just in case you dont want to miss next PS3 launch...

rumours says that there are several easter eggs hidden: ability to control Giant Octopus Paul (assasins creed 2 likes) and another world cup Classic: Zidane vs Materazzi

Last edited by jamvib, Tue 13 Jul 2010, 22:27.

Quote from chanoman315 :

nope, they had an engine problem when they were running the usual checklist, but they repaired it before takeoff...

The first problem was the External Temperature sensor of the Nacelle Anti Ice System, the circuit breaker feeding the sensor was removed as its the maintenance operation. The aircraft was dispatched in MMEL Conditions.

For the record:

1. Emergency landings are carried out usually with minimal fuel loads (use google for jettison)

2. There is one system in modern aircrafts to inert the Fuel (use google for IGSS: Inert Gas Generating System)

3. A Catastrophic Failure in aeronautics is 1e-9/Flight Hour, so you can do the maths to know the probability of an aircraft crash due to a single failure....


Still there are things like lighting stroke, bird impact or UERF (Uncontained Engine Rotor Failure) that can not be avoided, they just happen!

Modern Aircrafts are designed to fully accomplish safety requirements, the thing is people don’t know how difficult is to certificate a civil aircraft to fly (at least in Europe/USA).

Last edited by jamvib, Mon 25 Aug 2008, 17:35.

Quote from NitroNitrous :

No compañero, podemos no, PUDIMOS

compañero =mate
Podemos = we can do it!
Pudimos = we did it!

Cuatro's one-word tournament jingle is "podemos" (we can do it).

Cuatro is the spanish TV channel broadcasting the EuroCup

Quote from BBO@BSR :

Congratulations! Spain
a well deserved titel
after 44 years of nothing

That is a bad looser or what? sounds to me as sour grapes!

Well done Spain!

Is it bloody rainning in France??? buu uhh

Quote from DevilDare :

who votes Canda 2008 on Werdiest/Most unexpected race 2008?

Did you forget Australia with just 6 cars finishing??????

Kubica would be new Championship Leader!!! WoW
Karma Last Year Car-Crash Compensation?

Reading the interview on
http://www.formula1.com/news/interviews/2008/5/7859.html


we shouldnt expect much from them.

Q: Some F1 games of the past have been rather hard for the beginner to get to grips with - perhaps understandable, given how hard it is to drive a Formula One car. How will you cater for both ends of the spectrum - the novice player at one end and the hardened petrol-head at the other?
RC: Yes, simulation versus arcade. Codemasters’ history in TOCA Race Driver has been very heavily weighted towards simulation, appealing to the real hardcore fan - be they V8 supporters in Australia, DTM fans in Germany etc, we have always recognised international traits. But if you want to take the game to an even wider audience, particularly the United States (for us the largest gaming market in the world), then you have to appeal to a mass audience and so we blend the simulation with an awful lot of arcade elements too.
The issue people have today is time. This is time-based entertainment and the one thing we all know is that time is constrained. People want to be able to pick up a game, do whatever you do very quickly, post their times up on a leader board and then go off and misbehave elsewhere. We want to be able to offer both things within the game - simulation for the hardcore gamers, but also an arcade experience that you can truly pick up and play. I believe we’ve balanced that in GRID™ and I believe we’re going to balance it in Formula One.

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

No - actually - that's why it's white. If it were any other color, it would absorb more light, which means that over the course of the race, the total weight of his helmet would increase, leading to slower lap times.

Sorry for the interruption, but the light is composed by photons. My recommendation is that you should check again how much is the photon mass... On the other hand the energy gained thanks to the "light absorption" would mean extra mass (or weight) assuming tristan's head and helmet had quantic behaviour...

Although it's true that the race results proved something! At least he's nearest to the speed of light than us. By the way congrats to tristan!

Last edited by jamvib, Fri 11 Apr 2008, 16:48.

Quote from Autosport :

Autosport.com has seen the telemetry data of Alonso's exit from the first corner, and it shows that the Spaniard was flat on the throttle from the exit, did not touch the brake and gained speed in a totally predictable manner.

Quote :

When asked about the view of some experts in the paddock who believed it could have been a brake test, Symonds said: "Well, they are not as expert as they think then. We have the data and there is nothing untoward there. You don't need to be an expert to see that."

Who was the expert? Hamilton's Dad?


Source: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66448

Last edited by jamvib, Sun 6 Apr 2008, 16:46.

Hamilton = rookie errors

The Anti-Stall system was his first error, the second one ....

Here its a preview of tomorrow's race

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uOd9PJevgQ

Quote from J_Matrix :

.. he was one of the most correct pilots and managers around...

Did you mean mechanic and team principal?

