Posted today

http://climateaudit.org/2009/12/10/ipcc-and-the-trick/

"This is the problem we all picked up on (everyone in the room at IPCC was in agreement that this was a problem and a potential distraction/detraction from the reasonably concensus viewpoint we’d like to show" (Mann, sept 99)

I mean...come on...oh yeah right... out of context.

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I'm more worried about the effects on the economy when we borrow another trillion dollars from china to fund thus bullshit.

If their predicitions show that investing a trillion today will bring home multiple trillions in green jobs in a not so far future we can hardly blame them for pushing this way.

The fact that they may have used dodgy/manipulated science to convince people about why it's good to do so is still VERY wrong. I'd prefer they would have concentrated efforts on waste management & drinkable water issues. You don't need tree rings to confirm those.

A pro-AGW democrat said something interesting the other day. That was on CNN

He was saying they HAD to act to get the "green jobs" in America. If they don't, China will get them he says.

Is it possible that this isn't about "saving" the planet anymore? That they don't even care about the science being right or not ?

He made it sound like this is just an opportunity to position themselves in the upcoming "green" world economy they predict will prevail quite soon no matter what the truth is about AGW.

It's been...2 weeks?

Population in general is certainly not aware of this (Not a SINGLE mention of it in the mass media(mainly TV here) here in French Canada, I only found a couple of newspaper editorials).

Our leaders and/or their close advisors certainly are though..you guys think this will affect in any way the outcome of Copenhagen ?

Quote from bunder9999 :

if you're referring to the shift light still, say that to the stock mazda mx3 my cousin used to own. it had a shift light.

Lights at constant RPM or varies depending on which gear you are? VERY interesting if it's the latter.

Bandit is right on one point...98% of the people saying "dude use the engine sound duh" would be wrong at FINDING the exact shift points. Good drivers wouldn't be THAT far off finding by sound/feel. Only a couple tenths per lap off but still off.

Of course when you have the light at first and get used to the sound/speed at which you get off of each gear it's easy to apply without the shift light anymore.

The point is, Bandit, that you won't find that feature in any RL road car.

You do realize that LFS' shift light actually calculates the actual point where the torque at the wheels becomes larger on the next gear...good luck setting that up that on an aftermarket shift light.

What an aftermarket does, lighting up at a preset RPM, doesn't give you a lot of info on the ideal shift point for each gear even if you have the torque curve.

So racecars : LFS is fine

Road cars : either no shift light or a preset value one

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Google has just censored the word 'climategate' from its autocomplete search feature. It used to be there (it was there today), now it's gone!

Lol v1rgo.... made me realize.. An Inconvenient Truth uh?

I don't need to point out the irony here do I?

I don't wanna get into this...

Just wanna say it's great to read you Sam. Choice of words is great and you seem to hit on target every single time. I think you represent the silent majority of "deniers". The moderate ones we never see/hear in the mass media.

Trying to make this work again http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=49607. It seemed to work on the earlier versions of pyinsim.

When using python 2.6 and pyinsim 1.5.5 I get multiple errors.

Looks like I was able to fix some minor syntax errors but I'm stuck on the .Packet arguments(line 222). Would be nice if you guys could have a look a it. I'm an absolute beginner at this...

Last edited by PhilS13, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 23:41.

Pretty sure F1 goes in harder cause of the high aero/mechanical grip ratio. You wanna do the most cornering effort possible on entry when you're still carrying speed since you lose so much grip as you slow down.

Of course the compromise on throttle application point depending on the length of the next straight still works for them..it's just later in general compared what "other" cars use

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So why is it then that keeping the felt torques equal creates an open diff, and sending equal torque to each wheel creates a LSD?

Just means the modelling sending equal torque is wrong. Keeping felt torques equal will create a close-to but not really how-it-should-behave open diff.

Perfect open diff. Two wheels in the air. Your finger holding one.

Constant engine speed: Your finger is feeling only the other side wheel bearing friction. The only resistance there is after the diff.

Slam the throttle : Your finger will be feeling wheel bearing friction + the exact same amount of torque that is accelerating the other wheel.

The thing is that torque is REALLY small unless you have a big ass heavy wheel. The real heavy torque is going through the diff ONLY if there is resistance on the other side of it. Without resistance it just never gets out of the engine.

