Quote from Gekkibi :

but what about normal street cars? Nope, can't hear them from miles away... Not even one block away.

Well you have to remember that you don't usually hear normal street cars driving at full throttle and revving to 6000+ RPM. That is usually a bit louder. Not to mention that the road cars in LFS would likely be cars that would have a couple small tweaks made to them, which would probably include a high flow-rate exhaust which would surely be a bit louder than pure stock...

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He wasn't talking about how the smoke looks - just the factors that induce smoke.

Quote from Jonas8431 :

your fuc king videos are not amazing as the thread says, dont post this sh it sgain.....read the santa´s hand
delete them or you will be killed

I want what he's got...

Quote from Gekkibi :

Yes, or even XRT to other side of SO4... I have sleeping problems because taxi-drivers are driving on the other side of city during nights..!

I'm not certain if you are being sarcastic, but I'm fairly certain you'd be able to hear an F1 car MUCH farther away than you currently do on that track... or any track. I'd love for the sound to echo around the buildings.

Quote from bialas :

Now, without WindowBlinds and with a lot of crap on it it looks worse

And runs a lot faster!

Quote from STROBE :

But... why? Cheapness? Availability of raw materials? A wooden house just seems archaic when everything is built of brick and stone here. We have badly built houses too - my flat doesn't have a single right angle anywhere in it, and my parents' house built in the 1960s is the same. But isn't a wooden house a little bit of a fire risk?

Cheapness is the major reason. I mean, you KNOW that cheap is high on the list when 90% of homes that even HAVE the fake brick/stone facade only have it on one or two sides and have aluminum siding on the other two. Usually only brick on the side facing the street - to give a "better" impression.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

Does no-one in the US make houses out of, well... bricks?

Very rarely. Most homes have a fake brick facade and that's it.

Quote from MattxMosh :

Yeah, in High School, during the summers, I'd frame. Drunk.

Don't buy new houses in the US. I'd never buy one. I like my old sturdy late 1800s victorian.

Even with its bad wiring, and warped floors. At least I know it wont fall down.

Exactly. My grandmother just sold her old Tutor a year ago. That house was in REALLY bad shape, but being well built meant even as it deteriorated it was rock solid. The people who bought it are supposedly going to renovate it. That house has had a tree fall on it with no effect. A tree that would most surely tear our home in half. My dad actually really wants to move to Europe and get a REAL house, lol.

Quote from MAGGOT :

The reason most residential developments these days are crap (in North America, at least) is because companies buy huge spaces of land and build houses "in bulk." A majority of the construction crews of these houses have no idea what they're doing and more-so, don't care. Additionally, they are under pressure to build all these houses very quickly and this leads to cutting corners and ultimately crappy, and sometimes unsafe, houses.

That's it exactly. It sucks.

Quote from chanoman315 :

you mean wood-made houses?

Yes. The typical wood-framed homes. There are extravagant, and amazingly well built stone/brick homes around here. There are even amazingly build wooden ones (though very rare) but the typical wood-framed homes that are popping up all over the place are not at all quality products.

I'll put it this way. When someone buys one of those homes, generally the first thing they do is replace all the appliances with ones that won't break. Then they refurbish the cabinets in the kitchen and bathrooms with ones that won't break...

In other words it's like buying a fake Audi A8 with plastic body panels, cardboard frame, brakes that might work a few times before they melt, electronics that are prone to electrical shorts, etc... The REALLY wealthy people spend a lot of money replacing all these parts with real ones little by little - and only the UBER rich can afford a REAL one to begin with.

Quote from mrodgers :

Just because your house may be poorly built, doesn't mean every house is poorly built.

You obviously haven't seen too much. Look at any development that was built within the last 10-15 years. All the houses are crap. Period. There is no argument. Older houses maybe, and custom-built houses are fine, but ALL the new developments going up now - which account for a very large percentage of homes in many areas are utter crap.

Quote from Christopher Raemisch :

The houses are made out of 2x6 outer framing with 2x4 inner framing. The outer frame has a 1" sheet of plywood covered by 1' sheet of insulation. Then The siding is banged into the plywood. The siding is made out of sheets of PVC plastic that lock together. For insulation the 2x6 cavity is filled and then there is usually 1" sheet of sheetrock or drywall.

The roof frame is wooden framed, usually set on 24" centers IIRC (been a good 10 years since I helped my dad build his house) and are then covered in plywood (1" IIRC) over the plywood sheets of tarpaper are set down. Once the tarpaper is down sheets of "shingles" are placed down by nailing them to the plywood. The shingles are made of tar with gravel or other various die'd material stuck into one side of the shingle to provide a protective layer. Because of the tar the shingles stick together when it's warmed up, usually by direct sunlight.

With the insulation the houses are pretty good at keeping in heat and vice versa. They are much cheaper than stone and if taken care of can last just as long as a stone house.

