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Wow, I can't believe I'm the "oldest school" modder here! Of course, I don't do it anymore, and I actually haven't done any in this century. However, back in my HS and college days I messed around with modding stuff back when it was easier to read how to do it and do it yourself than to find a place to DL someone's mods. The one I spent the most time on was good old SWOTL in 1991-92. A simple hex editor let you change anything you wanted in that program, although you couldn't change visuals other than colors, like turning a Me-262 white or something. People figured out how to change the terrain color so we turned Western Europe into Africa or the Eastern Front (brown or white instead of green). We made the 262 with the 57mm cannon in the nose via a few simple adjustments. You could alter plane FMs and DMs quite easily as well. Once I left college and got a job and moved out of my parents' house, though, and Win95 came along, I pretty much gave it up.

The problem with "super weapons" is the "super" part usually means "amount of time, money, and resources devoted to it" far more than "effects." Hitler wasted a lot on the V programs and others for little real effect, just psychological mostly. People died, but the war was unaffected, so they were ineffective as "super weapons." The only true super weapon to have an effect in WWII was the nuclear bomb.

You forgot that led to the "Need Coffee" program.

We had the Angels and the T-birds here together a few years ago...2005 was it? 2003? I can't remember now.

The whole matter/anti-matter disparity is indeed a huge puzzle for science. Why isn't our universe anti-matter instead of matter? If both were created at the Big Bang in roughly equal amounts, does that mean the entire universe is made up of the tiny percentage extra of matter that there wasn't enough anti-matter left to annihilate? Of course, like the number of licks it takes to get to the center of the Tootsie Pop, the world may never know.

Without Remorse is Vietnam-era, and is a great book.

I have all 21 Bond flicks on DVD, bought them when they released that new set after CR's release. Of course, within a year the price had dropped quite a bit so I paid more than double what I COULD have paid for them. The other 20 films are coming out on Bluray in a couple of months, but I'm not sorry I didn't wait. Instead of 5-film sets for $60 or so (like the DVD release 2 years ago), it's over $60 for just THREE films, or roughly $21+ a flick. Sorry, that's like $450, and I'm not a big enough Bond fan to convince my wife of THAT one. I spent about $250 for the 21 films on DVD and I'm sticking with that (I didn't have a BD player when CR came out so I have it on DVD). I will of course get QoS on BD when it comes out next year. Isn't that a great acronym? Maybe the next bond flick will be called The China Project-Intel Problems to let geeks rejoice for that one, too.

The Prestige??

Yeah, I'd like it if every car I had from GTL, GTR2, and rfactor were in GTRE.

This does it for me: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26611134/ I mean, what kind of pointless laws are these?

The amount of scientific ignorance out there sometimes amazes even me. That people would believe smashing two PARTICLES together could cause something CATASTROPHIC is laughable. I wish I were in the presence of some of these doomsayers just so I could point at them and laugh for a good 30 minutes without stopping. That's what they deserve. I mean, we have multi-megaton nukes on the planet, and they've been around for 50 years, and they're FAR more dangerous than anything these colliders can do. My favorite is the "they don't KNOW" refrain. Well duh, that's why they're doing the experiments. But if they don't know, how come you do?

I don't know, other than it looking nice I don't like how it handles in GTRE. Maybe I need a good setup or something, but it 4-wheel slides more than my 67 Lotus in GPL!

I would like you to dance! Take a cha-cha-cha-chance!

Heh, that's not the original line. It was something a lot stinkier and squishier that crown was made of! I don't have a favorite song, and I never will. Other than maybe "of the day." Here's mine, inspired by the lyrics someone else posted here: "There's an old Australian stockman lying, dying He gets himself up on his one elbow, and he turns to his mates Who are gathered round him and he says: Watch me wallaby's feed, mate Watch me wallaby's feed They're a dangerous breed, mate So watch me wallaby's feed...all together now Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Keep me cockatoo cool, Curl Keep me cockatoo cool Don't go acting the fool, Curl Just keep me cockatoo cool...all together now Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Take me koala back, Jack Take me koala back He lives somewhere out on the track, Mac So take me koala back...all together now Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Let me abos go loose, Lou Let me abos go loose They're of no further use, Lou So let me abos go loose...all together now Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Mind me platypus duck, Bill Mind me platypus duck Don't let him go running amok, Bill, Just mind me platypus duck...all together now Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Play your didgeridoo, Blue Play your didgeridoo Uh, like, keep playing while I shoot through, Blue Play your didgeridoo...all together now Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred... Tan me hide when I'm dead... So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde And that's it hanging on the shed! All together now! Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down Tie me kangaroo, down, sport, tie me kangaroo down"

Well, by that logic I guess we have to wait for the inevitable armed attempt by Britain to prevent the Internet from leaving?

Looks like integrated sound to me. Who that is can be anyone's guess, though. Intel is one possibility. You may be able to see a chip if you look on the motherboard itself with a recognizable name on it.

This is their way of demonstrating their irritation at the US refusal to allow F-22s over there. I'm sure their industry is thrilled, though, as doing the R&D yourself is far preferable.

Yes, I too have had little luck installing an old OS on top of a new one, but have put the new one on top of the old many times. The main reason is the boot sector on the main HD. Every bootable OS needs to access that and while new OS are aware of older ones and can work with that, XP has no idea what Vista is. If you install XP over Vista onto another HD/partition (Vista lets you resize parts on the fly now), since you do NOT want them on the same drive letter (Windows works best when it's in a folder named "Windows" and mixing two OS worth of "Program Files" is also asking for it), you will likely need to run a repair for Vista afterwards as it may not even boot Vista again until you do, booting straight to XP instead.

My point wasn't really that there wouldn't be that many real drivers in it as there aren't that many real drivers in the first place. Take the total number of race drivers. Take it down to the number with PCs capable of gaming that have broadband. Take that down to those with a steering wheel or willing to get one. Take that down to those willing to spend their time doing that when they drive the real ones! Take that down to those willing to spend that much money on iRacing when they could be just using rFactor or one of the other one-time-pay-only ones (ie those who aren't cheap ). Is that enough for them to base a business on? Obviously not, so they need people who are NOT race drivers as well. This model isn't appealing enough for them, hence I think the model is flawed.

2003 Toy 4Runner, just paid it off, but have less than 45k miles still. Also have a slightly newer Chevy Impala, but it's the wife's company car and we had a limited pick for that one. Don't have pics of either because, frankly, they're nothing to look at.

Maybe this will make the media check their sources more closely next time instead of rushing to be FIRST!!!!!!!111111111111111 when reporting it. Nah.

LOL, well, considering it can take you the better part of a day to drive from one end of Florida to another (Pensacola to Key West), my point still stands! Things are a little different in the "old" states in the Northeast, but the rest of them are pretty big and traffic precludes you from getting too far too quickly.

I don't know when it's supposed to be released, but apparently the successor to GTR and GTR2 is GTR Evolution. It will be priced as an expansion for those of us with Race 07 (and integrate into it) so as a full game for those who don't. The "full game" will also include all cars and tracks from Race 07. So, without knowing what the pricing will be, but using hypotheticals, say you paid $30 for Race 07. GTR E will then be $15-20 and you'll have one big sim. Or those without Race 07 will pay $30 or so and get the exact same thing. In essence, those who bought Race 07 will likely wind up paying more in total than those who waited, but we've been racing in Race 07 all this time to make up for it.

So far, I haven't seen any other racing sims released this year!