McPhee
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You link the speakers up to the ports in the top right, each one will be labelled (i.e. front left, front right, centre, subwoofer, rear left, rear right). The reason for the weird looking ports is because they're designed to take Banana Plugs. Basically it's an alternative way of terminating the wire that makes assembly and disassembly easier. You can still use naked wire, you just unscrew the ports, slip the wire in the hole and screw them back up again. As for wire, try QED Silver. It's supposed to be good stuff and pretty cheap.
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I've finally worked out how to play this in multiplayer! Sod tactics, sod stealth and in Public games even trying teamwork is a waste of time. Been struggling to get good scores in games but now with Marathon Pro, Lightweight Pro and Commando Pro equipped and a UMP .45 in my hands I'm topping score boards. Sprinting around the map at full pelt constantly seems to work, I'm finding myself behind the enemy most of the time - for every other situation there's flashbangs :p
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Call of Duty debate: World at War or Modern Warfare 2?
McPhee replied to Beast's topic in Other Consoles
World at War for me, but that's basically because the single player in Modern Warfare 2 sucks donkey balls. It all feels like a rather tedious journey from one set piece to the next, the story is crap and half of the levels are dull/infuriating. I quite liked WaW, it felt like COD4 taken back to the WWII era. MW2 on the other hand is COD4's bad Hollywood sequel, Ocean's Twelve comes to mind. Enjoyable, but disappointing. Can't comment on the multiplayer though, I sold WaW before I got back online. Modern Warfare 2's is enjoyable, not too sure on the Killstreak Rewards though. Some of them are so horribly overpowered they're essentially handing good players some easy kills, further widening the gap when teams are stacked. -
It's still unlimited, they don't limit how much data you can use. All they're doing is limiting the amount you can use inside of your contract allowance Not that I agree with it. I think it's disgusting that Trading Standards and OFCOM haven't put an end to this "unlimited" rubbish.
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I found the same problems. Doesn't last long though, my first 5 or so games I did shocking! By the end of that evening I was Level 15 and I was starting to pull my K/D ratio back. It's less about your level and more about knowing the maps though really. All a higher level will give you is better equipment. Anyone else think it's odd that Deathstreaks are unlocks? I thought they were supposed to help newbies, but some aren't unlocked until level 30-something (when you really shouldn't be deathstreaking anyway...)
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I've kinda lost interest in Alan Wake now, it's been too long coming. No doubt that'll change closer to release though. Any firm date yet?
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Same problem here Daft. I've basically turned my back on Live, PC gaming is just so much cheaper (typical £20-£25 a game rather than £35-£40) and the online is free. Unfortunately quite a few of my mates are picking up L4D2 and in order to play with them I need to buy the 360 version AND Live. That's like 3 times the price of the PC version! I'm gritting my teeth and getting it though, 12 month live subs can be had off eBay for £25 and I've got COD:MW2 to trade in against L4D2.
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Sounds more like what I was expecting. The estimates of £100+ earlier in the year were ridiculous, it'd be a waste of Microsoft's time and money to try launching such a device at that price point. Well, I guess that means that another 6 months down the line we'll start seeing some hands-on reports and hopefully some idea as to whether or not it's any good.
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6/10 on the single player game. Good, but the story is pretty crap compared to the first, the quality of the levels isn't as good and a few are very frustrating. Overall I enjoyed it, but Batman: AA remains my GOTY. Tomorrow night I'll give Spec Ops a try I think before grabbing a Live sub and having a blast at the multiplayer. So far I'd say it wasn't bad for £22 but I wouldn't have paid full-whack for it (so pretty much as expected really).
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Not going to happen. IE will retain the largest market share, the business market will prop it up. We see it now with IE6, most IE6 users are corporate rather than home. Still, I do think that the Ballot screen should be globally enforced. I should see it in Chrome, an OS X user should see it in Safari etc. Under the current plan it will just result in some IE users jumping ship to Firefox or Chrome, no smaller browsers will get a look in.
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They're walking around in the demo, there's usually one roaming around in the park. They're more powerful this time too, they'll throw you out of the way as they run at the target. Cannot wait on this to be honest, far more hyped than I am about ACII or MW2.
