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Don´t want to sound demanding or impatient but it´s been a while since there has been movement in the BIS Arma-Patch compartement. I don´t know if it´s just me but the last patch has left me somewhere "in between". It´s no final for me and the changes are not really satisfying. At least that´s what I think. To be honest I hardly start Arma anymore as I just don´t think that the quality and status of the Arma project has brought it to a satisfying and reliable product. For me it´s still unfinished be it in the AI compartement, pathfinding, performance level and real issues within the control section and hardware handling. These things are not on a high quality level as we were used from BIS. I´m not intending to rant about those things over and over again but a finsihed Arma I will be the only reason for me to buy Arma 2. I don´t believe in miracles and if Arma 1 does not get "finished" I will transport this memory over to Arma 2. At least that´s what my 2 cents are on that issue.

You gotta love Larry Flynt Larry Flynt's 'Palin porno' is legal Thank god *cough* we have Angela

Hehe, I know at least one guy who will be really unhappy with the BIS remake He´s working on a Carrier Command remake for 4 years now: OpenGl Carrier Command

I know there is the PC thread but I don´t think the issue I´m confronted with currently would fit there right. I am currently looking for a mid-price steering wheel. My Momo is broken and to be honest I wouldn´t want to buy one again. They are a bit cheaply fabricated and don´t hold up long with racing. My current 2 favourites are: The Logitech G25 and the Fanatec Porsche wheel <img src="http://www.pckoloji.com/attachments/haberler/3651d1209639160-fanatec-porsche-911-turbo-kablosuz-yaris-direksiyonu-4-30-08-porsche-wheel .jpg" border="0"> Both seem to have their Pro´s and Con´s. The G25 wheel is too thin, the shifter seems to be whacky and the pedals allow no hip-toe driving. The Fanatec wheel comes with a sequential shifter and a h-shifter box, the pedals seem to be made of plastic and the shifting unit at the wheel seems to be a bit small (as it is in the real Porsche) and there seem to be FPS deficits with the wheel. I´m looking for experiences with both wheels to make it easy for me to decide. Right now I´m favouring the Porsche wheel as there will be a deluxe pedal unit and a porsche cockpit available soon. Do any of you have that wheels and can tell me something about the ingame performance, the handling, the sound of the units and the quality of the products ? I´m using the following software: GTL, GTR, GTR2, GTR Evolution, Race 07, GPL and Flatout 2

I´m using pedals on a carpet and I had the same problems. The pedals just kept moving away. I found a rather cheap solution though. Don´t know the english name for it though. It looks like this: I put it on the base plate of the pedals and the grip on carpet floor is 100 percent. If you have a floor that is blank simply use this in combination with a stripe on the carpet to fix it.

+1 I borrowed the last Thief game to a friend for a year now. Time to get it back.

It´s funny that people are up to vote for a VP who can´t even remember the quote of the day on a coffeemug... I guess she really needs to be wired as Bush was during the TV debate some years ago. Right now it looks like Barbie and Crashken are running for the White House. Palin misquotes Albright If there are Aliens somewhere out there and they happen to see the current election runups they will order some popcorn and wait for 5 more minutes before they hit the "Zapp" button to clean the planet if they think that Barbie and Crashken are the best the USA can get.

It usually doesn´t go off on soft targets as it´s meant to be used for different purposes.

Hmm. I thought it was firmly attached to the wheel by two sidebars . I read at a recesim forum that people sometimes had problems tightening the coin screws but when they fixed them the shifter was firmly attached. The pedals delivered with the fanatec wheel seem to be kind of a weak spot unless you buy the new pedals that are fully customizeable. As far as I understood Porsche insisted on the debut design to make it close to the real thing. Even the pressure on the brake pedal with 3.5 cm way is the same as it is with the real Porsche. I have my issues with the g25 shifter as it´s simply a bit sluggy while the fanatec shifter seems to work better, more precise and seems to produce a solid *klack* when gears are selected. In another forum people complain about the G25 pedals very much. There seem to be issues with longlivity, sensors and springs. This made a lot of people switch to real racesim pedals that alone come at a price of 300 dollars. Don´t get me wrong, but that´s nothing for me. I´m a racesim fan but no freak who invests that much money for pedals alone. There also seem to be loadcell mods for the G25 pedals and other extensions that make them better and more durable. I thought about building my own pedals a while ago, especially after reading some things on a taiwanese racesim-geek board as I´d like to have "hanging" pedals apart from the regular ones. The custom pedals from fanatec come with that feature but for now I don´t know the price of them. What also seems to be a pro for fanatec is that the wheel itself is bigger and the it has more thickness compared to the smaller g25 wheel. @kegetys: Thx for the video demonstration. It seems to work quite well. Apart from that you´re insane I felt a bit reminded of this video when looking at yours: Walter Röhrl at Portugal 1985 Enjoy

They are plastic. Fanatec is working on a fully adjustable metal-pedal unit for the wheel though. Clubsport pedals Funny thing is that I know the CEO of fanatec but only recently dicovered that they make such nice hardware It´s not far from here, so maybe I should just go there and check out their products.

