Quote from XCNuse :

Fuel usage is dependant on how far down you put your foot, RPM has no effect on gas mileage, I can be at 8000 in 1st gear going 30 mph or like 1500 in 5th gear going 30 and I will be using the same amount of gas; IF I keep my foot in the same position no matter the gear or RPM I will be using the same amount of fuel.

Not really because it takes more energy to rotate the engine faster, bearing losses increase and so on.

Shake a piston back and forth really fast in your hand and you'll notice that it's easier to do slowly Energy has to come from somewhere and in this case it's the fuel.

edit: it's not quite so simple either in fact, there's optimal piston speed for each engine depending on other things.

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Last edited by vari, Fri, 28 May 2010 19:39.

Quote from G!NhO :

In 1st gear you don't have to push throttle all the way down to get 7000rpm.

You're right but assuming that he means it's being run against the rev limiter I'm gonna answer 'nearly the same' (if the limiter is done by cutting the injection) and '~exactly the same' if the spark is cut

usage per distance should be higher with the 1st gear example as the car isn't covering much distance very fast yet the engine is near or at maximum consumption.

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Maybe air intake and temperature need to be taken into account in these situations. The car at 130mph will surely be cooler than the one at 30.

valid point

Last edited by vari, Thu, 27 May 2010 18:14.

Quote from 5haz :

They're alright I suppose, but t'is one song I particularly like.

Ma And Pa for me

Quote from BlueFlame :

I need a few ideas to break down the song anyway, I just did some dodgey pitch changes so theres at least SOME progression in the song lol

/me likes

I was anticipating a beat change at 2:20 so how about that? (faster)

Quote from Alex_Ward :

How exactly do I go about converting the audio using this? I'm not to sure on what to do :P

open file, set video to 'copy', set audio codec to aac for example and save

I see you found a solution though

Avidemux should do the trick


edit: Not sure if it can downmix multichannel Dolby Digital/DTS though if that's what you need.

Last edited by vari, Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:05.

Quote from brandons48 :

Eyy guys, are EMG humbucker pick-ups any good?

For the price, they should be

James Hetfield and Mark Knopfler (among others) seem to think so and I have a couple as well so yea EMG 60 and 81 waiting for an LP style body at the moment though.

They're very much noise free, I guess it comes down to whether you like the sound. I'd say they sound unique but good pickups definitely.

Sorry about the browser suggestion Dave, I thought you were joking so I made a joke too

Dave: are you using Opera because it's perfectly fine in FF and IE

Quote from mrodgers :

This modelling stuff sounds like major overkill to me and my thoughts are more would go into a clean sound with an amp that doesn't have all that modelling stuff.

I think you've misunderstood things a bit... With amp modeling you can get a convincing enough tube sound. Perhaps you've heard mainly high gain demos because that's the hardest to achieve with a transistor amp imo. The transistor distortion is quite coarse, edgy by nature and...well basically it sounds like ass hence you might want this modeling to get that warm, round tube distortion even if you plan to add very little of it.

An amp model can just as well be a very clean sounding Fender Twin Reverb from the sixties by the way. Basically it gives you more options to chase that tone you hear in your head

You're very lucky if you've figured out your 'signature tone' by now and gonna use it for all songs you play

Last edited by vari, Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:12.

I would get this personally and hook it up to headphones/normal stereo amp/computer at first: http://www.voxamps.com/pedals/tonelable/ (~300€)

Gives you plenty of versatility sound wise and is handy for night time noodling. You could then get a basic amp later and still have plenty of sounds and handy features to play with.
It's a bit more pricey than what you had in mind though, it's just that I've never been satisfied with any small transistor amp, especially the overdriven sounds have been disappointing and I rather not use one at all. However those may be just fine depending on what you play, to each their own I guess
I used to own a marshall jcm-900 stack but these days I just use an amp modeling software (Amplitube)

Youtube demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pUVQnt2kuM

Last edited by vari, Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:54.

Busy stuff right at the beginning which is good

I also made a cowbell inspired vid of the lfs grp qualifying top 3 finishers, it was quite tight

http://vari.1g.fi/kuvat/temp/v ... -vari-DaHoe-RudiTurbo.avi

I would have them check for worn out bushings in the rear suspension and loose wheel bearings as those won't show in the static wheel alignment procedure and it very much looks like an alignment issue to me although perhaps dynamic in nature. I don't know the rear suspension type of your car but any play there can potentially cause excess toe-out/camber (would fit to your symptoms) which happens because the wheels aren't driven and hence 'dragged' along, especially during braking

Just an idea...

