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I loved the original Dues X game so I downloaded the new one. It seems very good, but annoyingly I have to run it on the lowest setting possible for my computer to play it with no lag, but then the curser arrow is not visible for all the vital things like hacking and sorting augments and stuff, so I have to keep swapping between quality depending on what's happening which is very annoying!
Sounds like the computer your using meets the minimum spec but not the reccomended spec. Unfortunately most developers put a low minimum spec in so they appeal to more customers. Lowest settings usually look like a 90's throwback too, which sucks.
Been playing brink for the last hour. Don't like.
Played quite a bit of dirt 3 and while getting somewhat repetitive it had some great aspects. The gymkhana stuff and the trail blazer races were great.
Latest mortal kombat game was pretty brutal but lost it's appeal after a couple of hours online play with a friend. Campaign seemed to drag a bit too.
I'm hoping to be getting dues ex sometime soon as i loved the first one and rather ashamedly i liked invisible war too. Heard good things about this one so keep[ing my fingers crossed.
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Different types of muscle fibres, but I can't remember which is which.
Type I: (slow twitch) Normally activated at 0-60% maximum strength output.
Endurance. Think typical long distance runner build. Smallest of the muscle fibres muscle fibres. These have very little force output capability and very little growth potential.
Type IIb (fast twitch) Activated at 60-85% maximum output
Largest muscle fibers that cause the largest amount of muscle growth and most amount of force. They are capable of massive force output but fatique quickly. Sprinters, powerlifters and bodybuilders would have a large number of these fibers.
Type IIa Activated at 20-75% of maximum ouput
A mix of type I and type II. These fibres are kind of a "best of both" situation in that they are capable of a high force output and are very fatigue resistant. They have the ability to shift between type I and type IIb fibres depending on how they are being stimulated. They are typicall stimulated during high intensity aerobic activites like sprinting or, rather more apropriately for us lot, trials riding.
An average person will have an almost equal number of each fiber type in their body. It's still not known for sure whether you can change a fiber from one type to another but current research suggests you can only change the characteristics of a particular fiber.
On this pic at the top just below his neck there are weird sticking out bits, its where the left one is.
http://www.buzzle.com/img/articleImages/552246-10310-54.jpg
Weird sticking out bits are called the trapezius group or "traps". These are the muscles most exerted when doing your barbell shrugs.
Is the moving body part moving by itself or does it move when you poke it? Muscles that are unused to stimulation sometimes spasm a short while afterwards and in doing so will involuntarily contract and relax. It could be this if your not used to doing this particular excercise or if you haven't done it in a while.
It could also be that after excercising you've made your nervous system more aware as weight training improves your "mind-muscle" connections. You could be adjusting to something you've never really been aware of before.
Or thirdly, you could be a freak and have random muscles walking around under your skin.
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Patt donnovan used a hope floating rotor up front for quite a while. Pretty sure he had it for the entire year i lived with him and it was still going when he moved out.
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were they double butted sapims?
Yep, snapped double and plain guage and several types of dt swiss.
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spokes snap for 1 single reason... they are garbage
Any spoke that can snap is total junk you need better spokes.
sapim double butted is what you need. I have reused them on 5-6 different wheels they will last you your whole life unless you need a different length, and they are probably lighter than what you have now too.
I've snapped sapim spokes.
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Lancaster road, or any of the surrounding roads, 3.20 for the day
.There's plenty of free parking too if you know where to look
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I've ridden derby a few times. It's like 15 minutes away in the car. If you fancy a ride some day fire a pm/make a topic
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Excuse my French, but I think this is bollocks. Yes, an iPod is never going to deliver the highest fidelity audio, I completely agree. But can you get decent sound out? Yes, of course. There is way too much mythology and snobbery in the world of hifi, so I thought I would do as good a scientific test as I could:
My amp (Cambridge Audio A1Mk3) + speakers (TDL Nucleus KV1)
iPod video playing freshly ripped MP3s
Yamaha CD Deck, I don't remember the model but it was a couple of hundred quid.
Both inputs via (decent) coax cables into adjacent sources at the back of the amp. Played the same song in MP3 format off the iPod and CD from the deck, syncing the audio so there was no delay. Basically this setup allowed me to quickly switch between MP3 and CD quality, whilst keeping the amp/speakers constant.
At 256kbps, none of my 5 flatmates at the time could perceive any difference at all between the sources, until we tried much lower quality (64 and 96 kbps) when all of us could hear the difference. At 128 it was fairly borderline, a couple of people said they could tell the difference - I couldn't.
I don't claim to be an audiophile at all but I do appreciate the clarity that is gained by stepping up from a Sony / AIWA / Phillips etc all-in-one unit/ computer speakers, to a half-decent amp and speakers. I would absolutely insist that an iPod playing via decent speakers is far better than a CD playing through average ones. I'm sure with £1000s worth of amp and speakers, some people will be able to tell the difference between high bitrate MP3 and lossless. Fair enough.
To say that you need to update your library to lossless before upgrading from PC speakers? Pfft.
