Quote from Racer Y :

I always wanted to sling out a barrel full of marbles in front of a marathon run. The thought of that is freaking hilarious....til you look at it realistically and realize the amount of damage those morons would to themselves stampeding all over each other in the process.

A friend of mine once told me a story of how he went down to London with his mate to watch the Marathon. After about an hour they got bored do decided to go to the pub instead. After a few hellishly expensive pints (this was London after all) they decided they'd go buy some Vodka from an off-licence instead and go back and watch the runners.
They ended up a few metres down from a watering station, so found the discarded cups very useful for holding their booze. Eventually one of them, just to see what would happen, held out his cup to one of the runners. You can kind of guess what happened next.

Cue 20 minutes or so of drunken hilarity as people who'd just run 20 miles threw straight vodka down their throats. Until the police arrived.

I've not tried c# but I've dabbled in c++ (and write applications for MS Excel using VBA for a living).

My thing I'm most proud of is writing my own 3D engine using Directx10, and writing a lava shader for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOthukbpH6c

All the lava is running on the GPU; it has volume and velocity, both of which affect each other - deep lava flows faster than shallow lava - and will flow down any heightmap you give it.

http://tinyandbig.com/

Cool little game, £0.69 at the moment.

What a twat.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/da ... ot-video-condemned-18663/

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Police have arrested a man after a car was able to get past Brands Hatch stewards and race marshals and join cars during a live race event.
The unnamed 21-year-old is being held by officers after a car gatecrashed through security at the West Kingsdown track on Saturday.

I'm kind of surprised it's never happened before, considering how open the pits are at a lot of venues.

OK, here's a related question.

I'm told that most modern engines shut off the fuel completely when you lift off the throttle; I asked this question a few years ago on here. Two implications of this are:

• that when you coast down a hill in gear, you're using no fuel
  
• it's better to coast up to junctions in gear than to drop it into neutral and roll up with the engine idling (as it needs a small amount of fuel to keep it idling).
  

So, why, when I lift off the throttle, does the engine still go 'vroom'? The only answer I than think of is that most of the noise of an engine is caused by the moving parts in the engine, drivetrain and wheels, and only a tiny aspect of the sound actually from combustion. Is that right?

1995 called, they want their joke back.

I think you hit a nerve. Does this mean Dustin is a fat drifter?

Tried the tanks in arcade battles. Do not like.


Perhaps a better name would have been 'World Of Hovercrafts'. I'll try realistic battles tomorrow, but I'm not holding my breath.

What do you call people who hang around with the musicians in a band, following them everywhere on their tour?


Drummers.

I always have sex with my toilet.

Quote from Hyperactive :

Russians seem very op atm. They just more armor and better guns than the germans while mobility is the same for both...

I doubt this will be fixed, the aircraft have been the same since beta. 'Because avenge our grandfathers for glorious memory of Stalin.'

That's a relief

As I said, I'll certainly give it a try, but I wants me my SuperPershing first. Only 150K xp to go...

I've been playing WT for a fair bit, but not tried the ground forces. I'm still hugely into WoT, and I'm a little unsure after hearing stories of gameplay involving driving for 5 minutes, camping for a further five minutes before being one-shotted by a tank you can't even see.

There's currently a mission on in WoT to win a SuperPershing which is due to finish at the end of the month so I'll probably give it a go after that.

Quote from Racer X NZ :

It's only there so the NSA can watch u anyway

It must be fun watching hundreds of thousands of hours upon hours upon hours of footage of acne-riddled teenagers fapping, just on the offchance that ones of them accidentally holds up a card with the addresses and photos of the key members of Anonymous.



Also this:

It's just like any commodity, like gold, coal, copper, oil etc but in the case of bitcoin it's data. A particular string of numbers which verifies as 'yes, this is a valid bitcoin'. And just like other commodities, it has to be 'mined' - it's a complex sequence, valid codes of which can only be found using brute-force number-crunching techniques, and the ease of finding it decreases as more are discovered, again, similar to mining a physical commodity.

Unlike other commodities is it essentially worthless (you can't burn it for energy for example) but it's vaguely analogous to gold which is a fairly useless metal, far too soft to use (although we are finding its electrical properties can be useful) but is 'quite pretty' so people pay far more than its functional value.

Just like other commodities, its value is tied to how much other people are prepared to pay for it. Currently this is 'lots' but the HUGE risk with virtual currencies like Bitcoin is that due to them having absolutely zero inherent value if people suddenly decide that they are prepared to pay 'nothing', you are left with exactly that. The price of coal may go up or down but you can always burn it for heat, and gold will always be pretty.

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Quote from Mysho :

Those 'baby on board' signs aren't for other drivers, in the event of a crash they're to indicate to the emergency services that they should search for a baby in the wreckage, as they're easy to miss.

At least, they originally were, the baby-seat is kind of a giveaway these days.

I sat staring at Sweden for ages going 'what...?' before I realised the map was tilted 45 degrees...

For the first one - just draw it. With regard to the 'properties' it likely means would the image be upside-down?

Like a boss.