A ride in her father's car (with worn shock absorbers) would prove to be a huge inspiration for J.K. Rowling's later career.

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The Fiat 500 is such a lightweight car that you can actually lift it up by the antenna.

Replay analysers read the data from RAF files.

Quote from LFS Main Site :

LFS Replay Analysers work by reading a RAF file created by Live for Speed and displaying the data in their own way on graphs or map displays. To create a RAF file, record a single player replay and then watch the replay. At any time during the lap BEFORE the lap you wish to analyse, press ESC and click on "Output lap data" and type in a name for the RAF file. Output will start when the car crosses the finish line. The RAF will be stored in the "lfs\data\raf" folder.

If you have a problem because of the LFS version, then first check your current version. If it's not "S2 alpha 0.5W" then simply use the auto-update feature. Start LFS, go to the multiplayer section; LFS will ask you if you want to upgrade; click "Yes" and the patch will be downloaded and installed.

If you do have 0.5W, then the replay was made with one of the newest test patches. Simplest is to wait until next weekend, when patch X is (expected) to be released. Again, auto-update will take care of things. If you don't want to wait that long, go to the "Patch Test" sub-forum here, and get the latest test patch, W21.

Bad race results can lead to a serious depression

+1

LFS now uses 2 colours, light yellow for cars ahead and light purple for cars behind. But the position in the list is also a visual cue, so I think this colouring can be dropped.

Maybe a 3-colour scheme would be even better than the red/green in the OP. For example:
red = car is gaining time (sector time more than 2% faster than you)
green = car is losing time (sector time more than 2% slower than you)
white = car is equally fast (sector time between -2% and +2% compared to yours)

(The 2% is just guesswork. You can take any sensible percentage.)

Quote from nikimere :

Q1. "A Polo" <-- there are 4 holes in that, 1 in the "A", 1 in the "P", 1 in the "o" and 1 in the other "o"

A polo-shirt also has 3 buttonholes. A Volkswagen Polo has lots of holes, especially if it's been used by Bonnie and Clyde.

There are many ways to out-smart someone else.

"Honey, didn't I tell you NOT to put it in reverse gear while I fixed the tyre?"

EDIT: damn, too late!

Very good idea IMHO.

In this way demo users can get a good impression what S2 is like (the cars, the tracks, and the online action). It's a better way to show off S2 than movies, because in a replay you can see all sides of the race. And, unlike other "improvements for demo", it does not tempt them to stay on demo forever.

I wish I had it when I was still on demo.

Quote from keiran :

Been suggested before and ruled out due to the security issues. As far as I can remember LFS would have to unlock S2 content to make this work.

Theoretically it would not make any difference. The content is already present in the demo, and AFAIK it's not encrypted. But i can imagine that this would require a rewrite of the unlock-checking code in LFS, which would mean a lot of work plus a risk of new cracks.

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Class '07 of the Car Bombing Academy is about to graduate.

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Unfortunately, the marshall at the dirt-track race had contamination phobia.

I don't think "real" weather will be very popular. Some admins will want the weather to be constant, others will prefer a randomised rotation of weather types (blizzard on FE, anyone? ). If you tie the weather to the actual conditions, there will be too much variation for the former group, and too little for the latter. And besides, no one wants his race postponed or cancelled because of the weather.

Quote from Hankstar :

I'm waiting for the first Kazakh LFS player...

Can't.

Playing online game is untrue to great National Spirit of Kazakh people, and capital offense. The accused is being left in field, at the mercy of herd of testosterone-crazed stallions. Also great spectacle, many people like.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

The adverts DO NOT WORK, there has been endless studies and they proved that people take notice for a few hours, maybe a day, then slip back into their bad habits.

But what about the long-term effect? Is it really zero??

Humans suck at estimating long-term risks. We can judge immediate, visible risks fairly well, but when it comes to longer term we're usually far too optimistic. It is hard to kick habits that are harmful in the long run (smoking, fast food) because the consequences, however gruesome, are so far away.

It's the same with bad driving habits, I guess. Perhaps the main reason that older drivers take less risks is that they have seen more "close calls". For example, they forget to look left and right before a road crossing. Or they let their eyelids sag when driving on the motorway at night. It's only afterwards that they become aware of the risk, and start to think. Many of these moments make you a better driver (if you're not too dim). But young drivers simply lack the mileage.

So, I wonder if it will work if they make a shocking movie every 3 months or so. The effects may only become visible after a couple of years of continued publicity.

PS: Funny statistic: 3 out of 4 drivers think they are an above-average driver.

Take the speech, swap "Christian" and "Muslim", and it's ready: your sermon for the brothers of Jihadists Anonymous, next Friday at the mosque.

BTW, thread title should be "God loves me so he told me to kill you".

