Ouch, fingers crossed.

What your looking for is vector mathematics using Euclidean geometry. Hard enough to pronounce and a lot of work to set up from simple mathematics but fairly simple once there are procedures set up to do all the work. Fortunately there are lots of libraries already set up to handle this kind of thing, not sure which is the best to suggest for your needs though.

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That's a maintenence man, not an engineer.

Hah, no plain, honest titles like that these days, now it becomes something like 'pyro thermal transference technician' to give him the feeling of being an important part of the team.

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jeez is the word engineer really that meaningless in the uk?

Doesn't have the 'Doctor' or 'Justice' kind of status it used to have here and the UK, and still has in many other countries. My background is engineering too, used to be I wouldn't dare call myself an engineer due to no formal training but after working with many highly qualified 'engineers' that learned little more than jargon and technical terms I'm not so reserved any more.

Hopefully RR still respects the title, a Rolls Royce trained engineer commanded a lot of respect.

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Yeah its the planes. I am using it as another door to get into the industry.

Just a suggestion, it might not be a good idea to give them that impression, don't know how it is now but RR used to like apprentices to make a career of it and stay with them for life.

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But you won't get it.

Bit unfair, for all either of us know they guy could be truly gifted and will cruise through the interview. Sorry I cant help you with advice, anything I know from RR employees is 20 years out of date but I guess they still pride themselves on quality and precision. Good luck with it

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Or in non jargon speak, yer gonna keep seeing ads.

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This only works for companies that have so much coverage that they are part of our everyday lives / consciousness. That sector of the advertising industry is suffering from massive decline, it's one of the factors hurting the terrestrial television broadcasters and print magazine industries which have seen people like me nibble away at their market share in recent years.

That to me is a big issue, advertising seems self destructive or maybe destructive to the advertising medium. I'm sure the first TV ads where a huge success which attracted more advertising etc etc to the current day when folks are subjected to a barrage of garish ads played at high volume when all they want to do is relax, the result being they don't want to watch TV anymore. I more or less stopped buying magazines when I realized the features where getting less, the ads more and only about 10% of the pages had anything I wanted to read. Same with the net, a page full of ads will be closed almost immediately unless it has something I really need to see (even then it rarely does, just carefully chosen keywords to get me to it) and any page with ads that start making noises at me gets venomously closed with a mental note never to buy from those a**holes. This kind of BS is the last thing I ever want to see in LFS or any other game.

What I would like to see is the dev's making an income from in game ads using more or less the same amount of advertising space presently in game.

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If i recall correctly, LFS is already doing ingame advertising, the billboards have real world companies right now. Intel, BMW, Michelin, and a few others.

Thanks, I hadn't consciously noticed but now you mention it I have been thinking about Electro Static Loudspeakers a lot lately Was thinking how the boards could be displaying ads more relevant to me, for instance car ads from the most popular classified add site here, Done Deal. More or less every country has something like this and seeing an ad for a GTD for sale in my area when leaving the pits would have an effect. The guy selling the GTD would have paid a couple of euro to place the ad so there is money in circulation and the ad also advertises the site. As Becky says there is no way of clicking on the ad, a page with a list of advertisers would be a clunky way around that, maybe clickable billboards when spectating could work? The problem with this is how to access these kind of local ads and sites on a global scale, as far as I know there is no ad broker doing this kind of thing.

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As for car skins, I think quite a few teams/drivers are indeed sponsored by some companies

That is cool, some skinners are really talented and deserve to make something out of it.
Just a though on that, its all 'for instance'.
Pepsi offer $20 payed into LFS account for the best pepsi skin. Once pepsi have the skin they pay LFS $20 and a limited number of players can get sponsorship for using that skin, from 1 or 2 cents for a random player up to dollars for a top class player in a championship series and depending on results. Getting real money out should be possible but if it only stayed in LFS it would allow demo racers to progress for free and experienced racers to sponsor demo racers and events.

EDIT Damn thats a long post, sorry for the wall of text.

