So, are you saying here that Ford's primary market is the UK/EU? Come on over here, there are Ford Mustangs everywhere you look, and it's not because of Knight Rider.
You're right. Here in North America, the active player base has dramatically increased from 4 to the astronomical number of around 6 in the last 2 years!
When you are married and have kids, it can turn into a bit of a special day in comparison to without kids. Grandma is more willing to watch them for the day and we get to do something together without the "When are we going to be there... Are we there yet... I have to go to the bathroom... I need a drink... I'm hungry... I want to go home... I don't want to go home..."
We don't get to spend time for ourselves without the distraction of kids very often. That said, the kids are with us today and it's just another Saturday for us.
I don't waste my money on buying a stupid card. I make one myself and put my thoughts into it rather than some stupid card saying. She gets flowers throughout the year and doesn't need to get flowers on a commercial day to know she is loved.
Speaking of commercialization, it has become far more than flowers and a card. On my photography forums, there's been posts of people saying they are getting their significant others lenses, cameras, flash, or other photography gear.... Nothing says "I love you" more than a Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4G.
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We don't get to spend time for ourselves without the distraction of kids very often. That said, the kids are with us today and it's just another Saturday for us.
I don't waste my money on buying a stupid card. I make one myself and put my thoughts into it rather than some stupid card saying. She gets flowers throughout the year and doesn't need to get flowers on a commercial day to know she is loved.
Speaking of commercialization, it has become far more than flowers and a card. On my photography forums, there's been posts of people saying they are getting their significant others lenses, cameras, flash, or other photography gear.... Nothing says "I love you" more than a Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4G.
illepallHmm... you would think there would be some documentation or a tutorial on making a Google Gadget or something....
I started watching it when I heard they were going to do something to get it more in tune with the original. I half thought that KITT was going to morph into an old Trans Am when he said that.
Could never happen. Ford is paying, they aren't going to stick a GM in there.
Could never happen. Ford is paying, they aren't going to stick a GM in there.
You guys should feel lucky about the snow. Do you know what happens when you have snow and freezing temperatures for 3 weeks straight and have a yellow Lab dog? You end up having a dog that creates large piles and those piles go straight to the bottom of the 2 feet of snow in the yard. Then when the snow finally melts and reveals 3 weeks worth.... WOW!
Old video....
Reverse wouldn't do a damn thing. Notice though, every single car in that video is full wheels locked and steering at full lock. Duh! I don't know if it would help, but would be worth a try to straighten out the wheel and apply throttle instead of trying to stop. Probably still wouldn't be able to pull the car away from the curb, but it would sure be a better attempt than trying to stop with full brake lock and full steering lock.
Believe me, I thought the same thing. Everyone does. I had wanted to get contacts for years and years and I waited until I was in my 30's before I was "brave" enough to try them. I could kick myself for not trying them 20 years ago.
Like I said, it took me at least half an hour to 45 minutes to put just one contact in my eye the first few days. Now it takes 30 seconds and both contacts are in. I put my glasses on initially in the mornings for about 15 minutes while I scarf down a bowl of cereal and can't wait to take them off and put the contacts in. Glasses suck.
Fusable link is about 18 cents each over here ($0.18). Batteries cost around $35-50. Google your bike and figure out where the link is, it's not difficult. All it is, is a thin piece of metal connected on each end by screws. It would pay to spend the money and buy a handful of the fuses for less than the price of a candy bar to have extras.
What bike to you have, I'll look it up for you. It is no more than removing 2 screws and replacing it. To check, you just look. Poke it with your finger and if it's broken, you will see. Or remove one of the screws and if half of it falls out, it's broken.
I searched and hunted all over my bike for a week trying to figure out why mine was starting sometimes and sometimes not, just like what you sound like your problem is. I finally figured out the fuse.
There's the key point in this off-topic topic of the thread. Countersteering does come naturally, without learning anything from LFS. It happens naturally with the physics of driving a RWD with front wheel steering of a car.
When I first drove RWD, there was no sim racing on a computer. I managed. I didn't learn it from the force feedback in LFS. I don't even know if Scawen was a coder back then, or if he was just like me, in school.
It comes naturally with oversteer and you will naturally follow it with your inputs of countersteering as well.
Similar thing with riding a motorcycle. You may not know you are countersteering to turn, but you are. It's the natural physics of riding on a motorcycle.
If it's as intermitted as he says (starts, starts, won't start, starts, won't start...) then it's not the battery. It's either a loose connection at the battery (he said clock reset, thus total loss of electrical) or I'm putting my $20 down on my post above with the fusible link. 
If the battery is shot and it's as intermitted as that, then I would expect you to get some click at the times it isn't starting.
Motorcycle batteries will not charge unless you are in higher revs, such as 2-3k continuous, FYI.