Like what ? The extermination of the native americans ? The right to bear arms ? The vietnam war ? The iraq war ? The headless chicken reaction after 9/11 The racial separation long long after WW2 had ended ? The history of slavery ? The enormous pollution they produce ? What is it that they are proud of exactly ? I was always wondering about that. They are on the decline very fast atm and the status superpower will be lost soon if they keep going like they do. That is present day USA. Infrastructure that is outdated to say at last, a medical system that is not worth the name, bigottary religious fanatics no better than islamist fundamentalists and the willingness to eat every truth they got told without even thinking about. The democratic beacon of freedom ? They got 2 parties only for christs sake. That´s a very simplistic system if you ask me and as we have seen over the last weeks money is all that counts, not the people, not even the the people who call themselves native US citizens. I´m sorry, what the hell are they proud of ? Waving a flag or having a flag on your coffin once you died for the lies of your president and government ? That´s it ? National pride imo is something for people who have little in their own lifes to be proud of. That´s why they switch to national pride. It´s a substitute for their own missing pride. Imo I can only be proud of things that I have done. I only happened to be born in germany. That´s nothing to be proud of imo. It´s fortune and luck but certainly nothing I can be proud of as I haven´t done anything to achieve this. The US are specialists in reversal history-writing. Creationists anyone ?

May sound stupid, but unplug the reset button from your motherboard. A defect reset switch made me go insane a while ago until I found the source for sudden reboots. Maybe worth checking.

Any eager and efficient Fisherman uses Dynamite anyway

I don´t know about your country but it certainly is here in germany. Examples: New refining technologies get sponsored by the state, new electricity storage solutions get sponsored by the state, facilities to store nuclear waste are sponsored by the state, methods of co2 storage in the soil used by coal power plants are sponsored by the state.... So yes, I´d say that we pay the price for their profit not only when plugging in a socket or fueling the car.

Where ? Please give me some numbers to compare. Same as above. Same as above. Cough. We´re world export leaders and world technology leaders in this segment. It is already so I guess you´re wrong ? I could have taken a loan but I didn´t need it. Not really. I went out of the house-selling deal with a minus concerning this as I was not making money with it as I was still in the runup phase where you don´t make money with it. To make it easy. The investment was not paid off by the time it got sold and as you sell a house as a package I didn´t get the full investment from the buyers.

This is an absurd argument as everything you buy in the supermarket is or has been state sponsored at some point of production or development. Still, it doesn´t show up on the price tag you have to pay. State sponsoring of production and/or infrastructure and/or jobs is a thing of daily life. You simply can´t avoid it neither can you know it. In the end it´s the price you have to pay, no matter if those things have at any point been state sponsored. If you can go somewhere after you have bought such and demand some money from the state it would be reduced in price, but as it is today almost everything is state sponsored, that´s why I say it´s a lame argument.

I´m no scientist but from what I´ve read they are working on several concepts. One using natural gas, one using palmoil, one using GTL on a 3 hour testflight with an Airbus 380 or a swiss concept to use a gas cell to power planes. For sure flying has to be made more expensive in the first run. The budget market of airlines is a catastrophy for the environment. For sure it may sound snobby to demand a high rise in flightcosts but it´s the only way to get it into people´s brain that shopping in London for the weekend is a rather stupid idea, not only for Paris Hilton.

Not really Albert as Pasive house would mean that I also regain the energy from the air within the house. I´m not a big fan of that houses as you can´t open windows without disturbing the airflow in the house.

I guess you´re mixing up things. My loop layers are in 2m depth. They do NOT cause seismic activities. It´s a closed system, so there is nothing coming out of it anywhere. If there was something coming out of it I would have a leak... I guess you´re thinking about deep drills where hot water is drilled to the surface and replaced with cold water. That´s a completely different thing. Oh ! I´m in shock... Do you drive a car ? Do you use home-electrics or a computer ? Do you drive by train or fly in planes ? All of these things have been developed and are kept running with a big chunk of tax-money. That´s a lame argument.

