Welcome to the fourth day of the sixth month of 2009 - the 155th day of the year, with 210 to go before the year end. It was a relatively quiet day yesterday, the quiet before the Turkish storm, you might say. Here are some of the things on our minds:
- Talking of storms, it looks as though there could be some rain in Turkey today, but the rest of the weekend is due to be sunny. If this rain takes it's time getting to the track though, it could affect some of the early proceedings over the weekend. Keep your eyes peeled for the weather as we head towards Friday.
- The Backpacker is back, and her guide to F1 is gradually being updated. She's disappeared over the last month or so, but has plenty of insight into the last few races now.
- You voted in your droves but finally we have crowned the winner of the 2009 Sidepodcast Circuit Character Cup. Spa won the vote by an impressive 126 votes to Monaco's 30 - and was winning by a majority for most of the day, including the extra half hour as we forgot to close the polls. Nevertheless, we will crown the circuit soon, and look forward to the race there later in the year.
That'll do it for now. Your F1 Digest preview for Turkey is already up and waiting to be listened to, if you haven't already. As ever, I will see you in the comments.
{People will want to watch F1 racing as it is now, not max's version, TV companies will be lining up to show it, and im sure many of the existing ones will find a way to do find releases in their deals.}
Not a chance of that happening. Max an Bernies contracts are rock solid, just like Williams were with the Banks. BBC are tied in for the remainder of itv's old contract for instance.
Quiet here tonight. That's unusual.
I dont deny the contracts are solid, but there are always clauses for escape (at least with the major providers in Europe). Firstly the whole Ferrari veto thing may be enough to bring a case of misrepresentation on its own. Secondly if all the major teams do pull out, gross mismanagement could be argued. Thirdly the loss of all the major racing institutions could allow an argument to be put forward that the sport has fundamentally changed from the one in the contract.
This isn't to say it would be easy, just not impossible. But i would expect Bernie to be in on any breakaway, he is just to good at the politics to miss out, and he seems to be positioning himself perfectly at the moment
Spookily...
My argument all along has been that if there was a breakaway Bernie would drop Max and go with them. Now that monaco has sided with the manufacturers that is a certainty.
I think the pre FOTA meeting lunch with Bernie was very interesting, and has yet to be fully explained.
I'm beginning to think that just because we haven't heard anything about a breakaway doesn't mean that work on a new series isn't already under way. I suspect the teams do not really want to do it, but they may be preparing something to fire back at Max on June 12th.
I think the plan is to try to force Max out or to put a new Concorde agreement in place that ties his hands to prevent new rules being invented at the drop of a hat. Failing that I think Bernie will tale the Broadcast and circuit contracts and transfer them to the new championships probably buying out CVC in the process.
More likely to expand LMP1 than invent a whole new series i would of thought.
This whole situation is being carefully orchestrated by Bernie. Max is his puppet. Despite the appearance of freedoms, Max does what he is told.
I wish the teams would breakaway from 'Bernmax' completely and make sure that the circuits make enough money to ensure the future of Motorsport in general, whatever we may be racing in the future
For Mr. C:
I love Patronise F1 :D
Club Force tweet suggesting that the weather forecasts are so far accurate:
We are all in Turkey now, there's a massive thunderstorm and lightning overhead. Torrential rain as well!
Also, hi.
w00t!
By the way, misread that as "Club Force Tweet" as opposed to "An electronic message of a short manner received from a society supporting the Formula 1 team from the Indian sub-continent..."
Can I just quickly drop in before work and say Vodafone are incompotent SOBs who can't do their job properly. That is all. Morning!
Hey everyone.
I think Red Bull did their raindance a bit too early. :D
Jonathan Legard on the Beach in Turkey :D
My look back at Felipe Massa's F1 career:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/06/04/felipe-massas-f1-career-in-video/
Max is daring FOTA to start their own series.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75796
We're now closer to the brink than we were when Ferrari sued in Paris...
Well done Max, what a great way to help things out...
Morning guys,
Ooh, the future of Sidepodcast hangs in the balance :)
This is ironic coming from last of the late rule setters Max:
And Max makes a mistake in there:
He owns the rights to the World Championship. FOM own Formula 1.
:o damn you max!
Talking about unsure futures, the postie is in my street at the moment and The Sims 3 should be in my hands very soon. so I'll see you guys in November or so I think! :P
I think you'll just have to fade up the talk on cupcakes and nachos and fade down the talk of cars going round.
:)
He's not out to help anyone but himself.
You're lucky: unlike most other websites, you won't need to rename your site if FOTA breaks away. ;)
Oooooh, you must at least pop in and tell us how awesome it is.
We'll relaunch as Cupcakecast.
the new teams we know about so far:
Campos
USf1
(Brabham)
March
N. Technology
Epsilon Euskadi
Superfund
Lola
Prodrive
Have I forgotten somebody?
Will do, might do a blog entry if it's reeeeeeeally awesome.
Didn't somebody say that somebody would be getting something as a present for something somebody did when somebody was asleep?
I think you'd have to have a breakaway series Nachcast.
So Bernie owns it? Hmmm... That could become very interesting. :)
Somebody did say that. Sadly, it will not run on any of the machinery we have at the moment, so it will have to wait until our next upgrade :)
No, but MWM did a tour of Zytek and asked them if they could make an F1 engine.
The answer was in theory yes, but not without the money and backing from a major car manufacturer, so they didn't want to do it at this time...
Add Williams, and they'll suddenly have 10 teams versus FOTA's 9.
But the new entry list makes me think that Max is Diablo having created an army of the undead (teams)...
Mmmmmmmmmm upgrade :)
For just £1 a month you could buy somebody like Christine a functioning "B" key.
For just £2 a month a game like the Sims 3
;)
And Ferrari. Ferrari are masters of the last minute switcheroo.
And then watch all the new teams get bought out by FOTA members...
Seriously, did you think Litespeed were in it for anything other than money and publicity?
afternoon ...
on that "But we have the Formula 1 championship" by Mosley. yes, FIA does not have F1, FOM own it. but what if Max talks on behalf of himself and Bernie ?
But ah, this is different. I don't think LDM will like losing to Max... and I'm not sure Max is willing to give in too much to Ferrari's demands...
while it is possible, i'd like to think Bernie is smarter than that and would rather keep his options open than siding with Max now.
One never knows with Max. Could be... Could be.
still, when I see reference to "Swiss publication Motorsport Aktuell" I think of GMM (they quote Motorsport Aktuell in half of their stories). Would be nice if somewhere we could see the complete speach by Max rather than sentence here and there
Yeah but you can trust Jonny Noble from AUTOSPORT can't you?
I still have an inkling that this is a massive plan to cause F1 to die. Just so that F1 can start again just in time for a new season next year.
Just enough change to make Bernie's deal with CVC invalid.
Imagine they said the budget cap isn't necessary because every team was to get pots more money from Bernie. Which he can suddenly afford because CVC aren't there any more.
Wow, that's quite conspiratorial and yet quite feasible at the same time...
Bernie hasn't sold F1 for a few years. Surely he wants another go at it.
Morning all
yes, but the fact that Mosley spoke to nobody else only to one publication, and issued no statement himself or through FIA makes me wonder a bit ... althoug I would not be surprised if Mosley said what was published
If they pull that off, that will be the greatest magic trick in F1 history. TBH, I'm surprised that CVC have stayed in and haven't sold out to Bernie yet...
Whats we all chatting about?
Max daring FOTA to start their own series...
http://drop.io/sidepodcast/asset/dsc00673-jpg
Bye life! I'll be back later... :)
Evening all
Greetings Amy. Greetings all.
Quick question - I'm looking to store some files and send links to people so they can download the files. typically 50-70 Mb I expect. I used to use adrive.com but the links only last two weeks and ideally I'd like them to last longer. I'm aware of depositfiles, rapidshare,ziddu,filefactory but i am after recommendations please. Ideally, free and simple for people to download, ideally without having to wait for 60 seconds, and as few pop ups as possible. feel free to send me an email saybekatrocketmail with the obvious three letter word after that (the one that starts with a c). FYI, i don't check that account everyday. thanks, and have a nice day...
What about drop.io?
