JediMaster

I will add that's why I will be upgrading my C2D 3.0GHz...to a C2D 3.5Ghz.

Once you have GTR2 you can get the Power and Glory mod which mixes GTL and GTR2. The difference is that instead of driving "classic" cars on modern tracks (what GTL is) you're actually racing DURING that time, like the old Grand Prix Legends.

During the Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, WWII, WWI...the enemies all had their own planes they fought with.

There is no "terrorist AF" to tangle with. After the Gulf War almost 20 yrs ago there has been nothing since to really give planes a "heroic role" for all to see. It's like Storm said.

Some of the Ka-50s switches are for offensive systems I wouldn't expect to be on a KC-135. Besides, aren't the KC-135s running around with far older cockpit designs anyway? That said, the procedure conceptually isn't that obtuse--batteries -> systems -> APU -> more systems -> one engine -> 2nd engine -> kill APU -> even MORE systems...etc

I have many mapped to my HOTAS so you don't need to click around that much in the cockpit if you don't want to.

Bioshock IS being done. By Gore "Caribbean Pirate" Verbinski.

My brain hurts!!!

I think 2002 was the last good year for it. We had LOMAC, Il-2 + expansions, CFS3, SFP1, etc.

Since then we've only had mods to old games, F4:AF (which is itself really a mod), EE2 (ditto), more Il-2 expansion, MS FS releases (now gone), and TK's follow-on releases.

The only bright light has been DCS: Black Shark and the upcoming DCS releases, along with SoW:BoB (whenever THAT comes out).

Not to belittle TW's sims, but if you didn't like SFP1 you won't like WOI or SF2. That's what happens from using the same code base for every release. Of course, LOMAC and DCS are in the same boat pretty much!

There are other new ones on the horizon, but it's not like 1998/99 when there were more flight sims released for the PC than there were FPS on the PC in 2008!!! Halo was the death knell of FPS on the PC, BTW. It proved a mediocre game could sell like mad on a console and everything shifted to there.

The 2 Vegas games were at least better than that coding abortion called "Lockdown."

Yeah, it's an nvidia driver problem with DW and FSAA.

Turn off FSAA and it should stop.

Kinda sucks, but that's all you can do.

I loved the Wings of the Luftwaffe and Wings of the Red Star series.

I haven't seen Vanessa around in a few days, actually. I'm sure Nicki will chime in soon enough.

I will say having used iTunes as well as WMP and the software that came with my Creative Zen and some of the wife's earlier MP3s I do NOT care for iTunes much at all. I prefer buying songs from Amazon anyway. Unfortunately the wife bought a bunch of protected WMAs from Walmart.com and the ipod won't go there. So we have to re-rip the CDs we burned of them, losing quality in the process.

What does it mean when a song has a ! next to the number? It seems to mean "You're not getting THIS on there!!"

My Zen has the best software for loading stuff I've tried, it's just not entirely stable. Sometimes I'll click to open a folder and it just shuts down! No errors, just like I clicked close.

Not done it in a TW sim yet, but I've received several "Fox Four" kills in Il-2 that way...sliced off their tail with my prop, and lived to tell about it! Anyone can collide, but to LIVE to fight another day...

Of course, in First Eagles I've had more collisions than I can count, only some of which leave me flyable, but it's never intentional!

Of course, there was no AIM-120D when the B-1R proposal first surfaced. I don't even know if the 120As were in service yet!

I once saw one of the few remaining Douglas B-18s at Kurt Weeks' place in Homestead in the late 80s. Not sure if it survived Hurricane Andrew, though.

I don't have any of the CoDs.

I played the first one, tried the demo for the 2nd one and decided I didn't like where it was going.

I don't have or need a PDA, but my wife does. Her Palm (her 2nd) is now pretty much dead as well as the first, so she's looking to replace that. The ipod touch pretty much CAN be a PDA with contacts, maps, email, etc, so all she needs now is a new phone.

I personally do not like the idea of "all your eggs in one basket". I would never want to worry about my cell phone's battery being dead because I listened to the MP3's too long! PDA + phone is fine, PDA + MP3 is fine, but I don't think I'll ever go for MP3 + phone. Especially as where I work you're not allowed to bring cell phones into a LOT of places so I'd rather it be a cheapo one if I have to leave it in the car or a box by a door.

It looks like the iphone and ipod touch have a lot of apps that run on both. There are some crazy ones out there! Again, the wife just got hers so she's not looked thru them seriously yet.

I guess a full pardon maybe not, but I'm sure time served was likely sufficient for the penalty for those offenses. The difference of course is I believe a full pardon removes the conviction from your record, so they're no longer felons? If falsifying/suppressing evidence is a felony, then that should stand.

I think women tend to hit stationary objects (like walls, fences, buildings, parked cars) more while men tend to have accidents with other cars more. That means more people are involved in the men's accidents and that makes the cost higher.

A car itself doesn't cost that much. Medical bills and litigation cost a ton.

I also don't think there's necessarily a dichotomy between the number of bad female and male drivers, it's just that the bad female ones tend to do stuff like this that's publicized for its entertainment value while the bad male ones are involved in more straightforward collisions that are old hat and not worth watching.

It shouldn't matter unless there's something wrong with your power strip or the wall outlet's wiring. Try a different power strip.

LeMay was always thinking WWIII, never small time like Korea.

What's the point, really? Everyone knows we have thousands of the things. Russia is the only one who ever had a chance of making a successful pre-emptive strike (as in wiping out our ability to retaliate) and they already know where all those things are by now, I'm sure!

I don't believe China ever taken any Su-33s, no. Without a carrier there would be little point on spending the extra money when it could go to an Su-27/30 that would be more useful.

I do both equally. Since my first air combat sim was F-19, where you did both equally, I've always done both sides.

The only exceptions were in WWI sims (which had little to no mud moving) and F-14 Fleet Defender. I've even shot down other helos in Black Shark with my gun (and that was NOT easy at all!) even though mud moving is the main priority there.

I just love air combat in all its guises!

I don't know what version of the nvidia drivers you're using, but you might try using the latest ones or just reinstalling them.