This was the rage in the 80s. Basically you had a target. You went around with a rubber sticky dart gun hunting your mark. If you "killed" him, you then went after his target. And so on, until one was left.
Then one day the inevitable happened. A guy was pinting his very real dart gun at someone at night, and a security officer blew him away.
Judge Dredd and his partner Judge Hershey patrol the streets and shoot it out with bad guys, and Dredd arrests Fergie for being in the apartment of some outlaws Dredd has just killed.
"But I had only been there five minutes!" Fergie cries.
"You could have jumped out of the window" intones Dredd.
"Forty floors up? That would be suicide!" responds an incredulous Fergie.
Typically games are just a diversion for me, I play them and that's it. I do remember playing Tomb Raider at 3 in the morning while it was raining, and this was the first time I encountered the T-Rex. I had no knowledge of this and when it came out, I got a nice adrenaline shock.
But as much as I enjoyed Tomb Raider, it was just pure fun, no life changing deals here. Then I played Thief. Now to this day, I've only completed 3 levels, and it's not even my favorite game. However, how I walk around the world HAS definitely changed. I find myself concious of how loudly I'm walking, peeking around corners, etc. Still haven't gone to carrying around a blackjack, but sometimes I wish I did.
...of the file as my memento. To make the association more secure, each page will have it's own memento, consisting of the page printed out. That way when I need to retrieve the file on the computer to print out, all I have to do is scan each page, open the file, and print.
It's basically an apartment complex, except each dwelling is owned by an individual (instead of a company owning the whole shebang), who either lives there, or contracts out to the condo management company to find a tenant. Each owner pays fees to the management company to maintain the outside.
You should get the GTR mod for F1-2002, it improves the base game by 10X. Also, EA's F1 licence expires this year and they are not renewing it. They might not even release F1-2003 (even though they are supposed to). After this year, EA is out of the F1 game, the licensing costs are just too much.
Ah yes. Many have tried to top this XXX classic, from the Dark Brothers (Purveyors of Fine Filth) in the 80s to the recent Vivid-cum-Jenna Jameson juggernaut, but none have come even remotely close to reaching the utter depravity of this film. Some may mention Deep Throat as the seminal film that set the form for top notch porn, but DDD is the perfection of the form. Even the total body of work by 70s temptress Seka is mere dilletantry compared to this towering tour de force.
I'm guessing you will probably focus on Grand Prix Legends. If so there are some things that will get you up to speed quickly.
Online play on GPL is done with a 3rd party app named VROC.
GPL was made during Glide's heyday, so your best visual quality will be obtained with a fast CPU and yes, a Voodoo 5500 AGP card (I'm not joking). Of course, if you want to get one of the rare Voodoo 600s made, that will work too. Running GPL in Glide looks better and is less problematic than D3D or OpenGL (to which support was added unofficially). If you don't get a Voodoo, then D3D will be the better API, as far as this game goes. Make sure you get patches.
If you go with the Papyrus NASCAR games, N4 and N2002 will be best played on an nVidia in OpenGL. N2003's best visual quality is on D3D (nVidia or ATI), while N3 will look best on any Voodoo in Glide. N3 still has an active community, while N2003 has left N2002 and N4 behind.
Sports Car GT has both Glide and D3D APIs, so take your pick.
Hope this is enough info to get you situated in the game you like.
Although you aren't interested in the main NASCAR style racing, there are many leagues using this game platform that are devoted to only competing on road courses (using NASCAR Racing 2003, N2002, N4 and N3). They use tracks converted and created from many sources. These games have the best multiplayer component of any racing sim.
The other main road course games are Grand Prix Legends (Papyrus), F1 2002 (EA) and Sports Car GT (ISI). These games are not as rich as Papyrus' multiplayer componentry, but they are playable.
My guess is GPL will appeal to you the most, as this is the road racing community with the most members. There are tons of tracks and graphical updates available for this game. Go to this site for starters and ask around, they will point you in the right direction: http://gplea.racesimcentral.com/
For the Papyrus NASCAR games, check out the forums at sierra.com (also for GPL) and http://www.sportplanet.com/team-lightspeed/.
