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Soon, I will have a new computer and this will be one of the first things I re-install.  I need to get acquainted with everything again.

When I come in from orbital landing I almost always get concerned that I am going to overshoot or undershoot.  It goes to show that even though you are not there in the cockpit of an actual spacecraft (feeling the forces, etc.) there are certain visual cues which can be very deceiving.  And that is why they say to always trust your instruments.

Also--and I am sure you know this, Robsoie, given your Orbiter expertise--you should take screens from the replay.  Nice, collapsed-flight-gear-free, screens   Oh, man, I've collapsed so many gears.

Quote from: KaelGotDwarves on June 09, 2011, 11:26:12 pm

If steam does another summer sale like last year, end of june to early july, I'd pick it up then for mod support.

It'll probably be dirt cheap sometime during that week.

Let us hope. Though July is still so far away... 

(Thumbs up for -66-75% discount on Combined arms = instant purchase)

I just picked up Combined Operations at Newegg.com for $27.99.

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Looks brilliant; thanks for sharing.  When I get my desktop running I'll give it a try.

I'm still playing 1.0.4160.677 from three updates ago and the game is forgetting areas I've already cleared.  Is there some sort of respawn?  Even then, I should remember what the map layout was but when it re-populates the area is black and unknown.

If we stop and think about this, can any of us assert that 13 seconds of "cribbed" sound would increase French Rice's revenues? No. If anything, the mix doesn't flow well, sounds terribly spliced, and will aesthetically displease those few who really do place great importance on game intro music.

I doubt that anyone would say that having that piece of Tarn's music in their intro was a malicious or selfish act.  The problem comes in when you are talking about copyright infringement and, in turn, general disrespect (albeit unintentional) toward the copyright holder.

The semantic difference between "dicks" and "dickish" is perhaps a valid point, but it is a fine nuance that easily is cast aside in a heated debate. In fact, while their actions were called dickish at first, they themselves were called dicks a few posts lower. Then it was suggested that they be punched through some drywall. But this was just pseudo-anger, right? Just civil, right?

I assume you mean this quote...

Dicks you can handle by just punching through some drywall and going on with your life. This actually elevates it to the level of "you're dicks, and you're abusing my copyright."

For that you need drywall and a lawyer.

First of all, no one is being punched through drywall, at least not how I read it.

Second of all, it seems to me a lot like a joke, or at least an attempt at a joke.  I mean, if nenjin is serious, he's got to have some damn strong knuckles or at least the balls enough to punch a lot of walls.  I can't speak to his intentions but I would label it 'pseudo-anger,' yes.  You may not. 

One thing...  I don't think that you can consider that one comment on the thread I linked to earlier (that capntastic started on their forum) as them claiming that there is precedence to do something like this.  The comments in that thread certainly make me wonder about this companies intentions, but I don't imagine that it is entirely indicative of them.

I also agree that it is a dickish thing to use someone else's copy-written (I assume Tarn has it copyrighted) music without mentioning the original creator, let alone paying royalties or purchasing a license to use said music.  As has been brought up, this is between the respective companies.  In my opinion, lawyers is taking it a bit far; I would start by trying to reason with them.

Thanks for the info on the SSD.  I figured it would be something like that, but I wasn't sure and after hearing from you both it is obviously not an issue for me.

I am thinking, right now, that'll I'll get the i7-2600k cpu for as much power I can get at a reasonable price.  Does anyone have experience with it?  What motherboard chipset would fit best?  My current selected mobo is using a single Intel z68 Northbridge... how does that sound?

Also, what is a good buffer range for choosing a PSU?  So if I add up the total draw, should I overpower the PSU wattage?  I know this depends somewhat on the make of the PSU, so, I am open to any suggestions there as well.

Thanks for the input.  Honestly, I could look a lot of this up, but I tend to trust people more than usually out-of-date articles (doubly so for B12 folk).