Sod that.
I actually object to how much media time we give it all over here. This is the UK, important as the US is in world economics I don't think that justifies giving their election the same coverage as our own or their inauguration speech the same coverage as the queens speech for example. Report it sure, but we shouldn't have to "live" it.
Pisses me right off
I actually object to how much media time we give it all over here. This is the UK, important as the US is in world economics I don't think that justifies giving their election the same coverage as our own or their inauguration speech the same coverage as the queens speech for example. Report it sure, but we shouldn't have to "live" it.
Pisses me right off
What a load of tosh.. surely Caveat Emptor applies here? How on earth can anyone who bought a house next to a race circuit justifyable sue that circuit for noise issues? Unless Croft were breaking the noise regs that is. If not the judge should be disrobed for blatent lack of understanding of law !!
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hmm having read (most of) the judgement it does seem that the owners of Croft have pretty much dictated what the "acceptable" levels of noise from the circuit should be and had it rubber stamped by a local official at the time. Unfortunately for him the current noise nusiance law doesn't seem to allow such and given that the owners of the property did buy it at a time when there was very little racing going on I can see their issue to be honest.
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Very interesting.
Also, watching that Algarve test I have to say I'm liking the new cars even more. I actually prefer the look of the front wing.
Pretty much have all been mentioned above except:
Anti-Virus:
Computer Associates AV 2009 - http://shop.ca.com/virus/antivirus.aspx
Best value AV on the market IMO, (I've never trusted "free" AV).
Only has one issue in that it seems to keep causing LFS to pop out of the application. Might be an issue with Vista though I'm not sure, never had any problems with earlier versions on XP.
Registry Cleaner:
Jv16 Power Tools - http://www.macecraft.com/
Only Reg cleaner I trust - others have shown themselves not to be safe by deleting keys that mess up the OS.
Anti Spyware:
Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
A bit old hat now but I've never really had any issues with Malware or Spyware anyway so it suffices. Still better than most of the others I've tried though.
and finally something everyone with a conscience and a modern computer should have:
Distributed computing client:
BOINC - http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
All I can think of right now.
Anti-Virus:
Computer Associates AV 2009 - http://shop.ca.com/virus/antivirus.aspx
Best value AV on the market IMO, (I've never trusted "free" AV).
Only has one issue in that it seems to keep causing LFS to pop out of the application. Might be an issue with Vista though I'm not sure, never had any problems with earlier versions on XP.
Registry Cleaner:
Jv16 Power Tools - http://www.macecraft.com/
Only Reg cleaner I trust - others have shown themselves not to be safe by deleting keys that mess up the OS.
Anti Spyware:
Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
A bit old hat now but I've never really had any issues with Malware or Spyware anyway so it suffices. Still better than most of the others I've tried though.
and finally something everyone with a conscience and a modern computer should have:
Distributed computing client:
BOINC - http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
All I can think of right now.
I'm not disagreeing with anything you're saying but I don't think it's just down to opportunity alone, even in motorsport. The current F1 guys must have at least been "good enough" and had funding. To an extent you have to perform better than average to attract funding, (unless you're lucky enough that your dad owns a supermarket chain in Brazil
). I don't believe any of the current F1 crop were ever "back of the field" drivers in lower ranks and that they just bought their way through motorsport. They must have at least been finishing top quartile in their past championships. I am willing to concede of course that there are probably drivers out there that for whatever reason just couldn't get a funding deal and were better.That's just in the context of those that are lucky enough to gain entry to motorsport. I accept that 100%. I'm sure that given the chance and the right conditions there are people out in the world who would be wiping the floor with Schumacher, Senna et als records and performances. But in that sense motor sport isn't that far different from any other sports, even those that cost little to participate in. Is Powel the fastest man on earth over 100m, almost certainly no!! There are probably thousands, (maybe hundreds of thousands), of men out there that never even tried their hand at sprinting because sport just wasn't their thing, who with the right training could break his record with ease.
I still say it's a combination of nature and nurture.
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Actually I don't idolise anyone, let alone F1 drivers. Also, I know full well that just because they are the current F1 drivers doesn't mean that there aren't better drivers in lower series or even that gave up motorsport completely because they just couldn't get the funding required to be competitive. The fact still remains however that the guys that do get to drive F1 do have physical and mental attributes that the vast majority of people on the planet will never have. The same is true for other people at the top of their game, (whatever that may be cerebral or physical etc). There is always an element of luck and politics for the people at the top to have achieved getting where they did. But I think it's pushing it to believe that they are average in any way.
Ok fair enough.
You say all that as if it's easy. Not everyone can still focus on the line and correct control inputs etc at anywhere near those G forces, and not everyone will have the required reaction times etc to handle the increased speed of information input. It's those things that differentiate the F1 drivers from the rest (and every other race class from the one below it). Every driver will have his limits to his physical ability to react/feel/control the car and no amount of "training" will allow them to surpass those limits.
Just goe's to show just how far from the real experience a sim is. I've done a couple of track days on the Donnington GP circuit in the past and the sim gives absolutely no impression of the camber and elevation changes of the circuit.
