satcharna

The simple solution is to just land it yourself. I've tried MechJeb's "auto-lander", and I found it a lot more difficult to do a good landing with that than just doing it manually. Set your periapsis to the top of the atmosphere to shed velocity in an aerobrake, and once your apoapsis is low enough, perform the deorbit burn. Aim to re-enter at a fairly shallow entry tunnel, and wait with deploying your parachutes until you're slow enough to not rip them off.

So, I finally figured out how to use the MiG-3 properly. It's a high-altitude interceptor, but I wasn't aware that the flight models simulated altitudes yet. Suddenly, I realize that the plane is great for diving at bombers. It's just such a shame it takes so long to get to the proper altitude.

Never said anything about planet textures, and I don't think he uses any part of them other than a basic map. He wouldn't be redistributing the stock textures, he'd be doing literally the same thing most part mods out there are doing: Providing a new set of files. Either way it's a moot point as I doubt he has any intentions to do it, I was just awwing at his skill.

Of course he doesn't use the game engine to render these. But switching the textures out for his rendering engine is very similar to switching them out for the game.

Finalised a heavy Kethane cargo SSTO and performed a trial run on Laythe. After the save break, I plan to use it as my main Laythe Kethane plane to refuel the orbital station and by extension the tug.

Spaceplanes all the way. Except for my new Laythe-tug, every single craft I've made lately has been SSTO spaceplanes.

Just buy more hard drives when you run out of space. They're seriously cheap now, and just buying another terabyte one whenever the last one fills up is completely viable. That's how I've fitted just over three gigabytes, and not deleted a single significant file in years.

Why don't more people use Dropbox? Gives people a direct link, lots of bandwidth, compatible with download managers...

Rod Becausetenwords

First off, you go by your own opinion, not facts. Don't try and say otherwise, you convince nobody but yourself.The fact is that most people don't like the Metro UI, and the fact is that the Metro UI is the only major feature it adds. Yes, it has marginally better safety than Windows 7, and yes, it boots faster than Windows 7 thanks to their "core hibernation" feature. The fact that Microsoft take criticism well enough to actually give the option to remove Metro is a thing that reflects well on them, but the fact that they didn't listen to people who were complaining already during the testing is a very bad thing. The operating system gets included on every new laptop and prebuilt desktop, and I have yet to speak to anyone IRL who liked it enough to decline my offer to install Windows 7 for them instead. The same thing goes on forums and discussion boards, with overwhelming negativity to Windows 8. Those are the facts. It's a good thing they're returning the start menu, but it's too late to change the fact that it was a flop now, as Windows 8 has EARNED the negativity it's been given, contrary to your belief. Also, a bit of advice: If you write your posts up in an editor like Word or LibreOffice, they can help you out with your grammar and spelling, which goes a long way towards making your posts look more respectable.

I want you to go to a forum about the technical aspects of computers and count the positive Windows 8 posts and the negative ones. When I did this just a few months back, I reach 48 negative threads and two positive ones. Your opinion on the operating system is very clearly in the minority.Also, please clarify at which point I said that any OS is perfect.

Windows 8 does come with its own screenreader, but like all Windows screenreaders, it is awful. Microsoft themselves intended it to only be used so the user could install their own screenreader, such as JAWS. The problem is, the Windows screenreader itself can't properly handle the Metro interface, and that pretty much limits me to launching applications with Super+R, which is hardly an acceptable solution. Microsoft don't have a duty to ensure backwards compatibility, of course, but they do have a duty to ensure usability, and they've failed spectacularly on that point.I'm just lucky I'm skilled enough with computers to install a better operating system if I were to buy something with Windows 8 (not that I would waste money on an operating system in the first place), and I pity those that don't know how to do it themselves. Microsoft designed a user interface with less usability than their previous ones, and that is a bad design decision. You need to realize that, regardless of whether you happen to like it or not. Finally, I thought I could demonstrate to you what I'm talking about. Go to a site made entirely out of Flash, and install the Fangs screenreader emulator plugin for Firefox, and try to use the site without looking at it. That's what Windows 8 is like.

You mean you retexture everything? That's quite impressive! I'm sure a lot of people would be willing to pay you to upgrade the stock game's awful textures to something a bit more beautiful.

This is actually part of why I love using Linux. I use Arch, which is a very minimal distro. You literally only get a command line, a package manager and a few command line tools. You get to install everything you want/need yourself. It's a bit of a bother to get started, but you get practically zero software bloat since you only install what you want and need, and my finished system with a GUI, good browser, wine, a few native games, and any other tools I might want, takes up less than a tenth of what an equivalent Ubuntu-based distro would, and a twentieth of what Windows would, all the while booting and operating nearly instantaneously thanks to native UEFI support and SSDs, while Windows would take several seconds, since it is awful at optimizing SSDs and can barely run with UEFI in the first place.So yes, Linux needs a lot of tweaking before you can start using it properly, but once it's up and running, it stays up and running with minimal maintenance, compared to Windows which needs constant disk-upkeep, malware scans, and general tweaking. I am forced to rely on a screenreader for most computer activities. Windows 8 is an interface designed around big images with as little text as possible, and with practically zero backwards compatibility for third party screenreaders. On Windows 7, I could do everything on my computer. On Windows 8, I could barely install a proper browser.That is not good software design, everyone needs to realize that.

Don't worry about it, your post was far more informative and eloquent than mine was.

The "annoying option" is default because some people genuinely need it to use their computer, and it's trivial to turn off for those that don't. Just because you don't need it doesn't mean that nobody else does. I just wish they'd make it easier to turn on the screenreader in a similar but non-intrusive way, as it'd make setting up a fresh system much simpler. A comparison would be the wheelchair ramps most public buildings feature next to the staircases. They make life a lot easier for people with wheelchairs, and aren't much of an inconvenience for everyone else (having to walk an additional meter or something to get past it).

Goonswarm, a branch of Something Awful that control a large section of nullsec space. I find them rather agreeable most of the time, but as a fresh player you should be careful around them. They have a tendency to shoot everyone who's not one of them or an affiliate of theirs.

My advice as an experienced player is to finish the tutorial first, run a mission or two, and then join the player corporation "EVE University". They're a friendly bunch, and their primary purpose is to help new players learn the game. They can give you advice for pretty much every activity that comes up in the game, and help you figure out which ship you should be flying and how too.

In light of today's latest stream, I'd like to inquire as to what exactly the requirements for entries to be approved for KSPTV were.

Could I get some advice on how to properly use the D-30F7 turbojet engines? The advertised thrust is a lot lower than what I'm getting. I thought it might be due to pressure or velocity, but after experimenting with both I have not noticed any significant difference, and certainly not even close to the advertised thrust. EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out.

Do you have any plans to include a "belly jet", like the one on the Yak 15?

Sepatrons are not an invention of KSP, and deorbiting spent stages is just common sense. It's about time ESA stepped up to not putting more garbage into space.

The best way I've found of making money is market trends. When something is cheap, buy it. When something's valuable, sell it. It's slow at first, but you can make tremendous money from it. Another option is to buy in highsec and sell in null. With a jump freighter, it's even rather safe.

I find it downright appalling how many of you expect him to finish your renders. Yes, he asked, but it's perfectly obvious that he has different priorities right now, things he would rather do, and you really shouldn't expect anything in the first place, since this is a spare-time project he's been doing for free. Self-entitlement, well done.

9/10 Quite well drawn.