FrangaR33

In my opinion despite high wages and an uncompetitely high currency a major cause of the end of Australian car manufacturing is Ford USA, GM and the United States government. Now before i'm accused of having on my tin foil hat on, Ford and Holden both had massive export opportunities for their vehicles in the USA. Not long ago it looked like the XR8 and the XR6 Turbo was going to become the new workhorse of Police and Sheriff departments across the United States, it was big, powerful, rear wheel drive, all the things that are desirable features for cops on the beat. However politicians in the government werent to happy about this and were worried that if Ford Australia took over a hundred thousand orders (the estimate of potential sales over a number of years) it would cost jobs in Detroit and Ford was lobbied both externally and internally to instead continue the production of the old Crown Vic until a bastardised Tauraus police car could be developed. This one instance cost Ford Australia its future, if the Falcon had of been the only choice for a Ford based police car brand loyalty would of lead most of the departments to purchase Falcons and save not only the Falcon/Territory but also Ford Australia's manufacturing base. As for GM they never wanted the Pontiac G8 or Chevy SS to succeed, not when they continue to make piece of shit cars like the Impala or the Malibu. While they are reasonable cars, compared with a VF Commodore they are absolutely in the stone age. Of course most of this took place with the GFC as a backdrop and it was all about American jobs for Americans, while Australia obviously manufactured superior cars it was about the shit they could turn out in the Detriot not making great cars. Holden you shall be sorely missed.

TPS is definetly a likely possibility, could be something as simple as a dirty throttle body. Do you have any way of checking your car for error codes?

I remember about 13-14 years ago when I last went down to HMAS Cerberus they were still doing the live fire demonstrations. As a kid it was totally awesome watch them shoot stuff and blow things up

You never moved to NSW, you are in NSW visiting friends. I know people from VIC who have driven around in NSW for years without changing their license or rego. Hell they even got their rego stickers sent to their NSW residence. Also with TAS plates they will leave you alone unless you do really stupid shit.

Yep there is a lot of overpriced Skylines out there at the moment. I have my eye on a GTS-T at the moment for 8k (with rego) with a rebuilt motor, nistune, nismo injectors, high flowed turbo, front mount etc. So to me anything more than 7-8k is dreaming for anything close to stock.

256GB is no where near enough hard drive space for video editing. Raw HD footage takes up a huge amount of space, modern games taking roughly 8GB + each and high quality photo's can be upwards of 5MB each. With all the photo's and video from travel I'd imagine that little 256GB drive would be full in no time at all. If its just going to be a desktop replacement as you move around I would reccomend steering clear of a SSD, considering everything you have is going to be on that laptop your going to need a lot more hard drive space unless you plan on having it all on an external hard drive. Personally I would go for a 1.5TB internal standard hard drive, partion it as you wish and you have enough space for everything. Also as far as laptops go I cant recommend Toshiba more, I've worked on HP, Acer, Compaq and Toshiba by far has the best reliability. Also in my experience the best place for reasonably priced laptops is Jb Hi Fi, by far the best prices and its always good to feel the quality of a laptop if its going to be your lifeline while your overseas. It is especially good at JB when they have one of their 10-15% of laptop sales, you can pick up a real bargain if you keep an eye out.

LOL would probably be cheaper to built the airport he would need at the other end than the price of that plane.

I am so freaking excited about this game

+1 to all those points. I used to work in I.T so naturally my mrs friends and family all want me to fix their computers no big deal. I just told them I am not dealing with anything that is a Mac so just dont buy one its not worth the hassle. Of course now instead of using her $2k Apple laptop my mrs sister uses the desktop PC that I built for her brother for $400 because it actually works.

Yes I definetly think so. There is a quite a few interactions between Javik (the Prothean) and Shephard and the rest of the crew. He actually has cutscenes and proper interactions unlike Zaeed and Kasumi from ME2. Also he comes with the Prothean Beam Assualt rifle which is pretty sweet.

Battlefield 3 DLC Lets You Pay to Cheat (Basically) "Called "The Ultimate Shortcut Bundle", it costs 3200 Microsoft Points, and basically unlocks almost everything in the game that you'd otherwise have to play for hours and hours to get your hands on. Put another way, it lets the rich/stupid pay to get on the same footing as those who bought the game at launch have had to put in a lot of hard work for. This goes for vehicles, weapons and gadgets."

Apparently there is going to be a BRZ Sti "A BRZ STI would benefit from tweaks to the standard 147kW 2.0-litre ‘boxer’ motor that would reportedly peak power rise closer to 180kW. Other potential upgrades include modifications to its variable valve control system, re-developed intake, freer-flowing exhaust, and a raised rev-limit of 7500rpm." Motor magazine reckons that the Sti model will be $52k which if it does have 180KW isn't too bad when compared with its rivals. Personally i'm not really that keen, but the Mrs wants to get one second hand in a 3 or 4 years time when they get cheaper.