Yep, although to be fair they were following in the footsteps of Sony and PS memory cards.

If you've got enough gear to make this a problem, then you've probably (well should have) picked up a decent 3rd party remote.

Good.

Oh and the royalty fee that will undoubtedly be paid to the original designer.

Should be pointed out that even at 1080 the encoding has hobbled that video (murky textures, artefacts and jerkiness).

Erm there's nothing new here.

Times I've seen this in France it wasn't in the middle of a supermarket, but run by the local wine co-operative. The wine they make isn't going to sell for a fortune, but there's something quite nice about all the local farmers chucking in their grapes and then each year there being a 'village wine' that everybody in…

Hmmm.

erm all lovely sequels I'm sure - but apart from Uncharted, I've played prior versions and come away with a feeling of 'meh' (and yes, I know I'm in a minority - but just not my bag).

My grasp of economics is somewhat 'loose' - but an increase in the value of the yen, just means 'more people want to buy yen' - so the price goes up.

Or just supply engines to the rest of Bethesda (id engines being good, id games still utterly boring)

Have you read all 10?

Bulletstorm

Hmm.

@timgray: I couldn't agree more.

Not just for electronic stuff.

@myfoodmychoice: *head in hands*

@Mikeh12: Bit that really rankles with me, is that we already have differential taxation. I missed the fees, but had to cover my living costs. I've already well and truly paid for anything I cost in the tax I've paid over the last decade. So why the need to tax even more?

@Arnheim: I can only speak from a science background, but pay increases from the faculty was only ever partial payment to the research staff.

@BigManMalone: OOh