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Ah, a carbon-fiber and aluminum alloy rain, quite nice on bare skin!
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Is that a punctured ball at the base of the pile?
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Even if the computer doesn't control flight ability, so you don't have to worry about crashing, what about the other systems? What could be worse than a mission into hostile airspace and your radar, RWR, and ECM switch off and won't come back?
My feeling is that while a manned plane will likely have fewer problems than a UAV/UCAV, when a fatal problem occurs in a manned plane it's 10x worse than losing an unmanned one.
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Yes, it's the OFP/Arma guys doing it. I'm not sure what the game itself will be like, but if you have arma 2 there was a demo of sorts that let you fly the a helo in arma2 using the FM TOH will have.
It sounds like MSFS helo edition from the Arma guys, so I'm going to wait for others to get it and try it. I'm not much for "flight only" sims (I prefer combat flight sims!) so I may skip this one.
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I have nothing against Jobs or what he was able to accomplish.
However, I have a dislike for some of his more rabid fans. Some of the anti-PC rhetoric they spout is so stupid it's no wonder people think "Apple is for stupid people" because it's the dumb fans that are the most vocal. The smart ones, well, they don't go spouting off about it because they know it's not better, just different, and some things are better suited for it while others are not. It's like a presidential candidate being endorsed by the KKK or something...I'm sure Apple privately wishes those people would stay quiet.
I don't care for the products themselves because they require certain concessions to giving up control that I don't like, like converting all your music to their own format first, or being locked out from digging into the OS.
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I run stock 4.10.1 in widescreen no problem, you just have to adjust the conf.ini manually as stated.
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Cool, I'm glad this is here.
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He lived for like 7 years after he got cancer the first time, I guess it just kept coming back.
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Look with your nose.
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Wow, German helicopters. Rarely see those.
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Likewise, if you re-DL any of the DLC you'll find it's all sept-update level required for install.
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The 1998 one. I got it just for the Foo Fighters song and some others. There are only 2 songs from the "score" itself.
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That was only in ST:TMP (nerd data alert!)
Robert Wise, the director, wanted the deflector dish to indicate warp speed or not and this guy modeled that.
At sublight speeds (leaving space dock and impulse power) it's "off" and yellow/orange. When it goes to warp, it lights up blue as it's on. The idea behind the deflector is what it sounds like---a force field in the shape of a cone in front of the ship, independent of shields, to deflect anything in space like dust or ice or whatever that at high speed would smash the front of the ship.
You'll notice the warp engines light up blue at the same time because it's "at warp" at that time. This idea was followed faithfully in TMP aside from I think one scene where someone made a mistake and it was either blue when it was supposed to be yellow or vice versa, I forget which.
This idea was then dropped in ST2 (you only see it orange in the footage reused from TMP) and every other film thru ST6 where it was just blue all the time, even if sitting still. Only when the ship was shutdown it would go dark, but the yellow was gone. Too much for them to deal with I guess.
As for the music, I've been a fan of SF and some fantasy film soundtracks for over 30 years, since my uncle bought me the ESB soundtrack in 1980 on LP. I've owned the soundtracks to many of these films since before CDs were available, although others like Alien and Back to the Future I only bought recently with special editions.
That's why my ear picks this stuff up so fast.
My collection:
All 6 Star Wars films
All 11 Star Trek films plus several of the original series episodes
All 4 Indiana Jones films
The first 2 Jurassic Park films
The first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean films
All 3 Lord of the Rings
Back to the Future
Alien
Aliens
Armageddon
Godzilla
X Files
2001
Fantasia
Superman
E.T.
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Stargate
Dune
Hunt For Red October
Battlestar Galactica (new series) all seasons
Some others I can't recall right now...
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I built that model, it uh...doesn't look that good.
However, I disagree with his music choices. It's the Enterprise from ST:TMP-ST3, but he uses the them from ST8 aka First Contact (a TNG film) and then he uses the "Enterprise leaves space dock" theme from the NEW ST and not TMP?
This thing would've been a lot better if the theme from the opening credits of TMP was used first, followed by the leaving space dock music from TMP.
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I still think the roundel should just be a red bullseye over Ghaddafi's shocked face.
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One thing is that if it had been truly external, the chance is high that you wouldn't have been able to reload anything...the drive would've been unusable. Low-level data on a drive isn't touched by a format, but an external mag wipe hits it just the same. Without that data, the BIOS/EFI can't talk to the HD.
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Um...
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Well, I would say by definition that any airline still around today is a better airline.
Actually, Pan Am went out of business twice. There was the main one, then a few years later they returned with limited service...and failed again.
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Anything's possible I guess.
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So to be clear, the only issue is changing the wingmens' loadouts, not yours?
I'll try testing that out myself to see if any other 3rd party planes suffer from that for me.
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Not sued per se, but IIRC the USG is responisble for compensation for damages. There was some treaty signed years ago that spells that out.
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AFAIK, no one has detected a tachyon.
Neutrinos are tricky, for a long time they were thought to be massless. If so, going FTL wouldn't be a big deal. They now believe they aren't, but are possibly the lightest particles that exist ie the only thing that weighs less are the massless ones.
Anyway, Einstein's theory can be interpreted many ways. One way is to say that anything that is going the speed of light, c itself, that has mass would have to be everywhere. If there's no mass, it's not an issue.
Another way is to say INFORMATION can't travel FTL, so there's no way to transmit knowledge of an event "through time" so someone would get a message before they actually saw them send it.
I don't know that you could use neutrinos for communications, so I think it might be one of those things where it SEEMS to go FTL, but it has no practical implications because you can really only observe them, you can't USE them.
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Perhaps that's why the retirement was only 2 years later.
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Since TOS was only 3 years, they peaked sooner. Honestly, though, Where No Man Has Gone Before wasn't a highlight of the show, nor was the Man Trap. I'd say the first half of S1 still had them finding their footing. They figured things out pretty well by the end of the season and you had some great eps like Space Seed and City/Forever. S2 was pure gold, with few missteps...and then came S3. While it still has some classics in there, it has a greater-than-expected share of missteps. It's still worth owning on BD, though.
In fact, TOS is the only ST series I own...and I bought it twice (DVD sets about 10 years ago when they went full season box instead of "2 eps/disc" and now the BD).
I've heard TNG is coming to BD, but as much as I like the show overall, S1 and S2 were pretty weak, so unless it's all 7 years at some awesome price (ie well below $200) I'm passing.
Is there any info about a DCS-AC130 simulation?
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Still no word on what the 3rd installment will be. All that's been said is "popular American fixed wing plane". So we know what's it NOT, but not what it IS.