100 mb in total last time i checked for the freebie accounts. I have a drop io site that i used to post the links on, and i'd put the links there.
to clarify ( i was not clear) multiple files of 50-70 mb each.
Some brusque words from Maximilianus the Greatus... Well, it's obvious now that if FOTA teams are not accepted then they'll just buy out the new entries. Otherwise a grid full of teams with weird names like Epsilon Dubbelskaldi or Eupsylon Beebeefon with pay-drivers will become a reality.
You can make as many accounts as you like, but I guess that's not ideal.
Nah it's really not, but thanks for the creative idea. I can just re create adrive links every 2 weeks, but I'm looking for a low maintenance solution -set and forget.
At least drop.io doesn't expire. Sorry am no help on this one.
I've heard good things about http://www.yousendit.com/ but I'm not sure if it does what you want either.
Thanks :)
Thanks Alex. I'd forgotten about that one. I'll check it out.
Bye Lukeh - I guess you're lost to us forever now? Have fun.
as for Max daring FOTA to start their own series...bring it on....
I like http://www.sendspace.com/
They say they never delete an active file, but I haven't found out yet how active active is.
Love the names :D
Thanks Kathi. I was just checking drop.io is actually quite reasonable priced so I might just go with that, given the links will be posted on a drop io site anyway. Hmmm....
I can heartily recommend it, they have always been brilliant for us. If you have specific requirements, too, they are very open to communication.
upgrade is $10.00 for 1GB.
no chance.
twas nice knowing ya lukeh ;)
thanks Christine and me. It is pretty cheap and I know they've looked after you guys. It makes the most sense to have everything in the same place. Just need to figure out how much I'm going to need and things. I love the little player thing on the site too. Saves people downloading and stuff too. In case anyone is wondering, my friend's radio show will be back on air sometime soon, so we put the episodes up for friends/family to listen too. I make guest appearances most weeks.
you appear to have forgotten about... http://www.f1minute.com
F1 Big Picture?
sort of, but less of a problem. you can put any old words in front of the phrase big picture and it'll still work.
- le mans big picture
- sports car big picture
- crazy fota breakaway championship big picture
however, take away the '1' from f1 minute and it pretty much ruins the whole 60-second-play-on-words part of it.
i'd say christine potentially has a bigger problem, than all the other f1 sites that might have to rebrand. wouldn't you?
I only just got that. I is smart.
Hey, Mr C, apparently it wouldn't make much difference :)
:D :P
Hey, you're the numbers guy, you figure it out ;)
i quite likes this video.
[via]
although presumably that isn't actually lewis.
I just took all my sink plumbing apart, then put it back together, and its not leaking. I now feel like I can acomplish anything.
Still need a husband? :)
Tomorrow I am building a flat-pack TV cabinet for my flatmate. But yes, I still need a husband because I still need someone to come to Monaco with me ;)
Monaco sounds like a good place to find a husband.
Let's hope those rumors of GP1 become true then... :)
Sorry for the spam but I feel obliged to mention Apple's Mobile Me for it's many features. Costs monies but is awesome value if you use all or most of it
Please marry one of my Zoe's male friends and move close to me so I can have a friend over to watch F1 without her objections :-)
Nooo, Amy is moving to Finland with us.
tweet from mark sutton:
"I have been told the Red Bull Energy station has been updated, images online later."
this is an odd race to be updating your motorhome? or did they need to wait until after the problem of the floating monaco barge had passed.
Yes, Finland > Sydney.
can you come to my house. we have sink problems too.
I must check if we have an office there. I'll go if everyone else is :D
since when is SPC moving to Finland?
Thanks for the message Jeremy about file hosting things.
do you also have a flatmate who forces chicken bones and tea bags down the plug hole?
not me - I'm going to Boston so I can complain about SpeedTV.
Since they has better internets than us.
So you do this, and then you fix things? or if i get you, i get a two for one offer? No this was a rust issue for us, but I can sympathise.
Email bernie. I think he's given up on trying to read every comment, every day. Once he knows you're stateside, your bound to get a GP in the USA!
You're more optimistic than I am. I am however looking forward to accepting social offers in my new city because F1 won't be at the same time - I'm guess no body does things at 6am in boston, apart from jogging.
Rust? In Italy? Never. It must be the electrics in your sink! :p
:) If it ain't broke don't fix it. when it's broke, just mend it so it gets by for a few years. when that breaks, complain about the constitution. that's how the government works here :)
Legend!
you mean me or the PM? ;) Every second day, Berlusconi is complaining about the constitution or the justice system or something. in many ways, i will miss the exploits and the articles like "berlusconi's harem"....
I have been throttled back to a 64k connection on my usual wireless, and have 1.1gb of my 3g connection allowance left to stream practice/qualy/tennis finals. 1.1gb is not enough, something will have to be sacrificed :(
i meant you, because you are spot on!
Morning everyone, i have a major cleaning project today. 1 flat. must be spick and span within 24 hours, currently resembles part of a zoo... Also have to vote...
This might seem a really daft question, but the live commenting thing, If I load that on my mac during a race, I can basically follow everyones thoughts, things they've noticed e.t.c about the race? Yes / No?
Absolutely! And you can join in the fun too :)
He'll be able to follow my thoughts!!!
I knew Mr C was good, but that is ridiculous!
Everyone has to have an underhanded plot these days.
I have decided to sacrifice live streaming of qualy in favour of following via your comments + livetiming, then watching it on TV half an hour after it is actually finished.
Can anyone see a way that FOTA and FOM could tell max and his new teams to get stuffed and go there own way? Would Bernie support FOTA and do this?? Would you like to see the FOTA teams, the new teams or a mixture under the new 2 tier cost capped rules?
sorry should have said FOTA teams under this years rules
Scary eh? ;)
Sacrificing F1 for Tennis? That's instant bannination right there!
Yes. Bernie takes FOTA's side, buys F1 from CVC and forms GP1 with FOM contracts...
sacrificing the only thing I can actually watch on TV to hopefully save some of my connection!
He can still call it F1 can't he?
Bannination is a great word.
I am also not watching Rog's semi final so I can watch practice. F1 still > tennis :D
So CVC owns F1 brand not FOM ??
Then the Sidepodcouncil will overturn your ban on the grounds that you have changed your behaviour to suit!
This is a great sacrifice considering something might actually happen in the semi (and it might be Rogers last game at RG 09 :( ), and nothing ever happens in practice ;)
You can listen to the wise words of the Ant...
and I can tweet him! Not that I expect to have anything to say to him.
cool :) sorry for delay - i went for lunch.
maybe someone can skype the audio to you? - it's an option i was considering to save bandwidth.
I think I shall cope, but it is a good idea. Might just have to go postal on the AFL since once again everywhere but VIC gets qualy live.
i moved to italy just to get motor sport at a good time of day, but underestimated my need to understand all the talking stuff. almost a smart choice. so i'm guessing you clearly didn't understand VIC before you got there?
I knew there was AFL but wrongly assumed there might be other sports as well. I didn't realise VIC don't even have a Super 14 team!
can you not watch qually in the pub, and use their wifi?
I made a joke about at lunch about census things (those national government survey where you tell them your heritage and religion etc) - if this country had a religion question, it would just have one box "Catholic" and also the advice that you must fill in at least one box. AFL in VIC is the same. you must convert!
AFL is a relI was still surprised they got a good turnout for origin
now this is an idea I can get behind. I only went there for qualy once and they failed to get the streaming up and running so I never went back. But taking my own laptop, that works!
I saw some posters today for the Soceroos vs Japan at the MCG. What an epic fail of a football game that will be.
are you commenting on the talent of the game, or the lack of audience?
I think it will be a big turnout - i think if Australia beats Qatar on Saturday they'll qualify for the 2010 world cup - if that doesn't happen the Japan match will be huge. this is a rematch to a game to the 2006 world cup, where many australians gave up at the 85 minute and went to bed (i think at 1 or 3 am) because australia was behind. three goals in a few minutes later and people were pretty happy the next day :) I know friends of my parents where the husband gave up and his wife had to convince him the next day that they really had won.
ooh quote fail
Have you forgot how bad football is in NZ?
The fail is strong within you :)
I never saw posters for it, I could pretend it didn't exist
*kicks stupid uni*
"Oh come in on the 4th and you can pick up all your results, and know if you'll be in your 3rd year!"
