Teese - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Closed Captioning (Score 1) 293

by Teese on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:39PM (#44758411) Attached to: HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced

Are you saying HDMI actively strips the closed captioning from the video feed? That is evil.

more like, passively strips. I guess. Somehow over the air HD channels can send captioning through a digital only signal, but HDMI cannot/doesn't. I've never been able to understand the distinction.

Comment Re:Closed Captioning (Score 1) 293

by Teese on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:41AM (#44757005) Attached to: HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced

Yes it does. I suggest you learn something about HDMI and digital video in general.

And yet, for years I'm unable to get closed captioning to work across an HDMI cable between various tv's, cable boxes, and DVD players.

Comment Re:Closed Captioning (Score 1) 293

by Teese on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:12AM (#44756707) Attached to: HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced

HDMI supports FULL closed captioning, It has supported it since it supported video.

HDMI supports NO closed captioning, and it hasn't supported it since ever.

Comment Closed Captioning (Score 2) 293

by Teese on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @09:37AM (#44755707) Attached to: HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced

Have they fixed the lack of closed captioning in HDMI? I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.

Submission + - India's first navigation satellite soars to success

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @09:52AM

An anonymous reader writes: India’s first dedicated navigation satellite, the IRNSS-1A, developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation, was successfully put in orbit on Monday night.

The launch vehicle, PSLV-C22, bearing the 1,425-kg navigation satellite, blasted off the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here at the scheduled lift-off time of 11.41 p.m. Read more here:

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/indias-first-navigation-satellite-soars-to-success/article4870587.ece

and here:

http://forbesindia.com/article/real-issue/isros-very-own-gps-is-ready/35511/0

Submission + - Firefox takes the performance crown from Chrome

Submitted by diegocg on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @09:51AM

diegocg writes: Recent browser benchmarks are showing surprising results: in "a geometric mean of all four performance-based categories: Wait Times, JavaScript/DOM, HTML5/CSS3, and Hardware Acceleration", Firefox 22 "pulls off an upset, replacing the long-time performance champion Google Chrome 27 as the new speed king" (other browsers benchmarked were IE10, Opera 12, and Opera Next). With these results, and Firefox developers focusing in fixing the UI sluggishness, can this be the start of a Firefox comeback, after years of slow market share decline?.

Comment Re:iGoogle (Score 1) 50

by Teese on Monday June 24, 2013 @02:04PM (#44094549) Attached to: Thoughts From Readers on Replacing Google Reader

They announced the shutdown July 3, 2012, a 16month shutdown windows doesn't seem that abrupt. also, according to wikipedia, iGoogle launched in in May 2005.

Comment Re:Could be Simple, but Won't (Score 1) 268

by Teese on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @11:45AM (#42179715) Attached to: Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales

This could be a very simple process - the business would charge whatever the sales tax rate is for where it is headquartered

This would just get every online business "headquarted" (with a PO box and an accountant) in Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire or Oregon. The states with no sales tax.

Comment Re:Because insurance pays for them (Score 5, Informative) 629

by Teese on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:30PM (#40313137) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive?

Except, insurance (generally) doesn't cover them. Mine surely didn't.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Alternatives to Groklaw?

Submitted by

harryjohnston

on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @02:07PM

harryjohnston writes: "Having been kicked off Groklaw a while back for "ignorance", i.e., having opinions differing from those of the owner, I'm looking for an alternative source of news/commentary about legal issues relating to technology — other than Slashdot itself, of course! Any suggestions?"

Submission + - Rumors that next xBox wont' except used games (kotaku.com)

Submitted by

Teese

on Thursday January 26, 2012 @12:07PM

Teese writes: "Here's the meat: "'ve heard from one reliable industry source that Microsoft intends to incorporate some sort of anti-used game system as part of their so-called Xbox 720."

There's no way MS can be that foolish, is there?"

Submission + - US Drone "Hijacked" By Iran Claims Engineer (msn.com)

Submitted by clm1970 on Thursday December 15, 2011 @03:48PM

clm1970 writes: An Iranian engineer claims the recent drone that crashed in Iran was actually hijacked by the military exploiting a well known weakness in GPS technology. It was as simple as reprogramming the coordinates to think it was landing in Afghanistan and not Iran.

Comment Re:OT: Whatever happened to Quantum ? (Score 1) 153

by Teese on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:27AM (#35867736) Attached to: Samsung HD Unit Bought By Seagate

According to wikipedia, they where bought by Maxtor in 2001, then Maxtor was bought by Seagate in 2005.

Comment Re:Has anyone found the original Tron on TV? (Score 1) 384

by Teese on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @01:29PM (#34562888) Attached to: 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World

HDNet showed it a lot recently, but they show movies in cycles.

Comment Re:Prequel, Sequel (Score 2, Insightful) 602

by Teese on Thursday October 28, 2010 @11:05AM (#34050218) Attached to: BSG Prequel Series Caprica Canceled

Sooner or later you will have to let go.

He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before I give him up!

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