JediMaster

I think there's probably a less than 1% chance that any of them are actually listening to swing.

I'm sure in Chinese it has a different meaning though!

Someone else already mentioned this elsewhere, not that I can recall where... Anyway, it's purely a comparative thing. All "elite members" show as E-9s. Erik is a 4-star.

If the UAE is selling US weapons to China that is a BIG deal.

That looks like it's an IE7 upgrade problem. Try uninstalling IE7 and reverting to IE6 to see if that helps. Then reinstall IE7 and reboot when it finishes.

Yes, and it seems the German ROE take the cake. "Defend yourself, kill the enemy, if something goes wrong, even if it's not your fault, you will be tried in a civilian court!!!"

The answer is "it depends." Even if they let you pick both, the programmers worked in one more than the other and then "ported" it over later. In the case of Il-2, it was done in OGL and the DX rendering is far inferior. 90% of modern software uses DX over OGL, the only other notable exception being id software and its games starting with Quake, and all the way up to the current Doom 3 engine used in D3, Quake 4, Prey, ET: Quake Wars, and recently Wolfenstein. Their new game Rage I'm not sure about as far as OGL or DX, but Carmack seems to love OGL so I'm not betting on it disappearing yet. I don't know if Oleg is using DX or OGL for Storm of War either. Last game I remember where you had multiple equivalent choices was Decent 3 in 1999. No OGL that I recall, you had software (non 3D, it did suck), Direct X, and Glide (aka 3DFx's 3D API for Voodoo cards only). Glide and DX looked and ran about the same on a Voodoo card, non-Voodoo cards had to use DX.

I really don't understand why Hollywood has so many far-leftists...does it attract them, or produce them? I think the issue is too many there have money just handed to them for ideas, they don't really WORK for them. So, why not just give a large portion of that money to the poor? After all, just have another good idea and people will hand you more money, right? The poor are only poor because they must not have any good ideas! When you have the silver spoon handed to you, you naturally don't believe it's hard to earn.

Yes, it could just as well be called a Baby Crusader!

There's only one shot in the entire film shot in Miami...it's the brief scene of them driving south on I-95, obviously done by a 2nd unit crew. That was also not MIA, it was an airport in the UK, forget which one. I lived in Miami for over 20 years and know it well.

That would require someone who has it re-uploading it here, of course.

That and the fact that Pakistan is too unsafe to shoot a movie! They didn't shoot those opening scenes of Casino Royale in Madagascar, either, nor in Haiti. I believe Panama and the Bahamas as well as the backlot at Pinewood in the UK covered all that stuff. Movie magic!

Yes, that's exactly my experience. The arcade mode makes it fly like Blazing Angels or any other console flyer, but the harder modes are nigh-on uncontrollable. Hence my musing about getting a stick.

I agree, I think it could be implemented to some extent. However, no developer is willing to do it so far.

I don't know how much the KC-390 costs, but this has to make Airbus even more embarrassed about the A400M.

How many 25Ts actually saw service? I seem to recall only a dozen or so were even built.

Practical on a new design, but not on a modification of an existing design like the Fulcrum or Flanker. What they really need is a blocker like the Super Hornet has. They couldn't do much with the intakes on that, but they created a plug that had a minimal impact on performance and did almost the same thing.

Yeah, that's right. SF2E screenshots preceded its release by a matter of hours, really. Guess I'll check in there every day this weekend.

Yes, the colorful metaphors skin is on Erik's list of to-do's.

Is pic #3 supposed to actually be #6, after it's been retracted into the bay? I notice the shape isn't there in that pic but is in 2 and 4 after it...

Oh, it's that easy? Cool. I haven't installed this yet, but it's on my to-do list for the long weekend. I've finally started installing some mods to my SF2 directory, but none to SF2V or SF2E. I'll just make an SF2V copy called SF2VPlus then and put all this in there! Also means that if beta 3 or the final release isn't happy overwriting this version, I'm not trashing my stock SF2V install to install it.

I really wanted RoF to prove me wrong. An Il-2 class WWI sim would've been great. It's not always fun when you're right.

Every sperm is sacred Every sperm is great If a sperm is wasted God gets quite irate

Apparently any other response than "oh, we're all duped, the Russians are so much better" is unwelcomed? Again, why do people keep playing these silly F-22 vs Su-30 games? Combat doesn't occur in a vacuum. How many US fighters have been shot down by enemy fighters in the last 20 years? Just 1? That Hornet in Desert Storm I think? How many US fighters have been shot down? Many. Too many. How? SAMs and AAA. RCS is about survivability against radar threats. If the guy doesn't know you're there, he can't hurt you. If he knows you're there but not exactly where, he can't hit you. If he knows where you are, he has to get closer to hit you. Forget fighters, the threat is the SAMs and AAA. We lost far more planes to SAMs and AAA in Vietnam than fighters, too. The picture of the way data links work is inaccurate. Stealth deflects radar signals away from the transmitter. Planes in a formation will fly line abreast, so if the signal is deflected 45 degrees or more off axis there won't be any planes in the network to receive the signal! You'd have to arrange the planes in a semicircle with the focus on the stealth plane which indicates you already know where it is...how likely is that?

At 22 he's likely too young to be really scared.