ONE WAY TO FEND OFF the death spiral for a console is to develop a exclusive killer app. If you have a game that will be a blockbuster, you can go to one of the console makers and say, “We will only put this out for your system if we get a bribe.”

That bribe is usually lowered or no kickbacks per disk. If the studio that made Halo was not owned by MS, they could go to MS and say “We figure we will sell 10 million copies of the 360 version of Halo 3 and seven million of the PS3 version. We will not do a PS3 version if you make it worth our while not to, say no fee per disk so we can pocket that $10 per unit and an ad budget worth $5 million”.
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Yes!! Me and Alana are going to get married here in Crewe on 30th April this year! 😀

Right first off the BT nitemare ended after 4 months of hell, 6 engineers and over 50 hours of fone calls!! Turned out all that was causing the problem was a defective master socket fitted by the BT engineers that installed the fone line on day one!!!! Now I’m happy with a 4M connection…well i say happy 😉 seems BT have started capping us now from 6PM til midnight..no mention of it in their usage policy or in the terms and conditions on signup..supposed to be unlimited but it seems that we all seem to go from whatever the connection is, for example mine is 4M, to about 500k until midnight. Now during these magical hours the BT speedtest site wont work! What a supprise there!!

Ive added a nice java speedtest page 🙂

here

I found this in my MSN Junk folder!

The e-petition asking the Prime Minister to “Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy” has now closed. This is a response from the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

Thank you for taking the time to register your views about road pricing on the Downing Street website.

This petition was posted shortly before we published the Eddington Study, an independent review of Britain’s transport network. This study set out long-term challenges and options for our transport network.

It made clear that congestion is a major problem to which there is no easy answer. One aspect of the study was highlighting how road pricing could provide a solution to these problems and that advances in technology put these plans within our reach. Of course it would be ten years or more before any national scheme was technologically, never mind politically, feasible.
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