JediMaster

Great, now we're never going to hear the end of how right he is!

The original 60GB model and the 80GB model that replaced it at the same $499 price point both support PS2 games. The new lower-cost 40GB model was cheaper by virtue of the fact that backwards emulation is one of the things left out.

No, honestly! I saw the medal awarded to me, and thought "Ok, cool." I never recall trying to look it up later! The only stats I cared about in my pilot log were kills and deaths and hours flown. I admit that despite my years of flying this series I don't have nearly as many hours as some other people here. I can go a month or longer between bouts. So I'm not necessarily as intimate with the workings of this as others here. I'm still a "light" modder--I put in the planes and terrains and have done the weapon .ini dance, but I've never done things like add planes to campaigns or alter single mission files or whatever.

The J-10 appears similar to several other planes, but it really is a separate design. It's a bigger "Lavi" in the same way that the Su-27 is a bigger MiG-29 ie not much at all! The J-10 had a very long development, and while the Lavi might indeed have been the starting point what has entered service as the J-10A is very different.

The canards on the top design ruin its stealth. It also has a TINY radar. Look at the size of that nose! I don't think the last one Erwin posted can fly, either. Even if it got off the ground it looks like the wings would break under g load!

Yeah, but the J-10 started more from where the Lavi was and moved on from there. It's a bit bigger than a Lavi, too.

That's usually because Sony keeps the format to themselves ie you want to play a Beta tape or MD you need a Sony player. With BD they're not trying to keep it all to themselves and that's helping. As for confusion, here's a story that illustrates it--I was online Saturday at BB holding the Panasonic BD player I was getting. The woman in line behind me sees the box and comments to her son, "Oh, the Bluray player is hi definition just like you said. It says it there on the box." The kid responds with typical pre-teen "I TOLD you! I TOLD you!" So, there are at least some people out there who grasp that HD DVD is "HD" but NOT that Bluray is.

Probably quite a few. However, for exercises you don't really use them anyway, so it's moot. On the flip side, I'm guessing some US planes won't use their radars either. The AESA-equipped planes especially.

There's multiple types of jamming, but flight sims always simply model "noise" jamming. As a result, all it does is prevent lock on until closer and burn-thru occurs. Deception jamming would be nice, where the jammer fools the attacker into thinking you're somewhere close to where you are, but not really. Fire a missile and it appears to pass harmlessly through you because you're really miles from there! However, the whole classified nature of it means we can forget a realistic sim of it.

Which is why I have no qualms about flying with labels on in most sims! Not only is there the size issue, but the human eye is good at picking out movement against a background and a monitor fails to show that correctly.

That was the YF-22 that had the PIO in the approach and suffered a hard landing due to lag in the FBW system. No F-22A has crashed to date.

I don't think that Sukhoi was designed for production, any more than the F-15 MSTD or whatever it was called that had the canards on the intakes was. It was a tech demonstrator based on an Su-27, that's all.

I used to work for NorthGrum at the site where the JSTARS stuff was installed. They had an old E-8A outside that was being cannibalized for the E-8C they were putting together. They flew them in "green".

Not certain. However, that's a pretty simple thing to say makes the system more complex!

The difference is the USN is in full-scale production of the Super Bug right now. Getting 2 dozen of them should NOT cost that much based on procurement alone. Once again there's some background accounting going on that the news doesn't give you and thereby skews the story.

Yeah, the traffic patterns this morning are indicative that they're over...more cars on the road!!

I don't know if I trust the FAA to have a firm grasp on networking technologies, though.

A lot of people are skeptical about this to a large degree. I personally think they should've gone 3d-animated so only the voice casting is important, how the actors look isn't. Plus the car just doesn't look right in the 21st century.

I don't think I can pick! Sorry...they're all winners!

The funny thing is Paramount was dual-format last year and then went HD DVD only, making Warner the only dual-format studio left. Now every studio is exclusive to one side. That's ok, my HD DVD player was only $200. I was planning on buying Warner's in BD anyway now since I have both players, so this really only hurts the HD DVD-only people. I'm not certain how many of them there are, but there are still a lot of movies on HD DVD, albeit not as many as on BD right now.

I just bought a Panasonic BD player this weekend at BB. I didn't get the PS3 instead for a couple of reasons. 1, the Panasonic is final profile, 1.1, but I'm not certain about when or if the PS3 will gain this ability. 2, although it was $100 more list, I had a 10% off coupon which made it only $50 more, plus BB had a special last week where if you buy a BD player (but not a PS3 or PC-internal one) you got 5 free BD movies in addition to the 5 Sony already gives you. The difference is the 5 you got there you got to pick off the shelves. So I got 2001 and the 5-disc Blade Runner among others! Also, I'm not sure the PS3 would've fit in my cabinet next to my DVD-R and HD DVD players where it needed to go.

When we drove from Miami to Vegas, we drove across I-10. It took us almost 2 days with a stop somewhere east of San Antonio as I recall and was the WORST leg of the trip. About 1000 miles with NOTHING to see.

Fine, you twisted my arm, I'll do it. I'll be the President. No elections necessary, I'll just do it.

The PS2 is very old now. The PS3 is what is comparable to the 360, just as the PS2 was comparable to the Xbox itself. To make a game for the PS2 it can't be nearly as complex or graphically attractive.

I think part of the misconception is in the way nukes are made. There is no way the F-16s sold to Pakistan could drop US made nukes. We have multiple failsafes and such and specialized equipment needed for proper operation. However, the way a nuclear bomb works is really quite simple. It's all about having the proper materials and the correct manner of construction in making one work, which is why there used to be so much testing. Theory only takes it so far. Anyway, I don't think it would be any more difficult for the Pakis to wire their plane to drop nukes they made themselves than it was to make the nukes in the first place, honestly. After all, it's not like air dropped or missile-launched nukes are all that exist. They made nuclear artillery shells! How complex an arming system could they have needed? So, while on the one hand India has a point that these planes COULD be used for that, in reality ANY plane Pakistan has could just as easily be wired for their bombs, including the planes they're getting from China. Besides, I don't think the US has really ever done much with carrying nukes on F-16s. We have so many other delivery systems for them that are more appropriate I don't think it's necessary to spend the extra time and money on it. Would the planes survive an attack? Most likely not, but if you're going to be using nukes like that my guess is they won't care if their planes and pilots return or not.