http://video.google.com/videop ... 41418146&q=sam+harris

What he said.

Quote from zeugnimod :

Noooo.

It's only a close second behind this.

Second yes. Close no.

Disagree. Racism is in a different league. It means that you think you can judge genetic worth by observing qualities like skin colour or skull shape or whatever. If there's one thing we learned in the last 100 years then it's that that is ethically totally unacceptable.

Good to see the FIA didn't take long to react. And if FA doesn't react it won't exactly help his reputation that people in his fan club think LH is a "black shit".

The plot thickens.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/br ... story/0,,-7278442,00.html

Behaving like idiots is one thing. Racism is quite another.

Last edited by J.B., Sun 3 Feb 2008, 13:50.

Breaking news: sports followers act emotionally at sports event! *gasp

Search for the links with "passionate" Ferrari fans at Monza and Damon Hill death threats at Hockenheim yourself. Until I see something more substantial like a picture of a thrown object lying in the track I'm calling overhyped BS on this story.

There are cases when people get killed because they are too young for the powerful cars they drive (more parents fault IMO). This isn't one of them. You don't need a powerful car to unsuccessfully try to take off the end of a runway.

And the idea that young people in slower cars don't like to put their foot down. Are you kidding me? How old are you? Have you ever been with friends in cars in the first couple of years of them having a driver's license? The ones I've known certainly didn't have fast cars but that doesn't mean that 170 km/h in a rattling 45 bhp Fiat Uno isn't an exiting thing to do at that age.

Quote from Stang70Fastback :

Any small airport has open access. Two of my neighbors have private planes (a Cessna 170 and a BEAUTIFUL Cirrus SR-22.) I've been on rides with them, and all you do is literally drive onto the runway and then drive over to your plane (which, by the way they don't park at the end. That giant loop is solely for taxiing and making u-turns.) I could drive over to my local airport right now (about 3 miles away) and just drive straight onto the runway and fool around if I wanted to.

Thx for info, didn't know that. Even a bit surprising considering the über paranoid security you get at bigger airports.

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Quote from March Hare :

How long since you last reinstalled your windows?

This should be done yearly. Or monthly depending on usage.

1998 just called. They want their Windows support tips back.

Last edited by J.B., Fri 1 Feb 2008, 04:01.

That guy would have managed to kill 5 people just as well with any average car. M5 is not the issue here. And is it normal that you can easily access a runway like that with a car in the middle of the night or did he break in somehow? And WTH has John Travolta got to do with anything?!

Woah, that is an impressive video. Great racing, cameras, commentary. Do it at 50 fps and 10000 kbits/s and it's perfect, higher production quality than F1.

BTW how did you get that motion blur in there?

Viper and Sam. Professionalism goes both ways. What makes you think top racing teams are unreasonable towards their drivers all the time?

Your fault entirely. You drove into him on the straight for no reason. And after the first contact it even looks like you tried to turn him around on purpose.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

The thing is that subscription games like WoW work because the entirety of the game is in the online experience. Racing sims are somewhat like that, but in the end, you can always have a trackday on your own. If the content you've paid for in a racing sim no longer works when you've stopped subscribing, I can't see many people biting.

Who says you can have a track day on your own? I predict iracing is going to attemt to make simracing more realistic by limiting track time. And then they're are going to have whopping prizes like chances for sponsored RL racing seats.

I can't really see the business model working but it should be obvious that for the prices they're asking they don't intending to merely offer something that you can more or less get from any other sim.

For me it's the physics I'm mostly interested in and if they're similar to the old papyrus games then that's not good enough. And the video's not very promising at all. I don't even know why they did the splitscreen as the sim car looks nowhere near as alive as the real car.

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Quote from Yaamboo :

That looks excellent

Although would do with a deinterlace filter.

How the hell do you get interlacing artifacts into a progressive source anyway?

Last edited by J.B., Thu 24 Jan 2008, 20:24.

I once saw a picture of this thing in its true, upright Decepticon form. Can't find it unfortunately.

I fail to see the significance of this. Aren't most illnesses biased towards men or woman in some way?

Happy to see they seem to be doing well with their business.

Also worth reading their site. http://www.force-dynamics.com/content/whatis401.php

Quote from Force Dynamics :

So, this is great! But what we found when we started testing the 401 is this: Not only is it important to feel the rotation of the car when you've broken the rear end loose, or in a four-wheel drift, but it makes an incredible difference even when the car's glued down to the road. The ability to feel the rotation of the car through the corner means you know where you are in space; that sense of turning tells you even more than your eyes how close you are to the apex. Speaking from personal experience, I tend to have a big problem with apexing too early in the 301 and with 'desk driving'. And while I'm sure you'll notice a few instances of that in the video, the feeling of positioning left-right on the road with the 401 is vastly improved. That rotation axis actually gives you a physical sensation of position on the road, something we didn't anticipate when we started out.

Quote from Mattesa :

I've always dreamed of doing this. Take a car and set it up to be controlled remotely from a computer using a G25 or DFP. Place a camera where the driver sits. Then take the car to a track and have at it.

Something like this would go such a long way in exploring the scope and accuracy of something like LFS. Oh!!! I soooo want to do it!!!

Yeah, I've often thought about how cool that would be. It would settle the whole xyz is too hard/easy to control discussion once and for all. And it would give ultimate answers as to what we can expect from forceless driving simulations. Let's hope that some day a sim nut shows up who's rich enough to set up something like this for fun.

German and British FBMW have been merged to Euro championship and they race as F1 support events.

Hi Jay, nice to see your input here. A question. How does experience factor into the whole selection process? Isn't it quite likely that the "best" person you find is someone with years of high level karting under his belt, who probably would have made it into FBMW anyway, even without the help of the V1 project?

Anyway, grats for setting up this novel concept in motorsports, can't wait to see what comes of it.

Quote from ColeusRattus :

While the first video is awesome, guys, I ask you one thing: what is with this disgusting pervert snuff porn obsession? Having seen my fair share of death and carnage due to my job as a journalist, I can find nothing even remotely amusing about witnessing somebody getting seriously hurt, let alone killed.
If I had a say in here, I'd instaban anyone who posts shit like that from both the forums and S2. Thankfully, you'd labelled it beforehand, so I did not watch it.

+1

Quote from wien :

This version of that video has a shot of the signs around the bollards BTW. Not exactly inconspicuous are they?

It's a big red circle. Nothing really that would prepare you for the consequences. In fact it's the same sign that would usually cost you a 20€ ticket not a totalled car and windscreen in your face.

The goal is to stop people going into a restricted area. There are many ways to do this without hurting anyone but the bollard system is not one of them as proven by the videos.

Yes, the people were stupid enough to deserve what they got but that doesn't mean that the department of bus lane management isn't way out of line here. They're not protecting military secrets or something.

I don't buy it. If warning and visibility were sufficient there wouldn't be so many incidents. Where are the videos of people crashing into regular gates? (yes, I know there's one in this thread but that one is well, err different)

I don't care if the guys are idiots that harm the gene pool, I care that the equivalent of a metal traffic warden has the right to injure people. Imagine the situation was that a guy drives through into the restricted area and is then stopped by the police. Would the policeman be allowed to smack him in the face with a baseball bat and then move on to destroying the car?

And yeah, so the bollards stop moving after they have totalled the car. My point was that they shouldn't extract if it's not safe to do so. I Didn't say anything about retracting every time a car comes close. Nobody would accelerate into those things once they are fully extended and visible.

The requirements are way over the top. Michael Schumacher was 19 when he ran his first season in car racing. And 50 push ups in a minute would disqualify many a professional racing driver.