Yup it is. RMS has a scientific/engineering definition. PMPO is a BS figure that actually has no definition and so can be made up any way a manufacturer likes.
I best immortalise it for you then !!
Currently listening to:
Mudvayne - Lost and Found album
Agree 100% with all that. I don't like the contrived tyre issue either, I think it's holding back the racing.
However, with regard to "excitement" and "overtaking" I can't for the life of me understand how any of you think that people swapping positions on the track because of a pit stop can be called "overtaking". I want to see drivers challenging each other for track position on the track. To my mind there is ZERO excitement in someone being passed because of pit stop strategies.
I'm still all for zero pit stop racing. One set of tyres, one tank of fuel.
Oh and also remove the possiblity of any form of "interpretation" of rules. Simply state no dynamic/variable aerodynamics of any kind irrespective of how it's acheived. i.e. the only part of the vehicle chasis that is allowed to move is the suspension period. Simplification is where it's at eg.
Fix the max diameters/depths/number of wings.
Fix the max wheel/tyre sizes.
Fix the min ride height and rule out ground effect.
Fix the max width of the vehicle.
Ban dynamic/variable aero in any form.
Fix fuel tank size and fuel type.
Fix the minimum weight of car/driver.
Plus a few to give the lower budget teams a chance:
Fix the number of engines per season.
Ban in season changes (of any form). The car spec you start with is the car you finish the season with.
Ban the use of wind tunnels, full stop. (unless all teams have access to exactly the same amount of tunnel time).
Everything else, such as position/height/design of wings, engine power, tyre compound choice etc is down to the team designers.
I really don't understand why it all has to be so complicated.
Edited to add-
As far as the championship is concerned, I think this season is going to be between Vettel, Alonso and Massa. No one else is going to get a look in, except maybe Webber if he can get his act together. The chasing pack will be made up of Hamilton, Shumi,(I think he's going to improve over the season), Rosberg and possibly Button, (much as I like the guy I think he was lucky to be gifted a dominant car last year).
Finaly, I think the new points system is a step in the right direction but I think too much emphasis has been put on the win. 7 points over 2nd is too much IMO,(equates to a 38% points increase over 2nd place !), should be closer to 30%. Plus I think there should be more of an incentive to challenge for a podium position.
i.e something more like this:
1st - 25 points
2nd - 19 points
3rd - 15 points
4th - 11 points
5th - 9 points
6th - 7 points
7th - 5 points
8th - 3 points
9th - 2 points
10th - 1 points
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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/cf.html#cf2
There's the correct equations.
Assuming a 45 degree bank 5g lateral and 4g vertical (relative to the axis of the drivers spine) gives a cetripetal acceleration of 6.7g or ~ 66m/s^2
Working from the speed they refer to in the video of 370km/h gives a velocity of ~102m/s. Plug that in to the website and it requires a constant radius of ~ 644m to achieve the stated g-forces. Thats clearly a lot larger than the actual radius of the banked section of the track shown in the video so I would have thought that it would be relatively easy to achieve peak g-forces of the figures stated for short durations at even lesser speeds.
So in answer to the original poster, no I don't think it sounds like exageration.
Anyway, at the end of the day blacking out has a lot more to do with the physical fitness of the drivers than the actual g-forces sustained. Most average people would probably black out at half those figures. Specially selected, trained and highly fit fighter pilots can survives nearly 50% higher figures for short peaks.
There's the correct equations.
Assuming a 45 degree bank 5g lateral and 4g vertical (relative to the axis of the drivers spine) gives a cetripetal acceleration of 6.7g or ~ 66m/s^2
Working from the speed they refer to in the video of 370km/h gives a velocity of ~102m/s. Plug that in to the website and it requires a constant radius of ~ 644m to achieve the stated g-forces. Thats clearly a lot larger than the actual radius of the banked section of the track shown in the video so I would have thought that it would be relatively easy to achieve peak g-forces of the figures stated for short durations at even lesser speeds.
So in answer to the original poster, no I don't think it sounds like exageration.
Anyway, at the end of the day blacking out has a lot more to do with the physical fitness of the drivers than the actual g-forces sustained. Most average people would probably black out at half those figures. Specially selected, trained and highly fit fighter pilots can survives nearly 50% higher figures for short peaks.
Never understood why film makers ever consider the certification. Given it was a 15 in the UK it could have probably got away with such scenes and still got an 18.
On that topic, anyone else notice just how few certificate 18 films there are these days?
