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It's usually because it's hard to skill match, and the longer the race goes on, the more behind the lesser skilled player gets. It's not much fun (for most players) being 12 laps into a 30 lap race and already 2 laps behind.. hence a huge amount of quitting goes on. We have a similar problem with our cricket game in multiplayer where even a 20 over game results in a huge amount of quitting once one player has demonstrated he's miles better than the other...

Just had it confirmed you can save different setups for different tracks... It's definitely more sim than Shift and Grid. See the post here from the designer about the effort that went into handling. http://community.codemasters.com/forum/f1-2010-game-1316/428215-release-week-ramblings-thanks-t4rg4.html Not to say the huge effort that went into things like tyre wear, weather etc etc... In single player mode I believe you can choose absolutely everything from race length to track etc. In online mode, there is a maximum of 12 laps I believe that can be set. When online mode is setup you can enforce a pit stop or not, so it's possible to have a 3 lapper with a pit stop if it's configured by the hoster that way...

I think it's got plenty to keep the sim racer happy. If your a dedicated sim racer wanting the full experience then I suspect it's going to leave you feeling shortchanged... it is, after all, a game and not a sim, but that said it's probably the best F1 racing sim out since Geoff Crammond gave up his work. I can tell you (imho) it leaves NFS Shift in the dust as regards simulating a race... Here's the Eurogamer review, rather than me bang on about how great it is.. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-09-17-f1-2010-review?page=1 I can't 100% guarantee the info about saving setups for different tracks but I believe you can save a setup for each track. I know you arrive at each track with a pre-configured setup by the engineers that is different for each track. I'll have a word tomorrow and try and get it confirmed... Some info relating to setups that might interest you:

Just to say... F1 2010 has nothing to do with EA, it comes out of the top class racing studio Codemasters. It comes out on 24th September in Europe.. Ping me the questions and I can probably get you the answers

"I believe they are a popular beat combo m'lud..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_beat_combo

So just so I'm sure I'm on the right track... Has a reference relating to German research into: And the CIOS report in the National Archives of the UK with reference is the reference cited as support for this case? So if I look up this report I will find reference to German investigations into an engine killing gas mixture? Am I correct in assuming I will find no reference to any German UFO experiments, "Kugelblitz's", "Phoo Bombs" or "Foo Fighters?" Or will this report make a link between research into an engine killing gas mixture and "Phoo Bomb" / "Foo Fighters" development...

You haven't given me a single citation from the source book yet John, so it can't be similar to anything... No kidding sherlock, UK reports still exist from WWII on German WWII research into rockets and ramjets? Wow, fecking hell, I'd never have guessed, what with all those books with proper references and bibliographies on the subject of German rocket and ramjet research.... Stop shotgun searching my countries National Archives and give me the source book reference please, so I can spend (a probably not inconsiderable) sum of money looking at the source material you say exists. I'm certainly not spending around £0.40 a sheet on a reference which probably isn't the correct one... Of course a real "researcher" might have spent the time and money themselves at the National Archives website to get to the documents and look up the reference thus validating it for themselves and then be able to provide me with the document reference and handy page numbers, politely cutting down my costs to validate it....

*Sigh*.... OK John, I give in, I'll spell it out for you... It's "A Catalogue", which means that it allows you to identify the documents you want access to, this one just happens to be online, it's the first step in doing something called "Research", you may have heard of it? And I can't believe that a catalogue that is "The National Archives" of the UK would be anything but an Your apparent surprise on the subject speaks volumes... If you go to your link and click on the big button labelled "Browse from Here" you can view the breakdown document catalogues for each subseries and their titles... Feel free to do this and have a good browse through the document titles, it's a thrilling read full of top secret information such as: "Smoke generator No 6: red and yellow smokes; formulation and trials" Click on any of these links and you get to the precis of the document and on this page there is a big button called "Ordering and Viewing Options" select this button and then click on the link called "Order Printed or Digital Copies of this Record" Now please.... simply provide me the document references in the book you cited relating to (apparently it's now some kind of UFO based gas munition) whatever it was you were on about.... I've provided you with the link to the National Archive catalogue, which was your source, I've shown you how to interrogate the catalogue to work out which documents you want to look at, again for a source you provided. Now I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for the fecking references you cited in your 2nd post on the subject, a reference you raised with, and I quote... Look in the original book you cited, check the footnote or bibliography for the reference relating to the issue and give me the reference cited in the book. How hard is that? I didn't even ask you to look in the National Archives, I would do that (a good job I think given your inability to either understand a catalogues purpose or navigate a few simple buttons) and draw a conclusion relating to your claim based on my examination of that evidence, so there was no need for you to enter an apparently bewildering online catalogue too vast in scope for you to comprehend, all you had to do was simply answer the question I asked...

