:lovies3d:!!!
good old times...
Here ya go:
Something about LFS by Schuppor
I can see the meadows, they are healthy, smooth and green
The sky, the sun, the clouds, like no one's ever seen
Horizon spreading far, in woodlands wide and mean
Looking round I know this is the best place I've ever been
The race track's shimmerin', like a mirror in the sun
(waaaooh)
Some FXR is passin' by like he's the only one
(wrroaaah)
But to be honest, I'm an irritated man
'Cause somethin' turns down Live for Speed just every now and then
There is no harvest moon over Blackwood
We will never see the twinklin' stars in the Westhills
There won't be the sound of crickets on Kyoto Ring at night
And I sometimes start to worry: "Did the devs of LFS assure to do things right?"
Oooh, are they sure to make it right?
Choir Ostinato from now on:
Is it wrong, or is it right
will someone bring on the night
oooooooooh
Is it wrong or is it right
Will the devs bring on the night
I really start to wonder
Maybe think of all the animals
They are living in the woods of blackwood forest
and tell me: when are they supposed to sleep?
I really can not understand
End Ostinato
I keep believin' and I don't want to complain
Instead I'll go on waitin' for those Blackwood nights in summer raain
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Reason : typo
schuppor is a really talented singer, I agree. The reason why it sounds professional is that the song is created professionally: in the same recording studio that also created the background music for the buick/tiger woods-TV-ad that was aired in the whole USA
absolutely freakin awesome. kicks as$!
The best way to criticise I've seen so far 
The best way to criticise I've seen so far
As I hereby declare the next month the month of reserved posts, I'll reserve one right here:
reserved for me saying "... the XRT still being a demo car" in 1 or 2 years.
reserved for me saying "... the XRT still being a demo car" in 1 or 2 years.
Reserved for whatever my opinion on your later reviews is.
signed. Lets stop the darn avatar month thingy for a time and make February the
MONTH OF RESERVED POSTS!
signed. Lets stop the darn avatar month thingy for a time and make February the
MONTH OF RESERVED POSTS!
you obviously have neither read my whole post nor understood a thing of it. a pity.
*winks*
now btt anyone, nothing to see here
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As you may or may not know, I am a pretty quiet member of the programmers crowd - and I have a pretty thick skin regarding the niveau of posts on this forum, because I know that I once started at the same level. However, your frequent posting and asking for code even annoys me.
But to start with the useful part of the post: I think that you managed to pretty much get the tempers of most programmers up against you with those constantly coming threads. In the first few threads, someone always was so kind to donate some code to you, but sooner or later they pretty much all figured out you were more or less only leeching. You did not show a line of code that you did yourself, but constantly asked for complete program parts instead of hints to point you into the right direction.
To cite a common analogy:
You will have to build the house (it can also be a bamboo hut) before you can put the roof on top.
You will have to know how to program (at least basic techniques) before starting something as complex as an insim daemon.
I know you ordered a book about programming in C#. That is great! But I think it is the best for BOTH sides - the programming crowd here in the forums and you, if you stop asking questions about your insim tool until you know those basic programming techniques. Build the house first - I think you will then for sure find some nice carpenters who will help you with the roof.
Best regards in the hope that you understood me,
Stalker.
PS: Oh, by the way: You may have noticed that my post was much better to read than most of yours because I have used proper english and punctuation. It may be worth to consider this for the future, too.
And also: How to ask questions the smart way!
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Agreed. I had the problem in the last 24 hour race where I laid down at about 7:00 for a hour. I was lucky my father kicked my a** outta the bed, or I'd have slept for the whole rest of the race.
