Great Machine!

Advantages: Quick Work-Out, Cheaper than Power Plates, Great Results
Disadvantages: Only tones your body, doesnt keep you fit.

...This machine is simply a must if you want to tone yourself up and not have the hassle of going to the gym for hours each week! I bought one of these off Ebay, and now so glad i did. Its simply an amazing piece of kit. My Personal Experience At first i thought, surely this machine cant be as good as i've been reading all over the net, people must be exagerating and just trying to sell the machine. How wrong i was.... The first time i used this, i trained at level 10 (ranges from 1-20) thinking i can take it at that level no problem, and sure enough i was ok, i did a few different positions for my legs, stomache and arms. I trained for about 10 minutes, as i wanted to see how much this would actualy do, and sales reports tell me that 10minutes of using this machine is equivelent to 1 hour at the gym. Boy oh boy did i feel it...

Mark_K 27.03.2008 (28.03.2008) · Read review
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Sony Dictation Machine......Interesting

Advantages: Great quality product
Disadvantages: None

...--Introduction-- This is a bit of a strange product to be reviewing, but nevertheless they are widely used pieces of equipment. I have found that dictation machines can be very handy and are generally very good at what they are designed to do. They have many different uses, most people will associate them with journalists who hound famous people for an interview. They can come in handy if you are in a meeting and you can't really keep up with what is being said. The use that my Dad had for this machine, was as a back up to his notes when he carried out inventories on rented property. He could desribe what he saw in front of him and it is far quicker than writing notes. He said that he also found it easier to describe awkward or strange things far easier through speech, than actually writing it down. --Sound Quality...

thespurs 26.10.2004 · Read review
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Dictation Lessons

Advantages: enjoyable watching the country grow
Disadvantages: not quite enough depth

..., although the Russians quite like this trait. Not quite PC that? Next you choose the difficulty settings for the island etc. which are massively definable,. Choose the size, shape and richness of the island resources and also how realistic the people and economy behave. On the hardest level expect to get killed within 20 years and the easiest level is very forgiving. For this reason I would say this is very good for younger dictators to cut their teeth on! The graphics are good, you can zoom right in to see individual people and even watch the bananas grow on the trees! Zooming out you can see the clouds scudding across the skies. By clicking on the people you can access a lot of information about your subjects, what they enjoy, what their family is like, where they work even what they think. The designers show a good sense...

DavidJWest 14.08.2001 · Read review
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great machine it works!

Advantages: it does asa it says
Disadvantages: might make you feel dizzy

...i can say that this is a great machine it really works and gives you good results i wouldnt say the best but you can certainly tell after a period of time that your body has toned up, i havent got one of these myself but i would like to get one when i can afford it lets say. the vibration on this machine is not like a massage its more intense and when you stay on it for quite a while you will feel your muscles tightnen thats when you know its working. so i definatly gives this machine a thumbs up, i suggest you buy this machine if your too lazy or bored to go to the gym because you can do many exercises on this in the comfort of your own home. this is a great machine and would recommend this a good buy...

sxyLizzy 16.07.2008 · Read review
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The Great Dictator

Advantages: Ingenius parody of Hitler and Mussolini
Disadvantages: Half of it is just another Tramp movie

...Charlie Chaplin is probably the most well known movie actor ever, who progressed from his ten to fifteen minute short films, such as 'The Champion' (1915), to larger works such as 'Modern Times' (1936) and this, 'The Great Dictator' (1940). The film follows two seperate storylines. The first is of the Dictator of Tomania, Adenoid Hynkel (Chaplin), who is planning to conquer the world; while the other is about the Dictator's double, a Jewish barber (also Chaplin), who had suffered amnesia after WWI to wake up to find that he has to live in the ghetto and that Hynkel's soldiers prowl the streets. Meanwhile, Hynkel has decided to go one further than his competetive 'friend' Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, by invading Bacteria. The film is obviously a parody of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis with Napaloni representing Mussolini. Of course...

jbsabbath 19.01.2004 · Read review
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The Dictator and the Doctor

Advantages: Impressive performances
Disadvantages: Mixes too much fiction with recent historical fact so that the two become blurred.

