Try it yourself on Bing -- it is not the top result. About five down.

Now try on Google -- the "Why Are Macs So Expensive?" result is there on the first page.

Two different search engines, both returning the same result on the first page about Mac's being expensive. Slightly different order, hardly indicative of tampering, but definitive proof that Mac's are costly!

What about maintenance, storage, etc? Do you do the work yourself? I would imagine maintenance would be costly. I'd be interested to know... hope you reply.

Money is not the most important thing in life.

True. Sleeping on top of a pile of money surrounded by beautiful ladies is.

It's just really sad to see people bash CSS

This also applies to the idea of using tables.

So you're telling me there's a chance we will never see another goatse again? For the love of Mike, thank you!

Burning corpses hanging in chunks from buildings. People having their flesh burned to the bone while they are alive. I'm normally ok with this sort of thing

Whatever floats your boat, man...

You are a little off-base here, bud. What you are talking about are patent trolls which spec out an idea, typically already in use, patent it but do not intend to produce.

This guy has spec'd out an idea but doesn't have the expertise to build it. He still intends to build it, but needs to outsource that part. Care to elaborate how he is comparable to a patent troll?

There is a Wired article that you might find informative. It chronicles a hardware startup. It won't help you with the specifics, but it will provide a heads-up for what you can expect dealing with a manufacturer from China, selling, etc.

Even better, how about we stop encouraging/helping wild-eyed "entrepreneurs" who have these great ideas that are "probably patentable" but who are wholly incapable of actually inventing said devices.

He did invent it, but he doesn't know how to build it. There's absolutely no shame in having the brains to invent a better product but not having the skills to build it.

So, you can lose the attitude. We do need encouragement for enterpreneurs, whether or not they understand something so inconsequential like how to design hardware. Very, very few of us can.

When your shirt doesn't go past your belly button, it's no doubt you don't have lint problems. The world might just be a cleaner place if we had your genes.

Wait, is it too late to retract my last statement?

What you say makes sense -- if you own Q3A.

But you seem to be forgetting that Quake Live is free and accessible worldwide, while Q3A was not. Plus, if Quake Live is as successful as hoped, you'll have a lot more people to play against in Quake Live than in the old Q3A.

Correction.. I misplaced the parentheses: we pay 25% of property taxes. For sales taxes in many cases we are exempt or reduced.

I'm not sure where you get your information, but in Canada farming is subsidized in many different ways. We pay significantly less property taxes, sales tax (25% of normal), and are eligible for grants, government-guaranteed loans, cash advances for impending crops, and other sources of money. This is in effort to make farming easier for us, and to encourage us to keep producing livestock, food, etc.

The number of farms is shrinking dramatically every year. I'm sure it's much the same in the States. The government definitely does not pay us to produce less.

No, but we'll see the dupe in a day or so.