No one seems to have posted about Massas latest F1 testing:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/200 ... etes-f2007-test-pictures/

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12433_5775918,00.html

Relevant to the 2010 season non?

Quote from DevilDare :

Another "masterpiece" from Tilke.

Rome GP

Video

Those are two completely different layouts... So which is the F1 Circuit?

Realistically probably not that useful a link, as I doubt anyone is going to trawl through them all, but here are all the emails in question in their full un edited glory:

http://www.eastangliaemails.com/index.php


Sorry if it's already been linked too.

No he's not a joke. He's one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, (arguably the most successful), ..Gates, (and others), may be richer but he only ever ran one business - Branson has had a string of hugely successful ones in completely diverse industries.

But he does have a rubbish sense of humour.

Quote from Intrepid :

America can feel 'oppressive' but I found it's more about strength of character than anything. Having to be independant and sort yourself out can feel oppressive if your used to being spoon fed, like we are in the UK.

It's a wonderful thing to be advantaged isn't it?

I truely hope you don't ever find yourself at the mercy of debilitating illness or misfortune where you, through no fault of your own, have to rely on the mercy, good will and basic human compasion of others.

Don't bother replying with some such statement as "I wouldn't let it happen to me" or "I'd work out a way to survive" etc.. because you'd only show an ignorance of the randomness of what life can bring on a person if you do.

Point being, it's very easy to believe in the freedom of the individual and free market economies et al ethics when you're in the Privileged position of being smart, healthy and rich (in world terms).

Quote from flymike91 :

....... In 200 years france has had ~18 governments, Russia has had 6, Italy? Lol they don't even know what government they're on right now. America has had one government and it works. .......

What on earth are you talking about??

In the last 200 years France has been a Monarchy, (a Dictatorship strictly speaking under Napoleon), and a Republic; Russia has been a Monarchy, a Communist state and a Democracy and Italy has been a Monarchy, Facist Dictatorship and a Republic.

Funny how you conveniently pick the last 200 years however, pre constitution "America" was variously "owned" by other nations.


Ironic how the world turns out. The Americans see Britain as their closest allies and hold the French in low regard, despite the fact that it was the British they went to war against to gain independence and if not for the French they would never had been successful. So historically speaking it's the French the Americans should be thankful to for their freedoms and the British they should be resentful towards.

Quote from Electrik Kar :

That's where the 'settled science' claim really gets me. There are still so many unknown or unquantifiable relationships in climate. Climatology is actually a fairly young science, even though the basic physics of the greenhouse theory were set out a hundred years or so ago. But by procliaming that CO2 is the main driver of climate because we don't know what else it could be just sounds completely weird to me. It's a certainty based on ignorance, atleast that is the way it is popularly being presented to the public.

edit: the table is from the latest IPCC (2007) report

Exactly. It's just bad science pure and simple IMO. They're not putting any significant effort in to investigating other mechanisms, instead relying on "popularist" mechanisms, (which coincidentally there is financial benefit in :shrug, and specifically have become fixated with CO2.

It's just all too convenient and lazy to me. It makes me sceptical of motivation. Even eminent scientists are open to the human failings of ego, self-aggrandizement and the taint of financial reward.

Interesting talk by a leading Physisist at CERN. Appologies if it's been linked before.


http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1181073/

In summary, known mechanisms or not there is a lot of emprical evidence pointing towards a close association between cosmic radiation and global temperatures. However, because mechanism for this association is not fully understood the IPCC do not consider it in their climate models.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Except that it wouldn't! It would take that long to reach about 95% of the speed of light. Then that long again to reach 99%, then that long again to reach 99.9%, then that long again to reach 99.99%........

Was wondering if someone would spot that


Ahh well.. I did try a search but that thread didn't come up.. anyway .. this is the pointless thread, a subtle difference

C'mon guys.. did I say it was possible?

Fact remains .. if you could sustain that acceleration.. then that's how long it would take.

Last edited by gezmoor, Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:47.

Is it a cable modem?? Have you turned off the cable modem since you plugged in the wireless router? Cable modems keep track of the MAC address of the client connected to them and you can't just swap and change the box connected to them or they won't give out an IP address.

Try turning off the router and modem. Leave them both off for 10-20 seconds then turn on the modem first. Let it go through its boot up procedure till the cable light comes on continuously. Then turn on the wireless router, let that get to the point that the "internet" light is on. Then try turning on your computer and see if you have access to the internet.

At an acceleration of 7g, (about what Humans can sustain long term), it would take 50 days, 13 hours, 6 minutes and 28.9993 seconds to reach the speed of light (~ 1.08 Trillion km/h).

Told you it was pointless..

Now lets have yours

Quote from tristancliffe :

Some motorcyclists like EBC pads. I assume they are either morons that haven't tried different pads, or that the requirments of a bike pad are sufficiently different from a car pad that they are acceptable.

To be fair, motorcycle brakes don't need to produce anywhere near the same levels of stopping power as car brakes, for obvious reasons.

