yay
arrived super quickly too

Quote from Jakg :

"99%"? Seriously? You think anyone would ever use a Mac if they spent 99% of their time out of OSX, or constantly rebooting to use their apps?

which is why most of my colleagues with macs always have a windows vm open to do actual work in

more importantly will they pay the fees to get new credit cards for all their customers?

no doubt i was just pointing out how tiresome reading his constant stream of drivel is

Quote from SidiousX :

Richard Towler is crying on facebook about how much iRacing's physics are crap. Way to bash the company that got you a job, tool.

meh thats just his mo... he spent years round here complaining how shite lfs is and now hes apparently doing the same thing over there
hes the idra of race sims

i think most here would rather not be on the same planet as you... let alone the same landmass

Quote from JPeace :

In fact, most people I know who try to raise money for such charities as cancer research are not people who have cancer themselves, but people who have lost loved ones to the disease - I can't believe you wrote that here, its incredibly selfish look on this. Have some heart.

i personally find it somewhat selfish or at least massively short sighted to care for a cause only after it has directly affected your life

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

which has a semi-manual mode whereby you bump the shifter forward or backward for shifts.

ill bet any amount of money that its the wrong way round

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Will an engine burn more fuel at lower RPM but much wider throttle, for say 6 seconds, or at higher RPM but less throttle for 33% less time.

I know that's not a precise question, and that there's a lot of variables involved that need to be considered, but I hope it conveys the gist of what I'm getting at.

as youve already worked out yourself thats pretty much an inanswerable question since there are way too many variables especially since lower rpm and higher rpm are essentially meaningless without any further qualification

however when thinking about fuel efficiency during acceleration youre essentially looking for consumption/Nm
generally and this applies to all engines the point at which an engine is most efficient is at its torque peak (which afaik doesnt move all that much over different throttle openings)
which is obvious once you think about it in terms of why the engine generates the highest torque at that point (an engine is basically a highly inefficient device that converts pressure (essentially undirected force) into linear motion (directional force) and then into rotation (rotational force ie torque))
so to conclude the most fuel efficient way to get to a certain speed (disregarding the distance traveled) is to stay near the torque peak... and to not ever under any circumstances buy an automatic

i thought the story goes that he got a fake birth certificate that says he was born in hawaii and switched the s in osama with a b for additional sneakiness

Quote from pik_d :

How does that happen?

one word... kunos

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Seems accurate to me, too.

Love this game.

im currently in the spheres and getting pretty annoyed by the "guess where we put a portalable slab of wall" game between chambers

and them attempting to make every single line anyone says funny is rather tiring as well

true although sims have come a long way
also im not quite sure what the obsession that guy has with motion platforms is about... particularly when it comes to flight sims since generally the main thing to learn about the movement you feel during flight (or in most situations the movement you think you feel) is to ignore all of it especially in imc

from what ive seen of the game thus far yahtzee is pretty much spot on... as usual
http://www.escapistmagazine.co ... punctuation/3153-Portal-2

Quote from MadCatX :

As far as I know you can practice only certain things like IFR navigation or approach on a certified sim and have it logged. It's definitely not like you can do the entire PPL on X-Plane.

ifr isnt even part of a ppl education... and neither is simulator training for that matter
from the top of my head you need x hours of sim training for an atpl or a type rating none of which count at all towards the 1500 hours of flight you need to obtain the full none frozen atpl no matter hwo advanced the sim is

Quote from justasimfan :

And flying simulators like x-plane and flying simulator x can provide you with a good number of your needed flying hours to get a license.

thats bs and you obviously dont know anything about how aquiring a pilots licence works
for what its worth my best friend has an atpl so unlike you i do know what im talking about

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

In this case there's at least a sense of justice done (though I know this is debatable depending on your perspective)

same can be said about eg palestinians celebrating the death of people from the country that provided the money and weapons to kill their families

uhm why exactly do you need it translated? id be very surprised if the "Performance Motorsport Sales Manager" at a company as large as puma has any problems understanding english
and on top of that it appears hes actually in france

you might want to work on that overly long sentence though

and completely and utterly impossible to find in retail channels

hm kinda torn now between this and the 2500t for a low power system
its fast enough at aes to support day to day stuff without raising cpu load too much i guess but the 2500t should do its stuff without ever waking up from sleep much

rumour has it the wedding gown shell wear tomorrow was made by londsdale

Quote from Matrixi :

it was also the most stressful car to live with as a daily driver that I've owned

heh i know exactly what youre talking about
still every time i get to drive any other car i realise how much its worth every foible every grey hair and every ruined spinal disc in the end

if you can still find a ul30vt or a used one you might have something that fits the bill quite nicely

other than that the only laptops id personally consider buying right now are the lenovo x220 and the new hp business line
all down to how much im fed up with the screen on my ul30vt... and basically any other laptop

Quote from Jakg :

Cant charge in lectures, not always convienient and it's a ballache to remember to throw it in my bag each day & unplug it from the desk & do it all again when I get in. Plus I can just pick it up & go when i'm not taking anything else (I often take my laptop to my GF's house as she goes to bed really early for example)

wouldnt it be easier to buy a second power brick thats always in your notebook bag then?

Quote from E.Reiljans :

It has hardware AES support

no it doesnt