For SCGT, try these forums: http://www.speedsims.com/ and http://www.sportplanet.com/hg/forums/
There has been a GT mod made for F1-2003 that surpasses the base game. Info on that is available here: http://forum.m4driving.sm/forumdisplay.php?s=5b48e 44f983439a422b44e5c2dd51b38&forumid=251
One game to keep an eye out is Racing Legends, by the West Brothers (if they can ever finish it). It *promises* to be a top notch and moddable sim, but there has been a recent history with the West's about (not) delivering finished product. Nonetheless, go to this URL for the main info: http://www.west-racing.com/
I had always wondered what had happpened to this one hit wonder from the early Eighties. Their seminal progressive rock FM hit from 1981, "On The Loose", was a challenging piece for any cover band. It's blend of complex synth textures and restrained power guitar made this song stand out among the post 70s disco backlash.
It's good to know that they have moved on to solving man's health needs with science, as well as founding a school of higher learning and research.
I'm for gun rights for lawful owners. But I can forsee the Liberal elements of this nation intent on making it easier for criminals to attack lawful gun users. Gun restrictions won't be enough for them, they'll attack the consumables.
When reloading, does one create/mold/pour their own slug out of lead stock, or does one buy them preformed?
In a nutshell, isn't that just adding the missing components to a blank casing? Kinda like the firearm equivalent of buying a rebuilt alternator? What if manufacture of the slug (or whatever the term for the lead is) gets banned? Or even sale of reloading components is banned? Plus the supply all those casings are eventually going to dry up.
What's the best way of eventually eliminating usage of existing weapons? Prohibit manufacture of ammo for it.
I can forsee all current types of ammo being banned one day, and only a new non compatible design being allowed. The gun that can use this ammo will be highly restricted. Eventually the existing ammo supply for "pre-legal" weapons will run out, rendering them useless to all except those willing to pay high prices for the remaining ammo stocks. A black market ammo industry will arise though.
...but being ultra nitpicky. The draft effect can definitely be measured at those speeds, but for meaningful use during NASCAR races you only can truly utilize it at the speeds I mentioned. When truckers utilize the effect, they have the luxury of long stretches of road. NASCAR drivers have at the most, 1 mile to make use of it (at tracks other than Dega/Daytona) before having to brake. Daytona and Talladega repesent the extreme use of this effect. At the other tracks, there is more emphasis of driver skill and equipment construction. At short tracks like Bristol and Martinsville (1/2 mile total), the draft effect (however tiny and measurable it is) is never something a driver even subconciously thinks to try to utilize.
This study only concerns drafting tracks.
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A quick primer in ultra basic physics: Assuming all equipment is equal, two or more cars running nose to tail (starting at about 130 MPH+) can move faster than a single car with the same amount of horsepower, due to the drafting effect.
At two tracks on the NASCAR schedule (Daytona and Talladega), restrictor plates are used (I won't get into the religious war as to why the plates are used). The effect is that due to the cars being "underpowered" as (compared to the circuit's grip and traction potential), the cars do not maximize the track, they are able to negotiate the entire course without having to lift or brake. Due to the artificially enhanced draft effect, no car is able to pull away from the pack. Hence there is a continual chess game using this effect to work your way to the front, for gaining points for leading, and to be at the right spot for the last lap. Part of the chess game is teaming up to create temporary alliances to maximize the draft.
While the draft effect is a crucial part at other high speed tracks on the circuit (Michigan, Charlotte, etc), the effect is the most important aspect at Talladega and Daytona.
They mention placing the EFI/BIOS on a reserved area of the the hard drive. Everyone knows magnetic media is extremely vulnerable, hence a BIOS on a non erasable EPROM (or at least backup).
It's like buying a Ferrari and let it sit in a garage for half a year before I get a driver's license
Maybe not with an actual Ferrari, but 13 years ago, I collected 300 music CDs before I got around to actually buying a CD player. I was gonna do it when I had 50 of them, but I kept procrastinating. I couldn't bear to part with my much listened to 8-track collection and player.
But regarding the ATI, well Papyrus has put out their last game in the series, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season. The developers claim (to enhance the staying power of the title) they threw in more GPU intensive graphics options than usual, that there isn't a system available at the moment that can run the game with every option turned on to the max. I believe it, I can't turn on 2/3 of the options with my Athlon 1 gHz/Ti200 128MB combo.
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Maybe the Intel Optium series is being taped out right now? Sadly, Doom 3 will still run at 3fps on them.
After all, SG-1 discovered it a few years back. It's close to McMurdo.
