well, not only because its cheaper that to get some robots for certain tasks but for some car companies the customer pays a premium to have a hand made car. Ferrari has a lot of people involved in the process of manufacturing. The honda NSX was hand made throughout its lifetime.
People calling themselves something doesn't make them so. Do they live by the Jedi rules?
How many Christians are Christ like? How many choose love over violence? How many people who follow an established religion actually follow it to the letter?
Finally someone sees that Maya isn't so simple! I kind of hate maya's UI. To me it feels like someone made the UI haphazardly while working on a project and just put things anywhere that was convenient at the moment! Great for that original user bad for everyone else. Atleast in 3dsmax the command panel is essentially context sensitive and easy to visually understand at a glance. In maya they just had to make a picture icon for EVERYTHING. And some of them are hard to understand so you gotta mouse over for the tool tip. Waste of time. I seriously don't get why people still put up with it. 3dsmax is pretty straight forward. Blender on the other hand is not straight forward but it is thought out, unlike maya. The tools are designed for usage not just for the ability to figure out where everything is. Car analogy: 3dsmax is like a Honda NSX where blender is an old Toyota MR2. They both offer a similar drive layout but the NSX has nice things like traction control, leather seats, a sexy look and a lot more forgiving to the driver. THe MR2 doesn't offer the driver anything. You just gotta be good. But when you are good you can go just as fast as the nsx in a corner. OMG I have gone too far for a/. post. Oh yea and maya is probably a smart car or something gay or an ugly prius.
Well from my experiences in China I would say its very different but not in the business sense. Business-wise you are correct. But at the personal level the people I met really saw themselves as one of many in the Great China. That they were part of the entity of "China". Where as here in the states any one person wouldn't really give a crap about anything but themselves and their own lives. Japan isn't so much like this in spirit but similar, maybe just not as intense as in China. China has always had a history of being this greater nation, even when it was many different groups in the warring states periods.
I understand the problem of Orientalist views. I don't want my words to be confused as such. I know I am generalizing a bit but it's what I saw over there. Some shit is just hard to believe because its very different than life here in America. Everyone here grows up being taught to be their own person. Over there growing up is not the same so of course the personal world view will be drastically different.
I think its interesting to look at the differences that Americans view their lives versus some asian countries like China or Japan. Individualism is pounded into our heads in the states where as in China you see yourself as part of the machine. China is viewed as something greater than one man. I think Americans see it the opposite to an extent which is what makes it difficult to understand some of the attitudes in China and Japan because we just don't think that way so we don't think that our misunderstandings are because we don't realize that different cultures can think about things in a completely different way.
They don't have to cost that much more though. The last batch I did was 12 lbs of various light grains, which ran something like $20. The hops was like 5 bux (used a low alpha acid combo of Mt hood and hallertau), the yeast was a few more bux and it has come out to be a very light tasting belgian type. It hit around 8.2% abv by the time we finished secondary. So under $30 for what my friends decided as a "chimay you can keep drinking".
Yea its a lot of setup to get an FF drifter. Though it also involves being crazy and a lot of work. You gotta modulate the handbrake,regular brakes, gas and weight shifting. Imagine it this way. In FR when you are sliding the rear wants to kick out (which is what you want) when you force the break and you have control via the gas which is very easy. Also this force in the rear also pushes the car in the forward vector facilitating drift control. In FF you are dealing with using gas to pull the front forwards and trying to keep the rear sliding using handbrake and weight shifting. The front end will fall back as you let off gas and the drift will end but you can spin out. Applying more gas will pull the front forward but if you pull forward much more than the rear is able to slide out then you end the drift or even worse initiate an uncontrolled snap back. In this respect it's very difficult to FF drift at low speed. Which is why some claim that FF cars can only do "real" drifting which is basically having oversteer due to exceeding your traction rather than forcing it to break which is difficult to do at low speed just by forcing weight to the outside. With FR cars you can just power over which is what you mostly see going on at modern drift competitions. That's why those pro drifter cars all have way too much horsepowers.
Yea, a lot of guys are overconfident. I don't think I am overconfident though. I win races, drive smoothly and don't damage machines. If you sat in when I was on a track or even canyon roads you wouldn't know how fast we were going. And as for FF cars (front engine-front drive) you should see these videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFUegaEibwE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IQ5oVP3dY
The second one is ridiculous. I actually have that video on VHS Option 2 from years ago.
Yea, you seem to be fortunate as a driver to have people help you learn early on. Also in the UK you have more opportunity for learning race driving than here in the states! Home of NASCAR! hehe. Also track days are expensive out here. And the stuff you cant learn in a video game is how it feels to balance your grip between weight shifting, braking force and acceleration force. You basically have a certain amount of grip and you cant use more than all of it at the same time. So braking will take some % and then if u steer at the same time thats more % being used and then the weight shift from braking to accel uses that % so if exceed that max grip you lose control. And even if you see people doing all that drifting, they arent losing control because they really arent losing all the percent of grip. In a drift you still control the car with the force of torque on the spinning rear wheels and countersteer, weight balance etc.
