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I used to tri monitor at 4384x2748 but I don't have the need any more. Down to 1440x900 these days.

Eurgh... don't tell me you actually read the Daily Mail? Save your soul while there's still time!

This makes no real difference. All it means is that shop staff can't be prosecuted for selling videogames to underage kids. Pretty much every company under the sun will continue to enforce the policy though and anyone caught selling games to minors will still be subject to the company's disciplinary procedure. Sadly until the government get around to sorting this out we'll have loads of kids trying it on and insisting that we can no longer stop them buying the games... Both laws are irrelevent though, you have to be a Scottish (or Welsh) national in order for them to apply. I do hope the government don't forget to lift this law if Scotland ever gains independance though, it could get messy

Inglorious Basterds 9/10 Bloody fantastic! Funny, gripping and brutally gory. My only complaint is i didn't think there was quite enough of the Basterds in it. Could have done with seeing em knock over a couple of Nazi patrols, maybe even letting Stiglitz fire off that bloody big gun of his.

One of the shops in town was selling this today for... £45! I'd have put my money down if it was £40 but at that price i'll just wait til Friday and pick it up from work. I didn't order off the net because there seems to be a lot of confusion with the PC version's release date, some shops are saying this Friday, others 18/9/09. If it's out on PC this week then i'll pick up the PC version, it'll be a good tenner cheaper Soooooo jealous of all of yoos who are playing it now

Assuming it is only 12. I'm sure Microsoft are perfectly capable of breaking their own rules if they think it's necessary. It'll need a full game worth of achievements really. Anyone got any idea on a release date? Is it this year?

Read through this; http://www.custompc.co.uk/handsonguides/2166/and-number-01/ Custom PC rate the original as the hardest PC game ever made mostly because it's so damn frightening and tense to play through. I've got a feeling the new one will play out in a very similar way but with updated visuals (which might actually make it even worse for fear factor). Finally the good games are mounting up again, this year's been a little sparse so far (imo).

I've had the opposite experience, bought a PCI card and it was a nightmare to install. You had to install part of the drivers, power down the PC, install the hardware, reboot and then finish installing the drivers. Not too hard. The problems came when i'd reinstall the OS and forget to take the card out before hand. As soon as you do this the drivers won't work and i'd find myself reinstalling the OS. Not fun when you're trying to keep up with Win7 Beta builds. The best networking solutions are Homeplugs, really can't be beaten for simplicity. No hassle, you just plug em in and forget about it

Might be worth spec'ing that up at DinoPC, PCOption and PC Specialist too. My brother recently bought a PC from Dino and it worked out quite a bit cheaper than Mesh (as did the other two, but Dino were the cheapest).

What are we talking then? A 9/10 for you? Well hyped for this, not long now! Not been this excited over a game release since Street Fighter IV (and believe me, i was bouncing off the walls on the days running up to it).

I thought it was just in the US that they were cutting the price? They already cut it here to £199 (or was it £219.99? I can't remember) a few months ago. In the US the price just dropped to $299 to compete with the PS3 at $299. In the UK they don't have that problem, the 360 Elite is already cheaper.

That looks amazing! Really wasn't expecting it to look that good!

I thought the Evergreen cards were going to be more energy efficient, down the lines of the 4770? Might be wrong, but if they are then a good 400W PSU should be fine for all except maybe the top of the line card. I'm currently running a 4850 on a 350W PSU, have been since i upgraded in May and i've had no trouble. The IGP on the 785G is definitely enough for HD video btw. ATi haven't done a card or chip in years that won't deal with HD video

I used a 360 controller along with the mouse for a while last year when i sliced my finger open at work. Was pretty good, tho it took a bit of getting used to and the 360 controller is a bit big to hold in one hand. I'd imaging a Wii Nunchuck would work quite nicely, though you might be a bit lacking in buttons.

Well that could be arranged if you really, really want

No? Care to place a bet on that? Infractions issued, users banned from thread. Can we do this at a reasonable hour next time please? I was just going to bed when the reported post emails came through EDIT: Hmm, it seems i've either forgotten how to ban people from threads or the option just isn't there anymore I hate doing this shit on a phone, it's not easy!

I missed the preorders. Not too fussed though, waiting for details of the "Family Pack" to come out. If it's a reasonable price at launch (£100-£150) then i'll get that instead. By launch time we'll have 2 PCs, one MAC, one server and 4 laptops, i'll need as many liscences as i can as cheaply as i can buy them.

Wait... When was the last time a Fireman visited a school to give a safety talk to then be found in the boys toilets bending little Johnny over a sink? Anyone?

