I'm not so sure that the AI in GT3/4 was a rubberband model. If you had a really good car for the race, you could win by laps, or large amounts of time quite easily. A car that was too slow, and, well, you were bringing up the rear. It seemed like each car in the race was destined to finish in a certain spot, and you have to beat the fastest car to win. They drove a perfect race at the pace the car would allow, and you just had to do better, or have a faster car.

Obviously this means the triangulation computations go horribly wrong and rather than reporting something absurd, the chipset just pretends it couldn't get a fix.

Actually, the GPS is looking for a specific set of satellites that should be in view (based on the time and the orbit calculations) and can't find them where they should be. That's why it can't get a fix.

Sometimes the car in front of you is a giant box van and you don't know what's going on beyond him, and he's already across the intersection at full speed. Again, no warning.

That would be called "following too closely" around these parts. Doesn't matter that if you leave a 10 foot gap to the car in front of you that 3 people will try and cram their giant SUVs in there at once while talking on their phone.

Always interesting to see the twists applied to previous attempts at the same task.. I know what idea I'm putting in my 6 yr old's mind for his first science fair....

After seeing these stories as of late, and reading the FAA regulations on launching balloon missions and their payloads, I've been wanting to do one at night. Would take some tweaking to figure out the correct camera settings, but having night pictures (with all the roads and cities lit up and such) would be pretty cool that high up.

If you're going to do the install yourself rather than try something else like Mythdora (Fedora with Mythtv all-in-one install, like Mythbuntu), give the Fedora/Mythtv install guide a look. It's what I used to set mine up, and have done so whenever I upgrade. I've got a back-end server with dual tuners and I use old modded xboxes as my front-ends.

By that logic, shooting anybody in self defense could be considered premeditated. After all, you thought of it in advance and said that if your life was in danger, you would respond with lethal force.

Actually, that was the parent company of Gibson guitars that were opposed to the solid body guitar idea. Les Paul created The Log as a way of eliminating the feedback that was common with amplified/mic'd hollow-body and acoustic guitars of the time.

Only after the Broadcaster (later Telecaster) took off did Gibson approach Les Paul.

Where does "wonky" fit on that list? Is that above iffy but below stuffed?

It all seems to come back to the clothes. If you don't wear what's cool or stylish, you're going to be shunned.

Funny how that works out. I've worn plaid for years, even way back in high school when it was totally uncool. Now that it's "in style" with the "cool" people, I'm labeled as a poser by some. I wish it would go back out of style again so I can go back to being "lame."