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I can't wait until someone builds a working ManHack. Only a matter of time at this rate.
The "Fire OS" has been around for a couple of years now, previously powering Kindle Fire devices.
No, not at all. My laptop has a 1Gbit network card, I paid for it, and yet I do not expect to connect to the internet at 1Gbit all the time. Car = equipment, road = ISP connection. This is also the reason why I stated that I, and I think most people, would be OK with ISPs advertising the maximum and minimum speeds. For instance, let's say the ISP has a 10Gbit fiber coming into a neighborhood of 1000 homes. Also, let's say that their modems can do maximum of 100Mbit. So, they can honestly advertise maximum speed of 100Mbit, and minimum speed of 10Mbit. No problem.

The problem is, if say Verizon was to honestly advertise their speed capabilities, they would have to advertise 100Kbit speeds on the minimum side. They are consistently, and purposefully lying about their networks capabilities.
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Ah, missed that. Pretty cool.
Hopefully there is more to it than just using the cameras like a gyroscope. Because tilt to scrolling with just rotational information is already very possible.
> Let's say you have to browse through a bunch of stuff on your phone. The very moment you start doing this, you have a problem: There's a #%&! finger covering up the screen now!

Unless I'm wearing mittens, it's never been a problem in ~6 years of smartphone use.
Talk about losing your place -- I just want a phone that I can hand to someone when I'm showing a picture, and not have it exit the app or something when they inevitably touch the screen. Would be nice to have a touch screen lock gesture, which keeps the current app active and displayed.

Oh, and the 3D -- is that really a 3D screen, or does it just change the screen when you move the phone, based on the position of your face relative to the front camera?
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Since the year of Prime can be used by existing Prime customers, it seems about the same. If you have Prime already, and plan to renew, buying this phone would only cost you $99 more than not buying it.
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Uber's model is to capture the economic rents previously captured by taxi companies. A similar situation doesn't exist for delivery services, which considerably reduces the relative advantage of their app .
...because "logistics" includes things like "giant trucks" and "warehouses", neither of which Uber is anywhere near qualified to do.

People seem to lose their minds when companies get to a certain growth stage, assuming that "anything is possible now!", while ignoring the overwhelming amount of empirical evidence that the larger a company gets, the less likely it is to make dramatic shifts in business. Moreover, companies that don't focus like a laser on their core business tend to fail.
Google is really in the same business of obtaining captive users to sell and sell to. The Nexus devices are priced cheaper than pretty much any other OEM can compete with. I really hated it when the Android Market was renamed Google Play and now shows me a ton of movies and books and magazines and stuff I don't want. I use Amazon Kindle for that and only want apps, so Google is sort of abusing their position to market higher profit goods to me I'm not interested in. Hopefully amazon is a bit more tasteful in their approach.
My hypothesis is that adding this feature to a 4.7 inch device has the potential to make the user experience equivalent to maybe a 6.7 inch device, because a finger covers up the equivalent of 2 inches worth of screen real-estate.

Wouldn't you like a 6.7 inch phone that only takes 4.7 inches of space in your pocket?

(That said, only time will tell if I am right)
The 'superior app store' note applies equally to proper Android (the non-Amazon version) users as well. Amazon App Store users can't even download Google Chrome or Firefox, let alone the hundreds of thousands of other apps and games that are available to non-Amazon folks.
That exists on certain of their products already and they marketed the hell out of it, so it's an interesting reflection on said marketing that you're asking this question. Nothing against you, mind, just interesting about the messaging. (I actually forgot it was called Mayday, so the "Mayday" bullet point was confusing to me.)

Although I've never used it, Mayday is a human being with a camera and they can control your device. I first assumed that they saw you, as well, which made me sad about the horrors they'd be inflicting upon poor contractors, but I'm told they cannot see you. I still don't know.
Aka the MitM browser.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/28/amazon-kindle-fir...
Amazon has consistently impressed me with their customer service, so Mayday struck me as a pretty awesome feature:

"Simply hit the Mayday button in quick actions and an Amazon expert will appear to help you via live video."
They don't have a self-destruct of any sort. In 2001 an aircraft loaded with state of the art surveillance equipment collided with a Chinese fighter and was forced to make an emergency landing in China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident) which must've been an interesting experience for the crew.

They had to destroy as much of that presumably staggeringly expensive equipment as they could to avoid it falling into the wrong hands.

I did not know that instead of the C4 you'd expect to see from movies, they used hot coffee to destroy most of the equipment.
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Yep, it's also built into the default Amazon app. Hit search, then you'll see the regular text search along with barcode scan / flow.
Don't forget the open mic. ;)

I don't care if they can see I'm ugly. I know that already as does everyone else.
I can honestly say that I have never once felt that my finger was getting in the way of using my phone.
Dynamic Perspective: Perhaps both less accurate and slower than today's alternatives, though nice if you're one-handed browsing or need the full screen visibility during scroll. Real world use cases? Reading porn. Conclusion: pretty gimmicky.

