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| Thread ID: 114494 | 2010-12-05 09:30:00 | Gran Turismo.....Misfire? | Metla (12) | PC World Chat |
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| 1158974 | 2010-12-05 10:14:00 | At the time our management were in the council buildings telling them how great things were going, as the meeting concluded they left the offices and from the hallway could see that water jet shooting higher then the buildings. The mayor at the time even made an appearance, she came down to get an eyeful of the manners mall geyser. how did he do it? The ground had to be excavated to a specified depth, that ground was chock full of live services, many of them unmarked, many of them never officialy recorded, many of them not even close to any standard. Then they poured concrete around them. The way to remove concrete is to hit it with a rock-breaker mounted on an excavator. In this case the people putting in the water line had encountered a slab of concrete the size of a car, so rather then remove it so they could put in their pipe at the correct depth they raised it sharply, went over the concrete slab,and down the other side, they they covered what they had done with concrete to make it a solid component. The man in the digger was working on the assumption that the water line was a meter deeper then it turned out to be in that spot, we had followed it all the way through manners mall and it was going downhill to that point and we had it exposed to with 500mm of where it raised to the surface. Anyway, he was breaking concrete for removal and it turned out to have a live water pipe in it. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1158975 | 2010-12-05 10:17:00 | And I didn't even mention the high capacity network cables we uncovered, or the 11Kv cable that exploded, or the underground fire up the road, or dropping my iphone into the stormwater system and having to be lowered in upside down resulting in me cutting my head open..,... All good fun. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1158976 | 2010-12-05 10:18:00 | And I suppose the geyser fix was to replace the pipe where is was, rather than drop it down to where it should have been in the first place? Although I bet this time the council made sure it was mapped :p |
Myth (110) | ||
| 1158977 | 2010-12-05 10:21:00 | The temp fix was a patch, But we still had to remove all the concrete down to a specified level, so it did come out and the line would have been lowered. | Metla (12) | ||
| 1158978 | 2010-12-05 19:58:00 | And wtf has any of that got to do with Gran Turismo?:illogical:D Your work program is much more interesting. The film was good though. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1158979 | 2010-12-05 20:30:00 | Anywho GT5, I think IGN summed it up well, a 9.5/10 driving simulator wrapped up in a 5/10 game. It can look so pretty, with some glaring stuff ups (shadow rendering from the early '90s!?!), awesome driving, very few cabin views and a maddening menu system! If they could cross breed GT5, Forza 3 and V8 Supercars Race Driver 3 I would be in heaven! So all up moments of WOW! mixed with moments of WTF! I think they could have done better with the huge amount of time they had. Missfire? Yep, a couple of loose HT leads there!(Or an air leak!) My 2c :) |
Hopper (14491) | ||
| 1158980 | 2010-12-05 21:28:00 | Oh and REALLY bad music! | Hopper (14491) | ||
| 1158981 | 2010-12-06 01:25:00 | I am actually quite enjoying GT5, however I would have to say that if my racing cockpit and wheel worked with Forza 3 I would probably play Forza far more than GT5. as Hopper says the graphics fluctuate wildly from amazing to below average sometimes within the same race... |
lagbort (5041) | ||
| 1158982 | 2010-12-06 02:19:00 | in Forza 3 , you can use cockpit view in any car. not the case in GT5... |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1158983 | 2010-12-06 02:21:00 | IThen I was hired in a site management role (H&S, QA, supervisor with a bit of machine operating and laboring thrown in the mix) and I'm working on some large scale earthwork projects near Masterton. Where there? |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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