*goes into uni and is ther enow*
"They won't be published today"
grrlglglg!! My frustration of such an inane announcement cannot be described through the form of an actual word! Poor show.
Have you considered that your university blows?
You may not know your results.
But we do know one thing:
Uni - Fail
It doesn't. Wellington Phoenix play in a 35,000 arena and get an average crowd of 1200. Considering how many football fans there are in Wellington, that's Piquet-poor!
funny that you had that one the same message where i did it as well.
japan is big on football.
The lack of organisation here is shocking.
He studies at the University of Fail.
Except for that one time that Beckham came and the place sold out. Lame.
Yeah that was weird. Kiwis love it when celebs come to visit though...
Prince Charles came to Dunedin in '05 or '06 and was about 100m away from my flat. I didn't bother going outside and when my Nana found out she was most upset with me.
:D
we have tried to verse you all the vagaries of sidepodtime.
although not at this campus, Nick Fry also graduated from the Uni of Wales.. s'all I'm saying... :P
You should have ran the other way...
Is he Welsh then?
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this or not but was just reading F1 Racing over lunch, and Peter Windsor says that Kimi couldn't see the start lights in Barcelona because he was behind a BMW with an enormously tall rear wing.
2009 regs = fail.
Meh. I work less than a km away from the Danish Royal Family's Palace. Haven't popped by for a cuppa yet though ;)
The Australians LOVE the Danish royal family since they managed to infiltrate their ranks ;)
Nope, he's English. I guess everywhere in england knew what was coming with him and we had to take him in ;)
I'd better keep my mouth shut about that for now...
woah!
I'll give you something to comment on: I am currently watching the Spice Girls movie. In German.
is today the day of Fail?
I have another major fail to share; if you want new content on the sims 3 like furniture, clothes, towns, then you have to pay for it with your actual money. Which is major, stupid simtastically fail. I can barely make money in the flippin' game let alone waste real money on stuff like that!
Thanks. They should have gone for IndyCar wings instead
Epic, Odyssey of fail!
I saw that, that is lame. Just wait for more people to start making custom content, fan-generated stuff is normally better than EA stuff anyway.
He said that it was partly the BMW and partly a naturally downwards track, but also that Sutil has had this problem somewhere else as well.
Kimi just went when everyone else did, apparently.
So it's like Second Life then?
people = awesome
ea = fail
sims 3 = still awesome though. :p
Kimi's a robot with a built-in timer anyway, so that shouldn't have been a problem...
yeah, but not online obviously. As it's a huge community now rather than just your little people in a house.
surely the noise would have been a giveaway - and besides, don't the back markers in monaco not see the lights either?
Is it still pathetic in the sense that you have to micromanage them, even though they are supposed to be intelligent? I couldn't stand having to tell the to go pee or go to work...
how many monarchians has she provided now? last I knew there were 2 rugrats. and yeah, Princess Mary, for a girl going to a really lame pub is Sydney, ended up doing quite alright...
My brothers little girls love those bits ;-)
They seem a lot smarter, and tend to make more decisions for themselves rather than depending on you. stuff like conversations and keeping up with friends seems to be what they do as well rather than, again, depending on you to micromanage relationships etc as well. so in that aspect, from what i can tell so far, big improvement. Only took them 3 games, like. ;)
The Sims has never been pathetic. You're wrong.
It has gone the other way in that they are far more free thinking. If you have two different families you are playing, while you are playing one the other will do its own thing. You can go back to a family to find out that they have had kids you don't want, and they may have even moved house.
I find my life hard enough to manage, i dont need someone elses problems to manage!
:D
That will do nicely. And she popped out Christian (Crown Prince) and Isabella.
my thoughts exactly. i can't even be bothered with fantasy racers each weekend! I played Sim City way back when, and loved it, but it got to a point where i would throw in a monster just to give me something to do....
The part where grown ups pee their pants because you didn't make them go potty was...
If you couldn't manage them correctly, how is that their fault?
time to head off, will see you guys this evening in the hope there is no more major fails today :P
Oh dear this could go very wrong
Because they're supposed to be intelligent, yet they just stood there if you didn't tell them to do stuff. It's like teaching your opponents in a racing game where to go around the course...
see you later Lukeh :)
Safina is up 5-2. She is tough
oooh photos of Heikki in the press conference. *wanders off*
They didn't just stand there if you toggled the autonomous switch.
In Sims 2? Must have missed that one then...
:)
Yup.
Who spent too much time playing sims then?
are you changing the subject ;) I'm just waiting for the stosur game that is on next.
Guilty. Read the Strategy Guide cover to cover and off by heart too.
Does Mr C have an autonimous switch?
:)
I wish, then he could make his own nachos!
But did you ever complete a Legacy Challenge? That is the sign of too much Sims 2.
i need micro-managing more than anyone.
Hehe, nah. I was too busy with my own world domination plans :)
I thought you might say you just did what you were told ;-)
After watching a 10 year old play sims, i thight the idea was to build a big house, with a tv, then forget to feed the kids
what happens?
Dont ask me!
They get taken away.
Oh thats right now I remember
Social Services?
by monsters? or to the Flanders' house next door?
Yes. A 10 year old can justify that becuse babys are "annoying"
That happened to me. Oh how we cried when the little tyke was taken away :(
Yup.
That Microsoft Kid the other day is really scary because people who like the sims are going to LOVE him.
Who?
No KERS for Heidi & Lurch this weekend...
BMW Sauber has decided against reintroducing its KERS for the Turkish Grand Prix, ahead of what driver Nick Heidfeld believes is an 'important' weekend for the team.
so that was their previous mistake - the other weekends were not important. somebody should have told them that every race was important.
i love him.
Heidi and Lurch. Love it. :D
Apparently they exaggerated how real it was. Although the racing game looked very cool, i think i would be knackered holding my hands up for more than 4 laps.
are we talking about something that made a debut at one of the recent gaming shows?
Yes.
It looked really weird to me. The MarioKart wheel is finicky enough to use - the fresh air controller would be 10 times worse!
Must have missed it
Video of it here http://kotaku.com/5274539/see-microsofts-project-natal-in-action
yeah, but forget gaming. not interested.
imagine what the technology could do for live commenting, if a smiley was more than just one of four possible states. microsoft have changed everything in that demo.
everything.
that's not the one.
am thinking about the kid who can accept and interact with a piece of paper from the real world. gimmie a minute.
That is NUTS!
Me too...
There are FOUR smilies?!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8078322.stm
this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw69xCzu5hU
2mins 53 into the video.
I don't like the concept of it.
better. thank you.
OK, that's just spooky
I used to have that system - it was called a life away from a computer :) [that's one smiley face]
my mind is spinning at the possibilities.
sidepodcast has to get onto the xbox. imagine a podpanel with real answers coming from everyone dropped into a virtual hat!
"It works today"...but you can't have it.
Microsoft learns about the "Mad Want" Factor from Apple...
I am very angry at M&Ms for getting Take That stuck in my head for going on a week now.
I thought you didn't like Microsoft, Xbox is like windows with hardware failures as well as software and even more of a monopoly!
*looks at sad dead xbox in the corner*
What is Mosley on?
Is it legal and where can I get some?
He now reckons that F2 can be the F1 feeder series.
Considering it's cheap and slower than it's rivals... How?
afternoon all.
i've no idea if this has been mentioned (sorry if it has - i'll recap over the comments in a sec)
5livef1 on twitter say,
'Mario Theissen says the conditional entry from FOTA was Max Mosely's idea!!'
so Fota will be in f1 next year then, if it was max's idea...
By making F1 slow and cheaper than its rivals :P
F2 is the feeder series into F3 (Ref: Rob Wickens)
Yer wot?
Foes it run on OSX? ;-) (smiley #2)
*Does
i can wait.
:-) :-( ;-) :D
actually, while it looks cool - it really is a scanner, and software to recognise that image. don't get me wrong, it looks cool, but the full body controller type stuff was more impressive. but when will we see any of this?
they're employing the guy who invented the wiimote. i love that thing, i love that guy.
:P
So can I. But I can show you an electric car that works or a cure for cancer. But without the users having it, does it really exist?
