Lo and behold, we are now entering the last week of the 2009 season, with the build-up to Abu Dhabi starting now. Even though the championships are no longer at stake, there's still some racing to be had. Meanwhile:
- RG has written an interesting analysis of a potential qualifying championship. Given a set of points based on qualifying result, who would come out on top? It certainly wasn't the result I was expecting but makes sense when you think about it.
- The organisers of the Abu Dhabi race have said the event is a sell out with all the tickets up and gone a week ahead of time. That's really good for them, particularly as they are a brand new circuit and need some success that the other new circuits are lacking.
- Ross Brawn has said he is sure they can find a way to keep Button with the team, and I am sure they can too. Rumours of a rift are presumably over-exaggerated, as they have been several times this season. It'll all be alright in the end.
That's all for now. We should have a competition launching later today, as mentioned in yesterday's Debrief. Stay tuned for that and I'll see you in the comments.
Jake is walking and talking...
Go Seb!!
sleep time for me, see you all tomorrow everyone! goodness i'm pleased it's 1/2 term! :D
i forgot my traditional
'night! x'
grrrr
night
Night Lou!
oh so am i :D
niight!
Eurgh! Don't remind me. I hate children!!
Night Lou xx
Errrm oops. I've just been texting although you're obviously lovely enough for kisses Lou!
Love you too Alison...
I never get kisses!
You just give me frowns!!!
I was being nice!!! For several hours now! This is the thanks I get (:()
he presents the NFL British coverage too?
Yeah he has been doing it for 3 years now....
they only have 2 games a year, though!
well 1 and highlights this year in fact...
that's rubbish. Who covers the rest, then?
:lol: hehe
2 posts earlier:
:P
That wasn't nasty!!! I'm outraged.
I'm going to run off in a strop now.
Sky do regular sunday games, thursday games and the playoffs
Five do Sunday night football
BBC do the superbowl (in addition to sky)
MNF is currently not shown
SKY and five.
hehe I know, was only teasing
There is no need for that!
BTW its dark you cant leave the building ;)
:cry:
awe... animated crying smiley makes me feel bad...
Slightly disappointed that the London game is only in highlights form on the BBC this year. Last year's game was really interesting. This one isn't too bad but I think you lose some of the atmosphere. I never usually watch NFL.
Just realised i need to get to the airport on tuesday... i should probably thought about that...
I dont watxch that much, the highlight make it seem really flat.
Good.
Showing highlights only defeats the point of having the game at Wembley. It's worse in Scotland. The highlights is on against 5's live coverage. What is the point to that?
I am off to bed now. If I can't sleep I may get up for the U2 concert at 3:30. Can't believe they are doing it on a Sunday night instead of a Saturday. It's like they want to minimise the audience.
I think it was live on Sky... but if they are bringing it over to grow it here, at least show it to as many people as possible? I'm not sure if the BBC should be doing it, perhaps Five could have shown it live.
Night Steven
niiight steven
Night Steeeeeeeeven
Me go now too!!
Adios
Exactly the same as we were saying with the NFL. I will never understand the thought processes of schedulers etc.
:P
Au revior monsieur Jon
Night Steven and Jon
So long!
Can I quit my job now please?
I thought you were the big boss lady?
What does that have to do with it?
If your in charge then you can approve of your quitting! there is noone to tell you off!
Except my bank manager?
Ah true... I guess the answer to your question is no then...
If its any consolidation I am off to Dubai on tuesday...
Hello all, I apologize for the excuse for football perpetrated on foreign soil this day
Jakes looked really sick on that show... I hope he is better before next weekend!
They didnt do too good.... the crowd seemed to enjoy it though.
So it's safe to leave the house again? For how long?
It was all about the beer
Why would i tell you that!
I am back on the 8th just ti time for mclaren and brawns shindig at brooklands
Was it bad? I couldn't tell, but I don't really understand the game.
Ahhh you're going to miss my amazing London adventure. I'll be in India then.
Ah i had a comment about the Abu Dhabi GP for the show i forgot to make!
This is the first GP i can rmember to be named after a city rather than a Country or a region like european or 'pacific'
The previous one appears to have been the 'Detroit GP" in 1988
You could pop in on the way, dubai is pretty small i am sure if you knocked on a few doors they could tell you where to find me ;)
Doesn't it still get called the UAE GP or am i missing something here?
I don't want to know what you've been up to to gain such notoriety.
Nope. In the fine traditions of UAE unity it is called: "THE 2009 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX"
Hehe, suprisingly little or they wouldnt let me back in!
Will you be going sidepodpubbing whilst you are in london?
Ah right. Gotcha.
Unusual that. Why is that used then?
Tourism i guess, they want people to hear about the wonders of Abu Dhabi
Makes sense I suppose.
I hadn't considered it particularly. Perhaps I suppose. I haven't been invited ;)
Apple marketing really doesnt work on me.
I get al excited about the prospect of getting a mac mini.
Then they run an ad like this and it suddenly seems a lot less appealing http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/758/0
What have you done with David Mitchell?? :(
Its the american version ;)
If you mention it when people are here ou might be able to pursude a couple of people to join you at the coalhole ;)
Well I have finsihed a Quikmap of my ideal Monza circuit. For safety reasons I destroyed the High Banks (No longer used I think) and replaced them with Indianaopolis style 10 degree banking so the F1 cars can hand the turns. Unless Bridgestone the walls of the sidewalls for some strange reason.
The 1st chicane is a straightaway and the second chicane is a left hand kink. The lap distance should be somewhere around 6.214 miles and if cars can not slipstream from the strat/finish line inner straght around the oval, the length of the outerstart/finish straight to 1st Lesmos something is fundamentally wrong with F1 drivers.
My two questions are: ==> Where do I put it? The Wiki can not find my old E-mail address so I cannot log into it and is ther anything better than Quikmaps out there?
I'll see what I can do regarding the wiki.
I guess a pic on the drop would be the best way, i had trouble loading up a circuit on to the wiki
I kina mention to mr. c about making a blog about having F1 host 21 kickin' circuits. How kickin'? Well I am modifying Monza.....in an attempt for it to beat is own fastest ever F1 speeds records and straghtening the race as much as possible to induce slipstreaming.
Blimey, quote fail and I wrote a bit as well
I'd ask Mrs C if you are having trouble logging on. Seems I can't do everything on the wiki ;)
If you want me to upload it onto the wiki for you just give me the link and I'll do it for ya.
RG:
Here is the link
http://www.quikmaps.com/show/119585
But where are you going to put it in the wiki?
Theres a page
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/Quikmaps
GRRRRRR Is there no undo button in quikmaps?
Just gotta start from scratch.
And since I'm becomin too sleepy, night all
Night, I have done 3, probably got another 3 in me ;)
Some Dubai street circuits i decided to mess about with
Mankhool http://www.quikmaps.com/show/119613
Gharhoud http://www.quikmaps.com/show/119615
Airport http://www.quikmaps.com/show/119617
Medinat http://www.quikmaps.com/show/119620 Taking in all the tourist beach front from the burj al arab to the Palm
... and some more sensible ones:
Bur dubai: http://www.quikmaps.com/show/119618 (would be very narrow and bumpy in parts, very quick in others
Jumeirah, http://www.quikmaps.com/show/119619 racing though Dhyafa and onto the Jumerirah 1 beachfront
Thanks RG.
Ooops. Not quite the effect that I wanted. The Sidepodcast Kink and the one bank corner is show but not the south one.The Nort-South layout of Monza does not lend itself to Quikmaps nicely, does it?
Has anyone else stayed up for U2?
If anyone is interested (MrC might want to pass it on to his mum ;) ) Joe has put a link to his business of motorsport newsletter on GRANDPRIX.COM
There are 2 samples availble if you cant find a spare $299 ;)
http://store.grandprix.com/products/the-business-of-motorsport-newsletter
Youtube U2 U2ube streaming player M|F|C
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/u2-jpg
DC's review of YAS http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/24102009/23/david-coulthard-lap-yas-marina-circuit.html
Hey everyone, stopped in to give an idea we have to for the off-season. We have to have a viewing of the movie "Grand Prix" for a sidepodfilmclub night.
1966 F1 + John Frankenheimer camerawork = pure awesome.
I totally agree. It's AWESOME.
Morning,
Totally!
Morning everyone :)
i did yes... on saturday.
just watching the replay now. quality is rather good.
Is it in HD? YouTube HD is rather good...
it's streaming too well for HD i think. but not sure.
i'm not a fan of the "live only" concept. if you pause the video, then resume, you simply miss bits. and there's no rewind.
all a bit limited.
That's annoying.
In a paywall only article Adam Cooper points out that he doesn't have an affinity with Jean Todt:
http://www.autosport.com/features/article.php/id/2456
my phone! it has returned!
Woohoo!
now I can qik on command (almost)
QIK!
