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As a long time Instapaper user, I've been slowly migrating to Pocket since they released multi-page saving, but now plan to move completely.

The Instapaper error message should at least be more truthful, or the opt-out list made public so you know restrictions before purchasing the application.

Tried using it in a virtual machine, but was an endlessly frustrating experience in Windows 8 (Metro) UI.

It's like going from an iPhone to a Blackberry -- you want to touch the screen, but can't.

Be prepared to be your family's help desk if they're buying a new machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4boTbv9_nU

Several articles have mentioned bandwidth limitations of about 250 megabits per day, which also has to be used to send instrument data.

But I haven't seen an explanation why bandwidth is so low -- is it lack of spectrum? Interference issues?

Amazon's process is becoming more flawed as it grows. Originally for protecting against unauthorized purchases (balancing the write off of fraudulent purchases vs losing customers because of excessive security), it no longer works when the same account is used for their cloud services.

Excuse me while I delete all of my files from Amazon's Cloud Drive...

I'm still not sure how this is economically viable. At the IRS rate of $0.55/mile and the average messenger pay of $12/hour, about four or more deliveries per hour would be needed to break even just for the hour. Add traffic and downtime for when the messenger has no deliveries and it doesn't seem possible.

For comparison, in Chicago a company called Dining-in has similar constraints -- delivering within about an hour a custom order. They charge $6.99 -- excluding the tip.

1) Discounts do not apply to "features", like data and text, which for most are now 50% or more of the monthly fee. 2) Family plans are rarely cheaper, unless your family members do not use their phones. 3, 4, 5) Irrelevant for unlimited prepaid plans.

I'm not sure there is a "misconception" -- the majority of users consume less than 2GB of data a month, so prepaid is cheaper option and can offer the exact same coverage (Straight Talk AT&T SIM).

Enable G.722/HD Voice and use a set of satellite microphones for the room, problem solved.

I love Polycoms and was sad to see my employeer recently replace them with Cisco units (who designed the button layout of the 7937?).

How is this different than buying an around the world ticket through an airline alliance (e.g. OneWorld, Star)? Those tickets tend to start at around $2000, sometimes less: http://www.oneworld.com/flights/round-the-world-fares/onewor...

Any press is good press? Can't count the number of times I read about the Twitter fail whale.

Unfortunately, Economist fails to mention that Windows was once ported to Alpha, MIPS, and PowerPC -- all RISC processors.

Tests are performed when inflight connectivity is added to a plane -- and it has resulted in finding interference issues, such as WiFi blanking avionics screens (http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/wi-fi-interference...).

For cellphones, there have been many reported incidents of interference when pilots had them on (search Google). I'd assume testing on cell phones would officially commence with installs of pico cells on US airliners.

I think you're right -- it doesn't match FlightAware's FAA data at at all (at least when comparing in downtown Chicago). FlightAware had many more flights, including non-commercial and cargo.

Doesn't the "metro interface" feel like just another app -- like Windows Media Center did? Metro = Microsoft Bob 2012.

The market for building complicated routings is very small -- typically only mile/segment runners. ITA's backend is already used by that community for this, but not sure why the public would be interested. Each segment adds additional landing fees and taxes, making it more expensive, unless you're exploiting a rare hub/partner mistake fare.

Published airline fares change only a couple of times a day (10:30am, noon and 8pm), and only once a day on the weekends. Airlines (like American) are trying to push travel sites to use more dynamic pricing. The data is cached and outdated (including availability).

It doesn't take a tremendous amount of computing power -- remember that most airlines are still running ancient mainframe reservation systems.

The multiple destinations functionality was from ITA -- it's been around for years. Check out flyertalk.com for discussions -- you can input multiple layovers to have it compute cheap fares that maximize miles/segments. They keep a basic backend open at: matrix1.itasoftware.com

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