Wait.. an electirc car that cures cancer? ;)
Next week, really! I've sen it on the INTERNET
All the reviews i have read have said although its fundamentaly all real, its not possible at the moment without an operator to prompt the programme. probably about 18 months to 2 years away i would guess
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies
please note. i'd prefer it if you practiced using smileys using the "preview" button.
fanx.
Woops!
Coo guy, but i hate what Nintendo did with it.
some journalists have been invited to use it and they have all come out of the demo as converted believers. scepticism is understandable though.
sure why not. i've got nothing to do in between sessions on the weekend.
Quote from PatroniseF1:
didn't mean it like that. it's just the last time i posted that link we had 120 comments featuring nothing but smilies.
Just pointing out the 5th one... once was enough anyway!
Why?
i accept the fact that every product needs testing - i launched a "product" 2 weeks back and told people it would be available in 3 weeks...i really should close this window ;)
LOL. Don't tempt me now...
How does anyone in the world cope with dial up? I can't load anything
I would have preferred them to use it to play games with
Tell that to Thwax...
http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,18954,3213_5363045,00.html
I knew it. You are talking about wii fit, right? stupidest.ever.
Erm..? you do use the wii mote to play games with don't you?
wii fit's awesome, but it's no good if you're tired and lazy like me...
I actually don't mind that, the balance board is a great innovation, more the endless mountain of shovelware produced for the system. Walk into your local game store for exhibit A
you can actually use the wii system to make statistical models. I'm just saying ;) i briefly tried to get a boss to approve it without using it's name.
I have Skate II which uses the board well. Also Quantum of Solace uses the Wii mote like a gun - cool. there is some rubbish but there's also some really good ideas on how to use the system...
Mr C... Thought this was interesting from John Gruber:
Aha! He sounds like a PS3 fan. ;)
The true meaning of Vaporware is Gran Turismo 5... ;)
he's a mac fan(boy).
Gran Turismo PSP was, at least we have had 2 preview games of GT5
Should know about long lead times then (snow leopard)
speaking of delayed releases, Sony are really screwing up the Play TV in Australia. The release has been pushed back and pushed back and pushed back for over a year. I got sick of waiting and imported one from the UK, and it works fine. I love it so.
Preview games...
Paying for a demo of a game that has no release date?
Sony certainly know their market...
So just basing it on Anti-Microsoft then... ;)
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75806
Hmm interesting ... but when he sold the team to Bernie didn't he give up the rights to the team name?
ms have a habit of making cool demos that gain no traction, agreed. i still haven't set eyes on a surface and no-one i know uses a tablet pc.
however, with this system, even if only 10% of it works and even if it takes two or more years to come to the market, i don't care.
to me this looks like 2020 technology, which may be in our hands before 2012. the possibilities of hands-free UI has totally floored me.
ms have previewed something that i'm not sure apple can top next week.
I must agree it looks cool, but voice recognition has never lived up to the promise, so I will wait and see
I know one person who uses a tablet, but his day-job is as an animator :D
Safina wins. Now on to Sammy Stozer
Not many Surface systems are around at the moment.
I've used tablet PC's in the past when I had to go out and about fixing things. Was pretty useful. Got clients to sign on the screen, generated a PDF jobsheet witht he signature on it and then emailed it, also updated the system back in the office with the details of what was done and signature and times on site and signed off.
Could even add little drawings into the fix and it would include them.
We've done a basic version for PDA's as well. Doesn't do all that, but we still have the Tablet version and people still use it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! :(
They will announce another iphone and people will go ga-ga (again)
There's some kind of software update that includes copy/paste that iPod touch users will have to pay $10 for :(
i guess the difference is, it'll likely be available for purchase on the day of the announcement. will it recognise you when you pick up though?
Isnt it a series of iPhones ranging from 4gb to 32gb?
Although if they want to make headlines - they could say they are shutting down iTunes....
More importantly, will it actually take the call without dropping it?
Mine doesnt ever recognise my typing properly
Mine's pants with wifi :(
Are there problems in the UK with such things? I know there is proper hate for AT&T and the iPhone in the US.
i have no issue with mine. 'cept it can't capture a physical piece or paper when i wave it in front of the screen ;)
That's the crappy 2MP camera
No idea.
It seems really slow on the train but maybe it's just that particular service - it's ok at home...
I just retired my old 2MP Canon Digital Camera. It certainly was not crappy!
btw, spielberg on the microsoft announcement:
"This is a pivotal moment that will carry with it a wave of change, the ripples of which will reach far beyond video games"
i can see he's thinking about doohickey uses too.
Doesnt everyone? :D
Classic film bargain alert! I paid £180 for this 2 years ago...
Amazon.co.uk
Laurel & Hardy - The Collection (21-disc Box Set)
£33.98 with free delivery 8O
I also know 1 person who uses a tablet... He has a vested interest in doing so because his friend... Lets call him... Bill... told him it was the right decision a few years ago.
I guess i can't convince you that the pound has devalued THAT much
But that technology doesn't even really exist. Not really. Notice that the boy didn't show the piece of paper back to the screen.
To a certain extent right now that is a Mechanical Turk.
I got a little excited by the first photos coming out of Turkey, and may have drop.io'ed it twice :D
A what now?
yeah, i know. although i saw another company demo a similar thing a few years ago and it really did work. it cost several thousand pounds, mind you.
my point is, right now i don't see myself getting that excited about the wwdc.
I want to go to Deep Cove, Nth Vancouver
There was a very famous case from the late 18th Century of a machine that would play chess against you. It was a machine that looked like a Turkish man sitting at a table with a chess board on top of it. It would play chess against you by moving it's hand and a chess piece. And it beat anyone who tried to play it at chess.
Of course really a grandmaster was hiding under the table pulling the strings.
Fooled everyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
there is a great book about it somewhere
Agreed. Especially as a lot of the software stuff is essentially out in the open if you are in the development program (as I am sure you are).
Was a fantastic piece of deception.
I want to try the pseudo 3d effects that you can get using wiimote and a couple of IR Led's
It looks very funky.
i'm pretty confident it won't involve gesturing in the general direction of coverflow in order to flick through your library.
I'm guessing they'll show Maps with the compass on on a new iPhone so somebody can turn and see streetview turn at the same time.
it doesn't do that already? my phone does. has saved me when I've been lost and confused many a time.
latitude too, right?
am also assuming the safari improvements might mean we can finally get audio and video podcasts to appear in the browser. fingers crossed.
Lets hope so...
How about the rumoured FLV unpicker? It won't let the flash thing do anything except show a list of all of the movies inside it and let you play them.
ooh. not heard that one.
it doesn't know where north is in relation to the direction you're facing does it?
yep
cool phone!
doesn't doohickey though :(
Bad phone
:)
i think only iphone, android and maybe blackberry will.
and presumably the palm pre if that ever makes it to the shops.
I have a blackberry too, but better not try it as work pays the bills
And it shows you streetview?
no streetview, i missed that bit totally when i saw your comment. just a standard top-down sat image.
this is my phone
Ah. Still cool though.
So I think the thing they'll do in the demo is kind of stand on the street showing the phone showing the picture of what the street looks like and then turn the phone and pan it.
Of course the problem is that will look very much like the camera app that is supposed to do video too.
But it will have overlayed the name of the road.
From 5LiveF1:
What the f.
I just realised the guy in the video of my phone is Finnish. Makes sense, being Nokia I guess.
if that is the case then the questions is, if Mosley had the same idea about the conditions :-)
Or maybe Max saw it as a way of getting rid of FOTA once and for all?
Recommends a conditional entry, then denies the conditions.
Surely FOTA couldn't have been that dumb? I sure hope not...
"Q: Nico, this is going to be your sixtieth Grand Prix; what do you think of that?
Nico ROSBERG: That’s pretty cool. I didn’t know. I didn’t look at how many races I’ve done. It’s quite amazing, really, to already have sixty Grands Prix. That’s nice."
They should have followed this up with "and you've been mediocre in all of them, how does that feel?"
"D
:D
I'm so pleased he didn't go to McLaren in 08. Not just because hes only half Finnish, but because I just don't like him. It would be hard to have no drivers to support in my team :D
re: dropio i was around for the initial presentation thing, but can you broadcast live audio with drop.io?
