Choppers Incoming!

Advantages: A good mix of humour and seriousness
Disadvantages: I can't find any

...that remain that prevails the longest. Sort of along the 'they can crush us but they'll never crush our spirit' lines. This Series Now Series 1 of this wonderful series consists of twenty-four episodes and for that reason alone I am not going to describe each and every episode but simply give you an overview of what the series is about and pick out a couple of my favourite moments. Throughout the series the staff at the 4077th MASH unit frequently find themselves knee deep in wounded and running out of both beds and medical supplies. The endless need for the doctors to spend their days and nights performing what is coined 'meatball surgery' leaves them sleep deprived and frustrated by a lack of military incompetence. In such situations people either break or they don't and it is those that don't that forge the best friendships...

MI9to5 01.01.2009 (08.02.2009) · Read review
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Review of M.A.S.H. - Series 1 (Box Set) (DVD)

Super-charged Growth and Income to Boot

Advantages: Outstanding performance, Small flexible fund, superb management
Disadvantages: 5.25% initial charge, but discounted through execution only brokers.

...When a fund manager is prepared to invest his own pension fund in the fund he is managing, I'd say that shows confidence and commitment. Artemis Income fund was launched on 17 May 2000 and has proved to be a tremendous growth stock, without regard for the income potential. I understand that, not only do the management team have heaps of their own money invested in their funds, but their pensions too. Artemis (in mythology the daughter of Jupiter) is being heralded as the new Jupiter and that is one superb accolade. Jupiter funds may well have been so successful due to the personal gains that the team stood to make if the funds performed well, and Artemis have created a similar situation but with a different strategy. Every single one of the Artemis funds is soaring high and it is difficult to chose between them. In its time...

petehall 22.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Artemis - UK Income Fund

Incoming Reinforcements!!

Advantages: easy to assemble, good for beginners or to fill out squads of existing players' armies
Disadvantages: A little expensive for what they are, static poses, require assembly and painting.

..., meaning they can look a bit repetitive in a squad if you use them all in the same squad. For the best look in that case I would recommend mixing them up with models from the standard Guardsman box. Also the fact you need to assemble and paint these yourself may put some people off from purchasing these, but the chances are if you are purchasing these you are interested in the hobby in some way, either as a novice or as a long-term hobbyist so that is probably not as much of a factor as it could be in other purchases. Final Verdict In short, I feel this is a nice box for people who may be interested in starting to play Warhammer 40,000 as the Imperial Guard, or people who may be wanting to add a model here or there to their units. However, anyone looking to make whole new squads from these, may want to be looking at purchasing...

Karnage 29.01.2009 · Read review
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Incoming Patient with Slack Tongue

Advantages: Good graphics; Very addictive; Great fun
Disadvantages: No 'sandbox' option; Manual on CD-ROM

...simulator ? and that?s what it?s all about; macro and micro management. It?s all very well building an attractive ?well laid-out? hospital, but will that be enough to succeed ? in a word, no! The game becomes more involved as you try to balance the books whilst at the same time ? keeping your staff happy; setting your prices for the various treatments; avoiding rat infestations (!); paying off that bank loan; pleasing the visiting VIPs; and dealing with the incoming ?emergency patients?. If that wasn?t enough, you also have to maintain a reasonable reputation throughout the community so that sick individuals will come to your hospital instead of going to the competition! Okay, it?s getting to sound a bit involved and complicated now ? but when you?re playing the game, it?s amazing at how quickly you manage to pick things up (at least that...

asclepius 12.12.2002 · Read review
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Review of Theme Hospital (PC)

Trust Nationwide

Advantages: Efficient, reliable and reasonable value
Disadvantages: No obvious problems

...expected: they should not be anything surprising. Nonetheless, there are sectors of the market where the risk is not just of poor returns but of actual losses. Over the long term one can perhaps ride these out, but it's vital to remember that the risks are such that one can lose money on equities. Now, there are two things that one can do to limit these risks and their consequences. The first is to adopt the principle that one should never invest more in these investments than one is prepared to lose. So, something which is far from guaranteed may default and pay out nothing or very little: if you don't put in money which you can't afford to lose, you won't be finanicially crippled, whatever happens. Second, however, you can diversify, and that is where unit trusts come in. Instead of risking your capital on a small selection of equities...

richardashdowne 03.04.2003 · Read review
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Good for a quick blast!

