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Maybe the reason amazon prices that way, is that it's really expensive ?

It seems that the most expensive thing here would be the mayday service. And maybe it's the killer feature here?

One big reason why seniors buy the iphone is that there are classes in the apple store which help them learn to use the device and overcome their fear of tech.So mayday could work well for that segment.

Also, many tech people hate coming home after work and doing tech support for their family. They could have a strong influence on their family members phone purchase decision.

And i'm sure amazon has got data from their mayday on tablet to estimate the value of mayday.
How many consumers do you honestly expect to know, recognize, and understand?

I can tell you from experience 0 of the ones I've encountered outside the IT/Startup space were aware of that is what it does.
Requiring overt threat of physical force would probably be a substantial improvement, actually. It would not allow perpetrators to fool themselves, it might make victims less likely to blame themselves and/or more likely to come forward, and it might make things more detectable. I think there is a lot of harm that currently lies in the ambiguity.

It wouldn't eliminate rape entirely, but... duh? That's not a claim anyone was making.
There's a #%&! finger covering up the screen now!

Forgive me, but this was the first thing I thought of. (A collection of clips from television commercials for as-seen-on-tv gadgets, showing helpless ordinary people trying to do things like slice tomatoes, etc…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08xQLGWTSag
... and Fire OS to Firefox OS.
I agree with you here; I was really surprised by the price tag, considering that over the course of a 2-year contract you're on the hook for another $200 worth of prime membership to get the most out of the features. I'm already on the edge of cancelling my Prime membership because of the problems with "2-day" shipping turning in to "3-5 day" shipping thanks to UPS Surepost being complete garbage, and I already have an Amazon Music player app on my phone. When I saw the price my enthusiasm dissipated completely.

The sci-fi firefly stuff is cool and very tempting, but I don't have a strong use case for it and it's not going to drag me out of my current phone ecosystem at that price point.
Agree - he said they were "lavish" in their attention to make it a good phone for reading and I'm like how much can you actually do? It's a 4.7 inch 720p LCD, there's your reading experience. Reading on a phone plain sucks for anything more than a couple articles. Autoscroll doesn't float my boat either.
while I feel bad for thoer customers, I have no remorse for the creators. Stupid and mediocre managment of their code...not to mention...how does a code hosting service not understand the difference between a backup and an off-site backup? how could they delete an account and not notice (or bother to check) the other created accounts? No notification on account access creation? So mamy mediocre mistakes...
That is fine for the occasional bite, but what if I plan on being bitten regularly?
UEA researchers discover Achilles’ heel in antibiotic-resistant bacteria
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Except it isn't being sold at a low price, and doesn't really offer anything valuable to the customer that differentiates it from the competition. The implicit deal was always the product is sold at cost so they can encourage sales on the store, why would anyone pay full price for this?
> Micheal Austin, a vice president at BYD America, praises Proterra’s designs but downplays any rivalry, calling the other company only “a competitor on some levels.”

He's right, and this is why Tesla recently opened up its patents for use by others. Sure, BYD and Proterra do compete for some cities that are ready to make the investment in electric buses. But both of them are mostly competing with cities that are likely to stick with the status quo, and their efforts to market their buses will help both of them by broadening the market.
Amazon is obviously making a bet that software they are shipping with the phone will be a killer feature, I do not think broader market will agree.

If the barriers to get users to spend money are lower on Amazon's phone, then this is exactly the right move to capture developer and content producer mindshare for their ecosystem!
"Phone" Such an anachronism.

When the device is used for phone calls <1% of the time, can we now call this something else? Maybe:

"Pocket Internet System"? PIS?

If you use your phone for actual phone calls more than 5%, let us know.
The deciding factor as to whether not something is a conspiracy theory delusion is not whether or not the mainstream media agrees. It's whether the conspiracy theory has any facts to support it. Deadly influenza viruses = lots of evidence = not a conspiracy. Reptilian illuminati = no -evidence = conspiracy. You may notice that this schema does not even reference the existence of MSM...
X-ray is really cool. Imagine if you were watching a video on your iPad and decided you wanted to see more information about one of the actors on screen. With X-Ray you can click on their face and it'll automatically bring up their IMDB info. This is a really cool integration that is lacking in competing devices.

I'm not saying things like that make up for the inferior app store, just that it's really cool.
That's untrue, and for you to make that claim is ridiculous, but it does mean this conversation is no longer worth engaging in.
The Hero in I.T.
Putting the Final Polish on HTML 5.0
Yes, I just looked at the place where it specifically talks about switching costs (chapter 1 around page 18/19), and it hasn't changed.
I've found dozens of good blogs through Google. You've never had a problem that you googled and found a solution on someone's blog before?
Surely these won't be too effective. They'd be easily brought down by getting anything at all (fishing wire, string, etc) fired from a makeshift catapult caught up in the rotors.