This was the rage in the 80s. Basically you had a target. You went around with a rubber sticky dart gun hunting your mark. If you "killed" him, you then went after his target. And so on, until one was left.
Then one day the inevitable happened. A guy was pinting his very real dart gun at someone at night, and a security officer blew him away.
You're gonna put the idea in these guys heads that now $.99 a song is highway robbery. I have a yacht payment due, man!
That's the only one I know of.
Judge Dredd and his partner Judge Hershey patrol the streets and shoot it out with bad guys, and Dredd arrests Fergie for being in the apartment of some outlaws Dredd has just killed.
"But I had only been there five minutes!" Fergie cries.
"You could have jumped out of the window" intones Dredd.
"Forty floors up? That would be suicide!" responds an incredulous Fergie.
"But it's legal," says Dredd.
..is due to this guy's shenanigans.
I'm quite surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, or submitted it as a story. He's being indicted for forgery and identity theft.
Typically games are just a diversion for me, I play them and that's it. I do remember playing Tomb Raider at 3 in the morning while it was raining, and this was the first time I encountered the T-Rex. I had no knowledge of this and when it came out, I got a nice adrenaline shock.
But as much as I enjoyed Tomb Raider, it was just pure fun, no life changing deals here. Then I played Thief. Now to this day, I've only completed 3 levels, and it's not even my favorite game. However, how I walk around the world HAS definitely changed. I find myself concious of how loudly I'm walking, peeking around corners, etc. Still haven't gone to carrying around a blackjack, but sometimes I wish I did.
...of the file as my memento. To make the association more secure, each page will have it's own memento, consisting of the page printed out. That way when I need to retrieve the file on the computer to print out, all I have to do is scan each page, open the file, and print.
This technology has promise.
It's basically an apartment complex, except each dwelling is owned by an individual (instead of a company owning the whole shebang), who either lives there, or contracts out to the condo management company to find a tenant. Each owner pays fees to the management company to maintain the outside.
You should get the GTR mod for F1-2002, it improves the base game by 10X. Also, EA's F1 licence expires this year and they are not renewing it. They might not even release F1-2003 (even though they are supposed to). After this year, EA is out of the F1 game, the licensing costs are just too much.
Ah yes. Many have tried to top this XXX classic, from the Dark Brothers (Purveyors of Fine Filth) in the 80s to the recent Vivid-cum-Jenna Jameson juggernaut, but none have come even remotely close to reaching the utter depravity of this film. Some may mention Deep Throat as the seminal film that set the form for top notch porn, but DDD is the perfection of the form. Even the total body of work by 70s temptress Seka is mere dilletantry compared to this towering tour de force.
I'm guessing you will probably focus on Grand Prix Legends. If so there are some things that will get you up to speed quickly.
Online play on GPL is done with a 3rd party app named VROC.
GPL was made during Glide's heyday, so your best visual quality will be obtained with a fast CPU and yes, a Voodoo 5500 AGP card (I'm not joking). Of course, if you want to get one of the rare Voodoo 600s made, that will work too. Running GPL in Glide looks better and is less problematic than D3D or OpenGL (to which support was added unofficially). If you don't get a Voodoo, then D3D will be the better API, as far as this game goes. Make sure you get patches.
If you go with the Papyrus NASCAR games, N4 and N2002 will be best played on an nVidia in OpenGL. N2003's best visual quality is on D3D (nVidia or ATI), while N3 will look best on any Voodoo in Glide. N3 still has an active community, while N2003 has left N2002 and N4 behind.
Sports Car GT has both Glide and D3D APIs, so take your pick.
Hope this is enough info to get you situated in the game you like.
Although you aren't interested in the main NASCAR style racing, there are many leagues using this game platform that are devoted to only competing on road courses (using NASCAR Racing 2003, N2002, N4 and N3). They use tracks converted and created from many sources. These games have the best multiplayer component of any racing sim.
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The other main road course games are Grand Prix Legends (Papyrus), F1 2002 (EA) and Sports Car GT (ISI). These games are not as rich as Papyrus' multiplayer componentry, but they are playable.
My guess is GPL will appeal to you the most, as this is the road racing community with the most members. There are tons of tracks and graphical updates available for this game. Go to this site for starters and ask around, they will point you in the right direction: http://gplea.racesimcentral.com/
For the Papyrus NASCAR games, check out the forums at sierra.com (also for GPL) and http://www.sportplanet.com/team-lightspeed/.