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It's good to have a Brit as the champ, but why did it have to be that ass hole? I didn't so much want to see Valuev win, more see Haye loose. I dislike the guy for who he is rather than for his boxing.
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He won 114-116-116 vs 114-112-112 didn't he? Seems like a pretty crap result to me. While he won neither fighter was the clear winner, I'd have preferred a draw and a rematch at the O2 arena for a more decisive win. But hey, it now looks like Haye could go down in history as one of the greatest boxers of all time (along side Valuev ironically). I hope the next big fight is a bit more eventful though, this was dull and the Hatten match was way too short. It almost feels like a waste of time watching.
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All I'm saying is my copy has already been put aside. Wasn't buying it, but something I saw today (not that screen, before I saw the deal on HUKD) changed my mind.
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Don't remind me. It's been 4 years since I last did any web programming and some nights I still wake up screaming "Why IE?!!?!?? WHHHHHHHY!"
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I've used IE8 in the past (before other browsers supported Jump Lists). Not a bad browser at all really. Not as fast as Chrome or as customisable as Firefox but it's pretty solid and has some nice features. Chrome's speed is the thing that's pulled me away from it (And it suggesting URLs based on Google searches, which I like. Makes visiting new websites a lot simpler). IE6 is the real problem, and sadly until XP dies it will remain a problem. Full of security holes on top of it being really very rubbish (it doesn't even have tabbed browsing!).
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NoScript and AdBlock -> Any AV software out there. Having said that i'm currently running MS Security Essentials to test it out (and because i'm currently running Chrome, no NoScript/AdBlock). I don't even know it's there tbh, not had it pop up once since set-up. I like
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An unstable overclock? It's always the simple things, eh? BTW, your DX version in DXDiag should be 11. It's the software version, not the hardware Oddly I've noticed something similar on my new headphones, it's almost like a shit in-game Uzi sound effect (like from the original Tomb Raider games or something). Lasts about a second. I'm putting up with it at the moment, not a clue where to start on sorting it.
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Can't say I can recommend these drives, I own one and find it really, really slow. There's a noticeable lag when loading programs, especially right after boot. Compared to the Samsung drive it replaced it's really, really bad. Maybe I'm being unfair on it though, it did replace a 3.5" 7200RPM drive so I should have expected it to be slower. Who knows? I know mine is getting reduced to storage duty soon though, picking myself up an SSD in the next week or two to replace it, really can't be doing with the long boot times and lag any more.
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It's out on the same day as Assassin's Creed 2 Modern Warfare 2 and everything else left in the Christmas line-up I can leave, but the 3 games I've been looking forward to most are L4D2, Assassin's Creed 2 and Batman. The 20th is gonna be an expensive day...
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The power output of the soundcard must be too powerful for the headphones. You'll need to buy an in-line volume control thingy; http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search/ref=pd_lpo_ix_dp_am_us_uk_en_headphone.020volume.020control.020attachment_gl_electronics?keywords=headphone%20volume%20control%20attachment&tag=lpo_ixdpamusukenheadphone.020volume.020control.020attachmentgl_electronics-21&index=blended Or if you're handy with a soldering iron just solder a potentiometer into the headphone cord, does the same trick and costs about 20p.
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You seen a Quad SMG yet? Those things are a bloody disaster... for the enemy High fire rates, good damage per shot but stupidly low accuracy (~30%). They burn through a clip in seconds but there's rarely anything left alive afterwards. I used one as my close range gun all the way up until New Haven.
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Sennheisser HD555's Been after a decent pair of headphones for a while and found them at a bargain (£35!) price so figured I had nothing to lose. They sound brilliant!
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You're an exception by the looks of it, everyone else seems to be fine. It's very odd, but it points to a driver or hardware problem specific to your machine rather than a problem with Windows 7 itself. The easiest way to find out which would be just to reinstall W7. If it works after that then it was driver related, if it's still not working then it's probably hardware related. Alternatively pop over to http://forums.nvidia.com/ and see if anyone can help you there.