This CD (and all published by Edel since summer of 2002) use copy protection. It cannot be played on a computer. This CD is being returned to Amazon as defective.

Shame on you for selling it in the first place......

Gary Cherone and Co (minus Nuno) return in fine form with a hard rock/industrial bodyslam. Cherones voice is in excellent form, the guitarist is excellent, the tracks are outstanding and the production is top notch. The songs range from standard hard rock fare, to industrial, to moody electronica to prog rock. Its hard to find quality music like this days. My only beef is the album clocks in at 41 minutes. Why not more and whatever happened to "I Hate Myself For That", a track that was being offered for download off their website awhile back?

...The mighty Leps are back! Nothing exceptionally new and innovative on this disc....just solid modern pop rock songs that are exceptionaly catchy and fun, served up only the way the Def Leppard can! Much better than anything out in the pop world of 2002. Toss it in the car CD player and cruise like it was 1987......you won't regret it!

...The mighty Leps are back! Nothing exceptionaly new and innovative on this disc....just solid moderm pop rock songs that are exceptionaly catchy and fun. Much better than anything out in the pop world of 2002. Pop it in the car and cruise like it was 1987......you won't regret it!

Ever since the success of The Way It Is, Bruce has attempted to distance him from its success and its style. When he plays the old faves in concert he jazzes/folks them up. Not a bad thing.

This new disc is a further attempt to broaden his musical horizons. Not a bad thing but this horizon doesn't work well for Bruce. It's like he's a 40 something old white guy trying to be a 20 something hip hop star. Very weird. Some tunes are good but there is NO piano and the songs themselves lack the emotional range Bruce is capable of. Very painful considering that is Bruces forte.

I love you Bruce. Your music has inspired me for more than a decade but if you really want to surprise your fans release an album in the Style of "The way it is" or "Scenes from the Southside". Now thats something I know won't happen!

Oh BTW, If your new to Bruce, Get "Hot House" its Bruce's best album ever and melds the old and new Bruce perfectly!

Its hard to tell from the title of this book who will benefit from reading it but from a practical standpoint, C++ library designers and those with an interest in the "bleeding edge" of software engineering should find it very enlightening. The primary focus of this book is speeding up the lifecycle of program design by utilizing "Generative Programming". GP is a fancy name for programming using domain specific notations and generating highly optimized code without burdening the application programmer with low level details of domain libraries.

Chapter 1 "What is this book about?" - The authors describe GP. Short and sweet.....

Chapter 2 "Domain Engineering" - A rather dry, pedantic review of current Domain Engineering methods. This chapter reads like a PHD lit review. Boring....

Chapter 3 "Domain Engineering and OO Analysis and Design" - Why OO Analysis isn't appropriate for designing reusable libraries and analysis methods that are more suitable for the task. Quick and painless....

Chapter 4 "Feature Modeling" - One of the high points of the book. For those of you who have been stymied by the inflexibility of UML, the authors introduce the technique of "feature diagrams" which allow library designers to defer decisions like inheritance vs. aggregation until later in the design. Potentially very useful.

Chapter 5 "The Process of GP" - Describes how GP should work in an ideal world (which unfortunately doesn't exist yet). A bit too abstract.....

Chapter 6 "Generic Programming" - Describes type based programming (i.e. C++ templates) and various languages support for Generic Programming. Java programmers won't like this one!

Chapter 7 "Component-Oriented Template-Based C++ Programming Techniques" - The title pretty much says it all. Good introduction to C++ templates.

Chapter 8 "Aspect-Oriented Programming" - Aspects are portions of code that have little to do with the actual intent of the code. Examples are synchronization and error handling. This chapter describes how messy aspects can make code and how to separate aspects from core functionality. Good stuff....

Chapter 9 "Generators" - Describes how ideal code Generators should work. Good introduction to the topic.

Chapter 10 "Static Metaprogramming in C++" - For me this is the high point of the book. Compile time control structures such as IF<>, SWITCH<>, DO<> and WHILE<> are introduced. These can be used to generate configurable types as shown in later chapters. These structures are difficult to debug but if used conservatively are very powerful!

Chapter 11 "Intentional Programming" - A description of Microsoft's Intentional Programming environment. IP is the ideal GP development environment that allows library designers to enhance the main IDE with domain specific libraries. Developers interact directly with the source parse trees that are rendered to the IDE in a domain specific manner. The description is interesting but the IP Software is potential Vaporware and I'm kinda sick of reading about MS development tools that will change the world (C# anyone????)

Chapter 12-14 - The final chapters describe how to build template class generators that allow the application programming to specify functionality as a template parameter and the generator will build the type. It's as close to GP as we can get today. A list container class, bank account class and a highly optimized matrix library are designed using the GP methodology. It's nice to see the authors actually practicing what they preach.

Aside from the overly academic feel to the book and touting Microsoft fantasy-ware (which may become available... who knows?) this book offers much food for thought for system designers and C++ library implementers. The template tricks described are difficult to debug but with a little luck future compilers will provide better support for this style of compile time design. I look forward to the 2nd or 3rd edition of this book when this stuff matures.

Those expecting the gothic/metal/brooding sound of VASTs first album will be strongly disappointed with this sophmore offering. The 12 tracks on this album all average 3 and 1/2 minutes and while some are quite catchy they never are given enough time to fully grab the listener (i.e. Perfect Circles "Mer de Noms"). 40 minutes of music on a CD is really quite a rip off especially with 12 songs. I had hopes for something with some progressive edge but instead got 40 minutes of power pop. The album should have been titled "Music For DJs". Sellouts.......

A few years back Trevor Rabin got tired of all the politics of Yes and vowed he would never play with the band again. Without any major songwriting talent in the band they decided to hire a Trevor Rabin wannabe. Those who have seen the Yes/Sherwood combination in concert should know what I mean.... this guy looks, acts and attempts to play like Rabin. This poor excuse for a solo album finds Mr. Sherwood in an overproduced pile of dreck that attempts to recreate a Trevor Rabin era Yes feel to it and fails miserably. Most songs are badly overproduced, the vocals are poor, and the sheer derivativeness of this stuff is embarrasing. I'm surprised Trevor didn't sue the pants off this guy for ripping him off so bad but maybe its not Billy Sherwoods fault since he's just doing what Yes has paid him to do for years. Listen to Trevor Rabin's "Can't Look Away" for an example of how this stuff should really be done or get "Conspiracy", the far superior Sherwood-Squire album.

George "The Emperor" Lucas takes us on a souless journey through a boring CG video game. I shoulda known it was gonna stink when he started mangling the old movies by adding CG effects(the "Special Editions"). What surprise is in store for us next movie Darth Lucas? Han Solo is Jar-Jar Binks and C-3PO's love child? Give us a break. You can click the "No" button below now.....

While all 4 members posess incredible musical talent and play very well together, I can't help but feel there is an large lack of originality on this album. The guitarists style is unmistakable from that of Steve Howe's and over all the album feels like all the members listened to Yes's Close To The Edge nonstop for a week before recording this album. Its nice to see musicians doing this kind of stuff but at least give credit to the originators (which they don't in the liners! ). Get old Yes before this one......