Ben Russell

http://wimp.com/myblackberry/

Left: Slow. Right: Fast. It doesn't attempt to put a number on how slow or fast. It's just a loud pedal. I put it in because my personal internet connection is ADSL1, 1500/256. About as slow and about as unreliable as it gets. I cannot get a faster connection, I live in a rural area. If it rains there's a 50:50 chance the line will drop out. Yay. If I'm leaching a big file in any other app my connection bombs. iTunes, all web browsers, etc. The whole pipe gets saturated, web browsing becomes unusable, Skype fails, internet radio buffers fail, etc etc etc. Yay. For. Telstra. (Seriously, I've never had a connection that saturates so easily, its pathetic.) So I put a throttle in. When I want to do stuff and have my network usable, while still leaching, I yank it left. (I think.) When I want it to go fast and leach overnight I push it right.... It shouldn't take more than a few seconds to start reflecting the new speeds unless your actual internet connection is saturated and you're asking for more speed in which case it cannot provide any faster. I believe, by default, I set it to consume about 75-80% of my possible transfer rate. It should download at a decent rate without bombing your connection without you touching anything. Obviously if you have a fiber connection your definition of a decent rate is going to be a long way from mine. 60kb/second is almost a full half of my maximum speed. Throttle response is non linear. Mid slider will not use half your transfer rate. It's a convenience feature, spending lots of engineering time on it would defeat the convenience I added it for.

How do increased restrictions on multiple downloads make it easier to provide the best product at the best price? The way I see it, increased restrictions just make everything more difficult for users. Very very simple. We charge all users more money for a feature they will probably never use. Or, we can have 1% of users send us an email. Are you sure you want us to charge everyone more money for the same thing?

Google images search reveals no evidence that the gauge can indicate when you are turning too quickly. What a stupid design.

+1 Dozer. An instrument that cant show you when you're over and by how much you're over, is useless and will do nothing but induce PIO.

Hi, Sorry that you're having problems. The download servers are using Amazons network. They have data centers in Singapore, Ireland and various locations around the US, I believe. I'm sorry that you were having slow speeds but there's not much more we can do and no way we can ever hope to buy faster servers. The new download system is more restrictive about allowing multiple downloads because we are trying to bring you best product at the best price. Cameron can fix this by allowing you more downloads on a case by case basis as needed. It won't take him long once he reads your email and hopefully you will be able to download at full speed! Apologies for the hassles, thank you for your patience and patronage. We appreciate the support.

So I thought I'd be smart and chop the engines off the 777 and fly it around under custom thrusters.... X-Plane doesn't want to play nicely.... For various reasons. Mainly cause I picked a heavy I think. Previously this technique was applied to a Cessna sized aircraft, much different weight and power class. I don't have a heap of time to throw at this. Augmenting the flight model is much much easier than replacing the engine/thrust model. Previous work in this area was augmentation. Techniques applied here have been used to: - Patch the flight model for water craft, applying much more interesting and varied turn rates during taxi, custom drag rates to get taxi speeds correct. etc. - Patch the flight model to make it impossible to bury the wings of an aircraft under water at anything upto ~90 knots. Patched response was silky smooth. (It took a LONG time to get the math right.) Wing tips "feel watery". - Patch the flight model so that water landings are acceptable. - Patch the flight model to apply custom drag to get engine-out glide performance correct while retaining correct performance of engine-on flight model. In summary, you can patch a heck of a lot of the weak areas of the flight model using refined versions of these techniques. It's a shame that the multi engine 777 attempt didn't go as planned, such is life... So... I'm going to have to defer this one for a bit until I have a chance to work the same experiments into a smaller airframe and see if more interesting, sharable, results can be had.

The detail in this new technology is simply stunning. http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/12/how-l-a-noire-conquered-the-uncanny-valley-with-aussie-technology-depth-analysis/

tristar: Please do not trivialize a serious issue like Rape ever again. Anywhere. I suspect you spend too much time on XBox Live where little boys think that word is tough.

As of today I will start moving some files around in the Gizmo SDK folders. This may break some of the example-article links. If you have found a broken link you can apply this fix: Broken: http://bitbucket.org/xplugins/gizmo-sdk/src/tip/examples/misc/guiPathingScribbles/guiPathingScribbles.lua Fix: http://bitbucket.org/xplugins/gizmo-sdk/src/f1aacc9d371b/examples/misc/guiPathingScribbles/guiPathingScribbles.lua

Forza marketplace is a joke. They've crammed it into the standard LIVE container, so while you're looking for track upgrades, you have to wade through stupid helmets for your Avatar. The content browser is crap. The text descriptions are very often truncated and leaving you wonde..... No, buying stuff on LIVE is no fun at all. No sign of the test-track as yet, but you can get "Stigs Garage" full of cars to drive on a course that has no relevance to the show. Not a fan of all the nickle and diming starting to unfold. I payed $120 for Halo (Dry)Reach. It's mostly useless and now 2 months later they want another $40 for more multiplayer maps. As if that wasn't bad enough; - Turn on my xbox, if it detects network access you get spam in your eye by default. Ads for halo maps, advertised using animations that you _never_ see in the actual game. - Start Halo: OH HAI WE HAVE NEW MAPS - Try and connect to actually, you know, enjoy a game: SPAM YOU NEED MORE MAPS..... It's about as much fun as getting told about GIANT FIGHTING ROBOTS AND HOW THEYRE REALLY FUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNN Fuck spam. Fuck advertising. Fuck product placement.

