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[Gr_Chris_pilot]

Finally getting to installing FSX on my new laptop. Hopefully I'll be able to run it quite a bit better on this machine, setting everything to minimum settings isn't very fun to play with.

Check out my simpit for fsx :thumbup:
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=338805&postcount=5

i am using only my laptop for now but runs everything ok....

 

[DanM]

Wow, what a weird coincidence. There was this Canada stuff yesterday, and a few hours later I found out I'm travelling out of the US for the first time to nowhere else but Canada.

Dang, this is shaping out to be a great week. I somehow regained my work ethic, I find out I'm skiing at Whistler, I get a new MLP shirt, my Eagle project has been approved, and I get to fly tomorrow.

 

[this is an old account]

Finally getting to installing FSX on my new laptop. Hopefully I'll be able to run it quite a bit better on this machine, setting everything to minimum settings isn't very fun to play with.

What are your laptops specs? I have a really huge powerful laptop myself, so the only thing that limits me tends to be overheating... FSX remains a wonderful simulator. There's even an Orion III addon- the B7072 by Tim Conrad. There are a couple of repaints for it also.

I always thought a delta glider for FSX would be the greatest thing ever for FSX! Someone, please do that! I want to take off from an airport, feeling the envy of the owners of private aircraft!

 

[River Crab]

Oh goodness.
Friend of mine claims that her desktop PC's "sound is busted," and has been so for months. She finally discovers the cause of the problem today: the speakers were not plugged in. She was telling me they were plugged in on her assumption that they were plugged in.

When troubleshooting remotely, never overestimate people's problem-solving skills... :facepalm:

 

[Eli13]

What are your laptops specs? I have a really huge powerful laptop myself, so the only thing that limits me tends to be overheating... FSX remains a wonderful simulator. There's even an Orion III addon- the B7072 by Tim Conrad. There are a couple of repaints for it also.

I always thought a delta glider for FSX would be the greatest thing ever for FSX! Someone, please do that! I want to take off from an airport, feeling the envy of the owners of private aircraft!

I have a Acer Aspire (5552-7819) with 4 gigs of DDR3 RAM, 3.0Ghz Processor (rated at 5.40 performance, somehow), AMD Phenom II X2 N660, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250, with 1.9 gigs of video RAM on Windows 7 Home Premium, 64 bit and a ATI High Definition Audio Device.

Not a true gamer laptop, but it does the job efficiently, so I'm happy with it.

 

[this is an old account]

Whats the deal with the far side of the moon? Scientists aren't sure why it's so much bumpier. It may just be a stupid coincidence. It's not like that's impossible.

 

[orb]

Whats the deal with the far side of the moon? Scientists aren't sure why it's so much bumpier.

Are you asking about the category where this forum is located? :lol:

 

[iamwearingpants]

Way back last marking period my astronomy teacher said that the inner side is protected from asteroids by Earth.

 

[this is an old account]

A Delta Glider FSX addon wouldn't have hover engines enabled, I guess.

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How about an X-plane DG addon? That might work better.

 

[this is an old account]

Way back last marking period my astronomy teacher said that the inner side is protected from asteroids by Earth.

Thats what I thought too, at first. Then, I realized that this was just silly, as there's plenty of space between the Earth and Moon for an asteroid to travel, which is probably why scientists don't think it's a proper explanation. See the picture.

 

[mojoey]

Oh goodness.
Friend of mine claims that her desktop PC's "sound is busted," and has been so for months. She finally discovers the cause of the problem today: the speakers were not plugged in. She was telling me they were plugged in on her assumption that they were plugged in.

When troubleshooting remotely, never overestimate people's problem-solving skills... :facepalm:

Estimating problem-solving skills for that person (I assume its the 'Soyuz girl ) is very optimistic

 

[RisingFury]

Whats the deal with the far side of the moon? Scientists aren't sure why it's so much bumpier. It may just be a stupid coincidence. It's not like that's impossible.

