Quote from danowat :

I'd rather save my sickies for the summer, when I can get out on my bike while everyone is at work

Ah. Now that's a strategy I understand...

Quote from Bean0 :

To get paid ?

Come on... Throw a sickie... You know you want to.

http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-7468040022578940995

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=306424#post306424

Quote from RevengeR :

i want your snow

Me too! Me too!

Its a national joke the way everything stops at the mildest disruption in Britain... But secretly, I like it that way. Everything should stop. It should be illegal to even try to get into work! Why on earth would you want to work on one of the few days of the year when a cold, white, free toy falls from the sky?

Quote from danowat :

Pinch yourself, does it hurt?

No, because diamorphine is so damned good at blocking out the pain!

Quote from thisnameistaken :

nobody's got that kind of authority and power in rap music any more.

When did hip hop stop being so damn good and become an agent of cultural imperialism?

PE at their best could be as disorientating as any of the so-called psychedelic bands: sirens and atonal noise fighting little melodies and rock hard rhythms. There's few bands in history that can combine aural interest, erotic drive, and polemical coherence the way that Public Enemy did.

(Floyd? Early albums only for me... Dark Side, the whole album, is just not as compelling as a single like Arnold Layne)

One person dies every 13 seconds anyway, whatever the cause.

Statistics are statistics... They are fake insomuch as they are only one way of representing actual events. Reality is a consensual delusion. You should know this. You are a sim racer.

Isle of Man would be insane... First timers will be doing well to even complete a clean lap in the alloted twenty minutes, let alone enjoy the experience. And experienced GPLers who haven't raced the circuit in a while will need to spend now until April relearning the sequence of corners (I speak only for myself here )

Goodwood I'm a fan of too, but its really fast (REALLY fast), and a lot more difficult than it looks. Would be hard to learn its nuances in twenty minutes.

Kyalami - great combination for first timers and old hands alike: long flat out straight; easy sequence of corners to remember; REALLY satisfying corners when you get them right; lots of elevation changes and varying camber. Packs a lot in for a short track.

Snetterton or Brands Hatch might be worth considering...

As for the car: 69 - either the Brabham or the Matra; both handle really well. If we went for the 67s, well, I'm a Lotus fan, but if we only have one car then it'd have to be the Ferrari.

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FZ5 on FE Black would be my choice, but in case anyone thinks that's too long, then FE gold reversed. Think it would be fun to run the XRR there too, but I'd also like to suggest the Kyoto GP track (simply because I've never driven a race there in anger... don't often see it on line)

Or naff... which is Polari for "not available for #######"

Quote from Tweaker :

But why would the buildings and other objects (Which should be in perspective) appear to be skewed and completely at the wrong angles? As if the Horizon was titled on a slope.

Now I'm not sure what you mean again.... Got to get my laptop fixed....

Quote from Tweaker :

the horizon looks to crawl upwards and has a very high point in the sky.

Er... Isn't that called a 'hill'?

Sorry... I do see what you mean, but the screenshot looks to be just the sort of image a telephoto would capture. My hard drive fried recently, so I'm 'simless' and can't check the view from cockpit level. Might borrow a digicam from work though, to show you what I mean...

Am I alone in finding this perpetually mystifying: nuclear energy is just a very complicated way of building a steam engine?

I'm in the no avatars camp (no sigs too.... it all adds up to visual blight...), but if you need something to challenge the tedious themes on offer, how about a subject to make people think a little?

Pit girls? Pah... How about female racers?

Quote from Tweaker :

It's too bad that a lot of the horizon's on the LFS tracks are utterly WRONG in so many ways. The horizons are so high, it is as if every LFS track (except maybe FE and Aston) are in a pit are on a slope. South City is the strangest to me...

Looks quite normal to me... London is actually full of ups and downs and views like that are quite common. The screenshot (and I guess this is actually part of how the skyboxes are coded) apes the way that a telephoto lens compresses distance so its a little exagerated, but not really 'wrong'...

Quote from Funnybear :

Or qualify. Which will be somehwere towards the rear . . .

Its going to be very crowded there... ... I know what's going on here! Everyone says [doddery voice]ooooh, I'm a slow driver, but...[end grandpa impersonation] then spends every available hour practising their chops beforehand ... Lets put the cat among the pigeons: secret ballot via pm to decide car and track combinations Results revealed on the day....

Or perhaps not...

Anyway - I voted for a bit of GPL, for the entirely selfish reason that I'd just like to know what it looks and feels like with decent equipment.

Cold water fusion please... Tristan, save me the time on google: aren't wankels and rotaries the same thing? Or are there other variations on the rotary theme?

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

Like everyone else has said the damage was put in to stop deliberate wrecking and T1 crashes.

Really? IMHO its the damage model that encourages wrecking - its great fun to watch the cars warp themselves into a wedge of cheese and then limp off down the road like the bastard offspring of a Volvo and a Smart car...

Quote from bozo :

However, for me it's a risk - I know about LFS racing and getting prepared for an event.

Oh my days... This sounds so serious - I am so going to be last....

Maybe a few screenshots might help... I saw your events advertised in the league section and looked at your website, but never got round to checking it out 'live'. Sounded interesting, but I wasn't sure if you were running point-to-point races, whether you'd made special layouts that took in grass and tarmac sections, whether you were using the rallycross stages, etc etc.

In short, it sounded like a great idea, but I wasn't sure how developed it was. I don't have much time at the moment, so it just got buried under the heading "great idea".

Quote from ev0 :

The copyright laws, as far as they apply to the graphic design industry in most countries, state that if the designer of the "copy" can prove that they have altered at least 30% of an image, the new image is their own work.

Is that right? Would like to have some way of verifying that if you have a link of any kind (professional interest....)

I was always under the impression that 'recognisablility' is the only prerequisite for an infringement to happen. This is certainly true in the music industry, where there is no threshold: a sample might be nanoseconds long, but if its recognisably taken from copyright material, sort out a lawyer....

Quote from Gunn :

...for non-commercial purposes....

I'm too tired to get into this at the moment, but this is a really common misconception, that somehow, if you give something away, it'll be magically exempt from copyright and trademark laws.

It won't be.

You might get away with stating that its for artistic or research purposes though.... depending on which country you're in...

Quote from SamH :

If someone is going to knowingly lift your work and use it, the least they should be expected to do is ask.

Given that a sizeable proportion of LFS users are adolescents, it would be daft to expect anything.

If you want to be treated in a particular way, write it large and explicitly with the download.

Quote from Bean0 :

It does say on my site that they are for public use, but permission should be asked for if people want to edit them.

...but you link to a post that says nothing more than "Public as always". I wouldn't ask any permissions if I saw that.

Since getting into sim racing a year ago, the attitude towards copyright has always bugged me. Pretty much the entire sim scene is based on copyright abuse. I don't actually have a problem with that (being a long term copyright cynic....), but if you don't want people to screw with your work then release whatever you make with a proper licence.

Just saying "This is public" is begging to be ripped off...