BigPies, you can of course ask any question that doesn't break with the forum rules and expectations. On this forum, there is an expectation on members that they don't spam the forum with irrelevancy and that they demonstrate a willingness to read the threads in which they participate.
So, if you can ask a reasonable question that hasn't been asked and answered interminably before, then I'd say go for it.
So, if you can ask a reasonable question that hasn't been asked and answered interminably before, then I'd say go for it.
People are assuming that, since S1 cost £12, and then S2 cost an extra £12, that S3 will again be £12.
That *may or may not* be true, but either way it hasn't been stated by the developers. It's purely an assumption by the community.
Though it seems like a reasonable assumption, it isn't reasonable at all because we don't know what S3 will contain, what it will be capable of, what WE will be able to do with it etc. Given this, it's actually pretty daft to state that it will cost £12. It's daft to even bother guessing at a number. The only thing we can safely assume is that S3, when it comes, will be purposefully priced to offer good value for money - one thing that is certainly a constant in LFS.
As for the release of S3, nobody knows. In the community we're guessing (and it's purely guesswork) that S2 is going to be another year or two before it's complete. Once S2 is complete, we assume that then, and only then, the devs will begin work on S3.
That *may or may not* be true, but either way it hasn't been stated by the developers. It's purely an assumption by the community.
Though it seems like a reasonable assumption, it isn't reasonable at all because we don't know what S3 will contain, what it will be capable of, what WE will be able to do with it etc. Given this, it's actually pretty daft to state that it will cost £12. It's daft to even bother guessing at a number. The only thing we can safely assume is that S3, when it comes, will be purposefully priced to offer good value for money - one thing that is certainly a constant in LFS.
As for the release of S3, nobody knows. In the community we're guessing (and it's purely guesswork) that S2 is going to be another year or two before it's complete. Once S2 is complete, we assume that then, and only then, the devs will begin work on S3.
Great photos, Blackout! Really really attractive!! 
Since Sigma started producing their own high quality SLR, they do seem to have upped the quality of their lenses!
@ Mackie.. well volunteered!
Since Sigma started producing their own high quality SLR, they do seem to have upped the quality of their lenses!
@ Mackie.. well volunteered!
Is that truth or rumour? If it's truth, then it's idiocy and Aston Martin deserve no better than British Leyland got. And with decisions like that, it's exactly what they'll get.
It makes sense as a sales decision. They'll sell loads, and that'll prop up the business through some harder times. Plus, being built by Toyota, it'll even be reliable, which will certainly help their JD Power reliability survey stats. Perhaps Aston Martin will learn something about how to wire the electrics of a car from this venture, too.
Aston don't need to worry about compromising the "racing pedigree", but they certainly good do with a boost on their longevity numbers. It's all good.
Aston don't need to worry about compromising the "racing pedigree", but they certainly good do with a boost on their longevity numbers. It's all good.
If you're going to deliver your diatribe here, the least you can do is have the integrity to do it with some honesty in the community. Use your S2 account.
I did say it, Tristan's correct, but for the life of me I can't remember where it was now either.
We'll keep this thread going this time around - 3 weeks is a big gap, and with everything that's been going on in F1 in the past few weeks, there's been a whole lot more than one thread's worth of talking points to get through.
The reason for the announcement and the ban on creating F1 race threads was because of the plain silly behaviour on the part of a small bunch of people, in a ridiculous competition to create the next F1 race thread. It was never about preventing or limiting discussions on the topic of F1.
Once discussion in a particular F1 race thread has died down to nothing after a race, I'm thinking of locking those race threads with a post and link to this thread, where any discussions can carry on. Then at least we form something of a discussion structure, and everyone will be able to follow F1 discussions easily.
I'm understanding less and less. It's a worthwhile discussion.. STROBE and I have touched on it in the past.. how does a digital image qualify as a photo?
No, not true. I understand that you think that, but resizing to fit a monitor is, as Spanky says, interpolation by sharpening.
I think lens glass is important for considerations such as fringing/chromatic aberration and contrast/lpmm but I've seen some images recently (not here) that are so grossly over-sharpened that they look brittle and nasty. I've even fallen into that trap myself, all too frequently. Over-sharpened images are ugly.
Ahhh BUT.. if you were Mosley, then Mosley wouldn't be Mosley and this whole stupid situation would never have arisen in the first instance.
