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  1. Re:BMWs, Minis on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    I don't need four wheels to drive loose surface, I come from a FWD rallycross background :)

    Hence i'm loving the winters over here :)

  2. Re:"Negative Effects" on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    Aye, I know. I have Blizzaks too :)

  3. Re:"Negative Effects" on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    Ah yeah, 2ft is a bit high in a car. You'd be bottoming out on the snow.

  4. Re:BMWs, Minis on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    But what about the inside wear? Or is that just from motorways and straight line wear due to the neg camber?

    As for that road, I already know I will love it. I come from a land of nice country roads, then moved to a land of twisty alpine roads but didn't have a car and now I live in the land of straight boring roads and have a straight, boring auto Corolla.

    I can make it move when I have to though and seek out any corners when I drive. I'll even take a different on ramp sometimes just cos it has a bend.

    Ugh.

    I need to go to your road. How is it for cops? I wonder if there is there anything closer to the North East as I need to come from .ca

  5. Re:BMWs, Minis on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    Tyre pressure too low?

  6. Re:"Negative Effects" on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    Can you explain what you mean about the contact patch getting larger when you camber the tyre? I understand that the contact patch area on one side of the tyre would get larger as you angle it to that side, but surely the other half of the contact patch would be smaller than when the tyre is straight.

    Maybe the tyre-flex dynamics are such that this is so, but the increase on one side more than makes up for the loss on the other?

    I know when we used to measure tyre temps, we'd try to set it up for equal temps across the tyre, implying that an equal spread of loading across the contact patch to be ideal.

    Curious now...

  7. Re:"Negative Effects" on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    Lots of car tyre places in Munich store your off-season set for a very reasonable price. Do that and your problem is solved. Also, with the right storage equipment, a set of tyres really doesn't take up much space.

  8. Re:"Negative Effects" on Cambered Tires Can Improve Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    How in the hell is this a troll? The man speaks the truth.

  9. Re:Wrong on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 1

    I think you mean Marmite, mate. You have been round too many Aussies.

  10. Re:That show has went downhill anyway on Discovery Threatens Fan Site It Also Promotes · · Score: 1

    Nice... "Could your survive in the Alaskan wilderness?"

  11. Re:This is looking good - Re:Hmm... on Wipeout Recreated With an RC Car · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How can the cars reed switch differentiate between magnets for boost and magnets for weapons? This is why he chose the LED for the weapons, so that you can differentiate between the two.

    Now with the RFID idea that someone had before, you have the option of even more different types of triggers (slow-down pad?), as well as the option of reconfiguring what pads do what. I think that's why the original poster mentioned RFID rather than a less flexible, but simpler, technology.

  12. Re:This is the new definition of... on The Science of Caddyshack · · Score: 1

    No, everyone is lining up for their iPhone4 (Well, in Canada at least)

  13. Re:How is that novel? on BlindType — the Amazing Keyboard of the Future · · Score: 1

    I like "Few put out, Mrs Law"

  14. Re:Professional on Criminal Photoshops Himself Into Charity Photos In Bid For Leniency · · Score: 1

    Oh man, this and some of the others (I have lots of juicy reading left) have brought tears of laughter. It's been a while.

    I love cats mind, but I can see the funny side of, well, comedy :)

  15. Re:iPhone on NASA Revamps Historic 4-Million-kg Mars Antenna · · Score: 1

    It's a *four* million Kg antenna and it's the iPhone *four*.

  16. Re:'Bout time on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 1

    Free cases, not bumpers.

  17. Re:Racing motorbikes on The REX Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    OK, looked it up myself. Search and ye shall find. Interesting.

    Bummer

  18. Racing motorbikes on The REX Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    I'm curious, does anyone know how he manages to race motorbikes?

  19. Re:What? on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, yeah.. no.

    Not for me lol, but thanks for the heads up :)

  20. Re:Now that's just not right... on Tokyo Rail Billboards Scan Viewer's Age, Gender · · Score: 1

    Maybe I have missed something...

    Get age, get sex
    if age is 18 and sex is F then set age to 18... ? (It's already 18).

    Or were you just going for the giggity?

  21. Re:What? on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 1

    I was just listening to Drukqs actually.

    You try listening to Aphex Twin - Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount.

    In the last 10 seconds of that, stuff really does happen to my brain.

  22. Re:Okay then. on The Chicken May Have Come Before the Egg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well it would have been soft eggs first. In some of these soft eggs, there would have been mutations in the DNA resulting in a slightly increased amount of ovocledidin-17. These eggs would then have slightly harder shells and likely a higher survival rate due to more durability. As time goes on, those mutations giving even more ovocledidin-17 and resulting in even harder eggs, become more dominant than those DNA strands without the mutation etc.

    At least, that's my understanding of how it all works...

    So the egg came first, later developing an evolutionary advantageous shell.

  23. Re:You mean like this!! on Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent · · Score: 1

    The Canadian Tire online flyer has been doing this for years and it does a better job than the one above as you have free movement of the page corner.
    Click on the flyer

  24. Re:Correlation is not causation: Oblig. XKCD on Parasite Correlated With World Cup Success · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Obligatory xkcd.

    Fixed that for you.
    Don't try and be all karma-whory, just post the damn XKCD link :)

  25. Re:Why natural language needs grouping symbols on YouTube Hit By HTML Injection Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    They are a bit late, its all x.org now.