Quote from MR_B :

should be in off-topic this

Why?

Same here with XRT... what am I missing?

Note to self: Do not steer to right on left-hand oval track.

Thanks for the comments guys. I tried uploading the video to veoh.com, and it came out in great high-res, but it was a very, very low framerate... which really pisses me off because I exceeded my daily upload limit at college JUST to upload the full high-res version to that site for nothing. Here's to hoping I don't get a JR, lol.

Quote from squad_e :

Some Really good passes

Yeah, nothing like owning a bunch of "Newbie" A.I. drivers, lol.

Quote from squidhead :

one question, is that the skin renaming trick involved?

Yes. I made two skins for each car, and every time I passed one, I renamed the skin in the program. You have to exit each time and delete the .dds file so that the game re-converts the new one. It can be a pain. We really need a few extra options in replay mode to make our lives easier.

Thanks for the comments. I'm trying desperately to cut 20Mb off the video because Facebook.com has a really nice video player with a 300Mb limit... I wish Stage6 hadn't gone under

Quote from Christopher Raemisch :

If you do RORO it cost me $900 to ship from the New York to Southampton. There were other costs like shipment to NY and safety conversion, but the transport itself was really cheap. At least it was for me, thinking about it, it's been a year ago this week that I drove my car off the dock =)

A container shipment IIRC is about $2000, that was the cheapest I had seen IIRC.

Completely off topic now but still related. Say, for instance, that I was looking to buy a new car RIGHT NOW, and was very, VERY interested in the new Diesel Subaru Outback sold in the UK. How complicated would it be to bring a car like that stateside. Are safety requirements and such vastly different, or would it take very little to get a car like that certified to drive in the US? Or is any of that even necessary? I've always been curious what the complications would be of buying a European car for use in the USA.

I have to admit, I don't really agree with the new start lights. In my opinion, since it's a digital representation of the real thing, it SHOULD look like it used to - because that's what it IS - a digital representation. What a REALLY think should be done is a view of the real start lights should be used (like picture-in-picture as if a camera was pointed at them in reality.)

Woooooo! Congrats (though I think you've heard that enough by now...)

Well, what with April 16th coming up, and classes being canceled for us on that day, even though I wasn't here last year, I decided to make a "Live for Speed Tribute" to the students who were killed last year.

It's not at all a fast-paced video, nor is it perfect (in fact, there are a LOT of flaws which annoy the hell out of me) but it's good enough for now that I think I can upload it. Please tell me what you guys think - this is my first LFS video!

Some of the major flaws are the occasional glitches in the smoothness of the captured video, disappearing shadows, and at some points something was flickering through the road surface. And just so you know, the logos on the cars are of different colleges/universities stateside.

RapidShare: http://rapidshare.com/files/105113865/VT_Tribute.avi.html

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwgflD3z2cM&fhm18 - AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!

Sorry for the terrible quality of the RapidShare link. The original file is 320MB, so to get it to under 100 it had to be slightly "detuned."

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Sat 5 Apr 2008, 23:20.

It is possible to rewind a replay? It is EXTREMELY aggravating to have to fast forward to the whole replay just to capture the same instance from another angle...

I don't know if UltraVNC would be applicable in this situation, but if so, it's always worked great for me. I used to use it to view my PC screen on my Tungsten | X and transfer files to an SD card on it, but you can also access it through any Java-enabled browser without the need for third party software.

Quote from amp88 :

Ever looked up the word "most" in the dictionary?

I know. I was just giving examples. Most people don't do video editing... or fly X-Plane.

Quote from amp88 :

I realise there are some instances where you'd easily use 2+GB of RAM, but most of those would be in business or research where the chances are you wouldn't have the 32 bit problem anyway.

Well, there's also video/photo editing...

And of course, there's X-Plane, which on it's own gobbles up MORE than 2 Gb of RAM.

So, for example, this is something I should look into, for starters?

Or, pay for a cheap airline ticket and have him come out HERE!

EDIT: That was exactly my plan one day. Buy a cheap car (or by that point, use this one) and just take it apart and learn. That is VERY high on my list of things to do. I'd feel much more confident taking a Subaru off-road, or through flooded roads (as I do now, lol) if I had past experience replacing a broken sway bar, or draining the diff oil. For someone who is EXTREMELY into cars, and has been since... forever... I know surprisingly little about the mechanics involved.

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 21:46.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Bring it round here, and I'll do it for you for a few bob!

Seriously, cars aren't that complicated really - most of it is common sense. Plus understanding HOW it works WILL make you a better driver, either in terms of speed, mechanical sympathy, economy, or a mixture of those and more things.

For most it you don't need a lift, just a few screw drivers and a 3/8 socket set, and a workshop manual. You'll save, over a lifetime of car ownership, somewhere in the region of $10,000 to $50,000 just by doing some of the simple jobs yourself!

I believe you 110%. I would love to know how a car worked. I know enough about the basics to understand how to drive pretty well, but obviously the more you know the better. I've started doing little things on my own (like cosmetic repairs.) In fact, over Christmas break, I pulled out the whole center console to run wires for my carputer. Even ran the wires to the battery and grounded them in the console and hooked up a computer underneath the passenger seat, but 90% of that didn't have to do with the car really, and none of that is anything that a 6 year old couldn't do.

