Yet another old fat song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNxIi7Zo_5k

I read some interesting article he wrote about probabilistic tricks. A most awesome trick that had low probability of succeeding, followed by a sequence of easier tricks. The audience never noticed where the first tricks failed, and when they noticed he had prepared nice counter ticks (like having answer B painted on his chest when he guessed answer A etc.)

Interesting, I thought wrongly that it the cars were recreations of some manga cars. But it seams totally separate from children entertainment.

I like it, I almost peed myself watching some youtube with those trumpet exhaust.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

Why is it specific to racing and music games anyway? Do you hate Half Life because Resonance Cascades don't actually happen?

Yes I do hate some FPS games for letting you drag along five rifles, 46 grenades, 10kg of c4 and a couple of surface to air missiles. Or for a fps in realistic environments where you can take a few of head shots from a .50, take a band aid and be OK. Half Life can do whatever they like their universe is a strange sci-fi/fantasy variant anyway.

I do not think that they are dull, my fingers hurt for the nail biting. IMHO a good racing series should be either high end with few limits on what you can do (i.e the best interpretation of the rules and coolest advancements in technology wins) or very similar cars, with few things you can do.

Currently there are few kinds of the first class, various kinds of drag racing (most definitely tractor pulling), F1 was but is less of this now. The second kind are things like DTM and V8SC. Most touring car series's are not, engines differ too much leading to penalty weights for the winners and reverse grid to inflict action (read incidents) on unsuspecting drivers.

As for the original topic, If the sheiks are paying huge sums to get races there I have no problem with that. I live far too far away to visit any races anyway.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

I don't get what people's problem is with the 'xxxx Hero' games. They're GAMES where people can have fun playing at being a rock star/DJ/whatever, not a learning tool or guitar simulator, nor have they ever pretended to be.

Because they could have done it like a learning tool but choose to do some strange fake shit instead. The same reason I hate codemasters insults to racing sims.

It's just like racing games, if they simplify reality its OK (but sometimes not challenging enough) but if they add things that has no real connection (like hard coded tow effect, rubber band AI etc.) I get angry.

That looks like totaly diffrent from how its done in RL. I've been thinking about how to do a scratching game, but this is not how I would do it. On the other hand Im not the one getting filthy rich.

I just bought this instead, sucky phone cam piccys. But they are better than my current scratching skilla

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I can not understand Nelsons action. I see two variants.

1. Nelson say he crashes by order from the team
2. He is ruled a liar
3. He will pay a huge sum to FB & PS in the libel case
4. He will never work near F1 or any high end motorsports again

1. Nelson say he crashes by order from the team.
2. It is ruled he say the truth
3. Renault is excluded from: the race/championship/Bernie sack of gold/F1 forever.
4. He will never work near F1 or any high end motorsports again

Quote from duke_toaster :

Wouldn't an ALMS programme (and IIRC they are about to start one) be better for promoting their cars against more similar competition to their road cars?

Unless they are to promote the E-type, yes. They should probably spend their money on ads at golf tournaments instead.
(maybe I should not taunt NASCAR for being the amish of motorsport but I can't help myself)

For me its easily Sgt Pepper. With the disclamier that its along time since I heard any of their records so my taste might have matured.

Legend has it that it that the French legioneres and the Pilots in Tchad were arguing about 'cohones'. The winning legionere said that noone would not dare to fly low enough to blow the beret off his head.

Quote from PMD9409 :

Exactly. Just don't forget the V8.

of obsolete technology.

Quote from NightShift :

I noticed the 1/2 keys are no longer adjusting the FFB gain (they move the 'virtual finger' over the AIM controls I think) anyone knows how I am supposed to do that now without having to stop at the box?

Gain is now on the view tab of car setup in the pits.

The ff1600 is driftilicious around the new oval infield. And I love those turns featuring every possible variation of multi apex, blind entry, left right combos, crests, off camber etc.

Quote from Vinnylegends :

All of the good old F1 tracks are getting Bernielised :hide:

If you mean replaced by other tracks (where its impossible to overtake) with better golf courses, more stars on the hotels, marinas and better restaurants, then yes.
Tilkified is for the concept of taking out the soul of a track and replacing it with a much safer often very boring track. (on the other hand the Tilke track Istanbul is one of my favourite tracks sicne the cars realy can stretch its legs there)

Quote from tristancliffe :

Button gained an advantage and did something about it eventually - presumably once the team was able to review it. Lots of drivers have given places back, either at the teams request or of their own volition.

