Mars Exulte

The instructor thing is a good idea, although this is probably even better, as it eliminates not being sure what the student is looking at. I've used Steam and Skype both for streaming, and it is really good for this sort of thing.

I've been playing games online for twenty years. Unmoderated = teaming cesspool of idiocy and bigotry, without exception. If you consistently have issues with getting moderated, maybe consider not being a douche or something? I traditionally refrained from modding people on my server, but still had to occasionally to enforce order and discourage excessive idiocy. I also prefer TS, generally, though the ''message board and voice comms all in one'' definitely has its utility. Without Discord you need a separate utility or comm conduit for offline stuff. This is the internet, EVERYONE is using pseudo identities. Or do you have the unfortunate distinction of ACTUALLY being named Mower? There is no accountability for anyone generally, unless they cross the local community's guidelines and then, being private property, they decide to kick you out. Dear me, dissenting opinions? Can't have that. Or perhaps there actually is a flaw in your thinking? Impossibru!

You've seen nothing! Disecting a dead bird in a lab is one thing, unleashing them on men is another! (Ollllld ref....)

J&J, so one and done. Mild fever and tired then fine. I was annoyed to find out how many people got paid to do it, and me just quietly doing it on my own not realising that was an option...

Knowing enough to think you know everything, but not knowing enough to know you don't

No, they're made of foam. Also why is everyone so surprised? They work in the Mi-8, too.

I AAR'd with NVGs no problem in the Harrier. Just turned the gain down until the lights weren't distracting. They're for actual darkness, full moon or a light in your face, you have to turn the gain down.

Being the star of the most successful piece of military propaganda in recorded history probably had a lot to do with that :p

I dunno, they managed it ok with the F-8 and A-7 which were long spindly single engine planes, too, with not terribly huge wings (albeit they were top mounted, though I dunno how significant a factor that is). Possibly. I think it's probably BETTER suited for carrier usage cause of the lower speed handling, but the cost of a compromise design is it is biased more toward one or the other but suitable for both. And had twice as many of... one of the very best fighters ever? They handle differently from each other and have slightly different ''best performance'' margins, but they're both equally effective at pretty much everything. So ultimately, it comes down to ''We would have missed out on a really cool plane!'' That's not a good way to balance your budget or streamline your logistics. And again, what few differences there are, particularly initially as far as avionics, would simply not have existed if a compromise design had been settled on in the first place. Afaik, literally every new generation of aircraft was decried as a waste, its flaws nitpicked, gradually refined, and then ''it's the bestest most coolest thing ever''. Everybody likes the F-14 now, but it was aggressively fought against because the F-4 was ''battle hardened, good enough, and loved by all''. The F-22 was dumped because of all the same crap, and now people all agree dumping it was stupid. Now we have the F-35, I don't think it's getting dumped (too many countries involved and too many of them built already) in twenty years everybody will blow its horn about how grand and awesomest it is and take it's place among the halls of fame @@ It's almost like people behave in a really predictable fashion regardless of context

I wasn't meaning anything harsh either. It is very common for people to rush to the forums with each new tech announcement though Nvidia takes the proprietary route too much and it bites them in the ass, as far as I can see. They did that with Gsync, sounds like they did it with DLSS, and ray tracing too probably. Then sooner or later (usually sooner) somebody (AMD) comes up with a similar solution that's NOT behind a paywall, and drives their market down. Imo, they suffer from ''I'm too big to fail'' mentality that recently burned Intel. Me, too........ me, too....

I would expect people doing this professionally aren't relying on forum posts to hear of developments in their field of employment. That said, wishlist is probably the place to put it, although there's already one over there. Offhand, I'd say most likely Vulkan doesn't necessarily equal inclusion of other features. That said, if it's open source (which as I understand is one of the hiccups with Nvidias solution) that makes it somewhat less of an issue. Implementing brand new concepts isn't a priority in most any development process, though, so I wouldn't hold my breath on it happening next week just because of a flashy sales brochure cherry picked to sound more awesomer. DLSS and FSR are basically adaptive anti-aliasing. So in that respect, it's a compromise between no antialiasing (performance) vs FSAA (quality), yielding better performance than FSAA but worse quality. That's ultimately all there is to it, nothing particularly revolutionary about either technology despite the ardent claims of their advertisers, just like the 2000 series GPUs never came near ''50% faster!!!1!''.

Yep. So just checked and a 10850k sounds like they've got the max turbo set to 5.2ghz which is a unusually high, imo, and 4800mhz is itself a fairly high clock setting. You haven't mentioned temperature or cooling solutions, are you sure you're not overheating and have proper airflow? No plugged or dirty filters/fans? Have you tried a version roll back to see if it solves the problem, since you mentioned an update? Have you insured your CPU/MB/GPU drivers are up to date? Sounds like it's crashing under prolonged usage. If it's ONLY Metro Exodus, then play something else, imo.