Probably because most films that would have been 18's in the past are being given 15 certificates these days. Not sure if that's a trend I agree with.
Went to see The Road on wednesday. Good film. It's not an action film so steer clear if that's what you're looking for. If however you want to see a reasonable film about the relationship between a boy and his father and about humanity in general it's worth a watch. There are a few quite gruesome scenes in it though. Not so much in a gore sense like of SAW etc more to do with human depravity.
Skip to 6mins in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-hHWSQhKuc
If the likes of Tiff Needell doesn't have the car control required, then your average driver doesn't have a hope of controling the car, even with training.
The increase in accidents arguments have been put forward for most other safety features implemented throughout the years, ABS etc and none of them have been proven. Vehicle safety features have only ever led to a decrease in accidents. People will drive like idiots no matter what driver aids their car has. Simple fact is the vast majority of accidents happen to males under 25. The reason is nothing to do with the car and everything to do with testosterone combined with driving ability that doesn't match their egos.
That's something that will never change. If aids like ESP stop the idiots plowing in to bus stop queues and killing by standers then they get the thumbs up from me.
Hmm it may "work", but put it this way. Why would a mobo manufacturer create an 8 pin connector with multiple 12v & 5v connections etc if a 4 pin (single 12v & 5v) connection was all that was needed? Seems obvious to me that the 8 pin was created for a reason.
Yup an image is what you want:
Seagate diskwizard:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en- ... port/downloads/discwizard
It's free and works. I've used it myself. It's essentially licensed Acronis software.
All you need is an external storage space (usb drive?) and the boot CD, which you can get by installing the software on a Windows machine and using it to create a boot CD.
Clonezillas too complicated and a pain to use. Plus the one time I tried it, it created the image ok but when i tried verifying it, it was corrupt.
Seagate diskwizard:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en- ... port/downloads/discwizard
It's free and works. I've used it myself. It's essentially licensed Acronis software.
All you need is an external storage space (usb drive?) and the boot CD, which you can get by installing the software on a Windows machine and using it to create a boot CD.
Clonezillas too complicated and a pain to use. Plus the one time I tried it, it created the image ok but when i tried verifying it, it was corrupt.
Looks like not:
- 24 pin ATX power connector
- 8 pin 12V power connector
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K10N78
Unless it's this variant that is:
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K10N78D
- 24 pin ATX power connector
- 4 pin 12V power connector
Edited to add - this is something that really bugs me about motherboard models. Different variants of the same model mobo can have significantly differerent layout and connectivity. I really wish manufacturers would just give the mobos completely different model numbers to avoid confusion and expensive mistakes.
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Went to see Sherlock Holmes on Wednesday. Have to say I enjoyed it. Liked the new character twists on an old story.
Also, just a word to anyone that might be put off because it's a Guy Ritchie film. Don't be, it's not another lock stock clone and if you didn't know it was one of his films you probably wouldn't guess it was. Though there is a fundamental similarity even so, which I won't state so as not to prejudice people against the film.
Also, just a word to anyone that might be put off because it's a Guy Ritchie film. Don't be, it's not another lock stock clone and if you didn't know it was one of his films you probably wouldn't guess it was. Though there is a fundamental similarity even so, which I won't state so as not to prejudice people against the film.
Just scraped in to the top ten. things are getting tight at the top, first time I played 10th place was "only" 170 odd.
No they're not. Factually they are not vastly different from each other. In terms of all the various shapes a car can (and historically have) take they are vastly more similar than they are dissimilar.
You're looking at it purely from the point of view of someone who is trained (and arguably obsessed because of that training) with the detail of car design.
The cars below are vastly different from each other, the new focus and astra are not.
http://z.about.com/d/4wheeldri ... D_Hon_64LandRover_1RR.jpg
http://www.slashgear.com/galle ... -coupe-Porsche-Cayman.jpg
Your perspective is no different from that of a person who is really "in to" a particular genre of music. e.g. someone in to Classical music will believe Mozart to be vastly diffrent to Beethoven. However, someone with no interest in Classical music and a preference for Hip-Hop will see those two composers as being similar. Similar because they are both of the same genre of music, specifically one that they don't have much knowlege of. However, in general objective terms looking at the whole spectrum of possible forms of music, Mozart and Beethoven are similar to each other. Far more similar than they are dissimilar. Exactly in the same way that in the general objective view of car design as a whole, (and the many various forms that cars can take), the Astra and Focus are also more similar than they are dissimilar.
similar
• adjective 1 of the same kind in appearance, character, or quantity, without being identical.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1Xkn ... Ntc/s400/2007+BMW+116i+5d
http://www.chinacartimes.com/wp-content/nissan-micra.jpg
http://www.fordpic.com/Ford/2009/09/fordfocus1.jpg
http://images.forbes.com/media/2009/01/13/0113cars_02.jpg
http://www.easycarblog.com/wp- ... tra/2010-opel-astra-1.jpg
hmmm.. not similar at all
Of course they're not identical. Of course they have significant design detail differences. But you can't deny the overall profile/shape is more similar than not.