Yes, and I think this way was good for the sport, usually the marshals are too quick to wave the black flag. (I remember it as it took _along_ time, maybe they even asked race control)

Quote from trebor901 :

that was another case of bad judgement by FIA because Hamilton did let Raikonnen back past then passed him again but still got penalised after the race.

No, Hamilton did not let Kimi get his place back, and thats why he got the penalty. (he was paying the fine with a bouncing check)

Also I think the stewards was nice to let Button correct the situation, the normal is a quick drive through penalty if action is not very quick.

Quote from NSX_FReeDoM :

Hamilton looks so disappointed. it is hard to watch.

s/hard/so sweet/

Also: My sarcastic joke failed sarcasticly on me.

And: In races where such deserving drivers win, nobody loses.

Lastly: Last yers race was even more boring, the strategy game was more fun this time.

Last edited by heson, Sun 23 Aug 2009, 19:55. Reason : addon

Can we have a poll for Actual overtakings of working cars for position after T1
[ ] One (1)
[ ] Two (2)
[ ] Three (3)

i.e passing of limping cars are excluded.

NOTE: This is just a boring joke on one of the most boring race tracks ever concieved.

Quote from danowat :

The rumour is..........

Lorenzo has just signed a 2 year deal with Ducati

I don't trust that rumor but if true it means he realized he can't beat #46 unless on a faster bike than Rossi

Well maybe he needs to get a humbling experience like the rest of the Ducati failures.

Clonezilla is the free alternative, its not as polished as ghost/acronis but it works. (its just a wrapper for dd so the image will be huge unless you enable impossibly slow compression)

Another alternative is to move out most files and then shrink the partition but im not sure if win7 is safe to install to a secondary partition. To shrink boot a linux live cd with gparted (you need a very new livecd with a new kernel for good ntfs support). Sometimes gparted cant shrink as much as you like, but just boot windows once to get an fscheck filesystem reconstruction and you can then boot the livecd and shrink more.

Fedora11 live does not have gparted installed but that is no problem just install it with yum install gparted and then you have it (if you have a liveusb you will keep it if livecd you will need to reinstall next boot)

EDIT: Saw you got ubuntu, you can change the XP partition from there.

Last edited by heson, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 11:10.

Quote from Jakg :

I paid a taxi driver £5.60 to take me from the station to work. I would then had to have paid a few quid train fare in the first place and then would have had to find some way of getting from my house to the station (7 miles).

Driving there costs £2 in petrol.

Thats about 170 trips/year if we count on a car that only costs £1000 to own.

If you don't have a car and have not got lazy yet, and are using feet/bike/public transport for the most of your travels, you can sugar that with lots and lots of taxi when usual method is not practical.

I love my car but its an expensive tool.

A few things to think of. (some I learned the expensive way)
Fuel consumption is not important unless you drive alot. (repairs and depreciation is more costly)
A dependable car is cheaper to own than a rustbucket that needs alot of repairs to pass MOT.
Premium cars needs premium wallets (I swapped pads, discs and calipers on my sisters old volvo for cheaper than a friend swapped pads on his beamer)
A common cheapo car has cheap spares and can be repaired by a local unskilled car repair man, at a low fee per hour.
A proffessional at a dealer garage can often do the same change as above so quick that it will be cheaper in the end even if he is expensive per hour and using brand parts.
You can ride a lot of taxi and rental car for the money it costs to own a car.

(sorry for using strange wording)

Wild Zero!

Quote from BAMBO :

I just want to ask why would someone chose rFactor instead of LFS? It's like saying

You buy both!
(ripoff off GTR.... guess who made the engine behind GTR and which has more advanced physics, GTRevo or rFactor, stupid thread)

EDIT: Sorry guys, looked like a nwe thread when I clicked, I'm blaming the irish (Guniess extra stout)

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

The issue is, becuase you don't have shell access, how will you execute it?

cgi maybe.

I'll recommend vmware or virtualbox image to run linux under windows.

Fantastick thread takes me way back.

My absolute favourite tune Dom & Roland - Cant punish me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... RKpmo&feature=related The only limit on how loud I want to play this is nose/ear bleed. The same with this Aquasky tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCybTFdWziI

Other favourites include Adam F (he is the god). I once had almost everything ever made by Aphrodite (including signed custom made for me home burned CD). Prodigy, but that another genre! Jonny L. DJ Hype ("The Dogs..." is maybe the best racord I got combining my favourites scratch and dnb). Roni Size should not be forgotten either.

Now Im trying to find some good Dubstep but only 10% of what I find is good.