I do tend to rush more if I have passengers too, because I feel a responsibility to get people to their destination quickly, when I'm driving around town by myself I tend to chill out and just enjoy my music.
I think that should be at least the other way around. Your passenger's lives should be the first responsibility and then getting them to the destination. Also, if everyone just slowed down a bit and applied brakes much earlier than they do normally that many common accidents would be avoided. I am living in LA mind you so you have to expect that everyone is an ass driver, most of the time they are. People in socal have issues with other people just being in front of them. It's stupid. Just so you know I do race cars and from that I learned much responsibility with cars. As you said you took that driving course, I believe such types of driving education (performance driving) should be required. People are running around in these hunks of metal not even thinking about the consequences of the deadly force they are behind. I think people don't wanna think about such things which is dumb. People are dumb so I suggest learning race driving or how to control your car in any situation (even learning drift driving if you can). Then when stupid happens you can get out of there. It's called "active safety" where as crumple zones and air bags are "passive safety".
I would actually say that "real men", if one could actually make such a claim, have a more discerning and refined taste for alcohol. For example one could say "Real me drink whiskey." I would respond with "Nothing less than a 30 year Glenfiddich." As for beer, I make my own home-brew and get the exact tastes I desire in a beer.
Plus, how much Smirnoff ice do you have to down to get wasted? I'd barf from the consumption of sugar alone!
I guess that works then. I'm dumb. It's still fucked up living in a place where they can come after me even mistakenly and it will still cost me greatly.
but always having a collection agency coming after your assets and really not being allowed to add to society is kinda fucked up when you didn't even kill anyone or commit an actual serious crime that brought physical harm to anyone. And, I am no spoiled protected child, I just can't think of any good options. I don't wanna just go live in the mountains or something crazy like that.
All these lawsuits for copyright bs that make you have to owe more money than you could make in your lifetime is just scary if you think about it. There are idiots in this country that are ok with letting a giant corp or cartel extort that much money from us peoples. Its probably worse than life in prison! Economic slavery. The answer is a difficult one. When the people's individual voices don't seem to matter I can only think of one big enough response. Suicide. If I had to owe the *IAA's some crazy millions I would seriously contemplate suicide. Probably publicly in front of their office/HQ/Evil Lair to get whatever message my feeble existence could get out. Hmm, am I a little depressed? Just reading about this extortion marching its way to my doorstep makes me depressed.
of course the suits won't react until there is enuff customers getting off their asses to complain. This way they dont have to come to the customer for information on whether or not a feature is good or bad. The problem with this strategy is that things are fixed very slowly (if there is even an intent to fix the problem). Anyway, complain to the companies thru their channels everyone! Either that or just dont give a crap and let the company get worse.
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not only more coherent that Uwe Boll's movies but it's different enuff from normal tv writing that I would watch it maybe.
well, not only because its cheaper that to get some robots for certain tasks but for some car companies the customer pays a premium to have a hand made car. Ferrari has a lot of people involved in the process of manufacturing. The honda NSX was hand made throughout its lifetime.
well minus the desire to get fame or recognition, knowing who made something is useful to see about maybe getting that person to make some more.
read about the "Reign of Terror" in France. That is where the term terrorism came from.
where I come from "60-deep" is probably something pretty gross and wild.
did apple release the unofficial sequel to Mass Effect?
Finally someone sees that Maya isn't so simple! I kind of hate maya's UI. To me it feels like someone made the UI haphazardly while working on a project and just put things anywhere that was convenient at the moment! Great for that original user bad for everyone else. Atleast in 3dsmax the command panel is essentially context sensitive and easy to visually understand at a glance. In maya they just had to make a picture icon for EVERYTHING. And some of them are hard to understand so you gotta mouse over for the tool tip. Waste of time. I seriously don't get why people still put up with it. 3dsmax is pretty straight forward. Blender on the other hand is not straight forward but it is thought out, unlike maya. The tools are designed for usage not just for the ability to figure out where everything is. Car analogy: 3dsmax is like a Honda NSX where blender is an old Toyota MR2. They both offer a similar drive layout but the NSX has nice things like traction control, leather seats, a sexy look and a lot more forgiving to the driver. THe MR2 doesn't offer the driver anything. You just gotta be good. But when you are good you can go just as fast as the nsx in a corner. OMG I have gone too far for a /. post. Oh yea and maya is probably a smart car or something gay or an ugly prius.
Well from my experiences in China I would say its very different but not in the business sense. Business-wise you are correct. But at the personal level the people I met really saw themselves as one of many in the Great China. That they were part of the entity of "China". Where as here in the states any one person wouldn't really give a crap about anything but themselves and their own lives. Japan isn't so much like this in spirit but similar, maybe just not as intense as in China. China has always had a history of being this greater nation, even when it was many different groups in the warring states periods. I understand the problem of Orientalist views. I don't want my words to be confused as such. I know I am generalizing a bit but it's what I saw over there. Some shit is just hard to believe because its very different than life here in America. Everyone here grows up being taught to be their own person. Over there growing up is not the same so of course the personal world view will be drastically different.
