This is probably going to sound like spam, but Microsoft is currently offering Office 2007 Ultimate to students for just under £40 (retails at £600-ish).

All you need is a .ac.uk address (the offer also applies in the US and Canada, don't know what the conditions are there). To me, paying £40 sure beats the hassle of acquiring it through 'other means'.

http://theultimatesteal.co.uk/product.asp

1: Mazda MX5

2: Some kind of fast Caterham

3: That RWD Corolla from Initial D (Sprinter Trueno)

4: Ferrari 355 or 360

5: Skyline R34 GTR
6: Bugatti Veyron

7: Ariel Atom

8: Corvette C6 ZO6(think that's the name?)

9 Dodge SRT-10 Viper

10: Impreza or Evo VIII

So basically, anything RWD and quick with decent handling. Oh, and a 1960s Mustang!

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Still hoping he's alive but The Times don;t think so. First Richard Burns then this. Terrible. And his son.

Soo... is this the bit where McLaren releases their dirt on one of the other teams (wasn't it Renault)?

Yeah, but what about all the exercises on days when nothing bad happened?

Having said that, I ain't going to London on those days!

Mmm, Spam.

It's still the ISI engine underneath...

Ooh, I like that one. It's nice to see a wild-looking supercar, there hasn't been one since the Countach.

Were you playing it with RealFeel? Does RF work with this game?

The SLR was nice. This is ugly beyond belief. I hate modern cars so much.

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some of u guys are losing tons of time somewhere.

I'm losing time in the horrific understeer. Maybe my braking points are way off, I don't know.

Just went online- the quality of the other racers is pretty bad. Every corner there were people going off and whenever I caught up to a group of cars in quali, all of them seemed to spin at the next corner! I'm not THAT quick, yet I managed to set the fastest lap (2:26) within 3 laps of joining my first server!

I thought the Bilstein setup understeered worse...

DFP Settings:
FFB- 101 or 140%
Others- 0%
Center Spring ON but at 0%
Wheel turn 270 for linearity with in game wheel

In game FFB at 85 (if DFP is 101) or 35 (if DFP is 140)
Reverse FF effects

.PLR Tweaks:
Remove throttle vibe effects (set to 0.0)
Remove brake vibe effects (set to 0.0)

With these tweaks, you only feel the wheel turn without any of the vibration effects. These settings are based on RSC advice for GTR2.

The BMW game itself is a decent enough semi-sim and it's possible to have some sideways fun now the tyres feel half decent. Easily the best ISI-based one out there. However the feel of the wheel is strangely non-linear- the first 45 degrees each way feel heavy then go light after that??

Do you need to reverse the FF with a DFP?

There was once a place in my town that fitted bodykits and sold the usual 'rimzz' and a huge selection of gearknobs/badges/trinkets. Strangely enough, they went out of business.

Not meaning to be prejudiced, but isn't this just the same old ISI engine with a few new cars and shinier graphics?

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You dont know what you missed!!

Poorly-animated crap with a convoluted storyline that isn't in English?

Jakg- I guess it didn't like my ATI Xpress drivers then, which isn't a surprise as the Fujitsu drivers it has are horribly slow. *Waits for the Vista Omega Drivers*. 3DS 8 works fine though.

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curbs made my wheel wobble a bit, the wobbling twitched my desk, and the DVI cable slipped out of my monitor

That's happened to me before. Except it was a VGA cable.

If you're going to 'acquire' 3DSMax, why not get version 8 instead?

(v9 doesn't like vista btw)

What annoys me about NASA is that publically, they're all "colonise the moon this, explore Mars that" when in reality they're about to phase out the Shuttle (which is the start of the future of exploration imo) to go back to Apollo tech- seems a step backwards like scrapping the Concorde and the Sonic Cruiser were- in the faint hope of reaching the Moon within 20 years.

They really haven't been pushing exploration forward since the early 80's.

Talking of Virgin Galactic, I hope they find Steve Fossett. He's one of those people that reaffirms my faith that humans can achieve great things etc. Without people like him, Rutan and Branson, we'd be stuck relying on NASA.

Even though the Mk3 has the old engine style and the Mk7 has the Zetec/Duratec, I'd be willing to bet the Mk3 is a better car as well as quicker simply because the Mk7 is so heavy.

Why anyone would want to do that right now is beyond me (I mean because of the way it's run, not the people) but good luck...