To be honest, I wouldn't be that afraid to take the car apart by following a manual. What would scare me would be trusting the brake system after I'd just put it together. However, even more important (and the single, biggest reason I haven't done anything like that myself) is that I don't have the money to pay someone to fix something I do wrong, or to put it back together if I get in too deep. I'd be shot by my dad too for doing something that I couldn't undo myself... to my car.

Oh yeah - and what Luke S. says also plays a role lol. As I said a while back in another thread on this forum, I'm trying to avoid putting any more money into this car than is absolutely necessary until I can maybe afford an "upgrade," though I don't see that happening anytime soon either.

Quote from tristancliffe :

And most of that $5000 is going to be labour. Do the job yourself, borrowing tools if needs be (and a workshop manual), and save MEGA bucks.

I would absolutely LOVE to... knew I anything about car mechanics. I am a car buff, but not much of a grease monkey. The only "major" work I've ever done was replace the front fender a few weeks ago, but even that took me forever as I had to figure out which screws went where and how to get it off (and I ended up with two screws left over, lol.) I wish I knew enough about cars - I would do it myself if I could. I'd be more than willing to ask a friend to do it while I watched, but I don't even know that many people who know about cars who could do it without it taking them a year. Not to mention there is no place around here to even bring a car and put it up on a lift. I'm at college.

It's still at least a grand's worth of parts... which is about equally as much as I DON'T have right now, lol.

Still, most of that stuff doesn't really have to be done.

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 21:21.

Quote from OneCrazyDiamond :

Most of it is probably unnecessary though, right? So cheer up, lol.

Lol, some aren't major, but some are more serious:

1. New transfer clutches
2. Right rear backing plate rusted and contacting rotor.
3. Brakes shudder very, VERY badly under braking.
4. Center clutch pack needs to be replaced (major binding while turning.)
5. Right rear access cover leaking fluid.
6. Heat shield rattles.
7. Oil pump, cam seals, valve cover gaskets leaking.
8. Inner and outer CV boots torn on right.
9. Sway bar link bushings worn out.
10. Lower control arm bushings worn excessively (suspension creaks constantly.)
11. Left front parking lamp assembly busted (and by that he meant non-existent, lol.)
12. Left side mirror taped on.
13. Power steering pump leaking.
14. Left inner tie rod end has play.
15. Transmission lurches - sometimes fairly violently - when up shifting to second gear (synchros?)

And yet, it still gets me where I need to be without any real problems. I've made multiple 400-mile 7-hour-straight drives in the past few months without issue either. This thing is built like a tank. 209,000 miles now and although it needs work, I've yet to replace any major components in the car ever.

Alright, Subaru finally called back. A/M stands for after-market, so in other words, if they don't get a SUBARU tie-rod, it will not fit.

Nothing more demoralizing than knowing you're driving a car that could use at least $5000 worth of work... lol.

Quote from squidhead :

Let me give you an analogy

Stang70Fastback : I need to walk, but I can't make my feet work, I need free leg replacement
Squidhead : make them work if you need to walk for free
Stang70Fastback : are you serious?
Squidhead : absolutely
Stang70Fastback : Did you read the original post?

well here's the reply - if you want free editing software, that can do what you need, and WMM doesn't work - either make it work by reading troubleshooting manuals, or forget about the whole idea.

Ah, alright. I completely missed your point. My fault.

I'd love to try and get it to work, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how. Is there an advanced way to change the settings with which FRAPS encodes files? WMM handles other videos a lot better than the ones from FRAPS, so I'm thinking it has to do with the codec it's using.

Quote from danowat :

At maximum?

That would make sense - but what does that mean? That at maximum lock, the tires wouldn't be aligned properly? I'm very curious as to what this would result in.

I brought my car in for an oil change, and of course, as usual, they handed me a list of over $3000 worth of repairs that need to be done to the car (and there's even more stuff that's not on this list.) I don't really care for much of it, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me what these two meant:

IF STEERING RACK IS A/M TIE ROD END WILL NOT WORK.
RIGHT REAR ACCESS COVER IS LEAKING FLUID.

I'm assuming the second one is related to an oil leak on the engine (if so, they missed the other ones, lol). As for the first, it might be related to one of these, which I DO understand:

LEFT INNER TIE ROD END HAS PLAY.
POWER STEERING PUMP IS LEAKING FLUID.

Any ideas what A/M means?

Quote from squidhead :

absolutely

...did you happen to read the original post?

Quote from wtf im nameless :

Because I did not say I would not recommend an LCD for HDTV, I said I would not recommend a TN Panel as your ONLY TV for watching HDTV.

My first choice would be to recommend a S-IPS LCD panel if your using it as your main TV for HD or Blu-ray.

If that person could not afford a S-IPS panel I would still recommend a TN panel over a CRT.

Is there something wrong with that recommendation?

Ah, alright, I misread your comment. I was thinking you stated that you would not recommend an LCD over a CRT for HDTV. I'd been skimming through the thread and had read 'LCD' and 'CRT' so many times I was starting to hallucinate.