EBC brakes are actually very popular amongst motorcyclists, (at least they used to be), and although not necessarily the best around are usually more than adequate for road use and actually cheaper than OEM replacement pads in most cases, (though that also may have changed over the last ten years since I rode :shrug.

Radial diameter and caliper/piston/pad area are the two most important factors re improving brakes, (all other things being equal that is). So generally speaking first "upgrade" is to put bigger discs in, (if possible), and bugger the extra weight.

Quote from ColeusRattus :

Thing is, with evolution an all that stuff, that means that the very first europeans were black and direct african descendants. Us bleaching out in the harsher middle european climate was a lengthy process. So, by your logic, actually europe should be black, as they were the first to be here.

...

No. The very first Europeans were Homo Erectus and were in Europe nearly 800,000 years ago. Homo Erectus were about as far removed from Modern African Humans as they were from any other race of Modern Humans.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4526264.stm

Anyway irrespective, the traditional "Out of Africa" hypothesis of "Man" migrating out of Africa a relatively recent 150-200,000 years ago seems to be falling apart the more archeological finds that are made. A recent find puts Man outside Africa nearly 2 Million years ago.

http://www.independent.co.uk/n ... story-of-man-1783861.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/o ... ans-unravels-1783865.html

Hmmm.. well so much could possibly happen, most likely stuff that no one even imagined might happen. But I do think some thing will either be or have been and gone namely:

Traditional physical keyboards/mouse will go and be replaced by some electronic touch variant.


TV wise, HD will be "the norm", as in all broadcasts will be what is currently considered HD and everyone will have HD screens (of some form - possiblly multiple forms), in their homes. There will be a new HD format on the horizon. IPTV will be the norm, and the majority of, if not all, content will be "on demand" and charged as such.

Access to the internet will be faster from any fixed location, (FTTC will be in most areas and affordable by then), but I don't see Mobile internet access changing much in terms of speed, (unless 4G becomes a reality). The pricing structure of internet access is very likely to move from fixed ongoing charges to data usage charges, with most people having 50-100mb of bandwidth available but being charged on the basis of how much data they down/up loaded. Either that or on a fixed committed rate with 95% percentile charging of bandwidth use above that rate, much like a lot of current corporate internet access is paid for at the moment.

Cars will have a lot more automation.

Computers will be faster, smaller, quieter than now, (so what's new? :shrug.

Mobile devices will continually broadcast your status and location, (a la "unified communications"), to everybody and you'll have no choice about it. This will be due to having a permanently connected data service.

Edited to add - Biotechnology will have advanced and it will be possible to have certain parts of our bodies replaced by cyber parts if they are damaged.

Genetic research will have developed to the point where certain organs can be replaced by genetically regrown ones from your own stem cells. (Only for the uber rich however).

Last edited by gezmoor, Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:44.

Quote from brandons48 :

I met Richard Hammond a while ago when he did that Morrisons advert

I'm taller than him.

Which leads on to the obvious questions:

a. were you in the ad too?
b. if so which one is you ?

Quote from rediske :

Simon Phillips once signed me a snare drumhead after a drum clinic!

I once blanked Nicko McBrain at a musical instrument show. Walked up to him and said, "excuse me" to get passed him. Didn't realise who he was, (oh the shame I was a big IM fan at the time!!), until I saw him doing a clinic a couple of hours later.

Used to live next door to Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber (Dempsey and Makepeace -they were a couple in real life) and Michael once said "morning" to me as I was outside taking the cover off my motorbike.

They are probably the most famous people I've actually talked to.

Other that I've either walked passed or been in the presence of, (not including on stage at gigs):

Pauline Collins and John Alderton (another real life couple)
Bros
Vanessa Feltz
Emma Thompson
Michael Foot
Johnny Vegas
Chris Evans
Bill Oddie

and motorsport wise:

John Reynolds (well on the track at the same time as him anyway :shy

Quote from Stefani24 :

OMAIGAWD.
I went to manage, and it was there showing healthy and all....and I could assign it to a new letter...Imma use B!!!
Thanks so much for pointing that out!

You're welcome.

Sorry I got sidetracked but I thought you were looking to recover data from a "faulty" hard drive. Just goes to show you should always check the obvious first.

All this talk of RAM and GPU memory.

People are aware that for 32bit processors the 4GB memory utlisation includes addressing the GPU memory, (and any other memory on any other internal components eg audio and Network card etc), right??

So if you have 4GB of RAM and a 1GB Graphics memory, the 3.5GB or so that Windows can actually address is going to be eaten in to by some of the Graphics memory.

Here is an article explaining in more detail, (by the infamous Mark Russinovich) :

http://blogs.technet.com/markr ... e/2008/07/21/3092070.aspx

Quote from Greboth :

@geezmoor: Yh those are the ones I thought I could use

Thanks for the help guys I noticed looking at prices the DDR is more but oh well. There is a couple of little PC shops by me which I want to try to see if they got it cheaper, but I doubt it. Roll on payday

If money is tight, you could get away with just getting a single 1GB stick and run it with the one you have already. That will give you a total of 1.5GB and cost you under £30.

