JediMaster

What we have is one group taking advantage of a totally unrelated problem. Yes, they are pushing to get more F-22s to replace more F-15s. This grounding merely gives them more fuel.

This was bound to happen at some point anyway because the Eagles are only getting older. I just was expecting it post-2010.

Oooh, a USAAC scheme! Inspiring me to fly some FE this week!

So, where's the humidity? That looks pretty cold to me.

COD4 runs surprisingly well on mid-range systems and even on lower-end ones when the details are turned down. Some good optimizing went into it.

The F4 campaigns are designed to be like "real" campaigns. There's no possible way for one plane to shoot everything down. You go up, do what your mission calls for, and fly home. Then you pick a new mission and go up again.

As for whether mission is accomplished or not, that's not quite so easy to determine. Sometimes it's obvious, like "destroy a power plant" or "destroy armored column." When it's less defined like CAS, SEAD, fighter sweep, etc, you just go up and do what you can with the fuel and ammo you have then go home. The game engine determines if you did it or not, but as long as you knock out targets you'll help the campaign along.

*waves hand*

Those were not alien spacecraft.

That was swamp gas reflecting the light of the planet Venus.

Nothing unusual happened.

Move along.

They look nice, but I have my doubts about being able to execute graphics of that quality on the scale OFP accustomed us to with decent performance on even a mid-range system!

You ever notice that as the size of an organization grows, the collective intelligence seems to decrease?

I can't recall seeing a thing I've not figured out. Of course, I don't spend a lot of time outdoors, so...

Gotta love "Stan"!

Whew...I finally have the energy to post here...I spent hours exerting the Force to calm this down, it wasn't easy.

What, no appreciation for my efforts? Maybe I should take my all-powerful mystical field that explains everything and go home!!!

Nah, group hug!

I remember when they filmed True Lies in Miami. That stupid shoot screwed up traffic for days!

The funny part is how many movies have used the old 7 Mile bridge for scenes when you can see the (obviously newer and better looking) new 7 Mile bridge right next to it.

MS has had it in for the gameport since XP's release. They support USB for inputs only at this point.

My old SB Audigy had a functional gameport under XP, but when I replaced it my mobo's port was worthless (mega spike city).

Like 3.5" floppies, ISA, and VESA LB video, gameports are now obsolete.

I plan on getting a 360 after the GPU is scaled down (hoping to avoid any RRODs) and AC6 is one I plan on getting at that point.

I've thought about getting AC-X for my PSP, too.

It's been over 10 yrs since I flew it, so I'm afraid I won't be much help!

Perhaps it's the American philosophy that "good enough isn't good enough!!" that makes us so eager to fight for what we believe, while in many countries it seems the people are afraid of rocking the boat and prefer to lay low until things get ridiculously bad.

The Super Hornet is supposed to have a significantly smaller RCS than the legacy Hornet, despite its larger size. It is not a "stealth" plane, no, however compared to other 4th gen fighters (ie anything before the Gripen/Rafale/Typhoon/F-22/F-35 era) like the original Hornet, Eagle, Viper, Flanker, etc it is much harder to see.

Also, do remember stealth against other fighters is a minor consideration nowadays...it's stealth vs SAMs that is of more concern. Vietnam was the last time any significant number of planes was lost due to enemy air action, but even then the ground fire was more deadly.

Older carriers? Are you implying they no longer have to? I thought every carrier went through one of those every few years, regardless of their age. Kind of like an oil change on your car.

I think it's a reference to a more formal integration, like pre-1962. Of course they've worked alongside NATO in the intervening years, but they never took orders from NATO or conversely had someone inside giving orders to non-French.

Now that there's a writers' strike, there's a good chance of them airing all the ones they had made.

All the lonely people...where do they all come from?

All the lonely people...where do they all belong?

I've lived in FL my entire life. Snow is for putting in a cone, not for the ground!!!

I can't take much milk chocolate anymore. Only if it's got something else in it, and by that I mean a LOT of something else.

I prefer dark chocolate of all kinds. They stopped making them, but for a short time they made DARK chocolate Reese's cups!! Mmmmm!!!!

As for Hawaii, why would I want to go there? FL is a lot cheaper and has the same weather sans volcanos.

I would think the visual effects have little bearing on what the destructive effects are. You could make a nuke blast effect for a gun and it still wouldn't be stronger, although it would make strafing difficult.

Rown Atkinson played Blackadder on the series of the same name.