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I tried it, and it separates all the layers, however, it looks as if the subtitles are permanently in the video stream. I see no way to remove them no matter what I do. It must be the version of the movie I have? OvS

Yes, please... thanks Bullet. As for FRO, I'll sort that out with him once he replies to my PM I sent him. I don't think we're asking a lot, again, it's pretty standard stuff with many freeware/shareware/ and payware software out there. We're no different. I'll speak to Erik and see if he can create something like that. All the best, OvS

You're not offending anyone by what you are saying. Different compaines handle different things in different ways. I once had Jim Dietz's artwork on my Hell's Angels website, which I prompty recieved a nice email from him simply remidinig me that I did not have permission to use it, and asking that I give him credit for the works. I promtly agreed, and added the credit, plus promoted his site with a link to it. No harm done. As many public releases ask of anyone that uses their work (check files on Flightsim.com, and you'll see it all the time), all we are asking is a simple readme.txt just sighting the use of the OFF base skin, and who the original artist was. So if you take a skin, add a few marks to it, does it make it your own work? No, not at all. If you are offering it for download, without mentioning that it was derived from a base skin, someone might get the idea that it was your work to begin with ... which is not right, as you know. As a last example... many of the skins I used in my Hell's Angels patch were not mine, even though I had to alter them to fit the models.... but if you check my readme file included with the patch.... I gave credit to every one of the artists and what they donated to the patch. OvS

Thanks fellas, I'll give it a whirl, I knew you guys could help me. All the best, OvS

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/fighter-jets-Taliban-military-parade/photo//091013/photos_wl_sa_afp/efa061a637d2ff518ece0838959eb110//s:/ap/20091013/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan I just read an article on Yahoo.com that Pakistan carried out an airstrike against Taliban militants on the border of Afghanistan.... Just what the hell do they use for planes? Mig-23's? What are these? They look kinda like F-105 Thundercheifs left over from Viet Nam. Pardon my ignorance on old Russian made fighter jets. Then again, against the Taliban, you could strafe with Fokker D.VII's they're so far in the stone age. OvS

It's not left out... Google 'MAME' and have fun. I own 3 classic, full-scale, restored Arcade cabinets running this program, and it's a blast. Game ROM's are sometimes hard to find, but they're out there. OvS

Holy s**te!!! I remember that show... the father is a total loon!! I recognized him when I watched the video when the balloon initally took off, and there was the father, acting all pissed off, kicking the launch frame and all.... Not the kind of reaction a concerned parent would have had. It looked kind of staged to me. They claimed there was a gondola attched to it when it rose up, but the video did not show one on it. I'd say this family is in need of some serious councelling. But the wife swap was terrible. The father was a loose cannon, and constantly pissed off, acting like a little boy, whining... all of it. I hope the law comes down on them for pulling this stunt. Those poor kids will all be brain cases later in life. OvS

Bird feeding... yes, that one too. I love seeing all the amazing colors and types in the winter on Long Island. I have a small backyard, but in the winter, it's LOADED with birds as I have 10 trees in the yard and I put out 4 feeders, 2 hanging and two on poles. I have a nice bay window my daughter sits in and watches for a few hours a day, recording all the different types she sees. It is a nice 'hobby' if you want to call it one. :) OvS

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Believe me Dave, I agree with you and while I am not underestimating the enemy, I am certainly frustrated with our approach to finishing wars lately. Sure we go in, guns a blazing, kick serious butt... then we go on the 'world peace' tour of occupation, over-stay our welcome, become entrenched in local politics, and on and on. I don't think the US soldier needs to fear his enemy more than he needs to feel his government that is faltering to support him, not with modern weapons, but with sheer man-power and the unabated 'go-ahead' to pound the piss out of them. But we shall see how the Messiah handles this one... somehow I don't think 13K of support troops will help a squad 50 miles out in the hot zone, all alone. I hear the Dems have him up for the CMoH... for all the flak and bullets he took after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. OvS

Man, you're joking right... you're serious?!?!

I was just trawling through a few photos on the RAF BE2 series of aircraft, and I suddenly came to terms with the reality of how flimsy these planes really were. Take a look for yourself and you must agree, they really were mad to fly these things around, especailly knowing what we know now about micro-bursts, down drafts, thermals, winds... etc... add in the obvious that you're being shot at, in a structure that is highly flamable from all aspects. Here is the rudder and tail section... I think it gets the point across that is was all just thin bent metal bar, some wood ribs, and painted (doped) fabric. Nothing more. It's amazing that anyone could have ANY sense of personal security in one of these deathtraps, let alone confidence that it wouldn't just fall apart around them. OvS

Wow... you know, from my experiences with the 'heavies' at the airport, you can never really 'feel' how big a plane is until you have something to judge it by. Like the 747 for instance. You know it's huge, but your mind doens't grasp it until you see it from the back, heading down a taxiway, or your standing under the tail section looking up. Then suddenly it appears big. Same with the 225... up until I watched that clip of it flying at that airshow where it was doing a touch and go infront of the crowd could you really see just how big that plane is. Until it's next to something that gives your eye a reference point, you just can't grasp it. That plane is just massive... or ginormous (some kind of new word kids use in today's English language). It's a amazing that a matter of pure physics and a freak principle of nature called vacuum that enables something that enorums to get off the ground. Wow. I wonder what Orville and Wilbur would say if they could have seen that plane fly. OvS

Not sure how many 'patches' or how good the 'tech (medical) support' will be though...