...The Last King of Scotland is based on Giles Foden's novel of the same name and is directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay adaptation by Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock. The story follows Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) who arrives in Uganda fresh from medical school during the early 1970s to work at a missionary clinic. His arrival coincides with the military coup led by Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). It is almost by chance that Garrigan comes across Amin and after giving him treatment for an injury he is invited to be his personal physician. It is not long though that he finds himself in the confidence of the dictator and eventually becomes a close political advisor. Initially Garrigan is seduced into new role and the opulence it brings, but he eventually becomes aware of the ruthless nature and savagery of the Ugandan...

Zmugzy 14.07.2009 · Read review
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Rage Against The Machine Album Review

Advantages: Hard, unconventional rock
Disadvantages: An acquired taste

...Rap-Metal group Rage Against the Machine released their self-titled debut album in 1992, but the music is just as relevant today as it was back then. Songs like 'Take the Power Back' and 'Freedom' are about individual exploitation by the cultural, social, and political systems in society, and how the people must be willing to rise up and overcome such oppression. You may have also recently heard about the small matter of 'Killing in the Name' beating X-Factor winner Joe McEderry to the number one spot, Christmas 2009, seventeen years after the single first debuted in the charts. The thing that really strikes you when you first listen to Rage is that they mean business. The whole album is intended to provide voice to the silent minority: Those individuals that feel neglected and abused are given hope through the band's resonant...

andycarrington 22.12.2009 · Read review
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The God Machine

Advantages: Totally original, mind-blowing music
Disadvantages: Not much of a discography

...Two studio albums, a smattering of singles and several covers. That's all there is, pretty much, in the discography of one of the finest and most original rock bands of all time. As usual, no doubt everyone will simply be thinking "Who?" If you've been living under a rock through he 90s and 00s, and haven't heard of the other bands I've reviewed such as Soundgarden or Linkin park, then you almost certainly haven't heard of this lot. The God Machine were a three-piece from the USA who for various reasons ended up playing in this country supporting My Bloody Valentine (oh dear, I can hear that chorus of "Who?" again...) in their tour of 1991. They attracted the interest of a record label (Creation Records) and recorded their first album, "Scenes From the Second Storey" in 1992. WHAT KIND OF MUSIC IS IT? A sort of stripped...

bagoproverbial 12.02.2005 · Read review
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Extraordinary Machine-Fiona Apple

Advantages: Like a well composed playful arty circus-infinitely better than the leaked version.
Disadvantages: Still a bit baroque and some might find it too chic and arty.

...Fiona Apple's third album, Extraordinary Machine, was subject to an Internet leak which resulted in fans having the unreleased version of this album before it was meant for commercial release. This really was tragic as the bootlegged version was terrible and really didn't do this extremely talented artist any justice. The leaked album from start to finish has the singer (and the producers) bad habit of making music deliberately hard to listen to. Going for bad baroque and pop-funk bastardisations that are mostly irritating to listen to. Although Apple's voice and lyrics are really wonderfull, the bad landscape of the album musically makes it a rough terrain that most wont be bothered with-unless they are die hard fans committed to being there through musical 'sickness & health'. Apple fans had waited ages for a new album and were...

SpookyMoon 15.06.2009 · Read review
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A Truly Amazing machine!

Advantages: Great Value for money, great games, fantastic online play
Disadvantages: Bulky and xboxlive is expensive

...with friends, but you do miss out on playing against your friends. Another set back is the fact that you need broadband. The easiest and fastest way to connect to xbox live is to plug the xbox directly into your router, however this often results in cables being run through your house. So you will probably want to buy the MS wireless addapter which retails at around £50. I'm a cheap-skate so I connect via my laptop which has wireless, this is easy if you you just search instructions on the internet. Overall I think the the xbox 360 is a fantastic machine which is not just for gaming, it does so much more. All I can say is buy it! Hope it helps....

Jojomojoe 06.04.2009 (05.04.2009) · Read review
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