accident.
Zog
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Then again, there's probably an equal chance that moneys could fly out of my
rectal orifice, but you never know! <G>
<snip>
Zog
<snip>
Then again, there's probably an equal chance that moneys could fly out of my
rectal orifice, but you never know! <G>
<snip>
Start with 1000 push-ups. <g>
Really, no redemption is needed in my eyes. This is just something I
read in the morning instead of the newspaper because I can read the
newspaper at work.
Some take it more seriously. Probably too seriously, but that's not my
problem.
I did feel Mr. Dude expressed a valid opinion and you attacked him
personally for it.
Shenanigans are part of almost any racing, and I think any one of
those companies would use an illegal advantage if they thought they
could get away with it.
Tim (C) (R) 43900218823 Reg. US. Pat. Off.
People were understandably upset. It may have something to do with
a term I used (B$TT F*CKED), more than my opinion. hehe.
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>> >I have been light on you guys until this past few days. Just ask the
>> >flightsim people :-)
>> I can attest to that. (DUH!)
>Everybody has to do something to feel important... many people attempt
>to blow out the candles of others so their own seems to shine more
>brightly. Sad, pathetic, but true...
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-- JB
> Zog
><snip>
>Then again, there's probably an equal chance that moneys could fly out of
my
>rectal orifice, but you never know! <G>
><snip>
> Start with 1000 push-ups.
Someone asked why we still watch F1 if we're so disgusted by it. Simply
put, F1 USED to be (and could be again) the pinnacle of the sport: the
BEST cars, the BEST engineers, the BEST drivers. But then the engineers
got TOO good, in a sense: active suspension, driver "aids" like
engine/course mapping and remote-control feedback telemetry were
magnificent engineering feats, and have (obviously) direct applications
to passenger cars. But when it was perceived that advanced engineering
had strayed into an area that produced cars (as one famous ex-Williams
driver of the time said) that could be driven by well-trained monkeys,
it turned Enzo Ferrari's modern opinion of car/driver ratio from 75/25
to something like 85/15. The cult of personality that F1 racing (like
NASCAR) had become, the sheer amount of money in endor***ts, gate
receipts, and TV ad rates that names like Senna, Schumacher, and Mansell
could generate, were in danger. If there's ONE thing the FIA and it's
shadow boss Ecclestone REALLY care about it's money, and lots of it. So
the FIA-mandated retrenchment began -- first the banishment of driver
aids and active suspensions, then the TV-friendly but
spectator-miserable track redesigns, now the supposedly "speed reducing"
and "overtaking enhancing" body and tire width restrictions, and the
grooved tires. Far from reducing speeds meaningfully, all the FIA
managed to do was make the cars uglier and more squirrelly, and to drive
Goodyear from the sport it had so well-supported since 1965, leaving the
hollow, one-make "tire war" to giant Bridgestone/Firestone.
Now, to add insult to injury, the FIA, having mandated F1 into a
crashing, expensive bore, get redeemed by a fluke of fate to actually
have a championship go down to the wire at Suzuka, and then***THAT
flukey pooch by being so technically maladroit that their famed "best
scrutineers in the business" can look at the same goddamn piece of
bodywork for TWO entire race weekends, and not find anything wrong with
it until a car carrying that piece of inconsequential bodywork wins
perhaps the most important race of the season.
That, in a word, sucks. I can't for a moment imagine that Ron Dennis,
Norbert Hauge, Mika Hakkinen, or David Coulthard like it any more than
Luca deMontezemolo, Jean Todt, Ross Brawn, Eddie Irvine, or Michael
Schumacher -- it makes a mockery of a very, very difficult and painful
season. The only GOOD fluke of fate this season is that Pedro Diniz
didn't have his head ripped off when his FIA-mandated rollover bar
ripped off the car like cheap tin at the Nrburgring.
Bottom line is that the FIA needs to get their house in order, and
(IMHO) the first thing they need to do is eliminate the conflict of
interest generated by the unholy partnership between Ecclestone and
Mosely -- it's just not a healthy situation to have the Fhrer of the
sport's governing body playing left-hand pocket pool with the sport's
commercial Supremo.
That's my 2-many-cents.
BB
> Yeah. Sometimes all they have to do is put their formal middle name into
> their posts. Know what I mean Spence? I'll bet you type with your pinky
> extended. Don't get me going dork.
Barton Spencer Brown
> Yeah. Sometimes all they have to do is put their formal middle name into
> their posts. Know what I mean Spence? I'll bet you type with your pinky
> extended. Don't get me going dork.
Barton Spencer Brown
Bart, you're retired right ?
I mean, come on, you have WAY too much time on your hands, how many
people on the usenet will read the whole post you think, most of us are
limited people with short attention span, a span that does not stretch
beyond one screen of text, so please edit your posts accordingly so I
don't have to scroll down while reading.....
Oh, and I wholeheartedly agree btw, at least those parts I remember :-)
--
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"Team Mirage" http://www.teammirage.com/
"The Pits" http://www.theuspits.com/
So there you've it, the opinion of someone who has both.
Remco
> Bart, you're retired right ?
>Basically some TWS or ECCI owner was talking about how he "tended
>to prefer" high quality analog wheels, as opposed to Force Feedback
>wheels. So I let him have it because I thought he "tended" to feel that
>way after he spent all that money (at least 2.5X what FF wheels go for).
>And the high quality wheels do not enhance GPL or N3 one bit compared
>to good FF wheels.
Also, if a high quality wheel does not enhance GPL, then why am I faster
with my TSW2 than I am with a Saitek or Microsoft wheel? Frankly, it's not
your opinion or the profanity that annoys me, it's your damned INACCURACY
and your pompous, self-righteous attitude about the "superiority" of Force
Feedback controllers that ticks me off.
Force Feedback is NOT the best thing since sliced bread, and based on the
number of wheels I've tested and sampled, I can truly say that if the first
and only controller I ever purchased had been a Force Feedback wheel, I'm
positive I would have been disappointed, so much so that it might have
deterred me from pursuing sim racing with any great enthusiasm -- and I
don't think I'm alone in this sentiment. THAT is the kind of disservice
you're doing for the novices who come here looking for insight and
information -- I (and many others) try to portray all aspects of the driving
controller issue fairly, while YOU invariably strut around touting your
beloved Force Feedback controller and belittleling those who choose to spend
their money in other ways.
Methinks maybe YOU protest a bit too loudly about those people who invest in
TSW or ECCI wheels, rather than the latest Force Feedback fad -- could it be
that you're protesting so loudly to defend what you feel is an inferior
investment, or is it maybe just simple jealousy that prevents you from ever
admitting that those people who have spent more money have maybe gotten more
quality for their money? Either way, it doesn't speak very well of your
character.
Now, before you -- or anybody else -- decides that I'm just another elitist
TSW owner who doesn't know a thing about Force Feedback, you might want to
check out my review of the Saitek R4 Force wheel, just to see what I've had
to say about some of my own experiences with Force Feedback:
http://irlinsider.adnetweb.com/sims/saitek/
-- JB
Wow. VFM!
Cheers
Mark
Reading, UK
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