When it comes to selecting memory it goes like this, (allowing for Mobo compatibility of course):

1st - Total Amount
2nd - Speed (determined by the lowest speed module installed).
3rd - CL value
4th - Other clock settings.

People waste a lot of money IMO on memory modules with lower CL and other clock settings when actually the performance of their machine would benefit more from just extra GBs or Mhz.

Matched pair is definitely the recommended way to go.

Unfortunately DDR memory is relatively expensive. You can actually buy DDR2 memory for less !!

You have a choice:

Crucial 2GB kit (1GBx2), DDR PC3200 £54.04 (inc Delivery)

http://www.crucial.com/uk/stor ... x?IMODULE=CT2KIT12864Z40B

or

Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB), DDR PC3200 £51.03 (inc Delivery)

http://www.dabs.com/products/c ... 000-4294959239-4294960363


Both decent manufacturers, (though I've never personally used Corsair), and both the same spec and pretty much price.


You should notice quite a bit a difference in the responsiveness of your machine moving up from 512MB to 2GB of memory.

3DMark06 v1.1.0 3DMark Score

ATI Radeon HD 3650 (512 MB) : 5166
ATI Radeon HD 4550 (512 MB) : 3880
ATI Radeon HD 4350 (256 MB) : 2798


Read in to that what you want. Sure it's an artificial benchmark but it's still a rough guide to performance in which case (approx):

3650 is 25% > than 4550 and 66% > than 4350

Given their relative prices it would seem 3650 is the preferred option.

For other gaming results see here: http://www.tomshardware.com/ch ... uality/benchmarks,63.html

As a point of reference my card (8600GT) runs LFS perfectly well scores as follows:

Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT (256 MB) : 5569

Though admittedly not being a nerdy gamer I only run it at 1152 x 864 on a 17" monitor.

Last edited by gezmoor, Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:07.

Quote from Intrepid :

.......you are forced by law to pay for the BBC .....!!

No you're not. You have a choice as to whether to own equipment capable of recieving live broadcasts from the BBC.

No TV etc, (which plenty of people don't have), and there is no requirement to pay the licence fee. There are alternative ways to obtain news of current events, should you choose to use them.

So if you feel so strongly about the BBC not being of a standard that you expect as a tax payer then choose with your feet and go somewhere else.

It is after all a capitalist state, (which you love so dearly), that we live in, you have that power.

If EASEUS can see the files then the drive should be fine hardware wise.

If all you want to do is get the disc back and not recover any data from it, lets start from scratch.

!! WARNING FOLLOWING THE STEPS BELOW WILL LOOSE ALL THE DATA ON THE DISC !!

I have some questions:

a) If you "right click" on you "my computer" icon on the desktop and select "manage" then select "disk management" can you see the disk in question?

If yes, then simply right click it and "delete volume", then when it shows as "unallocated", right click it select "new simple volume" and follow the steps in the wizard. . Reboot the computer and windows should automatically recognise the drive.

If the answer to a) is no, then you have two options.

1. Use the EASEUS partition master software you have and select and delete the volume on the drive.

If you can't see the drive using the EASEUS software then

2. Download and burn GParted on to a CD, reboot the machine and run it as a boot disc. Select the drive in question and delete any volumes/partitions on it. Reboot the machine and see if you see in step a) above under "disk manager" under windows.

Quote from Greboth :

Hi all.

I have been planning on upgrading my PC for a while but due to the cost of it I am looking at making my system a little more bearable so I am looking at upgrading the RAM in my PC but I have got right confused so I have a few questions.

My current ram is 512mb PC3200 but only 200mhz, I can only find 400mhz though. So the way I can see from my tiny bit of knowledge is I have the following options:
1. Mix the the different sticks of RAM but the 400mhz will be limited to 200mhz.
2. Pull out my 200mhz and just have a stick of 400mhz.

But im running AMD that supports dual channel which from what I believe means its better to run a 'pair' so
3. Run my 200mhz and 400mhz as a pair (if this is possible, I don't know)
4. Pull out my 200mhx and replace with a pair of 400mhz

So which is the better route for me?

If you need further system info just ask

Thanks in advance, Greboth.

Post the make and model of your motherboard and I'll give you a RAM reccommendation.

IF you don't know the make/model of your motherboard use the software in this link:

http://www.gtopala.com/

Download the "stand alone" version. Run it, (ignore any security warnings windows throws up), and click on the Motherboard option under Hardware in the menu on the left.

Quote from SamH :

....
Has policy driven science, rather than science driven policy?

The former has always been the case. Just look at recent events surrounding the governments chief science advisors sacking.

Science has always been the pawn of business and government. I'm not at all surprised to hear that the "science" of climate change has been tainted by people with agendas.

GM crops is another case in point.

Long live the ludites !!