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Two Choices What would you do? You make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice? At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: 'When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?' The audience was stilled by the query. The father continued. 'I believe that when a child like Shay, physically and mentally handicapped comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.' Then he told the following story: Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, 'Do you think they'll let me play?' Shay's father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps. Shay's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, 'We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.' Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. His Father watched with a small tear in his eye and warmth in his heart. The boys saw the father's joy at his son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat. At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball. However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher. The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game. Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, 'Shay, run to first! Run to first!' Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled. Everyone yelled, 'Run to second, run to second!' Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball ... the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home. All were screaming, 'Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay' Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, 'Run to third! Shay, run to third!' As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, 'Shay, run home! Run home!' Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team. 'That day', said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, 'the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world'. Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making his father so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day! Food for Thought........1 point
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Try to de-select "adaptative" from the multi-sample AA. Same problem happened to this guy with DCS:Ka-50 http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=50380&page=21 point
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did you try the hott fixs from sapphire? http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/downloads/download_index_01.aspx?psn=00061 point
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We will switch to LOFC2 as soon as it will be available. Reds say that they had also bout 5 losses because of connection drop or some other technical issue.1 point
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yes this one. im not looking for a paint schematic just an a/c in service so i have appropriate markings and weathering.1 point
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http://sharingmatrix.com/file/271282/B-1B.Lancer.rar http://rs168.rapidshare.com/files/334349534/AG-WT19-Boeing_North_American_B-1_Lancer.rar1 point
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The T-50 makes the Su-27 look brutish and old, just as all other aircraft looked next to the flanker...1 point
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модеры че вы гоните всё получаеться и всё работает,просто у кого слабые процыки о оперативы по 2 гб то манины тормозят,просто берете с ЧА графические текстуры bmp tga и кидаете в папку Bazar-TempTextures в ЛО ,а также с ЧА нужно кидать файлы той текстуры которую хотите из папки ЧА Bazar -World-Shapes файлы LOM И CMD B ЛО и всё работает,просто один апач или ми 24 выходят по весу около 0,5 гб и просто после модов на истребители+эти текстуры и игра при полной напаковке около 5 гиг и более,и у кого оперативы мало и + диск С закачан до придела разным хламом машины задыхаються1 point
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:smartass::D What am I doing wrong? All this videos say I can pres the "Esc" key to take control but it won't work, WTF? :D:joystick::pilotfly:1 point
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Windows vista 64/ I'm on average at 60fps in Single player in Multiplayer its 35 to 40fps.my specs are in my sig...29inch I-INC HDMI iF281D monitor widscreen 16:10 aspectratio 1.6, 1900x1200 60hrz nvidia drivers 196.75 What drivers you using? Also make sure your when running a program be it installing or running right click the icon click properties and make sure to unblock it will be bottom right side of that window. It's also good to make sure you right click the porperties and advanced then check run as adminastrator. Also make sure your virusscanning before you do this.1 point
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I'm guessing if not this month then early next month FC2.0 will be released for sure. The sim looks great. Its a great improvement from 1.12. Nice job ED team. Keep up the good work:thumbup: :punk:1 point
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Осталось немного, победа близко!!!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: Вы взяли контроль в воздушном пространстве - над Керчью и Кировском нет американцев!!! Пускай знают, ПРО Румынам даря - Керчь и Кировское - НАША ЗЕМЛЯ!!!1 point
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Very true Pilotasso, sometimes you must take a step backwards...before progress can happen... Anyway, I'm not trying to say one leader is better than the other, but if i wanted to; there are all kinds of silly graphs and stupid surveys to add links to.......the problem with graphs and statistics is they are so easy to manipulate, and manipulation of public opinion is the only way these leaders get elected.1 point
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Thank you very much all, I am happy it is Friday :D :drink: Happy Birthday Groove :yay: :drink:1 point
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If you want to extract player information from the server at runtime, take a look at the files in Scripts/net, especially server.lua and events.lua. They contain callbacks that you can use to send data over a socket or to create a stats file. By default server.lua writes some information to the Temp/net-server.log file. There are also some additional functions that you can access in these scripts to query other information, including the Lua state of the Config/Export/export.lua file (i.e. it is possible to get the same information that TacView uses) and the current mission file. I don't know though how much runtime information about AI units you can extract, you have to experiment with the net.dostring_in(state_name, string) function. See the Scripts/net/readme.txt file for more information and the ServMan mod (link in my sig) for examples. I don't know where the debrief.txt file is created, but if it is a Lua script you can force it to flush text to the file as soon as it has been written. That way you should (in principle) be able to parse it at runtime. I am not sure how Windows handles concurrent r/w file accesses from different processes, but I guess that you can open the file only once in write mode and as often as you want in read-only mode. Alternatively you could change the script to send the data over a socket.1 point
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Its not exactly in the same format of LO... its MUCH MUCH more detailed... do a search for debrief.txt1 point
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