I'll third that, but the biggest issue is the users/admins of Windows boxes. I've never had a problem with Win2K Pro on my machine, but the family machine does occasionally have it's problems, mostly attributed to the users. One example being them using IE instead of Firefox even though I've told them a hundred times to use Firefox. When I came back from a trip to Europe earlier last year, I came back to find the machine painfully slow, and when I came back from a week long trip just two weeks ago, it was again riddled with problems. I've shown my mom how to run Spybot, Adaware, etc, but she tends to forget to, so every once in awhile I have to go in and clean it up.
Having good opponents makes all the difference in the world. Only 2-3 of my friends are as into the GT series as I am, and they're the only people I enjoy racing. 99% of the time we try to have for a clean race, but occasionally it is exciting and fun to try and take each other out, as it leads to some vicous battles.
My right to privacy. Seriousely. If the FBI suspects someone of terrorist activity, it shouldn't be hard to get a warrant to monitor their internet traffic.
It's the whole "those who are willingly to sacrifice freedom for security deserve niether" bit.
Weird that I saw this here on Slashdot today. I was just looking at it earlier today, when I was cleaning up some of my files, and chuckling to myself about it.
The best part is when he mentions that it has a clock.
Hehe, it's all good. I was going off of memory at first from when I was at best buy and compared sizes. Of the iPod and iRiver! I swear that's what we were comparing!
I own both a MD player and an iRiver H320. I just picked up the H320 for 260 bucks at Best Buy on clearance, plus the 40 dollar replacement warranty. I'll use the iRiver a whole lot more than the MD, but I do like the MD player and used it for about 2 years before getting the iRiver. The conversion to ATRAC is kind of a pain, but something I can live with.
I was going to buy an iPod, but for the same price (including replacement warranty), I can actually record from any source, and display images on the player. I can also use MP3, OGG, WMA, ASF, and WAV files. The images thing isn't a big deal to me, but it sure as hell is nice to be able to use those RCA in/out connections. It's also about the same exact size as an iPod, only maybe a centimeter thicker.
I'll continue to use the iRiver a whole lot more than the MD player, but for anything that might be bad for the player (running, sports, etc) I'll use the MD player, as I'd rather have that break than the iRiver.
That's actually a good question, and I'm too lazy to look up the answer.
On a related note though, I just want a pay per view type of thing for movies already in the theaters. I'd gladly pay the price of a ticket to watch a movie in the comfort of my own home. In fact, I often wait for movies to come out on DVD rather than go see them in the theaters.
Man, you're such an idiot it's not even funny. Sure, they have traction control above 62mph, but they don't have ABS or power steering or anything like that. That doesn't mean the car drives itself. And again, it's not exactly easy to keep the car in perfect control and be the fastest out there. Sure, a decent rookie race car driver *might* be able to pull within a second or two of the top driver's times after only a few laps, but to make up that last second gets exponentially harder.
Anyway, you have absolutely no clue, so I'm not going to further this discussion.
Yeah, a Formula 1 car generates roughly 600kg of downforce at 60mph, and at 120mph they're generating close to 2000kg of downforce. Obviousely that would depend on setup, but that's a paraphrased (numbers are the same, just different words) quote from April 2004's F1 Racing magazine.
Well at least now we've thrown out that stupid ~4gs argument. So now it comes down to raw strength of turning a wheel and pushing the gas. Great, so now you're claiming that these "athletes" have the raw ability to turn a wheel. Is it harder than driving a car down a freeway? Absolutely. Does it require more talent (in reflexes and knowledge) than parallel parking? Sure. But to say it's a sport, simply because their only physical contribution is turning a wheel, that's ridiculous.
Everything they do makes them athletes. Not one single thing. You keep taking single points and act like I'm saying that they alone make them athletes.
But to say it's a sport, simply because their only physical contribution is turning a wheel, that's ridiculous.
