We were already there. Doesn't "visit us on Facebook" sound a lot like "AOL keyword xyz?"

Two days after I proposed to my wife, she was t-boned on a major street. She broke both clavicles, cracked a couple ribs, and fractured her sacrum. Unconscious, she was airlifted to the hospital.

When she came to, her first mumbled words were, "Not dead yet!"

P.S. She recovered completely.

I run Windows 7 on a HP Mini 110 that cost me $250. It's not a speed demon, but it's fantastic for browsing the web on my couch. It's way cheaper than an iPad, has a real keyboard, allows me to install most anything I want (even if it's underpowered for serious programs), has a replaceable battery, and could print to any printer from the first day I powered it on. It's also fantastically light, quiet, and cool.

Do you really think that the company that accepts your order at Amazon.com is the same that fulfills it?

You bought from Amazon Seattle, not Amazon Texas. Amazon Texas is doing business with Amazon Seattle and not you. Why would Amazon Texas have to remit sales tax on your behalf? It has no business with you.

True, but isn't it obvious were the Mac App Store will lead? Why would the average Mac user ever want to buy software from any other source when the App Store is immediate and convenient? Why trust n-many other payment systems, continually handing out credit card numbers on various websites, etc when they can just trust Apple, which they already know and are comfortable with? Why bother with finding download links on different websites and other installation processes when they can just perform the familiar one-click "Install"? And won't it go without saying that apps on the Mac App Store are naturally more trustworthy than apps in the wild?

Mac developers should get ready to immediately suffer profit loss and vaguely defined restrictions in order to get their applications in the App Store, where they must be in order to survive.

From a technical perspective, Microsoft's task is fairly monumental. Windows CE runs on a broad spectrum of devices under a broad spectrum of roles. iOS, Android, etc are specifically created for one market: smart phones (and in the case of iOS, very tightly controlled hardware within that market). In contrast, Microsoft wants Windows CE to be a foundation platform for a wide variety of mobile markets.

From a business perspective, who knows whether this approach is truly smart or unwise. It's clear, however, that the general public perceives that Microsoft is going to be very late and potentially very under-featured in the consumer smart phone market when Windows Phone 7 releases.

Not sure where you got "20 to 40%." There are a bunch of health insurance companies that are publicly traded, which means you can directly check their financial statements. Here's a few:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:AET&fstype=ii
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:CI&fstype=ii
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:CVH&fstype=ii
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:HUM&fstype=ii
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:WLP&fstype=ii

You're Leroy Smith; you can do anything!

Whatever happened to taking pride in making something great, and then spending a large portion of your life refining that thing or your ability to make it? Sometimes I wish I was a furniture maker instead of a software developer. New and innovative products are great, but what's the end goal? More new and innovative products? Sure, fine, great. I'm sure it's all just a big race to the bank for most people, like Andreessen, but for some who just need enough money to live comfortably, it's about striving for excellence and enjoying what you're doing for as long as you are physically able.

Notice that the number one website, Google.com, requires only about 0.2-0.3 of a second to load, which is significantly faster than most of the rest of the sites on the list. Seems reasonable that has something to do with it being number one.

Live.com, on the other hand, takes about 3.4 seconds to load. According to those numbers, I could pull up Google.com, enter a query, and get results before I could even load Live.com's home page.

He paid contractors to create the graphics and sounds. Seems reasonable for a programmer to pay for help in those areas:
http://www.streamingcolour.com/blog/2009/01/02/im-baaaack/