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~> Zooming in --- well it depends on who is poasting since "in out" is fluffy language. Decreasing field of view is how you say it in teh maths. I think 30 degree field of view is pretty realistic for the average monitor setup. Try landing with that. But, zooming in and out (I know it sounds fluffy) can be thought of simulating how we focus attention on little things or the big picture. Flying at max field of view, or "zoomed out" as found in the Fluffy manuscripts, simulates looking around for the big picture, getting orientation, and you don't focus on how the "fast" or "slow" terrain seems to ride by.

Ah, that is classic RN. blump for that, incredible 8 minutes thank you.

Ticket, the little computer monitor in front of you compresses all your forward vision into a little square. That's your problem. You can't fix that...well...try a 9-monitor Eyefinity setup with ATI cards. Fub, he/she can still ask for help in learning how to use the numerical data (debug) and ways to measure distances on the map (free camera view) to show the numbers are correct, if he/she wishes to.

I've always loved Julian Simon ~> http://www.juliansimon.com/ When I tutored at uni I always passed that out especially to African and Asian students. Got the enviro.edu bunch tied into a pig squealing knot though. That was fun. At teh uni, my favorite parting phrase was "may you be blessed with many children." I quickly learned never to say that to Amero-Euro .edu girls. African guys and especially girls loved it, huge happy smile and an almost crying thank you, and a major surprise look on their faces. They are not used to a white guy or white girl offering them that blessing.

Projectd global warming ... 14C ? lol

Bears (land habitat) and birds (sky habitat) go fishing (water habitat). They know something Man (Citi-group habitat) has long forgotten. LORD Jesus' disicples hauled up kilotons of fish. Eskimos kick nutritional Butt: Compare the Northwest Passage explorations of the tragic Franklin mass disaster and the Amundsen success. Amundsen and crew had to literally go Inuit, learning from the natives how to haul their own Arctic fish, and they succeeded in their mission. I've been meaning to get back to fishing myself but never got round to it. When I came to Flarada the salt water fishing was a new universe from the fresh backwater Mississipie fishing. The most fun part, as amatuer astronomer, was always knowing the position of the moon in Earth's orbit, so I never carried a tide chart. The local salt water bubbas also couldn't understand how I got along without a tide chart. That was alot of fun.

Thanks Dave. You've always followed these guys. Amazing stuff.

Surfing Sim Use board with TV ~> http://www.geekalerts.com/surfing-simulator/ For PC, well sorta ~> http://www.simbsoft.com/products/surfing/

HAHA Sunday Funnies. Mike Shedlock just put this up. ~> http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/09/sunday-funnies-2010-09-12-worthless.html This story is making the rounds. Maybe it wakes folks up a bit. One fella/fellatte on Mish's forum offered the possibility the Citi economist was going to extremes to show how silly the flesh eating bankteria system works. Well I dunno. I've been thinking Greenspan did exactly that in spades over the years since Reagan....something about that guy (Span) is cool, just can't put my finger on it.

hehe, found this off Drudge. New York Times vs Wall Street Journal. At 0:25, Rupert Murdoch animation appears with shark fin on back. ~> I used to like WSJ, before Murdoch bought it. Never bothered with NYT. The video is spots on about people going to internet and ignoring these newspapers. Folks now have the opportunity to think for themselves, but whether they do or not...well, lead a horse to water.

Pencil shavings in coffee. Well at least its not really lead, just graphite. I'm thinking of sawring up some cedar boards and scattering around the sawdust, or drilling out cores to repel insects around the house. Never though of this before. *This* fell out of Wall Street Journal (online) yesterday, by Citigroup chief economist Willem Buiter...they want to force negative interest rates (below the zero "boundary). How...? ~> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704644404575481390712384072.html?mod=WSJ_hps_RIGHTTopCarousel_1#articleTabs%3Darticle Buiter worked for Bank of England before joining Citi. The previous Citi economist left Citi to work for -- guess -- the United States Treasury. These guys get around.

I was doing uni at the time, stayed up late studying teh maths. Got up late, after both towers had already fell. I slept through the whole thing. Typical.

~> Morning coffee hehe. I wonder how far across the Atlantic is found the border where the ocean turns from coffee to tea: the so-called Atlantic CT boundary. I was always a major hot tea drinker, I used to get a spiced tea brand -- red/black box Bigelow, but the last few years, just hot water, a squeezed lime and drop it in, and local Florida honey is all I need. Tea without the tea. I need to grow some mint again though. Strangely though, this morning, off work for a change, I brewed up my first coffee in like a year.

I like working definitions, they hit you in the gut. This one is an analogy. There is more dimension to it. Recall the classic phrase Wall Street Sharks, the ones dining on victims -- investors, manufacturers, pension funds, municipalities, private businesses, etc... Then, when the rotten system begins to collapse, the water is full of chum and the sharks are driven to eat each other; Lehman Bros here in USA for example, and more financial bodies float to the surface. USMC general Smedley Butler reserved special words for banks. I'm saving this one. “There was so much stink coming from the shark’s belly and the belly was so huge that we thought that there might be more bodies inside,” said Mr Simmons. Man I LOVE that

Just a heads up. The loiter thing with plane circling should work with the AI aircraft radar search cones, as long as they are armed with RHM missiles -- no RHM, no AI radar search. As the AI circle, a target far away can come into the circling AI's defined search cone. This can make an interesting new dimension to the game. For example: Consider a very low altitude AI aircraft with big radar search range circling slowly just above its airfield. This can roughly gameulate ground control radar. Although the aircraft is already airborne, its low and slow circling its airfield. Hay its a start!!