Firefly technology: Advertising wet dream, in reality a cheap OCR meets keyword database (pay to be listed?). Not indifferent to certain Firefox plugins re: post-OCR recognition, not indifferent to other phones re: OCR capability. It's just a wrapper. Real world use cases? Limited. Conclusion: gimmicky.

Mayday: Video support? Totally gimmicky.

Bonus US-market centrism. Unimpressed.
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Because if your enemy can simply ground your fighter fleet with a communication attack, you are just asking for a Pearl Harbor 2
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Then also thank the farmer for the food on your table.
I'm trying to get signed up. I'm at the "Almost there. Subscribe to your first three topics to get started."

None of the 12 topics shown are of interest to me.

Now what? Must a user pick topics they don't care about?

Consider an offering obvious way to just skip this, and also allow for searching for topics at this part of the sign-up instead presenting a limited choice.
Soft buttons drive me crazy. When I hand my Android phone to someone to help me take a picture, about half the time they inadvertently close the camera app.
You're sounding almost like you've never gotten a paycheck. No, it won't be from the highest bracket. Waiters aren't in some bizarre class of people that don't get marginal tax rates. Any competent payroll company will estimate the final tax rate, and the number of deductions can be adjusted to fix it if your return is overly high each year.

That money is also used to educate their children, build the roads and bridges they drive on, and in the case of generally lower-income waiters, might well help with food and medical care.

I don't like the things you highlight, but pretending taxation offers zero benefits to anyone is silly.
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What managed switches did you guys try and find lacking?
Everything isn't running on the Internet. When you use Google Voice to call a number that isn't part of GV (which is probably the majority of calls), your call is going over the PSTN. And touching the PSTN is what gets you regulated.

Facetime is a good example of a system that isn't and shouldn't be regulated because AFAIK it doesn't touch the PSTN.
The example use case they gave was turning on some obscure setting like international roaming. Have you seen the iOS Settings app? It is not especially intuitive, IMHO.
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Your scraping geocities for MFA and your trashing SEOs :-) a good example Cognitive dissonance -you certainty have a lot of Chutzpah.

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Define 'productive task.'
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Modern tanks have steel armor plates that are 12 inches thick?
I agree with you in regard to the software on the Kindle fire, but I actually felt the hardware wasn't so bad. Anandtech did a review of the screen and found it to be the best screen (if not, close to the best screen) on any android tablet, including the updated nexus 7. Are there specific aspects that make the hardware less premium?
I wonder if Mozilla will put up a fight over the name now that they could be directly competing.

FireFly also sounds very similar to FireBug.
That's the joke ;)
1. It seems like full-res photos will be uploaded
2. Will upload both videos and photos, but there's a cap on videos
3. The storage is tied to the phone. If you sell/give away the phone, the new user gets unlimited storage. (Is is not clear how exactly this works. Do the original person still gets unlimited storage?)
Any of the ideas can be funded and you need to figure out what would make it stand out from the crowd and what value your product would bring to your users (you know the story how Google was funded - the VCs simply liked the product).

1. Tons of competitors. I read a report somewhere that people use a weight-loss app for less than 2 weeks on average and then switch to another (I guess they don't like results). Thus, you will need to figure out retention problem (e.g. many such apps now include a hardware component).

2. There are tons of "deals" website (in the US) and many have forum format, up/down voting, etc. Key problem to address is how to get enough people to use the product and how to build critical mass.

3. The online sellers marketing automation exploits the fact that you can click on the link and buy the product. With offline stores you need to either force people to go to the store right now (hard) or to remember this marketing email long enough (days if not weeks) until they get into the store (also hard). Can you use location for that? Bluetooth? WiFi? Or is there something else that can help you to get people to buy things after they read your emails?
Mayday is actually a killer feature on a phone for Grandma. With 24/7 on-device tech support, relatives would never have to field tech support requests.
Not sure about the point you're trying to make, but if you somehow think Starbucks is "disrupting" coffee consumption, please think again.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coffee_c...
Isn't that part of the joke? That nobody is taking pictures of QR codes?
Leaving aside the obviously deficient sysadmin work here: the timeline of the story doesn't add up. I can only hope this explanation is not accurate.

You find notes in your AWS control panel saying you should contact some Hotmail address. OK. So the first thing you do is reach out to that address and take the time to communicate intricate extortion details? Only after that you think maybe it's a good idea to start changing passwords, and right then the other party takes action and deletes all the things?

