JediMaster

Core i7's are pricey right now thanks to needing DDR3 RAM (which costs a lot more than DDR2). Also, quads don't give you as much bang for the buck.

They're not out yet, but Intel will be releasing a 3.5GHz Duo soon that I'm looking to replace my 3.0 Duo with. A 3GHz Quad costs more than a 3.3GHz Duo right now and for most things is likely not as fast.

Of course, it depends how long you want to wait before upgrading again. I'd say dual cores will be competitive for at least 2 more years, but after that quads will likely surpass them as everything is written to take advantage of them.

94. They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let them crash.

93. Disco lives forever!

92. When taking pictures at an airport, grab the one of the Messerschmitt.

I've told you once.

All the experience is gone. All of it. They'd be lucky to have anyone who'd ever worked on any flight sim EVER on staff.

An existing dev says "ok, we know what didn't work last time and what we couldn't get to work...what can we get to work NOW with the better PCs available?"

I remember rants against mods back on SimHQ in the old days (ie pre-WOV) that I never understood.

You don't have to like it.

You don't have to use it.

You may wish they'd use their time/talent to make a mod that interests you more.

If it doesn't work the way you think it should, well, it's an open game, change it yourself! Aside from 3D models, of course. Then you live with it or without it.

I didn't understand the vitriol about how it wasn't as great as it was hyped to be. Hyped by who? People's responses to screenshots? The modders bubbling over with their excitement for how much they enjoyed it in its pre-release form? What were they expecting? It's still a TW sim through and through.

Could TK release a "Wings over the Gulf" that was better? Perhaps, although I'm guessing he'd have fewer planes in it since he never goes over around 2 dozen planes in a release. So if it was better, it would be in a different way.

The ODS mod was not payware. You didn't even have to pay to subscribe to the site get it (although we wish everyone would to help out poor MK2!) It's not like your games will stop working if you don't get it, or if you do.

I wonder if these people go on fan sites for music groups and complain that say Rascal Flatts isn't making music like Conway Twitty and it's NOT as good as Conway Twitty even though some guy his neighbor knows said it was. There are far better uses of one's time than to complain that people are enjoying something.

Before they built the An-225, a Bison was used to carry the Buran orbiter around. It looked just as tiny on its back as on the 225! A far cry from the way the STS orbiters look on a 747.

Of course, as was typical with NATO, they believed the Bison to be the major threat because it was jet-powered and appeared to have intercontinental range. They totally dismissed the Bear. It took many years for them to realize they'd been looking in the wrong place.

True dat.

TK's sims are like USNF, actually. The spiritual successor, if you will. All radars basically the same aside from range, simple targeting commands, forgiving FMs, etc.

Hot Shots was a great send up. The plane with the car alarm kills me every time.

I'd reseat the mobo and make sure there's no inadvertent grounding going on. A piece of the case sticking up where it shouldn't maybe. A spot where the case has something OTHER than ground, maybe one of the wires for the lights is touching the case?

Frankly, since you've replaced everything else I WOULD replace the case.

Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be

But half the bee has got to be

Vis a vis, its entity. D'you see?

But can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee,

When half the bee is not a bee, due to some ancient injury?

Well if all the programmers and minds behind it are gone, what does that leave? An idea? New programmers will have to start from scratch with piles of code and notes to pore over. You can pretty much bet the next title, whenever it comes, will be:

1. Lesser than what came before, until they get at least a couple of releases under their belts

2. Likely "reimagined" into who knows what the marketing guys think will be best, regardless of what the community itself wants

You guys are lucky! If it was up to me, I was going to make ODS only available to paying subscribers for the first couple of weeks and make everyone else wait! Just as a sort of added benefit.

Instead of donating, you can always go re-buy all TK's sims off his site for the DL versions. Then you're giving him money for an actual product, even if you do already own it. On the plus side, you don't have to store so many old patches!

Oh! So she's in Earth Alliance uniform now?

“No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.”

“Syrinx is always right. I will listen to Syrinx. I will not ignore Syrinx's recommendations. Syrinx is god.”

Maybe it should be done like the Su-33, where the canards are located on the LERX's themselves. The LERX's would be reshaped at that point to let them connect there.

Maybe when it gets older and the USAF moves on to the next thing...

I don't know, but why does it look like an E-2 and not an E-1, say?

They even have the heat exchanger in the same place, over the cabin at the wing leading edge!

I mean, no one can accuse them of being copycats for any of the fighters or bombers in the last 50 years. Even the Forger only barely looks like a Harrier, and the Mi-28 is only superficially like any other attack helo. The Il-76 is even quite distinct from the contemporary C-141.

The An-126 might be hard to tell from a C-5 if they had the same paint scheme, but this one would be very hard to tell from an E-2 aside from the winglets and the contra-rotating props that are far more common in Russian designs than they ever were in the West. I bet if it was flight tested they'd even have wound up having to add dihedral to the tail like the E-2 has, and maybe even more tailfins!

In short, it just looks like Yakovlev was lazy and took the E-2 design as a baseline and went from there instead of making a scratch design from a set of requirements.

Ah, ok, yet another plane-that-never-was.

They stuck a little too close to the E-2's layout, really.

For some reason, the 28N always gives me the impression that it's being forced to carry more than it should, like it's overloaded. Probably because of the triangular cross-section of the fuselage.

Are both of those Ka-52s? That totally different nose would've made me guess it was another model.

Also, I've noticed the domes by the main gear under the older 52 design that the sharp-nosed one doesn't have. Are those associated with the MWS or something? The DCS sim doesn't have them under the helo, but the pictures in its manual show them there (but blurred out).

So does the 9-41 let you update your Facebook page from the cockpit? Is there a jack for your iPod?

What plane is that that looks like an E-2D?

What gives? You're showing a picture of an AC-130, where's the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion?

LOL, I remember that idea!

BTW, will anyone be releasing a Snuffleupagus now?

In the case of enemy skill, "normal" is the most realistic setting in most situations. There are times when it wouldn't be, but I think for most of the campaigns and missions in my TW installs it is.

You never know how a DW mission will go. Sometimes it seems almost TOO easy, and other times it's just impossible.

I do admit the "CBG moving at top speed regardless of the consequences" seems a little brazen at times, but I've been sunk too many times against them to fault their tactics.