I would have to guess that the far side gets bombarded more by impactors than the near side because Earth deflects some of the impactors, but there are probably other factors at work as well...

 

[mojoey]

I would have to guess that the far side gets bombarded more by impactors than the near side because Earth deflects some of the impactors, but there are probably other factors at work as well...

Aliens.

 

[jedidia]

Whats the deal with the far side of the moon? Scientists aren't sure why it's so much bumpier. It may just be a stupid coincidence. It's not like that's impossible.

Going purely on intuition here, but trajectories of asteroids usually curve inwards to earth due to its gravity field. While that doesn't make it impossible for the moon to get hit on the inside by an outgoing asteroid that passed by earth, it would seem more probable for an asteroid to hit it from the back or "sideways"...

She was telling me they were plugged in on her assumption that they were plugged in.

First rule of remote troubleshooting: Never assume that the person on the other end has actually carried out your instructions (or that she carried them out correctly). Always double-check with questions they can only answer if they really did what you told them (In this case, something like "is the speaker plugged into the jack with the black indicator?" If she answers yes, you know she didn't check. If she goes to check, now at least you know she checked).

It does seem somewhat tedious for the more proficient among us to get treated like retards by phone support, but I've learned that it's pretty much the only way to go if you don't know who's on the other end...

 

[DanM]

I had a good day flying, except for getting violently ill.

What happened was I went out four about an hour with another cadet in front (I rode in back), and I started feeling sick enough to the point where I had to ask the pilot to return to our home airport. I was sitting in the hangar when I decided to work my way to the bathroom, just in case. As soon as I managed to get there I suddenly vomited what felt like two or three liters (so much for that bacon and pancake breakfast my mom was nice enough to cook for me). Afterwards I magically felt great, so I went up again, this time in front. I got sick again, but not nearly as bad.

Then I barely managed to get through the half hour drive home, and just dropped on my couch and took a nap for an hour and a half.

And that was my day.

 

[Mattyv]

Aliens.

Forgot the picture! :rant:

 

[Pipcard]

Forgot the picture! :rant:

You mean... this one?

 

[MaverickSawyer]

I would have to guess that the far side gets bombarded more by impactors than the near side because Earth deflects some of the impactors, but there are probably other factors at work as well...

Well, the back side is the suspected "splat-down" site of the second moon of Earth, if one existed. That's part of what the GRAIL mission is looking at.

 

[NovaSilisko]

Don't let me try new things with games.

 

[iamwearingpants]

Tristen Mactrousers
Blog entry 7 - Day 29
//Still no sleep//

I've been awake for 4 weeks, with no end in sight. The shadows on the wall don't
perfectly mirror my movements. Or maybe I don't mirror them. The hallucinations
are getting progressivly most shroomlike and colorful. Have you ever had a
splendid conversation with a fried potato about the smell of dirt? You don't want
to. Trust me. Lately my hobbies have been reduced to writing crappy stories based
on myself and playing with prime numbers. Did you know that 37 multiplied by a
multiple of 3 is a repdigit below a thousand? I didn't until the cat told me.

I look out the window only to find that my dead mother weeps over her own grave.
My staircase is beginning to feel like Penrose designed it - I can't go up or
down, only hopelessly around in a vicious circle. I have a surprisingly good
physical state, my pinkie toe is happily fused to my foot, and my leg joined to my
hip in unison. Somehow my head is rotated 180 degrees relative to itself
backwards, in a feat of natural geometry.

I'm feeling pretty swell, really. Even the dead mailman I shot yesterday is smiling. I'm
getting kinda worried about him though, he hasn't moved since I killed him. I
actually envy him, and his probably endless slumber. I mean, why do these dumb
dead people get to sleep? It's the living guys who need it!

Anyway, my fridge is on fire and the ice cream I put in the oven is starting to
get rancid, so I'd better get going. Wish me luck!

(Actually I don't need luck. Give me sleep and not idioms!)