@scottalanmiller said in New Alexa Devices Announced: @dashrender said in New Alexa Devices Announced: @rojoloco said in New Alexa Devices Announced: @scottalanmiller said in New Alexa Devices Announced: Alexa Wallclock A traditional clock, but you can talk to it. Who is this even aimed at if schools no longer teach kids how to read analog clocks? that's funny - I was wondering too - is Jeff Bezos trying to bring back analog clocks? I think the majority of wall clocks remain analogue. You might disagree, but I feel like most people find analogue clocks to be a lot more attractive. People think of analogue clocks as fancy decor for their house, digital is more for bathrooms or bedside tables. No I don't disagree.

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@scottalanmiller said in Amazon is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs,: @penguinwrangler said in Amazon is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs,: @scottalanmiller said in Amazon is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs,: But hopefully adding thousands in a new office. I would think this would happen due to restructuring, in anticipation of the new HQ. Have they announced where it will be? I've not seen it announced yet. Seems like it would be big news when they do. It has not been announced. A narrowed down list was announced in January I believe.

@storageninja (I know some Nutanix guys tried it but kept burning out SATA DOMs). Sata dom? Who the f*** still uses them? Even when I was a c++ coder in automation industry we were phasing out them 3 years ago! Just mainteinance of production stuff. Btw I see your point. For these applications MS releases Windows embedded compact only

@jrc said in Audiobooks: The "free" audible with Prime is very limited in scope, you'd have to subscribe to the full Audible to get audiobooks. That said I drive, like a lot, 2 hours each way to work everyday. And audio books are a big part of what keeps me sane. If I went the audible way then I would be bankrupt pretty quickly. Libraries are a good place to get audio books, but I still go through them faster than I can get them, though most libraries have online digital checkout options for audio books, so check with your local library on that. When all else fails I torrent audio books. I belong to a private torrent community that does nothing but audio books. It has come in very handy. I really wish someone would start a Netflix type audiobook service, and all you can listen to flat rate service. 4 hours of drive! What else you do during that long drive? I like the idea of a Netflix kind service, but if you look at it Amazon probably covers a huge library of books! I wish Audible had an unlimited book options on a flat rate.

Not even nearly so creepy as Echo Look. Get your fashion advice from Amazon, and maybe a few pointers on other things as well...

Amazon: "How many boxes of Tide do you need?" Wife: "More, more, more." Amazon: "Okay, more boxes have been ordered."

@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Go and the Future of Shopping: The only issue I see with something like this is now you'll hire security to confirm purchases as people are entering / leaving. Should be less staff over all, but a bit more police state shopping. The companies who start moving in this direction are not the same ones who will treat their customers like criminals over the possibility that one item didn't get rung up. I have worked on projects to try and do warehouses this way, but time and time again, the RFID ends up being just too expensive per tag to make it worth it. We already have the technology to fill a cart with items then as a customer walks out, a gateway over the door can count it all, and bill them. I am betting Amazon has just found a way to bring cost down slightly on existing technology.

I have a predecessor of the Budstraps... a bit more sleek than these, but the clip is nicer here, much easier to use, and nothign to loose.

@scottalanmiller said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative: @art_of_shred said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative: Logged in. Fixed in 5 seconds. Tested functionality to confirm success. Left. NO idea what was keeping that from happening when you tried to do it, but it gave me no issues. Only thing I can think of is that Microsoft switched my account this morning, so this might be a new one. Only change that has been made in a very long time, maybe two years since MQ took over managing my account. Yeah, it "magically" worked for me suddenly because MS made a change this morning...

@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Does First Drone Delivery: @stacksofplates A lot of the same issues persist. Tracking, negative thrust compensation, flight control. You'd be better of strapping a gun to your drone, and manually flying it up to the other drone to just shoot it down with a remotely fired gun. Which leads us back to the issues I pointed out originally. Ok I'm not going to argue with you about this. If you attach another drone to a drone, it's not going to be able to carry it. Ever tried to fly a drone with a barely bent prop? They don't work, it would be nearly impossible to fly one with something attached to it that isn't carefully weighted in the center. And again, they have drones that can jam the signal and take control anyway.

I can feel my ADSL connection melting just thinking about that much data

Looking at the details page, here is a limitation depending on how you handle client accounts, or your own accounts. What are the Lightsail service limits? You can currently create up to 20 Lightsail instances, 5 static IPs, and 3 DNS domain zones in a Lightsail account. But this is pretty cool. Ability to manage traffic before it hits your VPS: Can I manage firewall settings for my instance? . You can control the data traffic for your instances by using the Lightsail firewall. From the Lightsail console, you can set rules about which ports of your instance are publicly accessible for different types of traffic.

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@Dashrender said in Amazon Echo vs Amazon Dot vs Google Home: Considering the complete and utter lack of security in almost anything that actually allows remote control (i.e. JB and his cameras that demand UPNP open ports for the world - thank you NO) I currently refuse to use any of that stuff. That said, I do have an Amazon Echo - after hearing Scott say how cool they are - and now I just sit back and wonder why. Sure I have it play Amazon music on it's crappy speaker (ok a dot could fix that) 1 time a month on average, I ask it the weather about 2 times a month on average... Otherwise I'm constantly annoyed, almost nightly by it saying "I'm sorry Dave I didn't understand the question I heard" while watching a show where no one said Alexia. I guess my wife and I have asked it a question here or there, but it fails to know 9 out of 10 times and we fall back to google to get the answer. That is the other thing I do like about the Google Home vs the Amazon equipment. Google seems to be much better at answering general questions, and you can ask it follow-up questions, something the Amazon Echo/Dot is lacking. Also, even if Google hasn't fully integrated all their services with it yet, I have zero doubts they will in the future. I'm leaning more towards the Home at this point, tbh.

I shared this with my parent company and they did an evaluation, but found that its not really useful for them. Initial feedback was " the application supports files only - no other objects (list items, etc.)" Anyone checked this already and is this the case?

Yeah at first I was wondering why someone would want a tap - but you hit the nail on the head - portable speakers.

@RojoLoco said: @coliver yep, it's just a start menu that runs on top. Better access to your apps, loads / updates Kodi for you, but everything underneath is untouched. Instead of having to dive through 4 menu layers to get to apps, they are all right there on the start screen. Nice.

@scottalanmiller said: @Dashrender said: What's your take on this java utility? If I recall previous discussions, you're completely fine with server side Java things, it's client side that are horrible. Considering this is an admin tool, is this good or bad that it requires Java? Admin Tool = Client Side So for me, I think it's a bit of crap there. As an admin tool I'd find it one step better than if it was for "generic" users. But in this role, it is still for an end user, just a power user (me.) And I think that any use of client side Java is rather bad. Not the end of the world, but not good. This isn't a new utility, so we can excuse the choice more than we could with a new one. But I'm certainly not planning to deploy it. There has to be better options. I feel exactly the same way. Was mainly wondering if you did too - and well, you do

@antonit said: I am referring to the following: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional AWS Certified Developer - Associate AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional Which one of these would fit the bill better for my career? Solutions Architect is not what you have done in the past and not where you are looking at being currently. So those are more for a change in career direction more than anything. The Developer is not at all what you do, so that is out. DevOps, likewise, would be a major career change. Not a bad one, but it's a very different role and would be a long term transition. SysOps Admin would be the logical starting point as it leverages where you have been and where you have been thinking of going. For all of them, Associate is the starting point, you would do that before considering the Professional level.