I put in the (almost) because I knew you'd ask but I am on my couch in a food coma and I don't plan on moving anytime soon. I hope those dishes over there wash themselves.
Alright I'll let you off this once!
can you rewind time and tell past-Amy that one quesadilla would be enough for dinner. *groan* *explode*
Unfortunately my time machine is on the blink. Remind me next week and I'll fix it for you now.
cheers
So I have finally got somebody to talk to on Wave! Fourstar. Still no invites though.
how does that work?
That would be a nice feature on the iPlayer too...
Anything of note, or just delayed?
I got my Google Wave log in about 2 weeks ago now. But they have stopped giving users invites to invite more people for the time being. So for the last two weeks I have had wave but of course can't use it because I can only talk to myself. Fourstar signed up for wave about 1 minute after me and got his login on Saturday. Neither of us have invites to invite more people...
Madness.
ahh, cool. didn't realise.
it just appears to take a week to get across the tasman. How rubbish, it only took me 3.5 hours.
Mr C... You have mail.
Making it clear that doohicky > e-mail
so i do :)
So was everyone taught greater than or less than the same way?
The crocodile always wants to eat the bigger number?
the.things.you.learn.
doohickey should be mandatory in all schools. i learnt left from right the other day.
How did you learn that?
Hold your hands up in front of you, with your fingers pointing to the sky, then have your thumbs out at a right angle to your hand. Now your left hand is making an L
it was in the comments.
that's the one!
Works well except for particular types of dyslexics who think both are Ls. As I found when teaching them.
Here's another useful one for you then Mr C.
How do you remember which way tightens and which way loosens a screw?
Tighty Righty
Lucy Lefty
Of course you will need to combine it with the left from right thing as a power move ;)
I use that all. the. time.
right - tight
left - loose
but similar... and it fails on plumbing.
Why does it fail on plumbing?
I rule at plumbing. The day I took the pipes under sink apart to clear a blockage and put it back together again without it leaking was one of the best in my life. I rung up my dad to tell him about my smartness and he didn't even care :(
After loooong considerations I've decided I don't like the no refuelling rule. Just thought I let you know :)
the threads are reversed aren't they?
Awww! We care! Well done!
yaaay #sameperson
wooohoo!
Ah okay. I wasn't doubting you, I just didn't know.
the mixer fell off my shower more than a year ago, but one plumbing step at a time.
How can you use it then?
I line up the octagonal holey thing in it with the octagonal screwy thing on the wall and push it in and up at the same time, then in and down to turn it off. The rest of the time it lives on the soap dish :D
We told our landlord and he hasn't done anything about it.
I don't either. However if at the end of the season next year when we have had 18 lights to flag victories (because the fastest man is on pole, there is no fuel strategy, and they haven't fixed overtaking). Maybe they will finally decide to fix overtaking.
Or they will knee-jerk back to having refuelling again at even greater expense.
and, i think f1 wheel nuts too.
but would we still care enough by then, or will we literally watch anything?
Ted said the teams had to come up with an immobiliser that would keep the car in the box if the fuel hose were still attached, even if the driver tried to pull away. . Why didn't that work for Heikki/McLaren?
Do we think there is any particular reason for these aberrations or is it simply to be annoying?
I think I'm the latter sadly. I keep watching 'just in case' something happens :(
immobiliser is no match for SuperFinn!
i think in f1 terms it stops the thread working loose with the rotation of the f1. and in plumbing terms... i forget.
Katherine thinks we are wheel f1 nuts
f1 jazz nutjobs?
didn't he say ferrari were the test case. so it would've stopped kimi.
(that) immobiliser is a match for (the other) SuperFinn!
I thought he had said Ferrari had developed it. And the FIA wanted the other teams to copy it, or something.
so that they can use it for the last race with refuelling this weekend?
you raise a good point!
I have no idea how it will influence the racing. I just don't know enough about tyre wear and that stuff but the problem for me is the pitstops. Because at the moment the deciding factor for letting the car go is the fuel hose, which is easy (well mostly) to keep up with. But next season the lolipop man has to make sure all 4 tyres are attached and everyone is out of harms way which sound more chaotic and dangerous.
Hehe
It's actually easier I think because the wheel nut man holds his gun up in the air or his arm depending on the team. Whereas with the fuel hose the person detaching can't indicate he's happy or not because the hose is too heavy.
But at the moment the procedure is something like: all tyres are finished and then the lolipop man only has to focus on one location to see if the hose is detached (well and check for traffic) but next year he has to focus on 4 different locations that will all finish at roughly the same time.
can i recommend a solution based on traffic lights suspended over each gantry...
Yes the four locations is a problem. But I think most confusions come from the lollipop man interpreting the wrong movement from the fuel hose man.
:)
sounds reasonable :)
Morning all.
Morning :)
Starting to get quite worried. Two times in three days Mr C has been here first!
I didn't realise it was a race?
howdy (again).
"normal people" hours are catching
It isn't... Only being silly.
Just checking. Tomorrow I shall comment when I wake up and there is no way he will beat that.
By that time there will be nobody left!
*plans on not going to bed*
Can someone please find my Kindle charger? I am too good at losing charging cables.
It's over there...
Excellent :) I think it's best to keep him on his toes.
ohh over there. One benefit is it is white and being a non-Apple-anything owner, it stands out amongst all my black ones.
Staying up doesn't count.
rats.
Sidepodscience question...
Katherine is convinced that boys are more cheeky after they have had their haircut. Does this hold true everywhere else or is she just talking about me?
My dad definitely is. Perhaps because my mum cuts his hair and he makes cheeky comments the whole way through the procedure.
Whose sensible idea was it to do roadworks this time of the morning!! they're drilling and everything :(
she has a point. Haircuts are rrrrubbish
had never considered it. however, today i must be the perfect test case.
right pootle?
this is where it pays to be a girl with hair so long that no one really notices if you only cut it once every 2 years. I wore my hair out today actually and 10 separate people felt they should tell me how long it is, because perhaps I wasn't already aware.
I was going to say, I hadn't noticed, but you are so cheeky anyway it's hard to tell.
Cheeky!
It shows in your typing :P
true. also, how do you explain bassano?
How do you explain bassano?
Actually maybe that's why he's cheeky all of the time?
i guess that is a whole other question.
I think she thinks that normally I am quite cheeky, and then after a haircut I am extremely cheeky.
Talking of the man I haven't seen him about in ages. We must be working different Sidepodshifts.
the ULTIMATE haircut? Gives you enough cheekiness for life?
isnt he in Greece?
so this u2 thing appears to be on continuous loop. which means i may watch all day, just to see if i can.
#sidepodspace - buzz aldrin is in the house.
Then you would see the bit you missed.
all of it?
Did he have a thirst for knowledge?
Did anyone have a theory as to why Ted didn't have a computer?
speaking of Mr Clapper, there seems to be a distinct lack of Katherine on the Spa Wiki page ;)
I thought you paused it and missed some.
ooh right. it was an experiment, so did it during a guitar solo and there are plenty of them.
Fixed.
mr c tried to pause live streaming footage? impressive :p
my mum gets happy every time she hears of another female coming too. She seems to think all boys are yucky :D
Is it really only 930am over there?
Really like the new drop from link option (is it new? new to me [thanks mr c])
It looks like you are installing windows:
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/cgjrm
They are.
it's a replay :D
Yes.
clippy!
What happened to the time?
we're going to be using it a lot methinks :)
Well I've heard it flys when your having fun. Maybe we just had too much fun?
Fair enough, although a bit strange for a Monday
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
so far today I've had workers drilling outside and now a man measuring my window and looking in. Today is odd.
fun odd?
I'm so glad it's not 9.30 here because I'd still have 8 hours at work ahead of me. Although in 12 hours I will be back at work and all the lovely doohickey-time folk will be enjoying their Monday night and I'll be jealous.
*waves*
I thinking this time weirdness means more chance of listening to debriefs, which is useful, now that the season is almost over
I had one of those the other week. There's a picture on the drop somewhere...
I have missed the last few, I miss them. Replays just aren't the same :(
so thats where Bassano has gone. Wales!
I'm sure there is still plenty of live streaming goodness to come.
Yay.
I'm now convinced it's either him or kathi at my window :p
Is he waving?
Feed me
Morning all,
Last night i white tacked a poster to my ceiling, anyone want to make bets on how long it will stay up today?
Will toast suffice?
If it's the Ralf Schumacher poster, it will fall down quickly then declare itself the best poster on your wall
:D
dont worry, Ralf was taken down last night in place of some huuuuuuuuuge posters that i couldnt stop myself from buying
Kylie
Croftie?
Nico Hulkenbergering
not so much, one of san fransisco, another is a paris black and white skyline shot and another is of below the eifel tower looking up. they is cool
I'm not that pro-nico at the moment, so nope
He has a great name, so I expect him to do well
I'm convinced that Grojean would have beaten him had he stayed, and will try and prove it when i have the chance
I might be able to help you with that...
