them).

Even if you did the most rudimentary search you should have found at least one of these threads or posts.

Quote from Jonathon.provost :

I have tried this but a lap is a long delay

You should be able to get it down to a few seconds if you do it correctly. Try skipping a lot closer to the end of the file as soon as you start playing it. It's all about trial and error if you're looking to get it as close as possible.

Quote from amp88 :

You can skip forward in the new instances to try and minimise the delay, but you can't eliminate it.

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Quote from kart-36 :

Dno if this has already been suggested

Maybe you should find out before creating the 39757th duplicate thread on the same matter.

Quote from Jonathon.provost :

But how could I do this??
When I tried it it said corrupted file
Cheers,
J.Provost

Edit: Q

LFS should say "Unexpected end of file" (or something very close to that) rather than "corrupted file". In the first instance of LFS you join the session you want to watch. The act of joining the session starts writing the session data to the temp.mpr file (as long as replay saving is enabled). Then you open up another instance of LFS and view the temp.mpr replay from the Replays menu. The second instance of LFS now renders the information from the temp.mpr file as it goes along. Repeat with more instances of LFS if desired. This, of course, means you're only getting 1 live view and the other(s) are delayed to a degree. You can skip forward in the new instances to try and minimise the delay, but you can't eliminate it. As far as I'm aware there isn't currently an automated procedure to do this.

Quote from hyntty :

In theory a good idea. In practice with that many views your fps would be appalling... No cpu can possibly render all those screens simultaneously.

This thread shows it's not actually too bad. I've attached a screenshot from my (now several generations old) Q9450 and ATi 4890 1GB. Fairly constant 55-60 fps (capped at 60fps) across 12 instances of LFS (Z, I assume). Newer 4/6/8 core CPUs could surely do even better.

Quote from Seb66 :

Watts was already heading for the grass, he was never really going to make that corner at all.. So I'm guessing he slowed down unnecessarily in some attempt to keep it on the tarmac, while all cleland did was rightfully set his car up for the switch back... You don't expect another driver to slow down after he's already missed the apex of the corner... So I'm gonna blame watts for attempting a move he would of never been able to make stick anyway.. and just for the banter as well.

+1

Watts was going off track 50 metres out from the corner when he over-committed himself on the brakes. The small contact before was normal for BTCC racing.

Also...Watts as a legend?

Quote from hiroshima guy :

amp88: I believe the designers over at ASUS thought over that ambient climatic conditions as well since it's a Taiwanese company and weather over there is kinda tropical as well, so I PRESUME they considered that.

The 6 million + Google results for asus laptop overheat* would tend to say differently

It seems from your last post that you've made up your mind to live with it, but I'd still advise getting a cooler of some sort. A thin cooler (or a 'normal' cooler and a wrist rest) would bring your temps down considerably, giving you peace of mind, a bit of headroom for temperatures (able to game/multitask for longer without worrying about rising temperatures and whether you'll reach thermal cutoff temperature) and it'll give some of your components a bit of a break (sure, they're designed to run quite hot, but keeping near the edge of the thermal envelope a lot of the time probably isn't a great idea).

Quote from hiroshima guy :

I did at one point consider buying and using one of those coolers but I find it slightly bulky since I'm used to playing games on a flat surface (or doing anything at all). Raised surface always strain my arms after a while of usage. Thanks for the suggestion anyway, I'll reconsider that idea!

Quite a lot of them (the newer ones mostly) are using low profile fans so they aren't that big. If you're going to be using the laptop mainly on a desk (or other flat surface) you could get some form of wrist support to help you out (e.g. this).

Quote from hiroshima guy :

On second thought, are you sure my laptop is supposed to be that hot at idle? What worries me most is the temperature at heavy load...

The problem with laptop cooling is that it costs space. With consumers wanting more and more computing power and thinner and thinner laptops the manufacturers are forced into a position where the cooling on a lot of models is on the verge of dangerous. They simply can't make enough room to put proper fans and ventilation in because the laptop would end up being too bulky. So, they put in the absolute minimum they can get away with. Another point is that the manufacturers design the cooling for the main markets (e.g. North America and Europe) which, generally, don't have the tropical climate (high ambient temperature and high humidity) you have in Singapore. This fact can put the cooling over the top.

Quote from hiroshima guy :

my 9-month-old laptop

Quote from hiroshima guy :

It's always been like this since the day I bought it

Quote from hiroshima guy :

I'm worried it might fry my CPU and GPU in no-time at all

Probably not going to get fried in no time at all then.

Seriously though, you should consider buying a laptop cooler like this (UK website, I'm sure you can find similar things from a Singaporean eTailer or local PC shop). They generally plug into a free USB port and contain one or more cooling fans that blow air directly onto the bottom of your laptop. As you note, living in a tropical climate (with a high ambient temperature) puts extra stress on the cooling of the laptop (cooling is generally quite marginal on laptops even in moderate climates).

edit: You can also try clearing any dust from ports on the laptop's chassis, but if it's been like this from day one dust probably isn't that much of an issue.

Last edited by amp88, Mon, 16 May 2011 14:31.

I can't find any funny pictures; someone else can take my turn