I didn't have anything in mind except the PRO reference stated in the Vesco technology cites (presumably "in Vesco's INTERCEPT UFO and later MAN MADE UFO 1945-1990 by Vesco and Childress.") Are these those references? Given that the first link is from the following departments: Petroleum Department, Petroleum Warfare Department, 1940-1942 Ministry of Fuel and Power, Petroleum Warfare Department, 1942-1946 Ministry of Supply, Armament Research Department, 1942-1954 And the 2nd and 3rd links are to pages that don't appear to exist you'll forgive my scepticism that they are...

Ah, in that case you probably don't realise the PRO in Kew isn't actually referred to as that any more but is called the "National Archives.." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Record_Office So I just need the document reference for the National Archives in the UK to be able to look up the reference as per your quote below...

Nope, just the document reference at the National Archives is all I need to follow it up...

No need for all that John, I just need the reference... just go to catalogues and search for UFO (instance) http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/

You wouldn't happen to have the National Archive reference handy for the doc would you John?

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I think NATO doctrine expects engagements at 300m-400m hence that's the effective range of most modern combat rifles. I would have thought the SA80 is no less accurate (and probably more) than the ubiqitous AK I'm sure they'll be up against.... Given the vids I've seen of troops banging away at huge ranges with the vehicle mounted MG, I'd have thought there's a role for an accurate marksmens weapon to engage in more pinpoint firing though...

I still use "have a dekko" fairly regularly, as in "pass it here and I'll have a dekko at it.." Baffled some of my German and French team members completely (and understandably) now when I say something unintelligable to them they just nod and say "oh yes..."

I believe something like 30% of the RAF pilots who flew in the Battle of Britain were not born in Britain...

Here you go mate, for all those of the hippity-hop generation

"At no time did the hacker have any access to sensitive customer data. More importantly the hacker could NEVER have gained access to customer credit card information because that information is only used virtually in the SSL (secured connection) when the order is placed. What that means is that it is NEVER saved to our server's disk. NEVER. Passwords and other critical account information are stored in encrypted files, so even that information was inaccessible to the hacker." I'll wade in and defend BF here. We had a similar issue with our forums which I won't go into details about since this may even be the same people. My game company contacts tell me there has been a massive increase in brute force attacks on game company accounts recently, and I wouldn't be suprised if this was part of that concerted attack. It's perfectly possible the hackers got away with the forum names and not the passwords, hence a global password reset is really the only sensible measure. You'd be suprised how many passwords are either the same as the username or just "password" or "password1", easy meat for a brute force attack... Just like BF we don't store our customers credit card information in our system anywhere, it's held by 3rd party payment providers, all of whom have the requisite levels of PCI compliance (and means we only have to adhere to a lower requirement level). I'd say your CC information is as safe now as it ever was... I'm certainly not cancelling my cards...

One things for sure, he didn't get those skills sat in front of a tv playing on his console... Looks like the product of hours and hours of extremely physical, painful hard work to me. I can't even fathom of the level of practice required to obtain the control he has over his machine...

Red Dead Redemption in May looks fantastic...

Star Trek Online on tracks....

Working for a games company full of these kind of people I can say I have never worked in an environment where people "defend their fiefdoms" less... They are, on the whole, a complete pleasure to work with after the experiences I had at one of the largest corporations in the world... Maybe there is hope yet...

Perhaps you didn't watch the link?

Snopes is your friend.... http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/hell.asp