Time machine?
I saw Nico drive in A1GP a couple of years ago, he was very good. Sadly we get no coverage of any Jnr series here on the TV
I can't believe he didn't want to marry you, Amy. link
I saw him at the Taupo round. He was in a different race to the rest of them - on a circuit he'd never been to before and with no chance to train prior to racing there!
Congrats amy! ;)
so rude. Obviously he didn't feel the sparks that time our eyes met. Maybe because he was wearing sunglasses and I couldn't see his eyes.
#sorryamy
Sounded like Steven was asking the question
Oh wait DIDNT. Must read properly. I blame window man.
I'm just going to be quiet now, and not make suggestions that arent true ;)
I sounds like you are trying to install windows.
I noticed that. It's nice that Kimi knows who Amy is at least (or sounded like he did)
he is quite shy, there were just too many people around. #makesplansforspa
:D
With the change of contract maybe Kimi will be having to make cutbacks? Perhaps he would enjoy staying at the place you found?
I got a smile out of Heikki! I think Kimi was just frowny because he was in red and he knows he belongs in black and silver, and he couldn't smile at me because he was not happy to be cheating on me with that team.
So I tried to run Linux Mint off a USB drive last night. I installed it as said, booted up and started to load off the drive, then it said 'session halted - CRC error'. What did I do wrong?
Jenson might put him up with all the extra $$$
I do plan on hanging my Finnish flag up. He'd feel right at home.
CRC is normally a disk error. Hmmmm. Getting a kernel to boot off USB is tricky. Did you build it or download an image?
Downloaded off an image. Should I format the drive in a special way? I am running XP and I would like to try out Mint...
Sadly, I was never able to do this successfully with Linux, although I know it can be done. Ask Google? It may depend on the USB drive - that Linux loads up the correct driver while booting.
There are USB drive preparation utilities that make them bootable from some operating systems. Do some more reading, and best of luck.
Actually, it's sometimes easier just to make a bootable DVD or CD from and ISO if that is an option. Not as cool as having it on USB tho
That's what I thought - I did see something about preparing a flash drive so I'll try that first... I just want to see what it is like ;)
a sort of backwards way would be to burn the iso on cd run it and use linux to install the iso on usb using usb-creator or something similar named
he can even have the upper bunkbed *feels generous*
Oh Mr. C, Ross Brawn was on R5L's Sportsweek yesterday, from an undisclosed location...
ooooooooh.
Interview is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8324643.stm
Ross's kitchen?
Don't know, he just didn't say ;)
Morning everyone :)
Timo news:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79769
I know there were a lot of discussions yesterday about Jenson's salary and so on. I had a thought...
I wonder if they are happy to put him back on to his old salary but that something went wrong with the bonus arangement part of the contract.
I mean Jenson took a pay cut to get the team running, but what if there was a winning the world championship bonus that Brawn thought had been invalidated for this year?
Morning :)
'ello
This month's F1 Racing just popped through the letterbox. I bet they had their fingers crossed that the race for the championship would go down to the last round at Abu Dhabi and give them a few weeks to put together a worthwhile article.
Instead, enjoy a dozen pages of Jenson Button. The joys of deadlines eh?
Otherwise, looks like a fairly interesting issue. Especially the Adrian Sutil piece.
so those dozen pages aren't much good, then?
Sutil's piece is the one with the piano, right?
It is indeed.
FWIW, Donington's deadline to repair their breach of contract has just passed. They're officially in trouble - the legal kind.
So if anyone is bored and looking for something exciting to read you could read the article I just published...
Are there an even number of even numbers? http://tinyurl.com/yjn9oow
It actually makes complete sense. Amazing.
That reminds me of a very good set theory lecture that I had a few years ago about finite and infinitely countable sets - I'll see if I can find it and comment on it for you (later ;) )...
Thanks sounds interesting.
Cool.
I do not like your conclusion.
I am sorry about that.
It is much neater this way... honest.
That is a common reaction in Mathematics!
I like the bit about it fitting in nicely between -1 and 1.
Yes and that's where the problem comes from I guess. Sorry.
0 can be considered neither negative or positive though...
Good afternoon!
Anyone for some Max news? Some general comedy to lighten the afternoon?
Then you are in Luck! http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091025/SPORT/710249844/1374/SPORT
But it is even.
Booooo
I was wonder if Lewis will be slower with it because all that sliding will be harder on the tyres and he will have to pit more?
Qik!
a dozen pages of Jenson??!!! *cough* i mean... how awful!
good afternoon :D
I hope so (that is if Kimi will drive for McLaren)
Hahahahaha'
;)
Back home now. I really am having an odd day.
so how is everyone this afternoon? having a nice day?
* Woken up my roadworks outside my house... that finished when I woke up. Grr.
* Had a man staring through my window as he measured the windows for new fitting. Which apparently was Bassano or Kathi ;)
* Local main road closed off so I had to go on a trek for a bus
* Bus driver was new and got lost on the route that was obviously changed
* I found £5 in my shoe (how?! Why was it there!!)
* Wondered why the ATM wasn';t taking my card... then I realised I was putting in my Iceland card...........
But now I am home and safe and the window man has gone and there is no roadworks so I assume the rest of the day will fingers crossed make sense ;)
Woah... formatting fail on the doohickey
out of the blue, I just won a Polaroid digicam. How odd. Hehe.
hehe lets hope the rest of your day goes alright.
yeah, mentioned yesterday. i brokened it during the update.
that's awesome! congrats!! i could have done with one of those while i was in cambridge :) have fun with it :)
Ah oki doki. That makes sense (which is excellent for me at the moment)
go Journeyer!
hey Mr C, did you see the U2 gig in the end?
it's actually funny - I wasn't even looking when they were drawing the winner, then I just looked up from the doohickey when everyone gasped behind me. Apparently, my name came out on the big screens.
i did. twice this morning.
planned to watch it all day on continuous loop. but youtube pulled the feed.
Well thats just rude.
hehe awesome :)
oh does that mean i can't watch it now?
off air atm.
:(
Have you had your driving lesson today yet Lou?
nope, it's at 3:30pm am just hoping the weather holds and i have a nice sunny lesson.
*looks outside*
I'm gonna say it will be sunny. Although the weather in Kent may be completely different to Wales. And our weather changes every 10 minutes. And I'm not a weather expert.
Still! :P
Yes it is.
Although you should never divide by zero ;)
Hehehe awesome!
Doohickey > prizes
Mr C, I might need a version that works on the plane wihout internet?
Unless we can get bassano to use his orange drill to install one in the wheelwell of my plane? (although this plan may require a long cable)
Please don't make me go to work :(
You are sick today
*Jedi hand gesture*
Wow! #sorryamy
Perhaps he didnt realise you were the amy from the doohickey?
I found this video about kimi and james hunt. The hair growing is making them the same person http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR0_c82I3Pg
Have you changed to the new job yet?
Yas party post?
There seems to be some wxcitement around the city which is good:http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091026/NATIONAL/710259853/1374/SPORT
DC has done a Q&A and said some good and bad things, but he is confident he wont mistake a hotel for a red flag http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79774
And i cant remember if i posted this or not, but i got sent it again, worlds slowest lap of the track http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPdOW_WArvk
If you are going to see a baby for the first time are you supposed to bring it a present?
(I have no idea on these matters, and i am noit sure he would remember anyway, but i suspect his mother would!)
What if you saw them over Skype?
hehe, well i have seen him on facebook, but i dont think that really counts!
I would buy the mother a present unless you are the godfather.
if however you do buy a present for the baby. Make sure that whatever you buy cannot make any noise.
Vodka it is!
You may need to enquire about feeding if you are going for Alcohol.
Hahaha Thats brilliant! I am totally getting it a drum!
Thats true, but i would say there is a 95% chance she is drinking ;)
Christ, he doesn't make it sound good does he? "Mickey Mouse" and "Too risky to overtake"?
You're trying to make me ill now?? Haven't you done enough by eradicating my favourite food?
Not until I get back in March. It's only maternity cover. She's busy getting fat at the moment.
It almost sounds like a european circuit :P
They need to find a way to clean the tracks over there, turkey had some crazy machine to do it i wonder if they will get one of those.
Although it would peobably be easier to have a completly different slection of tyres for tracks which will be dusty...
I gave you a sick day!
You can sit in bed and eat cheese to your hearts content!
No. I'm sure you made me sick. Now I have an awful tummy ache!
Too much cheese and Ice cream for somone this weekend!
No! All I've had today is a hearty soup. And cereal but that could never have made me ill.....
It was you and your voodoo hand action.
"Q. There is some concern about the lights on the hotel being on during the race and distracting the drivers. Is that really an issue?"
we literally made that up last night didn't we? was that ever a real fear of drivers?
