Quote from george_tsiros :

ok let's say a 700kg caterham going 100mph gets some height.

now a 1500kg bmw going 100mph, how much further, compared to the caterham, will it land?

I don't really know, but you missed the whole point. On a track, lighter car with higher power to weight ratio will achieve greater speed in a shorter distance, thus going faster over a bump to get airborne.



Anyway...

We did LX8 event some time ago. It was unbelievable frekking mad. The tweak was a bit crude but close as possible to the original and had slicks. It's really quite a ride down the streets of Southcity. You have to be alert all the time, the smallest mistake and you are in a wall, think anything but the driving and you are off. It's more intense than the FO8 and BF1 put together and fueled with solid dynamite.

But oh, when you got it right it was the best fun ever!

Last edited by Blackout, Sun 19 Jul 2009, 09:10.

Quote from jibber :

It will run, yes. It might be a good idea to get one with a hard disk however (save games, car liveries, downloadable content, demos, your own music, etc).

And especially for Forza 3 because it will come with two disks, which means that you probably want the other be installed on the HD.

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

What he said.

The specs of the 360 and PS3 may not be mind blowing in PC terms, but consoles dont need to have alot of small programs running in the background to keep themselves running.

Well, more important is the fact that the games are optimized to run on that specific hardware setting/combination. On a PC you need to make compromises because there is infinite combination of different components you can find in a computer. On a console system you know it will work on any Xbox or PS3 if it works on one, and therefore it's possible to optimize the code to get the best out of the hardware.

Why people think he has spent 25 millions buying it? It may be the current value of the car, but doesn't mean the owner bought it for that money. Value of luxury products and antiques goes up and down like the economy and I guess the value of that is only going up in the future. In a way it's a great investment, especially if he bought it for pennies. Besides, whatever he paid for it, is only money. If I had to kill for a car like that, I'd say it wasn't worth it, but if it's just money and you got loads of it why not? Sure there is faster and less expensive cars made with high tech materials and science, but that car is just pure sex on wheels.

Really nice it's used for what it was meant to do. Got to say the owner got balls, I'd probably keep it locked away as I'd be too afraid scratching it.

Last edited by Blackout, Mon 13 Jul 2009, 14:36.

I think you have failed really bad with your upload, I keep getting asked authorisation username and password for http://ekodu.planet.ee

"A username and password are being requested by http://ekodu.planet.ee. The site says: "This is protected directory!""

Just went trough this thread, what a classic, laughing my sides off. I wish we still had JTbo, Kev and Hyper on board, good times.


Forgot you were planning to move to Kerava..well, I'd still avoid it. But of course having the shops near is relevant for old people if you were not planning to drive much. But the views are just miserable in cities.

Soooo...how is the retiring going then, still going to move here?

Quote from mrodgers :

Probably the fact that you would have a date of sale on one day, then trying to trade it in the following day would throw up some flags on it.

Well, keep it for a week then? If there is no demands, like being owner of the vehicle for the last 6 months, you should go for it. You could always play dump with an accent and say ye just herd of thay scheme. If they start asking questions, if you have glasses, loose them because they make you look too smart.

Quote from spankmeyer :

Never understood the point of VR.

Bear with me, iz not a troll as I got facts and reasons to back that up.

At shutter speeds of 1/500 and faster you are already starting to freeze motion and the VR - no matter whether in-lens or in-body - is actually a handicap at faster shutter speeds and should be turned off (same with shooting from a tripod).

I can see the point of VR if you are to shoot landscapes (which don't move around much, except for foliage and waves and stuff) but since you're probably using a wide-angle anyway, you can shoot at lower shutter speeds in the first place.

And if since the VR can't carry you to very long exposures in night time shooting you probably have to use a tripod - which means VR should be turned off.

Am I missing something here?

Editor's note: This applies to personal shooting preferences and fast lenses. Iz cool if you like the VR gatorade.

That's because you are a pro snob with an excellent camera and gear who can just up the ISO if there is not enough light without almost no added noise?

To get the most out of the low end cameras you need lowest ISO every time, and if you can use 200 instead of 400 the VR is worth it if you hate noise. Especially at longer focal distances shooting small targets or if you need larger f-value. Of course, even a monopod makes VR obsolete most of the time, but it's not as handy.

Last edited by Blackout, Sat 11 Jul 2009, 13:56.

I'm guessing Ferrari is on conservative heavy fuel load again. Which doesn't work if you don't have a quick car, but they just don't realize it. Even less if it rains because the front just runs away.

Good job from Kovi being just behind Ham with all the new parts.

