JediMaster

They're not the same role, though. The J-10 is in the MiG-29/F-35 class, while the Su-30 is in the Super Hornet/F-22/Typhoon class. I would expect the J-10 to beat a Flanker in a dogfight because it's smaller and a more recent design.

Can a country get gray hairs?

Well, the mule is much larger than the mountain lion. It didn't live that long by being stupid, you attack the creature that's more your size as your chances are better. I'm sure it had no idea the mule would attack it.

I don't think you'll find any SATA chipset drivers that support Win98. However, you should be able to get by with "generic". The clue is the BIOS setting. Each manufacturer does it differently, so you'll have to search your BIOS for the exact naming. It may talk about SATA/Legacy, or AHCI, or some other thing you're not expecting. Basically it will make the SATA appear like standard IDE to the OS.

I don't know if this will have any GT Legends-type stuff in it, but it looks to be a GTR2 replacement possibly.

Is that the shiny new Mach 5?!?! Designed by a Wachowski brother methinks...

They finally made the MSFS of driving. That's not a compliment.

You enjoying those text-based flight sims?

I recognize that plane. That's Frank. He and I were neighbors.

Yes! I have THC in HD now!!

*crosses mule off potential hunting prey list*

I thought Polecat is what you called a Grumman bird after it becomes a gate guard!

Yes, Caprica Six told Baltar I think in early/middle season 1 that Cylons couldn't have children and that was a problem as they see God's commandment to reproduce very important. As for who it can be, it's a very short list: Roslyn (already discussed here) Bill Adama (if Lee is a half-Cylon hybrid then!) Romo Lampkin, should he return Smaller characters like Racetrack or Seelix--doubtful Doc Cottle Baltar (of course, he remains a prime suspect) Starbuck (as does she after the missing time bit) Zarek Gaeta Dualla (I'm in favor of this one for various reasons) Eliminated from contention: Ellen Tigh Helo (he has a half-Cylon child ergo he's human) Certainly not Callie, for the same reason! Billy Well, they COULD bring a dead character back like Ellen or Billy, but I'm not sure if that would be considered cheating!

Too many coming out this summer. I'm waiting for the Bluray release!

I did not and never will watch that celluloid turd.

I don't know when it's supposed to be released, but apparently the successor to GTR and GTR2 is GTR Evolution. It will be priced as an expansion for those of us with Race 07 (and integrate into it) so as a full game for those who don't. The "full game" will also include all cars and tracks from Race 07. So, without knowing what the pricing will be, but using hypotheticals, say you paid $30 for Race 07. GTR E will then be $15-20 and you'll have one big sim. Or those without Race 07 will pay $30 or so and get the exact same thing. In essence, those who bought Race 07 will likely wind up paying more in total than those who waited, but we've been racing in Race 07 all this time to make up for it.

There is basically no commonality between SoW:BoB and the Il-2 series. You will see some of the same planes, but all will be BoB-era only. There should be some planes that were not in Il-2 as well. The main thing is this is a totally new sim from the ground up. So, you might say this is the Doom 3 to Il-2's original Doom. Same concept but greatly advanced yet with less content out of the box. However, SoW is planned as a continuing series, and just as Il-2 had Forgotten Battles, Aces Expansion, Pacific Fighters, Pe-2, Sturmoviks over Manchuria, and 1946 added to it, so will BoB.

I forget the website, but Lowengrin's dynamic campaign generator, or DCG, is very good and easy to use. You can't specify as much as in a single mission, as it's designed for entire campaigns after all, but it's painless.

PAK-FA is still in progress, but when it will have first flight, let alone enter service, is anyone's guess. I was unaware the MiG-31M program was still going, I thought at this point Russia was going to standardize on 29s for short range and 27s for long range.

The MiG-15 and F-86 were in the final years of the war, but not the beginning. That was the era of the P-80 and such that were soon withdrawn.

Ditto. There are many limitations of a computer monitor that you don't have in real life, so I use things like targetting boxes to compensate. I laugh at those who argue "that's not realistic" since staring at a tiny monitor in a motionless chair with a mouse/keyboard in front of you is inherently unrealistic. I refuse to make a game artificially difficult in favor of someone's nebulous idea of what realism is.

Yeah, although I always thought "print" for screen output wasn't as good as "echo" since print just implies a printer! It's been over 20 years for BASIC for me as well. I remember I wrote 2 programs with it. One was a quiz program for a school project that scored you and gave you an evaluation at the end (same as all these wb quizzes you have nowadays) and the other was a dice-rolling program I used for Axis & Allies so we could roll like 48 dice at once and it would tell us how many 1s, 2s, 3s, etc we got without needing to actually ROLL 48 dice! Yeah, that's when I realized I hate programming...

The Star Trek side of me says to name it Daqtagh since it looks like Klingon dagger from above. You could name it based on weather patterns that haven't been used. Already taken: Hurricane Typhoon Tornado Lightning Perhaps Monsoon? Blizzard? Hailstorm? Mild Rain?

So who's been watching the final (sort of) season of BSG? This seems the darkest of the series and they've done some things I wasn't expecting, at least not in just the first few eps. I'm hooked, and I'm bummed that they won't show the last half until next year (effectively turning the full length S4 into half length seasons 4 and 5). Rampant speculation on who the final Cylon will be, of course.

I've recently watched 3 of the best SF films from the 50's: War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Forbidden Planet. All classics, all did amazing work for what they had at the time. One already remade, the next being done, the 3rd so far not a peep. Anyway, there are many SF novels I've liked over the years that I'd like to see as films, but I know they'd require some serious rewriting to be good. The Foundation Trilogy, Stranger in a Strange Land, Childhood's End, The Caves of Steel...