Comment Re:Amazon is an outsourced fulfilment house (Score 1) 314
Or they're hiding what they charge for transaction margin. They could be making much more for doing much less, we simply don't have the data.
Comment only 8.5 mil (Score 1) 115
8.5 million is a small price to pay for that level of control.
Comment Re:potential of Air ? (Score 1) 231
JavaFX (Applets 2.0) has awesome potential, but they pretty much said "screw you" to Linux which means I won't be early adopting it and neither will any of my co-workers. That said, they're already so far behind on install base that all Flash needs to nip this in the bud is release a browser independent runtime and a nicer web service binding api and there will be no practical reason not to choose it. I would like to see someone write a browser in Flash for some reason. So you could browse while you browse.
Submission + - New York State Budget relies on entertainment tax (nydailynews.com) 1
einer writes: Facing a budget shortfall, New York State Governor David Paterson crafts budget that taxes iPod music downloads and other "digitally delivered entertainment services." On the chopping block is 700 million in school aid and $3.5 billion in health care subsidies.
Submission + - Prepare for "reduced functionality mode"
einer writes: All of the Windows Genuine Advantage servers are down, and may not be up for a while. For Vista users, this apparently means no DirectX.
From the Microsoft Forums:
After several email excahnges with Microsoft on validation problems, I just received this:
Thank you for your response.
I'm sorry to inform you that the Windows Genuine server might be down for few days. I have escalate the issue to our Genuine team, kindly try to validate again on Tuesday 28 Aug 2007.
Thank you for contacting Microsoft Technical Support.
From the Microsoft Forums:
After several email excahnges with Microsoft on validation problems, I just received this:
Thank you for your response.
I'm sorry to inform you that the Windows Genuine server might be down for few days. I have escalate the issue to our Genuine team, kindly try to validate again on Tuesday 28 Aug 2007.
Thank you for contacting Microsoft Technical Support.
