Quote from Senninha25 :

oh btw...never heard of S14 anymore...did he get banned as well?

He got banned temporarily after that stupid quarrel he had with Pearcy in the "Post your bike" thread. I guess he decided it wasn't worth coming back anymore. I don't think he's raced since, either Maybe he got another account to start with a clean slate :hide:

Quote from The Moose :

Quite frankly sir you can stick you benchmarks up your arse

Whats important to me is the real world performance of what i see before me, and the fact of the matter is Windows 7 pisses all over Vista for me in terms of boot speed, overall system snappiness and better, smoother gameplay in all of my games.(and significant FPS boosts in all of them)

You come across as someone who is looking for every excuse not to move on. Believe what you want about 7. I don't know one single person personally that moved on to 7 and not said its a lot better than Vista.

Your loss.

Exactly my thoughts, but I didn't bother anymore

I don't care if all your little numbers and benchmarks say that Win7 is ten times slower than Vista, it still runs better and faster and uses less resources on my pc. And no, that's not just my impression, numbnuts. The fact that most people seem to experience the same thing leads me to believe that all your "facts" and benchmarks are absolutely worthless. You believe what you will and use the OS you want, but stop trying to convince people Win7 isn't a significant improvement over Vista because it is, no matter what figures, websites and benchmarks you come up with.

Nice car. But I would have waited the extra 6 months for the extras

Brilliant stuff

Quote from NitroNitrous :

Windows 7 is a final product, Vista it isn't. From my point of view is like if LFS S3 Final is released and you prefer to stay playing LFS S2 Z25 Alpha

Nice analogy there

Quote from bunder9999 :

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1309292#post1309292

maybe... how would a new user know that kind of information...

Hmm, good thinking. I went through all his posts but didn't think anything special about those. But now that you mention it, you have a good point

Why is the OP banned now? Was it a duplicate account?

@BB - Again, despite everything you say, my experience is that Win7 does boot faster and does run more stable. You can rattle about numbers and supposed "facts" all you want but my experience tells me Win7 is better and nothing you can say will change that Of course, there's plenty of people where Win7 runs worse than Vista, so obviously they'll be better off sticking with Vista.

That being said, I don't think it is worth upgrading to Win7 if you have purchased Vista. But I haven't purchased Vista. In fact I've never purchased any OS seperately. Win7 will be the first one I buy, because I like it that much

Oh I don't know what shady practices are going exactly, perhaps "shady" wasn't the right word I guess (hope?) the worst that can happen is they sell your data (name and e-mail addy) to advertisers who then bombard you with spam mail. Which isn't the end of the world, to be sure. And if you get a free iPod or an Xbox out of it then it might even have been worth it

That's all I'm gonna say on the subject, though, I don't want to start a flamewar or be a scaremongerer. You all have access to internet, you can all do your own reading and then make up your own minds. I made mine up based on the stuff I read, you're all free to do the same

Last edited by obsolum, Tue 17 Nov 2009, 12:53. Reason : spelling

After doing some searching and reading on different sites and fora I regret signing up with this shady site I won't be touching it anymore (even though the damage has probably already been done by signing up)

Quote from Bluebird B B :

Not a really wel argumented post.
turnoff uac and vista and you're 90% on your way into making it really usefull. People like to forget many, many users demanded protection against themselves from microsft, that's why the awfull uac was introduced.

If you already own vista, you know what to do.
With windows7 you just get vista with a tweaked gui. Vista got blamed for being slow, but tests show windows7 is usually exaclty as fast and sometimes just a bit slower than vista.
Ugly? Did you take a good look at xp? Totally teletubby's look after default install. But people are just used to it. xp, vista and win7 need tweaking to get the gui/look and feel working like you want it yourself.

you comparision with cars is a bit odd thought, on a car you get lots of different parts making it often different to drive.

Try again, name me some real advantages of win7 over vista, not in terms of awfull, ugly etc.

i can name one: after default install there is less gui tweaking needed in win7 which saves time. But is that really enough to spent money to migrate from vista to win7? I personally rarely have to reinstall windows. Average is at least 3-4 years and by that time the systems are outdated, sold of given to friends. So i would be spending time and money for ... what? What is the advantage over vista? What can i do better in win7 than in vista?

Regardless of everything you just said, a lot of people seem to think Windows 7 is a lot better than Vista. And I'm one of them. I used Vista for quite a while and was actually pretty happy with it, but Windows 7 really does feel a lot better than Vista ever did. It's just a lot nicer to work with overall. It boots faster and uses less resources, too, and it seems to run more stable than Vista for me. Plus my games seem to run significantly better on it, but then some people experience the opposite, so... The fact that so many people around the world feel the same way must mean they did something right with Win7, surely?