I never said the sole physical contribution was turning a wheel. You did. You keep taking one single aspect of what they do and say that's my sole justification, and you're arguements are extremely weak. Sure, turning a wheel and hitting the gas and brakes may not seem like a whole lot, but it's the skill and the way they do it that speaks volumes. You're acting as if I said a basketball's player sole skill of throwing a basketball into a hoop makes them an athlete.
And I didn't turn the danger of being a driver into the sole basis of ahtletism.
Yes you did. When you said that cops, firefighters, etc should be considered athletes you did. Or at least, you implied it, or you implied that I said risking their lives made them athletes. Again, you keep taking single points of my arguement and isolate them to make your point instead of looking at it as a whole.
I'll say it again: It's everything they do that makes them athletes. It's not just having to deal with the g-loading, it's not just having to wrestle a car around a track, etc, it's EVERYTHING.
Formula 1 drivers compete in a sport where stamina, phenomonal hand-eye cooridination, phenomonal reflexes, among other things is absolutely required. To say they're not athletes is just plain retarded.
I didn't miss your point. You clearly missed mine. You don't have one. Drivers are athletes because of those stresses and everything else. It takes a lot more physical ability to drive a race car than it does to play a simulation game. Yes, a guy with a joystick could do it, so what? You can throw a football and catch it, does that mean even if you're not an athlete that Brett Favre isn't an athlete?
F1 drivers do a lot more physically than you can actually imagine. Again, steering a car at the speeds they do with no power steering isn't as easy as driving your Toyota down the freeway. If you notice, the drivers are also constantly working with, and fighting with the car to keep it on edge. It may not look like they're doing a whole lot, but they really are. I don't have it handy, but I'll look for a video that shows this. It features a former driver talking about MS's skill as a driver, and the many corrections and adjuestmnents he makes throughout a series of turns. They're not visible simply by watching him, but rather, you have to look at the actual telemetry to see it. The fact is, they are constantly working to keep the car on edge to maintain the fastest possible line without going over the edge. I believe I asked you to actually get a clue before responding, did I not?
As for putting their lives on the line, I was simply pointing out that major difference between real racers and gamers. (Yes, simulations are still games). You also took this one single arguement as the sole basis for making an athlete, which is a rather stupid jump to conclusions by you.
A guy with a joystick is completely different. To think they are is completely ignorant and just plain stupid. Driving an F1 car requires stamina, look at how sweaty the drivers are after a race. Not only that, there's the G-forces involved, which DO play a major role over the course of a race. Even Jeff Gordon, a professional Nascar driver commented on the G-loading and the neck strain (from his head whipping and back forth) when he tested the Williams F1 car. Not only that, but it is considerably more difficult to drive a real Formula 1 car which has no power steering as opposed to driving a simulation with a joystick, or even a wheel with force feedback. Also, being in a real car gives you more tactile feedback that you have to be extremely acutely aware of, especially at the speeds and limits that exist in F1. Also, these guys are bouncing around quite a bit in these extremely stiffly sprung cars. Once again, video gamers aren't. Race car drivers also put their lives on the line each time they step out on the track. You obviousely have absolutely no clue as to the physical training and conditioning required of a Formula 1 driver to be competitive. I ask that you actually get a clue before making another dimwitted response.
Well, you also have to consider JV will have more seat time at the start of next year than he did when he filled in at the end of this past season. There is no replacement for seat time in Formula 1. I think a lot of people were dissapointed with his results at the end of this past season, but I'm sure he'll do better this year (proportionally to how good his car is)
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Some already accuse Michael Schumacher of being an emotionless robot...
And a week after that custom player/P2P app is released, there will be hacks and alternatives.
I'll third that, but the biggest issue is the users/admins of Windows boxes. I've never had a problem with Win2K Pro on my machine, but the family machine does occasionally have it's problems, mostly attributed to the users. One example being them using IE instead of Firefox even though I've told them a hundred times to use Firefox. When I came back from a trip to Europe earlier last year, I came back to find the machine painfully slow, and when I came back from a week long trip just two weeks ago, it was again riddled with problems. I've shown my mom how to run Spybot, Adaware, etc, but she tends to forget to, so every once in awhile I have to go in and clean it up.