What if you bought some small car (that makes that 18 mpg) crap car for pennies and traded that for the scrap money? Or are they all just gone, or is there something stopping people doing this?

Last edited by Blackout, Sat 11 Jul 2009, 07:16.

Yes yes, I know.

It's a great shot, I just can't look at it anymore.

Quote from spankmeyer :

Sorvaan sulle uuden puujalan tästä hyvästä.

Yerr, me old peg is ye bit worn out yerr.

And you the whole economy.



Or is it the money shot?


Get out disturbing images aaahhhh, shoo shoo!

Last edited by Blackout, Fri 10 Jul 2009, 23:16.

You still got too much money eh?

Quote from khoianh94 :

A road event please - seeing the replays shows that RallyX was no good idea.

No sorry, I have to disagree. The rallyx was a brilliant idea, a small revolution of it's own. It just happened that the drivers were not up to it and rallycross means banger racing in LFS (thank you CTRA?), but we didn't get the memo which said that.


Road course gets my vote.


Although I doubt it changes much.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Very much so (assuming you're paying eBay rates). Extremely thin DOF, but lots of fun to play with.

Reversing rings are also fun for macro on the cheap.

Well, that's the thing. New set of three Kenko AF-S compatible rings (36mm, 20mm and 12 mm) retails around 150€, I could get it with around 110, but it's still a lot of money I'd probably have more use for other more important things.

Reversing rings seems to be about 35 €, but I think it could be a bit off a hassle.

Quote from jibber :

Amazing shot! What lens did you use?

It's taken with the D60 kit Nikon DX 18-55 VR 1:3.5-5.6G at 55 mm. I think I also had CPL on with that shot, I was trying to experiment with it and see how it works with drops. Well, you can't see our house in the drop, so I guess it worked.


Thanks for the comments guys.

I'm thinking of getting a extension tube set, but I wonder if they are worth the money for the lens.

Last edited by Blackout, Tue 7 Jul 2009, 08:58.

The weather was bad for few days, but it made me realize that cloudy days are great for photography!

Anyway, some more water drops, which I've been slightly obsessed with the last few days.







Ending huge.

Crop of a lonely drop.

Last edited by Blackout, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 14:08.

Quote from BSantos :

I was seeing the replays more closely and do not understand how two people leave the car running away in a straight line.


Blackout, What happened there? (lap 2, t1, second race)

Well I don't know really. It was the strangest thing. It might been I pulled out of the split stream with too quick move. All I remember was that suddenly the car steered very heavily to the left. I guess I over corrected and it went to the right out of control. When it started to slide my first thought was the tires so I guess I tried to stop the slide and preserve my tires and not just stop the car. But It really got me off guard, don't know if the heavier car had anything to do with it. Must have been the most terrible mistake I've ever done.

Sorry for everyone I hit there. Was a rubbish race onwards from that, as you can see I had to pit twice, it was just plain terrible.

Race 1 was good for me, well, apart from those flying cars that hit me off the track. But climbed few positions after that, so it wasn't that bad compared to the second race.

Last edited by Blackout, Mon 6 Jul 2009, 08:05.

Thanks for the comments.

Quote from DEVIL 007 :

Blackout,
Please could you send me the 3rd one in 1680*1050? I would like to use it as my background as well.

thanks in advance!

Here you go.

Here two from today with my budget 70-300 Sigma.

Really wanted a colourful shot and ah there was these bright flowers and green leaves.

Then I came up with this flower sticking up above everything else with interesting background at friends yard.

An older shot, taken with the kit 18-55 Nikon. Current desktop background.


That is all. Might got something with old steam boats tomorrow, but let's see.

Last edited by Blackout, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 15:37.

I hate spiders with passion but that was hilarious.

:spider:

Bah, don't you know that being cheap is the thing now and therefore I'm at the edge of coolness!

Quote from BigPeBe :

I was suggested to go to the old 178.24 drivers. Did that. Didn't help.

Ingame pretty much everything in low, 1024x768 resolution, no AA & AF, fps is better but it's still pretty horrible. I mean come on it even goes under 20 fps when something is happening and plus the game looks so horrible that I don't even want to play it.

:eye-poppi
That is really weird, your rig is more powerful than mine, but I can run it no problems with 1920x1200 with low AA&AF and medium/low graphic settings.

But yeash, not sold on the game yet. Don't have so much extra money to spare, so I'll wait for some updates and pick it up cheap from some bargain bin at 19 euros.

Main fault for me is the dumb AI team mates who just get killed all the time.

Last edited by Blackout, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 21:21.