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QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 8, 2014 -> 06:22 PM) MySpace became a total clusterf*** with all the HTML editing you can do on their pages. THIS is exactly what was wrong with MySpace. I could never find anything on anyone's pages, because everyone put them in different areas, or made them look drastically different, it lacked general organization, and became a sloppy/annoying experience.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 8, 2014 -> 06:26 PM) Paper does seem nice, but I think that's the first mobile app FB's made that people have actually liked. The FB app has always been kind of "eh" on iOS and Android (Android specifically). It's not a great app, but you kind of need to use it if you have FB. The Facebook app itself is really bad...it's like a half-assed replica of their website, and it's buggy as hell. Paper is nice, though missing a few features, it's nothing I care about (such as events), but it's pretty slick.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 7, 2014 -> 09:34 PM) Google+ actually does quite a few things better than FB. Their photo editor, auto-backups, Google Hangouts, just to name a few. I'd be more inclined to use it if other people actually use it though. Using G+ on Android makes a lot of sense since the FB app is utter crap. It's ugly, it runs a billion services in the background that'll drain your battery, and it's fairly slow. There's a few 3rd party clients that are way lighter, much better looking, and less resource intensive. I personally use Klyph. But since FB's API is...well...lacking, the app doesn't have all the functionality the FB app has. Facebook's new app Paper is pretty good, at least on IOS. I don't think anyone would disagree that G+ is a leaner/meaner product than Facebook, and the things it does it does very well, unlike FB, which is more of a jack of all trades/master of none. But when you look at it that way, it's easy to have a limited product do it's limited actions much better than a vastly larger product like Facebook. In the end, G+ is just a limited version of FB, and the most important commodity in these services is the community, which just isn't there. Oh, and I'm not really a huge fan of Facebook either, but that's where the people are, and without people, these services are useless. Facebook grew organically, because people WANTED to be a part of it, whatever it was that FB had that caused people to do that, G+ is missing it. Most of it's growth thus far wasn't organic, it was forced by Google, which led to most of the G+ accounts that exist to go unused or ignored.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 6, 2014 -> 12:13 PM) Yoga day is always strange because I hate it at first but love how it stretches me out after burning thought push and pull before (I switch thursday and wed). I started doing Yoga out of necessity. I do both DDP Yoga, P90X3 Yoga and lift weights at this time. I really don't do any of the other P90X workouts anymore, unless I'm incredibly bored and want to try something different, but I never stick with them. I've never been particularly flexible, as I've always been more muscular than anything else, but lately, mostly because of playing hockey again, my left calf has bouts of incredible pain. Turns out, unbeknownst to me, I broke a bone in my foot when I was quite young and the bones fused in my ankle as a result, preventing my left calf from being able to engage on the negative...so I've been trying Yoga to regain any sort of flexibility and strength in those odd muscles that I can. I can actually do crow into handstand now, and almost get all the way back down again, too.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Feb 7, 2014 -> 10:17 AM) But you must have gmail open, which defeats the purpose. Are you crazy or something? You aren't supposed to question anything Google does on the Internets. Their army of unpaid lemmings will relentlessly attack you. Oh, and you should sign up for G+, it's really awesome, and wayyyy better than FB. Only it's not. But it is. Only it's not.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 7, 2014 -> 09:07 AM) Anyone have any opinions on Wilmot vs. Alpine Valley for skiing? edit: just looking for somewhere close to go to get used to a set of skis again before heading to Colorado, I know they're both small hills at best but I've never been to Wilmot. If you have to chose one of those, go to Alpine. If you can go further north, go to Cascade.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 6, 2014 -> 02:56 PM) I have a white gold band and wear it 24/7/365. I only take it off to mess with it and itch my finger. I'm surprised some of you don't wear yours. Is that a work thing? No, it's just having things on my hands...I already wear a watch, I don't need more crap on my hand.

QUOTE (Jake @ Feb 6, 2014 -> 08:22 AM) A good friend of mine got a tungsten ring, was boasting of its unbreakableness, then dropped it onto their tile floor as we all watched it shatter. I don't know if he got jipped or what Probably got a really low quality one, or one with a flaw during its forging process...shouldn't break very easily at all.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Feb 5, 2014 -> 11:31 PM) That is something they suggested but didn't work.. I don't understand how when I look up my IP through MLB.TV it says I am somewhere else but when I do it on other websites it says I am at the right place.. Sounds like a REMOTE caching issue on MLB's side. OR, someone stole your account and is using it out of Indiana.

When I bother to wear my wedding band, which isn't often -- I wear Tungsten Steel. And yes, I'm aware that if something was to happen and you can't get it off, they have to shatter it.

