@Error601: Little accidents that happen every day have yet to even scratch my 3G after 2 years of use. And I don't even keep it in a case.

@Philip Pratt: So buy phone insurance and cover your phone in airbags to safeguard against accidents? Is that the lesson here?

@Error601: Maybe clumsy people shouldn't have nice things?

@zross312: If the glass on the back breaks it doesn't affect the functionality of your phone, like, at all. . .

@Snarktopus: "The point you make resonates most with me when seeing utility mentioned. This injects the idea that if someone wants/needs/has to have it enough, the price is a diminishing component of the decision. "

@Snarktopus: You stockbrokers. The economist tells me to buy while the utility of ME2 exceeds the price of ME2 inclusive of the opportunity cost of the NPV of the future dollars you could have saved if it was further discounted.

@aziatiq: To go towards therapy for all the people traumatized by their experiences with Windows ME?

@Ozzie, The Last Hairbender: This is America. We don't hand out titles of nobility.

@Dr. What?: This will all come down in a hundred years or so. Space agencies are also much better about not shedding crap into space nowadays too so eventually the problem will resolve itself.

@Irina Wylder: Never been camping have you?

So they want to turn actual dating into a JRPG Dating Sim?

@Zazu_Yen: I am glad, though, that all manufacturers have moved away from the cheap plastic that yellows after 3 or 4 years.

@Donuthead: I would actually like to find an old Apple ][e to make it into a tank for a beta fish.

@RaySquared: Their old stuff doesn't look dated. Their new designs just look much better. But my pre-unibody Macbook Pro is still quite nice and has held up well.

@KirbyMorph: Whoa. Easy there buddy. Your rage is at about an 11, but for a situation like this I don't think anything higher than a 3 is appropriate.

@ryoshi: PETITION!

Jason Chen is now obligated to use this pic as his avatar.

@sweetelectro: Blizzard and Valve are successful precisely because they make games that run on normal people’s computers. At some point PC Gamers decided that any computer that doesn’t run Crysis isn’t worth their time. It was at about that point that regular folks for whom gaming is a hobby rather than an obsession…

@Tommy Five: All the red is in and around Lagos because nobody lives in the rest of the country.

@LucasReis - LOCK2K: The issue isn't being too poor to afford video-games. The issue is the level of sophistication of software pirates in these regions and their ability to undercut official copies of anything.