The insides are what you make it and if you buy a cheap house your going to get cheap stuff inside it, but on the whole, when comparing to the UK to the USA there is no difference in furnishing or fixings. Cupboards, appliances, shelves, and doors are the same quality.

You get into the $1million plus range you can usually pick up a nice stone house in the states =)

I guess maybe out west? IDK, on the east coast I really don't think that holds true at all...

NikLaw - That avatar creeps the hell out of me... :scared:

Quote from Shotglass :

i know it was a setup for some stupid joke about paper mache but i figured it wasnt as funny as i initially though

Lol - actually I dunno why I wrote that. I think I was trying to allude to the fact that it's hard to miss... but maybe I just kind of forgot the joke mid sentence... either way - the point is it's hard to miss.

Quote from Shotglass :

a related question:
what kind of flimsy houses do they build in america anyway that a .22 is able to penetrate an outer wall?

You have obviously never been to America... or at least you were drunk or something while you were here. Houses over here are built of the cheapest materials in the WORLD. You could put a fist through a wall if you wanted to. The house we live in has four fake pillars in front. But they aren't even like NICE fake. At the top the square part doesn't line up with the roof and at the bottom it's just a plastic/wood base that is obviously just resting on the concrete. It is so obviously STUPID it's unbelievable. Everything is total CRAP. The siding on the house can crack and warp easily, light fixtures on the outside rust, the wood trim on around the windows and roof was replaced last year with cheap aluminum paneling because the wood rotted away in 10 years (although that was partly because of the damned woodpeckers.) Even the deck is crap.

On the inside, the wndows have fake plastic panes that look ugly as hell. The cabinets are crap, as are most of the standard appliances that came with the house. All the wood trim looks like garbage. The doors don't close right in the summer months, and they aren't real doors, they're hollow fake crap doors that you can't even slam shut because it's like trying to slam a piece of paper. The pool isn't bad but the pumps and system are garbage, so we have at least a few problems every year... I could go on.

Oh yea, and if that wasn't enough. We discovered two years ago that the whole front wall of the house was bowing outward for some strange reason (leaving a half inch gap in the floor next to it.) So in the basement there are a bunch of rachet clamps with rope literally PULLING the wall back against the house.

The ONLY decent thing about the house is the driveway, which is really nice paving stones, and not black pavement. (Although it SUCKS for driving R/C cars or riding skateboards or scooters or rollerblading on...)

And no we don't live in a cheap house. It's somewhere between $750,000 and $1,000,000 (well, probably half that with the recent housing collapse.) That's just how stuff is over here. People don't care about quality as long as it looks better from afar than their neighbor's house. You need to get into the $4-5 million territory before materials and construction even begin to approach acceptable levels.

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 14:55.

Quote from DHRammstein :

and it was an Acer, and I really like their monitors.

I've got two 19" monitors from them. They got fantastic reviews and they really deserve it. Bright, vivid, good response times for a very low price. Would definitely buy from them again. I highly recommend you at least LOOK at Acer before you buy anything else.

Quote from MOSTWANTEDM3 :

hi res smoke

You said that already...

Quote from Hyperactive :

With dynamic throttling the replay quality would suffer because you could no longer watch replays fro other car's perspective (especially bad for leagues).

Well, actually, that problem could be easily solved. When you save a replay from an online race, the replay file should be downloaded from the server on which it is hosted. THAT replay file would have ALL the cars paths updated and the same high frequency. That solves that issue... I think?

Whatever that level is where you have to stop and go CONTINUOUSLY through all the back and forth moving dots just annoyed the hell out of me... so I gave up. Fun game tho.

Funny thought: Boeing, AA, UA, Continental and MassPort should countersue him stating that if his buildings weren't impeding the airspace through which the planes were directed, this wouldn't have happened.

Something about this seems wrong. Forget MORAL issues and stuff, it just doesn't make sense! If someone steals your car, and smashes it into Joe's Hardware Store, Joe has no basis on which to file a lawsuit against the dealership from which you purchased the car... right?!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/27/wtc.suit/index.html

I guess he does in the US of A...

Quote from Jakg :

I hope that's a rubbish attempt at sarcasm via an American.

It wasn't meant to be sarcasm. It was meant to be a humorous response. That was in no way a sarcastic comment. Maybe you should look up the definition of that word before you make rubbish accusations

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 06:34.

Quote from andybarsblade :

Quick question. When my cpu is clocked at 3ghz its idles at 36-38c but when clocked at 3.4 it drops to 28-30c.

Im not sure why? Anybody know

Heat cancellation. At stock speeds a processor produces XX amount of heat. When you overclock, the extra heat generated cancels out the stock heat, resulting in lower temperatures.

That's why you need a bigger heatsink on an overclocked processor. If you overclock too much, the processor will eventually cool down to below the dew point in the room. The larger heatsink spreads out that cooler temperature over a larger area, meaning it won't get as cool, and keeping condensation from forming on the chip and shorting it out.

Common sense actually.

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 21:07.

PROBLEM SOLVED:

Only in multiplayer so I know who to yell at...