Advantages: Easy to get into
Disadvantages: basic, repeatative gameplay

...This game harks back to the days of space invaders, not because of it's graphics but for the simple gameplay. It's not a bad thing to have a game that involves shooting and nothing else. A lot of modern games require maps or important strategies that keep you up all night then frustrate you when you can't win. Incoming involves shooting aliens and getting bigger guns to shoot aliens and that's it! The graphics are not overly impressive but do the job well enough and there are some nice explosions. Sound is forgettable, but you wouldn't really notice too much in a game like this as long as there were explosions and gun noises, which there are. It certainly isn't original, but it passes the time in between those harder to complete games and can be picked up and played at any time. Worth getting if you want something to do...

pbyron 28.09.2000 · Read review
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Review of Incoming (Dreamcast)

Graphical whizz-bang with gameplay to match

Advantages: great graphics, good action
Disadvantages: can get a little quiet, need a good graphics card

...an incredible PC of course, but there is one main flaw, and a pretty big one at that. Often the game is running at a snail's pace. I don't mean the frame rate, I just mean that things often happen too slowly, although that sounds hard to believe after viewing the screenshots of all those action-packed airfights. The first speed hiccup is when you encounter a ground-based mission. Incoming's missions dictate that you are either flying around taking people out by plane, or sitting stationery on the ground in a large gun turret shooting things as they fly past. The first time around it isn't so bad, the erection of a gun that you boast is nice and attractive, and you have the perfect view of any explosions you can cause. But the next time you are forced to take part in a turret phase, you are already in "I'm sure I have seen this before" territory. Rage...

mattmorrison 05.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Incoming (PC)

A large fund investing in high yield securities

Advantages: The fund tends to outperform in flat and falling markets, high dividend yield of around 3%, good long term performance and good manager
Disadvantages: Large £2.6 billion in size makes fund less flexible, 5% initial charge, underperforms when growth stocks are fashionable

...the fund suffered a period of underperformance against the UK market in the TMT stock boom of late 1999 and early 2000. I decided to buy some more units in the fund in September 1999 for my first ISA allowance. Unfortunately I have not made such a profit on these units. I bought in at a price of 188p. INVESCO-Perpetual High Income is one of the largest UK unit trusts at around £2.6 billion in size. Many investment analysts have stated that £2.6 billion is not a great size for a fund as it makes the fund more unwieldy and cumbersome to manage. Trading in smaller and medium sized companies becomes more difficult with a large fund. The advantages of a large fund include economies of scale in the running costs involved and a large team of analysts generating good quality research. The price of the fund now stands at around 210p, which is...

gorvifal3 27.06.2001 · Read review
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a bit samey but fast and furious if you like that sort of thing...

Advantages: gun happy violence. Save the earth, get the girl.
Disadvantages: no plot, no plot, no plot. that's about it.

...Aliens are invading the earth! Why? Hrmm, I don't know. What do they look like? Well, I don't know that either. What are they after? That's a bit of a mystery. Where are they from? Err, probably another planet, I guess. How did they get here? In a spaceship, I'm pretty sure. Why are we fighting them? Well? you know? they're aliens. Ok, so there's not much of a plot to Incoming. Actually, other than a couple scattered paragraphs of text, there's absolutely no plot exposition at all in the entire game. All you do, from beginning to end, is shoot things using different vehicles. There are actually quite a few different vehicles, although it's a lot easier to control some of them than others. The helicopters and tanks in particular have unintuitive controls that don't seem to be based on real-world physics. So? You blow up some...

scruffygit 12.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Incoming (Dreamcast)

Good Source of Income

Advantages: pays well, not much time taken
Disadvantages: not enough of them

...Introduction: Ciao introduced surveys two years ago, some time before they changed the pricing plan of writing opinions. Now surveys are the main source of income for many Ciaoers as the only real source of income from opinions are the premium fund where only about 10-20 people a month win decent prizes. The Surveys: I have been sent e-mails for the preview stage of many surveys but I have only participated in a few. One of which was the one on transistors and the latest one on free time. I did get an e-mail to participate in the stock market one but after being accepted, I never received a reply. It?s a shame because since the age of 10-11, I have always been interested in the stock market. I used to trade virtually on the internet and once made a 9% profit in two days but that was only virtual money. Anyway enough about me...

qasim 16.03.2002 · Read review
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