Shore Leave

Anyone else try this title? Picked it up yesterday, and went through a couple of tutorials.

The suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) mission is like playing "three-dimensional chess where cheating is legal". - unnamed Vietnam war era Wild Weasel pilot

Sometime this weekend I'm going to attempt the upgrade of our forum software. The site/forum may be down for a number of hours (lets hope not days) during the process and we will lose our fantastic pastel blue theming. We will also lose the Issue Tracker until I can cook up an alternative but the existing data will not be lost. The upgrade will give us nothing we need and many things we'd like! The upgrade after that should give us some fantastic tools to help integrate the HC game with the HarpGamer site.

Has the forum considered developing a presence on Facebook?

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2012/09/05/beer-and-the-apocalypse/ Nod to Brains for finding this gem.

My sister sent me this link early this morning. Haven't tried out the game yet but it looks like I could have some fun playing! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/atlantics-navy-commander/id547138591?mt=8&ls=1

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They are people for everything, this guy makes impressive model torpedoes : http://www.pt-boat.com/torpedo/torpedo.html

Hey 'Pooners, I'm doing research on the E2C Hawkeye and any limitations that it may have, specifically smaller targets on the water. Can the radar see smaller, sleeker yet fast moving fiberglass ships aproximately 50 feet in length moving at 100 knots? Any help is appreciated. Thanks to all, Steve

A week and a half ago I happily became a married man. We left on our honeymoon to Hawaii early the next morning. The entire time was spent on Oahu and we had a great time together on the north shore and visiting Pearl Harbor. While sunning on the beach the show was: P-3 Orion Coast Guard C-130 variant Seahawk of some kind Coast Guard Dauphin At Pearl Harbor the show (besides the WWII attractions): F-22s in open air revetments F-22 in the air with USS Missouri in the foreground, F-22 doing what looked like a wicked sliding turn at low level, something you'd only want to do with an excess of power F-15s on the ground 4 x Burkes! (so many in one spot was a …

It's summer (well almost officially). I'm going a break for a month or so. Hopefully, in that time I can craft the first couple BRICS scenarios and get them ready for posting, along with working in the yard and spending time with the family after work. NNSotD will be back, watch for it in August or September.

You can thank Brains for this, he supposedly innocently sent me to the fantastic Case #3. Anyway, one of the major challenges of HC... http://thecodelesscode.com/case/33

Like date and time math, calculating distance is not as easy as one would think. So pull up your inner game designer or mathematician or GIS analyst and help out a fellow (me). Issues: The Earth is a spheroid, not flat, not a sphere. The platforms in our game do insane things like fly above the surface (more specifically above sea level) and sail below sea level (and if you get fancy some sail above sea level). Changing altitude uses or produces excess energy. Just something to think about. In HC distances are calculated most often along Geodesic (which will stuff into the wrong but well known term Great Circle) routes that place the two platforms …

Being from Canada, this helped a lot ... The Simpsons explain the ObamaCare ruling

An old shipmate sent me this one: http://angrywhitedude.com/2010/08/all-4-na...ar-are-fillies/ I'd be interested to hear the thoughts any of the members have. Buddha

Inaceptable politics aside, the nazis have a clear aestetical appeal and a recent very funny side: nazi zombies, nazi paranormal agents against Hellboy or Captain America ... Now, begining the view of Iron Sky, I saw a new nazi title, the bad girl has the rank of "Mondjugendunterfuhrerin" !!!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky

I will be this week in Madrid at http://iugm.es/actividades/congresos-y-jor...s-de-seguridad/ if someone is here, keep in touch ...

I gave a presentation similar to this to a coworker earlier this week and recorded another go at it last night for 'fun'. I suggest switching to the higher quality 720p so that you can actually see the screen text. This dips very lightly into Assembly programming and looking at high level language conversion into the opcodes and assembly instructions that the x86 processor understands. Part 1 Part 2 Warning: May put you to sleep!

So I'm re-reading Red Storm Rising, the book that got me into Harpoon. I'll be posting some thoughts here. First one - am I right in thinking that people were initially wary of Mikhail Gorbachev when he become General Secretary of the CPSU? The GenSec in this novel is described as a former agriculture minister, which is what Gorby was.