Maybe the drivers will try to peek in to the rooms to see if anything interesting is going on.
i have an hour till my driving lesson and the sky is now grey! help! i don't want another wet driving lesson! 2 hours in the rain isn't fun...
It makes it easier to get the tail out though ;)
They all listen in dont they? You probably had some of them quite worried. I think DC just did that Q&A as a favour to rob to help him get Fisi out from behind the sofa ;)
Tim must be quaking too!
Yay for boredom on the xbox :P
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/brawnava
but i have a few weeks till my test and i wanna be able to practice as much as i can doing manoeuvres and things :)
Afternoon all. I feel like bragging so....
Why James, that was on my blog last week.
AT this point i think he has resigned himself to crashing at the pit exit :P
ALPHONSO IS WOUNDED
Nando? How?
*adds jonny to lurkers list*
Or is it your car? I think i remember you giving that a name...
Errr no. My car.... :P
Alonso? what happened?
oooooh right! what happened?
i misread that as brawnana.
i thought he was bringing out his own range...
Is that Jonathon noble in the middle ;)
Someone's scraped the front corner. Boooooo!
Rosberg 'ready' for winning car
he doesn't give away which winning car though ;)
Track them down!
forgot the link http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79770
:( oh no
Mmmmmmmmmm. Brawnanas. Well they have the basic livery right for it so...
Right i am off to the shops. If Alison is out driving her wounded car/pet please dont crash into me ;)
!!!!!!!
and he plugs them from the pitwall.
oooo Brawn have a new feature coming to their shop!
Missed opportunity for Brawn me thinks
Maybe it was Kimi trying to pass you?
Yeah. My poor poor car. He needs the doctor.
Rubens to release his first EP?
And i just got a tweet from the medical car driver!
I am so down with the paddock!
He'll sing with the team and there'll be a lot of "Lah-la-la-la-la-lah-ing"! :D
when will Jenson appear here? i keep checking the site to find out! http://www.formula1.com/teams_and_drivers/hall_of_fame/
When he is declared champion at the FIA Gala I believe
That should be sometime in November, when the results are finalized.
oh :( can't they just give him the tophey now?
The FIA need some excuse to have a worthful race at Abu Dhabi...
Bernie needs to justify the money he wasted on Abu Dhabi
Jenson just better watch the whole "I am the World Champion" stuff. He just might be brought up under 151.C or something like that.
:D
I adore Brundle's description of the Brazilian GP:
There were cars out of position on the grid, accidents galore, handbag fights on the side of the track, a safety car, wildly varying strategies, Finns setting fire to each other in the pit lane and brilliant overtaking moves.
He makes it all sound perfectly normal for a Brazilian race!
Oh fudge! I don't have any money for my parking meter. Grrrrr! I spent all my change in my mad petrol crisis scramble.
Does it seem strange to anyone else that Brawn are winners of both Championships yet cannot afford to pay Jenson a Champion's salary? I though they were being very selective with their sponsorship in order to raise the value. It now seems they actually did not have much in the way of sponsors. Will Mercedes bail them out with a buy out? If so could the cars next year simply be called Mercedes F1.
I actually hope not, I don't want to see the Brawn cars turn silver.
I'm pleased with my work today, managed to streamline some more things that I can't believe I didn't think of first time around :)
I think it's just a case of being frugal.
I refuse to allow them to get rid of their awesome livery :(
then the gala dinner wouldn't be the same... i wonder what they'll do for Jenson this year.. they had an ice car for Kimi i believe. Can't remember what they did for Lewis...
They wouldn't dare take away his championship..
Whats awesome about it?
i think they don;t see the point in paying a driver lots of money when they need lots of money for development. remember they aren't funded by Honda anymore, they've got to be careful with their money.
and with that i'm going for my driving lesson :)
It is made of brawnsomeness
Good luck! Have fun!
We disagree on something I think the lemon merange livery makes for very good photos when in wet conditions - somehow it sets the colours off.
Its white with some highlighter pen on it.
Have fun lou
it's white with too much highlighter pen on it.
Why I ask is apparently they have spent most of the 120 million that Honda gave them to play with. I don't blame Jenson wanting more when Kimi wants some 25 million euros (i think that is the currency). I doubt that Nico will come cheap. How do you think will drive for the same amount they paid Jenson this year? Until now I thought there was no chance of Jenson leaving, but I have my doubts now.
It's distinctive whether you love it or hate it. It stuck in people's minds.
And it made them fast. It wasn't the engine... it was the yellow. ;)
So you think less highlighter - what about Silver with highlighter?
Its only distinctive for me because they were successful. Had they not been, easily forgettable.
Like 3/4 of the grid this season.
People remember Earth Dreams even though the car was utterly crap
And so was the livery
:D
Hey, that was a good livery.
Its not my favourite livery that is Toro Rosso I just love the opulent gold on the nose and yes I like Force India because it is so absurdly patriot that its rather fun.
I am the only person it seems that liked the original Earth Dreams.
Makes me wonder what USF1 is gonna be like...
Rich, you are not alone my good man.
Boring White and Red "YouTube" or some ghastly patriot stars and stripes.
One of my all time favourites was Sauber with their blue and turquoise that really worked. The most livery has to be either Toyota or BMW (Williams summer plumage is not a lot better - last winter non-racing plumage though was great)
I like the yellow and black Renault livery ;)
Meant to say the most BORING livery is
I LOVE Sauber's old late 90s livery
i just want livery designers to have some degree of talent, before embarking on a paint job. williams are a great example of ho to do it right.
Jaguar wins hands down every time
It was memorable and I hoped they would have returned this year with it when they lost all of their sponsors.
I expect next years to have blue in it. orange will be gone for sure.
Could me one of my top three - I also liked the Jaguar F1 paint job.
Have you all seen xkcd's site today... Geocities is closing down:
http://xkcd.com/
Good lord!
It's quite... Isn't it!
i forgot about webrings!
#sidepodspace
Looks like the weather for tomorrow's launch is going to be a problem. It is currently 60% no go. There is another launch window on Wednesday where the weather is 40% no go. Quite why NASA have switched to reporting no go percentages rather than go percentages I have no idea. I guess they just like being confusing.
To make up for the possibility of their not being a launch I give you this interesting if very weird picture from Mars.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1500.html
Nasa iPhone app!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/6439041/Nasa-releases-iPhone-application.html
Wonder how much ROI Yahoo got for the £2bn they paid for Geocities...
Seems to me a lot of the picture content won't work well on a small screen but a lot of the other stuff is very interesting
a minus number is my guess.
Evening All! I see donningotn have been quietly editing their website... http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79777
You sure your not just jealous of it because sauber blended in with all the other teams?
I really dont think USF1 is going to be sponsored by them majorly on the car. Maybe a small logo in the corner if anything
I didnt like it so much, it was a good idea but ended up so cluttered they would have been better in purple and white.
Do we even know they are sponsoring it? I thought it was a founder of YouTube.
I love it, especialy the image fail thing and the under construction symbols!
It made me realise there arent enough webrings anymore! Perhaps we should make a sidepodcast webring!
No I've said it before, I'll say it again. The liveries are boring. BMW, Brawn, Toyota, Force India, Williams (to an extent, shoulda kept the winter livery), Renault are so unimaginative its rubbish. I love Honda's previous attempts, at the least they were original.
I don't think youtube is anything to do with it. Chad Whatisname is personally involved
It is and he sold them on to google. I imagine their multimedia production may partner with them to some extent but beyond that I dont really see the point in them advertising. Its like marketing tap water.
I liked Brawns this year, i thought they chose the colour well. It seems we have too many cars using blues and reds, they creativly went fdr something very different
It is the fault of the sponsors.
There is no sponsor who could make Ferrari not red.
But the smaller teams need the money more.
It did look a little cluttered with random sponsors in Brazil I will admit, but that's understandable.
Me and lou just stood staring at the Brawn in Goodwood though for ages. Such an awesome car :)
I found it on friday morning i dont think anyone realised it was there there was literaly one other person there, when i went back on sunday it was 4 deep!
The highlighter would have worked well with black. Aside from that, its not excting enough.
Chad Hurley... It is just, just possible that they may have a good livery because of him. He is a usability expert. And when he worked at paypal he designed the logo. So he isn't just a techy geek. The polish is important to him.
It would just have looked like a poor imitation of JPS althought it would definitely looked better in black than white
Tell me about it! I'm glad I got to see it with noone around too on the friday.
Apparently i have decided that punctuation is superfluous, apologies!
I just remember seeing a Brawn cap with Black background and yellow. It just looked really nice.
White cars go faster than black cars.
Anyone on the street in dubai can tell you that!
Have you seen Rubens' Brawn tshirt that is yellow on black?