Signed. I hope he has someone who wakes him up
a pity, but as it seems, mika went to sleep at last. well, if its right what is written in the german forums, that is.
to become a competitive racing driver, you will require immense amounts of support. IMMENSE AMOUNTS. And this obviously costs immense amounts of money. However, racing drivers reach the zenith of their carreer pretty early. As Viper already pointed out, from an age of around 22 to 25 your reactions will get slower and slower again when they're not constantly challenged, and most drivers reach the end of their carreer around 30. That is, if you really are able to advance into the higher series. So, when V1 employ and support a driver of age 16, they will much more likely succeed in pushing him up into higher and higher series than they will when they hire a driver that is, lets say, 23 years old.
And that is the return of investment factor.
Edit: Scawen, thanks for the shot of the track editor, really nice to see some of the tools you work with every day. Talking about that, what development environment do you use? or is it just notepad and gcc?
damn, how I'd love to get a hand onto this track editor
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and the tyre compounds aren't as well, meaning you have to use R3/4 on the whole axis instead of just one wheel.
please dont ask me about the sense of such a change, but it was useful (and nonexistent) at Patch Q times (man, I'm gettin' old!), and may be useful in the future too.
and the spoilers aren't, however i'd consider this a minor priority. it is however used on the front wings of Formula cars a lot.
Even though you may not like it, the FiA is (and will hopefully stay for a while) the jurisdiction of the motorsport world. Of course the FiA is NOT always right, how could I dare say that? But do you think all of the decisions your local judges do are right? No? well, then don't blame the FiA for not always being right.
Category II cars, but there is no group in the category they'd perfectly fit in atm.
which is wrong.
which makes them Category II cars, as I said. They are completely purpose-built and only single examples.
Appx. J, Art. 251 ONLY covers Tintop cars and trucks. There are other appendices for Formula cars. I was wrong there - Formula cars also fall under Cat. II. They're group D and E.
Touring car is Category I, Group A. Rules state that Category I cars must be "Cars of which the production of a certain number of identical examples (see definition of this word hereinafter) within a certain period of time has been verified at the request of the manufacturer, and which are destined for normal sale to the public (see this expression)."
You can take the definitions of "Identical cars", "Homologation" and "Normal sale" from the document I already linked to twice. Basically, it means that a certain amount of cars must have been made in series production to allow these cars to be Cat. I cars. Basically, a Cat. I car's bodywork and chassis must stay the same as in production, however the higher the groups in Cat. I get, the more modifications (Spoilers, ...) are allowed.
I do not think that any formula car fullfills the needed number of identical examples needed for Cat. I. And even if they did, I doubt they would be allowed there since NO car manufacturer can sell a formula car to normal customers since they are not road legal.
copied. I never said I do not like the DTM, I just pointed out that they got the name wrong.
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Hey, the wormz get out of teh can! stuff them back in plz, kthxbai!
hehe, you're talking about pretty much all modern fighters here. I think even the russians have already built something purposely unstable. Good thing is: these things do not run Windows
seeing that, at the highest zoom level, one map pixel is 4 pixels on the screen, you'd have to scale it up by 4 times, resulting in 16 images of the current size. I dunno how efficient flash manages the memory, deleting image objects out of stage from the RAM (thus needing to reload them when they enter the stage), but I'd assume it COULD work out. Trying it would be needed, because it's the low resolution that in my eyes somewhat ruins the experience of using this otherwise great tool.
Otherwise, you could consider to use the vector material the "old" LFS Spectator from Patch Q used, at least for the higher zoom levels.
Oh, I forgot: F***ING AMAZING WORK VICTOR!
EDIT: one last small suggestion: please, scale the driver names down in higher resolution levels. it is somewhat annoying that they get so huge (size of at least 48 pt here)
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maybe he's a rich bloke, but I think it is for another reason that he gives away S2 licenses: DK just wants to donate money to Scawen, Geraldine, Victor and Eric because he (like me) appreciates the great work they do for us all. Well, that at least is the reason why I feel generous too at the moment. More on this later.
Look 3 posts upwards. Even though you are right with the meaning of the name DTM, DTM cars are NOT touring cars according to the FiA definition. Touring cars must be "destined for normal sale to the public", and must not be "cars built as single examples and destined solely for competition."
