@funakoshi.gichin.shotokan: "desired effect". #correction

@Graviton1066: Your hope will be in vain, then. If this ever goes to trial and the EU wins (sometime in 2017), then you can bet Apple will be doing exactly as little as is necessary, which means changing its business practices in the EU.

@atlasspanked: Yes. Because the EU is the shining example of a consumers' rights crusader. I'll be over here, dying of laughter...

@bobby.tables: Very well put.

@Alex2643: I disagree. As stingy and sometimes foul-tempered as many Germans are, they have absolutely no say in whether they stay in the EU or leave. Germany is not Austria or Ireland. It's far too lucrative and opportune for Germany's government to remain part of the EU, even if that means biting the bullet from…

@AndroidUser: Actually, you can use Flash on most Apple hardware. But Apple doesn't support it, and neither do they have to. All Apple has to do is make it possible, if however uncomfortably, to use Flash. Or whatever else.

@izym: It used to be, at least most of the companies I've known and/or worked for. However, a lot of them pinch pennies where they can and a $300 price tag for a "glorified text editor" (actual quote) is nothing to scoff at. A lot of the younger IT crowd seem to now use cheaper or integrated alternatives. It doesn't…

Not a terribly productive desktop, though, is it? I mean, it's so noisy it'd be hard to concentrate on a window.

@Miral007: My thoughts almost exactly. Although (supposedly) in the grown-up version, you do it without the PJs...

@Dhaman: Welcome to the planet Hoth / AT-ATs hit the spot...

I've hooked up pretty much everything in my folks house, and usually with good results. However, at the hospital I work at there is one conference room where the beamer setup just boggles me. Either it won't work at all (70% of the time), it'll have a strong yellow tint regardless of how I change the colour settings…

Well, you find someone with an equally powerful red laser and fight for the fate of the Republic!

@Geisrud: That's what I read, too.

@tucker augie'ben'doggy: Well played, I say. Still completely bonkers to go through all that for a cellphone, but hey, to each their own!

@Brought_to_you_by_CarlsJr: Innocent child workers' crushed dreams and aspirations. And blood.

@Zing: I knew it! Dubya reminded me of that golden-skinned robot from the moment I first saw him trying to form a coherent sentence!

@Bubbsdaddy: Burning your phone may turn your retina display yellow.

@Drake Shipway: It's a conspiracy spearheaded by George Takei, Sharp and the mole people. I'm pretty sure it's the mole people. It might be the hedgehog people, though.

If you want the moon to look like that all year 'round, maybe it's you who needs LSD? Or, LDS as William Shatner refers to it...!

It's called a cataract. Shouldn't come as a surprise with a retina display.