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I'm trying to decide whether to get spider-man web of shadows or prototype. Spider man is a lot cheaper, and i loved spider-man 2 on the ps2, but it seemed to get mixed reviews.

jon2jon

anyone have a suggestion?

I'd say Prototype, I rented that for a week and had a lot of fun with it. From what I've heard Web Of Shadows is a mess of a game, might be worth a rent though.

Hi everyone,

I just bought a used 120GB hard drive for my Xbox to replace my 20GB one which I've just filled up. I just tried to transfer everything from my 20GB one to my 120GB one using Microsoft's transfer kit and it told me that the transfer failed and didn't give me any help beyond that.

Does anyone know what you can do to prevent the process from failing apart from running it again and seeing what happens (which I'm trying as I type this)?

EDIT: It's just given me the same error, with status code 0x80240380

After Wimbledon, I'm looking to get a decent tennis game. I've played all the demos available on the Marketplace and I've narrowed it down to three possibilities:

* Top Spin 3 or Top Spin 2 (possibly both, considering a) how cheap TS2 will be and b) how different they are in terms of control scheme)

* Virtua Tennis 2009 or Virtua Tennis 3 (I have owned VT3 in the past, but found it to get quite dull quite quickly with the grating minigames)

* Smash Court Tennis 3 (I don't know much about this, but some people have mentioned it when I've posed this question before)

If someone recommends TS3, could they tell me how long it takes to get to grips with the new control scheme? I've been floundering somewhat in the demo.

Nope, all I've got is "can't download this demo"

EDIT: It's just given me status code 80070190

I've just tried to download the Virtua Fighter 5 demo and the DOA4 demo (just to see if either of them can wet my appetite before Tekken 6 comes out) to be presented with a wonderfully helpful message that just said "can't download the demo".

I didn't get any kind of reason or explanation for this, all I can think of is that I'm appearing offline, surely this can't be the reason?

Or is this a problem everyone's having at the moment?

Thanks to the everyone that has contributed so far, can anyone else answer the questions for me?

Shouldn't your research be conducted in a medium not directly tied to the topic you're researching?

Oleg_Huzwog

That's a good point, and I was hesitant to put it up on here, but I didn't think it would matter too much if the majority of the research was conducted through paper questionnaires. This research is extra research for my own interest rather than anything else.

Hey guys,

As part of a college research project, I'm supposed to be finding out about how technology has affected the way we communicate with each other, so if you could take the time to answer a few questions for me it'd be much appreciated. I'll post up my findings if anyone's interested.

The first two questions straightforward questions to aid final result analysis. The questions after that give a scenario and several responses to that scenario. All you have to do is give the scenario number and a letter after giving your name and age.

Sorry if the questions seem a little below you, they were originally aimed at high school kids, but I've decided to expand the data range by putting this up on a few forums. Sorry again if I haven't accommodated for your favourite social networking site or instant messenger, please don't feel the need to tell me that "BEBO > FACEBOOK" or that "MYSPACE EPICLY PHAILS", that's showing how hip I am there guys.

Basic Information

1. What age are you?

2. What gender are you?

Scenarios

Scenario 1: You have missed a deadline on an important piece of work, your employer was relying on you to hand in the work to avoid a department-wide pay cut, how will you break the news to your boss?

A: Talk to them face to face, explaining the situation honestly

B: Send them an email, explaining the situation honestly and avoid them for the rest of the week if they look angry the following day

C: Call their mobile after work, and if they get angry pretend you have bad signal

D: Avoid making any contact whatsoever and hope they don't notice

Scenario 2: You've been in a relationship for seven months and you don't feel the same way about your partner as you did when you first met them, you want to break up and just be friends, how will you tell them?

A: Talk to them face to face, explaining your feelings with a box of Kleenex at your side

B: Send them a simple text - "ur dmpd"

C: Call them when you know they're alone and won't be busy

D: Just ignore them and stop returning their calls, texts etc. - they'll get the idea after a bit

Scenario 3: You've done something to annoy your best friend during a school day and they haven't spoken to you since, how do you apologise?

A: Face to face

B: Send them a text after school

C: By writing on their wall or talking to them on MSN/AIM/Facebook Chat

D: Do nothing and hope they'll have changed their tune the following day

Scenario 4: You've just got home from school, you've got homework to do but you can't remember which questions you were supposed to do and which questions you weren't supposed to do, how do you find out what you're supposed to do?

A: Put out a desperate Facebook/MySpace status moaning that you don't know what your homework is

B: Text the person in your contact list that you know will know about homework

C: Talk to someone else on your course during the next school day

D: Don't find out and face the wrath of your teacher

Scenario 5: You have no money to spend on going out, and you decide to get a job to rectify this, you see an advertisement telling you to either apply online or take an application form from them directly, what do you do?

A: Apply online

B: Collect an application form from them

Thanks for taking the time to fill this out, if you want to have a copy of the results, as I said above, feel free to ask!

I'm not getting the old "HTML not well formed" message when posting in Firefox, finally!

My budget would be below £100, but ideally below £60. The speakers I'd be interested in are stereo speakers, I don't fancy the epic wiring opportunity of a full surround sound system, despite the obvious benefits of having one.