Quote from CSU1 :

Top marks Einstein, good observationillepall you do know why that is don't you?

Top marks Einstein? Nice to meet you, my name is Dmitri. I don't understand your prelibate language, sorry.

@speedfreak227: pour it into plastic bottles and don't worry.

We freezed water in plastic bottles, they haven't exploded ever, unlike steel/aluminum cans.

To continue the swears topic. Someone has posted a link to "swearing in other languages". Deleted?

Some examples of Russian swear-words. Just read and see how may senses there are of the same root. Hope I won't be banned All the following words are oaths, used in swearing or in a speech of, well..., low cultural level. You don't want to speak so with women, especially with mother/girlfriend/wife/daughter (if you are a normal average man) or to say on TV, or to write this in a newspaper or in the LFS official translation - in these cases this is like taboo. In most internet forums this is prohibited and persued, though few of these words have become so widely used that are not noticed by readers.

In general, if you are average or above average, you don't speak so with some kind of persons. Among men-friends or women-friends this can be accepted to some extent or completely, being normal way of expressing ideas - this depends a lot on your social circle..

I would say, if you are a complete oather, you speak with few roots, using all the rich Russian word formation toolset - suffixes and prefixes, figurative meaning and context understanding. So, if you are low social status (low-qualified hard work like marketplace or street-cleaning), you may dispense with narrow vocabulary of words' roots (no need to strain your brain ). If you are educated, you better call things with their own names and speak rich language in everyday speech - but when you need to swear, ...you swear. Of course, I've seen some educated persons swearing a lot in a normal speech, some even when speaking with girls. Good girls dislike that.

Somehow, swearing is more a grammatical event and a sign of your social circle, it has no sacred meaning as in mentioned above examples (if you don't swear at god or something sacred , but to really punch one's sacred feelings you need to be a very good speaker, and this can be said without taboo lexics). The grammatical richness, I guess, must be the same for all the Slavic languages.

Here are some derivatives of just one root. There are few other oath roots and numerous derivative words carrying many semi-tones of sense. Moreover, all the listed verbs seem to be irregular.

pizdà - noun, femminile, c**t

Can also be used in figurative meaning, applying a negative attitude to the person/object that is substituted. The sense is carried by the context: Dormitory guard pisses me off! We were having a party, but then this c. came and told everyone to go to their rooms and that she'd report us to the dean's office. - (c. stands for "terrible/annoying/troublemaking woman").

pizdà - II - n, f - abstract term, means in general troubles (narkyt'sya pizdoy - lit. to cover oneself with c. - means to become out of order (a device), to be cancelled (a project, an event). Used together with dat' (give) or poluchit' (receive) verbs makes: give pizdy (*accusative case) - beat or punish, receive pizdy - to be beaten or punished (by chief, parent, etc.)

pizdàtiy - adjective (here in masculine gender) - very cool

pizdàto - adverb - very cool

bez pizdy (*acc. case) - without c. = "no bullshit".

pizdets - n, m - abs. term, means a bad, terrible situation which is impossible to change (in fact any unpleasant situation can be called this way).

pìzdit' - v, imperfect, to beat somebody

otpizdit' - v, perf - to have beaten somebody (this verb has a set of derivatives (participles, adjectives) which I don't list here)

pìzdit' - II - v, imp - to steal something (equal to English indefinite and continuous tenses)

spìzdit' - v, imp - to have stolen something. There are some popular euphemisms of this verb. Eg. scommunizdit' (from "communism", hinting that communism is when everything is for free).

spizzhenniy - adj - stolen

pizdovàt' - (note the "-ova-" suffix) v, imp - to go. Eg. pizdooy! (imperative) - go! (go away!), popizdovàlee! (imper., note "po-" prefix, which makes the verb be in perfect case) - let's go!

pizdit'sya - v, imp, to fight.

pizdìt' (accent on the other syllable) - v, imp - to bullshit

pizdét' - the previous or "to chat"

napizdét' - v, perf, to have told (a lot of) bullshit

pizdobòl (pronounced piece-door-ball) - n, m - bullshitter

popizdét' - v, perf to have had a talk, a speech

dopizdétsya (pref. "do-", reversive suffix "-sya") - v, perf - to have talked/lied much/long enough (so that it has lead to negative consequences)

ruspizdyày - n, m (f: ruspizdyàyka) - poorly organized person that does his/her job/study badly

ruspizdyàystvo - n, neuter - disorganization, bad work/study, debauch

ruspizdyaystvovat' - v, imp - to be disorganized (permanently or temporarily because of bad mood, parties, etc. - depending on the context)

What does "Gearshift debounce" translation string stand for? I understand the 1st word, get some idea of the second ("debounce" is absent in the vocabulary), but all together it is obscure.

