Firstly because the UK (sorry, I don't know about the rest of Europe) has PAYG offers on data of about £5 for one month's worth, which isn't too bad.

But secondly, and the main reason I'd consider paying the extra for the 3G iPad, is that you don't get the GPS chip in the Wifi only model. Which may be a consideration, depending on what you want to use it for.

Lots more graphical power isn't a major concern. The general trend over to using HDMI for everything that connects to a TV, however, could do with looking at. My A/V receiver is converting component to HDMI for me, but most people don't have a big A/V receiver like me. Or, for that matter, a wish to purchase the 3rd-party component leads - My Wii is the only one I know that isn't running on the out-of-the box composite wire.

Particularly in Europe, where I don't think I've ever seen a TV set have more than one component input, a hardware refresh that adds a HDMI input (even one that just outputs 480p) would give the vast majority of people a huge improvement in image quality and convenience without breaking compatibility with current games. Coupled with some anti-piracy refreshes to persuade people to buy games again, and you're sorted.

They _did_ DDOS the PSN servers, as reported on many sites. However, Anonymous then realised that they were just upsetting customers (some of whom are even members of Anonymous themselves) they switched to the corporate servers instead, stating that their target is purely Sony themselves, not the customer base.

Arrgh. Can't help there, then, sorry.

The device hasn't been banned, though. Just a particular advert for it. Tweak the advert, even in a way that doesn't solve the problem the ASA have at all, and it can be published again. The ASA is utterly messed up.

As for your ruined vinyl, wash it with copious amounts of washing up liquid - that usually does it.

Due to the uniquely stupid way the ASA works, they only operate on the basis of complaints about advertising. No competitor has whined to them yet about particular USB turntables, but clearly one has lodged one about the Brennan. Probably because they're sick and tired of the Bose-style saturation bombing of the Sunday supplements going on.

A week? For the duration of the case would be fair, I feel.

If you get two pairs of the 3D glasses, and switch the right-eye lens from one with the left-eye lens of the other, you can make '2D glasses' that block one version of the image completely. It won't stop the need to wear cheap, uncomfortable glasses or avoid the image being ruined by losing saturation and brightness, but it will at least stop you feeling ill.

Oh, sure, you guys are great at selling videogames, in the same way that so many of our films are distributed by Hollywood. It's just the making part that's at issue.

We personally don't have to. We just need some guys from the UK to make something as good as LEGO Star Wars III, or some Germans to make a game like Crysis 2, apparently.

Oh.

If either Crysis 2 or LEGO Star Wars III were developed in the US you might even have a point there. Sorry, it's the US who suck at making videogames; all the best ones seem to come from Canada, Europe or Japan.

Well thank you, Taco, for calling everybody who doesn't approve of homosexuality a bigot. Have you, or any of the other homosexuality-supporters, ever considered that there are more than two sides to this? You don't have to fully 100% approve or disaprove of homosexuality, and as a Catholic I take offense when being labled as one of them.

Take all the offence you like, doesn't make you any less bigoted.

I'd agree with most of those rules. Although I also have a rule 8: If I need to crack the case open, you're giving me a glass of red wine first. Because I like red wine, but also you've almost certainly got some cheap nasty thing that means I'm bound to end up getting my hand sliced up on a sharp bit somewhere, and it takes the edge off the pain.

Mind you, there are plenty of situations where you'd rather a missile hit your jamming tower than the intended target. Maybe that's not such a dead loss.

On the bright side, nobody is going to have any trouble defending notability of Ben Schumin any more. Even if the only evidence on the entire Internet about him is that he's notable for acting like a cunt.