On thing overlooked there with brand advertising is the net can do something tv, magazines etc. generaly don't, localise. A billboard can advertise 'Dempsy's chip's, Blessington' or 'Blacknight webspace, Ireland' for me here and different local/national advertisers for someone else.

As to ingame billboard ad's not being clickable, I doubt the ratio of web ad's seen/clicked is even 1 in 10000, I've clicked on less than half a dozen in my life and must have seen hundreds of thousands by now. Namedropping seems to be the most effective form of web ad's atm (iRacing, costs hundreds, aimed at race drivers etc) and shows that brands still matter.

Maybe this should go in improvement suggestions, idk.

There is a lot of ad space in game, barriers, billboards, pit walls etc that could be linked up to (for instance) google adds. I imagine there will be a lot of objections and I would be mildly against it too but its only a mater of time before this kind of thing becomes common in games and I'm guessing the first game that can make it work will very quickly become the king of the gaming hill, advertisers want their ads to be seen after all.

Another thought is skins, there are a lot of really skillful designs, many of them giving free advertisement to products, has anyone ever tried getting any kind of sponsorship from companies? I doubt coca cola would be interested but it makes sense for internet based companies.

Thanks.

Would be worth checking what the HD's own diagnostics (S.M.A.R.T) have to say, it should show up there if thats the problem. If nothing shows up with that it could be worth seeing what diagnostic utilities you can get for voltages, to me it sounds like the part of your motherboard that supplies power to on board peripherals (USB, LAN possibly also IDE, mouse/keyboard, onboard sound etc) is damaged.

Sounds like motherboard to me too.

Damn, I was hoping for a medal That's a whole load of little cat sausages

If the capacitor makes a big bang and all the magic smoke gets out you wired it up backwards.

Guessing using it for cleaning up oil (dehydrated clay, same thing as oil dry), do I win a prize?

As Migz said, it will smooth the load on the battery and alternator by providing a small reservoir of current. It shouldn't really be needed as the battery is huge capacitor and should be able to supply more than enough current but thats not the way things work out in the real world :/ A lot of load changes (ie. flashing headlights) will wreck some alternators quickly so even if you don't need capacitors it would be fairly cheap insurance to fit them.

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Couldn't agree with you more, its exactly the same in an mmo I play (regnum), the spirit of fair play is ebbing away there too and being replaced with an 'I'm having fun, screw you' attitude. Don't know why it is, thought it might be kids coming from first person shooters but thats just speculation, seems to be the same kind of mentality that gets a kick out of trolling though.

Just a suggestion, would sharing the reasons for the ban not be better than a simple ban list? That way other server admins can decide for themselves if (for instance) causing a yellow flag in 90% of entered races is a good reason to ban a racer from their own server.

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Currently bidding on a used card on eBay.

Good luck with that, hope its not damaged from overclocking.

The correct side after the Napoleonic wars, it's all his fault some folks drive on the wrong side of the road :P

Either doesnt get the point of this thread or likes degrading himself.

Lol, doesn't exactly set the blood racing The principle is nice and would cost a fraction of the equivalent output 4 stroke.

The spherical engine is interesting but if its being used as a generator a turbine may be more efficient, a few cars are running with them like Jaguar's C-X75.

The valving could be an issue, various types of rotary valve 4 strokes have been tried over the years and valve sealing has always been a problem, last I saws ceramic seals where working ok but hadn't had to suffer 150000k without an oil change It could easily have a VTEC type system by varying the port timing, no use at all for fixed speed running though.

For the LFS VTEC hack, my mistake, he has it working by modifying values for running code in system memory so could give a car as many horsepower as the memory allocated to the value can accept. It would likely be spotted immediately on a live server but must have taken a lot of work, nice one.

EDIT: Another car using a turbine, the Capstone CMT-380

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Think it restricted to 80% power up to the vtec start revs, then gave full power after.

Wanders off topic

Good to know some countries test it, brake lines rusted on the inside are scary. They dont test for it here, maybe do in the UK though.