FC:: The debug data output shows TK's sim is spot on. Combine that with free camera distance measures and we can show this. Most however, never think of doing this. There is no AI terrain avoidance radar. Infrared perhaps, or night owl vision, whatever. AI avoids terrain no matter the airplane and day or night, but does it very well indeed in this game! However, it can be called "TA" for purposes of, say, a B-1 campaign....personally I would pefer a low level B-47 campaign.

AwSim Dave thanks. Dandy!! Wrench:: darnest!!

He/She may not know about the game's debug data.

You can do alot with Viewlist. I mean a whole lot. There's a story behind TK and the old EAW game, TK making fancy camera views to sell his new team's work to the game company, but I think that fancy-ness filtered into the SF. You don't need to "sell" to customers who already bought the game. Anyways, TK works for Thirdwire now. The "fancy" example I'm thinking of here is the slow external object view translation. Its cute the first time you see it, but after that you want to make the camera just go immediately to the next object instead of waiting for the camera to fly across the map (imagine a 10,000km map). That feature is .... I think... SmoothPositionTransition=FALSE. Its been a few years since I turned this OFF. External free camera is my specialty. I use it to explore details in models and airfields, and to cross a 10,000 kilometer map in a snap. The settings allow fast acceleration to very high speeds, or not, depending on what you need it for. The most important control is camera translation speed -- called the zoom scale here. ZoomScale=0.001 .... for slowly exploring short distances inside aircraft models, runways, etc... Just one keystroke...Add a leading 1 to the 0.001 and... ZoomScale=10.001 .... for rapidly zooming across a 10,000km map for testing terrain. Delete that leading 1, and you are back to the fine short distance travel camera with one swift keystroke. My external free camera...SF1 [ViewClass001] ViewClassName=FreeViewClass ViewType=FREE_VIEW ViewGroupID=0 DefaultView= AllowFromDiffGroup=TRUE SnapView=FALSE InsideView=FALSE FOV=90 PitchControl=CAMERA_PITCH_AXIS YawControl=CAMERA_YAW_AXIS RollControl= ZoomControl=CAMERA_ZOOM_CONTROL RememberFOV=FALSE LimitPitch=FALSE LimitYaw=FALSE LimitRoll=FALSE ZoomFOV=FALSE StepZoom=FALSE ZoomScale=0.001 PanScale=0.01 MinFOV=90 MaxFOV=90 OffsetDistance=0.0

That said, some say ~7 is just Vista renamed. I don't know and never will know, but SF1 works the shnizzle now. -- This sounds like a good idea Ticket. I assume SF1 2008. I think alot of big AI features came in 2006 where I'm stuck at, and then some in 2008. So I'm interested in this even though I'm 06. Whta mission editor do you use?

Vista Shmista. I'm thinking software devs (including TK), panicked over Vista, not realizing it would fail and be replaced by ~7. SF1 is lightning fast on Win~7. I know.

That is the best working description of the paper bank-financial system I've heard yet. Thanks!!

MiGbuster:: I wonder how OFF and ROF do it. I never played CFSn. DR.1 vs SPAD Ki-43 vs P-38 For the latter WW2 pair, Oleg eventually, well after PF releace, did fairly well here as I recall. Not perfect but not bad. He did have a dedicated AI programmer working for him in the Moscow Bureau.

FC:: FB-PF. Oleg eventually programmed into FB/PF the ability of AI to choose to fight at high speed or low speed. With the built-in mission editor, I ran lots of tests on this. At the start of engagement, each AI "examines" its selected opponent and chooses one style of fight or another. I'll give one test I ran alot, but my memory is fuzzy after...6 years? LOL. Head on starting from beyond visual engagement range. During closure, A6M2 vs P-40, the P-40 would go high, climb slightly, the Zero would maintain altitude. Switch to A6M2 vs I-153, the Zero climbs high, the Polikarpov does not. Against the biplane, even the Zero becomes a BnZ fighter (so to speak). To me, this was evidence of at least scripting behavior given relative performance between planes. Now, for after closure I don't recall my tests but general in-cockpit gameplay I never forgot. I went SF shortly after this, and never went back. For after closure dogfighting, in general, when I was in a slower, significantly more manueverable aircraft relative to my opponent, the enemy would stay well out of range at high speed, and not turn tightly and lose speed nor altitude. It was frustrating, as it should be in a slower plane. However, Oleg should have gone even further and allow the AI to extend farther to gain enough room to reverse and bounce the slow opponent again. But as it was, it prevented the SF situation of every plane dropping to stall speed at sea level, although Migbuster's MiG-23 WoI description above is an interesting counterpoint. That said, TK nailed AI terrain avoidance. IL-2-FB-PF terrain avoidance was notorious, best exemplified at the PF realeace with the AI formations running into New Guinea mountains, ruining campaigns. TK's terrain avoidance is so effective, a low level strategic night/all-weather penetration campaign screams out to be modded here. I'm into high altitude, stratosphere stuff -- sorry about that.

Tiger -- CompUSA is great, but Newegg often has more unconventional stuff I like now, but also frozencpu for DIY stuffing that you won't find at Newegg or Amazon. They're a great operation, highly recommended by [H]ardocp. But if I can find "normal" stuff at CompUSA, I'll go there. A few years back, Compusa had all their motherboards lined up on a shelf, out of box, and you could examine them, feel them. Tiger stopped that. Basically, every motherboard put out like that is a write off. The enthusiast -- gamer -- stuff can be very expensive with low sales numbers, and its the enthusiasts that would most like to touch them, not the buyers of the higher volume low cost stuff. Anyways I liked the setup but I understand why they stopped it. Basically:: Its easy to write off one 50$ motherboard when you sell 100 of them in a month. Its painful to write off one 200$ motherboard when you sell 2 of them in a month.