One2One in the Long Term

Advantages: Voicemail is free - and you are gonna need it...!!!
Disadvantages: Network congestion, brickwall responses and a lack of interest by cusomer services - every person I dealt with told me they don't use O2O...

...In the best traditions of consumer and prodcut testing, it's time to overview a long-term test of the dreaded One2One network. The background to this article can be found under 'The Worst There Is..!!'. Being just short of 12 months since I bought an All-In-One pack, during which I had a iffy encounter with an NEC DB500 and a pleasant reliable unit in the form of an Ericsson A1018. However, it's a shame that the quality of the A1018 was completely overshadowed in practise by the sheer poor quality of the One2One network. Examples of the quality and network performance include :- 1) Local network outgages that extended on a few occassions into the realms of 96 hrs. Not 'the end of the world', you may think.. but when you are handling phone enquires for work from home, having to go 3 miles down the road and handle the calls...

RoadWarrior 04.09.2000 (07.12.2000) · Read review
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Long term test on Corsa 1.2i

Advantages: Easy to drive, economical
Disadvantages: Boring as you can imagine

...LONG TERM TEST: Vauxhall Corsa 1.2i Merit PLODDING ALONG Long term tests can be a Godsend. As motoring journalists we usually have a car for just one or two days which only normally equates to around 4 hours driving time. In this time we have to make judgements which could, we hope, have an effect on whether or not readers buy the car. Having a car for 6 months allows us to make some real judgements of the merits and pitfalls of a car in day to day use. However, in this case, when I was landed with the task of driving Vauxhall?s Corsa 1.2i Merit for 6 months, the 4-hour test seemed much more appealing. It?s not that the Corsa has a bad reputation, it just doesn?t have a good reputation. My assignment was to determine once and for all, is the Corsa any good? The Corsa is an awful piece of automotive engineering. First...

CJThorp 13.08.2000 · Read review
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Gears Of War 2

Advantages: Fantastic Gameplay and Playability
Disadvantages: Not your typical 3rd person shooter (taking cover is required!)

...The heavy hitting "Gears Of War" was a giant step into the world of future gaming, it's mind blowing in-game graphics and fantastic gameplay gave birth to a game which was not only playable once..but endless! times."Gears Of War 2" packs a much larger punch.With a lot of hours placed into the making of GOW:2 to guarantee fans of the original be satisfied, they have managed to make a game which will not only test your skill but will force you to think up a cunning strategy..or a thousand.Computer A.I (in game characters) will react to your every move,which is good if your pinned down behind a blown up vehicle with constant fire and need a hand from a comrade.However this can also be reversed in the way that if you have a enemy locked down your iron sight...he is going to call in his "friends" to help get you out his path.Gears 2 is all...

kiero23 25.11.2008 · Read review
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Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz - 17" TFT

Advantages: nice screen, good battery life, fast specs
Disadvantages: large size (price?)

...Apple mac-books, where to start... ok, so to start, it is an apple, that means you get a solid quality product and on the whole very good customer are. this particualar apple is deffinatly more suited to being a media center than other laptops. At first glance you realise that it is a fairly large laptop, this allows for a big screen, which being an apple ffers clear vivid displays, unfortunatly the big screen increases the overal size and also uses more battery, however, the 4.5 hour yattery is still very good for an entertainment laptop. The laptops technical specs include a very fast 2.5 ghz dual core proccesor which is very fast, the dual core allows it to tackle multiple tasks quicly as well as increasing the overall speed of the laptop. The price is quite steep however, but i believe, if given the money, it is...

pieceofmind 29.04.2008 (30.04.2008) · Read review
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my gears of war 2 review

Advantages: great graphics, Fun
Disadvantages: Slow matchmaking

...Campaign I really enoyed the first campagin but as money reviewers stated it was quite short and the ending did annoy some. Thankfully the story is much better off this time round. The story follows macrus and dom on an emotional story to finish off the locust and find doms wife maria. Presentation As gears of war 1 looked so incredible many different reviewers questioned if gears of war 2 could look any better than the first. But since epics showing of the newly updated unreal engine peoples minds started to beleive and gladly they did. The graphics are incredible, bascially mindblowing. They have improved alot than the first gears of war, with added extras like new water effects you cant go wrong. Multiplayer The multiplayer is pretty much the same as the first but with some tweaks. Firstly the shotguns damgaed has been...

carlingtop08 01.12.2008 · Read review
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Love on the Rocks?