Are we talking real-time video editing here? Or just splicing videos together, adding title screens etc.? If it's the latter then it should just about be possible. If you're looking at real-time editing using something like Sony Vegas then you've got not a hope in hell of getting a laptop that'll do that for less than £800, you'd likely be looking at a grand. Real time editing pretty much needs a Quad Core CPU and they are pretty new (and expensive) to the mobile arena. You also need a good video card (mobile 9600GT at the very least). For £400 you could pick up a desktop that'll do the job though.

You guys do realise that the RRP of most 360 titles is £49.99, right? It's only a £5 price hike. I'm not saying i like it, but it's hardly the end of the world.

That's how i took it. Are you sure he realised he was a terrorist though? Maybe he just saw a lone Asian and thought to himself "Here we go! Game time!"? It is Glasgow afterall! :p

What point? The one that says you're trolling the thread with one sentence "arguments" that are usually inane, baseless and grown out of a complete lack of knowledge of the war, the tactics, the history of the region and the regional and global politics surrounding it? If we're staying on topic i really can't see how anyone can justifiably think the armed forces shouldn't have this equipment. The current stuff is obviously pretty useless against bombs which basically means either A) We send the equipment or B) These soldiers keep dying in greater and greater numbers as the Taliban, al-Qaeda, Laskar-e-Taiba and various other Pakistani militant groups realise just how easy it is to kill British soldiers using this tactic. To make matters worse and greatly more embarrasing we're not the only nation fighting this war. Having our soldiers blown up in pimped out Land Rovers while the French (as an example) sit happily inside their armoured APCs is an embarrasment, we're showing the world that we clearly don't value the lives of our soldiers as much as they do. And Jay, while i can't speak for others I personally haven't bothered to argue with you over your points because to do so would involve me writing an essay. Your posts make it very clear that you have little understanding of the situation outside of the basic awareness that most of the country shares. I'm avoiding facts again here simply because it's too much time and effort. To argue against this point, for example; I'd have to go in to detail about what is known about the NATO and UIF strategies to secure the country and what steps are being taken to ensure minimal bloodshed. For this to make sense i'd also need to go in to Afghanistan's history and the history of some of the surrounding countries including political and military alliances of past and present. That alone would likely take me well in excess of an hour. Then one of two things would happen. Either you'd go away and find out facts to counter my argument or you'd fight back with an inane comment like "But... war is BAAAAAD!". Basically i see it winding up like this; As for my opinion on your point, i do think the war will end. I don't think it will mean peace for Afghanistan though. While the UIF are all buddies right now it's very much a case of "my enemy's enemy is my friend". There'll be a civil war within 5 years of us pulling out. Who knows though, after that they might finally get some stability. Either way, at least they won't be under the rule of a facist regime like the Taliban any more.

If America didn't go in to Afghanistan then the same al-Qaeda infrastructure that launched the 9/11 attacks would still be in place. Can anyone honestly say that they'd have gone "right, 9/11 is done, lots of Americans are dead, lets go home!"? Are you that deluded? There'd have been more attacks. Who knows, maybe they had plans that would even overshadow the events of 9/11? As for our part in the war, who's to say that these attacks would only take place on US soil? Even before these wars we were already al-Qaeda's public enemy #2. The war in Afghanistan effectively protected us, the people of Great Britain. It wasn't just about US vengance or the protection of US liberties, it is about out liberties too. If we didn't join the war i'd feel ashamed to be part of this nation, our government would have let our allies down and they would have let us down.

While i agree with you there isn't a great deal that can be done with that one. The government needs to support those who can't work and by doing so it's very difficult to stop people from exploiting the system. The only way it's going to change is if these people are made to feel incredibly guilty about doing it. I'd love to see the PM come on TV and blame people like that for the death of every soldier in Afghanistan. The difference is the people in the army choose to be there. They choose to risk life and limb for this country. They could have had a different (and much safer) future but they made the decision to represent this country and it's interests by signing on to the armed forces. If the government isn't doing everything in it's power to ensure the safety of the men and women that make up our armed forces then that is disgraceful. Does a few hundred/thousand/whatever civillians dying every day in Africa somehow make the unnecessary deaths of our troops less tragic? Or are you simply hiding behind these people so you don't have to face the FACT that people are dying in Afghanistan to protect your sorry, ungrateful ass? You say that you're sick of seeing this stuff all over the news? Well sorry, but i'm pretty sure there's a few hundred men on the front lines in Afghanistan that are "sick" of seeing their buddies body parts flying through the sky in a shower of blood, guts and shrapnel. At least be greatful for their sacrifice if you can't find it in yourself to be disguisted that the sacrifice has to be made in the first place.

I'd expect the reason why the army is short on funds is because there isn't any money to give them. Cutting costs elsewhere would cause more damage to the country than allowing ~20 soldiers a year to die in Afghanistan. It's a horrid thing to admit, but very likely to be true. The lives of the soldiers dying over there are far cheaper than the equipment that would be required to reduce those casualties.