JediMaster

All the terrain makers pretty much hang out in the SF forums.

I can't see where it is thanks to my peril-sensitive sunglasses.

They've also stolen all its reason, intelligence, and class.

The problem is the Bible is pretty much almost never literal. The idea that "true believers" that are still alive will suddenly head to an afterlife without dying defies logic. It also leaves the question of the young and infirm open. What about the mentally handicapped? Do they all get an automatic pass? Same with children, are there going to be a bunch of 18 month old babies suddenly taken? What if their parents are evil? What's the cutoff age? Will kids be left behind while their parents go because while the parents were good people they were crappy parents and didn't teach the kids well enough? Frankly the idea that I could be yanked away while my daughters are left behind to fend for themselves makes me NOT want to go. It also makes life seem like a trap. "I will give you free will, but I won't make you serve me or give you proof that I exist. Oh, but if you don't you're consigned to oblivion and if you do you go to heaven!" Ah, got it, God's a jerk, why should I want to go to heaven again? It sounds more like it's a threat couched as a pipe dream meant to keep the faithful inline ie "you may not have till death, it could happen at any minute and if you've not been good enough to that point, you're damned!" It also gives that false hope of "it's ok that your life now totally sucks, because at any time you could suddenly be brought to heaven!" Besides, who cares about an afterlife anyway? The only life we know of for certain is the one we have right now, THAT'S what matters. Once I die I won't be me anymore anyway, I'll be something else, so I don't really care what happens to it anymore than I care what happens to the guy that takes my job after I stop working somewhere. It also totally sidesteps the underlying idea that God doesn't really care about what He made. So he makes the Earth, he makes Man, but then at some point every good person gets taken away to heaven, every bad person is condemned to oblivion, and the planet and the rest of the universe just...what, sits empty? Gets destroyed? Why put all that effort in and then have some arbitrary end game date? Doesn't it make more sense that it should continue indefinitely? Why else is there a vast universe of planets and stars out there? To give us something to look at? He could've made a pretty sky and left it at that, no need to create a vast cosmos if we were just supposed to sit on this rock for a few thousand years and then leave altogether. Seems far more believable that it's all out there for us to expand out to. None of these "end of days" scenarios make any sense, it's like no one wants to believe in a story that doesn't have an end. Is it not more likely that an eternal being would come up with an eternal plan? Or is this because of some deep-rooted illogical desire to finally see an end to evil? Like a bell is struck and it's "ok, evil is vanquished, everyone party!" Whatever.

A lot of rotor noise is caused by main rotor downwash on the tail rotor. Shrouded tails like the HH-65 have are one way to alleviate that, another is the NOTAR system used on those MD500 derivatives. Increasing the blade count will help as well, to a lesser degree, but I'd say that compared to the UH-1 (where the rotor sounds dominate) the loudest part of the UH-60 is the engines. I know around here I hear the HH-60s' engines a lot more than I hear the rotors.

Well I just got a GTX 570 and that says 550w minimum. I think the 560 says 500w. You'll need something lower. Ah, the 550 Ti is rated for 400w minimum. They run around $150. The 560 (not the 560 Ti) is rated for 450w minimum, which is exactly what you have so you could try it. They run around $200.

LOL, "the worst thing since Rebecca Black." I was unaware her "not really as bad as everyone made it out to be or else you wouldn't see 1000 covers and parodies" video was some seminal moment in history considering how recent it was. That would be like the news tonight talking about something in Pakistan being "the most significant event in the history of the war on terror since the death of OBL."

I don't know, try dropping an empty aluminum tank several feet long from an altitude of several thousand feet going several hundred miles an hour to land right next to you. I bet it makes a big sound.

I don't recall having that problem in F4. I know you can program buttons to hold a keypress with /H in Foxy. So you'd want something like S2 /P /H pickle /R

Nice picture of Venus! Is that from the Messenger probe? Anyway, what were you talking about?

I quit playing online DM/TDM years ago. I think the last games like that I played MP were MOH: AA, RTCW, NOLF1, and BF1942. Haven't played any of them in years. All I care about now is coop with objectives.

No! She's going to wait till she's 12.

Aw, it's been over a year since those preview shots so I figured we were getting real close.

The problem with the "rename your mod folder, rerun the game after patching, then rename mod folder back" method can be if you've modded a stock .ini file that has since been altered by the patch. As an example, it was posted here the .ini's now have a "decal randomizer" line in them. If you've altered that stock .ini in your install for some reason and keep it you'll have an .ini post-patch missing that line. As always, the problem with patches and mods isn't for pure 3rd-party stuff like new terrains and planes and objects, but with stock planes that have been made flyable or had squadron/skin changes, etc. I was just realizing, though, it's been what 6 months since the last patch? How come Tomcat isn't out yet? Wasn't the previous patch the hold up on finishing it?

Wasn't it Douglas Adams who said "and then 2000 years ago this bloke showed up named Jesus who said, hey, wouldn't it be great if we were all kind to each other, and got killed for his trouble"?

Yeah, unfortunately PSU considerations limit options. I'm not exactly certain what nvidia's top "safe" card (almost certain to work on any system) is.

Some bolt on wouldn't explain the different tail rotor blade count or the split stab, though. It was a bigger effort than just slapping on pieces.

The Final Countdown...Tomcats splashing Zeros FTW!

Considering the likelihood that he'll die well before his sentence is over, I would call it a fail. It only matters when you're taking their freedom away and altering their future. The guy lived his life. Now he may spend the last few years in a true prison instead of a nursing home pseudo-prison? Big deal.

I only find it odd when it's an all-male group with a single female playing an instrument. A female vocalist with all-male band strikes no one as odd, nor do all-female bands like The Bangles, Go-Gos, or L7. Oh, the Breeders were all-female except a male drummer. And Lenny Kravitz has all-male backup with a female drummer. I'd say the only thing that would be unusual would be a female lead guitarist in an otherwise all-male band. Of course, my wife plays 12 instruments from keyboard to drums to guitar to sax to clarinet to xylophone, so...

That's because it's not a new design, like the PAK FA is. It's a modification of an existing design that was likely done on a very small scale. I'm sure there are less than a dozen of these helos and they were probably done inside a hangar at night at some base or other with few people involved.

Yup, because history has shown that only occurs a minority of the time.

There's a bunch of those "how they should have ended" ones. Most are pretty good.

Sovereignty is well and good, but so is loyalty.

I've got the same CPU but I've not bothered to OC it beyond the standard turbo because I've not run into any games that are CPU limited yet! My 5850 is the bottleneck now, but I'm waiting until the next gen of GPUs before I upgrade again! Either an AMD 7950 or nvidia GTX 670? I don't know what I get in the TW sims, but whatever it is more than equals "perfectly smooth". The funny thing is when TK put the DX10 optimizations into SF2 he sped the engine up quite a lot with a small increase in visual quality vs playing it on WinXP...so you get better performance AND a better picture than in the gen 1 sims. Anyway, get the fps too high and you just get miserable frame tearing anyway, unless you have a monitor with a 200Hz refresh?