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Past L-E Projects / Re: Initial D 4th Stage comments...

« on: March 12, 2005, 05:43:43 am »

Be amazed at the amount of cars that I see around my area that have had upwards of $50,000.00 put into them

I live in Australia, so it's a whole different scenario here, but the place doesn't change the events as such... Went out on a big cruise a few nights ago, had some races, won some prizes (I drive other peoples cars in races, they're too sane for the stuff we do)... But the nights are overall quite fun.

My last one got me into a bit of trouble though, I didn't know that putting the outside two tires of your car onto the sidewalk to get past the car in front of you that's hogging the middle line was against the rules

I normally drive either a Skyline or a very very beefed up Levin a friend got imported, he's importing an authentic panda trueno later this year

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: initial d 4th stage ep. 11 and 12

« on: March 11, 2005, 08:26:12 pm »

Another thing with ETA's... It's kinda like giving a false promise if it gets pushed back and pushed back for whatever reasons :/

Keep up the good works, the other one I watched of ep 11 just doesn't cut it, you do a much much better job, it's actual translation, and all in english!

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: initial d 4th stage ep. 11 and 12

« on: March 11, 2005, 04:54:08 am »

I was quite happy just coming in here every day to check if the eps had been released, but after Vollmer's comments, had to register just to make a point.

They could do that if they wanted to, but they're not obliged to, nobody under the GPL, BSD, or any other licencing "scheme" is obliged to give an ETA on their progress, or impeding release. I do some software development myself, and I don't give ETA's, because then it makes people expect too much of you when you go past it, and it makes the pressure even higher on yourself to get the job done and not dissapoint anyone!

Here, they do the job, get the product out, you all rejoice untill the next two eps. I'm honestly gratefull for their stuff, and the fact that they don't give a progress update means it's kinda like a surprise when it gets released (To me, that makes the wait all that much better).

Doing progress reports or even updating a website, even as simple as it might appear to be, to track the progress of something like this is a pain, because there are too many factors in the whole thing to really give an accurate responce about. If anything, they could say "Yes, we have the raws", and then you be quiet untill they go "Yes, we're done, here's the files". Reasons I can think of are along the lines of:

1. Internet connections to send/recieve the data from one person to another when the files are being done.
2. The amount of QC that they do, it makes it quite complex.
3. Possible data corruption, hard disk failure, ISP failure... Hell, any critical component failure is a major setback on a timeline.

Now that I'm sorta done in the whole thing, long explanation short:

"BE PATIENT! They're human just like us, give them a break"