Quote from MattsterGT :

Longest hair of a male driver?

No. But i've posted far too many pictures of myself in this thread already.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

A skilled driver can stop faster without ABS than with in most cases...most ABS triggers are very sensitive (Like the Toyota Prius) which means that the ABS is going off before the actual limit of the tyres grip....

As a technology, ABS should beat an ordinary driver.

ABS for a start, can control all 4 wheels independently which *no* driver can, and it can also keep recalculating 500 times a second.

You can't use "bad" ABS (single channel or just over-active) as an example unless you also compare a bad driver to good ABS.

Bikes are quite different - you've got more roll (up front) that you can get away with, and also there's only two wheels which the rider can independently modulate. You don't get this in a car.

My ABS is actually fairly good in terms of activation (at least, on tarmac - on gravel it's useless), but theres no way I can stop quicker without it.

Quote from E.Reiljans :

For that price I'd expect double shielding

Seeing as it's only being used for power/ground, I really couldn't see a point. I use proper wire for actual speakers.

£6.99 for 30m isn't bad.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Like all good students, spending money meant for education on pointless car bits!

To be fair, most of that came from the wages i've "saved" not putting all my weeks wages into my tank to get to Uni.

The laptop / tyres are needed for Uni tho...

Quote from E.Reiljans :

Erm, what? :s

Just twin-core 1.5mm² copper wire for some projects on the car (specifically, puddle lights / powerfold mirrors)

Last edited by Jakg, Fri, 13 May 2011 23:34.

Student Loan came in, went a bit crazy:

Speaker wire - £6.99
Passenger side electric folding mirror - £65
CF iPhone case - £2.89 (old one broke)
Sill trim clips - £5.50
Dash camera - £29.98 (fed up of mine being ****)
8GB Class 10 Card - £9
4x new centre caps - £14
4x new centre caps - £17 (first ones didnt fit)
Vifa tweeters - £11.98
Acer 4820T (refurb) - £279
2x Falken FK452's - £240 (on monday)
Some beer - £15
More beer - £3
Fish & chips - ~£5.

Quote from E.Reiljans :

Even a GTX 580 needs only 250 watts.Eww, what a waste of a great TI PCM1794 DAC. Seriously, there's no difference between onboard card and a $200 PCIe card if you're using optical output. :|

Who said he was using optical? I've got the same setup (X-Fi / Z5500) and use 3.5mm to let the DAC on the card do the work for this exact reason...

Quote from E.Reiljans :

Z5500 is crappiest speaker set I've ever heard in my whole life.

It's not brilliant, but it's one of the best 5.1 consumer grade PC speakers.

Plus that dubious honor goes to the Logitech X540's.

Quote from E.Reiljans :

People who own professional hardware don't play around with customer-grade videocards etc.

But you just said they did. And that it needed 250w.

Which is it?

Quote from E.Reiljans :

Well yeah some people are deaf.

I have good ears. The Z5500's aren't brilliant, but they certainly don't distort at any sensible levels.

Why so much troll?

Quote from janipewter :

Since most of you have no idea what you are talking about, I will clear some things up.

On a dry asphalt road you'll stop faster with locked wheels

Thanks for clearing that up.

*files your facts under "B" for "bullshit"*

Quote from flymike91 :

you guys get fined for bald tires what don't you get fined for.

Why WOULDN'T you get fined for bald tyres?

Checking the bits of rubber that keep your car... on the road should be something everyone does...

Tyre looks fine to me? Just a bit of the rim protector gone.

Would be able to see more if it was cleaner though.

Sucks that happened after you refurbed them, though

Quote from BastianB :

Because i didn´t want used Rims and they are expensive as hell when you buy them new.

Whats wrong with used wheels? You had a used car with used wheels before...

Quote from BastianB :

New rims for my Bimmer

Why not something OEM? MV2's would of looked awesome on there.

Quote from bunder9999 :

hm, another monster connection from europe... question, what makes fibre so cheap in slovakia?



a connection like that would cost thousands here...

