How many times are the slashbots going to post this same stupid question?

Please buy our crap. Pretty please?

We just want to make our money off your app store purchases.

Look, we'll give you the thing for cost if you'll just buy our crap.

*LOL*

The EU and the US need to clue in to the fact that their local laws don't apply globally, no matter how much it pisses them off that other nations do things differently.

So punching someone is grounds for murder now, is it?

Sad. Sad, sad, sad, sad, SAD state of affairs in this world nowadays.

At least in the "Wild Wild West", both men had guns.

It's ok to be a murdering thug if you wear a badge, right?

Disgusting.

I haven't bought a UPS in ten years because they weren't worth it. And you know what? I've lost ZERO data in the intervening ten years. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

My concern is not your domain experience, but your business experience. It sounds like you're approaching things from a largely technical viewpoint, and that's going to get you in trouble with running a business. Your focus, first and foremost, should be on revenue, a product portfolio, and a plan for growing the customer base.

Sure you'll need an accountant and should outsource your payroll and get a corporate lawyer on board and all the other things people have advised you to do, but first and foremost, you need to get your head around the idea that you're no longer going to be an engineer and will have to focus on business needs and decisions that would apply to any industry.

We will never have "real" AI because every time we approach it, someone moves the bar as to what is required. It's been happening since the mid-late '80s. We *have* what would have qualified as AI according to the rules of '86-'87.

Then clearly we're dealing with a "Berlin clock sucker". :P :P :P

I've never had the battery on a UPS last longer than 2 years. Have you checked out what those batteries cost to replace? About $25 less than the cost of a new UPS. Considering that I usually keep a computer for 10 years, I'd have spent nearly 3 times as much on UPS batteries since I bought this beast than I spent on the computer and it's ancillary equipment.

I can live with having to restart after a five minute power outage at that price, thank you very much. :(

If I can afford something and want it, don't worry -- I'll find it. Advertising only works because the average grunt has more money than brains.

I have no spare money to spend on the overpriced piffle they keep advertising, so why should I waste my time letting them download and putting up with their annoying animations and bullshit?

I insist on the right to refuse any tickets from the moron in sales who never makes a fresh pot of coffee when it's out.

Don't mess with my programming fuel!

You're still first for billions of dollars spent on warfare.

You're still first in number of people incarcerated per capita.

You still lead in the number of gun-related murders per capita.

And you still lead the world in thousands of dollars per capita spent on healthcare.

Personally I find it to be useless for my needs. Most of my searching is for tech documentation, example code, how-tos, and such. For whatever reason, Google just finds a lot more relevant material than Bing, and usually what I need is within the first 3-4 links on the results page. With Bing, I find that one often has to go through a page or two of results, skipping the obvious chaff in order to find anything relevant.

I've no idea how the two compare on non-technical searches, though.