JediMaster

I'm fairly certain the protocols used today differ quite a bit from those used in the late 19th century. I would venture that if you go out just 100 years from now they will differ again. My "best guess" would be working from an image made from a UAV, satellite, spec ops team, or other type of forward-observer that would derive GPS coords from that picture, and those coords being passed to the arty targeting computer electronically. You'd probably have verbal commands limited to "acquire target", "target acquired", "set fire X number of rounds in Y pattern (time between rounds perhaps, dispersion, etc)", and "fire." By then arty will likely be individually homing any way, by lidar or radar or some other sensor in the nose of the shell, pretty much guaranteeing anything on the surface that can be seen will be hit and likely destroyed. Only by hiding (either underground or by camo) will they avoid being seen and therefore being hit. Well, there will likely be anti-arty energy weapons that would attempt to detonate incoming shells at a non-lethal altitude. If you want to know what current arty commands sound like, Arma has them in there fairly authentic. But they're done verbally, and that's just not going to be how it's done 30 years from now let alone 300.

Looks good, but that mod is not feasible in reality. The truth is an afterburner-equipped engine is much larger than one without, and such an engine is far too big to fit in the Scooter. The entire aft fuselage would have to be redesigned and rebuilt. The cooling and CG considerations... The A-4's nose also has a TINY dish in it. Far too small to accommodate any decent AA radar, so to make it bigger means redesigning the nose quite a bit. After you've done all that work on the nose and tail, and possibly in the middle as well where the engine is actually mounted, you will arguably no longer have the same plane. Would it still have the flight handling of the original Scooter, or would it be compromised by the rebuilding?

The military...don't even try to make an uglier truck than we can!

Another problem is it doesn't matter if you're legally allowed to buy a gun if you have a friend or relative who is...and then gives you easy access to said gun. Doesn't matter if they willingly allow it or not, if you have a brother or neighbor who doesn't keep their weapons in a safe with a combo you do NOT know. The Sandy Hook tragedy was enabled by a woman who under no law should have been barred from getting a weapon...yet had a son that under any reasonable determination should not have been allowed one. Arguments about ownership or purchasing are largely irrelevant because IIRC most crimes committed with legally purchased and owned guns...are not committed by those who purchased or own them, but people who've taken them! Maybe we need a mandatory DNA lock like Bond had in Skyfall...so only the legally registered owner of the gun is capable of firing it.

People may dislike Madonna, but you can't argue she wasn't brilliant. She figured things out and built a mega empire around reading the public. Granted as she got older her relevance faded, but that's the world of pop stars...none burn bright forever. Still, look at the "2nd gen" Madonna-wannabes and where they are today. Christina and Britney and their ilk from the late 90s have faded just as much as Madonna, but they at best matched her (never surpassed) and did it for a far shorter period of time. In other words, Madonna flew around the world solo while they simply managed trans-Atlantic flights. Gen 3 like Miley "My Dad was Achey-Breaky 20 years ago" Cyrus will be lucky to get from NYC to LA solo, and they'll do it without the style. I predict by 2020 Miley will be gone farther than Britney or Christina are now.

He should have been disappeared. Vanished without a trace. Sentence: obscurity. Tell the victims' families what happened to him, but otherwise a total media blackout. He WANTS this. So his punishment shouldn't be what WE think is justice, it should simply be "100% opposite of what he wants." Then he can whither away and die in a black hole somewhere and no one will ever hear of it.

Well, the obvious immediate fix is ForceDX9=True in Options.ini, but I don't have that problem with my Win7/DX10/11 install. So I don't know why you are.

All that matters is money. The rest is just details.

I can't keep all the variants and subvariants straight anymore.

Editing isn't really the Achilles' heel here. It's getting the stuff that needs to be edited. If we have that, the rest will fall into place. If everyone who could would write just ONE thing, even if it took a month or two to do, we'd be in great shape. There are enough people here that we'd have enough stuff for months. And none of this "my writing would sink the site" crap, because that's what editors are for. Look at my Il-2:CloD review. That thing took me maybe 2 hours to write over a weekend including putting in the screenshots and prettying it up. The clincher was the amount of time I spent flying it to get it done, and as it wasn't something I was already devoting much time to (because of my disappointment), it took a long time until I was ready to write it. So write about what you know. If in addition to flying SF2 you play a lot of DCS, or Arma, or COH2, or ANYTHING that we have forums here for from air to ground to sea to racing, just do that. You may already have a well-informed opinion and all you need to do is grab a few screenshots and spend one night writing, or take a week and write a little each night. We don't necessarily need you to install something for the first time and do a piece on what it's like coming in blind. A review with dozens of hours of usage behind it trumps one that has just two. It doesn't even need to be a current game review per se. You could do a mod for SF2, or a campaign AAR for something, or a retro writeup on the joys of Jane's F-15 or F4 BMS or TAW.

