Pretty much sums up the fundamental difference between Science and Religion. Despite what religious leaders etc will have you believe Religion is not self doubting, Science fundamentally is. There is a common misconception that Science deals in fundamental truths. It does not, it deals in as yet unfalsified theories of truths, and only until such time as they are proven false.
Are people stupid to believe in creationism? No, not necessarily. Only if they have the intellectual capacity to understand evolution but dogmatically refuse to embrace it despite knowing that creationism is a flawed concept and relying on their "gut" rather than their "intellect" to dictate what they choose to believe. Otherwise they are just ignorant, misguided or worse brainwashed.
Children can not be blamed for what they believe due to being indoctronated by their parents and other adults. As they say, Religion is child abuse.
Actually it's no harder than a T-Line. In fact a rear loaded horn is a form of T-Line only with the exact oposite objective, (to increase the efficiency of transmission out of the end of the line rather than absorb all of rear pressure from the drive unit).
Imagine your IPL kit but with each section of line increasing in area from it's start point to end point and you have a type of horn. The one I built had 5 equal length sections, with the area at the end of each section being twice that at the begining of the section, so the final exit of the horn had 32 times the area of the mouth of the horn. I kept the width of the cabinet fixed so from the outside they just looked like very large floorstanding speakers on spikes, (the exit of the horn was at the bottom of the speaker). IIRC they were about 25cm wide, 115cm tall and 70cm deep.
Have you heard of Impulse? They used to make some quite small horn speakers.
http://www.acoustica.org.uk/impulse/impulse.html
I once had a demo of the H2 model ,(quite large), and I was very impressed, they were just out of my affordable price range at the time.
If you like the sound of the Yams then you're probably not going to like horns. Horns make bass in a completely different way, they're not neccesarily warm sounding, but as far as I know they never sound lean like the Yams did. But boy does the bass breath. You really get a sense of out of the box sounding bass with horns, with the kind of openness that you get with panel/electrostatic speakers through the midrange and treble.
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All very valid points, but you have to remember that the original use of the word was I believe by people that disliked Japanese products. It was originally intended in a pejorative way and it is still being used in the same sense. The association is still with Japanese products or their influence on non Japanese products and so the slur is still against something that the Japanese have done or affected. That makes it a racist term.
Thanks, I like them though I acknowlege that they might be a tad "warm" for some peoples taste. though I don't hear it myself. Can't beat Pure Class A in my opinion nothing gets close to the transparency. The power amp is a bit of a beast physically, weighs in at around 20-30kg. I call it my Borg cube.
Nice work.
I did rebuild my horn speakers using the same drive units in to a self designed TL design. It worked ok, but it was clear that it wasn't properly tuned and the bass/mid drive unit had the wrong properties as well. The bass was actually very dry and too low in level though it was obviously well extended.
Exactly. Good point. It can be argued that by paying this surcharge you have effectively been given the green light to go ahead and make use of it. They are almost effectively legitimising piracy. That's really going to help solve the problem of underpaid recording artists isn't it??
All this shows is how much power and influence the Record/Film industry have with Governments. The problem isn't piracy, it's those industries point blank refusal to realise their business model is out of date and they can't continue to justify the huge profit margins they want to make.
Why their industry should be exempt from having to reduce profit margins to survive like every other industry has had to do, I don't know. Oh sorry, I do.. no competition. They are effectively a monopoly !!
Is there a race called N*gger ? or Y*d ? Of course not.
At the end of the day it's a pejorative word for something that originated in Japan and therefore Japanese people as a whole, so is by definition racist irrespective of whether it's intended use is solely aimed at the Japanese.
I for one don't give a damn the kind of engine being used. It's racing that's all I care about. If diesel is the future for motorsport, I'd rather that than no motorsport at all. 
Oh and Aston Martins should be a variant of British Racing Green, no doubt.
Oh and Aston Martins should be a variant of British Racing Green, no doubt.
In my experience the food you get on a plane is souced from the country of departure, so for example if Indian food isn't you're thing and you're on your way back from a holiday in India then be prepared for a nightmare meal.
Of course just how good the food you get will be is very much dependant on who the airline chooses to use for their food contracts in each country and how much they're prepared to pay.
On a side note. Don't ever eat airline food in an unpressurised environment. Your sense of taste is altered by the cabin presure so the food is usually heavily seasoned for use in the air and will probably taste quite bad down on the ground.
Of course just how good the food you get will be is very much dependant on who the airline chooses to use for their food contracts in each country and how much they're prepared to pay.
On a side note. Don't ever eat airline food in an unpressurised environment. Your sense of taste is altered by the cabin presure so the food is usually heavily seasoned for use in the air and will probably taste quite bad down on the ground.
Cyphers n codes are soon to become redundant:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7661311.stm
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/36182
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7661311.stm
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/36182
Now we're talking audiophile!
How you find the IPL speakers to build ? I'm assuming you got the kit?
I've built my own speakers too, (own design), my last ones were horn speakers (horn bass loading) unfortunately they were far too big and I was told to get rid.
