Ha ha... Ben, I was going to send a discrete email asking whether you still had space at your place, but yeah, can I crash at yours please?! I'll bring my own sleeping gear....
Playing this by ear at the moment... It'll take about five or six hours to drive up (including picking up becky, fag breaks, etc...). Doing that and then racing might be a bit harsh on the backside, so I'm thinking of coming up Friday and going back Saturday night (I'm a bottle of beer for the night sort of person these days). However, is it likely that anyone will hang around for Sunday, and congregate for the GP somewhere? In which case I might think about coming up early Saturday morning.
Anyway, I've been underneath my car today (which also happens to be green and powered by diesel), trying to fix an oil leak from the power steering. Barring unforeseeable catastrophe now, I'll be driving up, so anyone else needing a lift from London make yourself known... two seats left if shotglass definitely can't make it.
'Cause you're trolling.... ie. your opinion is worthlessly subjective. If you really want to indulge this interminable garbage, please search and read through the countless other threads on this subject and rehearse the arguments in your head.
That way you'll get the adrenaline rush of righteous anger without having to embarrass the rest of the racing community in public.
Yeah. Its also a pretty tedious one... When you race against other people, then you are going to encounter diversity. For example, someone racing with a 14inch monitor has a very distinct disadvantage when compared to the possibilities of a three screen set up.
This is a fact of real life competition - mechanical parts are temperamental and, sometimes, frustratingly individual. Give eveyone exactly the same thing and mechanical tolerances mean that nothing is really exactly the same. Get over it.
Anyway, if you need lightning reaction times to compete, you'd probably do just as well to point the car in the right direction in the first place, as to find a faster controller...
Actually this is probably one of lerts most pertinent posts to date - the single point perspective used to visualise the world in ALL (to my knowledge) simulations is an extraordinarily blunt and rather unimaginative way of dealing with information from the virtual world.
Time and again people here confuse photographic reality with realism. The two are simply not the same.
Which is why I would guess that the LFS sound engine isn't really a very hardcore physical model. We already know that it uses a sample as an impulse, so it would be a reasonable guess that the sound engine then applies a series of manipulating filters.
It would be really interesting to hear a properly implemented physical model though...
Not entirely true, since most sample based sound engines cross fade samples from a known rev range - this simply ignores all sorts of sonic nuances in favour of 'recognisability'.
By synthesising, you are not guessing. You are analysing a process and attempting to model it objectively, without presupposing what it should sound like.
Depends what you mean by 'truer'... Samples will always sound something like a real car, but by their very nature, this representational quality will deteriorate the further you push the sample from its originally recorded frequency rate.
If, however, you model the entire chain of processes (from stabbing the throttle to hearing the engine response) through synthesis, although it may not sound like any car, the feedback response may well be the 'truer' representation and offer nuances that are so desperately needed in the feedback starved environment of a two dimensional image devoid of g-forces.
[still laughing] well, yes, I realise that F1 drivers paying taxes is about as likely as taxes being spent on something we actually need, but its just a suggestion... As Bill Hicks said, "Just sowing some seeds...".
Ian, I've always called you out on your racism (whenever I've noticed it), however I've often agreed about a lot of other comments you've made regarding forum behaviour (the cracker witch-hunts etc), and I appreciate yours as a critical voice.
The nationalist baggage is useless to you. I'm perplexed as to why someone of your maturity still clings to it.
[laughing like a drain] Charity? in the context of Formula 1?! All of the drivers could do their little bit, by not ****ing off to tax havens. Doing a 'half day for charity' is a bit like pissing on a burning tramp...
He would probably regret the overly metaphorical base of all his musings and conclusions. He would also wonder about synthesising both the creative and the destructive implications of the phallus image, and consider that, while his original conclusions opened up a field of sexual study that had previously been inaccesible to both academia and popular media generally (though not the popular imagination), the desire for 'completion' that many humans demonstrate probably also implies that, psychologically at least, we are pansexual, bisexual, anything but gendered in our sexual responses and psychological drives...
The gauges should all be configurable. Have available what you need (or what you like...), get rid of what you don't. I'd like to get rid of the speedo in all cars for instance. The fact that some are road cars is totally irrelevant - the 'realism' argument is specious and, since the 'car' is not on a road, and the filth aren't going to convict me for failing my MOT then I'm happy to just junk it from my display.
Others might like it, need it, for immersion's sake, so let them have it... Configurability, your flexible friend.
Can't be bothered right now to do the research, but I'm betting that Virgin still has stakes in the recording industry and are working hand in glove with some some coke addled wonk from said industry.
Its also a useful time for them to be doing this, since it will detract attention from the fact Virgin has been caught lying through its teeth in its own advertising... though they'd probably say that their claimed maximum speeds were 'potential' rather than 'unobtainable'.
You speak as if 'the market' is a organism devoid of individual components... uh, sorry... that should read individual 'people'. Markets depend on various levels of communication: that's how people have always worked.
No. Not so simple. That they have set out their stall & that you have decided to pay, does not make it wrong, meaningless, or futile for others to voice their dissent. Things that are 'choices' have a nasty habit of becoming 'the norm' when markets are left to their own devices.
What will you think when it becomes difficult to find a word processor that isn't rented to you (via monthly debited fees that you have to cancel)? It may seem an unlikely prospect, but a shrugging emoticon is the least likely way of guaranteeing that the choices we have remain diverse.
But you seem to have missed the point... that would turn the devs into a licensing authority and they have (quite rightly IMHO) never shown any inclination to become as much.
No. It isn't the only way. If you require the comforting embrace of standardisation then an open, standardised, insim application would still do the job just as well.
I have zero interest in iRental: despite the loathsome rental scheme, its obviously a well developed simulation, but the career structure makes it a very rigid piece of software. Its only useful for one thing: iRacing, a form of sport conducted under the officiation of iRacing, and a branch of simulated motorsport in general.
LFS still holds my interest (barely, it must be said...) since its approach is a little more open, and allows for self-organisation. If you want a safety rating it should be programmable via insim (CTRA already count yellow flags so it can't be a huge step). But built in? I don't see the point.