Citation source: FiA International Sporting Code, Appendix J, Article 251
First off, about the car:
The car is officially called ISF Racing Concept. However, especially looking at the filler neck and the general shape of the car (as opposed to the cars of the WTCC, whose bodies are pretty near to the ones you'd meet on the series cars), they seem to be clearly aiming for the DTM.
To me, Lexus in the DTM would be a double-edged sword. On one hand, it would surely be cool to see more than 2 makes in the DTM, it could be a real kicker to give the series some importance again. On the other, I think that the DTM itself has lost its sense. It started as a series especially designed for amateur teams that do NOT have some bazillions of $$ to fine-tune their cars. Now have a look at what it is now: A league consisting of only 2 makes that have cars from 3 or 4 years in the races that have to be balanced by penalty weights so the old cars can be competitive, because only by doing so it looks like there's some action going on on the track. WTF!
Also, DTM stands for Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (German Touring Car Masters). However, the Cars used in the DTM are nowhere near the word "Touring Car" as set in the FiA International Sporting Code, Appendix J, Article 251 ("destined for normal sale to the public"). DTM cars are basically just a set of tubes with a plastic body on top for aerodynamics (and to make 'em look like real cars a bit), which effectively makes them Category II cars: "Cars built as single examples and destined solely for competition."
The car is officially called ISF Racing Concept. However, especially looking at the filler neck and the general shape of the car (as opposed to the cars of the WTCC, whose bodies are pretty near to the ones you'd meet on the series cars), they seem to be clearly aiming for the DTM.
To me, Lexus in the DTM would be a double-edged sword. On one hand, it would surely be cool to see more than 2 makes in the DTM, it could be a real kicker to give the series some importance again. On the other, I think that the DTM itself has lost its sense. It started as a series especially designed for amateur teams that do NOT have some bazillions of $$ to fine-tune their cars. Now have a look at what it is now: A league consisting of only 2 makes that have cars from 3 or 4 years in the races that have to be balanced by penalty weights so the old cars can be competitive, because only by doing so it looks like there's some action going on on the track. WTF!
Also, DTM stands for Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (German Touring Car Masters). However, the Cars used in the DTM are nowhere near the word "Touring Car" as set in the FiA International Sporting Code, Appendix J, Article 251 ("destined for normal sale to the public"). DTM cars are basically just a set of tubes with a plastic body on top for aerodynamics (and to make 'em look like real cars a bit
), which effectively makes them Category II cars: "Cars built as single examples and destined solely for competition."
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whats even more, they still are getting updated. just compare the little leo from the first pic, the last pic and the video
and this, kids, is what I call proper education
Hey Vic,
nice little function there. However, I'd suggest one single change: while mbstring is not part of a "vanilla" PHP-Build (meaning a PHP build without any configure options), the iconv-extension is. This means you can make the function much more interoperable across php installations by changing one line of your script:
suggested change is untested
however, I do not know if iconv also supports the HTML-ENTITIES-codepage you talked about in your post.
nice little function there. However, I'd suggest one single change: while mbstring is not part of a "vanilla" PHP-Build (meaning a PHP build without any configure options), the iconv-extension is. This means you can make the function much more interoperable across php installations by changing one line of your script:
<?php
// BEFORE:
$newstr .= mb_convert_encoding($tmp, $conv_to, $sets[$current_cp]);
// AFTER:
$newstr .= iconv($sets[$current_cp], $conv_to, $tmp);
?>
however, I do not know if iconv also supports the HTML-ENTITIES-codepage you talked about in your post.
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you are very lucky. yesterday, 1 liter of gas (Super, 96 octane) cost 1.359€. Taking into account the current dollar value of 1€ = 1.4691$, this means that gas is damn 7.558$ per gallon here.
something you might find worth knowing: 73% of this price is taxes, which means I'd only pay 2.428$ per gallon (VAT included) if my country would keep their fingers out of the fuel prices.
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congratulations!
happy new year to everyone!
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