JediMaster

Dust buildup causing higher temps?

AFAIK all 360s HDDs work with any 360, regardless of make or color or whatever.

I've been sucked in more times than I can remember over the past 20 yrs. It doesn't happen to me as much anymore, however I still dedicate myself to playing one or 2 games mostly at a time excluding what I play online coop with others.

Right now I'm mostly playing Far Cry 2, with STALKER Clear Sky and the Painkiller Triple Dose bargain collection waiting in the wings. I also play a little LEGO Indy Jones, some SW Force Unleashed, and a few other 360 games for my offline gaming.

Some suicides, and most attempted suicides, are calls for help. By doing what he did for 12 HOURS there's no doubt this guy wanted someone to stop him, wanted to think that someone cared enough to stop him. Broadcasting it live on a streaming site is probably the loudest way this guy could think of. Where were the parents? Who knows, it hardly matters now.

It's not that they're coming more often, it's that with modern sensors and communication we're just aware of them all now while in the past only locals would feel many of them.

The "big ones" are still just as rare.

IIRC, there was a near-event in the 70s in the SW US where a large fireball streaked across the sky but then left. It apparently skipped on the atmosphere and kept going. From footage taken it was estimated that had it impacted it would have been larger than the Tunguska event.

Besides, the once-in-100,000 yrs events aren't the ones to worry about.

Rather we should worry that around every 65 million years, almost like clock work, the Earth has experienced a mass extinction event, several of which have been linked to meteor impacts. Did we mention the last one was 65 million years ago??

The elusive red-headed lesbian may be drawn out of hiding by playing a Sarah McLachlan tune.

Any Brit who doesn't know MP gets their citizenship revoked! You are now officially French!

There was an interesting article in the recent Int'l Air Power Review about how Argentina got some Lincolns and Lancasters post-war, making them the only nation in S America with strategic bombers. Of course, they were only really ever used against themselves with the various coups and rebellions in the 50s.

So you think China is now suitably confused?

Is it any wonder why I moved out of South Florida?

That entire part of the state is a head case writ large.

Pembroke Pines is a relatively nice area.

I'm going to guess it consists of sailors and ships and aircraft, all armed.

Oh and working too hard

Can bring the eels back-ack-ack-ack-ack

You oughta know by now...

You can spend your whole life

Cleaning up their mess

Is that all you get for your money?

I'm not that surprised. Of course, I wouldn't have been surprised if they'd picked the Gripen either.

Should I need to look at it. Most of the stuff I need to know while I'm flying is in the printed one.

If there's something specific, you can always print out those particular pages, a lot cheaper.

On the contrary, perfect is selectable in OpenGL (not DX as you've said).

The difference is the water. There are multiple possible water settings once you choose perfect, and none of those can be picked from in game. You have to change the water= line to a higher number manually. I think 2 is the default "perfect" setting, but it goes up to at least 4 if you have an nvidia card. I think ATI was pegged at 3...

Nothing wrong with that, although I think you're going too cheap on the CPU side. I'd recommend a C2D @ 3Ghz or so instead. Mobo and all other costs would be about the same, just the CPU would be about $150 I think. It would last longer.

There's exactly ONE good thing for me, and that's the ability to load games to the HD so they load faster and play smoother. Other than that, I could pass on the rest.

That's relativity.

Always thought the Cheyenne's cockpit was too big. It looks like a guy could lie down in there across their heads.

Su-27 entered service mid-80s, MiG-29 was early 80's IIRC. They're roughly 10 years newer than the F-15 and F-16, but even they are over 20 years old now.

The female star of the maligned film 10,000 BC that came out earlier this year was the little girl attacked by tiny dinosaurs at the start of The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

The upside of getting older is getting to make fun of those youngun's!

The point really is, for a variety of reason, no one who really knows what happened can say with authority. We can only have rumors and speculation.

There are facts that are easily verified, like the French bringing Rafales at the last minute, but we don't know every exercise's objectives, rules, and circumstances. To draw any sort of conclusion about a force's abilities from an exercise can be misleading at best and dangerous at worst.

There's no question the US had the superior forces and capabilities in Vietnam, yet we "lost" because the leadership didn't know what it was doing. Unfortunately the only way to "know" is when the gloves come off and fighting starts, and then it's too late to change your mind.

I fly for whatever side is available in every sim I've ever had. I've flown as Japan, Germany, US, Russia, UK, France, Australia, Canada, India, Israel, Pakistan, China, Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine...I can't even list them all.

I don't care who I'm flying for as long as it's accurate. I don't want to fly a Russian F-15 or an American Su-27, but I'll fly Finnish F/A-18s against Greek Mirage 2000s or French F-8Ns with no trouble.

Frankly, I can't comprehend how people can have a problem with flying for "the other side"...because it's not real! At no point ever in any sim have I been unaware of the fact that it's all fake, so all I think about is "shooting down the guy/AI trying to shoot me down." I never think "I have to kill that Chinaman" or "I'm about to shoot down a US Marine"...because I'm not.