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Well, Chris, you'll probably use the PC more than a new car, and dare I say... you'll have more fun with it too! :twisted:
PS: How'd the USB keyboard BIOS tweak work out for resuming from power-saving modes? Were you able to function properly without a driver update? :roll:
GaryGB
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I can't help but notice that you have Garfield as a Co-Pilot..
How good is he at decyphering the navaids in france?
Or are you like every one else and just fly where ever the hell you want any way?
Hi Madaz:
Based on my real world flying experience here in the midwest, I think it's primarily the guys with twin engine GA aircraft that fly where ever the hell they want. I think it may be because they are so often playing around with their glass cockpits and not watching where they are going; the rest of us just have to watch out for them and get out of the way. And one can't count on trying to reach them on the radio, because they are sometimes on the wrong frequency for the location! I guess that's their idea of flying VFR. :?
Anyway, I might be wrong, but I think Chris is primarily a single engine pilot like many of us. If you think about it, all the outrageously fun stunt flying is done with single engine planes anyway, so that's where Chris would likely be! :lol:
GaryGB
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Then>>
The equivilant yeild of a standard 40oz (1.2 litre) bottle of Elmer's would be: 25,776.912 kilotons of TNT (25.7 Megatons)..
Or perhaps sufficent to say.. The vacinity of 358 tons of Uranium-235.
So were talking 10 X Chinese Sea-to-surface Julang-2 (JL-2) missile armed with one warhead of 2.5 megatonnes each!!!!!..
That's PER BOTTLE!!
and how many bottles of this stuff do we all have lying around?
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Hi Madaz:
I'm not sure what Fritz has stockpiled in various "farm" buildings nearby, but lets just say we shouldn't sell any of this product for export, especially to North Korea or Iran at the moment! :wink:
Now we can call our beloved Uncle Elmers a 'munition' unsurpassed as a "weapon of mass distraction"! :lol:
And now I know why the U.S. ATF combines the expertise of several agencies into 1: (alcohol, tobacco and firearms) :twisted:
GaryGB
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Sheesh! :shock:
Already gettin' some use out of my new EFFC squeegee and bucket set! :?
More... More...!!! :twisted:
GaryGB
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Pretty cool setup Chris! :shock:
I especially like the multicolored LEDs visible in the cooling ports on your CPU case! :P
I suppose the suspension harness for your inverted flying is out of the frame just above the camera? :lol:
PS: Are you going to get the Saitek rudders when they are released? :roll:
GaryGB
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Hi Chris:
I think we'll all be looking forward to more tales of joy with your new system when you get a chance to tell us more in detail!:shock:
(Better get my keyboard protector onto my own middle range system to keep the drool from my hardware lust off of it!) :twisted:
In case you haven't run across this yet, once you are in the new system's BIOS setup screen on a standard PS/2 keyboard, look for the "Enable USB Legacy Mode" option and turn it on; it should allow one's fancy-schmancy USB keyboard to work during boot mode and BIOS level operations. Most mobo manufacturers have added this feature in the last few years as more USB keyboards have come onto the market. In the "old days" one had to use special low level utilities (ex: the one that came with Symantec's Ghost) to enable USB in BIOS/boot modes or DOS. :roll:
In spite of this, one can still have problems with USB drivers related to power saving modes in any of the newer versions of windows. As Francois had reported, the 64 bit version in particular has more than its share of growing pains; I guess that would be a necessary evil to work around with a multi-core CPU. Perhaps he could share some tips for the "elite cadre" of multi-core CPU flight simmers? :idea:
Have fun! (...jealous in Chicago!) :P
GaryGB
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Francois:
Certainly cautious test-marketing would be important. It would probably take some extended inquiry to find firms that would allow an order referral and drop ship arrangement, rather than a pre-paid "quantity" purchase to fit in one's "virtual warehouse". I'll bet that if you just asked in a survey in the forum here, you could get an idea of how many prospective "real" sales could be anticipated for some EFFC memorabilia. :wink:
By the way, I'd love to see more pix of your French stomping grounds including aerial pix around Meribel when you get a chance to do some more flying around there. :P
You probably already know about this, but as a photographer of former professional avocation years ago (already so heavily invested in an expensive Nikon 35mm SLR system and accessories that I don't plan to trade up for a while), I have found that there is still a lot of system component adaptability and availability that just doesn't exist for digital cameras and "point and shoot" compact film cameras like it does for high end film cameras. It reportedly takes a 12 megapixel digital camera with a GOOD lens to exceed the laboratory test resolution of a professional grade film camera using high definition film (ex: Kodak "Portra" or other scientific films), so until that time comes when such full-featured digital camera systems are available at a decent price, I am happy shooting professional film on my top quality SLR and having high resolution scans of my negatives burned to CD; then I can have the best of both worlds!