My current sytem (long in the tooth now):
Roksan Xerxes, SME IV, Lyra Clavis DC
Musical Fidelity MX Pre
Musical Fidelity A370 Power (modified with A470 input stages)
Kimber 4TC Speaker cable. Black Slink Interconnects
AE AESPRIT 309 speakers - seriously letting the side down.
You're not an audiophile.. you're a studiophile. End of discussion.
Well now I've calibrated the wheel to be more sensitive it's a lot better. But it still seems to move the bike around the track way too much IMO.
Take an example.. coming out of a corner leaned over, (not even all that hard) and over to the left of the track, steering to get the bike to flick over to lean the other way causes it to end up right over on the right hand side of the track and quite often on the grass. I know it's a narrow track but it's only a 250.. no way it will swing that far over the circuit .. there's something wrong somewhere. The bike just floats underneath you and it's wheel positioning on the track moves about from underneath you depending on your steering input. Bikes don't respond like that, the wheels stay planted following the line and you and the bike move over the top of them not vice versa like in the game where your head follows the line and the bike moves around underneath you running off the track when it wouldn't do in real life. It won't hold a fixed radius turn, (or fixed lean angle), either unless you keep giving it increasing throttle, other wise it just keeps turning tighter (or dropping in to the turn). Maybe it's to do with the "interface" and the fact im using a wheel, but I'm not 100% convinced.
It's habit. All bikers will blipp under braking, just becomes second nature after a while..
I managed to get this game to finally work with my wheel.. all I can say is it feels extremely weird. I certainly don't remember riding bikes feeling anything like it does in the game. For example when trying to flick the bike side to side, rather than flick, the bike moves from one side of the track all the way over to the other side... very odd. The physics seem to be making the bike act like it would at very high speed, (where it's actually quite hard to get a bike to change direction), at all speeds in the game.
I know i've been away from biking for nearly a decade but I did ride for over a decade too and that included quite a lot of track days.. I can't believe that if I got on a bike now it would feel as unatural as this game does. There's something not quite right with the whole thing but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe I've been playing LFS too long
Insurance isn't just about a cars performance. It's also about other things like likelyhood of theft, safety ratings (for accident injury suits), cost of repair and basically anything that either increases the likelyhood and/or cost of a claim.
For example, I was looking in to the insurance on a Williams Clio once and found that it was actually cheaper for me to insure a modern 182 Clio, despite the fact it was actually more powerful and faster than the Williams.
I wouldn't go near those cars with half the mileage !!
Lets face it they're boy racer fodder, you just know they've been subjected to crap gear changes, over revving and very probably poor servicing intervals. At over 100k I'd be surprised if they're not blowing oil out the exhaust and sounding like a bag of nuts.
A married Irishman went into the confessional and said to his priest, 'I almost had an affair with another woman.'
The priest said, 'What do you mean, almost?'
The Irishman said, 'Well, we got undressed and rubbed together, but then I stopped.'
The priest said, 'Rubbing together is the same as putting it in. You're not to see that woman again.
For your penance, say five Hail Mary's and put $50 in the poor box '
The Irishman left the confessional, said his prayers, and then walked over to the poor box. He paused for a moment and then started to leave.
The priest, who was watching, quickly ran over to him saying, 'I saw that. You didn't put any money in the poor box!'
The Irishman replied, 'Yeah, but I rubbed the $50 on the box, and according to you, that's the same as putting it in!'
~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~
There once was a religious young woman who went to Confession. Upon entering the confessional, she said, 'Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.'
The priest said, 'Confess your sins and be forgiven.'
The young woman said, 'Last night my boyfriend made mad passionate love to me seven times.'
The priest thought long and hard and then said, 'Squeeze seven lemons into a glass and then drink the juice.'
The young woman asked, 'Will this cleanse me of my sins?'
The priest said, 'No, but it will wipe that smile off of your face.'
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for
company. One day the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, 'Father, my dog is dead. Could ya' be saying' a Mass for the poor creature?'
Father Patrick replied, 'I'm afraid not; we cannot have services for an animal in the church. But there are some Uniting Church people down the lane, and there's no tellin' what they believe. Maybe they'll do something for the creature.'
Muldoon said, 'I'll go right away Father. Do ya think $5,000 is enough to donate to them for the service?'
Father Patrick exclaimed, 'Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus! Why didn't ya tell me the dog was Catholic?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
An elderly man walks into a confessional. The following conversation ensues:
Man: 'I am 92 years old, have a wonderful wife of 70 years, many children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Yesterday, I picked up two college girls, hitchhiking. We went to a motel, where I had s*x with each of them three times.'
Priest: 'Are you sorry for your sins?'
Man: 'What sins? '
Priest: 'What kind of a Catholic are you?'
Man: 'I'm Jewish.'
Priest: 'Why are you telling me all this?'
Man: 'I'm 92 years old ... I'm telling everybody'.
The priest said, 'What do you mean, almost?'
The Irishman said, 'Well, we got undressed and rubbed together, but then I stopped.'
The priest said, 'Rubbing together is the same as putting it in. You're not to see that woman again.
For your penance, say five Hail Mary's and put $50 in the poor box '
The Irishman left the confessional, said his prayers, and then walked over to the poor box. He paused for a moment and then started to leave.