If that's what actually happened then I'm afraid something like this was bound to happen sooner or later.
Does anyone know of noteworthy projects that were hosted there?
I don't think you get the point of that site.
So your lawn is a public street bench?
I got a confirmed yes from Anne Eshoo. Anyone else have a report?
The FCC will decide what is reasonable, and the doctrine of Chevron deference means that the courts will defer to the reasoning of executive agencies with specialization and expertise (i.e., the FCC) unless it is evidently wrong, arbitrary, or unreasonable.
I wonder how small the bridge between flashplugin and the underlying OS was to enable easy audio sync. Because other than this, flash and javascript are almost dialect-cousins.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2268276/what-are-the-key-...
Well, yes and no. My understanding from talking to the Trello Android team is that Fire OS has a lot of subtle differences in its APIs from the official Google ones, especially around things like mapping and push notifications that otherwise rely on Google services. Sometimes that sounded like it was trivial to work around, and sometimes not, but the overall discussion reminded me more of porting between Windows 3.1 and NT than anything else.
How do you know that this phone has that problem? I would certainly hope that Amazon's engineers thought about those use cases... Until I read some reviews that actually find those problems with the phone, it's meaningless conjecture to believe them.
"Desert Wolf's website states that its Skunk octacopter drone is fitted with four high-capacity paintball barrels, each capable of firing up to 20 bullets per second."

If they sell this in the US our company paintball outings might get a little more interesting.
i don't think finger-in-the-way is the problem. i think reaching for buttons one-handed is the real problem they're trying to solve. on my iphone when the back/forward button is at the top of the screen, i can't reach it.
The battery life alone would be impressive, but I don't know how you can get a phone battery to last almost 12 days except maybe by having the phone off.
Everyone's experience is different I guess, but I have never once in my life found myself trying to peer around my own finger. Touching the screen to control where I want information to move is intuitive and precise. Tilting a screen is, for me, very counterintuitive and imprecise.

And despite Sergey Brin claiming it's emasculating to touch a screen, I still find the experience a bit magical.

Really I don't see the Fire as being any different than what Samsung has done: it's harder and harder to innovate on hardware, so you come up with some whimsical feature that solves a problem few actually have.

But who knows! Maybe it's just great.
Pretty high-tech and impressive. Nothing super amazing, it's certainly a phone worth consideration, maybe the best on the market for certain people. (Depending on what you look for.)
Ok, that is pretty neat. There seems to be a lot of interesting innovation here that Google just sort of missed. (in particular the orientation aspect of accessing alternate views, which could be very powerful if done well).

In some ways it seems like Amazon is disproving my theory that if you open source a big chunk of code that is ok because your level of expertise with the code will always insure you can out execute folks who are not the 'originators.' But that doesn't seem to be the case with Amazon here.
I suspect Mayday is targeted more at older users (e.g.; my parents and grandparents). Which is why it doesn't really appeal to me much since, as someone who works in technology, I'm less inclined to need it.

Still, you're right that Amazon offers great customer service so I'll give them props for Mayday.
2D that just redraws based on the position of your face relative to the 4 front cameras.

(Yes, there are 6 cameras total: high-res back, mid-res front, plus 4 low-res for face-tracking.)
Do you keep your finger on your phone while reading a page? I flick, read, flick, read, etc.
I think the subtle tilt-to-scroll paradigm, if it works well, could become widely adopted. It seems to make one-handed scrolling much more approachable without any fingers obscuring content.

Question: Does it seem like it requires the camera system to make it usable or could it be done reliably with just the accelerometers now common in smart phones?
Didn't Samsung already try to address the "finger issue" (which has never been a problem myself or anyone I know of complaining about) with their scrolling via eye tracking, which turned out to be a nothing more than a gimmicky battery slayer?
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But would Grandma really want a phone like this?
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Definitely, I was just talking in terms of resolution. Megapixels and aspect ratio gives you the same information as width and height (in pixels).

1.05 megapixels vs 2.07 megapixels is a much more obvious comparison to most consumers than 1366x768 vs 1920x1080. One has twice as many pixels as the other.

Switching to that system could even make a few more people realize that a small number of pixels with a huge screen size isn't a great idea. IMO most consumers just see "1366x768" and think "Oh those are big numbers it must be fine."
FreeAgent is great, I've used it. But since I discovered Nutcache, I got to save 20 bucks a month, as they give it all for free. http://nutcache.com
> your instances have to be disposable and reproducible, at the first hint of a break in my default action is to torch and rebuild.

Or rather shutdown, preserve, start replacements. IMHO your automation should be able to deal with the old preserved instances being left alone.
If you combine Celery with supervisord it's important to check the official config file[1]. At least two settings there are really important - `stopwaitsecs=600` and `killasgroup=true`. If you don't use them you might end up with a bunch of orphaned child Celery processes and your tasks might be executed more than once.

