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I did mean what I said, which would have meant the Michelin runners would lose time driving slow around the outside of the corner. Given the fact that part of the conditions to placing a chicane on the track was that they [the Michelin drivers] were to start at the back of the starting grid and also not collect any points for the race where ever they finished, I don't think it would've made much difference. The idea was to have something that resembled a race, and not just six cars on the track.Anyway, it is all over and in the past now. The next race is on this weekend [back in Europe, I imagine] and it will be interesting to see what has transpired in Formula One since the Indy debacle.

Although all the talk is about whether Formula 1 will return to the Indy track. There have been rumblings around F1 for quite a while even to the extent that only Ferrari have signed up with the FIA to continue racing for the years to come. Where as the other teams, especially manufacture teams [like BMW, Mercedes, Renault] are looking into a 'breakaway' racing league after being disgruntled with how FIA is running the whole F1 'show'. Also the FIA are trying to cut costs even further, which could also include going back to one single tyre manufacturer, which then asks the question if this debacle may have hurt Michelin in the future.As for putting out a yellow flag, I'm not sure that would be a better option than a chicane as it would hold up the other Bridgstone runners just as much. I was thinking they could have placed a line along the middle of that turn 13 and let the Bridgestone runners take the racing line in the inside/bottom of the curve and the Michelins could drive slow around the outside/top of the curve and they would've all merged together nicely into the main straight.

I did watch the US F1 race and was very disappointed about what all happened. A lot of the blame for what happened should go squarely on the guys at Michelin for bringing tyres to the race that were obviously not upto the standard of racing on such a circuit. As you say Shadow, they tried to fly over some new tyres to race on, but this goes against the new rules by the FIA that the drivers must race with the same tyres that they qualified with. Michelin said that it would let the 14 drivers race, if they could slow the cars down though that turn (#13). Those teams tried to get a chicane placed there but the FIA would not allow it either. So some of the blame can go to FIA and Bernie Ecclestone for not trying to come to some agreement to allow the Michelin drivers to race, but the fingers should really be pointed at Michelin for bringing the wrong tyres.The situation was almost laughable when the two Ferraris (the only two 'real' racing cars of the remaining six that started) nearly collided during the middle of the race who were in 1st and 2nd place by a clear margin over the other four drivers.

Although I admit I have no idea how the 'hosting credit system' works, could it not be possible to work it in with users editing posts. For example, if a user edits his post by deleting parts of the post, they have the corresponding difference of post length taken off their hosting credits. This could also be scaled so that if the post length has only changed slightly [eg. fixing typographical errors] that there is no penalty of points, whereas if a user tries to 'cheat the system' by making wholesale changes [as Dooga mentions above], there could be a greater penalty added. On the other hand, if a user wishes to add more infornation to a post, to avoid abuse, there would be no change their hosting credits. Pros: Users can edit their own posts and will not get any benefit of hosting credits. Will create a much nicer looking board without double posts or moderator notices. Cons: Having no knowledge of the workings of the credits system, this idea could be difficult to implement. I have 'tinkered around' with previous versions of Invision, and would gladly help if required.

Mr McDonald exploded...

Or we will never be compatible.

Plus, this jacket looks real cool.

I can see the point of trying to run a 'business' here, that these posts may cause insecurity in members or prospective signups. But, I think posts like these would be somewhat beneficial to other users. I agree that all members should know the rules of keeping your hosting active by reading the ToS and other documentation on Xisto - You have to accept the rules before signing up, but how many people actually read them?? When I signed up, I found some of the documentation to be repetitive and also contradictory on some points. I'm not sure if things have been updated since then though. I wondered myself what all the fuss is about getting your account suspended, so [just for fun] I haven't posted much lately and today I find my account has been suspended. Along with my negative credit amount, there is the following information. The last two statements seem to be conflicting, but I assume that I need the 4 credits before the 'system' will consider resuming my hosting account, but I am allowed to go under that [more than 3] by the time the 'system' actually restores my account [at least one hour upto a few hours later].

My favourite foods would have to be pasta and anything with cheese. Hmmm... pasta in cheese sauce... Hmmm. Also - nuts like peanuts, cashews, etc...

Freaker - You are right about the media coverage of the Corby case. There has been a lot said about how Schapelle is a young, attractive female which is getting her a lot of news coverage. Like you say, compared to other people that have been caught in the past for similar crimes, there is a huge imbalance. But you have to remember, that there will be greater coverage of Corby due to her conceived innocence here in Australia.Re: 'Bali Nine'. I really think my life, your life or anyone else's life is definately worth more than AU$10,000. A very stupid idea, indeed.

Off the topic slightly, but still about drug smuggling...I see the so called 'Bali Nine' made the news again today, where a few of the accused were forced to re-enact the alleged scenario of trying to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia at the Bali International Airport. What are other user's thoughts on these people? It seems to me, that they are guilty of the crime with video footage being taken with packages being removed from thier bodies by the police. Should they face the death sentence by the Indonesians? I'm leaning towards that they should. Given the climate of the Corby case being almost at it's peak at the time of the nine being arrested - I think it is quite clearly a stupid thing to do, notwithstanding that it is illegal and down-right stupid to smuggle drugs in the first place.

I'm glad someone came along and backed me up... :PI do believe the the 50,000+ blocks is just a warning to tell you if you are running out of storage on the Xbox hard drive. I have heard stories of people filling up thier hard drive by ripping music CDs to the Xbox, although it would have to be 'quite a lot' of CDs so I have heard.

As I mentioned somewhere else around here before, the WindowName portion of the open call should only contain alphanumeric characters (A-Z,0-9) or underscores (_). eg. "edit_av" should be changed to either "edit av", "editAv" or similar... Also, as Tyssen and MarCrush suggest, the comma separated list of WindowFeatures must not contain any spaces between options. Notice from Rejected: Changed "edit av" to "edit_av"

I'm not quite sure what you guys are all on about??? The current (original) Xbox only has a 8 Gb hard drive. Although, as eluded to, you can replace the hard drive with a larger one which requires some amount of modification to your Xbox. Note: Modding your Xbox voids your warranty, and also gets into a 'grey area' where it is not condoned by Microsoft and considered illegal. Don't get confused with the 50,000+ blocks of storage that is stated under the Memory menu on your Xbox console (I never learned how many 'blocks' make 1 Gb). And yes, the Xbox 360 will reportedly be shipped with a 20 Gb hard drive.