Aussie Sam lost the first set :(
not using drop.io alone. you can embed justin.tv or similar into a post though.
thanks. just the thought i was thinking. now, need to figure out justin.tv
planning on taking over the world ;)
:)
are you live streaming the radio station on the web?
thinking about it ;) they already do that themselves, but not sure what the load is like, so was considering siphoning it off just in case. maybe see if i can combine the webcam....
easy to do. you don't need drop.io. a web browser and a justin.tv account is all you'll need.
so i should be able to figure it out from the help things on justin.tv site?
would like to embed it into drop.io and keep everything in the one place.
yup. it's childsplay, just plug in a webcam and click broadcast.
slight catch. the webcam isn't "here" but it's online and I'm trying to not do anything in the studio - because I'm in a different country. essentially, i'd be rebroadcasting feeds which are all ready available. I'm sure i can figure it out in a great exercise i probably really don't need to do.
Interesting sidenote it works surprisingly well from a park.
:D
I remember that! i think there was icecream....
A sidepodnote I suppose :)
Now here's an interesting story:
The family of Sir Jack Brabham are seeking legal advice after news that the 'Brabham' name could return to Formula One next season.
but surely if he got rid of his name (in the business) he cannot do anything about what the business then becomes?
@me
I have sent you a slightly urgent email. Would you be so kind as to look at it post haste?
I am off to bed so I may miss your reply. I must not stay up this late - I don't have what it takes to maintain brain function at what I'm now calling the 'Amy, Mr C and Steven Roy' hours (no offence to those I have missed who also have stamina)
I was going to go to bed early tonight since I wasn't watching the womens tennis I figured there would be nothing else to keep me up. How wrong I was.
but sam is maybe about to save the match,,,.
I found that not watching it is OK when there are text updates :D
Has everyone who is uk-ish voted? And if not why not
I dunno, I don't have a reason why not to be honest...
see that was my mistake - i assumed not watching meant not following ;)
I'm too young.
Hi all by the way
I probably could watch the end, after 1am my connection speeds up again :D
Do it! NOW!
You know what they say about not discussing politics or religion...
Reminds me of a time when years ago my house was rung up for a political survey - I answered 10 minutes of questions before they got to "who did you vote for in the last election?". i told them i didn't vote. then they read out some responses as to why and then I said "I'm not old enough to vote". for a second i thought my opinion was going to matter. it didn't.
pretty sure there's a 3rd thing too....if we can't discuss politics where does that leave F1 conversations?
Why? I've read all the options and none of them scream out as to why I should vote for them... I have no bias towards any of them. I'm very neutral with this stuff :P
I think the general election I would take more consideration, but this? I'm fine. :)
is this why you're up at stupid times - for cheap internet?
They're all different (generally) when you look into them, and if you don't vote then you're not allowed to moan!
Thats ok, I'll be too busy addicted to the sims 3!
possibly! I am already looking forward to the fact that after the alarm I shall be hearing in 5 hours time, there won't be another until Tuesday. Bliss.
Go ooon, you know you want too, we get to vote once every 4-5 years, use your democratic right to vote. It dosen't matter who you vote for (except BNP) but your vote does make a difference in these elections.
hmmm!! just hmm!!!
At last the secret of Amy is unlocked - a long weekend to watch late night sport on cheap internet. sounds great!
I had no idea there was such a thing as European elections until about 2 days ago.
I hope it rains in Paris on Sunday and delays the start of the mens final from 11pm to 1am.
it gets rammed down your throat if you live here. happy not to vote (they don't let me)
I had no idea it was illegal not to vote in Australia until they started ramming it down my throat last year. It was kind of annoying since I couldn't vote anyway, being not a citizen and all.
it's illegal not to vote?! WOW, thats one insentive to get to the polls
you should try anyway. i was vaguely planning on running in the european elections. twas just a passing thought...
You should run an f1 team. everyone else seems to be thinking of doing it.
the real incentive is to go to your local school or girl guides/scouts hall and contribute to the fund raising at the sausage sizzle. it's a great captive audience.
what would you stand for?
I know nothing of politics here other than there are two governments which confuses me, I don't know what is taken care of by the state and what is taken care of by the federal. It also seems that everyone hates Rudd.
if you were here one night two weeks ago i was considering it. if you had a superlicense, you might have got your name on the form,
so since I left, we just hate someone new. the funniest thing was when some governments put up a sign saying "This road is bad because it's funded by the X government. Write to your local member..." complete with phone numbers etc.
If I am to believe the letters to the editor, Rudd single handedly caused the global financial crisis and swine flu.
aah no, that was a mistake. I once cut out an article from my local paper where a letter to the editor was complaining about somebody on the bus (in one of those backwards facing seats near the front) that was yawning without covering their mouth. they had a cartoon and everything...
stosur took the 2nd set in a tie break.
sometimes I hate when things aren't won in straight sets :( they make sleep so much further away :(
you'll just have to move to this side of the world. i hear finland is nice...
Of all my friends who have done big Europe trips, none have been to Finland. I think I shall try to be the first.
It's a great place - would never have chosen to go, but I had a work reason - very cool getting home at 3am and the sun is still just below the horizon.
Have you seen Google Squared...
Quite interesting... However I tried to do a custom search for Sidepodcast
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=sidepodcast&items=Christine&items=Mr+C&items=Alex+Andronov&items=&items=
Interesting to see Mr Cs Size!
that's value! never heard of google squared although i was in the lab two weeks ago....
A far more sensible search on it is this one:
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=dogs
I admit I do not understand it. I searched for Heikki and all it gave me was a list of other drivers?
haha, it comes up with "Joanne" which is what i got called for watching Nottinghill
anyone a fan of David Carridine, from Kill Bill and Kung Fu series. Sad news... and nothing to do with dogs.
If you search for F1 Drivers like this:
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=F1+Drivers
It's pretty good... It works that stuff out itself pretty much.
well deserved ;)
ahh I see. So if I add a column called 'Birthplace' it should load everyones at once?
ta ;)
Yes... Place of Birth is already suggested for you.
Things I have learnt. Rubens was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil as opposed to Emerson Fittipaldi who was born in São Paulo, Brazil, ;)
Italians have it easy for them - if they want to make a feminine/masculine switch they just change the last letter of the name - nothing as creative as Joanne required.
I had no idea that in Russian the surname is different based on gender until I was told Dinara Safina is Marat Safin's sister.
it's how i learnt too ;)
Google helps me decide where to move to ;)
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=finnish+cities
not sure about Espoo's data of birth though....pretty sure it was not 1990, but maybe it was.
Add a column "broadband speed" :)
Helsinki wins!
sleep study (mainly for amy)
christ i'm massive.
I refuse to believe the internet can help me sleep. The internet is what keeps me awake! I got lots of sleep when I had no internet for a month :D
why am i not surprised. if had more desire - i'd read the full scientific study and pass my opinions but ... meh...
stosur just two points away from losing...
Now zero points...:( at least Pat Cash won this morning...
I saw Pat Cash v Mats Wilander at the Australian Open this year, it was hilarious
Just got back from voting, i cant believe how low tech it still is. It was the same at last time, but i was expecting more than poorly photocopied pieces of paper
did they play seriously or was it all goofing around with microphones and jokes and things?
it was a "legends match" that they billed as a replay of the 1988 final. They were just goofing around, inviting heckling from the crowd and they were continuously doing impressions of each other. My favourite part was when they had a challenge to see who could be the first to serve faster than 200km/h. When they finally managed it, I think they got louder cheers than Federer did earlier ;)
And with that, I go to bed!
Night Amy
Night ;)
Night Amy.
Must be off to bed too. :)
Interesting article in Private Eye:
Sorry to quote so much of the article but I felt it was important for our understanding of the current reportage. No wonder GMM are cleaning up when the papers are resorting to tactics like this to cut costs.
Well done on the quiz again, Night!
Thank you! G'night. :D
hmm. i'm never around for those, but if congratulations are in order, bravo! 'night. i really should go home from work....
very, very interesting. thanks alex.
Yikes. I've seen some newpapers have comments like "with additional writing by AP/Reuters" - and what they really mean is that the press agency wrote 99% of it.
