gaggle64

since their revamp, The Guardian mostly, or sometimes The Independant when I'm loking fir something more opinionated.

It's all about hand-eye coordination isn't it?

To be honest, it does just sound like almost random blether, some of which could just happen be true. I'm happy to wait for Nintendo to tell me all. I will say two things though - I sincerely believe that Shigsy will get Reggie to kick the ass and take the name of anyone he even thinks about asking him about a new Kid Icarus, and Sonic in Smash Bros. would suck. Sonic sucks. He used to rock, but even a smattering of decent handheld games can't halt the suck of his console outings for the last several years. Sonic sucks, and until Sega learn how to make a decent 3D Sonic game, we're all going to have to get used to that. Mega Man too. Would it really kill them to let him duck every once in a while?

What would be REALLY funny if that was to become a major two-parter for series 3. The same genius that succesfully defeated an entire armada of Daleks? I wouldn't bloody mess with him.

I find it very difficult to view the Areo desktop as anything other then a totally needless and possibly an impractical feature. Will Vista basic have DX10, or are they going to hold my future enjoyment of PC games hostage again? To be honest if I had known that Bootcamp was coming, I would have most likely got a Mac. EDIT: While we're here are there any DX10 cards out yet? On Overclockers.co.uk, there are GeForce 7900s listed as "Built for Vista" but it's not immediatly obvious.

I refuse to believe they're that bad. Gaggle's got time for ALL the ladies.

Your missing the point. The fact that there are dozens of people that no-one can find, who under normal circumstances would be tagged and monitored, is almost (ALMOST) beside the point. What is so worrying is the fact that this is not one collosal mistake, but a continous and repeted act of negligence over several years. These people can't sort their own paperwork, but I'm expected to trust them with my civil liberties. It's farcical, and I expect much better from my government. Don't you?

It's not about being foreign - it's about incompetent government. Surely you must agree that you expect your own government to be organised then this. The Home Office doesn't even have records on what about 100 of them did. The fact that there are 5 pedophiles and 20 drug dealers not being monitored in any way alone would indicate severe incompetence on the part of the Home office.

The question of competing products from rival comapnies is always going to be part of the debate around all new Windows releases. Only for the past few years have the likes of Mac, or Mozilla with their Firefox browser have started to be able to offer any real alternative as Microsoft is finally halted in it's quest to destroy all competition by the sheer weight of it's bank account. It's like in Topgear - they review a car, but usually also have a quick look to see what the competition offers. Otherwise, the question wouldn't be "if" you were going to get the new Windows, but more the same question of "when" which many consumers have had to endure for many years.

Losing 1023 people over seven years and only 107 have been found? That is a lot of people to lose. How can the home office defend that? Incidentally, as Home sectery, it Clarkes job to make sure this doesn't happen, or else is cleared up when it does. I've eaten gelatine deserts that could've done the job better.

Hopefully Peter Jackson can show em' all how it's done. If he fails, we can all look forward to more of this sort of "entertainment" for years to come. Does John Woo still hold the Metroid rights?

You just can't make this kind of crap up. From http://www.bbc.com/news How any supposedly organised department manages to accidentally free more then 1000 convicted criminals is well beyond my understanding. Well done Mr Charles Clarke - your incompetence and the incompetence of your department has finally tipped this nation over the brink and into total idiocy and farce. :mad:

A Couple of things - a) Mortal Komabat was OK, but not great. b) Doom (the film) was rubbish. c) The writer isn't saying that video games are making bad films. He/she is just using video games as a similie/metaphor to explain his/her point.

It's difficult to comprehend how little excited I am.

EDIT: Re-reading the article, I think the writer is simply using video games as a similie for producers letting stupid audiences ruin films by puttting them in control, like gamers. Although I do think that Mortal Kombat was at least half-decent.

Go away, borrow a mates Mac for a week, and report back.

Lets face it people. This just sin't going to happen. Whatever Nintendo have up their sleave WILL be BETTER then THIS.

With just over a month to go, I wouldn't say it's too late. If your at AS level, you probably have at least a vague grasp on your stuff already. Unlees you've been doing jack shit ALL YEAR, you'll be just fine. You probably need the rest anyway - better then wasting it getting stressed.

If it's anything like XP was, I think I might give it a few months until they disocver THE big security fault or bug that will ineviatbly ship with it. EDIT:"The company is too big and too slow to ship updates to its biggest products. It's collapsing under its own weight." My thoughts exactly.

It's not a bad idea, and I would like to see it in MAy, if only out of curosity.

Nintendo already did the sterescopic 3D thing with the Virtual Boy, and it was a disater. Lets not raise that bloated corpse now shall we?

Those Bwain ads that Arnie did in Japan are terrifying, and Claud van Damme is a s amusing as ever, but my fav ad has to be for Guinness. My two favourites are both for guinness. The first is the classic sea-horse ad. My real fav though, is this on that was rejected by drinkers in the ninties, on account of the idea of being so outrageous. The tagline alone is superb: "Not everything makes sense in black and white." Those WKD ads have never looked so shit.

Ubisoft did say they would be bringing at least on other FPS as well as an exclusive Revo project (Red Steel.) We know Gearbox, who are FPS-mental, love the FHC. We know the Rev can run the Unreal3 engine, the engine BIA3 uses. I'm sure Ubisoft isn't above making a quick port for what would be an easy buck. There are just too many pieces that could fit. COULD fit. As I said before, plausable, but unlikely. I geuss the other possibility would probably be Farcry...

The whole plot to Hero has some very nice ideas (the whole of thing of a different colour scheme for each version of the truth he tells is a wonderful conception) but at points it really did get a little too preachy and pretentious, and the underlying drama just wasn't good enough to keep it together. Somehow the cast just didn't quite get the chance to their acting thang. The film just skipped merrily from one insane high-kicking situation to the next mega-emotional moment, but I never felt like any of the characters were given time to develop, destroying the drama. The result was I just didn't really get intrested in the characters. When they're going around pretending to kill each other and shizzle, you need the relationship between the characters to be strong, not just in terms of story, but also in the minds eye of the audience. Without the nescerry charcterisation, I just felt this was all a tad flat. The terrible side-effect is I don't believe anything that happens. I believe that everything happend as it happend in Crouching Tiger, I'm convinced that the future of a proud ruling family is very truly at stake. These are real people flying around the roof tops. In order for these sorts of films to work, they demand that suspension of disbelief from the audience and I simply never got that with Hero. Flying Daggers had great charcters and a decent story, but I simply felt they were rather underused. Don't get me wrong, Hero was OK, and Daggers is quite good, certainly entertaining but neither are quite what they need to be, and don't hold a candle to the masterclass that is Crouching Tiger. Then again, few films do...

I loved Crouching Tiger, but didn't think much of House of Flying Daggers or Hero. The choreography and cinematography was great in all what made Tiger so good was the great drama and characters that ties it all together. I just didn't think Hero or Daggers achieved the same level of quality in those vital areas, which is must for this high-octane art house films.