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Comment Postal Strikes (Score 1) 734

Canada Post is still profitable, but it's probably just a matter of time.

One of the things that happens here occasionally is postal strikes. We just went through one. When there's a threat of a postal strike, billers (like utility companies and whatnot) step up efforts to get people to switch to electronic billing. And once someone has switched to electronic billing, they're probably not switching back once the strike is done.

I don't think the postal employees realize the damage they're doing to their own business by going on strike.

Comment Re:How is AIR different from, say java? (Score 1) 171

Jambi wouldn't be quite the seamless cross platform experience you get with AIR, though, and it looks like you would need to develop separate installers for each supported platform. With AIR, you can post the *.air file somewhere and Mac, Windows and Linux users can grab it and use it.

It depends on what you're looking for - for some applications, native widgets would be an advantage; for others, consistency between platforms would be an advantage.

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