I get "Could not load font" when I try to start Y22 after pathing with the Y19->Y22 patch.

Doesn't help if I repatch it.

EDIT: It works after I patched it again with Y->Y22 patch. But I'm 99.99% sure I had Y19 before.

Last edited by Aquilifer, Sun 8 Jun 2008, 16:07.

Quote from bmwe30m3 :

The mouse

That is no mouse, that's a rat!

EDIT: This is a mouse ...or this

Last edited by Aquilifer, Wed 21 May 2008, 17:33.

Wrap a big empty (cardboard) box into the paper (so that you can open and close it). Next morning put the dog into the box and close it. A simple string around the box to keep it closed for the time it needs to be.

This sounds a first class band... and especially the album.
Tryed to put the same level of quality into the album cover

Quote from Blackout :

Krhm... recommended prise for an M3 in Finland is 113k euros, which is about 177k US dollars. Mmmm mmm, got to love taxes.

and they just LOWERED the taxes. Wonder how much it cost before

To the point...that car looks damn ugly.

Religion is something where man has invented something like a fictive character etc which serves as an answer/reason/excuse to things which he cannot explain in any other way.

This is quite natural for humans to find the reasoning behind everything. People have never liked things which happen without a reason - it's the fear of unkown I guess. Religion starts when the knowledge ends.

I haven't seen any 'proof' for god's existence which would survive scientific investigation. That's my opinion.

LFSNoob:
"If God put everything moving, then who put him moving?"

It was his wife telling him to take the garbage out.

Quote from sgt.flippy :

And if the plane is standing still, it doesn't generate lift, so it won't take off.

I think the whole introduction was flawed. Or at least not properly defined what exactly it ment.

From the intro it could have been understood the plane is kept still relative to the ground (somehow), but actually it just matches the wheel rotation speed (I guess).

Lift is generated by air speed relative to the plane, so even if the plane stationary relative to GROUND, there can still be lift if there is 'wind'. Besides some planes do not even have an engine - sail planes. So certainly if there wouldn't be wind (relative to ground) and the plane is not moving (relative to ground) for what ever reason, it cannot get up (unless the engine is so powerful it can lift the plane alone).

It doesn't mention what sort of plane, but model planes have often very much power compared to it's mass and its engine can often lift it up from almost standstill. If it is a plane with tail gear (not nose gear), the engine is pointing slighlty upwards, so the engine generates lift even without air speed. At an extreme think Harrier or Osprey - neither needs any other lift than the one from the engine

About tyres: Yes, I think the most stress comes from the fact that they have to accelerate from 0 to the landing speed in a fraction of a second. Especially large passenger aicraft tyres have to take the acceleration, relatively high speed (heavy planes have often high stall and landing speed), heavy mass and high temperature and pressure changes. I don't know if the landing gear rooms are pressurised or heated in space shuttle but I would assume tyres take one heck of a beating anyway.

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

I want to get rid of rammers! I can't even start race anymore because of them.. finished only 9/20 races today because of these.

SO6_race_7L_14R_0F.mpr

illepall

Vote with your feet. Change server.

Lift of a plane is generated by the wing angle against the moving air and air speed difference above and below the wings. Mostly notably the wing angle. If the lift of those is bigger than the force downwards (gravity), it gets up. Simple as that.

It doesn't matter how many engines, wheels, conveyers etc you have. So it is down to the air/wind speed. That's why aircraft carriers turn towards the wind when they launch aircraft (to increase lift and shorten the takeoff distance). Some light aircraft can (theoretically at least) fly backwards relative to ground if the wind is hard.

Be careful with woodpeckers. You never know how much damage they can cause ....linkie

Grab it here. The only place where I have put them, lfs-database, has been down quite long.

Y13 has ingame AF settings, but no AA.

Yep, 169.21 is bugged as hell. You could use the global settings in them.

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

...You could also try Steel Panthers.
...

Yep. I recommend them too. Maybe not the original ones, but the 3 modernized versions (100% free and windows compatible). I recommend looking at the home sites:

Steel Panthers World at War: (WW2 era)
http://www.steelpanthersonline.com/

Steel Panthers WW2:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/SPCamo/wSPWW2/1.htm

Steel Panthers Main Battle Tank: (post ww2)
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/SPCamo/wSPMBT/1.htm

They have quite good model for the projectile penetration. SPWAW models e.g flight distance (i.e kinetic energy left), warhead type, armour thickness and impact angle of the projectile to determine if it penetrates the armour.


If you are to more serious TBS war games, then The Operational Art of War must the king of all. 10 years old, but it doesn't matter in that kind of games. Hard to get form anywhere nowadays though. EDIT: Looks like there is a newer version...damn I have missed it totally

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Now here's another one for you. Television. From my experience of my brother in law's place the TV is abysmal. This makes it imperative to have Sky. Question: What kind of coverage does Sky offer? Can you get English speaking channels? Not for me you understand, but for the VAIMO! She'll miss the crappy property programmes and the animal programmes. You know the kinda thing.

The quality of the antenna received broadcast (or lack of it) can be due to many reasons. If you live in Lappland middle of nowhere, with crappy antenna, crappy TV or at the bottom of a mine, it can be shite. In 100km distance from Helsinki where is no geographical obstacles to obstruct it, it should be good. If the house is in cable network there should be even less problems.

You can buy channel packages for foreign channels. Most of them are english, like Eurosport, BBC (at least few different BBC channels iirc), Animal Planet, Discovery, NBC, CNN, ...

Remember to buy a digital 'box' receiver for the correct type of house (antenna, cable or satellite) or a digital TV. If you want to watch those foreign channels, get one with a slot for the channel card.

