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Quote from mrodgers :

Dennisjr, it's only their snobby arrogant british asses speaking when they get like this. Now watch, they can say all they want about the US and "Americans", but they will take huge offense over that.....

They can't separate the differences between the "underground street racing" on in the streets of LA NFS or FnF style compared to 2 guys having a bit of fun with their cars out on a country road. They also like to bark the illegal issue all the time with everything. As if none of them have ever broken the speed limit (that would be illegal), or they all indeed have spent the $3000 on 3d modeling software for their video game rendering, then bark in their arrogance about someone using a crack for LFS.

There's no stopping it. They are so wrapped up in their arrogance, their perceived superiority, and their perceived perfection as a culture and a nation that there is no use in fighting it. When they say that all Americans can't drive, are fat, are stupid, you just have to smile and laugh anymore. When they argue about issues such as racing on the roads and driving fast as if they had never done it themselves, you just have to let it go. Thank goodness the folks from around the world on other forums I participate in are not like those here.

Of course, the stupidity of atlantian doesn't help matters any. Of course, because of the attitude and the stupidness showing in his posts from a single individual in the US represents the billions of others.........

There are only two words I need to say: Thank You.


If only I could quote that without getting banned even though as Americans, we hear the same said to us on this forum every day and it is considered perfectly fine.

Last edited by Dennisjr13, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 20:23.

Quote from jibber :

Yes, that's why he has to do illegal street racing... which can cost his own life, and even worse, the lifes of others. Sounds completely reasonable to me!

I find that the morons that I see every day on the highway, weaving in and out of traffic going 20mph slower than them etc. are much more dangerous than someone who does a quick street race once a month on an "empty" road at night.

You guys make it sound like theres 3 cars on a narrow two lane road flying like nascar for miles.

Quote from DragonCommando :

Just one thing.
If you can't afford to go to a track day, how the hell are you going to street race? With a stock used minivan?

Over here it costs $60 canadian to run on a drag strip for a WHOLE DAY. and if you want turns, they have realy cheap prices on race tracks in the area, I don't know how much it is for a track day, but its not that much at all.

If you can't get on a track to do it, DON'T DO IT.

Not everyone lives directly next to a drag strip. The nearest one to me is 1.5 hours on the highway. Gas is ridiculously expensive and to drive an hour and a half just to prove to a friend that his car is slow, is pointless.

Us teenagers are in a completely different situation from you adults. We can't just leave the house and go to a different state to have some fun. Besides karting, there is very little open for a 16 year old like me and you can't just hop into any motor sport at that age.

I am not saying that street racing is moral and that it is perfectly, it is just an option that most teenagers choose as the pro's at that moment outweigh the cons.

I just wish you guys could understand that a teenager can't leave his house and drive for hours into a different state.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Watching Patrick Dempsey stuff it into a bit of armco leaving the pits was pretty amusing

I almost spit my drink out watching that. It wasn't a horrible race, though there could have been more action. I hope next year is good.

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

Well, I like to keep oil and power steering fluid with me at all times. The steering rack had a leak on one side. It eventually fixed itself by getting gummed up enough to stop the leak, but I still need to top the fluid off every week or so. As for engine oil, anyone owning a 96-00 Subaru will tell you they are prone to oil leaks from many different seals. This engine has 206,000 miles, so whenever I bring it in they are like OMG WTF HAXXXORS YOU ARE LEAKING OIL EVERYWHERE DON'T DRIVE IT MIGHT EXPLODE WILL COST 234372723 DOLLARS TO FIX AND MUST BE DONE!!!

Thing is, it doesn't really leak all that quickly. What happens is I check the oil every day before I drive and it's ALWAYS full - for like a month. Then one day it just is completely empty. No explanation. Point is I keep one of those big jugs of oil with me at all times, but when it falls over (go around a turn) it slowly oozes out of the cap onto the carpet. The power steering fluid bottle is laying sideways in a little plastic tray under the floor in the trunk. I was hoping there were small plastic containers designed for stuff like that that I could put the fluid in that didn't leak.

My mom has a 97? Outback (may be a 96) that has the same oil problem. It would cost to much to fix the leak as the car is a POS anyway. It will probably end up as my first car so I am contemplating my options with the leak. I don't think it will be worth it to rebuild half the engine just to fix a small steady leak as it already has 150k miles on it.

