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*bump* Indeed!! Thanks.

Well Yes ~n~ No Missile Defense Systems Won't Protect Israel (Reuven Pedatzur, haaretz) ezlead, I found the article, or an article. Pedatzur may be right, but in another sense. Here he is talking about an all up war, going far beyond Hamas, not the near constant low intensity rocket attacks from that mob. Hate to say it, but US and USSR ABM systems had the same basic problem. Mirved ICBM warheads could eventually outlast any affordable ABM system. Of course there were other things going down there like decoys and perhaps previous high altitude blast effects. If I recall, our recent attempts to sell an ABM system, Thaad I guess, are supposedly for use against a very limited sneak attack from, say, North Korea or whatever boogieman of the day, not for an all up war toetotoe with the Russkies. The same idea may be behind this Dome thing -- for use against the ever lasting but limited rocket attacks.

Good point there.

Good find (the plane, not the writer)...! ugh Score one for uncleal.

I've heard of Israeli anti~Katyusha missiles being worked on back in the 1990s. They finally got it. Occasionally I would wonder what was taking so long (never followed it). dswan, will this alternatvie laser Skyguard thing work in heavy rain? This Dome cost is very interesting. First, it could get more affordable in the future, mass production, manufacturing experience, improved designs, outsourcing labour, borrowing or raw paper/electronic money printing to cover the costs, etc... Alternatively, I'm guessing Dome might could be limited to defend higher priority targets, much like the limited ABM systems of US and USSR were deployed to defend specific targets but not the entire population. Jedi, a "scam" implies theft, and that is always a possibility, as war is a racket best defined as a few knowing what is going on and benefiting at the expense of the many. Maybe, perhaps, possibly. The relative cost issue recalls the old argument about what is more expensive: ICBM or anti-ICBM and which can survive an exchange of attrition. On the other hand, if Dome is used in conjunction with traditional methods of reducing the total available terrorist rocket launchings, then maybe Dome can do functional protection at some affordable cost. I assume hiding Katyushas from the Israelis creates a very inefficient deployment, on top of the Gaza blockade -- thus lowering the total number available rockets that Dome needs to handle. Is this Correct Thinking?

You have a Bump Thread key on your keyboard too I see. 76, what happened to those bigbutt Lavochkin 200s you were modding? ...and don't poast hard drive crash.

Well, I suppose back in the 1950s, when many men and women were still in awe at aviation, and inflation adjusted airline ticket prices were much higher, men like this could not afford a ticket, yet they got by just fine, flying high at the Pub instead, where getting thrown out the window or the door doesn't risk all the other customers.

I had a TRS80 but wouldn't want a modern equivalent looking one. I became a huge fan of PC compatible stuff, build your own out of parts you want, swap them out, blah blah... As for going retro, I still use software I wrote back in 1990s that runs on 16bit MSDOS 6.22. All I do is unplug my Win~7 drive and plug in one of my old 400MB or so DOS drives and I'm using a current (AMD) 64bit cpu to run 32bit DOS extended FORTRAN compiler on 16bit DOS. Its amazing the backward compatibility in hardware-software.

I thought StarTrek was USA, but yea they could cut costs in Canada maybe. I mostly get into shows that tend to be very much less "mainstream" than StarTrek I suppose. The lady I met does very mainstream stuff, so I never heard of her. She told me to watch an upcoming episode of XXXX and I tuned in and there she was as guest star (never even heard of that show either). That was the neatest "tip" I ever got. Gotta realize, I'm the only American never to have seen *any* episode of Cheers, Viami Mice (whatever), or their current mainstream equivalents, such as this XXXX. That's the way I like it. Its also why I'd never survive my first night in a POW camp, as they'd all figure me for a plant -- I am equally ignorant of professional sports, which is also how I like it. The key part of my little story above is: if you meet them or know of them, keep their names and identifying information private especially on teh internets.

Bravo!!

This one looks great in pure aluminumnumnum, although they say its high altitude performance wasn't there. I need an NAA F-93, and the best overall stand-in may be Timmy's Lansen, but if I use Sweden in my campaign, second best may be Swift, cameo'd out in aluminumnumnum of course.

Well known is not the same as known by everyone. I'm the kind of fella who'd get silently killed in the shadows, bare lightbulb swinging, in a WW2 Stalag where the US Army guys ask Newbies about baseball teams or players to verify them ...stuff you are supposed to know --- BORING. Now, Canadian and NZ sci~fi (and JMS since he doesn't fit into Hollywood) I do all the time, as decades older USA movies and TV, preferably Black~n~White.

** Buying planes independently sounds great, especially if it helps directly the game developer to further game development. I wish TK would do that, although it may not work for his overall idea, which is cool too.

No info on AI and that's the most important thing. Although it covers a lot of stuff but not much detail, but considering there is SO MUCH stuff it would take a novel to cover in detail. For example, the "spectating" part of online play: I wonder what kind of view that means. And anything everything is better than the simhq reviews I used to see at that included references to drinking alcohol in every paragraph.

Yeaps. I met a very well known Hollywood actor recently, helped her out a bit, and on our parting she told me her name. I said "i'm phl nice to meet you buy!!" Then she stopped me to explain who she was, and I never heard of her before, as I never watch Hollywood television (nor movies). She was real, but I never say the name. We talked a bit more, and I shared what I do watch -- Canadian and NZ sci~fi, Babylon~5 but JMS doesn't fit into Hollywood so I don't consider him Hollywood anyways...Anyways she was totally cool, and those souls don't normally tell you their names. And neither do I.