Quote from SamH :

What a nonsense post, obsolum. You start out by saying that nobody can presume anything positive about the new physics, and then you make your own unqualified negative presumptions about them. Shameful and unnecessary.

You're right and I was well aware of that I actually deleted those last 2 sentences and put them back a couple of times, but in the end decided to keep them. I thought I might as well make my own presumptions, unqualified as they may be.

Quote from SamH :

In fact the new physics are working out so well that even Scawen, who usually plays expectations WAY down, felt compelled and enthusiastic enough to share with us the beta testers' enthusiasm for the new physics. So actually we DO have positive feedback, even before they've arrived, and they run in direct conflict with your negativity.

Given the information we DO have, I'd rather go with the positive vibe than suffer your baseless negativity if it's all the same.

We'll see. It's no secret that LFS' way of handling FFB takes away the greater part of FFB effects, leaving you with a bland feel compared to other sims. Like I said, I am sure the cars' behaviour will improve but I am not so sure the feeling will, too, as I think that isn't so much a matter of physics as it is a matter of... well... code, I guess, whatever it is that creates and sends FFB signals?

So other than a shirt it seems no one has got anything worthwhile out of this yet, then

I'm actually using FreeBee Hosting, which is free 100% add-free, too, and I haven't had any issues with speed or availability so far. Of course, if you're going to be hosting a corporate site or anything that's gonna get thousands of hits everyday I recommend you get a paid hosting service, but if it's just for some projects you're gonna do then they're more than decent enough. It's what I use it for as well. It's got everything you need.

For a domain I use Co.cc which are also free I used to have a paid hosting service and a paid domain but decided to drop it as it was costing me money and I didn't really get anything out of it

I'm afraid there's not much you can do about people downloading your layouts and then using them on other servers. As for whether or not you have the copyright to them I'll leave for someone else to answer but like I said, not much (ie. nothing) you can do about it. I suppose you could try and ask the server owners nicely to stop using your layouts but somehow I don't think they'll oblige.

Quote from dadge :

why post the OS you're using when you've just voted for the OS you use?

Exactly what I was thinking. It's a poll, you vote by clicking. No need to make an additional post stating which option you just clicked

Quote from 5haz :

The new physics that are in development should help sort that.

You don't know that. I've seen plenty of people here make such statements but the fact of the matter is no one has even the faintest idea how drastically the physics update will change LFS. I'm sure it will improve cars' behaviours but as far as feel is concerned - which is what the OP was talking about - I very much doubt much - if anything - will change. Ie. it will probably still feel bland.

Quote from hazaky :

Edit: Im in now, but damn ... its all so bugged and slow. I already lost 20ptz+ -.-

Alright, I signed up as well but damn, it took my like a dozen attempts before it would accept me and then it wouldn't recognize my password and it wouldn't let me change it etc... Now I'm in and it's indeed slow as hell.

EDIT: can't even get in anymore now.

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Sigh... still haven't got an answer to my question, guys Has anyone got anything out of this yet?

That thing has less ground clearance than a F1 car. The wheels sure are an eyecatcher, though.

Quote from byte1 :

Redeemed iPod Shuffle 4Gb yesterday. Hopefully the order gets confirmed and then it's left to wait till it ships.

So did you get your iPod? And has anyone else actually got something out of this yet? I still have my invitation lying around but I haven't bothered creating an account yet as this still seems a bit fishy to me.

Quote from FalconXB :

I don't what it's like for racing cars but I had a tire blow once. I didn't even know until the back end started to go in the corners.

There's a difference between an actual blow out and just a punctured tyre, though. Chances are your tyre got punctured and gradually deflated. I reckon you would hear a proper blow out

Quote from RevengeR :

They look even funnier when they actually do it. Nice lag they have sometimes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ioyt2zzm530

ps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOYVdigFnBU

Lol Lag and buggy collision detection

Football is such a farce. It's incredible the stuff they try to pull, watching those videos. Bunch of idiots.

I lol'd hardest at the "you're wrong fingers", btw

I can confirm I had this same problem. I upgraded to AVG 9.0 today in the hopes that it would stop the annoying pop up asking me to upgrade. It did stop the pop up, but my games seemed to minimize for no apparent reason. I uninstalled AVG and it hasn't done it since

Congratulations thezero. Don't make Greboth regret it

And props to Greboth for this very nice gesture