Five Star ?
Most people on here are probably too young to get that.
Most people on here are probably too young to get that.
Actualy analogue has no steps, (well at least not in the world we inhabit, rather than in the quantum world). So what we have is a digital system.
Digital is not Binary. It is represented numericaly in Binary but is not intrinsically Binary in nature. Digital is the quantised representation of an analogue system. It doesn't matter how many quantisation "steps" you have it remains a digital system. A Binary sytem would be a Digital system with only two states, however CD is another Digital system, but it has 65,534 states. The modern Telephone network is also Digital, this time comprising 255 states.
Analogue is by definition infinitely variable, (again with the caveat of not living in the quantum world).
Seems to me with my vague understanding of the english language that the OP asked a simple question.
Also, seems to me with that same limited grasp of the english language that I possess that it is you that is "moaning".
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/moan?view=uk
moan
• verb 1 utter or make a moan. 2 informal complain; grumble.
complain
• verb 1 express dissatisfaction or annoyance.
grumble
• verb 1 complain or protest in a bad-tempered but muted way
Well manufacturers do tend to have a "family" look, so no surprises there.
However, methinks it will take at least a second if not third look to distinguish the new Focus from the new Astra..
http://www.worldcarfans.com/10 ... ially-revealed-with-video
I never liked the look of the Focus, (original or mkII), but at least it was original at the time.
I know you've already bought something, but for future reference in case you have any problems here is a list of AMD recommended solutions for your processor (CPU):
http://products.amd.com/en-us/ ... amp;f2=6000%2b&f9=AM2
http://products.amd.com/en-us/ ... amp;f2=6000%2b&f9=AM2
70mph is more than fast enough to tear apart poor quality gear.
I wouldn't use one peice race leathers on the road. They're not very practical. As said a two piece would be a better bet, as you're far more likely to actually wear it. Protective gear that you don't wear is useless, as well as a waste of money.
Other than that IMO can't go far wrong with Shoei or Arai helmet and Alpinestar gloves and boots are usually a safe bet. Their leathers aren't too bad either.
However, I'm out of touch with modern gear as I haven't ridden for over 10 years now. Back in my day, the choices were traditional Leather or lightweight Kevlar jackets/trousers. I'm not familiar with Cordura so can't comment on it.
What I do know from experience though, is that on the road you need some form of impact protection. Be that some form of padding or armour etc Simple lightweight thin race leathers alone are not suitable for road use as they are really designed to protect against abrasion. On the road, you're not going to slide very far, and you're far more likely to hit something, (eg a curb or car etc). So that's what you should be protecting yourself against. Boots should have some form of reinforcement incase they get trapped under the bike as you go down.
On top of protection, there is comfort and warmth to take in to account. Especially in British weather, you'll need to make sure what you get is at least partially weather proof. Cold hands are going to loose feel. Not good if you're trying to control a clutch and more importantly feel the brakes on a slippery surface. So you'll need insulation of some form in the gloves for winter. In summer never be tempted to ride without gloves. Remember what happened to your hands when you fell over running as a kid? now imagine the result at 4x the speed on a surface thats 3x more abrasive than a pavement.
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Well you're going to need the gear whatever bike you ride, restricted or not. Even restricted 125s will do 70-75mph and accelerate at least as fast as an average car. So get yourself a decent helmet, (don't ever buy s/h - just not worth the risk IMO), either leathers or kevlar jacket, decent boots and don't forget gloves !! You should really get some trousers too. Decent gear will last you a long time, so think of it as an investment.
The bike you can get second hand and save yourself some money for the step up once you've passed.
The bike you can get second hand and save yourself some money for the step up once you've passed.
He won't be, that's guaranteed. He wasn't at his best in his last season, (arguably last two), so he's definitely not going to be at his best 4 years older and out of practice at this level. He might be 95%, 96%... or even 99% of his best, but that's all that's needed to make such comparisons meaningless at this level of competition.
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