But as I read to keep up with the technology changes of newer still and video cameras to infrared auto-focusing systems, I have learned it becomes imperative to use a "circular"-type ( manufacturer's term... looks the same otherwise) polarizing filter rather than a basic original type polarizer to bring out the most in one's pix on either film or digital cameras. They work on non auto-focus cameras too, but a "circular" type is required when a polarizer is used at all on autofocus cameras, in order to allow the autofocus to work properly, while notably enhancing one's photos on all but the most heavily overcast days. I found this out the hard way the first time I tried getting video in the telephoto zoom range at the Chicago Airshow with my colleague's digital assisted zoom autofocusing camera with a non-circular polarizer adapter on the lens; the camera autofocus couldn't quickly keep up and stay in focus on long shots!
As we get older, due to normal changes in the lens of the eye, it eventually becomes necessary for some of us to use an extra bright focusing screen in the camera. It may also help some of us get sharper pix by purchasing a proper "diopter eyepiece correction element" (insist on 'trial and error' with actual elements at the store; optometrists/opticians usually get this wrong when recommending an arbitary number which doesn't consider the internal diopter used in camera viewfinders).
Another thing my colleague and I found (which apparently needs to be done each year even on a plane kept in a hangar most of the year) is buffing both sides of the airplane windscreen with a big fluffy polishing wheel (ex: with a battery operated 2-speed drill/screwdriver unit from the hardware store) and an appropriate light-to-medium duty airplane and/or motorcycle helmet cleaning and polishing compound from a pilot shop.
The difference in CLEAR visibility is amazing after getting rid of that haze one previously thought was just something intrinsic to windscreens that had to be put up with. And photos will show little if any reflections inside the cockpit, whereas before, even a proper polarizer would not be able to eliminate the substantial reflections. :idea:
Well, I'll look forward to some more "vicarious virtual vacationing" in the land of my French forefathers through your photos sometime after August. Who knows, I may get over there sometime soon to trace my family tree, meet up with good folks like yourself, and see the sights! 8)
GaryGB
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Hi Francois:
Glad you liked it! :D
I'll bet of the 2 shown in my post(s), you meant this one:
http://safield.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/48
or this one:
http://www.fingerhut.com/productgroup.aoryxid=810
The other one (with the PayPal logo) was a complex graphic adaptation of a Drive-In Restaurant console and a fuel pump with some other web graphics thrown in for laughs. :wink:
It would be great to order some of this stuff from the Emma Field Emporium in real life like the gas pump drink dispenser, drink glasses, mugs, T-shirts, hats, etc. all with the EFFC logo on it! Any possibilities for this in the future? :roll:
GaryGB
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Hee Hee Hee :lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, I'm off for a flight at "Higgs Field" 8)
PS: A false vacuum that small would suck, wouldn't it? Hmmm... or maybe it wouldn't! :?:
But at those high densities, maybe the associated black hole would be more fun! :wink:
GaryGB
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Hey Pups:
Another outstanding treatise on Emma Field cosmology ! :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Thanks for taking the time to work the good old scientific calculator and post your reply before applying the isoprene rule to the asphalt interface as you drove off to dutifully "shop 'til ya' drop" with the lady in your life. All typos are forgiven in advance, as your Karmic credits earned lots of extra bonus points on this one! (Wouldn't it be great if we could redeem some of them towards purchase of a new computer system when FSX comes out?) :P
So if I followed your computations correctly, we should consider updating our product safety disclaimer on the label for 1 liter bottles of Uncle Elmers #5 to read:
Caution: this product contains the energy equivalent of 21,480.764316443593 kilotons of TNT per liter, or about 644.4229294933078 kilotons of TNT per shotglass.