Quote from Bob Smith :

* Move RAC to AS Club
* Move FXR to KY GP Long
* Move BF1 to Westhill
* Move FO8 to KY National
* Move FOX to FE Green
* Move FXO to AS North
* Move FZR to AS Grand Touring

Lessee...
* AS Club is almost an oval. Might be great for close racing and drafting duels, but boring for hotlapping. I left it out on purpose.
* Is the FXO at home at AS North? Never done the track, but it seems a bit too fast for the FXO (or the car is under-powered for the track).
* FOX on FE Green?? Noooo! Put a saloon car there! FE Green means skipping & jumping over the kerbs. For saloon cars that's already hardly realistic, but for single-seaters it's a travesty of racing. (Suggestion: swap tracks with FXO.)

(IMHO, YMMV, etc. )

Tifosi not enthusiastic over Massa's rendition of The Barber of Seville.

Here is a suggested new set:

XFG - FE club
XRG - SO sprint1
XRT - BL gp
RB4 - SO long rev
FXO - FE green
LX4 - FE gold
LX6 - FE black rev
MRT - AS cadet
UF1 - SO sprint 2
RAC - KY national
FZ5 - BL gp rev
FOX - WE international rev
XFR - SO town
UFR - SO classic
FO8 - WE international
FXR - AS historic
XRR - AS national
FZR - AS north
BF1 - KY gp long


What I changed:
- added BF1; put all GTRs on AS; moved FZ5 to BL gp rev
- threw out KY oval; moved LX4 to FE gold, MRT to AS cadet, UF1 to SO sprint 2
- moved UFR to SO classic

What could be improved:
- take a reverse config for some of the SO tracks
- same for AS

Quote from Victor :

Or I could, like orion said, pick all the most popular hotlap combo's, ie. the combo's with the most hotlaps uploaded.

That count is likely to be biased towards the current MHR combos...

Quote from duke_toaster :

Then maybe create an oval rank, a street circuit rank and maybe even a rallycross rank.

An oval seems a weird place to do hotlapping. A rallycross rank would be nice, though. How about this:

XFG - BL rallyx
XRG - FE rallyx gn rev
RB4 - FE rallyx
LX4 - BL rallyx rev
UF1 - FE rallyx gn
FZ5 - FE rallyx rev

The videos don't work here (Firefox, VirtualDub installed). The WDG validator throws errrors on the format for the EMBED tags ("Error: element EMBED not defined in this HTML version").

Seems like IE is more forgiving in this respect than Firefox.

Quote from bbman :

Verstappen heard one too many dutch-jokes...

Nah.

"Half-way through the turn, Verstappen suddenly understood the dutch-jokes he'd been told."

(Looking at the picture, somehow the expression "doggy style" comes to mind... )

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Quote from jayhawk :

To the angry atheists: what has God and religion done to you to hold all this hate and frustration?

Check this link. It's a collection of sick things that Americans have said in the name of their faith. And not all quoted persons are extreme right-wing evangelists: some are/were U.S. president. With nuts like these, it's understandable that an atheist living in the USA becomes angry and frustrated.

"The new version of LFSTweak allows modification of all physics variables."

or

"Hmm, how do I Shift-S in this thing?"

Quote from Renku :

Certainly not! I don't think ban first and then might answer some questions later mentality should spread wider than it already is.

Renku, the question of the OP was about the STCC license system, not about the way the STCC admins do their job. You are mis-using this thread to pick up an old fight with the admins -- and you're not even the first in this thread to do so.

This is helping no one.

Quote from Becky Rose :

There are some features of the STCC which should be part of the full game.

Another area where LFS could facilitate STCC and similar systems is the administration of licenses. A "licensed" server would send its scoring (points + promotions) to LFSW. At the output side, LFSW would provide a webpage to show the status of someone's license(s), and a query service where servers can retrieve the license status. For the end-user, this would look as if licenses were integrated into LFS.

On the server side, the situation would remain as it is with STCC: a third-party add-on manages the races on the server, and LFS only provides the "hooks". Server admins would still be free to choose: whether to work with licenses or not, the scoring method, limitations on car & track choice, penalties, etc.

"Yes, it's blown! Don't look at me! You insisted on installing that @$$#%$ espresso machine!!"

Quote from axus :

"Data is the raw material on which a computer operates. When some appropriate structure has been applied to the data then it becomes information.
... *insert some silly example*"
is more than sufficient.

Then further down, if your way of explaining is so shit that you have to explain your explanation, you really should be shot in the face.

I don't think it's an explanation of an explanation. I read it as an explanation of a definition. First they define the concepts of "data" and "information". You might think you already know what they mean, but the textbook gives then a new meaning. Then, they need to explain how these definitions differ from your common-sense understanding.

Nevertheless, the definition strikes me as silly. It would mean that the randomly scrambled memory bits that you get when you turn on the computer are "data". But a list of carefully calculated numbers on a sheet of paper is not "data" (because a computer can't operate on it), so it can't be "information" either.

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