Last edited by vari, Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:31.

Even if the damage would be limited to that (which it won't)... System can be easily replaced, invaluable documents (maybe you don't have any, many do) that you didn't have time to backup yet, can't.

It's dangerous and irresponsible advice to tell someone that they don't need an AV because UAC takes cares of everything if you ask me.

Quote from Shadowww :

UAC DOES prevents your PC from being infected. It shows if app needs admin rights, and if it does while it shouldn't, you can just click No.

App without admin rights can do NOTHING to UAC-enabled system.

That's like saying that a normal user can't write any files to the disk which is just false. System files may be protected, others not so much. I think you should read this http://www.tweak-uac.com/am-i-at-risk-if-i-disable-uac/

'Think of it this way: everything you can do with your computer as a standard user, a virus can do too'

Last edited by vari, Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:23.

Since the UAC doesn't stop the computer from being infected I would say that it's generally a good idea to have an antivirus to help you identify those infected files since there really isn't any other way. Keeping track of the logon entries is nice and good practice in general but it doesn't keep you from having infected files in your harddrive, dormant or not.

To me UAC is and I quote 'very thin layer of extra protection' and a lot of extra hassle, not worth it for me personally. It makes sense to keep it enabled if you can live with it of course.

I use Avira Antivir and I have a little tip how to disable the ad popup.

Basically you just don't allow avnotify.exe to run and the attached pic should explain how Local Security Policy can be found in administrative tools. There are other ways but this is more or less universal between most versions of windows. Pictured is w7 ultimate 64b

Blackeye: got your application and accepted it

hotmail: got this message: The skier "hotmail" couldn't be invited. Are you registered?

Invites sent^

Invites sent^^

Quote from adagio4lv :

adagio4lv Started yesterday, got 2.07, after todays 1hour ski maraton got to 1.59. Must say i got little addict after learning the track and physics

Invitation sent, login to see it

Yeah!

I started a ski group called Live for Speed to make it easy to compare times. So far I've sent invitations to RudiTurbo and DaHoe. Let me know your account names if you want to join

Group page is here http://sf.sc10.greentube.com/m ... e+for+Speed&m=members
Login at http://www.skichallenge.ch/en/rankingoverview to see your invitation (It's also possible to apply I hear, no idea how though)

I'm gonna explain few things about the game here for reference since many seem to be asking in IRC

• It's a free game. download here: http://www.skichallenge.ch/en/
  
• It's about setting a fast time. You can select any ghost in the game and ski against it.
  
• First you qualify for the race. Qualifying is open til the race weekend and immediately after that for the next race again. You can try as many times as you like.
  
• It's the time you set during the race weekend that decides your ranking. You can try as many times as you like but the race is only open for friday, saturday and sunday. Schedule is here: http://www.skichallenge.ch/en/overview
  

It looks like this, video is from 09 season: http://vari.1g.fi/kuvat/temp/v ... iChallenge-vari-DaHoe.avi

Last edited by vari, Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:32.

Quote from Mille Sabords :

Unfortunately it does not work, because you can very easily set a preload that exceeds by far the maximum torque generated by the engine with the LSD drivetrain.

As a side note, it needs to because the engine torque is multiplied by the gearbox. At 1:1 ratio the diff is kinda moot point anyways since it's about 4th gear in most cars. Besides, the engine/g-box isn't the only source of torque...

Quote from spankmeyer :

Thanks to the endless HDR jackassery *snip*

I'm gonna break two rules here 1. It's HDR jackassery 2. it's a sunset
(and yes, I did swim)

Quote from morpha :

I think it's good, only problem for me is I'll have trouble recording LFS footage in 1080 :doh:

I experimented with this just recently. 30 fps was the maximum I could capture at using fraps but I then doubled the framerate in the final video. Even 30 fps meant that the hdd was writing 110MB/s

Here it is if anyone's interested. The flash versions aren't 60fps nor full hd but there's a link to the original 290MB file: http://vari.1g.fi/kuvat/temp/L ... sCut.1080p.60fps.XviD.avi