WHat do you do when you want to check if your clutch is slipping ? Jack the rear and slam the throttle? No. You get in 5th gear, where there is a shitload of resistance and then apply torque. Torque that now gets out of the engine and is able slip the clutch.

The real challenge of this modelisation is determining how much torque ACTUALLY goes into the diff. Like I said its probably related the the wheels inertia. And since the wheel speed matches engine speed, probably engine inertia plays a role too.

Here's how I see it

Method A is fine until you send the "extra" torque to only one wheel. It goes to both equally.

On the slipping wheel it goes into wheel angular acceleration (a lot).

On the gripping wheel it goes into wheel angular acceleration(not a lot cause it doesn't accelerate a lot) and matching vehicule acceleration.

So why does the car does not accelerate then? It does...just not very much because that extra torque is very small no matter what.

You are on throttle, not much torque is going in any of the wheels. So where does all the torque the engine would "normally" produce under grip go ? Accelerating the engine itself(inertia). Soon hitting the rev limiter

Now on how to determine that ExtraTorque...I'm guessing it's directly related to the slipping wheel inertia.(In my mind it has to) but I'd have to think about it.

Last edited by PhilS13, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 03:37.

Nice !

Any chance we can get the GT2 data?

Welcome to the team !

-Hi Phil
-Hey Phil
-Welcome to the team Phil
-Hey thanks Phil

If the faster guy gets to keep his name it's not looking good for me . You can all call me Candy from now on. Guys on the recruiting team are doing such a great job lately aren't they?

Seriously. Welcome to the team ! Great addition to the roster. See you on track !

Happy 3rd anniversary team ! :cake:

Great video once again! Feels like that's what I'm thinking everytime I see one of your movies...mmmh

Keep pilin' up those titles. Plenty of space left in the trophy room.

Wow how many people went off in that Aston 1st lap left hander ? Goddamn wind

Good fights out there and good action

3 wins, 1 runner-up. Hell yeah ! Sorry I had to.

Sweet vid BigTime. As always

Woah nice vid once again !

Nolan's the man

Quote from henrico-20- :

+1


curb stones in the corner exit like on this photograph!

Hey I remember that..the McLaren onboard computer went crazy right after that and he had to retire even though he catched the slide.

On topic : Isn't it more the driver behavior that causes the chicanes to be unrealistic ? Take any chicane in LFS and ask yourself would I ride this thing that hard in real life even though it might be quicker. Probably not. Risk of damage/loss of control is way too high.

Hey thanks Ben & Lee !!

I hope I'll be a good addition to the already great team you've got there. I'm starting to get a pretty good feel on that XRR

Think we could get Sacha's shop to put anti-lag on that thing?

Anyway thanks CoRe for the nice welcome ! See you all on track !

Last edited by PhilS13, Tue 12 Feb 2008, 23:25.

Yeah definetly..

I was more worried by movement rather than vibration. Steel frame should be fine and i'll put a rubber mat under it if vibration goes through the frame easily.

And I'm straping this thing on the desk for sure...looks waaaaay too easy to flip for my taste.

thx I'll give it a shot and see what happens

Just bought a 20.6" LCD...i'm not at home so I haven't tried with the G25 but isn't this thing going to wobble a lot while playing ?

I got all I need to build a steel base to mount the screen on instead of the "springy" plastic one. Will it be worth it? Haven't seen any complains about that in here so maybe it's less noticeable while playing

Screen's a LG L206WTY by the way if you care

Found some info on the shock absorbers in case you didn't find it already

http://www.sachsracing.com/owx_medien/media360/36043.pdf

From page 3 it seems the RD45-2 are used in the FB02

Pages 14-15 show the settings (Nr.6 front, Nr.4 rear from the regulations). don't know how that translates into lfs setups though...especially with the monodamper up front

ARB stuff is hard to find but I checked out how it works in front-->

http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2911

Definately should create some sort of "realistic setups" FBM server where setup limitations would be applicable (based on trust for the moment i guess)

edit : additional info on monodamper
http://forums.autosport.com/sh ... php?s=&threadid=15596

Last edited by PhilS13, Sat 29 Dec 2007, 20:54.