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heson
S2 licensed
Quote from Antonio_Jurkic :Can i got a free license somewhere?? Its there anyone who does not play more LFS but he/she have a license???' Plsssss i wish play s1 or s2 multiplayer!

Thanks...

Get a job, afford cool stuff.
heson
S2 licensed
It will be awesome, if it's not it's due to lack of beer.


(Ghost rider with N.Cage was bad for my liver but it was pretty good in the end, but blurry)
heson
S2 licensed
I do not like infienon, would have liked most other American tracks (there are maybe 10 track in US I think is more appropriate for WTCC style racing)
heson
S2 licensed
Quote from PMD9409 :You should still be able to get mods and the sort, and everything should function as normal, however you will just be missing the ability to race online with others.

Thanks, bought it (will spend the money I saved on a few very old drams this weekend)

I think I need to put some eggs under the lead foot, started over 10 races on spa without seeing la source even once until I had to cheat and select invulnerability. Ill keep that setting until I know the track at least.

First verdict: Very nice.
heson
S2 licensed
Quote from PMD9409 :No you can get the standard license and you will be able to race online for 18 months (so throughout beta and then 12 months after). Every year after you would have to pay $12 for an extra year of online racing. If you buy the lifetime, you obviously bypass all the "pay per year" nonsense and just get it outright forever like normal.

That part I do understand. But will there be any degradation in the offline experience after the 18 months?
(like no more mods, no more reactivate after reinstall, no more bug fixes)
heson
S2 licensed
I must be too tired to understand.

Do I need the lifetime license if I never ever will play online? (only offline)

"It say lifetime access to online matchmaking and services". So its about what services include.
heson
S2 licensed
Quote from JJ72 :it might be, it seems they are trying to centralize the modding community and have some sort of enforcement in terms of quality and distribution. Which can't be a good thing.

FSX do have plenty of freewares, which MS is essentially outlawing it in the upcoming MS Flight. ISI can easily make only official mods playable online etc.

ISI knows it needs:
1. lots of free mods - It must be easy to create a quality mod. A bad mod should not need a reinstall of the game. Lots of free mods generate a lot of sales.

2. good drm on content - It must be safe for companies like Simbin to create a mod that looks like a separate game that they can sell (for full price), and the cars/tracks will not leak as "free mods". Then ISI can sell licenses on gmotor. This can also give some anti cheat for online racing.

Appstore for mods would be nice, preferably something with integrated mod-browser-downloader-installer. And cheap mods, I'll easily pay a few euro for something that looks fun, more than that I'll probably buy another game instead.
heson
S2 licensed
Quote from Jertje :Looks great, but I really really hope they'll work on the UI a bit before release. I'm sure they will, but... selecting a menu item to be able to select characters? Youch

Most of that is possible to do automatic by context, but I think they are clever not doing it until last. (and they probably have keyboard shortcuts for everything but that does not make a good demo)

If done right it can be a really interesting RTS, if done wrong it becomes a mind less time sink like farmville, if done OK it becomes playing with LEGO(TM) (like early minecraft)
heson
S2 licensed

switch %0 #probably earlier in the program
... #some omitted lines
MACAddress) #if the "switch" earlier evaluates to MACAddress (until ;;)
#return STB MAC Address #everything following # is a comment
fw_printenv ethaddr #run a function with arguement ethaddr
2>dev/null #send any error codes to /dev/null
| #send the output to the next program
awk #the next program is a awk interpreater
'{ #run every line in the input through this program (until }' )
if( index($0,"ethaddr=") ) #if the string ethaddr= exists on the line
{ print substr($0,9) } #print tthe string that starts on character 9
}' #end of awk program
;; #end of switch-case

"$0" in awk means the full input line.
"index(string, text)" equals to the byte index for the substring test if found in string or 0.
"if (statement) {code}" runs code if statement equals something not 0.

So the program prints the MAC in plain as XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX, replace the full line with "echo 'XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX'" and you are done.
Last edited by heson, . Reason : I take this opportunity for a full explanation of this shell program
heson
S2 licensed
Quote from PoVo :Not sure what you mean by truncated so.

"truncate" means "cut short"

The awk line should not en with "p", it should continue like print $0}}', I guess your terminal cuts long likes instead of wrapping them.
heson
S2 licensed
Most likely it should be changed to: (substitute XX for your mac.)