Back when i worked in a newspaper in the distant past, it was overseas, and the paper carried news from all over the world. We would often use Agency stories, and a lot of the original stories were heavily based on reports from several agency's. Its a pretty common system, especially in the states where most papers are not national. I would imagine with freesheets its even more common.
However changing a byline and not crediting the agency is completely wrong, and probably against the syndication terms
something joe pointed out in his blog that i hadn't connected:
"It is amusing to see that names like Brabham, March and so on are being revived to give the FIA championship some names that people might recognise if the current teams are excluded next year."
Private Eye had a similar article on Cricket Corrospondents in the issue before. The telegraph had got some names confused and had the same reporter at two places at once.
Normally it will have the agency initials at the beginning or the end. "additional reporting" normally means quotes have been taken or an eyewitness account of something.
Max's team - and Bernie's - the latter of which I find a bit concerning. Let's hope Bernie didn't push them to join. If he did, I'm inclined to think he's siding with Max...
Ah, but "the art of war is primarily the art of deception"
So who's tricking who then?
I'm pretty sure no one's really sure...
Absolutely and that's the point. The papers are embaressed to admit they've cut the sports staff so much. So they are pretending.
And my guess is that is a big driver of GMM type reportage.
It's the same guy who covered the Iraq war in 2003 by being in the USA and pretending he was in war zone.
it's a poor showing. although autosport have been reusing reuters content for years. but they at least put a little logo in the corner.
i guess transparency means little,
Interesting tactic. Wonder which way Bernie will jump.
This is from the same guy who constantly bring in ridiculously tight deadlines. Teams who were looking at committing to an F1 program in November were given a few days notice of a May deadline
The BBC mole makes it sound like Max has his heat set on a new formula badged as f next year, with Williams joining in the fun too.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/f1mole/2009/06/storm-clouds-gather-over-f1.html
Williams were the only part of the puzzle that didn't fit with my idea that a FOTA series is already being worked on. Maybe they just realised they couldn't afford to be competitive in it, and stood to make more money dominating in F1 against weak opposition?
I think they know that Max can't create a new series so they are playing politics. If as usual the FIA wins and everyone caves in Williams are in th FIA good books and will make a few quid. If Max's new F1 collapses Williams will join in with FOTA and if their is a FOTA championship the terms will be more favourable to the teams so Williams will be happy to accept those.
IT seems we have a steward this week who has actualy driven a modern F1 Car (badly) (Into a wall)
Mohamed Bin Sulayem
http://fia.com/EN-GB/MEDIACENTRE/F1_MEDIA/Documents/tur09_steward_mbs.pdf
Although he now seems to be calling himself Ben. Its Bin, and it means "son of"
Unfortunately, he is also one of Max's right hand men...
Some we can obviously trust then.
Hey all, how goes it? :)
I think it was his efforts which pretty much kept max in his job last year.
The heir to the throne? I've met him at burger king once, he let me have a look in his million pound merc.
Pretty good, election fever is gripping the nation. and F1 is DOOMED
heyyy, what happened to the day of fail?
Well, to take your mind off it a bit, Williams have a new aero package for Turkey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5AfPilyebg
Basically for those who can't see it, they've got revised aero pieces on the front wing, the mirrors have been moved on to the vertical aero pieces on the sidepods a la Ferrari and they've revised their diffuser a bit to deflect around the rear wing end plates, which to me is very clever.
Well, I decided to put it on the Wiki since no-one else has yet:
http://wiki.sidepodcast.com/page/SPC+Meetup+-+Classic+Team+Lotus
:)
Just heard on midweek motorsport that the safety car driver at the WTCC race at Pau was the local chief of police. Incredible!
If that's the case, he should never be allowed near a car of any kind. Ever again. Never.
It's gone all quiet again...
It does that. This sidepodcast thing. The matter of fact is there seems to be nothing to talk about.
Other than the fact there's nothing to talk about ;)
Welllllll... There is this:
http://www.virtualr.net/forza-motorsport-3-new-preview-material/
To me that just looks awesome. I need a PS3 and GT5 too, then I can do a proper comparison of the two :D
Good question Jon. Just been.
LPG and I have just exercised our right to vote. Sadly there were a depressing number of numpties on the ballot paper.
Great rant by Martin Haven wasn't it?
Me needs to listen to that tonight then.
Does he even not rant?
There were parties there that I had never heard of. I spoke to the people at the polling station and they said the turn out has been awful. They only had one busy half hour all day.
Woot!
just as long as the people who aren't here atm are not watching Big Brother/don't talk about it i'll forgive them :D
Agreed, so many fringe partys now. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, apart from when they're called BNP
Is that starting again?
apparently. people keep tweeting about it...
unfortunately
I haven't had tweetdeck open all day
Not watching big brother...
Can't stand it....
I'm just sitting in the dark listening to music.
by teh looks of it, your better off for it
Can I recommend Escala's album to you good people? I've got it on my Spotify playlist and I love it. Especially their versions of Live and Let Die, Children and Kashmir. It's classical music, yes, but what they do it bring it into the 21st century. Gets the thumbs up from me. :)
Mitch Benn asked on Twitter the other night if he was the only person not watching Britain's Got Talent. Jon Holmes' reply = "I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a potato peeler." I feel the same about BB
Good evening.
There is absolutely no point to watching BB because you know the mix of people who will be in there and how they are going to behave and react. The first series was an original program but now it would be like watching the tenth repeat of the same thing.
Interesting, ignoring the reality tv source of their fame, they seem quite good. I love their version of Kashmir and I'm a big fan of classical music anyways so I might have a look at this. Cheers Scott.
Reality TV sucks.
Except the Grand Prix of course :)
Thats sport rather than XXXX's next stick thin drug addict, britain hasn't got any talent at all, Extreme makeover slums edition or whatever other guff they are passing off as entertainment.
Oooh.. I see Escala also covered Clubbed to Death. Anything Rob Dougan-related is worthy of being listened!
Rob Dougan.. now that's an album I never got around to buying. Must do that.
Good stuff!
I absolutely love Furious Angels... such a good album. Although he is not just 'the matrix guy' as I've seen him referred to many times :P
oh god, i saw you mention it, i had to change the channel. and there is some hot scot on there. WHY AM I WATCHING THIS?
A lot of his stuff as been used as backing to things. Okay that sentence didn't work.
haha, same
I refuse. For the first time ever, I refuse. And I always watch them go in.
yay!!!
hot scot?
No RG, your not turning it over. Don't think about it, think Iceladnic.
It helps that ITV4 is showing racing, or rather a preview. Isle of Man TT. Not usually into that but giving it a chance this year, nightly updates at 9pm apparently.
Busy here tonight.
Yeah, everyone seems to be not watching Big Brother.
Hehe.
I'm impressed that it's nearly 10pm and still wear shorts with a lovely temperature outside :)
I have compromised and muted it whilst trying to make sense of james allen's ramblings about how Brabham is HIS TEAM
Brabham DNA?
The family are considering legal advice about the new team using the name, apparently...
I'm glad this day is nearly over.
No problem :P
it's cold here :( i'm wearing a jumper and everything...
Brabham? You're telling me someone is entering as Brabham now?
Wow :(
It's actually warmer now that it was together, in some kind of bizarro-world change of climate stance. or just Wales, whichever way you look at it :P
*than it was earlier
It's dark, but that might be because I need to turn the light on.
Yeah - using ex-Super Aguri assets...
Can they not come up with their own original idea?
With 1 team entering using an old name... its strange. With more now, im starting to suspect a puppeteer.
They should make a Thunderbirds F1 Special.
maybe Muppets would be more apt
DC's retired though. None of the current drivers have infeasibly large facial features.
Alonso's Eybrows?
Kubica's forehead?
Kimi's hat? :P
OK, I'll give you Kimi's hat.
on the subject of kimi and hats..he has a non ferrari one which isn't as bad. although it still looks too big for him. do you think he just has a small head?
Its so quiet.
I feel the need to put a controversial idea forward to start a debate
Evening .. or should that be mnah mnah?
Ferrari don't deserve to be in F1?
Finland produces the worst drivers?
Max Mosle is the best person ever?