Despite any other listing of product contents found hereon, the consumer is advised that, in actuality, this product consists of 99.9999999999% empty space. However, it is theorized that this bottle may contain upwards of 100 million latent universes which may be inflated under certain conditions.
The consumer is advised to avoid exposure to an environment with a temperature of 10^10 Kelvin and 10^89 protons, 10^89 electrons, 10^89 positrons, 10^89 neutrinos, 10^89 anti-neutrinos, 10^79 photons, and 10^79 neutrons yielding a mass/energy of 10^65 grams. If such an environment is encountered, it is imperative that this bottle must not be also exposed to a sphere of false vacuum around 10^-26 centimeters across with a mass of one ounce (about 10^80 grams per cubic centimeter), Higgs fields, percolation, and the effects of quantum mechanics, which allow virtual particles to appear from nothing, and also allow that nothing is real and actually has physical properties.
In the event of exposure to either of the above sets of conditions, the consumer is advised to RUN LIKE HELL for the bathroom before the resultant transfer of energy to gravitation occurs, because inflation of even 1 of the 100 million latent universes in this bottle may be about 10^9 times larger than the mass of the present universe. This is likely to cause a sensation of heaviness in one's body, dizziness, euphoria, and looseness in one's bowels. This may be alleviated by consumption of Emma Field clubhouse bar cheese (aka Limburger). Any material expelled from one's body should be disposed of in the sanitary pedestals at the Emma Field clubhouse which will transport it outside the confines of the known universe in order to maintain equilibrium. :mrgreen:
PS: ( see also: http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.pc&start=45 )
GaryGB
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Take a few cubic metres of air per second through the intake, do something adiabatic with it.
The faster you can get the hot air out of the back of an engine, the better. Now it doesn't matter if the fast moving rhetoric is passed over a turbine to drive a gearbox, or if it is just shot straight out in a Newtonian thrust modus or whether it causes reciprocation it's the difference in temperature which helps us fly.
So if "Her indoors" is frigid, then you can expect some good flying :? Better on a sunny day than in midwinter.
Also - remember that all engines work on a suck-squeeze-bang-blow principle.
Oh yes - Engines is like wives - suck squeeze bang blow...
Hi Chris:
Some really funny stuff there! :lol:
I was wondering about your use of 'adiabatic' which seemed to be in the context of thermodynamics, wherein the word is traditionally used to describe processes without the exchange of heat between system and environment. :idea:
( see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_process )
If "it's the difference in temperature which helps us fly", how might one anticipate "good flying" associated with "reciprocation" and shooting "straight out in a Newtonian thrust modus" in spite of passing "fast moving rhetoric over a turbine to drive a gearbox", if "her indoors is frigid"? :roll:
Would one interpret the suck-squeeze-bang-blow principle as a cause, or as an effect that enables the engine to work in spite of the issue of the exchange of heat between system and environment? Just curious... :mrgreen:
GaryGB
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Hi Madaz:
Here's wishing you renewed success in your recovery efforts.
Remember, after your loved ones, your customers are your most valuable asset in this world.
Cultivating those business relationships may allow a quicker return to abundance, and maximizing those business skills may allow you the mobility you once said you were contemplating in a post some time ago.
May I also respectfully suggest you consider a confidential safe deposit box for any 'valuables' not being kept in traditional bank accounts in the future, and regard the fuel and time spent driving to and from the box as your insurance premium for that measure of safety.
I'm truly sorry to hear of the recent misfortune, and I hope you will be back with the swing of things sooner than you might anticipate right now. :roll:
GaryGB
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Thanks for the kind feedback, Pups; I thought you'd appreciate the double entendre! :D
I know what you mean, there is a lot of great classics out there, and it's wonderful that so many older movies and audio albums are now being digitally revitalized and released on DVD/CD.
