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33 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
It's definitely a good value, price-wise, but there are severe limitations with this product.
First of all, it will disable Aero Glass in Vista when this device is connected. This is not necessarily a show-stopper, but it IS annoying. I suppose it makes sense, as the less powerful video "card" the device uses is probably not capable of handling Glass. Oh well.
Major limitation in my mind, however, is its inability to offer widescreen resolutions. The resolutions is offers do NOT include widescreen aspect ratios, which means on my 21" widescreen monitor, all of the display is stretched. This sucks.
Additionally, when my computer puts the display to… Read more
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0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Frankly, this book is terrible - unless you consider baseball to be limited to the American League, and then, specifically to the Red Sox.
I have never heard Jerry Remy call a game, so I can't speak to how much he actually knows - but based upon this book, his understanding of the game is limited to a) Jerry Remy, b) the Red Sox, and c) a few other players/teams in the AL.
Remy seems to have no understanding that there are TWO leagues in MLB - and that just because he played in one league his entire career, that doesn't mean that the other league is beneath discussion. If you are going to write a book to help people understand how to "watch baseball", maybe you… Read more
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
The entire Jedi Academy trilogy is terrible. The story has some potential, but the lackluster prose really doesn't serve it as well.
But perhaps worse than that...Kevin Anderson doesn't seem to know ANYTHING about the characters he is writing for. One of the things that Zahn does so well (and what makes the Thrawn series so good) is that he takes characters from the film, who we all know, and expands their story - but he stays true to them the entire way.
Throughout the Jedi Academy trilogy, I found myself constantly thinking "these characters are not true to the ones already created". Even their tone and dialogue does not ring true for me.
Also, let… Read more
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