For SCGT, try these forums: http://www.speedsims.com/ and http://www.sportplanet.com/hg/forums/
There has been a GT mod made for F1-2003 that surpasses the base game. Info on that is available here: http://forum.m4driving.sm/forumdisplay.php?s=5b48
One game to keep an eye out is Racing Legends, by the West Brothers (if they can ever finish it). It *promises* to be a top notch and moddable sim, but there has been a recent history with the West's about (not) delivering finished product. Nonetheless, go to this URL for the main info: http://www.west-racing.com/
I had always wondered what had happpened to this one hit wonder from the early Eighties. Their seminal progressive rock FM hit from 1981, "On The Loose", was a challenging piece for any cover band. It's blend of complex synth textures and restrained power guitar made this song stand out among the post 70s disco backlash.
It's good to know that they have moved on to solving man's health needs with science, as well as founding a school of higher learning and research.
Give it a try, you'll see.
I'm for gun rights for lawful owners. But I can forsee the Liberal elements of this nation intent on making it easier for criminals to attack lawful gun users. Gun restrictions won't be enough for them, they'll attack the consumables.
When reloading, does one create/mold/pour their own slug out of lead stock, or does one buy them preformed?
In a nutshell, isn't that just adding the missing components to a blank casing? Kinda like the firearm equivalent of buying a rebuilt alternator? What if manufacture of the slug (or whatever the term for the lead is) gets banned? Or even sale of reloading components is banned? Plus the supply all those casings are eventually going to dry up.
What's the best way of eventually eliminating usage of existing weapons? Prohibit manufacture of ammo for it.
I can forsee all current types of ammo being banned one day, and only a new non compatible design being allowed. The gun that can use this ammo will be highly restricted. Eventually the existing ammo supply for "pre-legal" weapons will run out, rendering them useless to all except those willing to pay high prices for the remaining ammo stocks. A black market ammo industry will arise though.
...but being ultra nitpicky. The draft effect can definitely be measured at those speeds, but for meaningful use during NASCAR races you only can truly utilize it at the speeds I mentioned. When truckers utilize the effect, they have the luxury of long stretches of road. NASCAR drivers have at the most, 1 mile to make use of it (at tracks other than Dega/Daytona) before having to brake. Daytona and Talladega repesent the extreme use of this effect. At the other tracks, there is more emphasis of driver skill and equipment construction. At short tracks like Bristol and Martinsville (1/2 mile total), the draft effect (however tiny and measurable it is) is never something a driver even subconciously thinks to try to utilize.
A quick primer in ultra basic physics: Assuming all equipment is equal, two or more cars running nose to tail (starting at about 130 MPH+) can move faster than a single car with the same amount of horsepower, due to the drafting effect.
At two tracks on the NASCAR schedule (Daytona and Talladega), restrictor plates are used (I won't get into the religious war as to why the plates are used). The effect is that due to the cars being "underpowered" as (compared to the circuit's grip and traction potential), the cars do not maximize the track, they are able to negotiate the entire course without having to lift or brake. Due to the artificially enhanced draft effect, no car is able to pull away from the pack. Hence there is a continual chess game using this effect to work your way to the front, for gaining points for leading, and to be at the right spot for the last lap. Part of the chess game is teaming up to create temporary alliances to maximize the draft.
While the draft effect is a crucial part at other high speed tracks on the circuit (Michigan, Charlotte, etc), the effect is the most important aspect at Talladega and Daytona.
They mention placing the EFI/BIOS on a reserved area of the the hard drive. Everyone knows magnetic media is extremely vulnerable, hence a BIOS on a non erasable EPROM (or at least backup).
It's like buying a Ferrari and let it sit in a garage for half a year before I get a driver's license
Maybe not with an actual Ferrari, but 13 years ago, I collected 300 music CDs before I got around to actually buying a CD player. I was gonna do it when I had 50 of them, but I kept procrastinating. I couldn't bear to part with my much listened to 8-track collection and player.
But regarding the ATI, well Papyrus has put out their last game in the series, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season. The developers claim (to enhance the staying power of the title) they threw in more GPU intensive graphics options than usual, that there isn't a system available at the moment that can run the game with every option turned on to the max. I believe it, I can't turn on 2/3 of the options with my Athlon 1 gHz/Ti200 128MB combo.
It's essentially a very vulnerable and exposed chain. And we all know wbout weak links and chains.