Speaking of the "Liter", and the Incredible Expanding Universe (a suitable hollywood production title?), how's about we finish addressing the disclaimer for the Uncle Elmer's #5 label? :roll:
( see: http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.p666#326666 )
According to Andrei Linde's Chaotic Inflation Theory, universes can come to existence from a very small amount (less than a hundred-thousandth gram) of matter through inflation. :idea:
( see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaotic_inflation_theory )
If we compute that 1 milliliter of Old #5 liquid = 1 cc = 1 gram, assuming 100,000 potential universes in 1 gram, and there are 1,000 milliliters in a liter, then there should be 100 million universes in each bottle of Uncle Elmers #5 waiting to be unleashed into the average EFFC "Altidude" at the bar consuming a liters worth of E-Rations in one binge! (consuming virtual 'mass quantities') :wink:
Now, Pups, assuming standard inflation at a given point of inception and the proper balance of both original recipe Light and Dark Matter in each milliliter, could you derive the potential quantity of energy in each liter, and even more specifically, the increase of energy an "Altidude" could stand to gain by drinking a 1 ounce shot (30 milliliters) of Uncle Elmers? :?:
( see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram and http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shot-glass )
Also, a request to all: we need some ideas for the new Uncle Elmer's mass-marketing campaign jingle; how about:
Uncle Elmers "Powerhouse"... The Original "Energy Drink"! :shock:
#5 Alive! :arrow:
Hooch... The Final Frontier! :P
Uncle Elmers... Drink and Fly Responsibly! 8)
E-Rations... the 'Solution' for Inflation :twisted:
Have a blow-out... and unleash your inner potential with Deter's Hooch! :mrgreen:
GaryGB
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Hee Hee Hee :lol: :lol: :lol:
That was hilarious, Francois!!! :P
GaryGB
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Fritz, under stress from all the "UFO's" flying around out of his reach, has a 'break with virtual reality' and manifests yet another alter ego to the amazement of the Wabbit! :lol:
GaryGB
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OK, Disclaimer again:
Early one Sunday morning, two aliens land at Emma Field next to the "Avgas" pump. The aliens waddle out of their spaceship and look around.
They approach the old #5 "Avgas" pump cautiously. The first one says "Earthling, take me to your leader!"
He gets no response. The first alien looks at his buddy then addresses the pump again. "Earthling, I said take me to your leader!"
Still no response. The first alien turns to the second and says "If this Earthling doesn't show me some respect I'm going to blast him!"
The second alien replies "OK, but I'm going to stand down on the approach to runway 36."
The first alien looks a little puzzled, but waits for the other to waddle down past the Helipad. He then addresses the pump a third time. "Earthling, for the last time, take me to your leader!"
No response. The alien pulls out his ray-gun and shoots the pump. Ka-BOOM!
The surprised alien gets back up, squeegees himself off, and waddles down to his buddy. He says "Well, this stuff tastes pretty good, but if you knew that was going to happen, why didn't you warn me?"
The second alien replies "I didn't know what was going to happen, but I'm not going to mess with anyone whose thing can hang to the ground, wrap around his body twice, and still stick in his ear!" :mrgreen:
GaryGB
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Apparently, the fame of Uncle Elmer's #5 has spread to other worlds! :lol:
PS: "Warning... Warning... Danger, Will Robinson; E-Rations make your world Stand Still !" :twisted:
GaryGB
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UFO's (Unidentified Fedora Objects) appeared in the skies over Emma, and when Pups finally showed up in his Ewok costume, the Wabbit freaked out! :lol:
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As old One-Eye would say, "Welcome mate, come on over the bar for a good old chin-wag. Maybe you'd like to hear about the best Shaws hunting that goes on in these parts..."
Welcome, and enjoy your stay.
OK, I'm game... :wink:
Chris, what's Shaws? :roll:
GaryGB
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Chris pilots his "Independence Day" alien mothership spacecraft over Emma Field, scaring the crap out of Uncle Elmer! :lol:
GaryGB
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the boat's
Couldn't say.. never was a sailor
Might have something to do with those guys in costumes
singing about being in the Navy, the YMCA, and their Body :shock:
DISCLAIMER:
Q: How do you separate the men from the new recruits in the Navy?
A: Crowbar
Q: What's the unofficial motto of the Navy?
A: Never leave your buddies behind...
