"Then I read that in Japan the problem they are having is that it takes time for the reaction to stop after the reactor is shut down, thus the slow partial meltdown they are going through. "

It does... Decay heat is the problem...

http://mitnse.com/2011/03/16/what-is-decay-heat/

Highly recommend you have a read if you are interested :) the rest of the articles are quite interesting too.

and the RRDs?

$2 billion is an awful lot to fix a screw up that should never have existed.

are they making a profit yet from R&D?

I bet some people within Microsoft are trying to forgot XBOX and cant.

and an awful lot of people are not technically savvy enough to accommodate any of your solutions..

So other relatives etc can see them that may a) not be in the picture or B) want to see their long distance relatives?

That's like me saying why does anyone want to see the inside of someones computer or 'insert other geeky shit here' it's not like we all don't have geeky shit so why do we need to share it with others?

"Or a few bucks on a ROM management app? "

So you stop piracy by encouraging piracy?

Not that I'm saying playing old games you played years ago and the methods of doing so is wrong... but most of them are still licensed after all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoGpLl-SUfk =D

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/PSP-PSP-Go-PSP2-PlayStation-3DS,news-7016.html

Failure.

Interesting insight into Sony! 9/10 times it's internal employees we speak to - store support, customer relations, network faults, cell outages etc.

Seriously there are some decent contact centres out there.. But for financial authority by regulation we can't use non sanctioned comms incase we give out account / bank info.

To be honest it suits me as I study my geology degree in-between. 9/10 times it's internal employees I speak to anyway =D