They seem to have a serious disconnect between design and production. It doesn't matter how good a plane you can design if you can't get it built.

The USN recently made a comment about reinforcing the decks for the Marine ships the B will be operating off of for precisely that reason.

Old Yakov Smirnoff joke: In Russia we have saying, women are like buses. That's it, women are like buses.

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I say "irrelevant." If the idea is that the taxpayer has to pay for his conversion, then I say he can screw off. His discomfort with his own body is not something I should have to pay to fix. When he gets out in 35 years, or whenever he may parole, he's free to get a job to pay for it himself. I don't care.

My guess is the sealer reinforced the mattress to the extent that it was allowed to inflate to a previously unattainable psi. When it finally burst it was a catastrophic failure and the overpressure was intense. A simple patch designed for the repair would've failed much earlier, and just the mattress and possibly some nearby objects like lights or other fragile objects would've been damaged.

You can always tell the difference between low light and thermal...because exhaust glows! This also shows how the 35 takes off without a ski ramp or catapult.

We don't want people to feel like "ugh, if I say yes then I'm going to be stuck writing things on a regular schedule." That's not what we're looking for. We're looking for enough people so that when all of them are turning something in from time to time we get a steady stream. You don't need to be doing something twice a month, every month, and 3 times on holidays. We don't need to put out something every day. I think right now if we could get a couple or more per month published it would be a great start, and while a weekly feature would be awesome as an end goal, don't feel pressured that we need to get that result by the start of October or anything. Breaking that out for example means 52 per year, and if each person does something say every other month, that would only require 9 people. With 4 people we could average something every other week, or alternatively with 9 people only doing something once a quarter. And that's what we'd like to build towards, not what we want out of the gate. So if everyone who was interested did just one thing, and we spread it out biweekly we could get to the end of the year easily. Then next year you could submit another. As for what to write about, as long as there's no duplication of efforts we want to broaden our site's sights. Excited about Arma 3? Or rFactor 2? Or some hardware that enhances simming? Are you a modder that could write a brief how-to on building a plane for SF2? Even a commentary on the state of the flight sim industry, a guest editorial of sorts? I've been meaning to review both DCS World and the ATAG mod for Il-2:CloD, but I've had far too little time to devote to either so far to do them justice. In other words it's not the writing that's the problem, it's finding the time to use the products enough to write an informed review. So if there's something you use all the time, and you're so familiar with it you could give a dissertation in your sleep, think about writing something on it for the site. Those of us who haven't had the time may find your experience informative! This isn't for money, it's not a job, this is for the longevity of the hobby and the site. You give what you can for the benefit of all.

It's so real, you'll get heavily taxed on installation, when you use it, and when you're NOT using it. It's THAT realistic.

It shouldn't since the reason it fails in 64-bit is the program is in a different location. In 32-bit, it's already there.

I was unaware of the Gamefly launch, I only knew of Steam.

As someone who lived next door to the whole Zimmerman thing, I'm literally astounded at how the media portrayed this outside the local community. Here it was pretty cut and dry, but it seems the media wanted to portray it as "harmless teenager stalked and shot by half-crazed vigilante". I especially loved the "what if the boy was white and Zimmerman was black" flip-flop scenario played, because in that case it never would have happened. Of course, Zimmerman isn't white, but the media conveniently kept ignoring that too. I mean seriously, can you imagine a 17 yr old white boy being followed by an almost 30 yr old black man twice his size after the sun has gone down, turning around, confronting the guy, and then attacking him? That's right, it wouldn't have happened, because that's ridiculous.

It's unfortunate that harbor is so congested. Under other circumstances this incident could have been even more tragic.

There were never QF-14s, QF-117s, QB-52s, and so on. There will never be a QF-22 because there aren't enough of them to bother with. There might be a QF-35 at some point but we'll all be dead!

There's what the plane is capable of, and there's what the service has placed as limits. As mentioned, it's not about what the plane can take so much as how long it will last given regular usage at those limits.