It is. Nope, just people with a persecution complex. In 99.9% of cases, stuff is policed by local moderators, same as any other discussion board. Including Facebook, for that matter, where individual ''groups'' are policed by whoever the local moderators/community are (thus the existence of closed groups of shall we say highly illegal nature at times). IE posting against the grain in a given group is likely to make waves not because of the ''site'' but because that specific community dislikes it, or publicly visible comments may get flagged by observers. When people start ranting about ''censorship'' it inevitably seems to be about them posting increasingly unpopular views, and then acting surprised when they get pushback and that somehow this equates ''persecution/censorship''.

It's almost like there's an element to all of this beyond just the visual, and armchair developers take things out of context. The visual element is a relatively small part of all this, and ultimately the easiest. A competent 3d artist can churn out models every few weeks/months depending on the complexity. Unsurprisingly, everything else takes longer. We don't receive updates every day because it is idiotic to post ''I wrote 2000 lines of code today, and debugged 500 lines of code, here's a screenshot of a page of code you can't read''

Well, while we're making well reasoned decisions... I've been meaning to talk to you about your car's extended warranty.

I like that one!

No, it's not. I'm on Heaven's email update mailing list and I never got a notice. I'm pretty sure it's atoms tightly bound by their magnetic fields, which I can turn on and off with my mind. I bought TELEKINESIS with Bitcoin on the Silk Road. Wrong wrong wrong. It rolls out the top when you squeeze it, just like an old tube of toothpaste. Wrong. It's directly tied to the light switch in my bathroom. It's connected to the fart fan via GRAVITY ELEMENT. I heard it will mostly be used to protect children from small dachsunds. Everybody knows God hates motorcycles. If there's any safety tech, they'll be the last to get it. He usually stipulates in the EULA that it can't be used for motorcycles. He hates them after he got cut off in Chicago one time. True, it's approximately the same size and shape of a pineapple, but tastes more like prunes. It blows every circuit in ELECTRICAL SYSTEM and a tow tic-tac must be called from HEAVEN. They are really expensive though, and this guy ''Bob's Tic Tac Tows'' is really dishonest, so I suggest not using him. I think you must have made somebody angry so they aren't giving you the latest information anymore. Everything you're saying is at least twenty years out of date.

Looks really good, you should be proud of your work

https://www.cnet.com/news/astronaut-chris-hadfield-calls-alien-ufo-hype-foolishness/ I'm just gonna... leave this here.

I have no idea what's going on with other countries. If they're requesting further customisations (like Israel) I absolutely can believe it. Well, we're talking about for the US armed forces, so in that context, no. Like said, what the Euros are paying is their problem.

I couldn't speak to that. Generally the ''per unit price'' includes all expenses. The price everyone talks about is NOT typically the actual ''purchase price'', but rather the dev costs AND purchase price spread across all units, that's why it trends downward the more aircraft are produced : it's averaged out. It is. See above, the prices are averaged out. That's actually what originally started this thread, slashing orders is starting the ''per unit'' cost averaging upward again. Afaik that stuff is tallied separately most the time and is part of longterm sustainment costs. That's one of the things they've been trying to tackle so aggressively, is lowering the maintenance costs. Exactly. Although the stealth coating sounds to be a lot more practical than the ones used on F-22s and earlier aircraft, it still automatically increases maintenance costs .

This ''new'' technology is known as ''the ground''. It has been bringing objects in motion to 0 forward velocity for at least the last few hundred years, possibly longer. It is closely followed by a second technology known as ''walls'' which has been particularly effective in halting the forward motion of automobiles almost as well as Project Codename : Trees Yeah, that's a point often glossed over. The newer block teen fighters don't have their 1980s price tags anymore. Oof

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That's not an ''official document''. It's a media site, describing their research, itself a composite of reports, ship logs, and FOIA data. The same site has an article on ''mannequin mountain'' on their front page, so let's not take them TOO seriously. As for the incident itself : 100 miles offshore is well within international waters. They were conducting exercises, in international waters. They were observed by a number of ''objects'' (read: drones) over a period of several days. ''Well beyond the capacity of commercial units'' means ''you can't buy one at Walmart''. Predators are drones with multi-hour, hundreds of miles flight profiles, so that is a meaningless phrase. ''Low visibility under 1nm'' a mile is still pretty good visibility. Is it ''barnstorming through beggar's canyon in a F-15'' visibility? No, but more than enough for practical observation purposes, especially if you're not observing exclusively in visible spectrums (which is like 100% guaranteed). Again ''at night with poor visibility'' translates to ''UAP''. If it was daytime and well lit we'd probably be reading about Chinese/Russian drones harrassing the US navy ''off their shores!!!!1!'' (The media loves highlighting legal activities in international waters in sensational terms).