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wsinda
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Quote from Murray Peterson :I tried loading a replay from an autocross run, and lra crashes as soon as I open the raf file. Does it not handle autocross? Or have I done something incorrect?

I haven't tested it with autocross. It could be that autocross is difficult to support, because there is no predefined course along the track by which the car's progress can be measured.

But in any case, LRA should certainly not crash. Could you mail me the RAF file, so I can debug LRA?
wsinda
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Quote from aoun :"Ford Focus in Finland flying fast in a flight forward forty feet long, flooring it full throttle to finish first."

Oh, ffs!
wsinda
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Finland's failed attempt to win the Ansari X Prize.
wsinda
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Quote from bbman :Give all countries a nuke, that makes the world a safer place because every country then can defend themself... :doh:

I think the line of reasoning is: The world will be a safer place if I get to have more weapons than you.
(See also: Non-proliferation treaty)
wsinda
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Quote from Ondrejko :in properties window are some data from car setup ... is it all what you cand find out from RAf file or is it possible to find out all data from car setup (steering, wheels, final drive - rear)?

LRA shows all setup data that is present in the RAF file. The rest of the setup data (caster, diff lock, tyre pressure) is not written to the RAF file by LFS.
wsinda
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Quote from JTbo :Getting poisonous not smelling gas is also rather easy, making bomb is perhaps even easier, nobody does not notice small brown box in classroom as there often is brown boxes in classrooms anyway, if he had rigged timer to those it would be more like 50 deaths easily.

If he just wanted to kill lots of people, then bombs and gas would be better (if planned well). He could even make a getaway, and watch himself become famous on TV and in newspapers.

But if his motive was revenge then bombs and gas would be useless, because he would not have seen his victims die before his own eyes. I'm just guessing of course, but I think he wanted pure, bloody revenge for injustice done to him. Think of it as a way to save his face. And suicide is sortof logical then, because it's the surest escape from being punished for his deeds (= humiliation, again).
wsinda
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For those who think that cases like these are new, unexplainable, a fault of modern society etc., read this Wikipedia article:
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W. W. Skeat wrote in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica:

"A Malay will suddenly and apparently without reason rush into the street armed with a kris or other weapons, and slash and cut at everybody he meets till he is killed. These frenzies were formerly regarded as due to sudden insanity. It is now, however, certain that the typical amok is the result of circumstances, such as domestic jealousy or gambling losses, which render a Malay desperate and weary of his life. It is, in fact, the Malay equivalent of suicide."

Steven Pinker also wrote about it in his book "How the Mind Works". Columbine and Virgina Tech were nothing new, and nothing mysterious, it seems.
Quote from JTbo :Oh yes, banning something is rather simpleminded solution, which really does not help anything, without access to gun he had used bomb, gas or knife of some sort.

I disagree. Nutcases will choose the weapon that does the most damage, and that is the gun. If they can't get hold of any then they could choose a knife, axe, or other means, but their untrained hands will make more victims with a gun.
wsinda
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Antidote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oi_to_the_World!
(especially "Hang Myself From the Tree").

If that's a bit too strong for your taste, you can try
Loudon Wainwright III - "Suddenly It's Christmas"
wsinda
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Quote from thisnameistaken :Some title suggestions:

Formula 1 World Joint Second Place Near Miss
Paparazzi OutRun (maybe should've signed Princess Died for this one)
Hamilton's Quest For Tyres
Neutral Gear Solid
...

Damn I really wanted five.

SpyCatcher. (First-person shoot'em up, located in the Ferrari pits at night.)

Five million may seem like a lot of cash, but it's a tough job. You try to keep a straight face while saying that the game's cars handle just like the real thing.
wsinda
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After a number of suspicious accidents, the FIA canceled the experiment with onboard cameras.

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(WARNING: STEREOTYPE AHEAD)

Even when he wears a helmet, you can quickly recognise a Japanese driver.
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wsinda
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I can sign for 1, 2 or 3 or 4
Get three weeks off in a year or more
Save up and get my very own SLR

Cause I can drive
my very own tank
Yes I can drive
my very own tank

(The Stranglers - "Tank")
wsinda
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Quote from Profi :If I may point out one disadvantage, I'd say I don't really like the all white background here, I'm too used to the F1PerfView colour scheme. If there is an option to change it, please tell me.

No, there is no option to change the colour scheme. Personally, I don't like the black background of F1PerfView, so I never thought of making it configurable.
wsinda
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Racing helmets provide perfect protection against passionate kissing.
wsinda
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Can I say I just love your videos? There is always something unexpected and funny in it. Here it is the intro -- I fail to see how it links to the crash scenes that follow, but it still is a nice surprise/joke. Also the variety in camera angles makes it more than just a series of crashes.
Quote from kurent :I actaully thought of naming the movie "sorry".

Hmm, could be an idea for the next movie: a collection of mistakes where one driver ruined someone else's race, but not his own.
wsinda
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Quote from Aquilifer :- Referring to stats telling there were so much more CO2 in millions of years ago is not sound. No way the current plant and animal species or even the current human society would survive from such a change.

