You and your summer hax.

Well you should have had your window down and been hanging outside the car of course, show some commitment! But still some nice pictures I give you that.

Was trying to do some panning practice today myself, first with a train and then with some cars doing about 80 km/h. Nice spot in the way that you can see the cars coming very far, but the traffic was just so damn slow at the time. Waiting for the cars was too boring, taking my folding chair with me and sit there for a traffic peak next time.

I think this was maybe the best shot I got. I know its quite static, and I'm a total noob but the driver is sharpish and the backround is kinda blurry, and the wheels are not distorted like on most of my other shots. Although I should have been closer to the road for a proper picture. Didn't want to distract anyone so I wasn't.

But the thing I like with the picture is the way he just glanced at me like I was the fool and not him. Must been a bit cold.



Things I learnt today: My Nikon D60 is not really good at taking a burst of more than three pictures, it just can't do it. Good to know, maybe it makes me better. Panning is hard and the frustration of having your camera fail at you and missing a great shot is awful.

edit. ..more I look at the shot worse it looks.

Last edited by Blackout, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 19:41.

^^ FFS S14 it's 50 hours of voluntary work for free, not free work for your lifetime.

Love the panic.

I think it would be good for your young people. Over here we got "work training" in schools, instead of school you go to some place to work for a week. I think it was fun, you got to know new things and stuff, and got some more perspective on life. No heavy works of course, more like something young people do as summer jobs.

And of course, we also have compulsory military service. You do you get paid. About 5 euros per day, and get free food, clothes and shelter, but it's still more like free work for minimum of 4320 hours. But of course, you do learn more than just kill your opponents and get even more perspective how things, people and world works, and more likely, how stuff doesn't.

Interesting how things are different, if your country asks you for something it's 1984 omfg gtfo all over the place.

Quote from Gills4life :

I think if it rains they should race. Not abandon it. It's what they are paid to do whatever the weather. So what if it makes it very hard to drive? They are meant to be the best in the world.

The rain was extreme, and the reason the race was not continued was the bad lightning conditions. Greedy Bernie got what he deserved for moving the race so late in the afternoon.

You guys did notice the Vista ban news was posted April the 1st?

Some shots of my friend's Austin Mini from 1964. Can't wait taking some pictures when it passes mot and can be driven somewhere with more worthy backround.






Was just testing my camera, and I'm pleased with it so far. Need to take a some sort of cloth for the dust next time though.

Last edited by Blackout, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 15:00. Reason : noticed that the pictures were huge!

Makes more sense now.

Yes, I hope it's nice. It seems I'm good accidentally buying presents for myself, last time I bought a monitor for Christmas (old one was dying) and now the camera is arriving at my birthday.

Ummm....what are they actually? Radio, intercom, air-condition unit...alarm clock?

Well, I should be getting this thing today by mail.

"WTF, you support England? You really are a dumb blond!"

Quote from trebor901 :

And hopefully Brawn GP will become the factory Mercedes team in F1.

Hah...Brawn doesn't really have the resources like Mclaren after after Honda quit. Didn't they just sack plenty of their working staff? I honestly can't see them going on dominating the field for more than first half of the season, the big guys will catch up soon with sheer manpower. If not this season, the next.

Lewis making a move and changing team is probably pure bs. The source is more than questionable for starters. Plus, I really doubt Lewis is sort of man who jumps ship at the first trouble. Hard years will make him more hardworking, hungry, and more humble and more deserving champion - the underdog everyone loves (Brawn GP at the moment).

Quote from audimasta :

In the vid from germany you can clearly see that Fern Bay will have a makeover in this patch. "New" graphics and more forgiving kerbs. Finally

Please read the thread before starting rumours. See quote below.

Quote from Chaos :

this video is from the Czech Republic

Those are textures from the LFS Database, big thanks to the authors of those, we use them because of the added contrast... on the 301 there is an overhead projector with only 1024x768 resolution and during the day it was hard for people, who don't know the track, to find their way around as it was dark>tarmac, dark> grass, now its dark>tarmac, light>grass/sand...

Greedy Bernie fails.

Sigh.

How people can be so anxious for a fwd trolly.

Have some patience. It's not like LFS is badly broken at the moment. High nose doesn't give you speed, you can filter cruising and MRT is still awesome.

I can undestant the excitement a bit. I remember when CMX viewer was such a tease before the first S2 release was out, the cars where there for months, now we got one car you can't drive. Couldn't care less. I'm going to like the patch, but at the moment I'm just curious what else than a new car we get. I'd have my money on Easter as they like holidays, but not a big deal for me.

And I read something about the devs calling their customers idiots. Can we have a quote on that please?

Jack likes to play fort.

Or maybe it's his new home.

Quote from speedway :

Sorry again for the incident in race2, next time i make sure my wheel is properly tightened to the desk and wont come off -resulting in a spin and major havoc- again.

Did someone save the replay of that race btw?

Replay attached.

Had a blast in the first race. Almost every lap was pb, was chasing down the top three and got 3rd when loco spun. Was fun, but I wish it had been more of a race.

Can't remember much from race two, only that huge crash on the first lap.

But the long race was a freaking nightmare of all times, I was just too tired to drive I guess. Had to pit after doing a huge flip on the last chicane and lost a lap. After that I managed to spin on my own at least three times. Disaster really.

Was the weather dry for the whole second practice session? Had to leave for work in the middle of it so I couldn't see, but nice to have Ferrari on top. I'm not putting any money on anything for the qualifying before saturday practice is over though.

I don't understand how it's not clear.

They tell Lewis to let Trulli pass, then he says he has done it.

If they claimed they didn't tell him to let Trulli pass and he just overtook them they are lying.

McLaren failed the trust of the steward by lying what they had told Lewis to do. I can't understand what's the controversy. The penalty given to Trulli was based to the assumption McLaren were telling the truth and in my opinnion failing that trust deserves a punishment.

Quote from tristancliffe :

An inline 4 four with a crossplane crank? i.e. only only one cylinder at TDC at any moment and 90° between firing points? It'll vibrate itself to death in about 2 minutes.

Quote :

In late 2008 Yamaha announced they would release an all new R1 for 2009. The new R1 takes engine technology from the M1 Moto GP bike with its crossplane crankshaft, the first ever production motorcycle to do so. Crossplane technology, puts each connecting rod 90° from the next, with an uneven firing interval of 270°- 180°- 90°- 180°.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YZF-R1#2009

I'm not sure what that is suppose to mean, but yeah I guess it has such...system.

Greed got what it deserved. After such good and blessed drive they should have been happy with their 4th place.

Well, I hope you can get to it some day. I say you start with ditching the social life and sleep. For motivation, I'm sure we can send you some jaffa cakes and cookies.

Quote from Bob Smith :

That version was never publically released, it was leaked by a beta tester. As such, the devs do not want that copy distributed further, so if you happen to come across it, please do not post links or instructions here. Thanks.

Btw, have you worked on your ultimate tweak tool lately, or have you buried it for good?

I don't doubt that fast light cars can't get airborne. But I'm not sure if the speed that Soutcity jump needed was realistic for the box the car is.

Can't we it 1 hour earlier to 18:30 UTC, 19:30 +3 starts to be late for me at least.

The third Concept skin for the Easter Island Pirates team.

How many is there actually?