Having good opponents makes all the difference in the world. Only 2-3 of my friends are as into the GT series as I am, and they're the only people I enjoy racing. 99% of the time we try to have for a clean race, but occasionally it is exciting and fun to try and take each other out, as it leads to some vicous battles.
My right to privacy. Seriousely. If the FBI suspects someone of terrorist activity, it shouldn't be hard to get a warrant to monitor their internet traffic.
It's the whole "those who are willingly to sacrifice freedom for security deserve niether" bit.
Yay! Will the FBI be monitoring this attempt at a first post?
Weird that I saw this here on Slashdot today. I was just looking at it earlier today, when I was cleaning up some of my files, and chuckling to myself about it.
The best part is when he mentions that it has a clock.
Hehe, it's all good. I was going off of memory at first from when I was at best buy and compared sizes. Of the iPod and iRiver! I swear that's what we were comparing!
Well, it's not exactly one centimeter, but close enough. Either way, it's not that much thicker than iPod.
Also, so you're saying an iPod is less than a centimeter thick? Riiight....
iPod size:
4.1 x 2.4 x 0.57
4.1 x 2.4 x 0.69
iRiver size:
4.1 in x 2.4 in x 0.9 in
I own both a MD player and an iRiver H320. I just picked up the H320 for 260 bucks at Best Buy on clearance, plus the 40 dollar replacement warranty. I'll use the iRiver a whole lot more than the MD, but I do like the MD player and used it for about 2 years before getting the iRiver. The conversion to ATRAC is kind of a pain, but something I can live with.
I was going to buy an iPod, but for the same price (including replacement warranty), I can actually record from any source, and display images on the player. I can also use MP3, OGG, WMA, ASF, and WAV files. The images thing isn't a big deal to me, but it sure as hell is nice to be able to use those RCA in/out connections. It's also about the same exact size as an iPod, only maybe a centimeter thicker.
I'll continue to use the iRiver a whole lot more than the MD player, but for anything that might be bad for the player (running, sports, etc) I'll use the MD player, as I'd rather have that break than the iRiver.
They've also discovered that those grammar and spelling educational games don't work either...
Better than spraying it all over your car windows and then not being able to see where you're going...
Then we better start welcoming our new Martian Groundhog ove-ohh fuck it.
That's actually a good question, and I'm too lazy to look up the answer.
On a related note though, I just want a pay per view type of thing for movies already in the theaters. I'd gladly pay the price of a ticket to watch a movie in the comfort of my own home. In fact, I often wait for movies to come out on DVD rather than go see them in the theaters.
Yeah, that'll change those racists outlooks on life.
Yeah, we've got to have time to post here on /., not wade through flash orientated websites!
Yep, Ferrari has had a core team for awhile now, and many of them worked together before 1996, when Ferrari started to develop into what it is today.
Man, you're such an idiot it's not even funny. Sure, they have traction control above 62mph, but they don't have ABS or power steering or anything like that. That doesn't mean the car drives itself. And again, it's not exactly easy to keep the car in perfect control and be the fastest out there. Sure, a decent rookie race car driver *might* be able to pull within a second or two of the top driver's times after only a few laps, but to make up that last second gets exponentially harder.
Anyway, you have absolutely no clue, so I'm not going to further this discussion.
Yeah, a Formula 1 car generates roughly 600kg of downforce at 60mph, and at 120mph they're generating close to 2000kg of downforce. Obviousely that would depend on setup, but that's a paraphrased (numbers are the same, just different words) quote from April 2004's F1 Racing magazine.
Well at least now we've thrown out that stupid ~4gs argument. So now it comes down to raw strength of turning a wheel and pushing the gas. Great, so now you're claiming that these "athletes" have the raw ability to turn a wheel. Is it harder than driving a car down a freeway? Absolutely. Does it require more talent (in reflexes and knowledge) than parallel parking? Sure. But to say it's a sport, simply because their only physical contribution is turning a wheel, that's ridiculous.