I agree, though I think they should have kept the chicane. Not much of a loss for cars maybe but a big one for a motorcycle circut IMO.
I don't think you have any clue as to how difficult F1 cars to drive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUZJVY-sHo
Jeusuzzz people.. I really can't believe people are getting so worked up about how the cars look !!
Who the hell cares?? It's all about the performance and how the racing pans out.
Who the hell cares?? It's all about the performance and how the racing pans out.
Honestly, I don't see what you mean. As I said CF comes in many forms. Sure if you look up really close you can make out the fibres but from anything more than a few feet they're invisible to the eye.
The CF in the render isn't perfect but it's pretty damn good and is more than good enough for the distances you're ever going to see it from in any game play.
Take a look at these images as comparison:
Rode a bike on the road for 12 years. Had three proper accidents, (where I either hit someone and/or came off whilst actualy riding - only one was partially my fault). One of those was as a learner. All were well under 30 mph. Also had two or three, what I would call "dropped the bike" incidents where I was off banance upon stopping because of being caught out by another road users behaviour. That sort of thing happens in town, nothing you can do about it.
I would say however, that if your 1000 miles of road experience on a 100hp bike has been mostly over the summer I wouldn't derestrict your bike any time soon. Bigger heavier bikes act differently to the likes of your Aprilia when the road surface isn't clean and dry. I would recommend you get used to riding the heavier bike in all conditions for a year or two before adding the extra issue of any real power to the equation.
I would say however, that if your 1000 miles of road experience on a 100hp bike has been mostly over the summer I wouldn't derestrict your bike any time soon. Bigger heavier bikes act differently to the likes of your Aprilia when the road surface isn't clean and dry. I would recommend you get used to riding the heavier bike in all conditions for a year or two before adding the extra issue of any real power to the equation.
Very true. But I would be very surprised if it was Apples intention to allow such modification of their software. Although I can't point to any specific legislation off hand, I think it's very unlikely that this kind of modification isn't covered under one of the UK acts relating to software copyrights, computer misuse etc etc.
Think about it, Apple are renound for tying all that kind of stuff down, use of DRM etc etc They're worse than pretty much any other manufacturer when it comes to protecting their products. The simple fact that they produced the product with the limitation of NOT being able to add unauthorised 3rd party software should scream at you that Apple don't want you to do it. Like I said, I don't know for sure, but I would be very surprised if such circumnavigation of apples restrictions is likely to be covered by some legislation somewhere, (If not UK then EU).
I'm not stating 100% that it IS ilegal. Just making the point that just because everybody on internet forums say it isn't doesn't make that a fact.
As for EULA's not being Law. Who says? They pretty much meet all the criteria of a legaly binding contract as far as I can see. So whilst just because something exsists in a EULA doesn't make it legaly binding per se. Breaching the EULA could very well be constued as breach of contract that can theoretically be prosecuted on. Proceed with caution would be my advice.
The carbon isn't that bad. Carbon comes in lots of different forms. Some of it is very smooth and shiny. Some of it, is quite dull. So I don't think you can say that the carbon looks unrealistic per se.
Pretty impressive. Interesting to note that from the outside it was pretty damn realistic. Only a couple of minor things like the glass being too transparent most of the time (given it was a bright sunny day), and the Carbon being too shiny. However, the second the vid moves in to the interior it becomes immediately obvious that it's computer generated. Somehow the intererior textures just dont seem to have that "real" feel, especially the alloy parts.
That said, THAT is what I'm talking about when I talk about real high quality in-game graphics, not the stupidly bloomed cartoony effects of NFS etc. LFS has a long way to go to achieve anything close to it.
Interesting comparison. Shorter wheelbase on the new cars = more figety at high speed and quicker reacting to steering inputs?
Also, is that front wing close enough to the ground to make use of ground effect maybe?
Just some spurious thoughts.
Me too. The 08 car is a mess. Just a load of bits and peices stuck on all over. Looks like the kind of car a 12 year old would design.
Which is exactly how far you need to be from a 32" screen to get the full benefit of 1080.
However, isn't the be all and end all of quality on flat screen TVs. The quality of the image processing etc make a big difference (probably actually bigger) than just resolution alone.
If you were thinking Plasma I would recommend Panasonic over Samsung, but at that size Plasma isn't an option. I have no idea which LCD is best but this link may help:
http://www.hdtvorg.co.uk/best_buy/lcd/best_buy_lcd.htm
Yes that is what I'm asking. Is the iPod software open source then? If it isn't then it almost certainly IS illegal despite what most people might think.
Download managers are a pointless waste of computer resources. A hangover from the days of crappy modem conections, yet their use is getting more an more common with software companies. I can onyl assume it's part of the new corporate mentality to infect everyones life with their product.
Err sorry to be dumb, but isn't it illegal? in which case why hasn't this thread been locked?
Downloading songs free from iTunes certainly is, so again my question stands.
Downloading songs free from iTunes certainly is, so again my question stands.
A futeristic American car.. oh the irony
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