Wrong. I had to pay for it myself. The only thing that is guaranteed from the government is was able to sell my produced electricity for a fixed price over a certain period of time. Currently the price for electricity is dramatically rising here in germany so in the end the contract will sell the produced electricity for less than the usual price set by the big electricity providers. I´ve also switched to "green" energy already. That means that I do not get my electricity from coal or nuclear plants but only from producers of clean elecricity, be it wind, tidal, water or photovoltaic. I pay more for this power as I would have to if I bought usual electricity from the big companies but b doing so I support the movement towards alternative energy sources. This segment of producing green energy has been a job machine here in germany over the last decade. There is no other market segment that produces more jobs atm so I also du support my country and people by doing so. Germany is the best example that he´s wrong. Where did you get that those are cheap ? You don´t get rebates on the hardware. The government only guarantess that you get a fixed amount of money per kwh for a certain time. That´s nothing else than industries getting money if they create jobs. That´s completely usual in capitalist countries. In the end all do benefit from a movement towards green energy except the big players in energy production. 1. A country gets less dependant on power imports if the energy is produced at home 2. The pollution in the country gets less and costs arising from pollution also get decreased 3. Jobs are created in large amounts not only in industrial centres but also rural areas as people don´t only need the hardware but also need people nearby who can maintenance and install the hardware. As I said in germany the green power market is the biggest jobmachine we had over the last 10 years and the market is still rapidly growing as we export both, the knowledge and the technology. 4. Investment in new technology raises tax-income for the country in a higher level than the supported energy price costs the country. It has nothing to do with the Greens as you suggest. It is the german way to get rid of international energy dependance. It´s nationalism at best, but not some Greens nonsense as you suggest. I remember a debate a while ago where you stated at one point that you don´t really have an idea on how it´s handled and running in germany. I guess this is best shown with your post. Read above. Quite the contrary. Crash course for starters: Wiki It makes sense for me and it makes sense for anybody else here who wants to renovate a house or build a new one. Less dependancy on fossil fuels does pay today and it will in 10 or 20 years. Crude oil is going through the ceiling already and if you don´t realize that oldschool heating systems are definately outdated and counterproductive for everyone involved except the crude oil producers you´re a bit old fashioned and narrow minded. For sure the prices for a new system are higher but it pays off in a few years. That´s also a fact.

People seem to see it different. I sold a house 2 weeks ago. One major factor why I was able to sell the house for a very good price was that it has photovoltaic cells on it´s roof. I also bought a new house for me 4 weeks ago and the deciding factor among others to buy the house was that it already has a heating system installed that needs no fossil fuel. I don´t know the english word for the system but it works like a reversed refrigerator basically. There are tubes in the ground that actually swap the cold from the house with the soil and the heat-pump produces the heat for radiators and warm water. Additionally I have solar modules on the roof that also produce hot water. With this combination I am independant of fossil fuels and I am able to save at least 2500 Euro per year currently. As the oil price is steadily rapidly rising over the last years this solution makes me absolutely happy. As a side effect it´s green energy but the deciding factor for me was and is that it´s significant cheaper than the regular fossil fueled systems as it needs no maintenance and no fossil fuel at all. As the house-prices are very low atm I had to pay no extra penny for the system. It was all included I guess saving money isn´t that uneducated, is it ? Everyone that has seen the solution in my new house is like "Ahh, ohhh, I also want to have such..." Saving money isn´t stupid and it´s also not stupid to loosen the dependance on fossil fuels these days as it´s a one way road to higher prices to the point where people will not be able to afford the fuels anymore. That´s a fact.

Thx for the QA I really like their approach. Especially these 2 made me absolutely happy : 1. We don’t use a points based system, this is not realistic. 2. As it currently stands all vehicles must also be used from first person as well Whoopie !

Imo a person running for the position of the vice president of the USA should know about essential political guidelines the current leadership is following and practising. Looking at the interview she had no clue at all about the Bush doctrine, none of the 4 meanings, she simply had no idea what the Bush doctrine could be. That´s too little knowledge for the position she´s running for imo.

+1 All the starvation is just made up. Please ignore the dying people. They are Hollywood personel and paid by liberal capitalists from Mars. Sing along with Spokesperson and hail Mugabe...

I´m following the US pre-elections quite closely as I´m interested if the US people will vote for another chimp-team again. The interview with Palin where she got asked about the Bush doctrine made me fall off the chair. She doesn´t even know what the Bush doctrine is ? She proclaims a NATO war against Russia if Georgia joins the NATO right away and there are hostile acts from the russian side ? She´s one of those crackheads that still thinks that Iraq has planned the 9/11 attacks as she tells soldiers (including her very own son) to fight those in Iraq who are responsible for thousands of killed US citizens on 9/11. To be honest for me she would match up best with GW on the same intellectual level or better grab a gun (she likes that so much) and go for a hunting run on not-endangered species (her own words) like the polar bears and educate her own daughter on conservative principles like not talking about sex Seriously, she seems to be the female chimp version of GW. Do the US people really need someone like her or wouldn´t it hurt to look for someone who´s a bit *cough* more informed and intelligent ? Keep in mind that Mc Cain is in an age where death strikes sudden so Palin would take over in that case and do some really stupid things right away.... Do the US people really want that ? Good night US