PS: Remember the "Village People"? :shock: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_People )
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Thanks Guys! :D
I haven't been through all of simviation yet, and hadn't seen those! :shock:
GaryGB
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Hi Chris:
Those are pretty cool FS toys! :D
I haven't seen them before; are they payware or freeware? :roll:
GaryGB
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Hi All:
Just another update to help us all keep a "clean machine"! :wink:
( see: http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.pc&start=15 )
PS: Ready to get wet and wild? :mrgreen:
GaryGB
The joys of a new PC...
in Emma Field Flying Club
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Hi Chris:
I just finished reading the review articles on your components; very impressive! A well-considered choice of hardware there! :D
The mobo and ATI card are not able/intended to do Crossfire, but should you ever get the desire for insanely high screen resolutions with high refresh rate LCD monitors or a BIG plasma screen down the road, the mobo can do an automatic overclock of appropriate portions of its onboard graphics subsystem to accomodate an N-Vidia SLI setup and laugh about it. However, The ATI card will be a great contender for both high performance and all around graphics/multimedia use for quite some time to come, and will probably make FSX look fabulous with the new pixel shader coding, as well as for framerates.
The N-Vidia GUI and text mode BIOS interface give a bewildering array of choices as it delivers remarkable amounts of control to the tweaker and overclocker; no wonder you wisely chose to study the system for a while before jumping into the BIOS to find the USB legacy mode switch. And on the subject of USB, the mobo can accomodate 10 ports onboard!
As I read those reviews, I found myself thinking in the background about other articles I have read in magazines and online, which addressed the future of multimedia and gaming/simming on the PC. What a great time to be involved with computers! It's as revolutionary and exciting as the cultural changes that were going on in the late 60's/early 70's, if not more so!
I drew some tentative conclusions about where FS stands today and where it may be when FSX comes out; I'd welcome other views on this:
1.) The immediate future of most gaming/simming will emphasize visual realism conveyed by pixel shaders moreso than number of polygons sent to the screen via pixel pipelines. However if one's graphics card doesn't have the ability to provide both of the above, FS will not achieve it's true potential on one's machine. Although FSX will likely add more pixel shader functionality, it will probably continue to be predominantly polygon and calculation reliant, which screams for as much brute force CPU throughput power as one can afford to buy.
2.) Frame rates and smoothness in FS are currently more dependent on CPU speed and related memory system throughput rather than on graphics card throughput assuming one has crossed a certain basic threshold of disk I/O and graphics card capability.
3.) If FSX doesn't add the ability to make use of the second core in dual core CPU's, it may end up being merely a prettier, multimedia enhanced version of FS9 without the ability to achieve substantially faster and smoother performance when sliders are maxed out. With FSX's aparent intended increase of autogen (which I will absolutely love for its realism probably more than pixel shading of textures since I fly "low and slow"), the need to render polygons will be magnified even more, and I think that will still require phenomenal amounts of CPU crunching power given the current FS rendering engine programming.
4.) Microsoft will probably put a cap on the rendering engine to keep from pi$$ing people off like it did in FS2000 when it faithfully tried to respond to all the user-controllable detail slider settings and chugged itself down to a slide show on framerates. As such, I think FSX will continue to throw out graphic detail under demand of any slider settings it cannot keep up with on a given machine in order to get the screen written within some measure of playability for the user (bad reports on usability by the vast majority of low to middlend machine owners=poor volume sales via bad PR; word of mouth still can make or break a product). I think in FSX there will be a machine performance profiling done during installation in addition to the graphics card check and graphics driver disabling for the less capable cards which otherwise allowed the software CPU rendering routines to take over as it did in FS9.
5.) SLI and Crossfire will initially only benefit those with huge screens and/or insanely high monitor resolution settings with maximized AA settings, and will probably only increase throughput efficiency at those settings by 25 to 30%, (40% tops) rather than the theoretical doubling of graphics performance one might have hoped for with 2 separate freakin' expensive graphics cards.
6.) I will be proven wrong about the future of SLI and Crossfire within the next 6 months because of a trend that N-Vidia started with its newest XFX 7950 GX2 XXX tandem (twin) SLI card released at a decent price (no more of this buy 2 freakin' expensive cards at $650+ each for a mere 25-30% performance increase, and that only at high resolution settings). Well folks, I think I have seen the future, and it will look like this and be priced like this (substitute ATI for N-Vidia eventually on this hopefully): http://www.bjorn3d.com/read_pf.php?cID=925
Well Chris, thanks for sharing your experience with us. I'm glad for your sake that you had some time with your recent passport hiatus to build and enjoy this machine; ...its sweet. I hope the travelling will still be tolerable for you when you go on the road again, because if it were me, I'd always be dyin' to get back home to my darlin' with the warm, multicolored "indoors"! :mrgreen:
GaryGB