I'm geussing when it was built.

I.e. compare UK / European city / town / village layouts (built up over hundreds of years, windy narrow streets etc) to US towns (blocks), or roads that come from horse tracks to dead straight freeways.

The UK phone network is over 100 years old, the fact it can do the internet at all is quite impressive from a network designed purely for voice.

But of course if a country comes along 70 years later they are going to have a much better idea of what they need and connect themselves much MUCH better.

Very few people "like" diesels... they are a necessary evil.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Except he has a point.

"99%"? Seriously? You think anyone would ever use a Mac if they spent 99% of their time out of OSX, or constantly rebooting to use their apps?

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

...I'm a "windows certified professional" whatever that means (guess it means I can use mr sheen on a bit of glass) and even so to find the equivalent option in Windows 7 takes at least twice as long as it does on XP.

It means that, like all users, your better at a bad practice you know well than a better one you have no experience with.

95% of Windows 7's UI improvements *do* make things faster & easier to do, and are more logical as well. Any delay you find it just because of you getting used to it.

I freely admit the UI of OSX is probably better, but it takes me (no joke) 60 seconds to find the complete apps list just because I use it so infrequently.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

...after all they resort to running Windows virtual machines 99% of the time to do anything.

The thing is, Dustin's obviously trolling... whereas you actually believe the rubbish you spout.

**** selling it to end users... imagine integrating it *into* your TV.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Remove power steering pump. Job done!

...and change the rack over, unless you have arms like the Hulk.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

I'm glad you linked to that.



Troll. Lolol.

The irony being that I never thought big stereos were cool, at all - I always thought they were to compensate for a small manhood. And yet now 5 years on guess what I Have in the boot...

Quote from Inouva :

No, because they can prefix a certain size to the signature img, ej 200x150 or 500x100

Take a example of my signature of My anime list

Is not big nor small

It's way too big. 3 lines of text is more than enough.

Demo users don't have avatars not because of storage space, but because they were using inappropriate avatars.

Remember for quite a while nobody on the LFS Forum had avatars...

Quote from mrodgers :

Sort results by "in ascending order". You end up with your earliest 500 posts instead of the last 500 posts.

My last 500 posts would not be going back to 2006 considering I apparently make 8.75 posts a day (thats less than 2 months worth...)

Quote from Forbin :

You sure about that?

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=52656#post52656

I have no idea how you found that but by christ I wish it was possible to delete my first 10k posts in one go.

Quote from amp88 :

To see old posts:



To see old threads you created change "Find Posts by User" to "Find Threads Started by User".

This is one of my first posts. This is my first thread.

Doesn't work, unfortunately - shows my first post was on 4th April 2006, 23:10, yet I made the thread the post was in at 20:55...

I had a go the other day - haven't done any more than a 5 minute autox race since I bought the ZT.

I set the G25 up (even brought out a spare ZT seat to make things feel more "real").. and it just felt rediculous. The dynamics were brilliant as ever, but the interface (as in beween me and the sim, not the actual UI itself) is terrible.

For a start, the wheel is just too small... my G25 is one "hand" diameter, my ZT is 2 "hands". That alone makes the whole thing feel stupid... The same could be said for the gearchange (which just feels wierd) and the fact no "ordinary" desk is remotely comparable to where bits of a car should sit.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

So they are idiots and not the geeks that did the hacking?

?

"Anon" doesn't mean anything. It's not a group. You can't trace someone because they claim to be "part" of "anon". Anon don't do shit - people who call themselves anon do.

On the other hand, I don't think that "anon" actually did this. Or at least, while I can imagine they may wish to DDoS and generally "**** shit up" to show their anger at Sony for their various misdemeanors, I can imagine a lot more serious interest would be taken by other groups if they knew 100m of unencrypted details were up for grabs, and a further 100m of credit card details if they put the work in...

Although the idea of someone covertly planting a file on their computer system is deliciously ironic after the Sony rootkit incident...