Sweet Jesus, anyone watching this? Battles everywhere already

Move Grand Prix Legends up. Gran Turismo doesn't deserve to be anywhere near it.

I was always sort of hoping that when Silverstone lost the GP it would go to Brands again. With all the money they put in for A1, DTM and WTCC the facilities got much better at the circuit.

Oh well, at least there's some hills.

Sounds like your clutch plates might be wearing a bit thin

Quote from Scrabby :

Spook, nice shots there. The 2nd pic u did that with very low shuttertime? (me just wanna learn with my noob experiance)

That picture was taken with a shutter speed of 30sec at f32. The dots are where the cars were braking.

A bunch of photos from Le Mans









There are more on my flickr page

The Xantia is mine :ashamed: :riceboy:

If S3 ever comes

Fuel companies say the price has risen because the cost of the oil is increasing (which it is), but if it's increased as much as they said, and they're truly just trying to cover their costs, why are they posting bigger profits than ever before?

Taxing both fuel and cars as heavily as they are I think is wrong. As it is, someone with an 'unfriendly' car has to pay an ungodly amount to license their car for a year. This is unfair on people who have a car which they don't drive often, as they'll pay more tax than people who pollute more. A good solution would be to cut the car tax to a fixed admin rate of say £15. All the other cost would be put on fuel, this means the people that pay the most will be the people who pollute the most, and people will actually want to buy economic cars. The actual price increase would be miniscule, say you pay £100 to tax your car, if you spread that over an average amount of fuel, it's much less than a penny per litre.

Camp in a hammock like this. It's a lot more comfortable than being on the ground or in a tent, and it keeps you up and away from things on the floor. If there's a chance of rain, just stick a tarp up. It takes about 5 minutes to put the whole lot up and it all packs down tiny.

Since I got my hammock I've not looked back.

A really big shame. Sato really looked to have matured to me and they both deserve a ride.

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Just changed some icons around.

Any recommendations for a 3-wide background for 3 monitors?

Mandolux might have some, they have at least a lot of dual monitor ones.

Congratulations Scawen and family!

Watch out for that cat, it has sinister motives in its eyes.

Justice - Cross

Currently the song D.V.N.O.

Adobe Photoshop Express is pretty good too. A place to store photos and a semi-decent online editor.

Quote from XCNuse :

washed out? if anything they have to much contrast :S
you sure yours is?

if you're referring to the 3rd and 4th motorcycle pictures i nkow those are washed out looking, they weren't fully edited but my friend put them up anyways..

Sorry, I should have said blown out because of the contrast. I was actually referring to some of the Mustang ones where the buildings are overly bright, but there's no definition in the black either. I sound like I'm being critical, but I actually like the pictures.

I've done as much as I can to calibrate my screen, the glossiness isn't great for photography.

What exactly is a faux HDR?

Some of those shots look nice, a few seem a bit washed out. Have you calibrated your monitor at all?

Quote from OneCrazyDiamond :

Nice shots there spook. Just thought I'd ask, what do you guys suggest to protect a camera before trying to take some shots in a rainy situation?

If it's just drizzle, I leave it unprotected. If it's raining hard I'll put the camera inside a clear plastic bag.

My D70 is a lot hardier than I thought it would be, so I don't worry too much about it anymore. It's not like I go underwater with it.

Today, I have been mostly listening to Justice, Yael Naim, Feist and Metric.

http://www.last.fm/user/maaaahtin

Quote from Sponge :

At the moment it's like this.. I like it clean and tidy

Clean and tidy? Download Quicksilver, then you'll see what clean can be.

One OS X, one Boot Camp (Vista)

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I still use a D70. There's no point upgrading past 6MP, the sweet spot of APS sized sensors. I'd love a full-frame DSLR though.

These pictures were probably all taken with a Nikon 28-200mm lens, though that's been sold to make way for a VR.







The attached two are of a car my friend helps to run, not quite as good but I was terrified to have my camera out and unprotected in the downpour.

Last edited by spookthehamster, Tue, 1 Apr 2008 16:22.

I haven't bought a new pair of jeans or shorts for years, the ones I already have are so sturdy I can't see them ever dying.

I'm a t-shirt addict, always buying shirts from Threadless because they're so damn cheap!

Shoes are always <£30, because I wear through them quickly.

It was a shock when I had to buy a suit, £150 seems so much to spend on two bits of fabric.

Lola T70


Porsche 917


250 GTO


Ford GT40


BRM P83


JPS Lotus

I could go on and on, I'm not even scratching the surface.

How come the mods haven't closed this thread? It's a discussion on hacked, pirated software.

If you want to talk about this stuff, take it to the osx86 forums.

Remember that if you have HID bulbs fitted to your car they need to be self-leveling or you'll fail your MOT. In other words, unless your car came with HIDs it's illegal to have them fitted.

Since when was the DFP "much hated"? For a long time, the DFP was the wheel everyone had. I don't think this looks too bad, especially for the price. I'm guessing internally some of the good things from the G25 have trickled down, the main thing it's missing is a clutch pedal.