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Well you are talking sense but I have a hunch...hehe

Actually they had a better group stage than on the last World Cup....when they where 3rd!! I see they meet up against Algeria, they will stomp them so hard it will be embarrassing to watch, I predict 4:0 for Germany at the very least. I also think they can pass through France and then they have to face the "curse of the semis" that is following them for a decade now... As for France they had a really easy group, Switzerland, Honduras and Ecuador? That should be easy for a stronger team, I don't want to insult anybody I'm just realistic...Portugal, USA and Ghana are incomparably better teams and yet France has 7 points (same as Germany) and only +1 on GD (goal difference)... Anyway if anybody is into prediction game I'll offer mine for the Round of 16: Brazil - Chile = Brazil (only cause they are hosts, quality-wise worst Brazil team I ever watched) Columbia-Uruguay = Columbia (without Suarez I don't see Uruguay passing though) France - Nigeria = France Germany - Algeria = Germany Netherlands - Mexico = Netherlands Costa Rica - Greece = tough one, I'll go Greece maybe not much quality but a truckload of heart Argentina - Switzerland = Argentina Belgium - USA = USA - surprised? I wouldn't be if USA nails that one...

This stuff always emerges in the summer, people forget that the sky is much cleaner, that way more people are looking at it and that due to the fact our coast is really attractive tourist destination flight frequency increases. Btw. speaking of jets the other day some Fishbeds broke the sound barrier near the city, some people panicked I quite enjoyed it to be honest as I recognized the sound immediately, guess I'm weird in that way lol

Actually USA is getting better and better from Cup to Cup it's only a matter of time with a base of 360 million people until USA get's to the top level. Germany starts now and of course I have to go and handle some stufff, geeeeeeeeeeeez, I'll have to listen to it on the car radio if I catch it...

Don't know but as I'm watching England-Italy...it's a really good game

Brazil? Are you serious? They can only ride the host-wagon that much... I say Germany and actually if my guys drop out, Germany will be the only reason to continue watching WC for me...

I was convinced I was about to watch a football game, not a Japanese comedy show...

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In an event of WW3 they wouldn't be doing much really...

I think F-35 is a miss for smaller countries, it's definitely too expensive and high maintenance for pure air-policing and for supporting roles within the alliance(s) I think it's both, an overkill and too much of a risk due to it's value. I have no doubts it will be great but it definitely ain't going to be the best buy option...IMO

That's how I do it, AFAIK game can't read the reflection maps from 3DSMax but rather uses it's own game engine function for reflections...so I just map the TGA as diffuse...and done.

I think it's pretty much the same in the entire Europe, governments are over-reaching and running on tax-craze and that is smothering the economy... Socially I'd say there are problems but I'm quite conservative for European standards so I choose to evade that part to avoid this going too political...

Yup, Europe needs a big nasty kick to restart itself, otherwise, SubSharan news networks will report about famine in 3rd world Europe...the s**t is going crazier by the day...

Buddy you have GTX670 you will be able to run whatever you want with the 4670k that's what I'll be aiming for when I decide to upgrade... The thing with i7 860 you have in your specs now is that it's single threaded performance is weaker than even my G3420 and since SF2 can't put more than two cores to good use it gives lower performance, however i5 4670k not only has four cores but even better single threaded performance than my G3420 so it should be a huge upgrade

Yup even crappy stock Intel cooler keeps it below 60C and that's in a totally cramped case and the stock that comes with it is silly, I asked the seller if he was sure that's the box version when he gave it to me as I didn't think a cooler would fit in such a small box lol. One guy has some serious cooler on it and it keeps it at 40C with the fan at 600rpm lol Still I'm quite aware I'll be on the market for a proper quad soon, all computing is going in that direction very fast...

I watched the movie it was bloddy awesome and was thinking about transferring that to SF world somehow, great concept man

It's the Dogfights, they are pretty good and very entertaining but not very accurate when it comes to technical details, somebody probably mistook two intakes for two engines...

So time to share what I ended up with in the end. Finally got around to squeeze all the stuff into my case which I found out is not exactly roomy with a full ATX board, cabling job is terrible as I just didn't have the room to put it away...arrgh that will have to wait lol So the components are: Pentium G3420 (3,2GHz, dual core) - lil' thing is a beast, I was skeptic till I fired it up but the thingy really showed me it's monster kick MSI Z87-G43 - went for Z87 chipset so I can have some future with it... 2x4GB DDR HyperX Beast (XMP 2400MHz) like I said it was only 3-4$ more expensive than the absolute cheapest 1600MHz one available here, otherwise according to all tests there's no performance gain of going for faster memory and in the end ASUS GeForce GTX660 DirectCU 2GB - really nice, massive cooler makes it quiet and cool Anyway SF2 runs everything I throw at it on unlimited settings, I thought I'd have to reduce shadowsand horizon distance to normal but nope, no point as it constantly pumps out great fps(around 60) Didn't try IL2 or DCS yet but I passed through Battlefield 3 singleplayer...at ULTRA setting, everything maxed, not even a hiccup. So in the end for a budget machine this is freakin awesome...

I really don't want to go into deep politics here but truth is that US ship was in the Black Sea so Russian aircraft came to say hello. What happens when Russian ship moves around the Gulf of Mexico? USN/USAF/ANG no say hello? Anyway like I said I don't want to go into politics but I do want to go in the way media people make their money these days, every freakin thing has to be a sensation with 24h coverage, analysis, panels, 3d presentations...I mean geez stuff like that will ALWAYS happen and it's common, I bet Russian and NATO/US planes also still meet in the sky regularly, just hey pssst don't tell that to CNN as all hell will brake loose. I mean next thing I wait to happen is: "BREAKING NEWS!!!" We interrupt this program to let you know...that if you buy BeaverMuncher3000 now you get ButtHumper 2250 completely free + special offer - a set of not so sharp knives that really look sharp!!! Now dial 0800-I-LIKE-MY-BEAVERS-MUNCHED and don't miss this special offer. NEXT! A panel of Beaver munching experts discusses the topic and provides an in-depth ANALysis of the product with special holographic 3D presentations and effects...

Check the lightdistance in the ini. of the respective afterburner effect, some old entries from SF1 time have too large values for SF2, you can recognize that if flying by night and engage afterburners - you will notice it immediately, reduce the value to 5.0 it will give both, better performance and visual quality as cockpits don't go Las Vegas as you hit the afterburner

That's some freaky mod of the very old YP-80 cockpit...over 10 years old...

I still use it at work however it hit a message today at me saying that it's dying...poor lil' thing Interesting fact here I never used it at home,was pushing WinME which interestingly worked pretty well for me up until I got Server2003 over some student deal at crazy price and used that thing as a workstation, worked amazingly well...then I got hooked up on Win7 beta after a major system crash I had, got so into it I don't want it to EVER change lol, even got MS certified on it... @Fubar, 3000+ workstation OS refresh in 2002? Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarn you guys really mean business with IT, here it's rare to find a company having over 300 even today...

Yup I know about that, however the cheapest 2x4GB kit here is the KingstonHyperX Beast at 2400MHz...even cheaper than buying two separate 1600MHz sticks...crazy, probably some super-sale or something... I hope there will be no paycuts too, however it is suppose to be a temporary 3-month measure and only maybe but I really didn't want to hear that now while preparing an upgrade lol