If the battery is shot and it's as intermitted as that, then I would expect you to get some click at the times it isn't starting.
Motorcycle batteries will not charge unless you are in higher revs, such as 2-3k continuous, FYI.
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That's what I'm playing. It's a bit more than log on in the morning, lunch, evening thing like Trukz is. You have to send your airline fleet out and land them when they are scheduled to land. You can leave them up in the air and they don't just circle using up fuel, but they don't make money until you can land and take off again either. Thus, the planes fly in real time, but you don't necessarily have to get logged in at the time they reach the destination to have the flights paid for. You do have to wait in real time before you can land them though.
I'm Nighthawk on both Trukz and on Cyberairlines driving for Colossus Freight and flying for PanAmerican Airlines.
That's what I'm playing. It's a bit more than log on in the morning, lunch, evening thing like Trukz is. You have to send your airline fleet out and land them when they are scheduled to land. You can leave them up in the air and they don't just circle using up fuel, but they don't make money until you can land and take off again either. Thus, the planes fly in real time, but you don't necessarily have to get logged in at the time they reach the destination to have the flights paid for. You do have to wait in real time before you can land them though.
I'm Nighthawk on both Trukz and on Cyberairlines driving for Colossus Freight and flying for PanAmerican Airlines.
He managed that because you should never drive through flood water on the road. The car was washed into the river rather than being driven into it. Not a moron for driving into the river, just a moron for driving into flood roadway.
Bikes have that? I've seen bikes that would stall if you left the side stand down, but never saw a bike that wouldn't start because of it.
Does your bike have a main fusible link on it? On my bike, it was a metal link and it was blown. It would sometimes contact and sometimes not at the break. Cuts out the entire electrical system from the battery. Can't find a photo to show on the bike, but here's what they look like...
You just described my past 6 years of wearing contacts right down to the description of racing LFS with the contacts in instead of swapping for my glasses in the evening.
I remember that first week of contacts. I got up half an hour earlier for work and it took me that half hour to get one in just one eye. I was late for work, lol. Now, as you said, it takes 30 seconds in the morning and 10 seconds at night.
Ah you kids and your snow flurries over there.... 
We have had our 4th consecutive day of 50 F weather yesterday. The snow in my yard is finally down to about 6 inches deep! Last time we had snow was about 2 weeks ago I think, maybe a week and a half.
My driveway is still 3 inches thick of solid ice though, but that is down from about 6-8 inches of solid ice.
We have had our 4th consecutive day of 50 F weather yesterday. The snow in my yard is finally down to about 6 inches deep! Last time we had snow was about 2 weeks ago I think, maybe a week and a half.
My driveway is still 3 inches thick of solid ice though, but that is down from about 6-8 inches of solid ice.
Exactly. This is what everyone assumes and equates to, that driving at a higher rate of speed equates to driving like a dickhead.
I will admit, like just about everyone in the world, I was young and foolish once. We use to race (in our wimpy 120 mph top speed cars) but we also lived in a very rural area with long stretches of empty roads.
I can't tell you the last time I was above 80 mph, my car would probably fall apart at that speed. I did state that I have done 125 mph, but that wasn't in my young and foolish days where I ran around at high speeds often. That was on a country road of open land that you can see for miles and miles. That was at a time where there was no traffic around. That was a time and place where there was no danger of children playing, or people pulling out of the non-existant side roads.
At 125 mph, it takes approximately 1 minute to travel 2 miles. 1 minute is a long time. When you are traveling down a road that has visibility of 3 or 4 miles, that is plenty of time to let go of the throttle and slow down if traffic should happen to appear down at the end. Even if someone would enter the same straight section of road at the end, I have driven over 900,000 miles since I started and I can count on one hand the number of times someone has managed to cross over the center line just slightly. I have never had anyone cross completely over into my lane to where I've had to evade them. Yes, it happens, but the chances of that happening are very slim.
The people who say that speed causes accidents are the same people who say stuff like snow or ice causes accidents. What causes the accidents are not speed, snow, ice, weather in general, talking on cell phones, listening to music, talking with passengers, aliens falling from the sky. What causes accidents are the people's skills that are behind the wheel and you can add mechanical failure to that as well. Snow, ice, weather, whatever does not make your car spin out or not brake or crash. The lack of skills of the driver in not recognizing that you need to brake earlier with less force or leave more room for the conditions is what causes accidents. It is not the speed it's self or the conditions on their own that causes them.
It's a huge pet peeve of mine when I see on the news that snow and ice is at fault for accidents all over the place or that speed is at fault for an accident.
