tjhayes - Slashdot User

Comment Doesn't actually allow comparing plans (Score 1) 499

by tjhayes on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @11:33AM (#45401035) Attached to: How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov

The website looks nice, but it doesn't actually allow you to compare the different plans to each other. All it shows is the name of the plans that are available. To get any details regarding deductible/copay/out of pocket max you have to call the plan provider directly. I'm not sure how useful that really is.

Comment Mobile should follow user preferences (Score 2) 39

by tjhayes on Monday October 01, 2012 @09:42AM (#41512559) Attached to: Introducing the new Slashdot Mobile experience: clean, modern, and fast

Why does the comments section of articles on the new mobile slashdot not follow my user preferences? For example, I normally browse at +4 or higher, yet mobile is showing me all comments.

Comment Obligatory Office Space Reference (Score 0) 39

by tjhayes on Thursday November 10, 2011 @06:11PM (#38017118) Attached to: How Cell Phone Money Laundering Works

I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in a dictionary.

Comment I WOULD HAVE HAD FIRST POST..... (Score 1) 968

by tjhayes on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @11:40AM (#34487396) Attached to: Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key

IF I HAD A CAPS LOCK KEY :)

Comment Re:This is impractical (Score 1) 625

by tjhayes on Friday October 01, 2010 @11:28AM (#33759508) Attached to: Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials

Simply get an RMS of the show before airing it

What do you do for live TV?

Comment "RT" Search? (Score 1) 212

by tjhayes on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @11:11AM (#33508712) Attached to: Google Logo Changes Again, Hinting RT Search?

Would it really have been too difficult to type out the words "Real Time" Search, instead of "RT" in the title? Don't assume that your audience knows every acronym that you do.

Comment Steve Job's mobile platform strategy (Score 1) 483

by tjhayes on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @05:06PM (#33281052) Attached to: Six Reasons Why Flash Isn't Going Away

I think it is hyperbole to say that "Steve Jobs is betting his mobile platform on the demise of Flash". Steve may not like Flash, but if Flash continues to exist it does not spell death for the iPhone/iPad. Those iDevices will continue to exist perfectly fine on their own regardless of whether Flash exists or not.

Comment Re:Try it out (Score 3, Informative) 72

by tjhayes on Friday July 02, 2010 @05:19PM (#32779834) Attached to: Google Acquires ITA Software, Regulators May Balk

It's significantly better than "really quite good". It is EXCELLENT. It's very quick, and the searches it executes can be VERY customizable. Let's say you wanted to fly from NYC to LAX, only on United, with exactly 1 stop, and that stop MUST be in Chicago. ITA can perform that exact search for you. It's really quite amazing how well it works.

Comment Re:Off Topic but related, sorta (Score 1) 90

by tjhayes on Saturday June 26, 2010 @09:24PM (#32706140) Attached to: 'Telecommuting' In Formula 1

The race portion of the Canadian Grand Prix was on Fox that weekend. Fox does 4 races during the middle of the season. It was actually quite an interesting race, too bad you missed it.

Comment Misleading Title & Summary (Score 1) 391

by tjhayes on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @10:56AM (#31259272) Attached to: Google Italy Execs Convicted Over YouTube Bullying Video

When I first read the summary, I thought that the 3 google executives were the ones who DID THE BULLYING. The Title certainly doesn't make it clear either.

Comment Re:Russian hot air (Score 2, Funny) 305

by tjhayes on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @11:22PM (#30602514) Attached to: Russia Plans To Divert Asteroid

their nuclear subs are barely staying afloat

If their nuclear subs were floating that would be a bad thing, subs are supposed to sink under the water :)

US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @05:02AM from the quick-who-knows-a-good-ps3-flight-sim dept.

bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."

Comment Re:But (Score 0) 280

by tjhayes on Friday November 13, 2009 @06:35PM (#30092740) Attached to: Bernie Madoff's Programmers Arrested

t is clear that their high-speed trading is effectively a zero sum game and by enriching themselves, they are not providing greater prosperity for others. So long as I can still make money day trading on the stock market, I don't care. And I CAN still make money.

It is clear that you and many others do not understand the terms "zero sum game" and "providing prosperity for others". Just because YOU or some other bank CAN make money, does not mean that greater prosperity is being created. All that is happening is money is moving from one place to another, aka "zero sum game". Creating true prosperity for others would require companies doing actually innovative work that bring products to market that better the AVERAGE LIVES OF ALL THE WORLDS PEOPLE. Clearly this does not happen by providing day-trading.

What If They Turned Off the Internet? 511

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 24, 2009 @09:47PM from the very-funny-now-where-is-slashdot dept.

theodp writes "It's the not-too-distant future. They've turned off the Internet. After the riots have settled down and the withdrawal symptoms have faded, how would you cope? Cracked.com asked readers to Photoshop what life would be like in an Internet-addicted society learning to cope without it. Better hope it never happens, or be prepared for dry-erase message boards, carrier pigeon-powered Twitter, block-long lines to get into adult video shops, door-to-door Rickrolling, Lolcats on Broadway, and $199.99 CDs."

Comment Re:Or 120GB for $54.99 (Score 3, Insightful) 435

by tjhayes on Monday October 19, 2009 @05:13PM (#29800205) Attached to: Xbox 360 Update Will Lock Out Unauthorized Storage

This is, of course, assuming that locking out "unauthorized storage" does not also target in some crazy way locking out hard drives.

You know the old saying about what happens when you ASSUME, right?

Unless it's an official licensed XBOX device, by definition its an "unauthorized storage" device. Therefore these hard drives that you suggest buying from Newegg will also be locked out when this new update arrives.

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