The F1 teams should leave F1, they don't need to be there.
Do doooo de do do!
My theory is he lost his forehead over the winter, as all hats seem to eclipse his head!
i'd post some pictures, but there aren't really any interesting ones that i've found yet from today..
Wrong. It's never quiet at Sidepodcast!
http://thewombatofthebol.blogspot.com/2009/06/wobol-blog-presents-former-f1-team.html
&
http://thewombatofthebol.blogspot.com/2009/06/wobol-blog-presents-former-f1-team_04.html
the one in Bahrain near the circuit?
I took a photo of our polling station because it is so quaint and villagey.
I think we should have a sidepod sing song .. I'm in the mood now that the muppet theme is going round my head
Is he going for the long hair look?
you were THAT bored?
I thought it looked nice.
I was going to steal an idea from powerboat racing, where races consist of say 6 laps around an oval course, and 2 of those laps require them to round a third bouy to make a triangle, its the driver's decision on which laps to do that.
How about we do that in F1 for some circuits like barcalona where divers have to take an extra chicane once every 3 laps or so?
I'm sure it did :) It seems odd to me that there's not much F1 news and there's a race weekend starting tomorrow
I say we do half a lap round an F1 course, and half a lap through the nearest boating lake.
Okaayyy....
Malaysia?
A miracle! I could post my links! I hope you can appreciate these graffiti I found today. I instantly recognized Eddie Jordan and C. Kolles. It would've been a crime not to share these masterpieces with you..
No, it turns out the comment ended up in moderation. Just click on my name to see these pics.
With the craze for reality TV, I won't be surprised if a racing series somewhere starts a race with 22 cars and the public votes one out every 5 laps until a winner emerges or two hours have elapsed.
No, thats artificial boating lake, I mean F1 car on the water. It gives the teams more of a thought in designing a new car, do they get a powerboat look and risk capsizing, the sailing look and be slow (ideal for BMW).
Shhhh, Max might read this.
A Hungarian would win... ;)
Anyone know if the ACHQ is still running somewhere? Alternative Championship? It was on Planet-F1 eons ago, when Chris Balfe (now Pitpass) ran it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8083720.stm
Brabham appear to have hired a team of tiny violinists to serenade Max about the help they could give Oxfordshire in creating new jobs
Webber for win in Turkey. I'm off. Must get some sleep. Have a nice grand prix.
Night sir. I predicted someone yesterday, forgot who.
Meanwhile Toyota would just copy Clarkson and bolt an outboard motor to the back of their car.
Question is where? Sacrifice a rear wing?
Go for the double rear wing max wanted and put it in the middle?
Good plan. I'm going to sleep and continue plans in the morning. G'Night
night R.G
Night!
People seem to drop earlier each day.
All though i will regret not sleeping for the Hellish 9am start time.
I'm not dropping earlier, I meerely have an unorganized sleep pattern.
ha, mine's far worse
le bol. we have to introduce you to the ways of the doohickey!
http://www.sidepodcast.com/realtime/
i feel terrible this morning :( home time is so far away :( zzzz
awww. virtual pillow for amy?
awwww! at least there is some f1 in 9 hours time...
Never mind. You have practise and tennis to look forward to when you get home and if that is not enough to entertain you there is a spacewalk too.
seriously!?!? aww man, i'm going to be so screwed up by next weekend. FP1,2, Wedding saturday, Race, exam wed + fri, Le Mans starts wednesday ohhhh man.
Get some eye stickers and sleep at work?
Cant you just watch sport all day where you work?
And its friday!
Le Mans? You mean the Franck race surely
i think the last 4 days have been the slowest 4 days of my life... to me it feels like we have had an off season in between monaco and now :( and i hate that i have one more exam hanging over my head..
Energy drinks, used sparingly and in a timely manner, may be your friend. And well timed cups of tea.
or "Le Man" :)
:D
Did someone say lemmons?
It has felt like an off season. Looks like we were having a little break before we get two busy weekends in a row with a lot of stuff in between.
i've enjoyed the break and go plenty done.
Dont call Franck a lemon
I might get sent back to the naughty step for this, but I have kept it bottled up for a while...
The man cant even spell 'Frank' properly!
i've realised i'm not going to be around much on the saturday of Le mans as i'm in london... but i'll be supporting Ant, Wurz if he is racing in it (i can't remember if he is), and of course Franck. :D
WHAT????
oh bugger.
Uh oh.
oooooh dear....
i did warn him
really? some people you just can't reach.
ooops....
*opens wiki*
*puts him back on naughty step*
Next time I'm near the wiki, Nick is going to the top of the list. Mr C? You're off the hook.
It has been a nice break. I like F1 being fortnightly. Bigger gaps are too long. Every week is too often.
wow.. all Mr C has to do to get off the naughty step is wait for someone to say something worse?... no milky bar or anything?..
cheers nick :)
He is going to buy me the sims too.
milky bar? why didn't you suggest that earlier?
aaaaahhh nice. although that will mean we wont see you for ages! cause you'll get sucked in :(
I am sure he bought a Milky Bar. How could he not?
I do hope you call him Mr C "in real life"
That would make my Sidepoddream come true
haha sorry i was trying to revise, all be it unsuccessfully. i keep thinking about f1, and that has no relevance to the crimean war! :(
We had some fun with that the other day. By the way, what Apple endorsed product did you break, Christine?
I am going away now but do not think you can all run riot. You must have realised by now that I SEE EVERYTHING.
Is Sims too not the old one? I thought it was Sims three now
It was suggested on the night that you got into trouble. I know because I suggested it
Its not fair, I thought i was pointing out a helpful fact others had missed....
And in my defence I didn't do it in the middle of the night :)
Even his mum calls him "me" - it must be true, it's on the Wiki.
This I didn't know. It's from the latest interview with Gran Turismo creatore Kaz Yamauchi:
She did at the meetup. Others were also referred to by their online name, which while a little weird, was at the same time also perfectly normal.
y'know what's weird? i even refer to myself as mr. c. now.
that is a bit wierd, do you even remember your name? ;)
bye Christine! *makes mental note to ensure that she always has a Franck or panda pic to show Mrs C if she ever gets in trouble*
Night Christine.
oh. i may have missed that. i need the info.
Niiight all seeing Christine.
hehe that's a good point, i hadn't noticed that at the time...
Night, and Sorry (mostly)
I found that when we went karting. People had all signed in using their real names but most of the tme were refered to by their internet names
To whom?
you refer to yourself in the third person?
My Internet name is my real name (mostly) so what do I refer to myself by?
that is a jolly good point
myself. like if i do something stupid.
I think the safe tactic is any time you are in trouble give her chocolate.
night nick and thank you.
aaah, haha
Your real name is Rubber Goat?
sorted.
Just not Milky Bar.
Christine is God?
I'm frequently referred to by people by my net name. I respond to it better than my real name to be honest. :D
you have a real name?
Until Facebook became popular, about half my friends didn't know my real name
I do wonder sometimes. :D
I received a wedding invite a couple of years ago adressed to Flibster and his better half.
No silly! That's the internet bit!
That's coz you wouldn't tell us your real one!
I have a Danish friend who has a very Danish name ... which she anglicised to all her non-Danish friends.
Trouble is, every time she did something stupid she referred to herself in her anglicised name, to the point where it was becoming a split personality...!
I thought I should add some brackets...
:)
hehe!
I have too.
You should have a countdown timer that shows when you can get up.
The problem with this naughty step thingy is that Christine can probably pronounce "unacceptable".
Unfortunately the SidepodGod dint specify :D
i was there for 4 days...
i hope Nick packed some food :P
Next time I suggest Hotel Chocolat
milky bar?
Please, no.
It's because I respond more often to my net name. :D
Beer and popcorn*
*to throw at passing poster's :D
:D
Whats wrong with proper chocolate?
I am currently munching my way through some Hotel Chocolat single origin dark chocolate. :D
if i say milky bar is chocolate to my girlfriend i get an ear full
yum...i love dark chocolate... but hotel chocolat is so expensive :(
that's a bit of a waste of milky bar isn't it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm
Sad news :(
lol, i thought he meant the choc you get put on your pillow at some hotels :D
hehehehe :D
ehehehe XD
best thing you can do with it. It's not chocolate...
