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That's true, though things have gotten much better. For example, back in the early days of the series (2002-2003), users with ATI cards could not even get the RWR and radar displays to render properly!

These titles are very CPU intensive. You're better off with a powerful CPU , and a mid-range video card, than you are with a high-end vid card, and a mid-range CPU. In this series, experience has proven that a system sporting a Core2Duo at 3.6 gHz and a 9600GT, will yeild better frame rates than would a system with 2.8 mHz C2D and a GTX-295.

In a laptop, I'd try to stay with either Nvidia or ATI solutions, and stay away from Intel. In a desktop, you could order a fairly entry level system...just make sure that it has a free PCI-E slot. You can then drop in an Nvidia 9600GT (or better) for like $60.

"Do you know what it's like to get kicked in the head......with an iron boot? No, of course you don't....forget I mentioned it."

That single was released, and became a hit during the Spring time of 1979. Although some may find it hard to believe, MJ was attempting to cultivate a 'bad boy" image at the time, possibly to offset the negative press surrounding alleged hormone injections to maintain his singing voice. I recall one memorable pic in a tabloid (or, it may even have been Playboy Magazine), of MJ flipping the finger to somebody in the audience during a performance that year.

MMT.......Mars Meridian Time

Sometime ago, I was talking with Dave, about the crazy stunts my friends and I pulled, when we were in our early teens. Such as making our own gunpowder, filling a quart jar with it, and lighting it (incredibly, no one got hurt, though I couldn't hear too well for a week afterwords), detonating cans of starting fluid with blow torches, making rockets out of spray cans of hair spray, etc. You know, the sort of things normal American teenage boys would do, back in the 1970s Well, I found this on another website....enjoy! Around age 10 my dad got me one of those Little Bad-ass Compound Bow beginner kits. Of course, the first month I went around our place sticking arrows in anything that could get stuck by an arrow. Did you know that a 1955 40 horse Farmall tractor will take 6 rounds before it goes down? Tough sumbich. That got boring, so being the 10 yr. old Dukes of Hazzard fan that I was, I quickly advanced to taking strips of cut up Tshirt doused in chainsaw gas tied around the end and was sending flaming arrows all over the place. Keep in mind this was 99.999% humidity swampland so there really wasn't any fire danger. I'll put it this way - a set of post hole diggers and a 3ft. Hole and you had yourself a well. Anyway, one summer afternoon, I was shooting flaming arrows into a large rotten oak stump in our backyard. I look over under the carport and see a shiny brand new can of starting fluid (ether). The light bulb went off. I grabbed the can and set it on the stump. I thought it would probably just spray out in a disappointing manner . . lets face it... to a 10 yr. old mouth-breather like myself, ether really doesn't "sound" flammable. So, I went back into the house and got a 1 pound can of pyrodex (black powder for muzzle loader rifles) to add to the excitement. At this point, I set the can of ether on the stump and opened up the can of black powder. My intentions were to sprinkle a little bit around the ether can but it all sorta dumped out on me. No biggie...1lb pyrodex and 16 oz of ether should make a loud pop, kinda like a firecracker - you know? You know what? Screw that. I'm going back in the house for the other can. Yes, I got a second can of pyrodex and dumped it too. Now we're cookin'. I stepped back about 15ft and lit the 2 stroke arrow. I drew the nock to my cheek and took aim. As I released I heard a clunk as the arrow launched from my bow. In a slow motion time frame, I turned to see my dad getting out of the truck... OH s**t! He just got home from work So help me God it took 10 minutes for that arrow to go from my bow to the can. My dad was walking towards me in slow motion with a WTF look in his eyes. I turned back towards my target just in time to see the arrow pierce the starting fluid can right at the bottom. Right through the main pile of pyrodex and into the can. OH - s**t. When the shock wave hit it knocked me off my feet. I don't know if it was the actual compression wave that threw me back or just reflex jerk back from 235 decibels of sound. I caught a half millisecond glimpse of the violence during the initial explosion and I will tell you there was dust, grass, and bugs all hovering 1ft above the ground as far as I could see. It was like a little low to the ground layer of dust fog full of grasshoppers, spiders, and a crawfish or two. The daylight turned purple. Let me repeat this...THE DAYLIGHT TURNED PURPLE! There was a big sweetgum tree out by the gate going into the pasture. Notice I said "was". That mother got up and ran off. So here I am, on the ground blown completely out of my shoes with my Thundercats T-shirt shredded, my dad is on the other side of the carport having what I can only assume is a Vietnam flashback: " ECHO BRAVO CHARLIE YOUR BRINGIN' EM IN TOO CLOSE!! CEASE FIRE GODDAMIT CEASE FIRE!!!!! His hat has blown off and is 30 ft. behind him in the driveway. All windows on the north side of the house are blown out and there is a slow rolling mushroom cloud about 2000 feet over our backyard. There is a Honda 185s three wheeler parked on the other side of the yard and the fenders are drooped down and are now touching the tires. I wish I knew what I said to my dad at this moment. I don't know - I know I said something. I couldn't hear. I couldn't hear inside my own head. I don't think he heard me either... not that it would really matter. I don't remember much from this point on. I said something, felt a sharp pain, and then woke up later. I felt a sharp pain, blacked out,woke later.... repeat this process for an hour or so and you get the idea. I remember at one point my mom had to give me CPR so dad could beat me some more. Bring him back to life so dad can kill him again. Thanks mom. One thing is for sure... I never had to mow around that stump again. Mom had been bitching about that thing for years and dad never did anything about it. I stepped up to the plate and handled business. Dad sold his muzzleloaders a week or so later. And I still have some sort of bone growth abnormality either from the blast or the beating. Or both. I guess what I'm trying to say is, get your kids into archery. Its good discipline and will teach them skills they can use later on in life. Something they won't learn in school.