You only quoted half of the statement. I did state that you wouldn't have a clue as to what road it was. So, what you are saying is that driving at an extreme rate of speed with other traffic also driving at high rates of speed is much safer than drivng at extreme rates of speed with absolutely no traffic? It would be much safer to drive down a local road near me at 200 mph with 0 traffic than it would be to drive down the autobahn at 100 mph + with other traffic at 100 mph +.
I can't get his exif data on the laptop I'm using, nor usually from attached images but do search for what shutterspeed is with a camera. Just because trees are captured frozen in the frame without movement, it doesn't mean that the camera was sitting in the car stationary.
Huh? Do you have calibration data on any and every speedometer ever produced?
I was basing on what the specs of top end was, which is why I stated I was guessing. I was somewhere around 120 to 125 on the speedometer. It is a little tough to know accurately by looking what the needle was at on a standard type bike at that speed.. It was about all she had though.
Other than the legalities of it, explain the reason that the autobahn is fine, but any other road of which none of you would have any clue what that road is, it is not ok to speed at ridiculous speeds.
Is the autobahn magic or something to where it is impossible to crash and hurt yourself or to crash and hurt someone else?
"The autobahn has no pedestrians" or similar is not a valid arguement. If one does not know where the road that someone else drives fast on, then it's quite possible that the road is similar, only that it has a speed limit.
So, any of you "you're an idiot" jumpers want to explain?
Fastest I ever drove, 125 mph in my Nissan Altima. Not very fast and I think it had more. Fastest on the bike was topped out at 116 I am guessing (120 indicated). I hit it and immediately let go of the throttle. That was some scary shit as I didn't have a sportbike.
Typical BMW driver, at least over here it would be.
Without corrective lenses, I wouldn't recognize my own kids standing right in front of me.
I needed glasses when I was 9 and I'm almost 37 now. I finally gave in to try contacts back in 2003. It was by far the best thing I had ever done my entire life. No more glare, no more reflection, no more filth to try to see through and constant cleaning, no more breaking them and not being able to see while they are getting fixed, and best of all, no more geeky tinted 2nd pair glasses for sunglasses or REALLY expensive sunglasses.
I have astigmatism and you don't need them "custom made." They have contacts for astigmatism. I put them in at 5 am and take them out at 9 pm and use my glasses for the last hour of the day. They are disposable 2 week contacts and I wear them for about 2 months.
I use the no-rub solution and don't have to physically clean them. They just go into the solution every night and I rinse them in the morning. Every now and then I do give them a better cleaning with rubbing them in the solution in the palm of my hand.
Best thing I have ever done.
I needed glasses when I was 9 and I'm almost 37 now. I finally gave in to try contacts back in 2003. It was by far the best thing I had ever done my entire life. No more glare, no more reflection, no more filth to try to see through and constant cleaning, no more breaking them and not being able to see while they are getting fixed, and best of all, no more geeky tinted 2nd pair glasses for sunglasses or REALLY expensive sunglasses.
I have astigmatism and you don't need them "custom made." They have contacts for astigmatism. I put them in at 5 am and take them out at 9 pm and use my glasses for the last hour of the day. They are disposable 2 week contacts and I wear them for about 2 months.
I use the no-rub solution and don't have to physically clean them. They just go into the solution every night and I rinse them in the morning. Every now and then I do give them a better cleaning with rubbing them in the solution in the palm of my hand.
Best thing I have ever done.
Men have more expensive accidents because when they do have accidents, it's usually while driving, at reasonable speed into a stationary object or into another driver while at reasonable speed. Women have cheap accidents because all they are trying to do is park their stinkin car between two other cars which should normally have plenty of room, pull out of a parking space which should normally have plenty of room, or pull the car into the garage at home, which should have plenty of room.
Ok guys, just to be sure I am not chasing something around and replacing stuff unnecessarily, I want to confirm that my problem lies with the gfx card. Here are some photo snaps of my screen as I boot up....
After that final shot, stuff is still loading in the background then the monitor blanks out and goes to powersave mode as if there is no longer a signal.
Am I safe to assume that my problem is the gfx card?
As for the card, I figured out my PS was 300W. I liked the ATI 4650 that I mentioned, but the recommended power was 400W for it. Thus, I've downgraded my expectations to a HD3650 which states a recommended 300W. Any comments on that selection?
Someone had recommended me the GeForce 9500GT, but it required min 350 W power.
After that final shot, stuff is still loading in the background then the monitor blanks out and goes to powersave mode as if there is no longer a signal.
Am I safe to assume that my problem is the gfx card?
As for the card, I figured out my PS was 300W. I liked the ATI 4650 that I mentioned, but the recommended power was 400W for it. Thus, I've downgraded my expectations to a HD3650 which states a recommended 300W. Any comments on that selection?
Someone had recommended me the GeForce 9500GT, but it required min 350 W power.
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