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xaotik
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Quote from Bob Smith :Many people would rather sit on their arse doing nothing than actually contribute to a community by working. Money makes sure these jobs get done.

Which explains perfectly why there are so many people sitting on their arse doing nothing and getting paid at the same time.
xaotik
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Quote from hiroshima guy :Well, well Xaotik... I take that upon your comment that you're trying to insult or lecture me?

None of the above - just pointing out that your opening paragraph was essentially nonsensical. But that's OK I suppose as it's a certain guarantee the content of the thread will never stray off topic.
xaotik
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Quote from fwj515 :love you in german

Don't worry about that one, it's a common misconception that Germans actually express love. You'll only puzzle her.

Quote from silline15, a German who knows his stuff :But in a lot of cases even natives dont really know what is correct and when we look it up it sounds strange.

See? If you say something like that to her she'll just spend her day on wikipedia.
xaotik
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Alienating readers in three simple steps:

1. Start with a fine and valid assumption, adequately backed by statistics for the first part and based solidly on the knowledge acquired by the first years of schooling.
Quote from hiroshima guy :Hey guys, I've bet most of you have known that Earth orbits around the Sun

2. Pitch in a rather flawed generalization which isn't quite there as a statement but hope to make up on the rebound.

Quote from hiroshima guy :which in turns orbits around our great galaxy

3. Time to wrap it up with your best shot at profound.
Quote from hiroshima guy :Amazingly, even our bodies have orbitals. Just like our blood circulating around our whole body.

See that look on their faces? Congratulations.
xaotik
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And I thought that someone, after all these years, figured out I was using my username as my password.

One interesting side-effect though is that it doesn't seem to allow the "Other" country any longer under the Account Details option in lfs.net - I guess the days of national non-affiliation are over.
xaotik
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Let's have a picket for the sake of pancomboism.
xaotik
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Quote from Intrepid :Nico drives his dad's "no ... 's a proper racecar" and Hill's Championship winning car

Not enough footage but his comments are what you want to hear from a proper race driver!

Rather boring promo vid, mostly Crashuki Shuntajima yacking for a good part of it and then Nico having a good hair day and saying some rehearsed-for-the-press lines.
xaotik
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The thread title made me think a flood of videos featuring dorks playing LFS with a guitar hero controller was imminent.
xaotik
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Quote from The Very End :That's fine, but do they actually work? Have seen some really cool stuff on internet, but not sure if I belive the results shown in the pictures.

I guess the x-ray vision gimmick never gets old.
xaotik
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Quote from Minimaxman : Anyone know if the Porsche got a penalty?

They didn't.

Quote from ALMS website :“I’m definitely sorry Jan went into the wall,” Bergmeister [driver of the Porsche at the time] said. “I didn’t want that to happen. But it was a banging game. I’m glad he’s OK. It was tough racing.

http://www.americanlemans.com/index_news.php?n=14008
xaotik
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Go to "My LFSW settings" icon in LFSW and click on "delete all my PBs" at the bottom of the window.
xaotik
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Quote from Gentlefoot :I wonder if the Queen watches F1.

Probably just watches the podium ceremony whenever there's a chance she can sing "god save me". That joke never gets old for her apparently.

Also, according to some articles that came up when Hamilton got some award from her earlier this year she saw the last laps of last year's Interlagos grand prix.
xaotik
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Quote from ghost racer :Why is everyone so uptight because someone has a few at home?

Because it's fun to get people on the defensive and have them divulge further facts about their personal lives you can poke fun at.
xaotik
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I have no idea where the notion that an unstable car is better than a stable car to do controllable-ass-swinging-through-turns with comes from. I'd imagine that a drift car is set-up to be highly controllable at extreme situations which are not useful for normal driving or racing but not that it's an instantly spinning monster.

Quote from Kamrock :What Cupraman is refering to (I believe) is the unatural toe created by removing the Ackerman for drifting purposes...

