Are you sure? If the world politics/UN is anything to go by there would be some countries siding with Iran, some abstaining, some being in the retaliation camp, and then a veto or two against the whole plan by a country that's playing realpolitik. It would be a mess. But the power of having a nuke is that people start taking you more seriously on the world stage

The WSJ is a bit misleading - there is no definite information that the whole cell chip itself was used to create the Wii and 360 CPUs. However all three chips are derivatives of IBM's pre-existing PowerPC architecture (itself a subset of their POWER processors), with the Wii having by all reports a faster version of the PowerPC that was in the GameCube. The way that machines are created there's no way that research that went into one chip didn't go to improving all of IBM's other chips (and as the article suggests), but not to the extent that they would use the whole Cell architecture and give it to SCEA's direct gaming competitors (and I would have thought there would be an explicit exemption to that in the Sony-IBM contract). The wikipedia article (see below for links) is quite informative. It will tell you that the XBox used the PPE part of the Cell chip - from what I can tell the PPE is a PowerPC derivative - I previously heard that it was a custom built version of the PowerPC 970 that was the last Mac PowerPC chip. The special thing about cell is the parallel architecture, with the PPE and SPE tags causing some confusion. You can claim that some help might have been indirectly provided by Sony, but IBM has the expertise (and pre-existing relationship with Nintendo) to make the chips without Sony's funding. In summary it seems all chips have a basis in IBM's longstanding PowerPC series, with the Cell being a bit more specialised. As the specs of the chips are secret is difficult to say what exact differences there are without examining the chips in detail. Have a look at these links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)#Power_Processor_Element_.28PPE.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC

I heartily recommend a setup based on a ScanSnap and some sort of organisational filing software. The ScanSnap is a home-office grade document scanner - the main difference to your cheapo scanners is it's focus on documents and it's ability to scan both sides of A4 paper in one pass, achieving at least 20ppm scanning. The software that comes with it should be able to do OCR. I combine this with DevonThink on the Mac which allows me to organise the documents efficiently and search through them - it will allow you to 'tag' documents so that actually finding things is very easy. I have years of documents with me this way, and the documents come with me on the road.

The paper documents I file in a filing cabinet at home. Get a 4 drawer filing cabinet. Get a label maker. File everything in alphabetical order. Use one drawer for 'months' - this will hold documents that you can shred at the appropriate time of year.

GTD is a great method of planning and organisation however people never keep to the strict philosophy and work variations. I would read it. That should get you sorted.

Seriously this is too much. If they positioned themselves as not allowing you to have PSN services if you modded your console, then fine. Going against people who pirate games, fine. But targetting legitimate modding (including what can be 'dual use' which is another philosophical question in itself) when people have purchased the console themselves is a new low - it's now infringing on the rights of consumers to do what they want to with machines they purchase. If they are allowed to get away with this as others have mentioned it will set a whole new (lower) standard in how companies can restrict our inalienable rights. The whole concept of them promising the 'other os' option and then taking it away is poor.

I have to say Microsoft has behaved (from a console/gamer point of view) in a much more respectful manner in the past few years. I don't even think Sony has a natural advantage why you would want to buy their equipment, especially as others make better phones/tvs etc.

I'm calling for people to boycott Sony, not just games, but in TVs, cameras, and phones. Maybe they'll get a message that their anticonsumer tactics are not in anybody's interests. As a public service aside I noted the linked article has broken download links for the 'hypervisor bible'. So I provide the following link for the Slashdot audience: http://www.ps3iso.com/showthread.php?t=51100

No actually Hitler was elected by democratic elections. What he did was get initially elected to the German parliament and used the electoral system at the time to grant himself more and more powers. This was helped by infighting and political manoeuvring by his opponents which allowed him to set himself up for a "power grab", allowing himself to become Chancellor (essentially what would be the prime minister) and then eventually merge his job with the office of president. The conditions of post World War 1 German politics essentially set up the conditions for his rise. Hindenberg was a check to him initially but he was limited by constitutional role that he needed to perform to enable the proper formation of a government from the people who had been elected to parliament. See the Wikipedia article on Hitler; it's quite interesting.