JediMaster

Interesting that 64-bit is recommended. Actually, none of that is too off the wall other than the CPU.

Always install the oldest OS first. As for partitioning, well, with 2 OS my personal preference is 3 partitions--one for each OS and the final for the data/programs. You will of course have to install most programs twice, but if you install them to the same place (overwriting the first install with the 2nd) you'll be unable to uninstall in both OS, just whichever you installed last, so it's not generally recommended. If you got the 1TB drive, I think I'd feel safe with pretty much any split. As long as the partition is 200GB you're good for most situations. Some people swear by more or less, but you've got room to spare.

His was one of the last sitcoms I watched on TV, I think That 70s Show was the actual final one. The only 30 min comedies I watch now are animated. Stacy Keach was very good as his father.

Well it's all about the editing isn't it?

I want to play beach volleyball with Val Kilmer...

Sunshine Superman was the title, but never sang in the song, only separately with "sunshine" in the first verse and "superman" in the last. It was one of those songs like The Beatles' "Something" that didn't have a real chorus, it was instead the guitar riff. The first verse is something like "sunshine came softly through my a-window today Could've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my ways It'll take time, I know it but in a while You're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style 'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine"

Uninhabited replaced the term unmanned some time back in official documentation to be PC...after all, the pilot may not be a man!

If there's no exposed skin, that would be very difficult!

O&M is where the BIG money is at.

That would be funny, because for some reason I'm expecting TK's SF2 Exp Pack 2 today. Maybe my Spidey-sense was just giving me the wrong tingle.

The J-11B is the unlicensed version using indigenous engines IIRC.

Uh, he contradicted himself! First he says to build a new design instead of adapting an existing one costs too much and is irrational, then he says there will be a fair and open competition implying that a new design has just as much chance as an adapted one!

Only half as many as the previous 2 contracts, and half of those are Growlers. Looks like the Super Hornet program is starting to wind down as the F-35C grows closer.

I've done some A2A with the Thud, and while it's risky it's very rewarding if you succeed! It's like the A-10 in that regard, where I've gotten several gun kills by luring MiGs low and slow. I've actually got some 3rd party A-6 cockpit in my SF2 install, I forget which, and fly it from time to time, but I was just referring to the fact that TK decided not to invest in an SF2-updated cockpit for WOV2 and relegated it to the status of an escorted plane mostly. Honestly, with a plane like that where all you can do is drop bombs I'm more inclined to want to go the study sim route since the avionics recreation becomes half of the fun. With TK's casual avionics implementation, I'll admit I never spend that much time flying the A-6 either. I've spent more time with mod F-111s, actually, since at least they have AB and go real fast.

See, that's the difference though. You know conceptually that grammar school was long ago. Since I was in late high school, it doesn't seem nearly as long back. Seems like just recently still, so to realize it's been 20 yrs ago is a shock. Of course, I started dating my wife 15 yrs ago, so... While Watergate and the moon landings are history to me, the Soviet Union was very real...even though it collapsed right after Wayne's World came out...coincidence?!?!

TK canned the A-6 I believe because it was a pure bomber. You drop your bombs, and you're done. No gun, no AAMs, just get to the target without dying and then get out without dying. Sure, some people like that, but more people prefer either a pure fighter engaging air targets or, ideally, a fighter-bomber that can do both. Considering it takes just as much effort to make an A-6 as any other plane, he felt it was a better use of resources to make the more versatile planes as flyables instead. I can't fault his logic, just his lack of resources.

That way means you program the stick in the individual sims you use it in instead, so if you back up the configs for each of them there you get it. That's the way I have my G940 set up in Black Shark, actually, with a profile I found online. My Logitech profile is just blank. I was looking for a Logi profile, actually, but this worked just as well. Granted, some sims don't give you that option and you'll be forced to manually redo your stick setup in those sims on a reinstall. The difference, of course, is that he'd need a software guy or team to create such a profile program, than test it to make sure it works on XP, Vista, 7, 32 and 64 bit, blah blah blah. In short, it will amplify the costs a LOT...and therefore the price.

While not a legend, I saw comedy central favorite Greg Giraldo has died as well, but he was only 44!

Sunshine Superman and Mello Yello are classics I've loved since childhood. Alice Cooper did such classics as Feed My Frankenstein and School's Out. He was in Wayne's World, when Wayne and Garth see his concert, didn't you catch that...um, 20 yr old film? 20 yrs?!?!

Depends on if you define human as "what we should be" or "what we are." If the latter, then idiots are the humans, and those who are not are just not human. Fortunately.

You mean Syfy aka "Low Budget TV Movie of the Week" Channel. I have one word for you: Sharktopus.

I suppose a high-bypass ratio turbofan would offer plenty of cool bleed air, akin to the Harrier's or F-35B's method for creating air jets in hover mode. Most UAVs are small, though, so an HBR turbofan wouldn't fit well. I think the best application would be dual-mode. A plane that can lock its surfaces into a stealthy position in high-threat areas and use the blown air, but able to revert to the surfaces in the event of engine failure or for increased agility under fire (when stealth is already compromised). IIRC, the B-2 already does this to some extent. It has "drag rudders" by splitting the outboard ailerons differentially (like the A-10's airbrakes just on one side or the other) that it doesn't use in "full stealth mode", switching to differential engine thrust instead. Less precise, but no RCS increase. This takes that idea already used for yaw and applies it to roll.

Usually planes without ailerons or flaps have spoilers, and this seems not to have them either.

If someone could get subs to surface, fire SSMs like Tomahawks, then submerge again, that would ROCK. However, I know it won't happen, so I'm just spitballing into the wind up the flagpole to see who salutes to the wall when it sticks.

It most definitely will not be out in the next 15 minutes.