Advantages: quick connection, funky blue box with flashing lights.
Disadvantages: It being external might irritate some.

...The award-winning SupraExpress is the best value for money modem on the market (£51.69 from www.dabs.com). It’s increased flash memory means it can hold both K56Flex and V.90 protocols and connect with the optimum protocol for greater connection speed. In addition the Shotgun software supplied allows you to link it to another modem to attain speeds of up to 112k with two phone lines and the XtreemMachine software enables it to be used as a fax and answer machine and also for voicemail. It will meet all your communication needs.... Read review

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Advantages: Excellently filmed extreme climbing action
Disadvantages: Less appeal for non-climbers

...In keeping with the modern liking for X-TREEM!!!! sports, the market for climbing DVDs (if you even knew there was one) is now approaching near-saturation point; it's not without reason that climbers aren't renowned for their willingness to stick their hands in their pockets. Leading American exponents in the field are Big Up Productions, and this offering dates from the time when their inevitable initial amateurism was starting to give way to a modicum of slickness and (welcome) ambition. It should be said that climbing is an apocalyptically diverse sport; ask the layman to name a climber, and they may well come out with someone renowned for high-altitude snow-plodding. This film isn't covering that end of the spectrum; Dosage Vol. 1 concentrates on a bit of top-end sport climbing (routes climbed used drilled expansion bolts to provide... Read review

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...the british american racing team is not bad for a new team.They have two good drivers,one of whom has great experience in being a former world champion. This team is steadily improving,and although realiability has been a problem this year,this is also steadily improving.The team has been able to produce some good results this year,with villeneuve getting in the points a number of times.Jaques has supplied most of the points for the team this season and I think that the bar team has picked up and adapted well to the pace of the formula 1 arena.... Read review

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Advantages: strength and depth
Disadvantages: psychologically there may be a weakness

...After so many false starts this is it. The best team that the world has seen from Englands fair shores. This England team is a real world beater and I speak as a New Zealander. We have usually backed any team as long as it is not England but even we have to admit that the strength and depth that Clive Woodward has built into this current team is going to be hard to beat. Johnson, Dallaglio and Back are the most athletic and powerful forwards in the world. Hill Back and Dallaglio are the most ferocious and speedy back three in the world at the moment and with this platform even the backs, traditionally weak in an England team have come of age. Mat Dawson and Simon Wilkinson are shinig examples of a great half back combination and with Balshaw behind I have never seen England with such an attacking platform. What I would like answered... Read review

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Advantages: good gameplay and multiplayer
Disadvantages: campers

...This is the most addcitive game i have ever played. The single player isnt that addicitive its the multiplayer that is. The game is based on WWII and is very realistic as there have been researchers been working for the game getting alot of facts about WWII and putting it into the game It made me more interested in WWII and i learned alot from it which sounds strange for a video game. Well there are lots of maps that you can play on when playing the multi player. Also poeple can make custom maps which are some times very good to play on. The multiplayer has different game types there is objective match: this basically one team either allies or axis depending on the map has to try and complete an objective for eg plant a bomb and make it explode. If you get killed you do not spawn until the next round on this game type... Read review

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Advantages: Powerful BMW engine.
Disadvantages: Drivers are not friends.

...The Williams Team have been around in F1 racing since 1972 and have been one of the most successful teams of all time. They have won the Constructors World Championship on nine occasions and the Drivers World Championship on seven occasions. Between 1992 and 1997 the team dominated the sport in such a manner that most spectators wondered who could ever challenge this team. However, for the 1998 season the team changed engines from Renault to Supertec and for that season and the following season they did not win one single race. For the 2000 season the team changed engines again, this time to BMW. During that first year the team had some teething problems, but it was obvious that the Williams/BMW combination was going to be a force to be reckoned with. During the 2001 season the team has started its rise back up to the top with some... Read review

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Advantages: Some big names
Disadvantages: Too old, too inconsistent

...In the last few years the West Indies have gone from a team to be feared and respected to a team that could be beaten by Zimbabwe easily. Their main stars are either too old or too inconsistent to provide their team with any major impetus. The new influx to the team has as a large point been disappointing and one of their most consistent players at the moment is the wicket keeper Ridley Jacobs. Sadly for Lara he is struggling to keep up with the hopes and expectations of the supporters and his cricket is suffering as a result.... Read review

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Advantages: Multiplayer, graphics, sound
Disadvantages: Main game, same old

...Sonic Heroes promised a good honest Sonic the hedgehog style platform game, which it did. It also delivered an average sonic game with nearly the same gameplay and linear levels for all characters. After a while it did get boring. The characters you control come in 3s, in teams. All of them have the same Gameplay and levels except for Team Chaotix who have the very infuriating and boring mission of finding things. The other 3 teams are Team Sonic, Team Dark and Team Rose. Team Sonic contains the original Sonic characters Sonic, Tails and Knuckles. Team Dark contains Shadow, Rogue and E-123 Robot. Team Chaotix contains Espeo, Vector and Charmy. Team Rose contains Amy, Cream and Big. When the characters level up (max level 3) they become better, namely the 'red' characters (Knuckles, E-123, Big and Espeo). As they level up their chain... Read review

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...Manchester United is quite simply the best team in England at the moment. I say at the moment because according to past history, my team Liverpool is by far the most successful team in English football history. The game tonight against Anderlecht was simply amazing. Man U looked fantastic. They do not have a team made up of foreign so-called superstars and they play superbly well as team. When it comes to the European cup, I hope they win and win by a mile. I would still love to see Liverpool at the top even if it is with so many foreigners.... Read review

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Advantages: Great Ball Skills
Disadvantages: Have no confidence in themselves

...I have lived in the same house as an avid Spurs fan for the last 13 years, endured all of the highs and lows of the team, had the ripping up of shirts when suffered huge defeats. Spurs are a great team to watch, they have good passing skills, can definetely hold the audience's attention and can win. There problem is that they seem to lack the confidence sometimes against lower teams who they should be far superior to and should be able to out play. I recently watched them play against Southampton in the FA Cup, they were the worst team on the pitch, they could not play as a team and it all seemed to be someone else's fault. i think it's time for the team and players to stand up and be counted. They are great players and when playing as a team also a great team. the fans deserve this week in week out. Spurs fans are amongst some... Read review

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