Everything they do makes them athletes. Not one single thing. You keep taking single points and act like I'm saying that they alone make them athletes.
But to say it's a sport, simply because their only physical contribution is turning a wheel, that's ridiculous.
I never said the sole physical contribution was turning a wheel. You did. You keep taking one single aspect of what they do and say that's my sole justification, and you're arguements are extremely weak. Sure, turning a wheel and hitting the gas and brakes may not seem like a whole lot, but it's the skill and the way they do it that speaks volumes. You're acting as if I said a basketball's player sole skill of throwing a basketball into a hoop makes them an athlete.
And I didn't turn the danger of being a driver into the sole basis of ahtletism.
Yes you did. When you said that cops, firefighters, etc should be considered athletes you did. Or at least, you implied it, or you implied that I said risking their lives made them athletes. Again, you keep taking single points of my arguement and isolate them to make your point instead of looking at it as a whole.
I'll say it again: It's everything they do that makes them athletes. It's not just having to deal with the g-loading, it's not just having to wrestle a car around a track, etc, it's EVERYTHING.
Formula 1 drivers compete in a sport where stamina, phenomonal hand-eye cooridination, phenomonal reflexes, among other things is absolutely required. To say they're not athletes is just plain retarded.
I didn't miss your point. You clearly missed mine. You don't have one. Drivers are athletes because of those stresses and everything else. It takes a lot more physical ability to drive a race car than it does to play a simulation game. Yes, a guy with a joystick could do it, so what? You can throw a football and catch it, does that mean even if you're not an athlete that Brett Favre isn't an athlete?
F1 drivers do a lot more physically than you can actually imagine. Again, steering a car at the speeds they do with no power steering isn't as easy as driving your Toyota down the freeway. If you notice, the drivers are also constantly working with, and fighting with the car to keep it on edge. It may not look like they're doing a whole lot, but they really are. I don't have it handy, but I'll look for a video that shows this. It features a former driver talking about MS's skill as a driver, and the many corrections and adjuestmnents he makes throughout a series of turns. They're not visible simply by watching him, but rather, you have to look at the actual telemetry to see it. The fact is, they are constantly working to keep the car on edge to maintain the fastest possible line without going over the edge. I believe I asked you to actually get a clue before responding, did I not?
As for putting their lives on the line, I was simply pointing out that major difference between real racers and gamers. (Yes, simulations are still games). You also took this one single arguement as the sole basis for making an athlete, which is a rather stupid jump to conclusions by you.
Oops, to think they AREN'T any different is ignorant...
A guy with a joystick is completely different. To think they are is completely ignorant and just plain stupid. Driving an F1 car requires stamina, look at how sweaty the drivers are after a race. Not only that, there's the G-forces involved, which DO play a major role over the course of a race. Even Jeff Gordon, a professional Nascar driver commented on the G-loading and the neck strain (from his head whipping and back forth) when he tested the Williams F1 car. Not only that, but it is considerably more difficult to drive a real Formula 1 car which has no power steering as opposed to driving a simulation with a joystick, or even a wheel with force feedback. Also, being in a real car gives you more tactile feedback that you have to be extremely acutely aware of, especially at the speeds and limits that exist in F1. Also, these guys are bouncing around quite a bit in these extremely stiffly sprung cars. Once again, video gamers aren't. Race car drivers also put their lives on the line each time they step out on the track. You obviousely have absolutely no clue as to the physical training and conditioning required of a Formula 1 driver to be competitive. I ask that you actually get a clue before making another dimwitted response.
The 4 g arguement doesn't make them athletes. You still never actually answered my question though.
Well, you also have to consider JV will have more seat time at the start of next year than he did when he filled in at the end of this past season. There is no replacement for seat time in Formula 1. I think a lot of people were dissapointed with his results at the end of this past season, but I'm sure he'll do better this year (proportionally to how good his car is)