Flavio to Bernie:- ''No! Don't make me take Alonso back, anything but that!''

Quote from DarkTimes :

This is the finest video tribute I can imagine.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BsNW8TX2vGs

My....God...

Its almost like he's playing a game, not driving a real car. The man really didn't have any concept of danger or risk behind the wheel. Its what makes him a legend in my book.

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Hi all. A quick request from me.

Remove the non-racing models, i.e. the so-called 'casual' ones.

/me puts on flame-resistant suit

DK

Thats OK then, as that would be a 'racing model', wouldn't it?

Quote from harjun :

ok thanks....for ruining my thread, but no i havent fried anything...and yes i took it apart a few times but that was to clean it out and take a good look around at things inside it...still works in excellent condition

I'm not trying to ruin your thread. But you really should be honest with people regarding what you have done to the laptop. All it takes is a little bit of digging for the truth to be revealed...

Well, thanks Harjun. I've not laughed like that in a long time!

It should read:-

''Excellent condition - well, I say excellent. I mean, I MIGHT have taken it apart, fried the CPU and GPU and messed around with the heatsinks. But who hasn't? Right?''

Last edited by Origamiboy, Tue 18 Sep 2007, 20:46.

Well, I've not been fortunate enough to meet the man, but I have great respect for what he has achieved and his attitude to life. I think this video sums up what this motorsport legend was about..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... p;mode=related&search=

RIP Colin

What you could do is look into some companies that make up powerful systems, such as alienware etc. Most of them allow you to 'build' a rig online and show you the individual component parts before you place an order. DON'T actually buy the PC from those sites, but shop around and get the items individually. You will save a lot of money compared to the list price by doing it this way.

If you are unsure of what goes with what this approach saves a lot of guesswork..

Hope this helps..

Quote from Electrik Kar :

Well, not entirely fictional. Depends what sort of a deal you're cutting with whom.

True enough. I think if it is ever going to work the devs must make the company involved aware that they will not implent anything that would compromise the integrity of the sim.

Quote from Becky Rose :

You can hear me in the STCC broadcasts too, www.simtouringcarcup.com - but I wouldn't recommend it if that's your only reason for watching. I'm like an extra camp version of Julien Clarey with added butch camp.

You're far too modest. When watching the STCC it doesn't seem like someone talking about some computer generated cars, it sounds like you are commenting on an actual race, and on many counts puts a lot of TV motorsport commentary to shame.

Your enthusiasm for sim racing somes across loud and clear in your commentary, and it rubbed off on me in spades. Heck, the STCC broadcasts are the reason I bought LFS in the first place! If anyone says I'm wasting my time racing I show them an STCC race and they usually either take it back or ask how to get involved themselves...

Getting back on topic (!), I have enjoyed the first few episodes of SRT. When a few of the niggles are ironed out (as mentioned by others in the thread) it will be must see for anyone remotely interested in sim racing. Keep up the good work..

Personally I think it would be a terrible idea. Once companies get to influence the game you will find the physics tweaked in order to make the car appear easier to drive to potential customers. Plus it would be unlikely for them to allow the car to be flipped or damaged beyond repair as well.

Its an oxymoron, but in order to get realistic handling cars in LFS they must be entirely fictional. Only this way can the devs implement things how they actually are, not how someone would like them to be.

What FFB and lock to lock settings (270deg etc) do you have in the profiler and in game?

Quote from Taavi(EST) :

I'm 18 and i have 7 miserable years spent smoking already. I'm currently trying to find a replacement for the craving. The worst thing is that it's really cheap to smoke around here, well compared to the prices in the rest of the EU. My regular 20 cig fix costs 1. 50€. The government has promised higher taxes for the past 3 or 4 years now.

As for chewing gum the whole day, i throw up after chewing on a gum for over 30 min. I just can't find anything to do during the breaks at school, or at home after school. Playing LFS will inevitably make me smoke after a while, at times i actually like smoking, gives a nice zone out from reality for a brief amount of time.

Oh, and my record for quitting is a week, a week of shakes and shivers that was.

Keep trying...

Perhaps this will help..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMP7pkmvgP4

Seeing this in the flesh means I will never touch a cigarette for as long as I live.

Yes, it does. Well, that or Tarzan!

I love it when people refer to themselves in the 3rd person..

Some more Liam Lynch WTF goodness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWyzc62QQE

Think of it as most of us in ten years..

Quote from BlueFlame :

The sentence that Axus wrote, saying it was Hamilton's quote is perfect English, anyone who cannot see that needs a new face.

So he misses out a few apostrophes and you think that changes the whole meaning of the sentence? No. Not in English it Doesn't the Apostrophe just symbolised a collection of letters that are not written down, without the Apostrophe, if you just stay SMART, you can understand that there is letters missing. The point is anyway, that Hamilton didn't WRITE this, he said it, and somebody else copied it. When you are speaking you don't think about where puncuation should be or anything like that, because Speaking and Reading/writing are 2 different Languages. English Speaking, is a different language to English Reading/writing, that is why people can't read or write, but can speak. But not Axus of course, Mr. I'm Bulgarian, no wait I'm South African telling others about English, even if you are right, you have to take a backseat, that goes for all of you. Its harder to learn other languages than it is English, You were born knowing a more cultural and harder language than English, yet its still a priority to correct other peoples English... Sickening.
Rambling's over.