High tech crowd control that can be defeated with stuff you've got lying around in the kitchen doesn't seen too useful.
In strict mode, it does give you an error. So maybe just use that?
Am I the only one feeling cheated when people post referral / tracking links?
Firefox OS is trademarked with the USPTO.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/list/
Obviously that's a rhetorical question. You don't actually want to know, you're just fishing. Because no answer will be sufficient for you, you'll just claim "that doesn't encompass" all poor people.

So, let's skip all that, and you tell me what your actual point/argument is?
The domain name should have clued you in.
All the effort and cost behind physical and software interaction innovations but not a hint of speech interaction/recognition. Did they cripple 'Ok Google', Voice Search from their Android fork as well?
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All of the features they demoed in that video seem pretty gimmicky at best. The kind of stuff that you show off once in a while, but never actually use. Tilt to scroll sounds like it would be maddeningly imprecise compared to finger scrolling. With so many functions apparently tied to various gestures, it seems like you better be real careful using this phone when doing anything but sitting still and devoting your full attention to it.

Meanwhile, where's email, photography, calendering, web browsing, contact management and sync? Who's their map data provider? You know, all of the stuff that you actually depend on a phone to have day to day?
http://www.instamotor.com is in the same space. Looking at both of their sites, Instamotors seems more inviting and explains things better.

There's no question that the space is ripe for disruption, but the problem with both of these services are:

1) How does the consumer know you'll actually get a better price for them? The only way to know for sure is to list it yourself and see how you would do. There is a conflict of interest here, because these sites would rather have a quick sale than take a long time negotiating an extra few hundred dollars.

2) I don't necessarily feel comfortable giving strangers access to my car so they can give other strangers test drives.
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fire phone? fire OS?

what are they trying to do? put nails in the firefox phone/firefox OS coffin?
Are the very low margin phone customers desirable media customers?

When I look at my low margin phone and service and almost non existent media consumption (nothing beyond shared cable or free streaming), I sort of doubt it.
37 subjects... serious science indeed...
I can't help but be skeptical on a number of levels here.

45MW is no where near "useful". A decent size normal plant produces 4000MW. Plus I'm not convinced that 100 mini reactors are safer than one well monitored big plant.

I'm also a little skeptical about the scale....45MW doesn't sound very "nuclear" to me. Nuclear scales badly on the low end. That combined with cooling based on convection and gravity suggests that this might be more along the lines of radioisotope driven rather than nuclear in the usual sense.

Hard to tell from an article with zero info, a nod toward Fukushima & green tech and a Grainy++ font.
everything about this sounds really shady. i have a reqlly hard time believing that they were stupid enough to let their entire company get wiped in less than 12 hours
I'm suggesting in 2009, it was random cool research (I actually can't even remember whether it was being funded by chrome back then), not something with a real and true plan to become what it is now.

That really didn't happen until late 2010 or 2011, AFAIK.
Here's a chart:

http://www.att.com/media/att/2014/support/images/MSV_Image_3...

With a 10GB plan you end up paying $800 for the phone ($199 up-front, and $25mo extra) under the 2 year commitment plan. Definitely a better deal to just pay $650 up-front.
You're saying that Amazon will be the big winner in the long run because they can control the phone, and the products you buy on Amazon?

If I'm interpreting that correctly, I don't see how that holds. People use smartphones/tablets/televisions to consume many things. Amazon products are just one of them.

I don't think that just because controlling the entire product ecosystem would work to Amazon's advantage means that customers will want a phone that enables that end-to-end control.

The end-to-end control works well for the Kindle, because eReaders are used really only for reading the books that are available only on Amazon's eReader marketplace. But I can shop Amazon from any device I want. So having a phone that owns that experience isn't a major value proposition for me. I'm much more interested in things like display, battery life, camera quality, sound quality, and the phone's popularity than which product ecosystem it taps into.

To me Amazon is working from a major disadvantage here. The technology doesn't seem mind-blowing, the device at first blush doesn't look remarkably different from what's already available, and since phones are largely subsidized by carriers, most customers aren't going to be hugely price-sensitive. If anything, people opt for the most expensive, newest phones. If Amazon is looking for the people who will spend the most money, they certainly won't be interested in customers who think $199 is too much to spend for a new phone that they will use every day for at least two years (which is a moot point since the phone is priced at $199).
Prime customers are Amazon's highest spending customers. They, according to this report[1], spend more than 2x what non-Prime customers spend - $1340 / year. Prime customers aren't likely to be swayed by a low-cost, budget phone. So it makes sense for them to tie their premium Fire Phone to this segment of their customer base.

This also doesn't mean they can't do a budget phone later.