Image next gear with Microsoft providing the ECUs
Three laps to go



after choosing option

Quote from Bean0 :

Indeed, I thought it was now one-way. The cars can send telemetry, but shouldn't be able to receive anything except car/pit radio.

From what I heard from McLaren, one explanation to Hamilton gearbox problems could be trash entering into the engine (in lap one), this would produce the temperature increase (hydraulics failure) and trigger a safety default trap (a reset for example) allowing the engine-gearbox to cool.

Of course this is speculation.

This is certainly hotting up.
Button, Hamilton, Sato under investigation over tyres

Same interview
or here
and so on
I repeat again: its an official interview with Spanish Press

Quote from BlueFlame :

I don't believe your spanish is that good

Thank you for your support, as you know all about me and my skills.

Quote from BlueFlame :

If it's a spanish website, it is OBVIOUSLY going to be biased towards Alonso..

the first website its not a Spanish Website is F1-Live, the second one is a well know and usually very biased paper, and the third one is Portuguese-Brazilian, someone needs more? give me five minutes and I will find some German and Italian saying the same as these ones.

Quote from BlueFlame :

The spanish are worse at being biased than the average british guy.. Spanish people put emotions before facts. That's what tends to get them in a strop.

How nice this sounds

Quote from axus :

As it stands, I have provided a source and you have not.
And, I used retard as a noun.

You provide a source and change the content adding quotes to a editor coment, which is worse than not providing the source.
I didnt because its in Spanish, but here you go.

Source
There are plenty of papers and websites with this interview, as it was an official one with the Spanish press.

Part of the interview related to the normal person treatment:

¿Es el trato que merecía un bicampeón del mundo?
No un bicampeón, una persona normal.

If you know a little Spanish its easy see that your source took the wrong idea, the editor was in a hurry and wrote something similar, but totally different in meaning.
Those who dont know Spanish and care enough plz, dont use i-net translators they are utterly bad.

You wrote " If he does, he's just a retard,..." yeah its a noun you are right, then its totally okay, sorry my bad for being naive in believing people shouldn't use retard as an insult (adjective), I guess you didn't have the chance to know any person mentally retarded.

Sorry for the OT, this is my last post on this thing

Quote from Albieg :

So now we know your opinion.

I didn't write my opinion about the matter, I wrote my opinion about the post. It’s based on a quote from Alonso; as a matter of fact that interview happened to be in Spanish not English.

The sentence
"Alonso went on to say he has not been treated like a double world champion, but just like a normal person. "
It’s something the editor wrote, Alonso didn't say that (at least this time), he was asked if he deserved being treated as a double WC, and he said "No, I just want to be treated with respect as a normal person". The right quote would be:

"Alonso went on to say he does not want to be treated like a double world champion, but just like a normal person."

I'm not giving my opinion about Alonso's comments or anything. I'm just fed up with people believing whatever is written and then making judgments ...

On the other hand using retard as an adjective is very sad, after reading that the trolling word came to my head. I'm sorry if someone was offended, at least I've tried to use it with irony.

Quote from axus :

I rarely come across ....

What a pile of crap, mate, I recommend you go to see a doctor, you're probably suffering Troll-silly-tis...
Believe all the lost translation from Alonso is your choice, but stop messing with Alonso or Hamilton personae, every character is different. Write judgments about that in a forum is like spit into the wind.

If Alonso wins in Brazil, Hamilton has to finish second to win the championship.
Alonso's number of victories would be 5
- Malaysian GP
- Monaco GP
- European GP
- Italian
- Brazilian GP

with Hamilton having 4:
- Canadian GP
- United States GP
- Hungarian GP
- Japanese GP

If Alonso doesn't win, and say he finishes second (8p), then Hamilton being fifth (4p) will win the Championship as he has more second places.

Quote from N I K I :

yea, lol, f1 cars couldn't drive even with full wets, and they wanted intermedia

I think they were using standard wet, from Autosport:

Quote :

The race direction informed teams that they were forced to start the race with extreme weather tyres given the poor conditions at Fuji.
Ferrari, however, decided to start the race with the standard wet tyres and both Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa were forced to pit with the safety car on track if they didn't want to be excluded.

Waiting to see this prediction becoming true for once...

Quote from ajp71 :

It doesn't change the fact that an e-mail he sends discussing Ferrari's tire gas isn't slightly incriminating

yes I think it does, because you are linking the whole spy affair with the soft spying very usual in F1. Who do you thing Ferrari knew about the mass damper? read the last one if you think teams are Little Red Riding Hood supporters

Quote from ajp71 :

Alonso sent some e-mails, ..?

Email interchange was in March, the 780 pages dossier copy "intent" was a couple of moths later!