Surely the fact that he was ''born knowing a more cultural and harder language than English'' makes him MORE qualified to correct peoples English?! Theres no need to bring race into the discussion either.

Besides, as a native Englishman (apparently this matters greatly:shrug I'm constantly amazed by the shocking quality of peoples written and spoken English. In fact, in a lot of cases I find that people speaking English as a second language do a much better job than your average English citizen.

Not many wheels about other than the G25 have an H-shifter and 3 pedals that I know of, unless you look at separates like Act-Labs etc.

The Thrustmaster RGT has 3 pedals, but no H-shifter and mixed reviews..

Quote from J.B. :

This sentence doesn't make any sense. What is this "not English" that axus seems to be in possession of?

Yup. Internet commandment Number 1:-

''Thou shalt not criticise language in an internet forum unless one is absolutely sure of the correctness of theirs..''

Quote from theirishnoob :

Hello Folks , I cant Hold my excitement anymore

finally stopped Smoking !

i never noticed how much i used to spend on smokes untill i noticed the 35 euro in my pocket over a 3 day period....

Though this way brought on by my recent case of the flu, i feel like a new person not having a cancer stick in my hand

thoughts anyone ??

Congrats. Keep it up. Trust me, you really don't want to end up with a smoking related cancer, wouldn't wish it on anybody. Plus you'll be able to afford a holiday in a matter of months..

Quote from Jakg :

And they said i was sad to have MSN Convo's dating back to '04...

You were....

Quote from ajp71 :

Alonso sent some e-mails, not the SMS messages. Is Alonso currently on a contract where Ron Dennis will have to pay him to leave? If so could Alonso be eyeing up an early retirement with a nice little bonus?

I think Alonso's contract is pretty watertight. If McLaren want him out then they may have to pay big bucks for the privilege.

Quote from StewartFisher :

Erm...weren't the 300 text messages between Stepney and Coughlan? I don't think Alonso was mentioned regarding text messages and phone calls.

Er... Yes.. They were.. Classic example of skim reading then making a completely retarded point from yours truely...

I'll go back under that rock of mine and think about what I've done.

(Then again Alonso did try and blackmail Dennis, which still makes him an arse in my book )

Quote from herki :

double check isn't enough for harjun

Personally I think he closes his eyes, waves his arms randomly at the keyboard, then returns half an hour later to see the results...

Quote from StewartFisher :

Exactly. Just because what Dennis told Mosely turned out to be wrong doesn't mean he was lying, just that he didn't know any different.
You think Alonso's trying to bribe a drive with Honda?? You have noticed those green and blue cars driving round at the back, haven't you? Apart from Spyker, I can't imagine a team he'd want to join less than Honda.
Its amazing IMHO that Dennis hasn't told Alonso to race in a pedal-car for the rest of the season! I don't defend everything Alonso's done, but we're not exactly in posession of all the information about what's going on in McLaren. If Alonso really was expecting to be number one driver then he shouldn't have joined McLaren. That's not the way they do things.

Not necessarily a drive, but you don't send over 300 messages to them to arrange a meal, do you? Other than Ferrari, where else could Alonso realistically go, especially considering recent events? He doesn't exactly scream 'team player', does he?

I don't for a second say Dennis is blameless. But yes, I do think he was kept in the dark, and I do think that he told the FIA what he knew at the time.

EDIT:- Sorry, merged mine and your quotes..

Quote from jamvib :

It wasnt Ron Dennis who said that Alonso has launch a threat on McLaren? The same person who has been lying all over the season around the spy affair. I think RD credibility has gone quite low last months. Even Mosley and Alonso have contradicted RD version, so I will go with Mosley and Alonso on this one.
from F1-live:

Mosley told ITV his version of events: "On the morning of the Hungarian Grand Prix, Ron rang me and he said, 'I've just had Alonso in the motorhome and he says he's got information and he's threatening to give it to the Federation.'

"So I said, 'What did you say Ron?' He said, 'I said, go on and hand it over.'

"I said, 'Ron, you said exactly the right thing.'

"And then Ron said, 'But there isn't any information.'

"So I said, 'So it's an empty threat?'

"And he replied: 'Yes, a completely empty threat.
There's no information, there's nothing to come out; I can assure you that if there was something, Max, I would have told you.'

"Now this was a week after looking me in the eye in the World Council and telling me there was absolutely nothing wrong and everybody had done exactly as they should do, so I believed him.

"I've known Ron for 40 years; it's very difficult for me, when somebody I've known for 40 years looks me in the eye and says, 'Max, I'm telling the truth with complete sincerity' - you believe him.

"It was only when I got the list from the Italian police (showing) 323 SMS phone calls going over a three-month period between Coughlan and Stepney, (that I concluded) there had to be more to this.

"You don't get 300 messages arranging a visit to Honda. This is something serious. At which point, I sat down and wrote the letter to the drivers (asking for their evidence), and the rest is history."

Personally I think Ron Dennis is innocent in all of this. I believe that at the time of speaking to Mosley he was convinced that Alonso had no information and it blew up in Dennis's face when he called his bluff.
It seems like he has acted properly throughout, but the actions of a rogue employee and a driver seemingly trying to bribe his way into a honda car next year must have taken him off guard.
Its amazing IMHO that Dennis hasn't told Alonso to race in a pedal-car for the rest of the season!