hhedeshian - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Brevity... (Score 5, Funny) 126

by hhedeshian on Thursday April 05, 2012 @04:10PM (#39591143) Attached to: Minutes spent on the phone, on a typical day

I'm not sure how that would work...
--wife-tower busband 0-0-0-1-alpha with information hotel, departing work pattern
--husband 0-0-0-1-alpha report when at grocery store and purchase milk
--report at grocery store and purchase milk 0-1-alpha

Comment Parse Error (Score 4, Funny) 159

by hhedeshian on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @02:22PM (#39417321) Attached to: Detecting Chess Cheats Taxes Computers

Parse error: Detecting Chess Cheats Taxes Computers
Parse error: (Detecting) Chess Cheats Taxes Computers
Parse error: (Detecting Chess) Cheats Taxes Computers
Parse error: Detecting (Chess Cheats) Taxes Computers
Parse error: Detecting Chess (Cheats Taxes) Computers
Parse possible: (Detecting Chess Cheats) Taxes Computers
Parse possible: (Detecting Chess Cheats) Taxes Democrats
Parse SUCCESSFUL: (Detecting Chess Cheats) [consumes] Computer [resources]

Comment Re:The patent fees will expire soon. (Score 3, Informative) 320

by hhedeshian on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @04:44PM (#39344641) Attached to: Mozilla Debates Supporting H.264 In Firefox Via System Codecs

Giving up mod powers for this:
How few? In 2027.
Summary: http://www.osnews.com/story/24954/US_Patent_Expiration_for_MP3_MPEG-2_H_264/
Patent break-down: http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/MPEG_patent_lists#H.264_patents
To quote the summary

H.264 is a newer video codec. The standard first came out in 2003, but continues to evolve. An automatically generated patent expiration list is available at H.264 Patent List based on the MPEG-LA patent list. The last expiration is US 7826532 on 29 nov 2027 ( note that 7835443 is divisional, but the automated program missed that). US 7826532 was first filed in 05 sep 2003 and has an impressive 1546 day extension. It will be a while before H.264 is patent free.

Comment Re:Streaming? (Score 2) 409

by hhedeshian on Monday March 12, 2012 @09:22AM (#39325785) Attached to: What Is Your Favorite Way of Watching a Movie

I voted "streaming" for one reason: (US) $7.99 through Netflix to watch whatever I want / whenever I want without commercials is orders of magnitude cheaper and more convenient than $125/m Comcast "HD". And the quality is higher. Also, I've come to the realization that I really don't need to archive 10+ TB of "crap", even though I consume said "crap".

Comment Then unmount it (Score 5, Funny) 147

by hhedeshian on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @03:11PM (#39201473) Attached to: Evidence For Antimatter Anomaly Mounts

sudo umount /dev/anomaly

Comment Re:not a coder (Score 1) 222

by hhedeshian on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @06:14PM (#37185356) Attached to: I do my best coding after...

A programmer? Easy:
class Beer extends Caffeine{
}

Comment extreme engineering (Score 1) 449

by hhedeshian on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @05:56PM (#37185218) Attached to: Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway

Finally, they build one of the massive "what-if" projects.

Comment Android and rain (Score 1) 364

by hhedeshian on Thursday August 04, 2011 @06:03PM (#36992020) Attached to: Finding Fault With the Low, Low Price of Android

Lets make collecting rain illegal. Since rain is free, it's anti-competitive. That way, us water utility companies can make more money.

Comment Re:NOAA survey (Score 1) 275

by hhedeshian on Saturday June 18, 2011 @06:33PM (#36487612) Attached to: Weather Satellites Lose Funding

Thanks for the link. As a private pilot, I use DUATS and ADDS frequently. They have my $0.02

Comment Not very effective (Score 1) 133

by hhedeshian on Thursday June 02, 2011 @03:51PM (#36324796) Attached to: World IPv6 Day On June 8

Instead of just turning on IPv6 for a day, the whole collective (300 of them) should "shut off" IPv4 with a warning page that says you need IPv6. That will get the ISPs' attention. Lets face it, my mother doesn't know or care about IPv6 or I pee V6 [engines].

Comment Re:Not surprising (Score 1) 194

by hhedeshian on Thursday May 12, 2011 @02:36AM (#36103708) Attached to: Over 7.5 Million Facebook Users Are Under 13

Didn't you know? They've had a opt-out for years now, although there is no link to it, you just kind of have to know how to do it
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=i_am_13_and_want_to_be_opted_out_of_exploitation/yes/yes_i_really_want_to/yes_im_sure/yes_i_agree_to_tos/

Comment Re:The new slashdot interface (Score 1) 297

by hhedeshian on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @05:04PM (#36017094) Attached to: The Insidious Creep of Latency Hell

+1 agree

Maybe slashdot should have a poll about it instead of how much you hate Sony; we already know that information.

Comment Re:same as it ever was (Score 1) 297

by hhedeshian on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @04:59PM (#36017058) Attached to: The Insidious Creep of Latency Hell

Why shouldn't he?

Sure, a lot of people use Linux on the desktop but (not counting phones) its server market share is (much) better. Frankly, if these patches are super-duper-mega-ultra-awesome, like you hint at, distro maintainers would be including them. I don't count phones because they're so far away from what you and I call "Linux" that it doesn't really count. I'm sure there are layers of proprietary garbage that would make latency worse with or without these patches.

Most Linux users use a kernel supplied by their Linux distribution. Some distributions ship the "vanilla" and/or "stable" kernels. However, several Linux distribution vendors (such as Red Hat and Debian) maintain another set of Linux kernel branches which are integrated into their products."

Linux Kernel

Comment Re:yay (Score 1) 1855

by hhedeshian on Monday May 02, 2011 @03:05PM (#36003772) Attached to: Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands

killall -9 /bin/laden

Comment Floating point bugs (Score 2) 213

by hhedeshian on Thursday January 06, 2011 @02:33PM (#34781148) Attached to: PHP Floating Point Bug Crashes Servers

Sweet. PHP finally has the qualifications to enter the X86 CPU market.

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