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Hmm, I don;t ever see drifting changing much. It has been the same since the early 90s and I assume it'll remain the same. As soon as you take the "car" aspect out of it (using watercraft, changing fundamental things like tire material, or changing the driving surface) you will lose the entire "car culture' that surrounds it. This is a sport for people who are into cars (gear-heads) and driving techniques. As soon as you fundamentally change that, you lose the core group of people.

If there ever was to be a boat drifting thing, it would certainly not be participated in by automobile drifters, or watched by automobile drifting fans. It's just too different, and not in a good way.
 
I see your points. The feel of air or water "drifting" would not be the same, even if judging and finesse were similar.
I must not be a gear-head then; I can see corollaries or "lessons-learned" you can take from racing and apply to cars in general (particularly manufacturing), but not so much from drifting; most people I would think (other than perhaps the best security / limo drivers) aren't going to want their cars to "drift" at all.
I wonder how many hot-snot brats have done thousands of dollars of body damage to assorted cars trying to drift in their high school parking lots? (I realize that's a completely different issue, having nothing to do with drifting, and everything to do with hot-snotting).
 
Yeah, but you have to agree that now-a-days 90% of motorsports are not meant in any way for testing parts/ideas for new cars. This may have been true 50 years ago when the cars raced actually had something in common with the street versions of the cars, but that is just not the case today.

There is a category of drift car call a "missile car" which is basically a drift car that has been crashed and is mean to be crashed and not complain. It's basically an engine, a roll cage, and some metal on the outside. Like this s13 Silvia in Japan:
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Or this:
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Believe it or not, this car is currently scoring MAXIMUM points for tapping the wall and maintaining the drift.

If you watch some professional drifting, you will see that even the prettiest cars with the nicest paint jobs get dragged along walls completely on purpose.

 
I'm starting to wonder if my tire actually was 9psi. I filled it up at the gas station, and the reading said 9, and gradually went up to 32 from there. If 32 is full, I always pictured 9 psi as being like totally flat, which it didn't really see. If you looked at the tire on "9" psi, no one would say it was flat. They'd say it could use some air. Is 9 psi flat, or what psi is really considered flat? And are those readings accurate?
 
9 is not totally flat, but visually quite low. IT is COMPLETELY unsafe to drive on though.

Flat is 0-5PSI. 9PSI is enough air to keep the rim from touching the ground.

Yes, those pumps are usually accurate within 1-2PSI of my $50 professional gauge.
 
Well, my resubmission was processed.. Now its 15 bucks and a check rather than the Amex I wanted... Money Back is Money back but....
The good thing I can say is that it arrived today and within five hours they said it was approved so...

Got an approximation on when our sponsors will be making a visit(colleges and govt)... They will be coming to my period so... Pretty Nervous since I'm in the first year... Technically I could have skipped the first year and went straight to the second but I knew there were going to be gaps since I have been seeing the curriculum evolve from the beginning so I took the safe route...

Back to messing with Kali 2.0..
 
FYI I would not download that Hard Drive Manager... Just ran netstat -a... my god, what a mess... So many connections.... One literally said troll... I've already uninstalled it.
The only other internet related activity was my school website(nothing abnormal there) and downloaded kali Linux(nothing there either)....
 
I have it disabled by default and running netstat -a with it running or not does not show a difference for me. I also have Malwarebytes Pro on all my computers and they didn't alert on it and Malwarebytes alerts on anything remotely suspicious.
 
I really want s laptop, because after borrowing one it was nice to lie down and work rather than sit in a chair from 7:30 to 12 in the night 😛P

One more year... Hopefully... I was looking at the ROG laptop with the water cooling dock... Seems interesing
 
Well, I mean for college where I leave the dock at home. The reviews said ~5 pounds...

After having waterfox slow down and not display images properly, I went to Chromium... The speed is back, and everything loads.
 
I want to buy a slaptop ... one that slaps anyone who tries to change my settings on it. So far only Apple thinks its a good idea ... but they want to go with a popup screen that warns you not to make changes, emails the owner, releases a nice smelling fragrance, and bills the owner $9.99 for the service call.
 


Ahhahaha

Meanwhile, I can't get the JDK to work.. I set the system and environment variables, but I can't Compile the program...
 

How else would they get you to buy a new one sooner.
Some things on the web may require more processing as well.
 
^^
Exact reason why I don't use my ipod 4g as much. The macbook I had, from 2012, goes all the way up to Mavericks... or whichever is the latest one now. It can go up high because it still has a dual core with hyperthreading and 4(expandable to 16) gigs of RAM..
Or I could Dual boot without messing up the GRUB install.
 


Well, It doesn't matter anymore 😛 I realize the thing is 4+ years old, so I understand it'll take a performance toll with newer stuff. I really like IOS 6 and prior with Apple. I don't like what they did with 7, 8, and 9.
 


Yeah my 4 year old second generation iPad is still chugging along, but now it can't play HD movies (even though iTunes "HD" movies are really 720P :pt1cable: ). I'm looking at replacing it, but will probably go Android - I'm looking at both the Dell Venue 10 7000, and the previous generation Samsung Galaxy Tab S. Yes I said "previous generation" - the one with 16:9 and 2560 x 1600, as opposed to the new Samsung Galaxy iPad. :lol:
 
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