No
How can you be an F1 fan if you dont memorise all the t-shirts? :P
I can't find the Rubens stuff but to give you an idea of the yellow on black Brawn stuff
He was wearing it after the race http://www.autosport.com/gallery/photo.php/id/1320746
I feel such a failure
JUst ranfg the guy i am staying with. Who read my itneray and said thats fine....
Hes out of the country for the rest of the week "i DIDNT REALISE"
..in the middle of a slight heart attack at the moment!
good evening everyone :)
Evening lou. How was your lesson?
it went really really well, lots of manouvres, and covered nearly everywhere i could go on my test :) 5 more lessons till my test... scary stuff.
The final few hurdles before the finish line :)
I didn't know you had a test booked. You must be getting good at driving now
i've had it booked for a while... just been keeping it quiet ;) i'm no longer panicking at absolutely everything. i just get on with it now which is a nice feeling :)
That's awesome :) I'm sure you will be fine! I was a wreck constantly before my test!
Saved!
I have another friend willing to shelter a poor refugee like me!
On the missing Ross brawn front... Doesn't he live in Italy still? Maybe that's why he flew back a different way?
Henley i think..
Helloo
Evenin'
evening :)
In terms of pure sport, I like the thought of managing the car through the race rather than three flat-out stints at the limit of the car. It should mean a driver has a greater say in the outcome. Unfortunately it might not be very thrilling.
I was fine but I just couldn't drive. My instructor wanted to cancel my test half an hour before the event because I was driving so badly. In the end I sailed through the test.
they let you take the test in a boat?
:)
:D
I thought they currently focus on 5 locations - the 4 tyres plus the refueller. This should make it easier in terms of reducing places to look, but in reality much harder because a stop will only last 3.5 seconds.. they won't have the 3.5 second change, then another 4.5 to look at the arms and wait for the fuel... it'll get hectic.
Cats
that's what I was trying to say
Of course
It wasn't funny
It sounds like the roads must be might dangerous that far north! First alison has crashed her car and now they have let steven take his test at sea!
ah, sorry
I thought everyone was.
I've never had so much fun photoshopping bernie ecclestone's hair :D
They've ruled out the flag as the main theme, although I expect it to feature in a smaller capacity.
I have bought a book about him today for my flight home!
Big eagle feathers on the wings, and a beak for the nose!
When did Alison crash her car?
That's good to know, the flag bit is fine for A1GP if it ever emerges from the ashes.
evening all!
right... I really need to start reading the topic before I arrive!
oops, i meant somone crashed into her...
Windsor mentioned in a couple of months back. It works really well in A1GP.. just not in F1
hey
I could see a design with an eagle and its beak and talons looking as good as the Red Bull with its Horns and snorting.
Oh Im just working on a little something. problem is I need a large high quality picture of Jean Todt in order to get it working...
Yes that is a terrifying request
Too true - why not invest your considerable talents in making something attractive like the livery for the new USF1 with a sort of eagle design.
it's not motorsport related, but i've put up a selection of photographs that i took while away in Cambridge on my flickr if anyone is interested and fancies having a look.
They aren't brilliant quality though due to an incorrect setting on my camera that i only noticed when i returned. typical ;)
link - http://tinyurl.com/yf6a8bh
I have one taken last night?
http://tinyurl.com/yk2ew5q
It was a little dark...
Perfect ;)
I have found one nevertheless. Somehow.
Its like my version of photoshop! :P
Beak for a nose has been done. Dan Gurney's Eagle indycars had that
today?
Yup, she was suprisingly dramatic about it...
and then clarified our confusion with
Hey Rich,
tried to install Linux Mint onto the USB stick. I can boot off it, but it gives me a CRC error. Any tips on how to prepare the USB drive first? I'm a little confused...
Poor Alphonso. Will he live or is it fatal?
OK as I was saying earlier I was messing about on photoshop and I got myself wondering...
What is F1 was more like a Hollywood film?
F-Me that is scary!!!
Well another day and still no Kimi announcement...
I moved on from chocolate today...
Today it was coffee cake instead...
When will it be the vodka cake? :D
I doubt we'll hear anything until after the weekend... same with Brawn...
a quick plug for our first sidepodcompetition:
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/10/26/the-best-sidepodcompetition-in-the-world/
please do check it out, have a go yourself and let us know if the funky new submission form works at all.
as ever, yell in the comments (on that thread), if you has issues. good luck!
Already done. Funky new submission form worked beautifully! (as long as it arrived at your end, that is!)
it did. thank you :)
yay!
Just driving me out of my head... I am soooo struggling to concentrate...
Autosport's hit rate is probably double the usual purely on me checking in every few seconds just in case...
If we get the right news it'll be champagne cocktails but if not...
Awesome compo. You guys don't start small do you :-)
Unfortunately I don't think I can make it, pretty sure that weekend I've agreed to do something for Dad, so good luck to whoever can! I expect a full report.
I'm not sure I can enter either (for other reasons - I could make it though ;) ), but I might try out the form just to help you guys...
I should say I was going to put this in the right thread, but didn't want to start a string of "can't make it" comments over there
I suspect you should start making contingancy plans unless he gets some new management...
i'll move it, because it's quite a good way of gauging interest in whether we should do future competitions. if no-one enters, but no-one says they can't make it, we might ditch the idea. if you follow.
Ah bumsocks!
One day Mr C, I promise I'll get the hang of these breakout threads!!! :(
Okay. Just didn't want to start on a 'downer', 'cos it is a great competition and hopefully you'll get lots of entries.
hehe. i tell you what. i won't move any. but if either of you want to repeat your comments, you're welcome to. pat does make a good point though.
Thanks - will do :D
At this rate, you will end up going Mr C.
Heck, that's fine by me ;)
:P
If you dont get many responses i could tell friends and family on facebook at somepoint?
Loads of time for people to enter, it only just opened.
So remember how I spent 2 hours at the weekend fixing my mother-in-law's 2004 computer and although I made it faster, I told them to get a new one?
He's buying a 17" Dell Laptop with Windows 7 tomorrow :D
Father-In-Law, that is ;)
hehe I was going to say!
Looking into going to the WRC instead...
Some pluses... hotels are tons cheaper than when F1 comes to town....
Ok sorted most things now the big decsion...
Do I check in first or pack my bag first?
Going to rallies is awesome!
Would he be able to get a competitive car though, and would he do it if he couldnt?
There are a good few drivers in rallying who can't get a competitive car, because there aren't enough cars any more.. I wonder what their reaction would be..
Having said that, the field isn't as strong as it used to be...
Hey all again
Is it still in Wales next year? Heard it was moving up north a bit?
I dont think it will be in wales, there was quite a big row about it all!
They just signed a new deal to keep it in Wales
True.. but if the likes of Petter Solberg are hunting around for work, that can't be good.
Donington should be a good place for it considering the environmental mess Gillett has it in right now
Yeah but then I went to the Welsh Assembly and went 'oi' and they changed their mind
Oh.
:(
Indeed. I can't be bothered with Rallying at the moment... not enough to interest me :(
Didnt the MSA end up paying for it?
It is in a ridiculous mess. The cars are ridiculously expensive. They need new tech regs. Just before he died Colin McRae was testing a car of his own design that could give good performance at a fraction of the cost.
What was wrong with Group A rules? The BDA Escorts are still exciting to watch.
Super 2000's are the way to go IMO :(
Super 2000 doesn't strike me as all that exciting, though I grant you the only time I've seen them is when they were crawling through the ice of the Monte.. will get a better feel when I get around to a faster event.
A few more manufacturers though .. and the sound great when they are ragging it! :D
I have ended up staying at the end of town near the dubai autodrome for 2 nights, i might try to po down there and have a look.
Ive only seen it from the road before. I hope it doesnt shock everyone when i say it was designed by tilke and its built on a slope?
McRae said they were too slow.
To me they just need to simplify the technology and make the cars sensibly affordable. The WRC is in a mess just like every other major championship which Max was supposed to manage
May as well see what's on :-)
I expect all the racers will be an hour down the raod though ;)
Might get some sportbilkes but i doubt it ;)
If they can afford powerful cars to race on the streets, tell them to try a track day...
hehe i meant at YAS ;)
Speaking of which Eddie's mate andy has done a Q&A on it... http://www.formula1.com/news/interviews/2009/10/10140.html
fyi lou: the u2 concert is now available as a normal youtube video. rewind support included:
http://www.youtube.com/u2#p/u/0/V4QLFVrZ-fw
thank you! :)
hehe i am now imagining youtube HQ as a warehous full of VCR's with people running all over the place to franticly rewind all the videos so the next user can watch them!
be kind, rewind.
The scary thing is i know some people that do probably think that!
I enjoyed that film!
it's a film?
yep.
It used to be a sticker!
@Gavin
I think you need to do an Md5sums as a first possible issue is a corrupted download.
