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I'm a real pilot if that counts. Private Pilot and complex endorsement working on my high performance. As soon as summer gets here I'm going to take a beginner aerobatics course and I'll also start my IFR training.
I've played the Hawx games and they were descent, I think I also played the Falcon games.
If you want to add a real-world spin, you can always try Air Combat USA[^]. As soon as they get local enough, I'm going to sign up.
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Back in 1997, I had a Macintosh PowerPC and one game: F/A 18 Hornet.
I had SO much fun with that game, although the graphics really sucked, the realism and aircraft handling was spot on!
Missions, scenarios and training were well balanced and well developed. It even had aircraft carriers on which you could takeoff and land.
For anyone interested, I found a page talking about it: http://www.old-games.com/download/4238/f-a-18-hornet-3[^]
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I use Combat Flight Simulator 3 from *gasp* Microsoft and it works pretty well on my Win7 machine even though it says it doesn't. The weird thing is that my MS Force Feedback pro 2 joystick no longer feeds back force - it still does on an old XP system - it's the Win7 drivers that don't support it anymore!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: it still does on an old XP system - it's the Win7 drivers that don't support it anymore!
Funny. It works fine on my Win7 x64 machine.
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Obviously I need to get it out, dust it off and update my drivers!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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185 downhill skiers walk into a bar.
Bartender says, "Sorry, I can't serve you."
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Snow way man! We're old enough to slide in for a drink. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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We can leave the Poles outside but the Swiss are coming in with us!
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But we're alpining for a drink!
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You are obviously just here to get piste.
Obvious, but worthwhile.
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Bartender says, "Sorry, I can't serve you, and by the way, the only black diamond here is on the jukebox."
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That's okay, we're just skiing throoooooooooooooooooooooooooough!
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Well today is the last full Friday of the year for me as next week is a half, then I have the 27th off.
For the week of the 23rd I only have to work on the 26th, and then I have two days off the week of the 30th.
This post is mainly because I do not have very much on my plate today and am waiting to go to lunch.
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Yay
It's my last full Friday as well as next Friday is a half day here too – it's Christmas lunch and the afternoon is free after that. And my company never works Christmas-New Year.
One week to go, just one week ...
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We shut down at lunchtime next Friday and return on the 2nd
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Worked at a auto part manufacturer that shut down between Christmas and New Years but did maintenance so IT may or may not have to go in.
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I voted this article a 2 originally as i did not think the implementation was well done: RS Focus Component[^]. I also provided detailed reasons for this.
After further investigation I noticed that the project relied on a closed source dll, which is against the CodeProject Contributors Agreement[^] to post closed-source libraries:
Note: As a consequence of the frequent virus infections across the internet, CodeProject will no longer accept binary submissions that do not contain full source code, unless the submission is from a recognised company or institution. Shareware or time-limited submissions will not be accepted.
Also after downgrading my vote to one and explaining this, Rameez Raja then proceeded to down vote other articles of mine with comments such as "..."
Kris
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Some people think of ratings as a game that you are trying to maximise your score in, so they get very offended when you downvote them. Just ignore or use 'report abuse' on abusive retaliatory downvotes on your own articles.
He'll find that annoying you enough to get you to post in the Lounge attracts a few more downvoters though. I don't understand how that article could be rated over 4.5 (as it was before I voted), even not counting the issue you raise here it is poorly written and shallow in content. It must be his mates voting, perhaps ratings on articles shouldn't show until they have (say) 20 ratings.
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I know what you mean by the game, but I think that this retaliation behaviour goes against what CodeProject stands for, people attacking others for down voting just discourages down voting in the first place!
I think people should vote how they want to vote (down or up), as long as the person provides reasoning, and gives an open chance of discussion, and, also, the opportunity to change their vote based on the authors response (either reasoning or changing the article).
Unfortunately, not all think this way.
Kris
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I had no idea the article relied on a closed-source component. I'm going to investigate further and change my vote if necessary.
/ravi
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i00 wrote: I think that this retaliation behaviour goes against what CodeProject stands for
While I can certainly understand your frustration, it seems as though this thread is a bit of retaliation.
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Yes ... it does get to me, but only because the author has not
provid[ed] reasoning, and gives an open chance of discussion, and, also, the opportunity to change their vote based on the authors response (either reasoning or changing the article).
I posted several informative posts on his article, and provided code examples of how the project could have been improved.
Kris
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I'm sorry you are having this problem !
I do think the place to report, and discuss, this kind of problem is the "Spam and Abuse Watch Forum" [^].
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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Thanks for pointing this out to me, I don't use the forums bit much (basically use it to comment on articles).
I did look for something like this, but only under the drop-down menus @ the top... didn't realise the item on the left menu, I think that it should also be under the "Help" menu.
Kris
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