Don't worry. Life on earth has seen extinctions that are far worse than Gores darkest scenario. At the end of the Permian, more than 90% of all lifeforms died. But some species survived, inherited the Earth, and flourished. (Of course, mankind might perish, but that is another matter.)
wsinda
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Quote from SamH :I don't need convincing that we live dirtily and that we need clean and efficient power resources.. but if we want these ideologies to spread, the ideologies need to be beyond reproach.

Though I personally agree with you, others might argue that the majority does need convincing. And it seems like Gores propaganda has raised public awareness about environmental issues to heights that all the left-wing / alternative / green activists in the world could never achieve. OK, so Al told some white lies (not surprising, as he's been VP of the country that brought us spin-doctoring). But do the ends justify the means?
Quote from nihil :Its the bane of the era in which we live: the dominant conflicts are always between two or more brands of oppressive conservatism. The rest of us are left with the sole option of standing back, watching them eat other, and picking through the detritus to remake our world once 'they' are gone.

As the saying goes: when two elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers most.
wsinda
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When the theft of the blueprints was discovered, the police were quick to round up the usual suspects.
wsinda
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Quote from FireFox86 :Can a mod update the thread title to 0.2.

You can do that by editing the first post. No mod needed.
wsinda
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Quote from felplacerad :So you can't DRFT american shopping carts?

You can, but only the ones that have a whopping big V8 under the hood. (Also very handy in those gigantic Yankee shopping malls. BTW, I heard that some even have banked turns. Left only, of course.)
wsinda
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Quote from Jertje :- I can't trailbrake, or do any kind of advanced braking actually, since my right-mousebutton is just on or off, which means I can't break smoothly - or at a less-than-full rate.

As someone else already suggested: use mouse buttons for gearshifts, and keyboard keys for throttle/brake. I found it much easier. The downside: it's impossible to chat while driving.
Quote : - I can't seem to get used to the fact that the wheel doesn't auto-center. It's hard for me to know how much I'm steering, and how much I need to steer back to center the wheel. I'm currently just staring at the white line on the center of the wheel, but this takes some focus and I wouldn't like to do this online.

Use cockpit view, with steering wheel and driver's arms displayed. That is a larger visual clue.
Quote : - If I'm ever going to race competitively, especially in a RWD, I'll need smooth acceleration - not going to happen with a mouse I suppose? I tried pumping, but it just upsets the car without being able to regulate the amount of throttle properly.

The fastest mouse drivers use tapping (for the throttle). If it still upsets the car, you could try to tweak the setup so that it has less power-on oversteer. Another thing to tweak is the button control rate option.

You could also lower the brake force: if it's less than the maximum, then you can start turning in while still braking (= trail braking, sort of), without locking up the wheels.

Quote : So anyway, what I'd like to know is if there are any tips to making it more bareable to play with a mouse, especially when looking at my current problems. My setups and style when I was actively racing with a wheel relied on accuracy, smoothness and sensitivity, and currently I tear around the track like a rocket-powered truck - I hate it.

Mouse driving is a different art. (I have the reverse: I bought a wheel recently, and have trouble getting the laptimes that were normal when I drove with the mouse. It takes me a lot of re-learning.) That said, consider buying a wheel soon. Because once you have gotten used to the mouse, you may have trouble switching back to the wheel again, when the time comes.
wsinda
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Quote from dropin_biking :I just know that having one eye much weaker will cause problems with depth perception, correct?
~Bryan~

I'd think your weak eye has to be practically blind before you notice. Besides, your brain also measures depth by other factors: relative size and movement of objects, and one object obscuring another.

You'll be amazed what the brain can do to correct poor vision. I once saw a film of an experiment where a guy wore special goggles that mirrored the image: it turned his world upside down. At first, the guy made all sorts of "funny" errors, But after a week he could see perfectly with his goggles.
Quote from dropin_biking :I notice late at night (right now for instance) I either have to keep the room REALLY bright, which isn't always an option, or face the burns I get after about 20 minutes and take a break.

Then do the reverse: turn the monitor's brightness down. It's the difference that is stressful to the eyes.
wsinda
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Quote from wark :What kinda paranoia inducing drugs was the witness on to actually think a scene like that was remotely suspicious?

LSD? No. THC, GHB?? No.

Wait, I know. It was DHS!!
wsinda
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Quote from kingfishersa :any idea which version?

Before patch X.
You know Bin Laden has won when ...
wsinda
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Found this on Bruce Schneier's excellent site on security issues:
Quote :Is this the stupidest terrorist reaction yet? "Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge."

The competition is fierce, but I think we have a winner.

What bothers me most about the news coverage is that there isn't even a suggestion that the authorities' response might have been out of line.

"Mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said the city plans to seek restitution from the Salchows, who are due in court Sept. 14.

"'You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know,' she said. 'It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious. We're thankful it wasn't, but there were a lot of resources that went into figuring that out.'"

Translation: We screwed up, and we want someone to pay for our mistake.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20441775/

Competition:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/...
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/...
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/...
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/...

Geez, 9/11 is six years ago and these people still haven't calmed down.
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wsinda
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His new car was so unreliable that he needed to have a mechanic ready at all times.
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