CRC stands for Cyclic Redundancy Errors (CRC Check Failed Error) and means part of an archive probably did not fully unzip and your installation is trying to access files within this damaged archive.
Check this website to to get a program to check the MD5 sums it should be the same as from your download site (just an ASCII string). Sorry I do not have a Windows PC to test.
Rich,
You've lost me - I have checked the file using something called Hashtag and it's given me an MD5 sum. What now?
The ASCII string should be the same as the MD5 file that accompanies most Linux (or other big file install). The MD5 is just a text file you can open and compare with. I have not had this problem EVER but I do check my files before attempting to install.
I've got no idea now - there is an MD5 inside the ISO and it's all gobbledegook.
And you lot said this would be easy?
I am glad i am not the only one!
I think its a myth they all perpetuate to advance their cause! :P
It's some kind of worthiness test!
i never said linux was easy. i say it's cheap.
if you want easy, buy a mac. it'll cost you a fortune, but it is childplay.
I am seriously considering it...
Although their ad has put me off a little!
I never said YOU said it was easy ;)
:)
?
This one
Sorry that kinda failed http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/758/0
This time it is different - because they just ripped off OSX!
Well I have never had this problem, it is explained in the Linux Mint documentation -
In the MD5 file is 64e2a290fb51f8e7a9d058355fe93d0e if this differs to what your download file is then there is a problem,
Gere is link to the Mint Documentation which is very easy reading.
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_gloria.php
I must be a freak as I find Windows hell of complex. I still do not know how to use an ISO file in windows to make a bootable CD.
I just told it to burn to disk...
64E2A290FB51F8E7A9D058355FE93D0E
It's the same - so it's something to do with preparing the USB drive - but how do I do that? I'm trying UNetbootin now and seeing if that works...
Unetbootin is great it will make a bootable USB - but you will not be able to save stuff to it (viz it is not a persistent disk drive). Initially you just want to check compatibility.
"windows store" is worse though isn't it?
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/32568/Grand-opening-for-first-Microsoft-store
that's says: "we have no longer have an original idea in our heads. we can't even sell this stuff in an original way".
that is what you do in Linux and Windows and in XP it simply copies the dam file without unpacking it.
Sorry meant in Linux and on Macs!
I guess it depends on the buring programme you use in XP.
I just downloaded the first free one i could find and it worked fine
Are you still going with that?
Sorry Mr C i put that in the wrong thread shall i repost it in the more races one:?
i kill you!
yeah, ok :)
Didn't work :(
Which bit?
Can I make a CD Linux can boot off or will that not be persistent either? There must be something wrong with the USB drive?
Linux live CD is easy. But then, where do you write your data? Some of them will mount your hard drive for you.
That's my argument about Windows you have to find the program download it and check - use a decent Linux or OS X it is there for you. About the worst is simply type sudo apt get and whatever package in the terminal and it finds and installs. Linux is just so easy.
To me it just said hey moron, you moved from a rubbish OS to another one to another one. What a fool you are.
My reaction to that add is, you may be right but why would i want to have anything to with you, i am not even a customer yet and you are treating me like that?
I get what they are saying, but there are thousands of better ways of doing it than that...
Booting off a USB drive - it boots, loads a choice screen for mint, I choose an option (tried a few) and they start loading ( I see text and dots), it says ready, then it says 'CRC error - system halted'...
Perhaps, but to me its easier to type something into google and 4 or clicks later the programme is running, no need to type inot a terminal at all?
LOL. Easy? Yeah, when you know how. Linux is for enthusiasts.
I couldn't agree more!
it's an america advertisement, for an american audience. i've no idea if it makes any difference, but the uk ads are different.
anyhow, i don't need to defend them. use linux.
If you can get the chuffing thing working!
i agree. but as was pointed out to me on twitter, android is linux.
Have you tried a different type of USB stick?
:P
hehe fair enough, but i think its more of "fight linux" than use at the moment! ;)
I don't have one the right size - it's either this 4GB or a 500MB one...
You can put any number of skins over the Linux kernel. I was just making a comment on the whole "sudo apt get is easy" thing. You could make Linux like OSX, is you could be bothered.
Can I boot linux and use it fully off a CD-R? Because I have one...
i've been using it for about 10 years. and i'm still not comfortable with it.
I think you need to test compatibility so you can make a bootable CD. The other think I can think of is the graphics card - but you can use the safe boot to check that with Linux Mint.
Safe boot hung too...
yeah, you just cant save settings i think
Look, it depends what you are after. If you just want to try linux, grab the Ubuntu Live CD (or DVD) image, burn that and try it out. If you want that other specific distro, then you have other things to sort out.
500 MB is to small - 4GB is what I use to make a persistent drive - with Mint Gloria you can use a 3GB Casper
Hmmmm. You might get DSL to work in 500MB.
You have been here?: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
Sure Gentoo and Arch are for enthusiasts - but Linux Mint especially is for normal users. You could use Ubuntu but then you have to install more drivers like a Flash Player.
That's where Rich started me off :)
OK. Am now trying it for myself. You are trying Mint yes?
Yes I am.
What does 'Install inside Windows' mean?
I presume it means you install it to the USB, while you are running Windows.
Gavin should be using Mint Gloria 9 - its Ubuntu Jaunty based use the Gnome desktop.
meant Gloria 7
Yes - which is my problem just at the moment - I would have to be atone of my labs to get access to a Windows PC.
@Mr and Mrs C just in case you wanted to plan ahead or anything... the new top gear series starts Sun 15th November and runs over 6 eps with the last on Sun 20th December.
It's also in HD, as Mr C mentioned something about wanting it to be in HD last night
Only 6 episodes!? they are clearly running out of ideas.
it was 6 last series, wasn't it? i think it's more the matter of less episodes means more money to spend on each one..
thanking ya.
i do. but will likely series pass via itunes, because we has no tv.
I just checked the last one had 7, I suppose 6 is better than nothing :)
HD iplayer?
More a case of 'keep them wanting more', now there is worldwide demand for each UK series
ooh, could do. but if my interest is in the cinematography, rather than the content, will that be good enough?
Obligatory 'I remember when it was about cars' remark ;)
Right... Mint Gloria 7 runs off the CD :)
;)
iplayer is your friend
I've used it. the quality is rather impressive.
Haha, it really isn't. Have never heard such moaning from the man.
in that case i shall check it out.
You could get it on Blu-ray at some point i am sure ;)
hehe.
damn you.
that would make a useful coaster, yes.
hehe :D
Mist is taking for-ever to download. I shall be here all day.
That should be Mint, not the old Mac game
why doesn't mr c like iplayer? it's awesome! :)
You and I both know that. He is odd.
Evening everyone.
I've done so much typing today and tonight my fingers feel numb
Would it help if he had a dookickey?
If it had a doohickey... oh dear, i should realy pack before i forget how to do that...
It's rather exaggerated. It's the first Abu Dhabi GP so tickets should sell well, and selling out Friday and Saturday reflects that, but they've put in so few seats that in reality it will still be one of the lowest attended race days of the year.
poxy bloody thing. i can't never find anything at all. it's designed for people with some kind of implicit knowledge of television schedules. what if you don't KNOW when something is on, or if you don't even KNOW what you'd like to watch?
where's the "this is popular, by this genre" page. or the "things have have been updated since you went away"?
how many seats do they have/have they sold?
i tweeted about last.fm just now but its still blowing my mind
I'll agree with you there -if you know what you're looking for it is great.
But as a browse round-type-of-app it can leave you feeling frustrated.
You can't find Heartbeat?
I have to turn it - as tomorrow it is a 5am start to get our department's display kiosk set-up at a research open day. Be around tomorrow evening setting the lab for practical exam.
Not sure which Linux you use by Mint has been the easiest of the live CDS I have dealt with.
Have you seen this page?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/
Only because once you select a category it has popular, highlights, and more.
I guess yes, i normaly just flick though the EPG and if there is something i miss i look for that on iplayer.
if you dont have an epg i guess it is tricky...
nope, and do you know why? because it assumes you know what damn channel the program is meant to be on before you start.
i don't care if it's bbc 1, bbc 2, or bbc 3. arbitrary channel naming does not mean anything to me.
Because it isn't on the bbc?
You dont have to browse it like that!
:lol:
ah-ha. no. although i should add, i mostly use the itouch version and so is a magnitude of order worse than the homepage. i shall browse now though.
so the question is, now that I can get Mint running off the CD:
1) What does it mean when it says "Install within WIndows"?
2) Can I install Mint onto my USB disk while running it from the CD?
oh...
oops.
Mrs C really should Qik his frustration :P
(obviously without showing the mystical face ;) )
:D hehe well he is slowly coming round to being a Jenson fan :P so who knows... maybe we can make him like iplayer...
you do on the touch, but fair enough we aren't comparing like-for-like.
i should say, i hate the poxy mobile iplayer.