Right at the core of this whole mess is the fact that Mosley is who Mosley is, and does what Mosley does. But it's a multi-faceted thing. Mosley's been at the head of the FIA for 16 years or more (18? Maybe..) and in that time, being the character that he is, he's inevitably filled the entire rank and file of the FIA with "yes-men".. people who owe their jobs to the fact that they do what Mosley says, when he says, simply because he says so. This is what people like Mosley make sure of.. and it's exactly why Mosley insists that the FIA "must be led by a strong president". You can infer directly from Mosley that the FIA would be lost without a dictator. And let's face it, who would know better about that than Mosley?
Mosley keeps hinting at the historic relationships and arrangements of bias and preference that the FIA have made with a certain team that he (usually) doesn't name, though we know because he did blurt about their arrangement with Ferrari in an early attempt to break up the FOTA. Luca had beaten Mosley to that punch, though, and had come completely clean about the FIA/Ferrari arrangement to the other FOTA members first.
What I perceive, with the FOTA, is a rejection by Ferrari of their old ways of bias and bribery that the FIA fully allowed and participated in. Credit where credit is due, it WAS a lucrative and beneficial arrangement for Ferrari during the entire duration of the last Concorde Agreement, and to reject the notion of perpetuating it in the spirit of co-operation and sporting conduct really is, to me, a big deal.
Here's the issue, though: Ferrari have changed. Luca di Montezemelo has had some kind of epiphany.. (the evil) Jean Todt - proponent of the FIA/Ferrari deal - is gone and Ferrari have come over to "the light side".
But the FIA, by Mosley's OWN admission, CAN be bribed.. HAVE been bribed in the past.. and has had NO epiphany at all. The very sporting body that is SUPPOSED to be above all that stuff, has admitted to being rotten to the core.. to being bought, in exchange for governance over the sport.
If Mosley won't go, the FIA can't change.. and even if he DOES go, Mosley's "yes-men" staff (the FIA Senate, the WMSC et al) will remain. The question is, how CAN FOTA purge the sport by any other method than rejecting governance by the FIA? The ONLY way forward is to take back control of the sport itself.
To be equally as blunt, since ease of use is an absolutely pivotal aspect to an OS like Windows, it's crucial for less tech-savvy users to try out the OS. Windows beta testing is not just for SDK developers, it's an open beta for all types of users, including hazaky.
ROFL! I particularly like the bit where he says..
hehehe! Considering his comments are supposed to be an endorsement of Mosley, that pretty much sums up the truth behind the posturing!
hehehe! Considering his comments are supposed to be an endorsement of Mosley, that pretty much sums up the truth behind the posturing!
LOL! I'm trying to decide, now, if I did actually hit Godwin's law head on. I don't think I did by Mike Godwin's own definition. If I'd called someone else, who was involved in this thread, a Nazi, that woulda been me busted.
I've permanently banned RealLifeRacer. There's reason to believe that the holder of this account has previously been permanently banned from this forum for making repeated physical threats of harm towards several users of this forum over the last year.
If, on the other hand, it isn't that user (of course it bloody is) then he should be using his S2 account, not a demo pseudonym.
If, on the other hand, it isn't that user (of course it bloody is) then he should be using his S2 account, not a demo pseudonym.
It's just spin from Mosley, I think. I find it inconceivable that "..he is under pressure to stand for re-election from other members of the sport's governing body.."
The manufacturer members of FOTA are not just involved in F1. Their engines and their influence permeates almost every level and series in motor sport around the world. We already know that the F1 fans have absolutely no affection for Mosley.. they/we've been vocal enough on that score recently. Members of the FIA at local levels are no less fans of motor sports. I just simply don't accept that they back Mosley, given the risk that he's running to F1 and, as a subsequence, the entire hierarchy of the motor sport industry.
IF these fictional, unnamed "members" around the world are calling for Mosley to stand again, fully in the knowledge that it would, in and of itself, spell the end of Formula 1 as we know it, then the separation between FIA and motor sports fans is even more stark than anyone had previously imagined.
IF Luca Di Montezemelo came out and said "Mosley's exit from FIA is absolutely in no way, at all, a victory for F1 and FOTA", we'd all look at him as if he's fallen out of his tree. We KNOW it's a victory for them, and for us too.
As for being described as a "dictator", firstly Di Montezemelo didn't call him that, he said that it was important that F1 was not led by a dictator. Mosley's inferred the reference is at him - and that's just a guilty conscience.