Also, almost every Subaru built with this same power plant has the head gasket leak problem after about 100k miles for those who didn't know. The newer models '00 and on are perfectly fine, just these are plagued with the engine rebuild to replace the leaking seals.

Last edited by Dennisjr13, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 00:01.

Even newegg is charging $50 more. (not including VAT)

Looks like a mistake. Not to ward anyone off or anything, but make sure to keep on to your receipts just in case they change the price. If that is the real deal, that is absolutely amazing, I should buy it and have it shipped to the US. (Bet you've never heard it going that way before )

Why can't they get their own internet (not trying to be mean)? I can only think of splitting the monthly ISP cost between the two households.

Also, I would recommend trying the jerry rigging options (iron bucket, tinfoil etc.) as they usually work and are practically free.

Quote from The General Lee :

Thanks for the in depth review. I'm off to buy one now.

thxbai.

You owe me the drink I just spit out.

Overclocked Dell FTW!

35.844s

Why waste so much money on a perfectly fine supra to do that with it?

What is wrong with this.

I bet it would be annoying when you are watching a movie..

"Lil Jon - Bass Terror" through Klipsch ProMedia 2.1's

Quote from aLpine159 :

i dont think u understand...... i want BOTH paddles for hand brake.. im drifting with 720 degrees and its a 50/50 chance that i will get the right paddle... and i dont use the paddles for anything else i use the H shifter.... BUT I WANT BOTH!!! PADDLES TO BE HANDBRAKE, not just one

Use the Wingman profiler to set each paddle to the same key on the keyboard. Then set this key as the handbrake.

To set a button/paddle as a key, open the logitech profiler, left click on the button/paddle you want to be the handbrake, select "Select Keystroke" then click "New Keystroke...". Click the record button and then press the key you want the handbrake to be set as. Now when you press that paddle, the key will be depressed.

With 4 drives I would never have some sort of backup, whether it is RAID 1+0 or RAID 5 or just a nightly backup to an external or spare drive.More info on RAID levels if you want to read up.

Quote from dropin_biking :

I believe larger sticks have a higher latency, it would make sense. Although I imagine the difference between 4x1 and 2x2 wouldn't be TOO big.
~Bryan~

The only time I would recommend 2x2 would be if you are running an AMD system as it puts alot of stress on the AMD memory controllers which are known for possibly being unstable running 4 sticks of RAM.

Dooonster, what are your temps. at full load (running Prime95 or equivelant)?

It is very hard to "harjun" a processor as long as you keep the temps in spec (less than 60C for you). I think you would be able to get atleast 3 Ghz on that stock cooler before temps start getting warm.

Quote from Mr.Muh :

'Victor, what's the online record?'
'It's over nine thouussaaannndd!' :bitehard:

You gotta have the picture!

Quote from Crash Dummy :

Alright definitely a bug
To produce. Use LFS version Y in demo mode. If you try to add AI cars while you have no car selected from the garage you will end up with a continuous Could not load AI 1's car message down the screen and can not remove AI 1 from the grid after this occurs either.

So right now my demo copy of LFS running on my laptop is unable to do anything in single player mode except give me errors. I can't hop in the car and drive or anything.

You mean your laptop is still stuck in LFS at this moment? ctr+alt+del and end the task or do a reboot.

Run a stress testing program like Prime95 for at least 10 minutes. I would not go over 60C on full load.

Quote from saumilsingh :

Blind sheep! There are 64 letters in the English alphabet, but only a select few know about it

illepall http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet

Here is what I put together, though I would HIGHLY recommend you put it together yourself, as you would knock about $500 off the price just doing it yourself. We would gladly help you out with selecting parts and any problems you run into if you do choose to do build the computer.



EDIT: take off the Klipsch Speakers if you are using your own set. New Total = ~$2187?

Last edited by Dennisjr13, Fri 14 Dec 2007, 20:14.

Quote from DratsaB :

Its probably just my arseways method of explaining things . I guess when I say "they touch the pad" I mean they rest along the right hand side of the mouse.

If you have a G9 Tristan, would you mind taking a picture of your hand wresting on it?

My MX518 does exactly what you describe, the pinky lies on the mouse pad and so does almost an inch of my palm.

I like the ping .