I have a nice setup and even then i find it quite hard to tell the difference between flac and 320kbps. Especially if it's a song i haven't heard before. For songs i'm familiar with though i can usually spot an mp3 under 320kbps. Saying that though, i usually find my crappy rear speakers more of a distraction than any difference in bitrate
That said, i'd look into new speakers and then slowly update my library once they were in place. Room characteristics will be more noticeable for 99% of people than bitrates yet nobody ever mentions room calibration.
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Until about 3 weeks ago I worked for an independent have retailer specialising mainly on selling expensive/high quality stuff cheap. Well that's what they used to force down everyone who came in the stores throat anyway. From a very narrow product range they had available I would agree that the KEF range is superb, the clarity from the drivers is like nothing else (KEF call it the UniQ) and it's basically designed to give the best vocal quality without losing everything around it, if that makes any sense at all. We had a £1200 set of Q900s on permanent display which in fairness you'd have to have a huge space to make the most of them, we also had Q700 and Q500 set up.
Kef Q100s are the smaller bookshelf version in this range and still come with the UniQ Driver so clarity and quality should be phenomenal. Some retailers are also offering a 5 year warranty with these. That paired with an amp like the Yamaha AS-500 should be an awesome system. All Yamaha kit comes with a 2 year warranty.
That's purely going from experience of setting up and using these systems on a daily basis and there are possibly alternative, better value products out there. I've heard good things about Acoustic Energy speakers too but mainly products from about 5+ years ago. Some good deals come up on eBay quite regularly.
The company stopped selling Bose products as the price didn't really meet the quality.
Anyway this is only my opinion and as other people have said it's definitely worth going somewhere to get a proper demo.
I love KEF stuff, they sound great with most music types but get a song with an accoustic guitar and nice vocals and it'll make your eyes water. I'd love to jump onto the new q*00 range bandwagon but am left overly uninspired by the cabinets for them. The technology behind the new range is truly phenominal and you can see where the money goes to. I guess i'll be holding out for them to put the same technology into the more fancy enclosures before i pick up something from them. I did ask Ron about this but he was unsure as to when it would be happening.
Guess i'll just have to "put up with" my XQ and iq gear for now
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I gave good advice, Bose are awesome and if set up correctly can produce a lot of bass.
Granted, anyone who can pull off a hulk costume is a little bit awesome.
Have a read through this, if you think i'm being hostile i apoligise as it's not my intent. It just gets tiring telling people the same things all the time.
http://zhome.com/ZCMnL/PICS/stereo/bosefaq.htm
In the proper hifi world, bose speakers don't do bass. You need cone surface area to really throw bass around and bose speakers are generally quite compact. Most people in the hifi world regard an 8" cone as being the starting size for decent bass. I know a homeboy on AVforums though who does bass very, very well. If slightly excessively.
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You know very well what I meant. I gave my opinion on a certain product, helpful or not that's what the chap asked for.
Try winding your neck in once I a while, how somebody so confrontational became a mod is beyond me.
The guy actually asked for speakers with massive bass, which is something every ipod dock will lack as it doesn't have a dedicated subwoofer component to it. Bose speakers on the whole tend to be more orientated towards midbass and treble, which is why they were a bad suggestion. You gave bad advice, and i called it.
I'm awesome, that's why i'm a mod
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I said that I had owned one, Therefore I recommended Bose. I also use there over ear headphones and have visited the shop in Bicester a few times.
I've never seen a marketing campaign by Bose, I'm going by personal experience. Not from what people have told me or because of the layout of a hi-fi store.
So you've visited the bose shop and never seen a marketing campaign by them, did you go round the shop with your eyes closed?
At the end of the day you've already admitted to having limited experience with these kind of things. There have been some fantastic speakers named in this thread and some of the most useful advice the guy could get, which is to go listen to a variety of brands for himself. Your advice was limited, biased and misinforming. There's no need to get so defensive, I'm glad your happy with your dock, I really am. I just don't think it's fair to this guy for you to recommend an inferior and expensive product.
New speakers always sound great because your ears are usually unaccusomted to hearing better. The only way you learn to differentiate between them is to get your ears used to hearing really amazing speakers (reference level things at several thousand a pair) and then going back to poorer speakers. Your ears are much better at spotting flaws than spotting qualities and you need to educate your ears first.
Just to point out as the guy may not realise this but studio monitors are very specific speakers. They're designed for an entirely accruate frequency response (how each note is played in volume and clarity to the next note) so may sound dull or boring to inexperienced ears. To achieve this sound you need to sit at a single point in front of them, so they aren't speakers you can just plonk in a corner to fill the room with sound.
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I used to be fine with spicey foods until i started eating vindaloo's once a week while at uni. Can't eat many spicey foods now without having less than delightful mr hankeys the next day.
I think drinking a lot of beer has the same effect, but that's generally regarded as being beer shits so i'm fine with that.
Also, slightly runny egg whites
Looks like old age is starting to set in.
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I dunno about Bose being laughable, both of my products are the best i've bought. I've not heard anything recreate sound and voices as well as Bose does. Volume and bass isn't what Bose is about, specially seeing as they only put out true bass and equalisers make them sound worse. My dock can fill our local skatepark with music in an open area.