Advantages: A Classic Comedy/Drama.
Disadvantages: None to speak of.

...Terms of Endearment was released in 1983, a Comedy/Drama classic which took cinema goers by storm largely due to the remarkable pairing of two brilliant people, Jack Nicholson and Shirley MacLaine an unlikely couple by any stretch of the imagination. The strong casting and inspired screenplay turned the novel by Larry McMutry into the Oscar-winning best film of the year and became a cinema legend. Synopsis ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) is the over-possessive widowed mother of Emma (Debra Winger), their thirty-year relationship a stormy one. When Emma marries the feckless Flap Horton against her mother's wishes and moves away to live in near-poverty with two small sons Aurora is left alone in her large lavish house with an obnoxious neighbour Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson) constantly annoying her. Garrett is...

Elffriend 13.09.2005 · Read review
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H2O mop

Advantages: no chemicals
Disadvantages: didnt work well

...I found the H2O mop does not work well like they show on the commercials. I found it didn't glide easily across the floor and it didn't clean well like it says. It's stated to hold over the dirty/stained area for a couple minutes for hard to remove stains and after more than 10 minutes it was still not any cleaner. I also found the cloth cover did not come very clean after a wash. If it actually worked as well as it is supposed to the $100 cost would be well worth it. I personally don't reccomend this product for carpet areas although I did not try it on hardwood floors. It's supposed to work well on heavier stains and with my experience it did not even work well on a light stain....

prplryn 08.11.2008 · Read review
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Slimline Playstation 2

Advantages: Small, Lightweight, Looks nice, Cheap , Watch movies, loads of games, online gameplay
Disadvantages: Can break easily, Only 2 controllers,

...The ps2 is a great console although it is almost10 years old. It has alot of features that anyone can use with ease. On it you can watch Movies, Play games and also play online with people around the world providing that you can internet access on it. there are a wide variety of games available for it and they are also quite cheap. The playstation itself can come quite cheap with prices starting at £40 in some shops. You might also want to get some accessories for it such as the vertical stand, the eyetoy camera and the DVD remote if you want one. The only bad points about the playstation i would say are the fact that it is quite fragile and would break easily....

thedon123 14.06.2009 · Read review
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playstation 2

Advantages: lots of fun for kids
Disadvantages: can easily spend to much time on it

...I have to say I am a great fan of the playstation 2, my son has one and he loves to play it, as do I. Although I tend to limit the time he spends on it. I cant really find anything bad about the ps2, but lately it has been partly to blame for a few problems in my family, my younger brother who is 15 years old first got his when he was about 8 years old, he was over the moon, my mother also put a limit on the time he would spend on it. He was fine with this, he was`nt really a child who went out a lot so most of his time was spent on the playstation or having a chin wag with anyone who would listen, he was always very smart and sensible. (or so we thought) Since then he has gathered up lots of games and still enjoys playing on the ps2, but he moved in with his father when he was 14, this is were the problem began as he started to...

jenny967 14.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Sony PlayStation 2 - Slimline Model (PS2)

Playstation 2

Advantages: Ease of use, Simple, Slim
Disadvantages: Sometimes when you use fake joysticks they often get damaged quickly.

...My Experience I got this gaming console as a Birthday Gift around an year ago. So I have more than 1 years experience with this product. And I think that this is a great gaming console. I use this even to listen to audio CD's and watch movies.Yes, that's right you can also watch DVD's and listen to Audio CD's but not MP3 format cd's and dvd. Even so, the graphics of the games, the speed of game play, the ease of playing games with its Dual Shock 2 Analogue Joystick( even wireless is available) is just an amazing experience. Most of the time I preffer playing Action/Shooting, Racing and Soccer games. I can even buy a multi-tap and upto 8 friends can join me in gaming with the same console. The slim version has an intergrated internet adapter so all you need is an internet connection. I have tried this internet connection to download...

huxen69 22.02.2009 · Read review
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