[1] https://github.com/celery/celery/blob/ee46d0b78d8ffc068d5b80...
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I'm not so sure of this. Google has published multiple documents [1] mentioning the limitation of top-of-rack switching capacity and data center bisection bandwidth: how they need to design around it, and why it makes sense to use commodity switches despite the burden on software design.

[1] Here is one less than a year old: http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y2...
> There's a #%&! finger covering up the screen now!

At which point I use the abductor pollicis brevis, adductor pollicis, etc. to do something quite amazing: I move my thumb out of the way. Alternatively, I can use the same muscles to scroll the screen to a point such that I can see any obstructed content.

The benefit of this method is that I maintain my original viewing angle. I also have finer motor skills in my thumb than in my wrist, and thus I suspect I have greater control.

(FYI: Might want to tone it down a bit. You sound like an astroturfer.)
I'm taking the opposite stance, this is a stupid gimmick until proven otherwise. Scrolling with my finger can happen on the very edge of the screen or area of interaction and it's easy to move out of viewing obstruction.

Tilt-based interaction has existed for years on iOS and Android using the accelerometers. It's not a responsiveness or tracking issue, it's that interacting with screens at oblique angles is annoying and many times tilt/rotation interactions require pretty large arm movements compared to finger movements, limiting when and where they're useful. Maybe Amazon made it so amazing these can be overlooked or they were solved, but I'm not buying into the idea just because it uses cool computer vision technology.
Not sure how to even use it on Windows. Running the app only brings up a message box saying it's already running. Any hotkey combos for Windows?
I'm convinced it's actually a very hard problem. Cameras on android have been subpar across the board for years now, but it's a feature everyone looks for in a smartphone. There's no way manufacturers aren't dedicating some focus on them but just not succeeding much yet.
You also tend to want to turn, so you can't have all that tight an envelope for a casual or commuter bike.
They ran a code hosting service and they had no offsite backups?

Wow, just wow.
Playing around, looks interesting, but the inability to post something to multiple topics is a drag.

Also, getting got this message when I did post:

Topic is confused! It hurt itself in its confusion.

:(

It's unclear to me how this is better than twitter, unless the "more than 140 characters" aspect is the thing. But on twitter I can use multiple hashtags.
Replace school buses. They put down a ridiculous number of miles per year and the pollution isn't much good for the riders either. While not all routes could be covered with electric buses I suspect many could
Yes. I pointed it for LXC originally, filing the bug with LXC on sourceforge and later re-filing on github. Nothing to do with docker. Finally, they implemented it. This is like multiple years of timeframe we're talking about. Later I pointed it out for docker. Just sayin'. There's a lot of us contributing here, and much of the work isn't under the docker banner.
I only read as far as "rentAmount.dollars = 600; // => 600" before I got all ragey. Why would someone think that read-only attributes that silently ignore assignments are a good idea?

This is a criticism in JS, not in the article. But IMHO most modern dynamically-typed languages err way to far on the side of permitting (or ignoring) operations which should raise exceptions. "3" + 4 should be an error, not "34" (JavaScript) or 7 (Perl). ({}).foo should be an error, not undefined. etc. etc.

It has nothing to do with dynamic typing -- IMHO languages like Scheme and Python got things right in having a object & type models which have a small, well-defined set of operations with few rough edges. But somewhere along the way, "do what I mean" AKA "do the thing that I almost never need but may blow up in corner cases" became accepted as a good idea. And IMHO it's not.

EDIT: if anyone is interested in ideas around immutability, read up on functional programming -- specifically read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming, and play around with Scheme. It'll make you a better programmer regardless of language. Some of the basic ideas from the functional programming community definitely need to be preserved and disseminated.
It was a serious question, and it received many excellent answers. Yours was not among them.

Abrasive elements are commonplace in soaps for auto shops and other places where most conventional soaps have a hard time with the gunk accumulated from automotive grease and such. The particulates help to actually scrape off that gunk (in a manner that doesn't cause skin injuries), rather than rely on the hope that soap's chemical properties alone will suffice.
Somehow I'm going to guess "all of them". ;)

(They were known to use Force10 switches at some point in the past: http://www.force10networks.com/company/customer_profiles/pdf...)
Does anybody know the name of the icon collection that is used on the header?
Exactly. And it's not that these topics don't interest me, they're just to general. I love music, I write music, but I have very specific music tastes; the signal-to-noise ratio for me in "music" tag in every information system is impossible. The same goes for "games" and "tech"; wait, "gadgets" aren't tech?

This wouldn't be a problem if the service asked for my public Facebook profile and built tag cloud based on the pages I liked or at least gave opportunity to enter my own topics.