[edit] Ah, maybe it is the gearshift sound volume? [edit2] No.

Last edited by detail, Thu 26 Oct 2006, 09:49.

Only now have read the topic. Damn, I thought it were a topic on LFS proress! not el-ef-es progress

I've been studying English intensively since the age of 7 till 22, scored 633 of 670 points in TOEFL last year. But I struggle with the narrow vocabulary especially when speaking. You can't keep a near-native level living outside of the language environment.

I'm an economist, but half of the Foreign Languages Department graduates speak English worse than me. Seems that I'm talented, because there is really nothing difficult in learning English except pronunciation (that's a pain in the neck!). To be Slavic or Finnish is an advantage when you learn a Western-European language: all of them are simpler.

Lingua italiana dallo zero fino al livello Tre-C di CILS in un anno e mezzo

Just a vote from me: next year I'll definitely upgrade to 64 bit PC, but will never install Vista. I've already switched to Mandriva and run a pirated XP only for LFS, RoR and X-Plane (planning to switch it to Linux too).

I don't know if it is a test-patch-specific bug, but I've seen this only in U22 and in one particular place.

When user's car in replay or in-game is in one corner on sector1 (see the attached image), LFS freezes and makes very heavy load on CPU: nothing works, 100% occupied, Alt+TAB doesn't work, neither Ctrl+Alt+Del can help: seems like the program manager just can't run because of the heavy CPU load. The in-game synthetic sound plays the same tone all the freeze time. This continues about minute or two, then LFS "unfreezes" and in-game time has passed further (in replay) or your car stands at it's start position (in game). Then everything goes on normally, if you pass that turn again, nothing special happens.

I've seen it only twice and don't know how to reproduce it. Once it was an SPR with only 1 BF1, another time it was practice session against AI, all in BF1.

I had a website with articles (in Russian) on PHP programming, called "PHP in details" with URL "detail.phpclub.ru", so everyone started calling me by the first part of the URL, and I decided not to resist and started using this name. I think, it looks like a silly nickname in English It's 3 years since I handed over the project to other people, and maybe if I were to register now I'd have invented something more creative like Dettaglio

Last edited by detail, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 07:34.

Problems with translation strings: "Replay not recorded" can be the same in English for 2 meanings ("replay hasn't been recorded" and "replay is not being recorded now"). In other languages, Russian in particular, it must be said with 2 distinct phrases. So we need one more string.

Minor error fix

[ EDIT by Scawen : thanks, I've put it in my U23 folder ]

Last edited by Scawen, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 12:33.

Quote from 510N3D :

nice track but its not the perfect oval imho. Tally or Dega is what we need and then a short oval.

IMO, Kyoto oval is almost the same big and quick as Talladega. We need just a short oval.

Watched an IRL race on TV recently. Oh, that's bloody boring! The same problem: only 1 good raceline. If someone manages to get left or right of another car, they go that way 10 laps. The third car rambles behind them with no chance to pass. No slip-streaming like FO8@KY1, no bumpdrafting, just formation flying ...and I'm not an oval basher, I love FZ5@KY1(R)!

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

the only thing what lil "sucks" on ror is , that u need a real good cpu.
i dont. obviously.
athlon xp 2600+ and i get about 17 - 35 frames

I have XP 2600+ too. Will try it today later....

I'm going to download RoR tomorrow. Looks promising both in the sence of playing myself and in the sense of development. Reminds the good things of Hard Truck II and 1nsane. It only lacks Kamaz trucks

Quote from seggons :

Detail, how did you get round the rule?