Well, I guess we can break-off topic... Since Korea, we simply can't fight our enemies they way we should. My father (Korea), my uncles (Nam), my cousins (Gulf War) have all fought in respective wars of their time, and they will all tell you that. Even now, my Brother-in-Law's cousin, who's in Iraq and was in the Battle of Falluja says the same thing. We have to drop a bomb, on a target, in a small area, without any collateral damage, or sustain minimal civilian deaths/damage during a massive Sunday market, while not disturbing prayer sessions, school, the bus route... etc.. etc.. etc.. Everyone dresses the same, so you don't know who the enemy even is... they steal your uniform and wear it against you, then shoot at you from behind children and women... how do you compete with this?? You don't win wars this way. If we fought it our way, the right way as we did once before and won, the Taliban would have been exterminated a long time ago, and Al Quieda would be nothing more than a Boy Scout club. And you know I am right... MOAB anyone? Block-busters... carpet bombing??? More than 200K troops? We can't do those things because it's not fair to the civilians... ??? But I guess flying planes into unsuspecting civilian targets is. Having 150K troops in an area that is as big as half the East Coast of the USA, covered in mountainous terrain, and being shot at from all sides is not a way to win this war. Watching our guys get slaughtered because they were equipped with Humvees that had cheap armor on them, watching our guys get strung out on a limb because we don't have enough troops to support them. Using excuses like 'we're a leaner, meaner and faster Army than ever before, is just that, an excuse to avoid a mass invasion as it should have been from day 1. This enemy is your friend during the day, taking your hand-out from the back of the truck... then at night is out there wiring-up the IED you get killed by the next day. Stingers?? The least of our problems.. Obama is now flopping like a fish on a row-boat and has NO sign of any male genitalia between his legs... so it won't get any better unfortunately. He's sending what, 13K troops of mostly back-office, admin, medical, and supply staff?? All we are doing there is establishing a presence, and beating back the bad-guys now and then... we certainly are not rooting them out, or defeating them. The people of these respective foreign countries do not want us there, and want the Taliban as part of their government... they don't want American(Western) influence, products, or ideology. They live in a way that we will never understand as we left that behind in the Dark Ages. So we're trying to win a war by changing the way a populous thinks about the world, literally overnight, meanwhile they haven't changed in 1000's of years. You don't win political wars. Since 9-11, my flag has not come off my house, and at night has a spotlight shining on it, until the boys come home. Sorry to go off like this, but my family has fought for the USA (or Italy in WWI) in every war since WWI, and all I can say is that every relative that comes back from each war gets more and more bitter about fighting them. As my cousin put it in the Gulf... we weren't there to win, we were there to flex some muscle and get in a little practice on live targets. My cousin Reddin Barefoot was an Army Cobra pilot, poping tanks across the desert in Kuwait. He said it was a joke. OvS

Well I'm home and it was an IE 6 issue... so I got to see the subtitles... Oh man.. this was really funny! Wow... I'm going to close the thread, and let it go it's course... but, man, that was really funny. I don't own RoF, so I can't comment on any of it ... but man, he really tossed some digs in there. Wow... that was really good. I still think the one with the PS3 was the best though... OvS

I looked it up. It looks a lot like a Thunderchief.. and it's Chinese! They're really placing a lot of faith in their airplanes.

Ever see the 224? It's even bigger... if that's possible!?!?!

As soon as I get time, I'm going to make one for us... more personal.... involving a few names on the forum that will surely bring a few laughs... OvS

Well.. I still can't see the subtitles... we're still running IE6 in this dump.. .but I get the feeling I WILL be closing this thread real soon... Funny as it might be, we need to fly higher than this. OvS

You are correct about the copywrite isses Olham, it has a lot to do with it. Also, with OFF, Winder did his best to accurately place each known aerodrome at each location, or best possible. One of the items we discussed was to possibly have specific models of certain Aerodromes that were more prevailent, or for that matter, lasted longer than the usual fly-by-night dromes did. We hope someday we can do that, it's a huge task... Also, with the dromes, there is more to it that it appears. Maybe Winder or Polovski can explain it better, but it has a lot to do with global layering, and other stuff like that. There are dromes active at certain times that should not be there, but again, this was a HUGE process for Winder to undertake and he certainly did a good job of it. Again, in the future, we hope to have dead, or destroyed dromes littering the landscape as the front shifts back and forth, then maybe those become active again.. etc. It's all something we hope to do sometime, but who knows when. My point in saying this is that to use an accurate map, and to expect to see every single detail in OFF match that map, is really stretching the seperation betweem RL and a sim. Sure, I'd love to see my house as I fly over my town in FSX, but you have to realize limits in sims... they are afterall simulations of reality. But, if we can do it, you know, we'll try. We love to push the boundry at OBD Software... OvS

Just a little fun thing I did 2 years ago which I posted on the SOH forum at the time. I recently was playing with Sony Vegas trying to learn how to use it and decided to remake the video, only better. If you like Rush, and the work of Tim Burton, you'll enjoy this. Make sure you let it play till the end. ;) So with the season of Halloween upon us... enjoy! OvS

No, those are clips from a song in "The Corpse Bride". The Tricky part was getting their movements to line-up with the song riffs. yes... I am back in the hanger, still painting the E.V... !!! OvS

I don't see the subtitles... All I get is the sound and video, which I noticed is from a reversed angle in this one.. ?

Taken from : German Aircraft of the First World War - Gray and Thetford, 1962. As usual, contradictory to everything we know. Just adds more speculation to the life of the E.V/D.VIII at the front.