Milky bar has chocolate in it. But it's made by Nestlé, so is by definition evil.
You do know Christine likes Milky Bar. You could be sitting beside Nick before long.
you may be lucky enough for christine not to see that :P
There's plenty of Beer and Popcorn!
Someone has to like it.
You open a large box of them though and it smells like someone has thrown up in the box...
There is plenty, but that is not to say this is flav's yacht...
I'd prefer everyone to know that Nestlé is evil.
so are they the Microsoft of the Chocolate world then?
God, my uni was constantly either putting up signs to say it was banned, or holding meetings to ban it more.
Didnt really bother me too much.
Isnt milky way made by mars btw?
Did they explain why?
Nope, it's a Nestlé product.
Seriously!!! Womans clothes shops don't half make it impossible to register
(not for me!! i promise)
i like that you think they're evil, but still take the time to accent their brand name.
It seemed to change every year. First it was to do with breast milk. Then it was to do with ripping off poor farmers. Then it was something to do with poisoning groundwater along with coca cola.
HA! :lol:
Milky Way is Mars. Milky Bar is Nestlé
mmm... milky way.
Worse. http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/boycott.html
I have been thinking milky way the whole time! How isnt white chocolate chocolate?
Yes, Milky Way is made by Mars. Sorry wasn't reading properly.
Doesn't contain any cocoa solids
Interesting feature mentioned on net at night. If you want to send a bunch of links to someone you can simply send them one link and when they click on it they get the list of links.
http://www.multiurl.com/
Ah.
Im not quite sure how to respond to that...
That's because they do all of these things and more and deny it. They've been doing it for years. It was a sad day when they took over Rowntree - no more Kit Kats, Fruit Pastilles, Fruit Gums or Polos :(
ace! brilliant and simple.
Perhaps I should start calling them "THAT COMPANY"
you can still buy kitkats and polos? lukeh lost his just the other week.
I thought it might work for Scott in Italy's problem earlier. It means that even if he has files stashed all over the place he only needs to send one link.
am baffled why you dislike them so much, but if it makes you happy.
They are still available for purchase, I choose not to buy anything made by THAT COMPANY.
also really useful for ducking wordpress spam filters on sites that don't doohickey (or sites that do, but people choose not to).
Check out the link I posted. That explains everything.
Nestlé have been in all sorts of legal trouble for some of their practices over a long number of years.
i read it. i can't see why it would instil so much hatred in someone? because they appear to to have an overaggressive marketing pitch?
if it helps, i've consumed more than my fair share of nestle's products in my lifetime and i'm just fine and dandy thanks.
The other reason I do this is because it's so simple on a Mac. No typing Alt-0136 or whatever it is for me :)
fair enough. so have red bull, and i still love their product.
I still like the story of someone who was doing a child development exam *or something like that* and part of it was a question asking for 9 reason why breast milk was better than powdered milks.
He gave all the normal responces, antibodies etc...., and got up to 8. But couldn't think of a 9th reason. So put down. It comes in such lovely containers.
He got full marks for that question - the only person who did. :D
maybe nestle need an f1 team?
it wouldn't surprise me if they announced they'd entered a team tomorrow or something :P
*awaits
AutosportAUTOSPORT report: a) Yes the speculation is true we have entered a team b) the reports of such a team are wide of the mark)ctrl alt e
i'm their marketing practices were that bad, bernie would've signed them up years ago ;)
oh my god i never knew that before.... wow..
i have no idea what it is on a mac?
An oldie, but still good.
The problem with formula is that if you don't make it right or with safe water, then it's worse than useless, deadly in fact. Nestlé have a track record of providing free samples (like a drug dealer) and then selling tins with the how-to instructions printed in the wrong language for the end user. Imagine if you had to make those cupcakes, but the instructions were only in Russian, Greek or Dutch and you had no access to Babelfish.
They sponsor McLaren.
I completely forgot that!
Option e, e (the option e makes the accent, then you hit the letter you want to accent.)
they do?
do they?
wow. had no clue.
The drinks bottles! And overalls!
Works with capitals too É
you learn something new everyday.
All companies are evil in some way. You'd have to boycott everything and grow your own if you want to be truly righteous!
Wait... they give Baby Formula to the Mclaren drivers?
I know they're young, but jeez, that takes it too far!
i've never noticed that before. however i've never looked that closely at photos of lewis to be fair....
No, only to Massa.
Cool! and it works for á too! wow!!...
am disappointed that there was no flying today :(
You do something similar for other accented characters.
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/type_european.html
You havent wondered if its really nescafe in those bottles or maybe they have something a little more refreshing in there?
Maybe im nuts :lol:
agreed. plus i'd never give up milky bar for nothin'.
You need to search for the character map and you will find out how to do all sorts of clever stuff. Unfortunaltely the shortcuts with numbers don't work on a laptop as they only recognise th number pad mubers.
The file is charmap.exe
stupid question, is nescafe not different to nestle then?
I'm not, thank God!
Nescafé is made by Nestlé.
Nestlé own Nescafé, its one of their biggest brands, probably bigger than nestle itself
I say that working in an 'evil' industry though :(
i'm not walking anywhere either.
ooooh right, i thought it might be something like that, but thought i should ask just in case. (i'm in such a strange mood tonight)
Google isn't ;). You have a point and I'm not going to judge anyone who chooses not to boycott Nestlé, it's an individual choice.
Nestlé makes Nescafe
It's your choice, all I can do is inform. Evil companies aside, there are better alternatives to Milky Bar though, the aforementioned Hotel Chocolat makes some fine white chocolate.
i'm happy with what i have, and i'm secretly now quite proud to be living proof nestle doesn't kill.
That world's hardest game is also evil. Stuck on level 4
I LMAO'd!!!
Gavin, why are you still up? Don't you have to get up in like four hours?
have i missed something? what game is this?
Secondly, why am I still up at 1am?
BAAAANK HOLIDAAAAYYY!!!
Oh God, now there's fake corners on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/Istanbul_Turn8
Ah, carry on :-)
oh i must have missed that, thanks.
You won't thank him in a couple of hours time...
But off soon I guess ... Still V. Tired (Didn't sleep because I had a headache...)
speaking of fake twitter people fakesidepodcast has been very quiet of late... i wonder if they are busy drinking too much fake energy drink?
got to pass the time before FP1 somehow.. :P
Unnamed Laughter Powered Aircraft completes refuelling and takes off!
I was up until 1.30 doing homework (and commenting toward the end). Then today I've had a really crappy day. So I ought to have gone to bed. But since it is Friday tomorrow I don't really care.
omg... what one earth.... that is evil
also i'm stuck on level one... :(
Perhaps they have a life. Or a fake life.
As was I.... Quickly shut it off to avoid further embarrassment
hehehe :) i've now done the same.
Jon has persuaded me on twitter that time passes more quickly when i'm asleep and i can get almost 6.5 hours of sleep until FP1 and the probable sighting of Jenson. So i shall head of to bed now. night all! x
Play this first!
but... but... jenson... and sleep... and......
i'll bookmark it for tomorrow ;)
Just for the name!
night lou!
That's weird.
It is eh.
My name ends up in the weirdest of places!
Right, off to bed, see ya all later!
This F1 politics stuff is awesome, who needs the driving bit when youve got mad max.
Just been reading up on JA's blog. Looks like i was right, FOTA is right royally screw.....
I love it, its what sets F1 apart from other series...
This time round its hyper intense. I keep smiling when i think what Max has managed to do, its a amazing bit of brinkmanship.
Pleased to get back to some organic type of championship 2010 too.
JA
I have a feeling that FOTA will already be working on a breakaway, they have to be, its the only response they could launch back at max if they aren't there on June 12th. Its going to be a fun day.
BTw we should probably be in the June 5th thread!
June 5th thread?
This is yesterdays post, the new one comes out at midnightish, it sould load up if you refresh the doohicky http://www.sidepodcast.com/realtime/
Ok, im using whatsit thingy and looks all good here
Cant work out how to quote on it, with LCLT i just click anything and its quoted.
You're still in june 4th! :D
Click reply on the post you want to quote, then click the text
Thanks for the help yesterday describing the concept of live commenting.
Ben