JediMaster

There are some reviews of it out there around the web. One was done on SimHQ that I recall clearly.

Basically it was buggy to the point of unplayability at times and you only had a small number of scripted single missions to play. No "campaign", no multiplayer, no randomly generated single missions. Once you played through those missions, all you could do was play through them again.

They just don't get it. The only "safe and effective means of combating software piracy" was already done! The game is too complex for people who don't have the manual anyway. There is no CP that can't be cracked by those determined to do so. Stardock has no CP at all and they're doing fine.

I wish there was a way to compare the number of sales gained by preventing it from working easily for those who pirate it to those lost by people who simply refuse to have anything to do with Starforce. Something tells me the number of would-be pirates who will now buy the game is far smaller than the legit customers who will be put off. Most companies use SecuROM now (although there's a separate uproar about them) because it's more acceptable. The fact that they didn't go that route but chose SF instead will make a lot of people VERY upset.

The fact is that it doesn't matter if Vista is ok or not since it's not in a bubble. If you can't get drivers and/or apps to work properly with it, whose fault is it?

Vista-aware programs work fine, which is great as long as you never need to use older programs. If you do, you could be in trouble. The OEMs still haven't totally gotten a handle on Vista's revised driver model. XP's had flaws, but the OEMs had years to figure out how to work with and around them. Vista changed that to fix things but the OEMs are STILL playing catch-up.

I wonder if Vista SP2 will be out before Windows 7? Or will Windows 7 be in effect Vista SP2? I mean, face it XP SP2 is a different animal than XP SP1, which also crashed on me a lot.

Fixed.

I've got the lit-up version of that model. Still looks pretty good despite being about 17 yrs old now. Bad part was one of the lights stopped working when I glued the saucer together, must have bent the connector too far.

The engines for those ST models are always a pain, whether the Enterprise, a Klingon ship, or one of the other Federation ones (I have Reliant, Excelsior, and Enterprise E as well).

I think we should all know by now you never trust anything from MS until service pack 2.

Wow...so the former Red is a white-neck?

My worst modeling experience was for Ford Models in Miami Beach. It was supposed to be a straightforward runway fashion show, but OH NO, they misrepresented it to me! Instead...oh...this thread is about scale models.

Nevermind.

Italian food. Wait, I mean good Italian food.

I can always be happy in an Italian restaurant, or ordering something Italian off the menu at a place that isn't, as long as it's good.

Blackadder and VP Balders!

"The economy is in a meltdown."

"Not to worry--I have a cunning plan!"

me me me

 

you did the whole shebang? :)

Yeah, mother-in-law is really into it, including the readings at the beginning. Wife can get a bit exasperated with it at times, though!

I loved the comment on SNL this weekend.

"OJ was found guilty of murder. I'm sorry, he was found guilty of theft, assault, but really murder."

It's not like there are no more 53s out there. The USMC has plenty of the E model and has a new K model program underway.

Right, that's what I said. Deltas don't have that paint scheme and those are obviously not single-seaters ergo Beagles!

So, what about those of us on this side of the Atlantic?

Interesting, I know there had been some speculation it would've been during Kirk's era instead of Picard's.

I've never seen Deltas with that dark paint scheme, that's always been the Beagle's forte.

Sad!

 

I love these helicopters!

 

Twas a marvelous workhorse! So is the CV-22 going to replace it?

 

I was kinda hoping that someone in Hollywood would finally get around to filming the story of the Son Tay prison raid and use some of the original aircraft that participated in this mission. Can't belive that operation has not being picked up at tinseltown! Oh well...

There was talk of making Clancy's Without Remorse (which has Clark participating in an ancilliary way with that op) about 10 years ago, but then all that happened was Sum of All Fears got made and Clancy films never returned.

Ah, well that's an interesting way to display it then without having to repair or display busted landing gear.

Ok, raise your hand if you had the brisket and the apples with honey!

It's inevitable. For instance, SimHQ c. 2008 is nothing like SimHQ c. 2000 when I first started there. That 6 years after SFP1's release things are different is no real surprise.

Haven't met anyone since the 90s, when I went to Las Vegas and NJ for a couple simming LAN meets. That was back in the days of Prodigy and CIS, pre-Internet. We flew Falcon 3, Air Warrior, and a little World Circuit: GP. I don't think I've seen a single one of those people I met there online for 10 years now.

The Simpsons was great in its first decade, but when the X Files went off the air I didn't keep watching Sunday nights. Family Guy I've loved since day 1, but it's silly to say it rips off the Simpsons. It has its own style which is unique enough to make South Park rip on it.

Anyway, I own all the FG eps on DVD (and South Park too!) and none of Simpsons, so...

How about Sins of a Solar Empire? It's SF, but it scales from large-scale down to individual ships. You can't upgrade the small fighters and bombers, but all the others you can.

Oh, ok, "gate guards" have their gear retracted, yes. I'm not talking about them, though, I mean more museum-style displays like that SHar.