Well, LFS can detect clipping, so i suggest that it shouldn't be possible to save and use an engine sound config that causes clipping. Or even better, make it impossible to go over a certain amplitude, i.e. the UF1 should never make more sound than a GTR).

Also it shouldn't be too hard to limit the sliders to "sane" levels, so they don't cause crap sound. i.e. With normal levels, the sounds starts clipping at around 2.0 for "exhaust volume" on the FOX, so why does it go all the way up to 6?

Does this count too? :P
Well ok, it's not really mine, it's part of a project i'm working on at my internship company.

Does this count too?
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Nv-jZMv-o

Not really worth posting in the movie section

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Nice, the owner has no money to pay the tax of an Aston.

A Ferrari was caught over here during a license plate scan, they check for open fines and tax. The driver paid €45000 on the spot, 30k for unpaid motor vehicle tax and a 15k fine

Quote from Crashgate3 :

failimg

How about this nice Bluetooth stick..




Now that's a true wireless antenna

Quote from Bob Smith :

Can't remember what software we used, but back in Uni my team did something similar:

Of course we had to build it and program it too, but that's another story.

Looks like LDraw. Used that a few years ago to build this model:


Notice the right engines are too close together Sadly i don't have the source file anymore.

Use R2 tires, they heat up faster (and have more grip).

I'm running 3 AI cars at the moment (with R2, R3 and R4 tires) and after 12 laps the R3's are just 90 degrees celcius on the inside, the outsides are just around 70 degrees
Same goes for the R4's, but they need a lot more temperature and are almost black.
The R2's are warmed up pretty good, front tires are actually overheating on the inside.

you can't compromise fuel efficiency with a design that looks like a current box model car. This thing gets most of its fuel economy out of its shape; a small frontal surface and a low drag design. Current cars have a massive frontal surface with a design that just isn't aimed at low drag (except for some supercars obviously, i'm talking about that tin box that takes you to work).
The only thing you could do is remove weight by replacing heavy steel parts with lightweight parts, but that would make the car more expensive and for some reason people think anything that isn't steel is bad.

I think it just takes time to get used to a different design. I've read somewhere (can't find it anymore) that people didn't like the transition from a bathtub with wheels (Ford model T for example) to a bathtub with integrated fenders (Chrysler Airstream for example). History repeats itself.

Quote from mrodgers :

Read the comments in the original posted link. People talking about safety, then explaining how F1 drivers survive 200+ mph crashes and those cars are very small. As if F1 crash survival has nothing to do with the tubular rollcage framing, racing seat, 5 point harness, hans device or similar, full helmets, fireproof racing suits, etc etc. Nope, all the safety of F1 crashes comes from the CF bodies..... sheesh....

Would be quite a breakthrough, a F1 grade carbon composite shell for just €35000

Looks like a modern version of a Messerschmitt KR200 I like it though, but the rear seat looks like only a midget would fit in there :P
I don't understand why they use a tiny diesel engine, small petrol engines run much quieter, smoother and cleaner (at the expense of a slightly higer fuel consumption, that's true).

I don't know if it's easy to do on your laptop, but you could remove the harddrive. They don't need it anyway.

Quote from Töki (HUN) :

Yeah I know that batteries cost a lot, now the aim is to save the environment as we can. People will never buy electric cars if they cost more than a normal car. Why were they produced then? For rich people?!

You can't expect new technology to be cheaper than something that has been optimized for over 100 jears. Everything that's new is expensive.
The trick is to get governments to financially support electric vehicles, i.e. no road tax, free parking spots etc. The car will still be more expensive, but the running costs will be a lot lower.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

The trouble with electric cars is you need to fill them with electric, which means you push up your monthly power bills rather than just shelling out on some fuel.

So where is the gain?

Improves local air quality, especially in big cities. And it's cheaper at the moment.

Quote from Batterypark :

Oh, this wasn't a thread about the BMW X6... never mind then

lol that was my first guess when I saw this topic :P

Quote from Origamiboy :

Sorry Jakg, but I have to correct you on one point. The X-Fi Elite Pro has better quality DAC's than the others in the X-Fi range. (the same ones as in the E-Mu 1820M, if you're interested :P ) Not at all useless to BBT if he wants to record audio.