The fact is that he HAS acted in an entirely autocratic and dictatorial way. So he's elected by the FIA, but Hitler was elected. So he has the WMSC backing him up.. Hitler had a government backing him up. Just because a process has a democratic element to it doesn't mean that at its head is NOT a dictator. We only have to look at the ridiculous governance asserted on the F1 teams over the last 2 years to know that, whether Mosley likes the term "dictator" or not, that damn cap fits!
What Mosley is effectively complaining about is that, despite what he perceived as an agreement to LIE about who gave in to what last Wednesday, some damn pesky Ferrari guy went and told SOME of the truth. Well dammit, Mosley, I'd rather run with the teams and with the truth than to listen to more of your snide "lunatics" and "certifiable halfwit" comments any day. Enough! Go!
The manufacturer members of FOTA are not just involved in F1. Their engines and their influence permeates almost every level and series in motor sport around the world. We already know that the F1 fans have absolutely no affection for Mosley.. they/we've been vocal enough on that score recently. Members of the FIA at local levels are no less fans of motor sports. I just simply don't accept that they back Mosley, given the risk that he's running to F1 and, as a subsequence, the entire hierarchy of the motor sport industry.
IF these fictional, unnamed "members" around the world are calling for Mosley to stand again, fully in the knowledge that it would, in and of itself, spell the end of Formula 1 as we know it, then the separation between FIA and motor sports fans is even more stark than anyone had previously imagined.
IF Luca Di Montezemelo came out and said "Mosley's exit from FIA is absolutely in no way, at all, a victory for F1 and FOTA", we'd all look at him as if he's fallen out of his tree. We KNOW it's a victory for them, and for us too.
As for being described as a "dictator", firstly Di Montezemelo didn't call him that, he said that it was important that F1 was not led by a dictator. Mosley's inferred the reference is at him - and that's just a guilty conscience.
The fact is that he HAS acted in an entirely autocratic and dictatorial way. So he's elected by the FIA, but Hitler was elected. So he has the WMSC backing him up.. Hitler had a government backing him up. Just because a process has a democratic element to it doesn't mean that at its head is NOT a dictator. We only have to look at the ridiculous governance asserted on the F1 teams over the last 2 years to know that, whether Mosley likes the term "dictator" or not, that damn cap fits!
What Mosley is effectively complaining about is that, despite what he perceived as an agreement to LIE about who gave in to what last Wednesday, some damn pesky Ferrari guy went and told SOME of the truth. Well dammit, Mosley, I'd rather run with the teams and with the truth than to listen to more of your snide "lunatics" and "certifiable halfwit" comments any day. Enough! Go!
Damn!
Is there ANYTHING that Mac sell, that they don't charge 10x as much as it's worth??
Account phishing is no joke, and accordingly I don't regard kingfag's post as a joke at all. He has a 2-month, 3 point infraction (no posting) while I bring the matter to the attention of the devs.
It's not really possible to know if Donington will be superior until the work is done. My fave spot is either down near Starkey's, on the bank (though it's difficult to sit on anything but a blanket there) or standing/sitting on the mound near the Dunlop Bridge. Anywhere, where you're far separated from the action is pants, and anything with fencing obstructing the view is less than desirable.
However you regard Donington NOW, it's going to be A LOT different when the place is packed with crowds of the size that accompany an F1 event.
However you regard Donington NOW, it's going to be A LOT different when the place is packed with crowds of the size that accompany an F1 event.
In the garden today, waiting for thunderstorms to appear (no-show so far)
Not NEARLY as bad as it could have been! I'm assuming they're reduced, not cropped? It's a little soft, but not offensive at all!
Methinks you'll be happier with the Minoltas! But I AM curious to see what the Tamron does, so please post samples even if they're not good!
Relax! Some really good photos posted by folk here in the past have never been commented on. It doesn't mean anything, it just means people aren't/weren't around to comment or the moment passed. Just keep posting your best shots!
Lighting fires, to take photos of them, can turn out to be expensive. RIP my garden shed..
Meh.. this annoys me. "Macro" is defined as 1:1 or greater. 1:2 is not macro. I wish companies would stop this misleading labelling!
I'm afraid Tamron doesn't have what you'd call a noble history of lens manufacture. I'm curious to see the results, to see if they've at least improved on the quality of glass they use.
This - or another based on the same content - looks like it might be the news report that's got Mosley's goat: http://www.planetf1.com/story/0,18954,3213_5399888,00.html
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