MACAddress)
echo XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
;;

or

MACAddress)
echo ethaddr=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
;;

Added some line breaks to separate the important stuff into lines

1. MACAddress)
2. #return STB MAC Address
3. fw_printenv ethaddr 2>/dev/null |
4. awk ' {
5. if( index($0,"ethaddr=") ) {
6. pMISSINGCODE
7. ;;

I guess 1 and 7 are for a switch statement.
5 matches the occurance of ethaddr=

If the program looks like this, not only is the coder a noob that does not know awk (He should have done awk '/ethaddr=/{pMISSINGCODE) the DRM/access-protection is equally noobstyle.
heson
S2 licensed
Since he is not dead, this time either, I'll celebrate with tribute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... ucSos&feature=related
heson
S2 licensed
Quote from Töki (HUN) :Indeed, Button should be there... The only reason Vettel is on the top is because he's the champion... He didn't show anything "impressive". Just a lucky guy who had the fastest car.

/capt. obv.

Thats what I thought about Button when he took his title in the Brawn-unfair advantage-mobile. Then he totally redeemed himself.

Please note that having an unfair advantage is the goal of every team and not to be looked down upon (but the driver is usually not responsible and should not get praise for it, except for maybe Alonsons alleged spy contacts )
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heson
S2 licensed
Sad.

He was one of the drivers that got me watching the series.
heson
S2 licensed
Quote from PMD9409 :We say pit stalls. I think the one you are looking for is "Pit road" and "Pit lane". Which we also use both interchangably.

And yes I don't understand the point of "World Series" here. I guess they keep it that because they have players from around the globe, eventhough they only play in North America (excluding the one-offs in Europe, Asia, Japan).

I mean a fat wall with nothing on the dangerous side except when there is a parked car there to be serviced, opposed to a row of open garages.

Since many years, almost all national series have international drivers in the lineup.
heson
S2 licensed
Typical americanisms:
White flag - last lap
World Series - if it also visits Cannada
Pit Wall - instead of pit stalls
heson
S2 licensed
I played alot. But realized that to win (reliably) I would have to play in a way that a real job was alot more fun.

Live Poker with friends is fun but exhausing since I can not relax to play for fun I only play if I can play as good as I can (and also play too many mind games).

(for me) Live and Net game is similar, but there is mind games in live and therefore not boring to play with patience.
Why I no longer answer the door in beginning of November
heson
S2 licensed
*pling plong* (door bell rings)
ME: -Yes?
Kids in plain clothing: -Have you got candy or money! (please note, ! not ?)
ME: ???
ME: No.
Closes door, disconnects door bell.
heson
S2 licensed
I am so sad.

I'm sad for Marco, who had such a promising career in front of him.
I'm sad for the sport that can do nothing to prevent future accidents like this except parking it.
heson
S2 licensed
Nice. Lots of demo scene feel, I bet there are sceners on the team.
heson
S2 licensed
Quote from Crashgate3 :Once it goes gold they'll release the 'base pack' for free download.

Much like the LFS demo is free, the big difference is that in C.A.R.S. seams to be micro transaction based: a car or a track = a few euros, nice looking skin = 1 euro, etc. (atleast this is how I interprete the sparse information) There will probabyl be packs (f1 track pack, ALMS-track pack, wtcc car pack etc.)
heson
S2 licensed
Quote from bunder9999 :i was going to post this in irc, but meh.

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tauwisdom/anon1.html

i'm not really sure why people find starcraft so appealing, when it has many gameplay and mechanics flaws.

Comparing Starcraft and TA/SupCom is like comparing rally and track racing i.e not relevant, since they are opposite in most ways possible from the ground and up.

Quote from Shotglass :who gives a shit?

That is not a valid argument.

I play both. Watching a good sc2 match is exiting. Playing pvp in sc2 does not excite me (regardeless if its vs ai or human). I play supcom against AI almost every day.
heson
S2 licensed
From one of my favourite distilleries.
heson
S2 licensed
Quote from KiRmelius :i try not to count money spent on old cars. You'll regret it anyway, no matter it breaks or not. But I'll still never buy newer car. Old clunkers are so cute ^^

Every time I spend huge money to repair "my old slightly rusted car that might not live a km more if i'm unlucky" I am happy because it's less than one year depreciation of a newish car. So as long as I hope the repair will make the car survive one year its for free.
heson
S2 licensed
Quote from Kegetys :
So they expect you to put in 25000e to support a project that might later turn into something completely opposite to what you want because others voted so?

I interpret it as you should expect to get your soda ads trackside and selectable for stickers and hold in game events like "Slurm weekend timetrial, win a trip to the slurmfactory". You will also get to vote (in hopes that the famous 1974 Slurm #33 lemans car gets made before other stuff)

From this:
http://www.wmdportal.com/proje ... perks-announced/#more-231
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