JediMaster

As I mentioned in the other thread, my cousin was there at the WTC. She wrote an article many years back detailing her experience. Original story: http://old.911digitalarchive.org/stories/details/9348 The shoes she donated are here: Shoes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033352/9-11-Relics-tell-heart-wrenching-stories-victims-survivors-rescuers.html She wrote a follow-up 10th anniversary document, which I'll attach here. Like many other tragedies, many who lived through that day do not want to discuss or be reminded of it. She did, but felt it important for both herself and others to finally share it. 9-11 article.rtf

Well, for sheer power user-friendliness, I preferred DOS 6.22...it never crashed. I never use the show desktop button, wherever it is, I'm a Win-D guy! Likewise I tend to use a ton of kb shortcuts for things like explorer and alt-F4 blows away moving the cursor all the way up top just to close something. I agree search sucks, but that was actually changed first in XP if you DL'd it from the MS update site. A lot of that, though, is merely personal preference. Myself, I was upset 7 did away with Classic Control Panel. I never liked the new way, and always turned it off in XP and Vista, but now that I'm forced to use it in 7 I've become accustomed to it and I don't turn it off on XP and Vista anymore. Anyway, having worked with NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 over the last 10 years, I'll say that Win 7 out of the box was the best Windows OS they ever made. XP sucked until SP2, frankly. It was BSOD city from programs and drivers alike. That's why I ran Win98 SE (again the first version sucked) until SP2 and upgraded then. Then I kept that (and later SP3) until Win 7 because Vista was no good until it reached SP2 (which was right around 7's release) so why bother? Besides, only Vista and 7 have what I'd call more than half-hearted security, and as XP is now 2 versions old no one tries to fix it anymore. I've also found that only very old programs don't like 7 32-bit. By that I mean programs that either pre-date or were contemporaries of XP's release. So if you've got an older machine you keep off the internet, I guess XP is fine, but I find the positives outweigh the negatives in it. The only point I will concede without challenge is the price. It does cost, and if your PC is older you'll need to pay to get it to take advantage of it properly, and I know some can't afford that. But if you can, and you mostly use programs that date from within the last 6-7 years, and you don't have too many old peripherals like printers and scanners that predate Vista lying around that the OEMs may not have made 7 drivers for, I think 7 is worth the upgrade even if you don't go 64 bit (I haven't yet, although with A-10C and Crysis 2 DX11 texture pack I wish now I had when I installed it 2 years ago). I don't mind you disagree, I only mind when people are nasty or dismissive in their disagreement. A reasonable response can always be respected even if it's contrary. Now if you'd said Windows ME was the best OS, I don't care how nice you were, you'd be a kook!!

That's why the real success will be one with multiple cameras with overlapping FOVs in a 360 degree pattern.

Pakistan has never needed Israel as a reason to attack India.

There's really no reason to keep a 10 yr old OS anymore when the 2-yr old Win7 works so well.

Yes, even at release some of the other planes looked pretty poor compared to the F-16.

I've still got my F4 binder edition the wife bought me for Xmas in 1998, back when she could go to the store and buy me a game! Thanks to AF I hadn't touched it in years, but it looks like it might be worth pulling it back out!

I liked B-17 1. I wish they'd remake THAT. B-17 2 was a blight on the face of gaming that I refused to buy and will never play.

Actually, I just thought of something. There are actually LOTS of songs that make me move...to the door. Or to the radio to change the station.

The Sep patch log explicitly states this has been fixed.

Well, I'm taking the plunge, hope I don't regret going so soon!

Yup, CTD as soon as you click loadout on starting a carrier based mission.

Well, this topic is probably a week early, but I was at work that morning, as I'd been for a couple of months at a new (and lousy) job, that luckily I was out of in another few weeks. My last job before the one I have now that's lasted 9.5 yrs, actually. We had no TV. We had no radio. We had VERY limited internet. All our info came from people talking to other people on the phone about the attacks. First the call "a plane hit the WTC!" Then a 2nd call "another plane hit the other tower!" That's when people said oh S%*#! Without TV, the first just sounded like an accident to us. The 2nd proved it wasn't. Then came the phone calls about the 3rd plane hitting the Pentagon and the near simultaneous crash of the 4th plane and the groundings. At this point few people had their minds on the job, aside from our stupid managers who couldn't understand why some people were asking to go home and couldn't do their mind-numbing boring job of supporting this lame financial software to used car dealers for loaning money to people with bad credit while the country was under attack for the first time in 60 years (you'll recall I said the job was lousy). My wife was in RI, having just flown there the night before for training at her company's HQ. She and the rest of her class managed to get the last rental car in town, and then she and they drove from RI down to TN, dropping off a couple of people on the way, where she then took an Amtrak down to Orlando (where I picked her up) while the last guy drove on to TX I think. She drove right past Manhattan (the road doesn't pass thru it, that's not the way to go fast up there) and saw the smoke from the south end, but wasn't ever up close. So until she got back, I was nervous those 2 days, despite having to go back to work the next day to Hell Inc., and couldn't rest. No one knew if it was truly over or something would follow soon after. Oh, I'll just add I had a cousin working in the 2nd tower that morning. Despite assurances from her manager and someone from the building that the trouble was next door and they were in no danger, she and many in her office decided to leave. She was down on the ground, leaving the building, when #2 hit. She ran.

Unlike wars of yesteryear, the conflicts of today have little to do with who holds the capital or who runs the country. All you need are two sides armed with one side able to resist being easily wiped out.

Guess your definition of "ultra high" computer is pretty low. ROF runs great on a PC you can build for less than $1000. If you think $1000 is "ultra high", you're in the wrong hobby. I used to spend $2500+ for a PC when I started out, so buying a video card or CPU that blows stuff out of the water for less than $350 each seems like a bargain to me. FE2 blows away FE Gold anyway.

Freddy Mercury didn't like Star Wars. Remember, he even put it into a hit song. "All I want to do is...bicycle! Bicycle! Bicycle!"

None, really. I'm not a mover. However, songs like Superstition or Higher Ground are great to make you nod in time.

It all depends on the power of the jammer and the power of the radar trying to burn through. There are no quick and fast answers. The MiG-25 for example had a super-powerful radar. While it's detection range wasn't particularly notable, it was capable of getting through noise jamming at greater ranges than its contemporaries. A plane like the F-16 with its small radar I would imagine would have to get closer to a target than the F-15 to burn through. On the flip side, I'd imagine the F-16s jammer to have less power than the F-15s, so an attacker could fire on the F-16 from farther out. If it was the EF-111 or EA-6B, you'd have to get probably in IRM range anyway, so why bother using the RHMs anyway? Deception jamming isn't as susceptible as noise jamming because the idea is the attacker doesn't know he's being jammed necessarily and will fire weapons at the wrong (inaccurate/misplaced) target. Then there are the towed array decoys, whose job isn't to be noisy, but a form of deception in making the plane look like it's well behind its real position. Those have yet to be faithfully modeled in a sim, although some attempts have been made by 3rd party modders for SF.

It was a no-win situation. The people are being oppressed by a dictator that for his own sake is anti-al qaeda. So those forces are part of the rebellion that rises up to take him down. You either support the oppressor, and earn the ire of the people, or you support the rebels and help al qaeda's position. The only hope is that the people will be smarter than al qaeda takes them for.

I bet all those guys who pulled intercepts kept a wary eye on those tail guns.

I'm at 11 of 11.

I preordered the pair of Spad VIIs. I'd like to see more early war planes too.

There's a reason they don't make space sims like that. For the explanation, consult your copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..."