Sorrys to be a spoil sport and all that.

Besides the mod only worsens the characteristics. You can't make a quicker lap in any of these cars at any track. If someone goes online, he risks a ban for too high speed on the straights, though he won't have any advantage on the entire lap.

BTW, I think, it's possible to make a PHP app. to check the uploaded hotlaps. Run LFS with InSim opened, then run the replay at 32x speed and delete the hotlap if there would be an OOS error.

Last edited by detail, Mon 25 Sep 2006, 19:34.

Quote from mrodgers :

Er, I keep reading everywhere about Nascar and having no downforce on their cars. Nascar cars have downforce. [skip]

And you should use the FXO body rather than the RB4. That would look more like stock car racing.

Yep, I know that NASCAR vehicles are very different, and that's why I've written the keyword: "loosely resembling".

As for setups, I've figured out that the most important thing for these terrible open wheellers is tyre pressure. Max pressure potentially gives more speed, but it makes them undrivable. Over/understeer regulations distribute tyres heating.

The file swap mentioned here by [RCG]Boosted has been developed further: here is a sketch of a mod. I think, I'll make a separate executable when I install the necessary software (searching for a standalone C++ compiler for WinXP).

It makes
1) something loosely resembling a NASCAR vehicle: XRR with RB4 body, without downforce.

2) something resembling classic F1 cars (like those in GPL):
FO8 without downforce with MRT5 body (can do 380 km/h)
BF1 in the same style (440 km/h :tilt

Think again: NO DOWNFORCE, very hard to drive on non-oval tracks.

Unpack this file into your LFS folder. There are two .bat files which handle files in data\veh folder. Backup that folder to be safe.

Run CARS.bat. It renames some .vob files in data/veh, runs LFS, and when you exit LFS, it rolls the files back. If your system crashed or you closed the batch occasionally, just run rollback.bat.

WARNING! You may spoil your normal setups if you modify them under this mod. Make new setups and adjust them so that modified cars were drivable.

Last edited by detail, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 20:45.

Here is a sketch of a mod. XR GTR => NASCAR (XRR skins look quite normally), MRT5 body => BF1 & FO8.

Last edited by detail, Fri 15 Sep 2006, 18:12.

Interesting to try F1 without downforce. It can do 360 km/h at BL1

Thanks for a nice idea.

Here is my tuned Supra overtaking ordinary Supras
http://rapidshare.de/files/33015187/Supra.avi.html

BTW, we can try NASCAR now!!! WOOOT!!! Any GTR car with RB4 body.

I watched F1 since 92 till 2003, and never was Schumi's fan. I wish he were a real man and after retiring from F1 came to DTM or FIA GT. There we'd see what he's worth. I know he won't.

Schneider is 42, is aimed to win 4th title and NOT going to leave after that. Kristensen is 39, you know how many Le Mans titles he has. I don't think he quits either. Veterans aren't getting older.

Indeed, I agree with the idea that Schumacher could make these years legendary like late 80s, had he accepted a strong teammate. Good point, J.B.!

Last edited by detail, Thu 7 Sep 2006, 18:40.

Oh, yes, forgot about that. My minimum sleep setting is 1, but I haven't noticed any difference when changing it.

Athlon XP 2600 (don't remember the "name", it was the last version of 2600), GeForce FX5200 128mb/128b.

I've also noted a significant FPS increase (in my usual settings 72 => 120 fps) after I changed view from [incar] to [custom]/[nothing].

Last edited by detail, Wed 6 Sep 2006, 20:36.

Driving alone in single player I can get 125 fps if "limit framerate" is [off]. But if I set limit to 100 fps, LFS makes only 92. Set limit to 90 fps, and get 84, and so on downto 50 fps when the limit and the result meet.

Is it just fps limiter that limits the performance more? Or, maybe, when the limiter is [on], some action additioally consumes GPU/CPU resourses?

I support the idea of starting with warm tyres on track for hotlapping. It shouldn't be a timewaste. On the contrary, practice session is better to start from pits. Nobody starts it from the starting grid on the straight.

The picture is from my spring trip to Omsk city. Their downtown is damn beautiful.