You probably don't suffer from 'choice paralysis' as a result. I find that with a vast choice of music I end up listening to the last few albums I purchased.

The phenomenon has been observed in advertising where a customer is more likely to purchase an item where the range has been limited to 3 or 4 items rather than a full range of, say, 10 or 20.

I stopped carting around all of my music collection in favour of an 8Gb MP3 player with a few albums and some podcasts.

TV producers *must* take account of DVD sales for fans who want to own or wish to give away as gifts or for people who are willing to wait. Similarly, for people with a large family and has a cinema room or for those who have difficulty getting to the cinema, it makes sense to wait a few months and purchase the DVD. Arguing that people who wait for the DVD are jeopardising future planned seasons is only half the story.

She...she didn't tell me she was seeing somebody else... :-(

I wish I had seen your reply when you posted it...

I'm from the UK. In historic terms I am literally your daddy therefore you should stop being an insolent child.

For reference, the UK invades the same countries as you so that you don't invade the UK. Our relationship is slightly uneasy - it is akin to the relationship between Master and Blaster in Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome. You are very strong but rather deranged and you need some guidance from the little fellow who is weak but has a far greater thought process.

When you say "Most of the world will be thanking the US in the future when their ass is saved" - do you mean apart from the ones that deposit flying objects into your buildings? Okay, sonny, we need to sit down and have a talk about tolerance. Do you know what tolerance means? Let me explain...

I would happily purchase content but I cannot bear the optical media format - mainly due to the fact that I have a centralised media centre with XBMC running on several devices. If I could purchase a disk, rip it straight to the server and never touch it again that would be great. So far, I can handle DVDs to but the anti-ripping measures of BluRay have so far stopped me from upgrading my viewing experience to HD. Anti-piracy measures are having an adverse effect on my quality of life due to pixelation.

If only I could download content in a format that I could use as I wish. This sounds counter-intuitive as a lack of DRM will make piracy easy right? Well, DRM is not exactly stopping piracy is it?

Now that I have the cash, I will pay for content - but please let me have it in an open digital format, unfettered by warnings. Copying of disks in bulk for sale in mostly cash-sales markets will then soon be a thing of the past. You don't need to look far to see that physical copies of disks are a global problem in Australia , in Indonesia , in the US and in the UK to name just a few.

Chill out why don't you? Get it out of your system - go an invade a country or something...

No pizza delivery during the Games then?

Unfortunately the 10 percent unused feature set is not the same for the 90 percent of users.

Some poor soul somewhere is stuck in a Venn diagram where Open Office/Libre Office have literally no features that they require.

Sadly I think that it will be swept under the carpet. Murdoch has already replaced the News of the World with a Sunday edition of The Sun so everything is as it was before. The fact that Murdoch also owns the more respectable The Sunday Times means that he has both ends of the market.

What we really need it for Murdoch's hapless son to be put in the frame for something serious only for him to give evidence against his father and bring the whole lot crashing down - including the politicians and police officers who have been paid off over the years.

Maybe, maybe not - but one fewer snooping parties cannot be a bad thing can it?