This version fixes the Trial-Timer-Lockout bugs that 10.12.12 had. Upgrading is highly recommended. You can download the new plugin here: http://bitbucket.org/xplugins/gizmo-sdk/downloads ( Available for all platforms. )

Has anyone had success getting Gizmo to work in Linux yet or do you need a package list? I don't want to spend 1 second longer in Ubuntu's horrible window manager than I have to. (Seriously, 2 pixel window handles is stupidly irritating.) Feedback for this release is essential guys. If you don't bother telling me if you have it working or not I won't bother porting it again. Thanks.

Seems to be a bug if you let the trial timer expire, you lose camera control and don't get it back. Solution, don't let the timers expire.

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One day I'll crack 8 minutes around the ring...... one day... Nice work. ... In any car.

That video is hilarious Simon. Love the way it's pegged on the rear bump stops and just .... silly. Makes me chuckle. I took the Trueno for a few laps around Laguna today, I think I need a good set of pedals and a wheel to enjoy that car. It's definitely a fantastic car that can draw out your skills at sane speeds. Trying to drive it through a game pad trigger is inanity though. Got out the WRX again which tends to favour the gearbox and dynamic-flicks more than fine throttle control. Tsukuba: 1:04.726 ...flakey little circuit, so hard to find the fast line.

Cam and I have discussed releasing this I.P. at length, we're both in agreement that we should publish it. Next Gizmo demo: How to seriously muck with X-Planes flight model.

I have packaged up an update that will hopefully reach people before they break for the holidays. Gizmo 10.12.12 is now available for Mac, Windows and Linux. I think I may have a memory leak in this version that only really shows up in Windows/Linux when you exit the sim. Please excuse this minor error. :/ I do 99% of my work on my Mac and it doesn't segfault in the same ways so I only see this error very occasionally if ever. There are other significant updates in this version that make it well worth upgrading to. You can download the new plugin here: http://bitbucket.org/xplugins/gizmo-sdk/downloads Happy holidays and thank you all for supporting Gizmo.

ldd lin.xpl linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb77f4000) libalut.so.0 => /usr/lib/libalut.so.0 (0xb7550000) libcurl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 (0xb74fd000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7411000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb73eb000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb73cf000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7271000) libopenal.so.1 => /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 (0xb7224000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb720a000) libidn.so.11 => /usr/lib/libidn.so.11 (0xb71d7000) liblber-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2 (0xb71ca000) libldap_r-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/libldap_r-2.4.so.2 (0xb7184000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb717b000) libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0xb714c000) libssl.so.0.9.8 => /lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0xb7102000) libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0xb6fb3000) libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xb6f9e000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb77f5000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb6f9a000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0xb6f86000) libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0xb6f6e000) libgnutls.so.26 => /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.26 (0xb6ed2000) libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0xb6e24000) libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3 (0xb6e00000) libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0xb6dfc000) libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0 (0xb6df4000) libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib/libkeyutils.so.1 (0xb6def000) libtasn1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.3 (0xb6dde000) libgcrypt.so.11 => /lib/libgcrypt.so.11 (0xb6d6a000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0xb6d65000) I will try and work with you to create a list of Ubuntu package names to install, for now this is the best I can offer.

..on the roadmap, if we need it, is the LuaJIT extension. This is an x86 JIT engine for the LuaVM that claims potential performance gains of upto 5x. At the moment I think the CPU-cost cycle favors spending time on the other parts of Gizmo. CPU's are getting faster and thus the scripting engine can do more, "for free", every day. The rest of the API doesn't have that going for it.

I'd really love to give you a detailed answer on bullet... in general it's not targeted at being a replacement for X-Planes internals. It may turn out that the two can be glued together with not much work.... This could be _really_ fun for a car racer insider X-Plane, but a lot of work for anything else really. The other things I want to do that are directly targeted at X-Plane I don't want to reveal until they're ready. Sorry. For the immediate future I want to vastly improve the module and provide much better access to what bullet can do. Blender uses it for the Game Engine and various other things if you're curious about exploring it fully. ...now if only I could go and symlink this in the other thread...

You'll crack the 9 mark ...... it just takes obsessive practice and knowing the flow of the corners, the 'ring is about faith... blind faith. *laughs* Did some laps in the Trueno...... it's fun, but I just don't quite get it. I prefer a Miata or an S2000.