I wouldn't know about un-natural, but Ackerman steering geometry will have similar effects to a setup with negative toe at high steering angles - most commonly used in slow turns. So I guess Ackerman reduces un-natural toe with further un-natural means the more one turns.

However a much better and in-depth explanation, citing various sources, is available here:

http://www.racing-car-technolo ... /Steering%20Ackerman4.doc

It also features a nice section regarding race cars and why some engineers opt for no ackerman, others for negative ackerman and others for >100% ackerman geometry. All of them for the sake of stability and speed.

So, based on the fact that race engineers seem to find pros for all these extremes and all of them seem to benefit stability, I'd say that Ackerman geometry is probably a minor factor by which to determine the overall stability or instability of a vehicle.
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xaotik
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Quote from JeffR :In the first run he doesn't exceed 90 degrees, and the hand brake is used for a much shorter period of time. Take a closer look at that video again.

Actually he does exceed 90 degrees in turn entry, use the lines of the track for reference. The telephoto lens on the camera used from that side of the track sort of flattens it. I don't doubt it's the same video no more than I doubt the ear-bleeding enthusiasm of the commentators.

Quote from CUPRAMAN :If you drive that car in street you will spin in a sec.....

Why?
xaotik
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Quote from superslider :I have never noticed this before and never saw anyone mention it so sorry if this has been discussed already. It is not really a bug anyways.

It's pretty much always been like that as far as I know. There are several things that LFS does at real low speeds or when stationary that aren't all that close to reality and have been discussed in other threads (not in test patch threads) either in the general discussion or bug reports subforums.
xaotik
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Never trust a man who makes a list about the habits of other men.
xaotik
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Quote from Fonnybone : LFS is realistic in the context that it is not trying to replicate a twist-beam/trailing arm as commonly used in basic fwd cars.

I think the problem lies with it stating that it does so in the text of all the fwd car suspension descriptions.

Quote from Fonnybone :Oh yeah, i also assumed you guys are talking fwd here, kinda harder to test on a rwd...unless you have that very very rare
rwd car with the front wheel handbrake

Why would a front wheel handbrake help in testing this situation with a RWD car?
xaotik
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Quote from Flame CZE :Everytime I go to Online game > show list of hosts, let it load and then leave the game, it crashes with following address.

Quote from AndroidXP :Cannot reproduce, but I notice that when I let the list load, click on a server and then exit LFS it takes an awfully long time to actually exit, leaving me staring at a black screen for several seconds.

I can't reproduce any of the above behaviours. Even let LFS list all 991 or so online hosts just to see. It closes just fine.
xaotik
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Quote from Dajmin :And who says that just because you're playing LFS you're alone? I could drink and play LFS and still, by the miracle of actually living with my girlfriend, not be alone

That's just transferring the alone attribute to someone else - in this case you, indeed, are not alone, she is.

Quote from marsaz :Friends left and there are a couple drinks in the fridge left.

Very odd friends or a fine example of refrigerator stocking strategy?
xaotik
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Solitary drinking is mostly the stuff sadness is made out of, sometimes the product might also include minor traces of dairy products and or nuts.
xaotik
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Quote from tristancliffe :I became uncharacteristically phylosophical

To the extent of generating the occasional errant "y". A common symptom of post incident stress amongst race drivers apparently - not to be confused with the usual "tires vs tyres" arguments between different nationalities of English-and-semi-English-speaking people.
xaotik
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Quote from Mackie The Staggie :Is it me, or does this sound like one of those 1970's American feel good comedy programs where one goes on a journey of self discovery, only to learn important life lessons along the way?

Add the factor that one is an ultrawhite person and the other is a brown person and you can also do an anti-discrimination segment during the first season.
xaotik
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Quote from tikshow :this was made in hungary

Like Goulash!
xaotik
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Quote from GianniC :Any other theories or advice ?

Try playing with the brightness setting (or any settings affecting brightness - like their "enhanced super amazing auto contrast mode") and see if the sound changes at all (or goes away).
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