dave2013

I wonder when Unitree will change its name to Cyberdyne Systems? Dave

Man, I never thought I'd see almost empty planes like that ever again. Reminds me of the 80s and 90s where sometimes a plane would only be half full or less. I once flew on a mostly empty plane from Charleston to Atlanta back in the early 90s. BTW, and this is just a criticism of Yahoo News and the editor, not the content, notice that the picture at the top of the article is not the actual solo passenger or pilot. The pictures of the real lady and pilot are further down in the article. The fake picture at the top is of an attractive woman and some middle eastern looking pilot sitting in an older plane like a 737-300. There is even a button to enlarge the picture as if it is a legitimate part of the story. Yet another example of fake media trickery.

Wow! That's powerful even for here in the U.S. We rarely get storms with winds that high unless it's a tornado or hurricane. BTW, you should be using kilometers per hour, especially considering your proximity to France. Those old British Imperial system measurements are so, well, American, LOL. Heck, we even still use BTUs, British Thermal Units, for our heating systems. Dave

Unfortunately, this is what you get with many FSX and P3D developers. They have no good business sense, and/or they let greed interfere with what would be a good business decision, IE discounting their dated and poor-selling products. Carenado is still charging ridiculous prices for P3D planes that just sit on their servers and don't sell. It would be like owning a hotel that still has 25% of its rooms vacant in the afternoon. A wise hotelier would heavily discount those rooms and advertise the discounts to entice people to book them, otherwise they just sit empty and make you no money. Dave

That seems to be the default reaction of American police nowadays, IE shoot first and ask questions later. It's bad enough when it's a little donkey, but it happens a lot with people, too, unfortunately. Dave

LOL 🫢 Dave

You can tweak the day and night minimum and maximum exposure settings in the cfg to make the cockpit brighter or darker to your liking. Dave

Never mind. I thought you were referring to some recent update I wasn't aware of. The last update for P3Dv6 was in 2024. Dave

And I can easily apply that same logic to your own assertion that all of this just came into existence by chance. You have no proof to support this. Call it a hypothesis, then, rather than a belief. It's all semantics, really. There are some mysteries that we humans will never be able to solve. It's fun to try, though. Dave

Oh, I see how it is. So if I don't agree with a biased article you shared, your response is to ignore me. Please don't play innocent because you knew exactly what you were doing when you posted that link to an article about the El Nino weather pattern from, of all the sources one could have found, The Guardian, a well-known you-know-what supporter and propaganda rag for other causes. And if I had agreed? Would you then choose to ignore me? Your response is typical of folks who can't back up their claims and/or win the argument, IE just shut down the discussion, or worse, silence the opposition with censorship and lawsuits. How sad. Dave

I did read the article, although the source is dubious at best. I guess you can't detect it, Noel, but I can. The article very subtly tries to connect these types of waves to "unprecedented", "record-breaking", "never before recorded" blah blah blah. The author goes on to claim that this is ***likely*** the biggest El Nino in 1,000 years. Note the use of the word "likely", so if they're wrong they can claim they didn't say they were 100% certain, which of course they aren't. I also find it funny that the article states that Kelvin waves don't "crash" like other waves, and then right above this there's a picture of huge waves literally crashing on the California shore. They also include the typical fearmongering map with big angry red blobs like they do with high temperatures to make it look more scary, and this map is time-lapsed so the blobs pulse and move to make them even more ominous. Dave

Do you know when this update was released? Thanks. Dave

It's called storm surge, and is caused by rough seas due to high winds from storms and hurricanes. "Since 1854, at least 107 tropical cyclones have affected California, including an event in 1858 that produced hurricane-force winds near San Diego. The biggest danger from these storms is usually heavy rainfall, which can cause flash flooding" The above is from an AI search and the sources are wikipedia and Accuweather. Nothing new under the sun here. Dave

Nonsense. If you believe that humans, animals, plant life, the earth and all its wonders, all the planets, all the stars, and all the galaxies with billions of stars and planets, just came into existence by chance, then this guy's argument could seem valid. However, if, like me, you believe that none of this is chance, and that all of it was designed and created, then the probability that intelligent species like humans are alone in this vast universe is infinitesimally small. Dave

Well, that answers my question. You've never actually lived like an average Chinese citizen. Your brief sojourns in the country as a student or as part of academic staff living on a university campus don't qualify as "living in China" and truly understanding what that means. I actually lived and worked in Italy like other Italians for years, which is why I mentioned my time in that country. I've actually done it, whereas you have not. That's like me saying that my time on foreign military bases qualifies me to say that I know what it's really like to live in those countries where those bases are located. Dave