DAC's are useless for recording audio
You need a good ADC for that, and i don't think the Creative cards really do any better than other less expensive sound cards (not including on-board audio).
To be honest, i highly doubt anyone will notice a better DAC (obviously comparing to "quality" sound cards, not your 5$ Sweex soundcard). A proper hifi set is connected digitally, skipping the whole built-in DAC. Even those crappy 5.1 speaker sets are digitally connected these days.
Yes, crappy 5.1 sets. There is the built-in amplifier with up to 10% distortion on higher volumes (that was a THX labeled Creative set :shy, a cheap subwoofer that is tuned to have a massive bump in the 100-150Hz range to give a "nice fat bass that shakes everything in your house" (hello Logitech :shy and a bunch of cheap fullrange drivers in a plastic case or "wood" that's so thin it's almost cardboard.
Maybe you can hear the difference with a good headphone, but who carries a headphone all day? I don't know about you, but i don't.

It also depends on sound settings. Full blown 7.1 surround obviously is much more intensive than plain stereo. But to be honest, I didn't really notice any difference between a SB Live Digital and my onboard Realtek chipset.

Also don't focus on Creative only. Their hardware department does a perfect job at creating a good soundcard, but their drivers are made by some monkeys at the local zoo. The fact that there are 3th party drivers for most Creative cards says enough.

Quote from Shotglass :

no absolutely not
the attachment shows the effect (ie ff opera 9.whatever was the most recent about a month ago from left to right)... the references are apparently rendered too big on ie but imho thats actually an advatage and obviously easier to read

but it's plain wrong. You can't blame a piece of software for actually working as it's supposed to do according to W3C standards.

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its pointless to argue against de facto standard practice on a large number of websites
the simple fact is using alt instead of title for tooltips is extremely common and opera just wont display it

Again, it's plain wrong. There's no point in using the alt tag for tooltips, especially since the title tag was designed to do exactly that. If the alt tag was the only way to show a tooltip i would agree with you, but there is a proper solution for this that even works on IE6.

And about the search box... You can change everything about it. Even better, you can add every text input field on a website to the search field options, just by right clicking on it and click "create search...".

Quote from Shotglass :

but we all know that many sited use it differently so theres no point in insisting on not showing the alt text... heck even this forum did until not too long ago

Even IE6 properly shows the TITLE tag as a tooltip. As a non-standard bonus, it shows the ALT tag if no TITLE tag is available. So why use the ALT tag for something it was not designed for? Just "because all sites use it that way" is not a valid point, plain stupidity is never a good excuse.

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opera renders the whole wiki pages in a much smaller font than any other browser ive ever used... which looks pretty nasty and is downright annoying

Are you sure you didn't use zoom? By default the font is exactly the same size as Firefox.
I just noticed IE6 fails to set the right font size on the whole wikipedia site, everything is just as big as the standard text. Is that what you mean? If so, don't blame a proper browser for displaying what the webdesigner designed.

Quote from Shotglass :

yeah but opera does so many things completely wrong (alt texts... text rendering on wiki etc)

and exacly what does Opera wrong?
ALT texts are supposed to be shown when the img element is not displayed for whatever reason (hence the name, ALTernative). It does that just fine. The TITLE attribute is used to display a tooltip, wich is also does just fine.

The only browser that doesn't render wikipedia correctly is... drumroll... Internet Explorer 6. It fails to apply a smaller font to the references paragraph. I don't have IE7 over here so i can't see if the fixed it.

Quote from Dajmin :

There's a lot of stuff on by default in Opera that I don't think should be. I have absolutely no need for them and I assume the majority of "average" web surfers probably don't either.

The only thing i can think of that's default on is the built-in torrent client and the session manager
email functions: disabled
newsgroup functions: disabled
chat function: disabled
read-out-loud: disabled - requires additional software
mouse gestures: enabled, but with 1st time notification dialog
spell checker: disabled - requires additional software
widgets: probably enabled, but no widgets installed by default

anyway, if you want to tweak opera, just type opera:config in the address bar (yes, that's a feature stolen from Firefox, woohoo) You can also disable the torrent client on that page.

The new skin is horrible. In fact every application that doesn't look like my system theme is horrible. I don't understand why every application needs to look different. I carefully picked my system theme for a reason, use it.
I really hope they wil create a true native skin some day (no, the included "Windows native" is not a true native skin). I use Opera for a while now and it's basically my only complaint.

Quote from [RF]-art555 :

I did actually, the question is, why this way of tracking doesn't work with LFS (does it?), while Keicha, TrackIR, FreeTrack work, it seems to me that this isn't an LFS's problem

Interresting way of thinking. So if i create a software interface for one input device (trackir for example), all other devices that do roughly the same thing wil also work?
Obviously lfs doesn't magically understand the output from the wii controller, there needs to be some glue code between the wii controller output and something that lfs works with.

I'll probably get flamed to death for this, but i like the Aptera typ-1
Finally a realistic energy efficient vehicle that doesn't look like is was designed in the 80's.