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  3. Posted

    They're working on them, the problem is they only work for one right now. In other words, on a screen the size of the ones you see out there, maybe 30 people could see it? Outside the area where they sit the effect wouldn't work or it would be distorted or something.

     

    If you want to imagine how much THAT would cost per ticket...

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    I just can't understand WHY. I get why someone might not be able to kick the habit once they're addicted, that's not uncommon. These things seem a great solution for them.

     

    I just don't understand the reasoning behind the first time. "Hmmmm...should I have a snack? Something to drink? No! I've got it! I'll set dry stinking weeds wrapped in paper on fire and suck it into my mouth!" :dntknw:

     

    However, it's a great indicator. If you see someone today in college or younger smoking, you know they're an idiot. There's no excuse to start nowadays.

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    That's the thing that always gets me. I refute 100% the asinine statement "speed kills." No, it doesn't. AF447 crashed because it was going too slow. Most planes are lost at takeoff and landing, when they're going the slowest.

    A car going 100mph isn't automatically dangerous, a car going 10mph isn't automatically safe. If 500 mph is far too fast, how come planes worldwide fly that speed all day without incident? It's all about the circumstances, and anyone who tries to sum it up in a snappy little line is being an ass to push whatever their meaningless agenda is. Actually, that's redundant. All agendas are meaningless, to everyone but the one whose agenda it is. No one else cares.

     

    Of course, while the media is focusing on the deaths, I think it far more important to note those that did NOT die but are instead maimed for life. Apparently there are a large number of spectators who now will need prosthetic limbs. Something every volunteer soldier has had to think about, that you could live to make it home but not in one piece, but not something most spectators at a racing event probably consider. Of course, I don't go to any. I dislike crowds, extended periods of deafening noise, and generally being outside for that length of time period.

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    Well, to be fair this will come out about 3 years after 7. Remember that used to be the scale. Win XP halted everything and it got stagnant until Vista, 5 long years.

     

    Win 95->98 3 years

    Win 98->XP 3 years

    Vista->7 3 years

     

    The NT releases were staggered differently. I know it was 4 years from NT4 to 2000, but XP was only 18 months after that. I forgot the 3.5->4 gap.

     

     

    The Jedi Master

  13. Posted

    I did that 14 yrs ago...crap, I can't believe that's how long it's been since the special edition release! I wasn't even married yet!

     

    Anyway, yes, it WAS worth it to see them on a big screen with an audience again. Especially the first film, the theater was PACKED for that. Not so much ESB and ROTJ, though.

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    Well, two things. One, it says (x86) which means you have 64-bit windows so you have two programs files directories. Next, is that the actual message? Because you wrote C:\Programs\Files(x86) when it SHOULD say C:\Program Files(x86)\ and that slash instead of a space will totally ruin everything.

    Beyond that, newer versions of Windows do not like games installed to program files most of the time.

     

    Try making a new directory in C: like C:\Games and then install F4:AF there ie C:\Games\Lead Pursuit\ ...

  20. Posted

    I think $350 is still too much for what you get, quality issues or no.

    I got the Logitech sticks and while they're not perfect they've worked for me ok. I wish they'd release another driver update, but in the meantime I can make do.

     

    The main mark against the Warthog for me was there were no pedals included. The 940 had them, and while they also are not great, they're better (now) than my decades-old (literally) gold-anodized TM RCS I was using with my FLCS and then Cougar. The idea that after spending all that I would STILL have to buy more new pedals...that would be $600 minimum?! At this price, that becomes $450, and that's still outrageous.

     

    I suppose if all the reviews and users agreed this thing was 100%, no flaws, best HOTAS ever with no reservations, I could see that $450 for stick, throttle, and pedals might be acceptable. However, I've heard people say they've had almost 100% out of CH's triple combo which comes in SIGNIFICANTLY below $450 (even though sold as 3 pieces) so why bother?

     

    TBH, I feel I perhaps should've gone CH instead of Logitech. The FFB is awesome when it works properly, but some sims are a bit wonky with it, but CH didn't have it so I got the Logi. If not for FFB, I would've just gone CH and probably wouldn't have had any regrets.

     

     

  22. Posted

    I never got the story from her straight, in one piece, before. She was pretty reticent to bring it up and I only ever had bits and pieces.

     

    Had she not decided to get up and leave the instant the first tower was hit, she'd not be here today, as she was still only 2/3 down when the 2nd plane hit and IIRC her office was above the impact line.

  23. Posted

    As I mentioned in the other thread, my cousin was there at the WTC. She wrote an article many years back detailing her experience.

     

    Original story: http://old.911digitalarchive.org/stories/details/9348

     

    The shoes she donated are here:

    Shoes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033352/9-11-Relics-tell-heart-wrenching-stories-victims-survivors-rescuers.html

     

    She wrote a follow-up 10th anniversary document, which I'll attach here.

     

    Like many other tragedies, many who lived through that day do not want to discuss or be reminded of it. She did, but felt it important for both herself and others to finally share it.

     

    9-11 article.rtf

  24. Posted

    Well, for sheer power user-friendliness, I preferred DOS 6.22...it never crashed. :grin:

     

    I never use the show desktop button, wherever it is, I'm a Win-D guy! Likewise I tend to use a ton of kb shortcuts for things like explorer and alt-F4 blows away moving the cursor all the way up top just to close something. I agree search sucks, but that was actually changed first in XP if you DL'd it from the MS update site. A lot of that, though, is merely personal preference. Myself, I was upset 7 did away with Classic Control Panel. I never liked the new way, and always turned it off in XP and Vista, but now that I'm forced to use it in 7 I've become accustomed to it and I don't turn it off on XP and Vista anymore.

     

    Anyway, having worked with NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 over the last 10 years, I'll say that Win 7 out of the box was the best Windows OS they ever made. XP sucked until SP2, frankly. It was BSOD city from programs and drivers alike. That's why I ran Win98 SE (again the first version sucked) until SP2 and upgraded then. Then I kept that (and later SP3) until Win 7 because Vista was no good until it reached SP2 (which was right around 7's release) so why bother? Besides, only Vista and 7 have what I'd call more than half-hearted security, and as XP is now 2 versions old no one tries to fix it anymore. I've also found that only very old programs don't like 7 32-bit. By that I mean programs that either pre-date or were contemporaries of XP's release.

     

    So if you've got an older machine you keep off the internet, I guess XP is fine, but I find the positives outweigh the negatives in it. The only point I will concede without challenge is the price. It does cost, and if your PC is older you'll need to pay to get it to take advantage of it properly, and I know some can't afford that.

    But if you can, and you mostly use programs that date from within the last 6-7 years, and you don't have too many old peripherals like printers and scanners that predate Vista lying around that the OEMs may not have made 7 drivers for, I think 7 is worth the upgrade even if you don't go 64 bit (I haven't yet, although with A-10C and Crysis 2 DX11 texture pack I wish now I had when I installed it 2 years ago).

     

    I don't mind you disagree, I only mind when people are nasty or dismissive in their disagreement. A reasonable response can always be respected even if it's contrary.

     

    Now if you'd said Windows ME was the best OS, I don't care how nice you were, you'd be a kook!! :biggrin:

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