[1] http://bgr.com/2013/12/17/amazon-prime-spending-study-cirp/
It still might protect you if you won't access server while it's compromised. It protects you from someone just hacking your server, downloading all the data and getting away.

Also you might serve files that do the encryption from different server that's smaller, better protected, more stable, that less people have access to.
Eventjoy(YC W14) launches an app for event organizers
The Threat of Creativity
Many have always viewed with suspicion to most positive IE reviews in the past.
I like giving a honest try for IE from time to time, just like the Bing search (as a user and developer), but always it looks like almost on purpose IE team just refuses to fix most of the annoying things.
I believe changing a name might be a good start.
The South African's aren't the only one, miners in the coal belt of the US, and in China today, have always been victimized by unscrupulous corporations.

In both those cases having documentation of the problems with video from a drone could have furthered the miner's interest in getting justice. That was what I was trying to say that with my comment about them (the miners) having drones of their own.
Who's liable for when your car is test driven and gets in an accident? Or worst, used in a negligent way. IANAL but I think that car owners can be held responsible for lending a car that is used by a driver that is found to have been negligent (google: negligent entrustment).

edit: Just to be clear, I'm talking more about when cars are test drive without the owner present, as seems to be possible here.
I think I accidentally downvoted you -- sorry about that.
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I was hoping this would be about not doing the whole "sign up"/account thing at all. I really hate that. No, I don't want to create an account on your website. If I can't even see the goods before being asked to "sign up", I'll instantly close the tab and go elsewhere. I really don't need another account in addition to the 30 others I already have for various sites. What a hassle. Even worse is when you need to enter your email and then you start receiving spam... And every new site you register to is another place someone can steal your personal information from.

And something like OAuth is not the solution, no I don't want to use a single account for every site, I want to keep my monikers separate.

Also having to manage all those accounts and keeping them in Keepass or whatever is another unwelcome hassle too.

Someone that comes up with something better than accounts is a very wise man indeed.
Who do your parents and grandparents go to for help with their phones? In my family everyone comes to me, so even as a fairly technical person this Mayday feature seems great. :-)
I see where you're coming from, and I'm probably in your target demographic - male, full-time programmer, and completely ignorant of fitness in general.

I'd dump the line entirely and play up the "Feel better. Write better code." part, particularly how regular exercise can reduce mental fatigue.
But maybe a reason for different action, no?
"Pool operators, being so vulnerable to being robbed, would not be able to admit untrusted individuals into their pools."

The purpose of a pool is to coordinate work amongst untrusted parties.

This solution solves nothing.
Define 'small'? Recoil and weight are the primary factors, I assume, in why no such beast exists.

Anything in the size of the average quad-copter is going to have to manage the fact that its flight trajectory would be significantly altered with each shot. The guys at Red Jacket invented something like that, and the way they mitigated the recoil was to have the barrel pointing straight down, which limits the effectiveness dramatically.

You're right, clearly, in that there's a lot of room between the missile and surveillance drones, but big enough to fire a rifle round might be a bit bigger than you suspect.
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I fully agree with you... and yet we disagree on a matter about the outside world.

My experience is that good companies are about 5%, at least weighted by jobs that are on the market. (There could be more good companies that are small or rarely have to hire.) I might be off and it might be higher, but not by much. They're rare, and they're selective, and they tend to grow slowly.

Most people are going to have to swing from one crappy company to another until they find something good. Once you have something legit, you definitely want to hold on to it for a good few years.

Also, on a practical note, there are good teams within crappy companies that are still worth working for. I wouldn't advise, say, most large tech companies or investment banks in general, but most of those huge companies have teams that are really good and make it worth taking the job.

I'd rather be honest and lose than lie, win and ultimately impugn my integrity.

