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Then there's the smelly, ugly, sweating, noisy, fat people.

The big problem here is that it would be abused by the airlines as an excuse to charge more and add more seats. The seats are already too small and with far too little leg room. At least they are from my experience in most European airlines (and not just the budget ones). I am not over wieght and often struggle to get comfortable. The funniest thing is the advice they give you for exercising whilst in your seat on longer flights - if you can do those whilst staying i

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In fact, IN FACT, to start with we had to write out our code on specially marked sheets of paper and our school had to send them by post to a university in another city, then we had to wait a couple of weeks to get the results back. It was other pupils in the art department who pulped the newspapers and made the paper.

5.25" floppy disks - oooh! how we used to dream of 5.25" floppy disks when I were a lad. Copy protection! That meant typing your code in by hand from an original copy of the magazine and not the hand written copy done by your mate from school. You youngsters don't know your born.

Actually it can be just about anything you want it to be. Basically you just rent raw computing resources and use them for whatever the hell you want. If you are running SETI@home or Folding@Home or any of those type of apps then you are taking part in another form of cloud computing - except you are letting them do it for free with your computer as p

I laughed my ass off [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] , my wife laughed her ass off [e digicons] and I think I can hear the neighours cat laughing its ass off [e digicons]:meow:[/e] [e digicons]:rofl:[/e]

Throttling: In GalCiv2 Option / Video / Throttle frame rates. However, for not seeing the cursor in GC2 you might want to try turning ON "Hardware mouse cursor" on the same settings page. Theres something odd going no here, assuming that your new power supply is beefy enough you shouldn't be having problems like this. Looking on the less obvious side of things - make sure you aren't running anything else whilst running the game - turn off [b]everything[/b] you do

OK, with a 4870 (I'm jealous by the way) there is no way that SoaSE will be asking too much from it. It should barely need to turn the fans. It could be the exact opposite, particularly if you have turned the graphics options [b]down[/b]. Some games can end up overheating a graphics card by asking it to do too little. It sounds nuts I know but with the card doing little or no real work it ends up shoving frames out so fast that it overheats just from the massive fr

Try changing back to (or away from) BITS as the download method: Blue orb / Preferences / Connection toggle: "Use legacy download system (BITS)"

I recently decided to lower my system defences and do away with live AV & Spyware/malware blockers - I hadn't had anything worse than a tracking cookie in 20+ years of computing - not just not found but not blocked either. I was still doing static sweeps with a random choice of various free and online scanners evey other week just to check. I'm a very, very safe and savy internet user - or thought I was - and I had a router firewall. Bad choice. Very bad choice.

Blue orb / Preferences / Reset data Blue orb / Check for updates Install any Impulse updates it ask you to first then try updating Sins.

Tamren, this is a general comment as I don't have ME so can't comment specifically. What you have described sounds very similar to issues I have seen in the past where games don't shut down properly leaving [part of] themselves still running. Checking the process list might show a ME related process still running. One thing that could cause this, and might also explain the sound problems, is if you have an online (voice) chat service running in the background. The

Sorry, I wasn't getting at you or trying to start yet another "piracy is bad/no it's not" [e digicons]|-O[/e] argument. Just stating my position and background. Please, please no-one go there.

Almost all of the main packages offer free trials so you can try them out for yourself - but be warned of the inability to perform a simple clean uninstall as discussed above. I was sceptical of NIS2009 and tried most of the others before I read reviews and comparative analysis that included NIS. Even after reading those very positive reviews I was sceptical - having been bitten by Norton before (not in a damaging way just in a system hog/take over your system way). I de

I love: This sucks, and i have to admit that i will buy no other game from you in the future. Followed immediately by: Best regards [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e]

Currently running without any. Ran for years with - various flavours - and never got a virus, never even trapped any before they got to me. Most recent one I tried was AVG Free version, which was quite good but they started to nag a lot for me to upgrade to the paid version. The fastest static scan I have found is the current version of nod32 - 2:15 for 500+GB. I run a static scan every now and then using a random choice of on-line scanners or free trials - jus

Check out the chart on this link: Toms Hardware Graphics Card Heirarchy Chart and the accompanying article, there are also benchmarks on the same site that are quite helpful. When it comes to dual-cards you have these options: top end cards from ATI and NVIDIA that are actually two cards sandwiched together and plug into a single PCI-E slot (but are probably double width) <l

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I remember the days when it went like this: new full price game = chunky manual, maybe a poster and maybe even some little "gimick" cheap budgets game = on-disc manual in cheap box I would be disappointed with my budget game but accept it as the "price" of getting it cheap. Now a few things have happened that have changed things: games have, on the whole, got a lot shallower so the need for a manual has diminished <li

How about "Marketplace", "Emporium" or "Treasure Chest". Here are some of my thoughts (mostly related to the "Store"): Compressed view (ljust small icon and name on one line) - so you a can see more items Fill the space that is available better (i.e. auto-fill the content to the window size) Hide things you already have from the "Store" Wish list in the "Store" Web/image links from Impulse should stay in Impulse and not open anot

[quote]The reason is that the game is yesterday's news.[/quote] Many years ago I realised that buying new games was a waste of cash and switched to waiting until they dropped in price, realistically only a matter of a few months. This started to slip a few years ago when I was fortunate enough to be earning sufficient to make it less of an issue - so I fell back into the bad habit of buying games on or soon after release. I was still a lot more selective in what new game

As Vanderburg says - it's psychological. It is blatantly obvous that draconian DRM works no better than the old "type in word 7 on page 23" method - and it hasn't worked since it was introduced, so coming up with something else that wont work, wont change anything. It's the "extended warranty" scam all over again - pay 1/3 the cost of the thing you buy each year for "full cover" only to find it lasts more than 3 years and you could have bought a new one. It gives them fals

[quote]Wow. Not the kind of service I'm interested in to be frank.[/quote] That's what I thought until I tried it out - your talking £13 (GBP) - maybe $9 (USD) a month for full access (cheaper for older games). At that price you can even use it as a "try before you buy" deal. Lets you mess around with games you might otherwise ignore too - found some gems that way. If a games crap you haven't lost any cash on buying it. Geez, sounds like an advert - sor

@Spartan: From what I can tell GamersGate and GOG both work on the same principle as services like Direct2Drive and TryGames, Metaboli offer that service too. They seem to call themselves Games on Demand but are in fact more like Impulse & Steam - purchase and play individual games. Main difference being reduced or no DRM. Metaboli is true Games on Demand - monthly subscription based acccess to the entire catalogue from anywhere, on any machine based on your personal l