I think its interesting to look at the differences that Americans view their lives versus some asian countries like China or Japan. Individualism is pounded into our heads in the states where as in China you see yourself as part of the machine. China is viewed as something greater than one man. I think Americans see it the opposite to an extent which is what makes it difficult to understand some of the attitudes in China and Japan because we just don't think that way so we don't think that our misunderstandings are because we don't realize that different cultures can think about things in a completely different way.
somebody had to buy the first item to proliferate it on the nets, right? Where do the copies on the web come from?
They don't have to cost that much more though. The last batch I did was 12 lbs of various light grains, which ran something like $20. The hops was like 5 bux (used a low alpha acid combo of Mt hood and hallertau), the yeast was a few more bux and it has come out to be a very light tasting belgian type. It hit around 8.2% abv by the time we finished secondary. So under $30 for what my friends decided as a "chimay you can keep drinking".
Yea its a lot of setup to get an FF drifter. Though it also involves being crazy and a lot of work. You gotta modulate the handbrake,regular brakes, gas and weight shifting. Imagine it this way. In FR when you are sliding the rear wants to kick out (which is what you want) when you force the break and you have control via the gas which is very easy. Also this force in the rear also pushes the car in the forward vector facilitating drift control. In FF you are dealing with using gas to pull the front forwards and trying to keep the rear sliding using handbrake and weight shifting. The front end will fall back as you let off gas and the drift will end but you can spin out. Applying more gas will pull the front forward but if you pull forward much more than the rear is able to slide out then you end the drift or even worse initiate an uncontrolled snap back. In this respect it's very difficult to FF drift at low speed. Which is why some claim that FF cars can only do "real" drifting which is basically having oversteer due to exceeding your traction rather than forcing it to break which is difficult to do at low speed just by forcing weight to the outside. With FR cars you can just power over which is what you mostly see going on at modern drift competitions. That's why those pro drifter cars all have way too much horsepowers.
Yea, a lot of guys are overconfident. I don't think I am overconfident though. I win races, drive smoothly and don't damage machines. If you sat in when I was on a track or even canyon roads you wouldn't know how fast we were going. And as for FF cars (front engine-front drive) you should see these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFUegaEibwE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IQ5oVP3dY
The second one is ridiculous. I actually have that video on VHS Option 2 from years ago.
Yea, you seem to be fortunate as a driver to have people help you learn early on. Also in the UK you have more opportunity for learning race driving than here in the states! Home of NASCAR! hehe. Also track days are expensive out here. And the stuff you cant learn in a video game is how it feels to balance your grip between weight shifting, braking force and acceleration force. You basically have a certain amount of grip and you cant use more than all of it at the same time. So braking will take some % and then if u steer at the same time thats more % being used and then the weight shift from braking to accel uses that % so if exceed that max grip you lose control. And even if you see people doing all that drifting, they arent losing control because they really arent losing all the percent of grip. In a drift you still control the car with the force of torque on the spinning rear wheels and countersteer, weight balance etc.
vinegar also helps ward off mosquitoes. And, I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you are a man. Even if it's /.
I would actually say that "real men", if one could actually make such a claim, have a more discerning and refined taste for alcohol. For example one could say "Real me drink whiskey." I would respond with "Nothing less than a 30 year Glenfiddich." As for beer, I make my own home-brew and get the exact tastes I desire in a beer. Plus, how much Smirnoff ice do you have to down to get wasted? I'd barf from the consumption of sugar alone!
I guess that works then. I'm dumb. It's still fucked up living in a place where they can come after me even mistakenly and it will still cost me greatly.
but always having a collection agency coming after your assets and really not being allowed to add to society is kinda fucked up when you didn't even kill anyone or commit an actual serious crime that brought physical harm to anyone. And, I am no spoiled protected child, I just can't think of any good options. I don't wanna just go live in the mountains or something crazy like that.
Isn't the US gonna just get their $3million back by selling weapons to them?
All these lawsuits for copyright bs that make you have to owe more money than you could make in your lifetime is just scary if you think about it. There are idiots in this country that are ok with letting a giant corp or cartel extort that much money from us peoples. Its probably worse than life in prison! Economic slavery. The answer is a difficult one. When the people's individual voices don't seem to matter I can only think of one big enough response. Suicide. If I had to owe the *IAA's some crazy millions I would seriously contemplate suicide. Probably publicly in front of their office/HQ/Evil Lair to get whatever message my feeble existence could get out. Hmm, am I a little depressed? Just reading about this extortion marching its way to my doorstep makes me depressed.
of course the suits won't react until there is enuff customers getting off their asses to complain. This way they dont have to come to the customer for information on whether or not a feature is good or bad. The problem with this strategy is that things are fixed very slowly (if there is even an intent to fix the problem). Anyway, complain to the companies thru their channels everyone! Either that or just dont give a crap and let the company get worse.