Skippy:: To get a microwave involved there somehow. Its a fine idea, but as you noticed, there was no experiment here. I might try something like it, but I don't care since I don't use these things. Even worse, they can't seem to design a microwave door handle that does not sound off like a 45 caliber when you close the door. I guess the standard handle/latch design is to let parents know the kids are microwaving at 2am, as you can't close the door without waking up the house. Do you have to be "licensed" to buy a silencer for microwave oven door handles? Never mind. I don't need to know because I don't use these things hehe.

Unless your kitchen cooks rubber to eat, microwave ovens have no use in a kitchen. Now if one enjoys Corporate processed rubber to begin with, microwaves won't make much difference I suppose. Although I do call BS on using one plant as an "experiment" so this article is not helpful to me. I've already made the move to heating water in electric boiler kettles -- and they are as fast as microwaves. Next, is to somehow find real honest silver lined electric kettles instead of stainless steel (*ugh*). -- Yea GR, I carry my cell away from body, battery fire is my concern there. My first cell about 3 years back gave me a slight buzzing feel in the phone side of the head. Maybe most "get used to it." I dunno. I decided not to, and use the speaker on LOUD so I never need place phone close to ear. That I don't mind so much, and I don't talk much, and never when I drive.

One plant each is not an experiment, even for Hi~School. That said, I NEVER use microwave ovens. They turn food into rubber, in taste and texture. That alone tells me everything I need to know. There have been for decades very fast countertop electric water boiler kettles that rival microwave ovens in heating water, and now with safety auto shutoff when boiling -- provided you put the top back on lol. Be safe out there with any water heating appliance you might leave un~attended. Granted, the boilers can't be used to turn solid food to rubber like microwave ovens can. The Soviets banned them? Well now that is interesting ... but -- if that's true -- could it be also civilian vs military manufacturing?? UK, your site has a nicely humorous article Wow That Was Fast! Libyan Rebels Have Already Established A New Central Bank Of Libya. As one Market Ticker member poasted to a thread on this article: Bankers never sleep. --- UK, you may like this: Farmers Fight Back Against Monsanto's Frankenseeds.

Emp to Toryu It gets worse. Thanks to MigBuster I was led to the f16.net and found Gums on AIM-4. Here it is... Gums:: If Gums is right, this is very important for my strategic game, where the Soviets will capture air-air missiles like the Chinese captured Sidewinder in 1958. However, because the Falcon requires a complete weapon system design, and the Sovs will be under SAC~ATTACK at that time, they may have to go for the more simple Atoll copy instead of implementing a copy of the superior Falcon into their interception system like Gums described. ie...the Sovs will still go Atoll because, like TAC in Vietnam, it was simpler than going back and doing a deeper re-design of the F-4 for the superior but more aircraft specific Falcon. Or something like that.

Maddox in IL-2 had early morning ground fog clearing as the FB Sun rose higher. Can't do Eastern Front without it. But, good to see it here. Have you considered 3D models of large towering cumulus clouds, using the new bump mapping for high frame rate detail? As object models, they should interact with the game's sun normally -- in darker shadow on the flat bottom of the clouds for example, where the game sun don't shine. The Sims of Old, the Sims of Reknown, such as DOS Su-27 Flaker 1.0 from 1995, used 3d clouds, rather large too, although very primitive low polygons at that time. For some reason, TheSims developers retreated to fluffy flak puff cloud "textures" that don't really exist in the game world, and by default are restricted to tiny clouds little more impressive than flak puffs. Imagine where TheSims would be today if 3D cloud models were further developed since the 1995. 3D cloud models would be a *first* since the 1990s. Do it!

You may have to find a 3D modder to make a rod LOD with simple skin, and hang two of them as weapons or bpao's on the external model so they are visible...while the models' nose or fus are not visible. A more advanced step might could be a Draken Canopy LOD -- not cockpit -- to hang on the airplane, with the F-4 cockpit inside. -- That's one thing that could be done, make a library of 3d geometric objects of various sizes that can hold a simple skin. That would clutter up the SF-1 Aircraft folder, so maybe its a better idea for THE SF-2, if the new game does "pilot" and "weapon" additions differently.

What part of Flightengine does this?

...stumbling blocks to freezing all of the Colonel's foreign bank accounts... HEHEHEHAHA lol. On the other hand, they say he was smart enough to not put his gold in London. -- Daffy works. It's simple to understand. And completely credible, and convincing.

The official trailer has an advertisement? I didn't wait. Anyways, what's it all about? Assume I prefer threads to begin with a written introduction with links following, in the classical or traditional style I suppose.

uh, those mystery green tiles look different than the other tiles. What are they called, and are they different from the others, and what is the sequential relationship between the water and mystery green set ups in the Texturlist? TE comes with a Texturelist file? I never knew that. No, I don't have it. When viewing the heightmap in TE, is the water blue? ---- My guess is the water is not properly set up, so TE defaults to the next tile type, which would be the mystery green stuff if my guess is right. Its just a guess though, assuming this "TE" Texturlist is flawed somehow, or something. Keep at it, you will get there.