... the price difference was not typically more than 150% markup (without shipping) on the same product (with free shipping) as opposed to the 10% GST. You know, if the price difference were only 10-15% and shipping wasn't typically so overpriced ($15 - $20 for packages as small as RAM) even in the same city, I wouldn't mind buying in my own country.

Wouldn't now be the best time for a new console maker to enter the fray?

Sony and MS might be on aging hardware, but they are both in an established, safe position I'm sure they'd like to keep as long as possible. Nintendo has their Wii safety, so it could make sense for them to enter the market with a "core" console, while keeping the Wii around for it's present audience.

However, the ability for a completely new competitor to design a console from essentially "off-the-shelf" components that could out perform the established consoles could open up a new market for someone.

Flight of the Conchords was based on a true story. I'm so evil, I once robbed a man so blind, that he now has no eyes.

Exactly. Farkin' dingoes, and their eating.

Come visit Australia, "The Lucky Country". I mean, come visit Australia, We will steal your internets, then we will steal your pr0n, now we will steal your gamez".

Fuck it, don't visit Australia, because it's gone to the dogs already.

This is not what the average Aussie wants. There was a petition that set the record http://bit.ly/aJuLUO in Australia for the most number of supporters, for anything, ever! There was also a public debate http://bit.ly/cts8kl showed 98.2% support for a higher rating from over 60,000 submissions.

The current government may well be voted out this week, but the problem is, the state attorney generals decide classification guidelines http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/Classification_policy. And if only one of them has a personal vendetta http://www.news.com.au/technology/attorney-general-to-veto-r-rating-for-games/story-e6frfro0-1111115654451 against something it won't get through.

Our hopes were raised when Michale Atkison, main detractor for a new rating, "retired" http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/04/new-s-a-attorney-general-might-support-r18-might-not/ earlier this year. But all that seemed to do was delay decisions.

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Seconded

So many complaints about /. articles.

So why do you people come back ... and waste time reading ... then wasting more time commenting?

I for one welcome our solar powered blow fly overlords.

If you were recording the bionic eye vision while drinking, would the recording get progressively blurred and distorted the more you drank?
Even if not recording, would what you see be blurred (pixellated even) while drinking, or would you see perfectly?

I could, but I'm old, cynical, stuck in my ways and not upgrading my 32GB USB stick until optical holographic cube discs are available.

Buh. After reading about terrabit cube storage in 1994 http://bit.ly/cf4ufr [new scientist], I didn't upgrade my 3.5" floppies for years ... now I'm old, cynical about every article like this and my removable storage devices don't go past 32GB.

Reminds me why I only read the summaries.

I'm still awaiting this product: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12817424.000-technology-many-holograms-multiply-data-storage.html

"100 million million bits per square centimetre."