So yeah don't buy Bose if you want stupid amounts of thud.
And go buy your music in lossless. I love my CD collection
Why settle for clarity at the expense of volume and bass? There are plenty of other speakers that can manage all three quite happily, usually for cheaper prices too. The pioneer speakers are great value for money, as are manufacturers such as Monitor audio and wharfedale.
Given that he stated he wanted something similar to the logitechs i don't understand why people are even talking about sound-docks.
Budget sub
http://www.hifix.co.uk/sub-woofers/wharfedale/diamond-10.sx.html
Ridiculously nice sub
http://www.bkelec.com/HiFi/Sub_Woofers/Gemini.htm
Nice speakers
http://www.hifix.co.uk/Bookshelf-Speakers/wharfedale/diamond-10.1.html
http://www.hifix.co.uk/Bookshelf-Speakers/pioneer/cs5070.html
Slightly over budget speakers
http://www.hifix.co.uk/Bookshelf-Speakers/monitor-audio/bronze-bx1.html
Amp
My lhttp://www.hifix.co.uk/Hi-Fi-Amps-and-Receivers/pioneer/a209.html
Slightly over budget amp
http://www.hifix.co.uk/Hi-Fi-Amps-and-Receivers/marantz/pm5004.html
That lot will cost between £400-£550 depending on what is chosen/where you buy and will absolutely blow any sound dock or logitech system off the planet. If it were me i'd probably go with the gemini and pioneer speakers/amp. The gemini sub is well regarded as being the best sub in and above it's price range.
I still reccomend that you visit a hifi shop and try a few things out to get a feel for what you like. Everyones ears are different after all.
Depending on which Bose set up you have, they are amazing. You get out.
As is regurgatated by the brainwashed public by effective marketing. Go to a proper hifi shop, bose kit is never on demo near other demo kit. There is a reason for this
Besides, he asked about speakers and you suggested a sound-dock.
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Save up and buy Bose. I had just an ipod dock, and it could easily fill the downstairs of my house with rich sounds.
They do whole sound systems, but they cost loads.
Get out, we're trying to give the guy advice on decent speakers. Bose stuff is only just better than jvc and sony, nowhere near as good as stuff from other manufacturers (KEF, Bowers & wilkins, Klipsch, Marantz, pioneer etc.) yet costs the same price as the better brands.
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I have to answer to this. He took 8 months to get me some parts. I still haven't got them.
If you look at the pictures though, he already has the bike.
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I realize this, and said as such - or are you saying that weight has absolutely nothing to do with it?
That's not what your post says, but is it's what you meant?
Nice selective quoting there. This was the part i was referring to.
Still - they've taken great pains to make their stocks lighter and have more suitable geometry, so I guess they're cheating too
Weight between mods and stocks is somewhat redundant and has been for a while. They're so very similar it isn't fair to generalise in that way any more. With geo being more and more similar nowadays the only thing left is size. Which if you'll read my post again properly, you'll see is what i said.
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There's also a few jokers who think 'cause they're smaller/lighter/easier to ride, that it's cheating. Still - they've taken great pains to make their stocks lighter and have more suitable geometry, so I guess they're cheating too
Its not really to do with weight but the size that makes them easier to throw around.
I've briefly tried a brakeless mod but didn't think the geometry was well suited to it. Mod bikes generally have quite narrow margins with regards to balance points, removing the brakes seems to make those margins much easier to miss compared to say a lower bb 24"/stock where you would have more room to play with before looping out.
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Croyden streets as of 30 mins ago apparently.
Also, How f**ked up can people be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsRwwQJdKjE&feature=player_embedded
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A planned attack has been announced on the Whitgift shopping centre at 12 noon. Girlfriend works there. I'm 40 miles away. f**k f**k f**k, fingers crossed for a rumour or some f**king miraculous appearance of police intervention for once.
I don't even really know what to say to that. My heart really goes out to you both.
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Okay, i'll be submissive and not express my point of view to my annoyance of you and your chums, so all we get is your opinions unchallenged. What a world.
I'm contributing to this thread with information i'm getting that might either help or enlighten people.
My responses to you are just being lumped in as funnily enough i like to have my say, just the same as yourself.
I'm not taking sides here. I merely explained a moderating decision to someone else who asked about it. But you then come in mouthing off again, which is odd as you apparently don't care.
Anyways... back on topic to the riots.
Any more abuse towards other members, inflammatory posts and insensitive jokes about all this (made by any member) will be deleted and that person will be off the forum for a couple of days.
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I'll be honest chum. In the face of what's going on outside at the moment, your little internet forum rules aren't all that interesting to me. I know this place needs good order to work well and what not, and i get it under the very sensible guidlines my comments deserve my very important warn, but i'll level with you - while the streets are on fire i'm going to make like the wonderful Ali C, and just not care.
So stop posting about it then?
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It's like posting an image that's already hosted somewhere rather than uploading it to imageshack or a similar site yourself.
It means you have no control over the image and someone could put a picture up of a kitten and two days later upload a porno of the same image name instead. Suddenly hundreds of hotlinking little kids are seeing the wrong type of pussy.