I understood he wants to get a new mobo for all the stuff he has in the old system. So that's why he wants to put an old cpu, mem etc there? Is there something wrong with the mobo (broken)? If not, it would be a good idea to get rid most of it and buy a new cpu, mem and gfx card at least. There are not that many mobos with both agp and pci-e so you would have to know which one your card has. Those parts would make a good 2nd PC (for surfing, writing docs, less demanding games etc, but to play new games it won't be that great)

"XFX6800 xtreme isn't particularly fantastic (been castrated physically so no unlocking for me!)"

What???

A tragic day for football.

EDIT: Posted a small thread in another forum earlier today.

Because you are supposted to work these yourself and sometimes have to explain them in front of the class, I give you hints instead (at first at least).

Hint for the 1st: How you can write sin(2x) with the help of x (not 2x, but x)? The triconometric formulae for 2x corners are something which are good to remember by heart.

EDIT: Yes, well looks like someone already told what sin(2x) is

EDIT: About 2: The integration is kind of correct if log is ln (natural logarithm). To me 'log' is base N, where N should be indicated by a subscript or it is defined other way in the text. Of course you might use a different kind of style there.

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About number 4. I think the explanation could be that they use their own skin which overpaints the headlights on the normal position and paints them on some other location. So the headlights are on the skin, not on the 3D mesh. This works only on XRG, XRT and XRR because of the style of the headlights. Although I have seen extended front lights on some other cars (FXR) by expanding them on the skin and painting bigger front grills. This looks bit crappy if you look them too close.

Quote from Shotglass :

regard that game as the netkar of first person shooters

mmmm...huh?

I would compare arma to LFS and BF2 as NFS. I have bought of all kind of games and I have been happy with Arma. The worst game for the money ever must have been Cod2 (level design shite and small maps, mp gaming full of jumping rambo kids and no sight of co-operation which would be hard anyway when you can pee on the other side of the map).

Some say all kind of bit unfair about Arma. Slow? Not really so much if you put the settings to the level of your machine. I could run it with P4 and Radeon 9700 (not really a joy, but still) and in E9750+8800gts it is a joy. Bugs? Well, some but not so really worse than other games imho. bad single player? Well...mediocre imho (not so bad but not splendid either), but on the other hand I haven't bothered to play single player game more than once in any FPS. These games are often bought for MP games anyway.

I have to say though that I wouldn't quite rank it in the same group as BF games or Cods which are basicly shoot em ups. Arma is good for simulating tactical co-operation in battle field. It is not ment as a "screen shot generator" (like crysis), but it looks good with high settings. The map(s) is huge and especially if there are lot of stuff going on (AI) it can take some cpu and memory (my max what I have seen has been around 800megs). Arma is in my opinion the most true world like. Many games have smallish maps which have all kinds of artifical obstacles to prevent you going over the edges and at the extreme they have running in a tube feeling.

It has large modding community too. Some mods increase the realism, some add more weapons and vehicles, some put you into Vietnam. There are few mods which are very recommended to download - sound mods like FDF soundpack and Kegetys lowplants which can often hugely increase your fps (but not to make it look worse).

I have 169.21 (8800GTS 512) and I admit there is something really odd with the profiles. At first I couldn't get any AA or AF, but then I managed to somehow make it add AA and AF, but I really cannot say how much.

In global settings I have AA=application controlled, AF=application controlled. So to my understanding I shouldn't get any AA/AF if the app doesn't support changing them (and if the profiles don't work). Now in LFS profiles (drivers) I have 16/16Q and I get some AA/AF, but I really don't know where it comes from. If I try to get AA off with the LFS profiles I cannot

I have some other problem with ZoneAlarm, so I suspect the drivers are bit buggy. Every time a ZA warning box comes to front it makes games crash (actually gfx drivers, but when it hangs, so does the game) and windows goes back to 640x480, 16 colors

Yes, I bet the insurance doesn't cover that. But am I the only one who feels sorry for the wife? I bet she was really badly hurt and I understand how she feels even though I wouldn't start crashing cars.

It is very true you can write it down in a much nicer way (shown by Shotglass). I tryed to write it in a different, more logical way how people tend to think it normally with common sense. I thought that was behind the question to make it understandable.

The fact if you pick the coins one at the time or by taking two coins and checking which ones you got, doesn't make any difference (like mentioned already). It cerrtainly doesn't make sense putting the first coin pack to pocket because you cannot use it twice for payment (because the cashier already took the first coin). You can think like you take 2 coins but check them only after taking both.

Is this a mathematical or philosophical question?

Mathematically thinking:
Like you said the only way to get the correct amount is either 2e+2e coins or 2e+1e coins.

2e+2e: 2/9 chances to pick a 2e coin first and after that 1/8 chance to pick the last 2e coin = 2/9*1/8 = 2/72 (=1/36)
2e+1e: 2/9 chances to pick a 2e coin and 4/8 chance to pick a 1e coin. But because it is also legal to pick first 1e coin and then 2e coin the chance is double = 2/9*4/8 * 2 = 16/72 (=8/36=2/9)

The combined chance is sum of those: 2/72+16/72=18/72 = 1/4

Quote from Kajojek(PL) :

Hummers blowing up tanks? TANKS?! I dont know because I only play bridge crossing. And a little sf hospital.

I don't know the situation (don't even play "Bush Army"), but Hummers can destroy tanks easily if it is the model with TOW launchers on top (TOW is an AT guided missile). The M2 or M19 mounted versions can destroy at most lightly armoured APCs.

I don't play CoD4 either. Don't like perks. I get me coat...bye

It's hard but possible with some practise. Some tracks are harder. You should try tracks without tight corners (or very few) first. For example I drove Aston National with FO8 some time ago (using mouse). F1 is not my favourite and I never drive it. You probably have to make a set that it has more understeer than the wheel/pedal user sets. Otherwise it is easy to spin in tight corners.