You may have forgotten the days when Amazon made no profit on the books that it sold and made all its profit on shipping and handling charges. The profit for one quarter from shipping and handling was around $35 million as recall. Don't ask me for a citation; other than Wikipedia, I wouldn't know where to look.

The merchant is required by law to account for all money collected as sales tax separately from the amount of the sale and to remit all sales tax collected to the state. If the merchant collects less than is required based on the sales, then the merchant has to make up the difference. To not remit all money collected as sales tax to the state is illegal.

It's possible that North Carolina is different than the Midwestern states which I'm familiar with, but I doubt it.

Many good keyboards have double-shot molded keys. The keyboard marking is not just on the top of the key, it goes all the way through. You can wear the key down a full millimeter and still have a good marking.

Actually, your reference says exactly what the OP said: The design put the most common keys away from the middle to reduce jamming. It also goes to say that Dvorak's layout really isn't much more efficient.

That is so 1990s. I use NeoReader on my iPhone. It's available for Android as well.

How's that Windows think working for ya? Specifying Windows as the main operating system may appear to save you money, but you also have to pay money on security software and services as well. Sure the whole package may be less expensive than Linux, Unix, z/OS or IBM i, but you still have to include the security piece.

They better start caring about Windows Phone 8 or Steve Ballmer is going to throw some more chairs!

Actually, it was one story I was upset about and now I've forgotten what the subject was. Time to update the sig!

Horace Dediu of Asymco wrote about Nokia's situation yesterday and showed where Windows Phone phones have not filled the gap in the loss of sales for Symbian phones. He also concludes that the goal of 150 million Symbian phone sales (beginning Q1 2011) will never be reached. He's got some good thoughts on this situation.

The case has to do with items purchased overseas then imported into this country. If you didn't purchase your item overseas, it doesn't apply to you.

Okay, if cold fusion is so limited, explain why NASA has applied for a cold fusion patent.

Just think if all that money had been spent developing cold fusion instead. We might have actual power plants by now.

Here's an analogy: They're trying to build the most powerful vacuum tube amplifier of thinking about replacing the vacuum tube with transistors.

Ars Technica got a call from the scammers today.

Alternatively, the requirement could be constant contact with the ground. Most objects will fly at 1,000 mph; I know the takeoff speed of my Corolla is around 120 mph.