It seems fairly stright forward to me. Once you have the USBMint.exe expanded to a directory, move the ISO into that directory, then run fixmint.bat. (This is all in Windows XP) This will burn the ISO to the USB drive. I'm not up to that yet, as I am still downloading the ISO
there are search facilities ;)
Did all that!
You should be able to test it as a live OS without any install.
I think it means there is some issue with your USB stick.
Sorry, posted and then went off to read the Northern Waffler :-)
50,000 seats.
That's enough to classify Shanghai as deserted
I thought you probably did, that's why I am trying it, to see what happens. But it might be tomorrow before my download finishes.
Could be the USB stick.....?
but i don't know what to search for.
the page christine linked to is helpful. what i want is... show me all the best comedy shows and let me pick the best ones.
kinda like itunes does. i like itunes.
why do you watch it on your ipod?
but they at least there won't be empty seats ;)
oh!
I'll try another one tomorrow and see if it is that ... could it also be because I am using a USB plug on the front of the PC?
See cause what I want to do is keep this PC as a windows PC, but be able to run Linux on it when I want so that I can access the files on the computer using either OS. Is that possible?
a) because the flash video on mac can be quite jumpy. and regularly falls below 25 frames a second. the ipod never seems to drop a frame and the video isn't encoded using flash.
b) because it's a comfortable way to watch tv.
It'll look better, true, but if they only just sold out this week, you wonder how they will do next year once the novelty factor has gone.
Unlikely, but then, you never know.
I like this guy :)
hehe well Merlin is a good start :P (i'm really not obsessed with that programme at all!)
well.. most new and most interesting things appear on the front page, but i can see how the simplicity of itunes appeals. the only problem is itunes (except podcasts) costs money... iplayer only costs bandwidth :D
Holding an iPod Touch is comfortable? I get sore hands and I get all fidgety. Plus if I am on the train, the glare from the window or the lights is a killer!
If there's a WiFi connection at work it's an easy way to kill a lunch hour...
Yes, that's possible. You could even try making a dual-boot system, if you really want some grief :-)
You would have liked me more if I put that as a link I suppose? :-)
good for me. i could watch it for hours (plugged-in).
fair enough :) on the web (am not sure about with the ipod) once you've watched a programme it does have a selection of programmes that are similar and that it recommends which is nice :)
it does that no? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/comedy on the right hand side?
They have an A to Z
So it's difficult then?
If you spend the amount of time on trains I have you don't complain!!!
again, not on the mobile version. clearly i'm missing out.
Its, um, tricky. You have to do things in the right order. You normally end up installing your OS two or three times to get it right.
There are one or 2 more people there though!
I think 50,000 is a good number, it should hopefully be able to maintain that figure...
iplayer need a proper app :)
Oh no, I don't want to do that!
Just a thought Gavin - did you burn the CD that worked from the same ISO that you made the USB from?
As long as it's full the atmosphere will be good - nothing is worse than empty seats!
cd is the best way. Just burn it then when you start up your computer it will let you run linux from the cd. you should easily be able to access your files...
paul ricard httt solved that one.
Indeed I did ;)
? That's a rather odd way of seeing my point? I think 50,000 is a win, myself...
Boo, ok, well it's not a bad image then.
just saying they solved the issue of empty seats.
Its probably more than valencia and they have a succesfull driver.
Its about half of silverstones capacity, but its not to bad to sell that out considering there are no cheap seats/ General admission areas
They need seats to begin with!
It is, but then so is the 90,000 we'd get at Imola / Magny Cours / Montreal.
But It's a subject I feel strongly about and it's too late to get on my soapbox tonight.
I'll reserve judgement until after the race.
:)
@Giggles,
Sorry I haven't had time to make that comment - but I was late home from the train today and running behind schedule. WIll post it tomorrow :)
It's either a bad Drive or a bad USB port?
Well if you look at it that way, you have a point!
Magny cours and montreal i would agree with, but I dont think F1 should be going to the same countries twice unless we up the number of races.
You could of course say that monaco is effectivly france is race, but i think that could be an exception
But we don't hae another race i France
My typos are getting worse. Maybe if I don't use any vowels I will not make so many mistakes
Monaco IS the French Grand Prix :P
You need a new keyboard!
And the 2 races in Spain we watch because of Alonso's success - in a country historically that hasn't had good attendances...
Plus the 2 races in Germany when 'Herr Chin' was winning everything in sight, now with 2 WDC drivers on the grid Britain could lose their race whilst another 'money' event rocks up.
Grr.
I wasn't going to get all blah blah tonight - If Mr C or Christine don't mind me sharing a link to my blog you can read my views on it all at your leasure...
I know, i meant Imola was a seccond italian GP in all but name.
Monaco is a slightly different catogory as it at least takes place in a seperate state, albeit one which everyone access's though france
The one exception to this rule i could see is the US which is perhaps big enough to justify 2 races
leisure (Stoopid fingers...)
They're targetting the "prawn-sandwich" set though
That is what I was trying to say
always. plug away.
or new fingers
An east(ish) and west(ish) coast race I could handle.
As long as there are FANS in attendance and racing....
Thank you - you know I would always ask out of politeness and respect :)
The link is here:
http://f1tailpipe.com/?p=344
I don't care if they are targeting Arab Bricklayers called Haziz - as long as people turn up and it's a sellout then it is a win and it's already better than China/Malaysia/Turkey/Korea/Upper Siberia/The Moon (whereever else Bernard chooses next ;) )
I just found out ITV1 have an hour of the Goodwood Revival just about to start.
:( This is the same ITV1 that didn't show Bond here in Poole last week.
Looks like Goodwood's not on either. Bum.
I see what you mean about money events. It is especialy disapointing when you loose your own race. However if their governements want to support the sport and the european governements dont I would say that is more of a failing of the motorsport federations and fans.
It is a world championship not a "countries we have always gone to so we will never go anywhere else championship".
Why do places like monaco have races in the first place? Because they had the money to hold them, its not a new concept, but i there does need to be a balance.
There is no point going to valencia and barcelona if neither races are special tracks which add something to the sport as they both serve the same market. Alternate them if they must.
Is that STV?
We seem to have Bond every Sunday just now. Man with the golden gun last night
The Spainish GP always seems to be packed to the rafters these days (maybe not this year but their is a recession ;)) was Valencia planned before or after Alonso's sucess?
Yes
They are showing Bond films on Sunday afternoons here
Exactly Nick - if there is no British GP next year I can't begin to explain how ****** I will be.
I find it harder and harder to watch races held in soul-less Tilkedromes that line Bernie's pockets with Government cash, and have hardly any fans in attendance whilst events in the traditional heartland of the sport continually lose out because they cannot afford to host these events.
It really gets to me!
I mean, the USGP at Indy wasn't historic in terms of the time it was held there, but at least people turned up to watch - especially those that came back after the 2005 gubbins.
Barcelona was struggling to sell tickets last year, everyone seemed to prefer to go to Valencia. I think they were shared out more between them this year.
We get them in the evening
A weekly magazine in Denmark ran a promotion with a free Bond DVD every week. I have all the movies on DVD now :D
what is the capicty of Barcelona?
140,000 is the record
Evening, folks.
What's this? No discussion of Joe's article on Kimi's woes?
Er - we did yesterday? Perhaps you were sleeping - it was pre-show...
I am sure Mr C would be very impressed with your collection of pretty coasters :P
Seems to me that Kimi will be at McLaren but they are both playing hardball in negotiations
perhaps I was asleep, indeed. What did the Kimi fans say?
Well that's his prerogative - I for one like my DVD's and my 5.1 Surround system :D
I heart facebook, I can play F1 minute from there! (if I could do this before I never realised ;))
How long do you think they will wait?
If heikki is anounced somewhere soon and they dont have an agreement they may just grab nick for a season...
Oh, the usual about how he is so wonderful and just needs the right car...
But seriously, I know he still wants to be in F1 ... but if he gets a huge payout from Ferrari anyway, why is he after so much money?
It will all happen ASAP after Aboo Daboo Dabby!
I suspect as Joe seems to be implying that it may be connected to his motivation.
I can;t imagine it will take too long but it will be interesting if a few of the other drivers start signing for other teams.
Never going to happen. McLaren set up a junior team to run Heidfeld in F3000 and didn't sign him after that. When he was Kimi's team mate they chose Raikkonen ahead of him. When Mercedes would have loved to have had him i the team they didn't sign him. There is no chance McLaren will sign Heidfeld.
Because he is not looking for a one year contract and he wants McLaren to invest enough in him so that they listen to him and don;t just ignore him and do what Lewis wants
i'm falling out with facebook more and more each day... i'm now totally angry with facebook chat as it interrupts typing in other tabs which is really annoying! plus if you are appearing offline people with the ipod app can still talk to you...
