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Enjoy your well-deserved break!

Well, I installed the beta on my work desktop (now it's triple booting XP, Vista and Win 7 beta) and it took me all of 20 minutes (Q6600/P35/4GB RAM). The cool thing is I forgot the Beta key at home (I downloaded it at home and burned it on a DVD to take to work) but it still installed fine without the key. I only got to spend about 3 minutes taking a quick look before I had to take off from work but noticed it looks like they're copying the Mac "dock", the nice new wallpapers and interesting it comes with the IE8 beta.

Best wishes and stay safe pz

It's encouraging to hear that the docs are confident to let Leland go home and can continue to monitor the situation without having to stay in hospital longer or needing surgery etc. Like you said, hopefully this problem will naturally mend with time. Congratulations SR and ZJJ!

No official release date announced yet. I read somewhere MS is aiming for a 2010 release but Bill Gates said in a recent presentation it would be out by the end of 2009. At this point, don't believe anyone who claims they know the release date Windows 7, because MS doesn't know. We'll see a Release Candidate 1 and 2 first, then a multi-million dollar launch campaign when the time comes ...

Yes, Lexmark printers are evil. I've had the same prob as Tinker and you cannot uninstall that Lexmark printer thing in services that basically makes life miserable for the next printer you install.

I am planning to give it a spin. I have an extra partition to run it on so hope to have time to dload and install in the next week. I am actually primarily using Vista on all my systems now with XP dual-booting as backup. Even with all its bloat, Vista is fine as long as you were willing to spend enough to have a fast enough computer to run it. (I.e. don't buy a cheap laptop with an AMD Turion to run it) I think Vista's bad reputation is generally undeserved, as all new OS's have growing pains initially, but everyone loves to hate Microsoft and Microsoft-bashing is a publically accepted(

Thnx for link, this is more to the case. Should be aware of what these services actually are. Last point, ensure your system restore points are in order. Yes, Black Viper is the man. I remember visiting his site years ago trying to learn about which services were unnecessary in order to squeeze the last bit of performance out of my P3 700MHz for GR

Sorry to go a bit OT here, but did kleaneasy do a Kimi and get hired by Ubisoft? If so congratulations!!! When did you join up? And yes, I truly admire and appreciate kleaneasy for being active on these forums speaking for Ubi. It's not an easy job and I'm sure she's not getting paid enough for it

Great interview! Thanks to both of you for a very interesting Q&A session

You might have seen this before, but for the benefit of others I thought I'd share this article I originally saw posted about in the BFS forums which was quite revealing that in fact Ubi as the developer is aware they are changing the true essence of the GR/R6 franchises and it is indeed a business decision: http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/03/ubisoft-realist.html Read the whole text chat here: http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=94737

Here's an interesting article that shows the attitude at Ubisoft towards development of new games. Here we have one of the designers of the latest Prince of Persia game who expected more kudos for innovation on the new title: What I am hearing here is that people basically want a remake of the first GR game with updated graphics. Ubi keeps trying to "fix" or "improve" things that aren't broken - trying to "catch the wave" of recent pop culture trends: Notice how R6 Vegas moved away from the globe-trotting formula to more emulate an episode of 24, or making Sam Fisher go on the run like J

I finally got around to updating the Splinter Cell Retreat site today (first time this year as there was basically only 2 worthwhile bits of news for the whole year) and I noticed this old post: http://splintercell.3dretreat.com/default.asp#6444 Here's the quote directly from IGN - perhaps Ubi actually listened? http://insider.ign.com/articles/796/796220p4.html

Yes, it does seem a contradiction - thanks for pointing that out kleaneasy! I guess what I'm saying is that: 1) Once Ubi gets the engine down-pat for a certain generation of games, we can expect at least another "sequel" or "expansion pack" of that game a year later - it just makes sense to some game companies, especially if the game is popular, people will be wanting more, and the cost of developing a new sequel/expansion title with the same engine is significantly less than waiting for the next "full sequel". However, notice that not every company does this - especially Japanese com

Good discussion going here. I appreciate your optimism ApexMods, but you just have to look around old posts in these forums and Ubi.com to see that Ubi's track record over the past few years have been generally disappointing to older fans. The general trend is that they have taken hit franchises like GR, R6, Splinter Cell etc in a direction that may have expanded the overall audience, but changed the the games in a way that have left fans of the original versions of the games scratching their heads why they "fixed" or "improved" features of the games that weren't broken. My take on the

I agree with WK - I'll believe it when I see it. Actions speak louder than words. Ubi is a business that has to answer with its bottom line to shareholders, and they didn't invest in studios all around the world not to churn out product year after year. What Detoc says sounds nice, but do you think he'd admit the opposite was true? How would Ubi compete with EA's Sims, Madden and other sports titles, Activision's CoD franchise, Guitar Hero etc. Only a few companies have strong franchises which games still generate sales more than a year after release like Blizzard, Nintendo etc. I don't

Wow! That is promising news! I haven't really been following GR4 news - sorry to ask if it's been posted elsewhere, but has there been an announcement about the team behind the game? BTW, most of you know this but I'll just mention RSE has never left the GR series - they've worked on every iteration of the series: [GR] PC/Xbox, GR2/SS Xbox and GRAW 1-2 Xbox (just the MP side of things).

There's a GR book? LOL BTW, Clancy books have had a few different authors writing under the pseudonym of David Michaels.

Take care and stay safe Ruin! Yes, very good read indeed! Thanks for the link

Hey Spaniard, good to see you around still I just checked the link in your sig and realized you aren't with RSE/Ubi anymore I stand corrected! Thanks for the reminder. Now that you mention it, I thought Lockdown had a lot of cool touches that were overlooked, including more characters from the original R6 novel showed up for the first time in the game: specifically Rainbow Five Rocky Stanley and Blackhawk helicopter pilot: Dan "Bear" Malloy. What bugs me is how Ubi is now pretending Lockdown didn't exist in their R6 retrospective on their "Tom Clancy 10th Anniversary" promotion

Yeah, nice work Rebar! Good to see you around

Check the Military forum, he's been posting quite a lot of photos. Wow, some great photos over there! And happy b-day wishes to you Rocky!

Wow Rocky and Whisper, that is a really special gift. Haven't seen Saint on the boards for a while, so now we know why. Looking forward to his safe return.

Hang in there shakealeg1212! Hope to see some screens soon!

Man, those were painful to read. Methinks Ubi is trying to emulate the success of COD4, but this convoluted storytelling just sounds plain goofy. Good thing a good proportion of people who play these games couldn't care less about story. Ubi could save a whole lot of money and fan complaints if they just axed the whole plot and gave us some solid levels with pretty next-gen graphics. And whoever wrote the R6 story obviously didn't read the novels or play the older games. Lots of glaring inconsistencies (for the few of us who they hope don't notice these things ): - Logan was not o