The priest, who was watching, quickly ran over to him saying, 'I saw that. You didn't put any money in the poor box!'
The Irishman replied, 'Yeah, but I rubbed the $50 on the box, and according to you, that's the same as putting it in!'
~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~
There once was a religious young woman who went to Confession. Upon entering the confessional, she said, 'Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.'
The priest said, 'Confess your sins and be forgiven.'
The young woman said, 'Last night my boyfriend made mad passionate love to me seven times.'
The priest thought long and hard and then said, 'Squeeze seven lemons into a glass and then drink the juice.'
The young woman asked, 'Will this cleanse me of my sins?'
The priest said, 'No, but it will wipe that smile off of your face.'
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for
company. One day the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, 'Father, my dog is dead. Could ya' be saying' a Mass for the poor creature?'
Father Patrick replied, 'I'm afraid not; we cannot have services for an animal in the church. But there are some Uniting Church people down the lane, and there's no tellin' what they believe. Maybe they'll do something for the creature.'
Muldoon said, 'I'll go right away Father. Do ya think $5,000 is enough to donate to them for the service?'
Father Patrick exclaimed, 'Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus! Why didn't ya tell me the dog was Catholic?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
An elderly man walks into a confessional. The following conversation ensues:
Man: 'I am 92 years old, have a wonderful wife of 70 years, many children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Yesterday, I picked up two college girls, hitchhiking. We went to a motel, where I had s*x with each of them three times.'
Priest: 'Are you sorry for your sins?'
Man: 'What sins? '
Priest: 'What kind of a Catholic are you?'
Man: 'I'm Jewish.'
Priest: 'Why are you telling me all this?'
Man: 'I'm 92 years old ... I'm telling everybody'.
You can't go putting trademarked content anywhere with out the explicit permission of the owners. Charging or no charging.
Who in their right mind (except BMW fanboys that is) would want an overweight, overhyped road going saloon car in a racing game anyway?? Give me a TVR instead any day.
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It's actually not too bad, get around 300-330 miles to a top up, (around 50 litres). Which is about 27/28 mpg. There are certainly a lot worse cars around.
Don't even dream of it. Seriously. I drive one of those and it's deceptively fast. What I mean is that being a turbo it's midrange acceleration is very good, (as good as a lot of much more powerfull N/A cars), it makes it's peak torque right down at 2,500 revs and you'll find yourself approaching corners much faster than you think.
Like I said, because it's a refined car and not a rev happy engine it feels like it's going much slower than it is. You don't really feel like you're going quick till it's doing over a ton. Anything lower just feels like tickling it.
Edited to add - plus the owner of that one should be shot for fitting stupidly large wheels (19" ??)
and infinitely more dangerous in the hands of an inexperienced driver.
IMO the most powerful RWD car a new driver (especially those under 25) should be allowed to drive are Morris Minors. Oh I don't care about them killing themselves but the statistics all show young inexperienced drivers are a lot more likely to take someone else with them, either passenger or other road user.
Haven't read all the posts so appologies if it's already been suggested.
How about a Clio? I used to have an 1.4RT (93 model - you should be able to get something newer), that was sub 12 sec 0-60, nimble and fun to drive. No idea what kind of condition you'd get one for under 2k though.
How about a Clio? I used to have an 1.4RT (93 model - you should be able to get something newer), that was sub 12 sec 0-60, nimble and fun to drive. No idea what kind of condition you'd get one for under 2k though.
This might shed a bit of light on the subject. Not very scientific but gives an indication to how CF reacts compared to metals.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3741362681682291899
CF whilst stiffer and stronger than a lot of metals is actually quite brittle. This means it will tend to shatter/snap rather than bend.
If you want to look up the actual properties of typical CF take a look here:
http://www.performance-composi ... echanicalproperties_2.asp
Remember though that there are many types of CF and they all have different values of stiffness, strength etc.
Just take a look here to see how many different variants of CF there are:
http://www.matweb.com/search/MaterialGroupSearch.aspx
Here's a comparison with Steel and Aluminium:
http://carbonfibretubes.co.uk/technology.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3741362681682291899
CF whilst stiffer and stronger than a lot of metals is actually quite brittle. This means it will tend to shatter/snap rather than bend.
If you want to look up the actual properties of typical CF take a look here:
http://www.performance-composi ... echanicalproperties_2.asp
Remember though that there are many types of CF and they all have different values of stiffness, strength etc.
Just take a look here to see how many different variants of CF there are:
http://www.matweb.com/search/MaterialGroupSearch.aspx
Here's a comparison with Steel and Aluminium:
http://carbonfibretubes.co.uk/technology.html
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Yeah that would be the wreckers method
Basically it's not possible to over take someone in to a corner from the outside with out causing them to crash unless you're already completely in front of them to start with; or are so much faster that you are so by the turn in point; or they brake early allowing you to be past them by the turn in point.
All the clean ways to do it have been shown in the first few videos.
Don't whatever you do choose the Montoya option as shown at the begining of the Montoya/Schumacher video, it's called foul play to anyone but a Montoya fan.
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