JediMaster

Well in theory the ones Italy are getting are very close in a lot of ways.

Seeing as Flaming Cliffs 2.0, which will interface with Black Shark, is due out soon (read "by summer") you may just want to hold out for it.

In otherwords, yes.

"What's for breakfast?" -- Sir Winston Churchill

FYI, McGruber is coming to theaters soon.

Frankly, EVERY film has a plot you've heard before, unless you just came out of the jungle and are seeing films for the first time. Pick any film and you can easily find another film with the same plot if you boil down the details to the base. I think someone once pointed out there are basically around 2 dozen different plots out there, and every film made can be summed up as one of them. So harping on a film because the plot is familiar is actually worse than what you accuse the film itself of doing. It's like pulling someone over doing 10 mph over the speed limit because, well, they're speeding, when everyone around them was doing 15 mph over the limit. Don't like the characters, fine. Dislike the acting, the visual design, the music, whatever, that's fine, but saying "it's bad because the plot has been done before" is just a cop out.

Did you not recognize (heh!) Bruce Boxleitner aka TRON himself in the trailer, talking to Flynn's son? The only one I don't know about yet is the woman from the original.

I think it's something like there is emphasis on unit cost and such and they're complaining basically that they won't get "extra credit" for their tanker being bigger and carrying more fuel/cargo per flight. So since theirs HAS to cost more because of its size, they figure they're out automatically. The funny thing is IIRC that the last competition had Northrop given such extra credit (apparently one of the deciding factors) when it was never stated at the start that such credit would be given. Kind of like going to take your exams and you find out someone who barely passed is now getting a top grade because they wore a red shirt that day and it was "red shirts get extra credit day"...yet they never told anyone. I know Boeing had talked about submitting the 777 instead if it looked like the USAF was going to go with bigger, but I've since heard that it's still the smaller 767 they're offering, just now with some new things like an updated cockpit.

Of course it is, but the converse is not true. I've been in a P-47 and had a 109 shoot me up with its cannon and I've been taken down in mere seconds, while there are stories of them taking multiple 20mm hits without being shot down. So the problem is the relative strengths of the MG vs cannon, not the absolute strengths. If in reality the MG was effective to X degree and cannon was say 3X, the game shouldn't have cannon be 10X!

ACtually, I believe the percentage of tickets sold to Avatar that were for the 3-D version was quite small compared to the 2-D ones. Besides, it's not even double the price, it's more like 50% more. So in other words, the revenue to 2 3-D tickets is the same as 3 2-D tickets. So I think the total % for the 3-D version was less than 25% of the total, but even if it was 25% that means changing the prices back to the 2-D one would only drop the total something like $80 million (on a rounded total of $1bn for the film).

That new design for the Recognizer is awesome.

The scene they show, though, is of them cheering as the war is won. Presumably the T-800 finds and kills him later. Also, remember that according to the original story in T-1, Kyle says they HAD won when at the last minute as they're taking down Skynet's complex the T-800 is sent into the time vortex. Kyle then goes in after it. There are even storyboards for the scene, that were never filmed for budgetary reasons I think, on the DVD.

This is simply their realization that what the USAF requires isn't what their plane could offer...why? Because they don't apparently have a small enough plane available to be made into a tanker. The 767 is already quite a bit larger than the 707s now used. Now they whine we should buy an even BIGGER plane (which will mean fewer) just to suit THEIR choices? Let's face it, the only type of plane that is never designed from scratch for its role is a tanker. Every tanker has always been a bomber, transport, or in the USN's case even a fighter or ASW plane. The US gov't allowed Boeing to buy McD in the 90s and in so doing made just 1 manufacturer of transports/airliners in the country. Until recently, Airbus never made any military planes. Now they've begun, but crying that the US should want what it offers is ridiculous. You don't see Ferrari whining that no company uses its product for company fleet cars, do you? They don't build cars that fit that mold, and Airbus doesn't seem to have built one to fit the USAF's RFP. You can complain if a competition wasn't run properly, but to complain that the RFP won't let you sell them what you want to sell them, as opposed to what they need, is ludicrous.

Actually, he DOES survive the war, but a T-800 does as well and kills him after it's over.

The best way to get frustrated fast in Il-2 is to intercept a Ju-88 or He-111 in an early Hurricane with the 8 .303s.

LOL! There was a skit on SNL last month or so where they had a game show called "What is Burn Notice?" The basic joke was that nobody knew anything about the show at ALL despite its great cable ratings. One contestant guessed "A show about the law firm of Frank Burn and William Notice?"

If the C-5 is a whale, the C-17 is a dolphin.

I think in Russia the gov't assigns numbers differently than the company that makes them. So you have Flankers being assigned the numbers 27, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 37, with a variety of letter suffixes when really just 3 numbers would have likely worked (27, 33, 32/34). Changing the ability of the plane to do a particular mission profile doesn't deserve a new number, that's a suffix change. In fact, there is less in common between the F/A-18C and F/A-18E then there is between the Su-27 and Su-30.

Believe me, when they start eating solid foods...the smell is 10x worse!

That happens with FSAA on. Turn it off and the menus are fine. Also try switching in-game renderer from HW T&L to just HW.

Long ago I stopped upgrading my drivers the minute they were released because of horror stories like this one. I tend to stick with the last gen drivers.

Sandra Bullock didn't win an Oscar and a Razzie for the same role...the Oscar wasn't for All About Steve, the Razzie was. She actually went to the Razzies to get it (I wonder if anyone other than her and Halle Berry have actually appeared to claim their prize?) and brought along a box of DVDs of the film.

Maybe we should let a horny stallion make him its mare?

Optical illusion. It's shorter in height, but the length is quite close. The wingspan is only slightly less. It's still much larger than a MiG-29. I wonder what plane that hard-to-make-out twin-boom design is?

So when the pilots puke they don't have to clean it up? Something their psychiatrists claimed about it having a calming effect on the pilot or some such tripe. It just makes me FEEL green.