But he doesn't need the money...
so if kimi and macca fall out, who gets the seat?
Hehe, that reminds me of ages ago... you can replace the lyrics to the chorus of this song with
Abu Dhabi Dubai Abu Dhabi Dubai....
Alright all, time for me to hit the sack.
Goodnight...
they can!? I didn't know that. I have set to offline on the app all the time.
night
These guys don't want th money because they need it. It is a guide to their importance to the team.
I would expect they will find another driver with a year or two's experience and hope he is better than Heikki
Two things that bug me with Facebook:
1) Apps. I don't want to be your Farm buddy, or in your Mafia family, or in your Yoville posse. I definitely don't want to play your silly games than run dog slow on my computer and I really truly won't accept your gifts because I know it's a front for an app that will just spam the poo out of my Facebook.
2) Why the heck do they keep making fundamental changes to the layout? And why is it slower to load each time? I don't want to re-learn the site every 6 months just because you felt like changing it? No wonder we all choose 'lite'!
Are you using chrome?
I know what you mean. I can;t use Facebook except for Facebook Lite; the main normal website just drives me mad.
You so doo... i remember you repeatedly bragging about your farm! :P
but if senna can offer to drive for williams for free - and we know how quick he is - why can't kimi do it? Bottom line shouldn't be the
money, it should be the car you get.
Yeah, then I realised how pointless it was. Have you played Farmville? It's just random clicking! There's no skill, no goals and no point! I played for aaages and nothing happened :(
but on the lite version you can't listen to f1 minute ;)
I'll happily take that jump so I don't have been told 6 billion times about people's stupid scores and their bloody farms!!
Exactly. Kimi should have just walked up to McLaren and said "Guys... I'm free, I'm awesome, and if you build me a good car I'll kick that pretty boy's a***!"
Hehe, my biggest annoyance with the latest change is the default is the new feeds which is hours behind. when they first did it it was a whole day behind. I have to switch to the live feed :(
not many people fall in that category and are available. Sutil and Glock are the only other options if that's the case.
you know you can just click "hide" on those apps, and they never come back?
there are different feeds though, and you can change which is the default so you could only see status updates if you wanted.
Senna had no intention of driving for Williams for free. He was just trying to de-stabilise Prost. He was paid plenty for every drive he ever had. It's 15 years since he died and he left $164 million in his will
What you are saying is Heidfeld is going to Brawn...
yes, i was on the web version the other day appearing offline, and my friend who only has an iphone atm cause her laptop is broken was chatting to me. it was most odd.
night Adie
But it's not just that. The whole layout. The fact it never works half the time for me, People who can't type english. And so on and so on.
For a social website, it makes me very anti-social!
The guy is a world champion. Where do you get a world champion for nothing?
nope, firefox
With the typing thing i mean status updates 'tht lk lyke dz n stf' - ARGH.
:P
No. Rosberg is going to Brawn
but that's because he was rich to start with.
He was making a million a race at McLaren
but how much was he paid at Williams?
Chome might be better as I think it runs the tabs as individual processes...
Do you know how many apps there are? I seem to hide 2-3 different ones each day!
I would assume a similar amount.
i removed mafia and farmeville and they all went away.
Well it seems McLaren and Toyota are trying ;)
I really hate people who type like that outside of an sms!
Does that mean it uses more memory?
There's a lot more - you are lucky, my friend!
ahhh, i do have chrome, and used to use it alot, but i would open too many tabs in it and it then made my computer very slow :(
With t3 there isn't any excuse to use it an sms either
y? rly iz nt 2 bd 2 tlk lyke tht
They are not trying to get him for nothing. They are just not going to pay the stupid money Ferrari paid him
Mind = x_x
ooh, i forgot to ask. who won tictactoe?
Rosberg isn't going to Brawn.
Lalalalalalalalalalala *closes eyes*
The API did :(
Hmm, Glock might look good there......
there was a winner?
Its really useless now SMS's are cheaper, back in the day it made sense to do it, now it just looks like you have broken thumbs!
You are right. Rosberg is going to Mercedes. It won't be Brawn any more
okay... Rubens is staying at Brawn.
ooh, nice.
night guys ;)
test driver?
Night
see ya tomorrow sir.
Glock and Rubens partnership. I likes the sound of that.
night
night
niiiiight gavin,
it'll still be Brawn Mercedes, ala BMW Sauber.
no! it will be Brawn! don't do this to me! Stop saying things
i don't want to be truethat aren't true! They will be Brawn GP next year and while they maybe funded by Mercedes they shall just put Rosberg at Mclaren and keep the awesome awesome team of Rubens and Jenson...I can't find how
night Gavin.
that's Ant's job ;)
night!
Night Gavin
and Wurz. Don't forget Wurzy
no... Jenson is staying too!... Lukeh help me here! tell them Jenson and Rubens are staying at Brawn! :)
it could be worse. at least they won't unexpectedly fold.
I am sure Mercedes have learned from their time at McLaren not to give someone a platform to build a brand on.
:D
Wurz doesn't work for Brawn GP anymore...well i haven't seen him for aaaggggeess...
Oooh, I know a good partnership. Glock and Trulli. The dream team at Brawn
Nico thinks he can't beat Lewis in the same team, that's why he's Brawn-bound.
wasn't he in the brawn garage in brazil?
when it comes up in the feed, move the mouse over it and "hide" should appear click on it and you can choose from hiding the app or the person :)
Good ol' BMW efficency. Telling us beforehand about an announcement that they are going to fold.
*shudders at the memory of 08 off season* i still have the text christine sent me on my phone, everytime i notice it it makes me smile how they got through it :D
yes you are right it could be worse, but still they are staying... Rosberg wouldn't fit in with Jock being his engineer...
Sauber in BMW's case was just a token, in that they were honoring Peter, but they owned the shop now. Same with Ross and Merc.
Sauber owned 20% of the team
was he? i didn't see.. any pictures of him. I didn't see any FP coverage though, and was very angry through Quali, and worried through the race so it's possible i missed him...
USF1, Campos, Manor, Toyota...
...Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, Red Bull, Toro Rosso, Force India, Williams, please, just one of you, just one, can you pwetty please fold and go kaput for me.
but everyone knows he can't beat Lewis in the same team.. why put him somewhere else anyway?
Not a majority at all. If Merc does buy in, they'll have a 75% stake, Ross will only have 25%. Merc owns the shop.
i believe you're mixing up your Brawns and your toyotas ;) don't worry it's an easy mistake to make given their white liveries ;)
coz Merc want a German to win in a Merc and they can't get Vettel?
Look what you made me do RG! you made me be mean about the Brawn livery... which i kinda like...
aha, thanks
yet... ;)
mwahahahaha.
*Ticks box on checklist
i have my comment from live commenting, does that count?
http://www.sidepodcast.com/2009/10/17/live-brazil-free-practice-3/#comment-547556
well Merc are silly :P i thought he was a fake fin not a german?
and unless Ferrari screw up, they won't get him at all.
heheh yes, i'm not on a search for Wurx related photos.. was he looking all scruffy like the last time he appeared?
yup.
he's still a son of a champion and is a sponsor's dream. Why say no, right?
Alonso comes to mind.
although they got in him the end.
Raikkonen too, come to think of it.
and Vettel is half English
awwww! i did wonder if he was still employed by Brawn because of the team he tried to enter for 2010? then again he hasn't done anything for Brawn this season yet has he?
:)
so there is previous.
looked like he was just being sociable, i think.
aw yay for Wurz being around :)
but wasn't that because Todt wanted to do it his way? Stefano might be more flexible.
Did you just suggest PK for Mclaren? now that would be interesting!
who knows, i've heard Todt wanted Alonso back in 2003 but Flav got him a drive at Renault.
bar Lewis Hamilton no driver will drive for just one team, so Vettel could drive for a Mercedes powered team and Ferrari.
#wurzwatch
Looks like he has been to a few GP's this year
Monaco
Turkey
Germany
Hungary
Valencia
Singapore
Japan
Okay... so it looks like he's actually been there alot and i just haven't seen him...however looking at the pic from Germany it looks like he's doing more work for Mercedes than he is for Brawn now.
It;s official. If it's Brawn related, nothing get's past Lou :P
What are you doing up at this time?
she's in the office. It's past 10 am where she is.
I suspect not even Lewis is exempt from that rule. Who knows, he
might suddenly be in a Ferrari after Alonso leaves/retires.
I can't cope with time zones
I would be amazed if he never left McLaren. The generation of drivers that have just retired have massively skewed our expectations of how long drivers will spend with any one team
they are confusing...of course you have to be careful with not only the time, but the days too :P
oi!
Schumi, DC, Mika spent ages with the same team.
she wasn't necessarily referring to you. You seem to be too defensive. Wehehehe. :p
;) hehe it's true though, i hear it's really easy to do :D
(before you kill me i would have done exactly the same!)