I'm somewhat surprised that neither myself, nor my friends, lost any limbs due to our "experiments". One of our most reckless experiments , was when we attached a M-80 to a triple-cluster of 1-ounce bottle-rockets. Luckily, the combined thrust of the three rockets, was just enough to get the whole mess no more than 50 feet (straight up), before the M-80 went "BOOM!" We were, of course, hoping for something a bit more impressive, like a range of two or three city blocks.

Most of your questions are covered at the various links, here: http://msn.careerbuilder.com/MSN/Category.aspx?categoryid=CL You can even research typical salaries for a position similar to the one you're applying for. A word of advice, be aware that the Washington DC area is not exactly inexpensive. I know that a few of our members live around there, and are therefore much more familiar with "the lay of the land", than I am.

Has anyone tried them yet? The price per MB is still quite high (a 250 GB SATA II SSD goes for $730 US), but they're claiming a MTBF in excess 1,500,000 Hours, and read/write speeds on single drives that handily exceed those of mechanical drives. One feature I like, Intel claims that their drive has a shock resistance rating of 1000 Gs.....just what every PC builder needs....if he's selling computers to Han Solo

Don't take it personally. We've dealt with more than just a handful of "winners" in our time, one of whom even went as far as suggesting that the developer working on a given aircraft, hand the project over to someone else, as the project wasn't progressing fast enough to suit the poster's fancy.

The missileobject.ini still works, it's just simpler to add the needed lines to each weapon's data file. I suppose you could try the same edits, on a gun by gun basis, since guns can now be added using a similar format as weapons.

Ah, cool

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Did you perform the necessary edits to the missileobject.ini?

"Thirdwire Sims & All Things Eels"

The price tag for a "good" model ranges from $200-$500 US. That's before one performs the necessary work to make it usable in this series. And, if one maintains the detail level, one would need a high end system to run it. As an example, I'm working on a ship model's data.ini for another modeler. That model weighs in at 120,000 polygons. I can run it, but chances are, the majority of players, cannot. I'll bet that most of those models run 80-150K polys.

Long? "Strike Fighters Series" is long?

Actually Posted to Craig's List Personals... To the Guy Who Tried to Mug Me in downtown Savannah the night before last. Date: 2009-03-23, 3:43 AM EST I was the guy with the black Burberry jacket that you demanded I hand over, shortly after you pulled the knife on me and my girlfriend. You also asked for my girlfriend's purse and earrings. I hope you somehow come across this message. I'd like to apologize. I didn't expect you to crap in your pants when I drew my pistol after you took my jacket. Truth is, I was wearing the jacket for a reason that evening, and it wasn't that cold outside. You see, my girlfriend had just bought me that Kimber Model 1911 .45 A CP pistol for Christmas, and we had just picked up a shoulder holster for it that evening. Beautiful pistol, eh? It's a very intimidating weapon when pointed at your head, isn't it? I know it probably wasn't a great deal of fun walking back to wherever you'd come from with that brown sludge flopping about in your pants. I'm sure it was even worse since you also ended up leaving your shoes, cell phone, and wallet with me. I couldn't have you calling up any of your buddies to come help you try to mug us again. I took the liberty of calling your mother, or "Momma" as you had her listed in your cell, and explaining to her your situation. I also bought myself and four other people in the gas station this morning a tank full of gas on your credit card. The guy with the big motor home took 150 gallons and was extremely grateful! I gave your shoes to one of the homeless guys over by Vinnie Van GoGo's, along with all of the cash in your wallet. I threw the wallet in a fancy pink "pimp mobile" parked at the curb after I broke the windshield and side window out and keyed the drivers side. I called a bunch of phone sex numbers from your cell phone. They'll be on your bill in case you'd like to know which ones. Ma Bell just shut down the line, and I've only had the phone for a little over a day now, so I don't know what's going on with that. I hope they haven't permanently cut off your service. I could only get in two threatening phone calls to the DA's office and one to the FBI with it. The FBI guy was really pissed and we had a long chat (I guess while he traced the number). I'd also like to apologize for not killing you and instead making you walk back home humiliated. I'm hoping that you'll reconsider your choice of path in life. Next time you might not be so lucky.. Alex

Notice how loud the missile launches in the video were, from inside the aircraft that launched them....

This video may help dispell a few misconceptions: http://forum.combatace.com/uploads/1245362...63_54577930.mpg

The name's Dave.....Super Dave......

The following files need to be in a folder named exactly as the Gunpod's weapondata entry. That folder, in turn, needs to be inside of C:\Users\AGOSTINO\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2\Objects\Weapons 1) MB-339_DEFAGunPod.ini 2) MB-339_DEFAGunPod.LOD 3) defa pod.bmp