I like my game systems like i like my men.

The Sega Master System was alive in well in Brazil years after it died off in other countries. Street Fighter 2 was even officially ported. Not bad for a system that was out technically since 1986. Thanks to Brazil, the system lived for 10 full years.

As for the PS2 (and PS1 before that), it's a similar case in many mainland Asian countries, where systems are imported from the cheapest countries that sell them (usually at launch from Japan), modded with the cheapest modchips (usually from Taiwan), and sold with a handful of pressed bootlegs (which could be from almost anywhere in mainland Asia, including Russia, China, Thailand, etc.). Many games are European versions because they have the most language options, and the games usually had to be patched for NTSC or PAL depending on the region (since the chips are too cheap to have convertion).

With systems getting officially released in a country, it means games can get officially ported/translated for that region. Whether or not those games are going to be simply bootlegged for a cheaper pirated system is up to the consumer, but unless you're a dictator or a child of someone in great power in that country (read: rich), odds are you have a black market system.

Keyboardmania, people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboardmania

Wait, the old one has a magnesium body?

Oh man, I'd love to see a blowtorch taken to one of them...

This would be great for channels that just play music, and you just want to glance at the screen to see the name of the artist/song/album once in a while.

programmable snowglobe FTW

I paid around $400 for my Nvidia GeForce 6800gt 5 years ago and still use it today :)

Yeah yeah, i know it's the minimum requirement for Crysis. Gimme a break, I bought a PS3 instead of new graphics cards.

Actually, it looks like they simply went to a website with a color wheel where you can pick a scheme for web design, and then clicked on the four colors and got 2 complements each in the same palette.

I deal with those things every day at work.

I have a gut feeling that we all are going to get very used to this logo when each panel is printed out 5 foot by 5 foot and suspended by wires, in a store front with computers displayed in front of it (similar to Apple stores)...

...and each monitor and Zune has the blue screen of death on it (sorry, had to do it).

At my local Best Buy the girl who works in the Magnolia section is HOT... she's selling more TVs than any lighting scenario I could think of, 'cept if she personally came to check out the lighting in my bedroom with any TV purchase.

rrrrggghhhh!!!!

Don't even get me started on iTunes!

I'm an independent artist, and part of the deal for getting my band's CDs pressed was "free" distribution though digital downloads, including iTunes (that's another thing, I can't believe people pay people to put their crap on iTunes).

I haven't seen a single cent from them, and do you know why?

We get about 2 cents per download, that's why. It's freaking ridiculous. We don't get a check until the downloads reach at least $20 I believe. Who the hell is going to download our songs for 99 cents each, $9.99 for the album, when they can buy the physical album from our band for $10? We'll even sign the damn thing for you!

I give a ton of my money to Apple for doing next to nothing. Through other digital distribution companies I've received checks, but not Apple.

In the meantime, since I sell our physical CDs without any middleman, we gain around $8.30 for selling a disc for $10, which is light years better than being on any stupid label (i.e. someone on a major label gets like 20 cents per CD, which adds up when you sell millions, but you still have to pay your lawyers and other BS, including the $1 million advance you got from your label to record the album... I'M NOT JOKING THESE KINDS OF FIGURES EXIST AND ARE WHY ARTISTS GO BROKE!).

I encourage our fans to rip/share our stuff (we're in CDDB so you don't even have to mess with the ID3 tags!), and we even put a free live album on our website for anyone to download.

I'm sure the book industry is just as bad. Whoever is collecting for George Orwell is probably getting a check for like $300 in the mail from Amazon when this is all said and done.