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An infinite number of universes, and I get stuck in this one.

I didn't realise any of the others managed to finish. I only saw the event on the news, so it was always cut short.

It was a snowboarding race with 4 competitors starting. 2 had already crashed out, Jacobellis had the race in the bag, yet decided to show off and grab her board a jump or two from the end and fell on landing. So in fact all the remaining racers did pass her.

$110 labour for installing a hard drive? Wow, I'm in the wrong business. It really is as simple as you think to change a hard drive. Literally a few seconds work.

That's something you have to do no matter what. You'll always budget for a period of time spent optimising your code. The trick is knowing when to stop. There will be a tradeoff in time spent polishing, and missing out on money you could be making by shipping it earlier. In the case of...

How does setting a minimum resolution drive up development costs? It may be a misguided approach to stipulate that all games will be "hi-def", but it makes no real difference to the developer in terms of cost. Where it does cost is the performance penalty of high resolutions over lower ones...

I'm not sure I'd read too much into some PS3 tech demos. Sony has a habit of over-hyping the hardware and then failing to deliver that performance in final silicon. With the budgets for AAA titles rising as they are, most devs are going to want to be able to put out a title on both formats...

Hard to believe it's taken until now for Apple to come up with some sort of scroll device on a mouse. I think the single most useful addition to pc mice has been the scroll wheel, to the point where I simply can't use a mouse without one. My finger just starts rubbing the area where it should be.

Multiple instances of svchost is normal, they are just windows services. A quick check with google on any process running that you can't identify will usually reveal whether it is benign or not.

Wouldn't titling the reviews with PSP UMD and having them in the HT Software forum get them a wider audience? Not a big deal really, it's not like this forum is snowed under with posts.

Seems a bit odd to me having these in video game software. The y aren't games, so they aren't appropriate here.

Just a thought, but are you playing it using the external or one of the two internal views? A lot of people like to race using the external view because they get to look at their nice shiny car, but in my experience it's almost worthless trying to play that way, as you tend to overcorrect all...

I bought a crystal xbox recently to replace one I gave away. It was nice only paying £95 for it instead of the £350 I think I paid when it launched originally. The clear case is kind of pointless though, since the internals are shielded completely with a metal cage, so you can't see anything...

I know you can play offline, but since I have an ADSL conection maintained by a router which is always on, I'm not about to start unplugging cables just to avoid the authentication. I'm not saying it's any effort, it just needs to fire up Steam before the game starts, which only takes about 20...

Store bought versions still have a CD check, Steam bought installs of course do not. The CD check is likely a requirement stipulated by Vivendi Universal, rather than Valve. I doubt Valve mind too much though. It could be seen as a fuck you to all the people that said they wouldn't touch...

It is a great game. Only 2 things are spoiling it for me at the moment (or 3 if you count the flakey Steam issues), both audio related. The first is the stuttering, which to judge by the number of complaints isn't restricted to any particular hardware. The second is surround sound not...

I don't know the specifics of the xbox's sound API, but I would imagine the addition of a centre channel is transparent to the programmers. A sound effect would be played with a number of parameters and a position in space, this would be converted into a number of sounds mixed into the...

Sounds unlikely they would change the street date. It would normally be Vivendi (the publisher) who would make that decision. A number of copies have been sold, but they are worthless until the 16th, since all copies of the game need to be activated on Steam before they work, even if you only...

Just got it here in the UK. Looks OK, nothing special, but then it is running on 3 year old hardware. Worst thing for me is having to use sticks for control. I remember now why the first Halo was the last time I played an FPS on a console. Quite tempted to invest in one of these...

Oh absolutely, you want to get to the bottom of it. Some other spyware related utilities you could try: Spybot search and destroy - this might find some stuff that adaware is missing. http://spybot.safer-networking.de/ spywareblaster - this is used to prevent nasty stuff installing...

The best thing I could suggest is use something like Mozilla instead of IE. A far better browser, and much less likely to get hijacked or allow pop-ups. www.mozilla.org It's free of course.

Not only that, but you're getting stiffed on the price too. The region 2 DVD is available for £5.99, which is a shade under $10.

As an alternative to web mail, you could try this: http://www.mailwasher.net/ This would just download headers, and allows you to delete mail from the server, as well as all the other spam handling stuff.

Thanks for the info, but I've solved it now. I just needed to add a language in the language preference window in tools/options. Odd sort of solution, but then I've given up MS making complete sense. Now I have 10 critical updates to install.

Never had any joy with solving this, clearing settings, etc made no difference. As for the router and single IP, that isn't a problem, as I have 5 machines in total on this network, and they can all update apart the problem one. All have valid installations too, so unless the XP key for the...

Yes, it looks like manual downloads are the only solution at present, but it's a pretty poor one. I wonder how common this is then, given I'm not the only one.

Simple problem. I have a number of pcs on my home network, all have ADSL access via a router. Two of them run Windows XP, one a desktop, the other a laptop connected by 802.11b. Recently the desktop one has stopped being able to get any windows updates, but not in the way you'd imagine. By which...

Ah, didn't even realise it was a subscription based game. I'll definitely be giving that a miss then. I'm just too much of a cheapskate to part with money every month to play a game when there are so many free alternatives. It's going to be hard to change people's perception of pc gaming from...

All very informative, but is it any fun? Especially considering the whopping download involved.

That's the trouble with the list of the greatest (or worst) of anything, you're always going to disagree with some of it. Kind of makes these things a bit pointless.