I used to feel this way, but ultimately I'm of more use to the world if I'm occasionally willing to part with honesty. If I see someone in the grocery store who's 400 pounds, shouting "You're obese and if you don't stop eating that crap, you're gonna die!" does no one any favors. It's "honest", but worthlessly so.
Fair enough, but I suspect the profit margins on this phone are pretty slim, given the hardware features. I think Bezos figured the high end hardware was necessary to initially break into the market.
Extra steps are always best in an emergency...

~~~

Spider: Have a painful bite on the house!

User: "Spider say cheese!"

User: "Amazon Phone is this spider poisonous"

Amazon Phone: Searching. This Spider does appear to be poisonous.

User: "Amazon Phone call Uber 911"

Amazon Phone: Calling Uber 911

Uber 911: Can you collect the spider to take to the ER?

User: "Yes, I'll do that"
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That isn't what he was saying at all
Amazon is the only one with a physical goods tie-in, but Apple also sells apps, songs, books and films. I think Tim Cook recently mentioned 75 billion app downloads.
Mayday response times are excellent, apparently. I can see it's value with older people not used to smartphones.
When Patients Are Counting on Miracles
Enable Dark Mode in OS X 10.10 Yosemite
What about a single entity controlling >40% of the mining power on the network?

Given the increasing barrier to entry to mining, where even $1500 worth of cutting edge mining hardware is just a tiny drop in the ocean, won't this be the future of Bitcoin? A few whales, and a whole lot of insignificant chaff.
It sounds like it could include OBD functionality, then - or it might just be grabbing 12V from there.
Not really, archive.org shows Oracle, Macy's, and some other random corps using it for private hosting as of a few months ago.
Google sells you a device so they can show you an ad encouraging you to buy a rake. In turn Google gets a sliver of the profits from selling a rake in the form of ad revenue.

Amazon sells you a device so they can show you an ad encouraging you to buy a rake. Amazon sells you the rake, has it delivered in 2 days, and makes 100% of the profit.

It's not that people will actively look for that integration, but that it exists gives Amazon a significant advantage imho.
Why statistics are practically useless in design
When will people stop building map apps that are reacting to gestures or the device position in a confusing manner? I love my paper map so much! When it lays on the table I can touch it with my finger and it won't wiggle or wobble. I can just use it without fear that one subtle movement from my side will obscure everything I see and I'll have to search the place I were looking for from the beginning.
One Star Trek episode traces the limits of communication
I solved that using a Nexus One until now. it has a trackball. i can scroll content and click any button on the screen with not even smudging it.

but apparently only you and I care about not having a finger on top of what you are reading.
All solutions are technical. Only some are the wrong ones.
This isn't my area, so I don't know what we've previously disclosed or what agreements we might have in place with vendors about, say, not mentioning them, so I don't feel comfortable disclosing that.

If it was anything like experiences in other cases, my suspicion (as I said, not my area) is that switch vendors have relatively few customers like us (certainly few that discover bugs, change configuration, upgrade firmware nearly as often as we do, or who make use of the particular set of features we do at the same time), and so some things we really would want would not really be in their interest to work on relative to things that would be useful to most of their customers.

At some point it probably became worth trying something new like Wedge/FBOSS (which while technically hard at least can build on our experience building hardware and software for servers) in the hopes of improved turn-around time and getting the features we want further down the line.

I'll try remember to track down someone from the team to give a less vague answer after lunch.
Not disagreeing with you, but I know of or have heard of quite a few people who fall under the category of people who "Instead of selling, which is hard, they spend their time going to conferences and meetups, trying to do PR, talking to biz dev people about partnerships, etc. It all sounds like work, but mainly serves to insulate them from the harsh reality that nobody wants their product." Furthermore, it's incredibly difficult for me, or anyone for that matter, to quantify that. I'd name names of people/companies who I feel that fall under this criteria, but I'll refrain to avoid offending anyone.
TLDR;: Amazon Fire Phone, Firefly and Dynamic Perspective
Amazon and Google both also sell apps, songs, books, and films. Apple's selection is larger, but they're all somewhat equal in the sense that they have similar offerings.
On Teen Sexting: Same Sexism, Different Technology
That's almost a language requirement. You could use short tags, and begin the file with "<?" :)
or just design it to be easy to use, and teach Grandma how to use it, and then she has time to bake for you
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Umm... given that it is a consensus protocol.... how do you enforce a hardfork against someone with 51% of the hashrate?

Couldn't they just run more servers?
Neither the material costs nor the gearing system are barriers. You can put a fairing on your recumbent bike today [1] although to get a fully enclosed shell you'd have to go custom. The market doesn't support fully enclosed bikes, recumbent or otherwise, because they're not practical. The same principle that makes a fully faired bike fast on a closed course would make it a nightmare to ride in open traffic with moderate crosswinds and/or sunny, warm conditions.

[1] https://t-cycle.com/-ezp-16.html
The combination of net neutrality and PSTN sunset may lead to a "regulatory swap" where broadband is regulated and the phone network is not. The problem is always in the wires.
Take a look at this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vICfKPoCubw#t=258
lol at mechanical keyboard related stuff prices.

i bought the same orings (internal, external diameter. hardness) from a hardware store. paid $3.78.

...and you linked to the cheap ones :)
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Hmm. No data-dump?
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Consumer-grade SSDs actually last a hell of a long time
I'm always surprised by Amazon's lack of fanfare. Even for such a huge release, their product page is literally the same as that of something as random as a blanket
They should send the drone to defcon this year to compete in defconbots (defconbots.org).
Ugh, I live in Chicago and had to use Carmax last night to dump a car I wasn't using. I could've gotten more if I spent time on Craigslist, giving test drives, etc but the ~$1500/difference wasn't worth it to me.

Carlypso, come to Illinois. Please.