...and he will go away, when people collectively stop posting/talking about him whenever the media posts a click bait article. Paradox, b****es.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 4, 2014 -> 08:05 AM) You had a few grammar mistakes in your post. DIAF. Correct that.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 4, 2014 -> 12:53 AM) Thats because even when I was a child I used to tell people that I was above spelling and that one day computers would do it for me. Sure I got a homophone wrong, it happens to everyone, I cant spell, I freely admit it and will never say that Im a spelling champ. I do find it quite annoying when people correct peoples spelling on the internet and I always use the secretary line. Because its true, no one judges intelligence by spelling. I have to agree with badger here, when people correct a spelling or punctuation error on the Internet, it's because they have nothing of substance to add to the conversation OR any valid response to the actual point that was being made. So long as you understand what the person was trying to say, just let it go, and respond to their point, not their grammar.

I thought one of his most subdued but greatest performances was in Magnolia, just standing in the background listening to TJ Mackey (Tom Cruise) berate his dying father, and when Cruise breaks down into tears, PSH looks truly shaken in the background by watching the scene unfold. Warning: LANGUAGE.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 3, 2014 -> 08:55 AM) I'm guessing I wasn't the only person in America who saw the name and said "where do I know that name?" and then looking him up and saying "God he looks so familar, what the heck has he been in?" and then seeing that oh yeah, this guy has been in a ton of stuff. But that doesn't mean he hasn't received the recognition he deserved...whether people knew who he was or not, he still received the highest possible honor in his profession.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Feb 2, 2014 -> 01:57 PM) Always thought Hoffman was so immensely talented but never got the level of recognition he deserved. Saw someone tweet about it, and they said "you always believed that he was 100% into that role". Really enjoyed him in Charlie Wilson's War. How is winning an Oscar for best actor not getting the recognition you deserve?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 01:47 PM) I don't remember this time at all. He means way back when the board was dominated by Kap.

I think it depends on the situation, as this could mean a lot of different things, but in the context I think you are asking this question, this is my answer... Whereas some will call someone a troll simply because he or she busts up their group think mentality, I mean, how dare they think differently than everyone else in the village, I think they're necessary even if they're often dismissed as the idiot. Call them the village idiot, the devils advocate, or what you will, but I absolutely think they're necessary to a conversation. Even if their points are invalid and proven to be invalid, breaking that tendency a group has to think alike confines them, which can prevent true self-thought. Even if they make you think, just for a second, they've done their job. I do it often, because I dislike group think "say horray for our side" mentality...and I don't care what the subject is, I'll often find myself arguing against my own actual feelings simply to inject the counter argument into the discussion. I have no problems playing the religious guy in a group of atheists, even if I don't believe.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 09:24 AM) Hmm...Microsoft Surface Pro is $500 today at Best Buy. That could possibly take the place of both laptop and tablet? Active digitizer is a must for me and it has that. Battery life is huge concern though. Keep in mind the Surface Pro 2 exists.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 31, 2014 -> 08:52 AM) I can't decide what I want to do. FWIW, my work is academic research, which means that screen real estate and multi-tasking/RAM capability is more important than much else. My laptop has 4GB RAM and I believe that tends to be the bottleneck as I work. My desktop has 8GB and works great, other than the slow-ass HDD that makes it start up slowly. If I keep it, I plan to install an SSD in its mSATA port and keep the HDD in place for file storage. The heat issue is one of the things that prevents me from feeling like the docking/plug-n-play-as-if-it-were-a-desktop solution is something I can just go and do. I can imagine many consumer laptops getting really hot with heavy usage while outputting to a big monitor/multi-monitor setup. While it's just personal preference, I'd go the desktop route for the screen real estate and power (not to mention cost savings, as a really high powered laptop will be quite expensive), along with extendability, such as being able to add a second graphics card. I just synch whatever I need to my ipad/iphone for "emergency" on the go purposes...it's not like editing photos/video or documents on a tablet or laptop is fun (no matter how big or small), while it can be done in a pinch, it's like using a wrench to hammer in a nail...the hammer just works better for those things. I have a Windows 7 laptop for work, a iPad Mini Retina, and my iPhone for anything "on the go", but none of it comes close to working on my 27" iMac, which has 16 gigs of ram in it...and it's still fast as hell despite being 3 years old.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 09:38 PM) Totally different subject now and I'm looking for some insight into whether this is a brilliant idea or a terrible one. Right now, I have a new AIO desktop. I love it. I also dropped about $1400 on it. I have a mid-range ultrabook that I also love, I dropped about $500 on it. I also have a Galaxy Note 8.0 Android tablet, and (guess what) I love it. I paid $280 for it, which is quite a steal given its original $399 MSRP. However, I'm not getting enough mileage out of this stuff. I feel like I can eliminate at least one of these devices. Right now, I hardly use the laptop. It gets used when I go on vacation or the rare occasion that I need to do work and I am staying at my girlfriend's place. I use the desktop a lot - it has a 27" QHD monitor that is awesome for the multi-tasking I do. I can put up several documents to read, an open document to write in, and something else like a browser window or an early draft as well. I spend a lot of time on this, though I get sick of sitting at my desk here and there. Now I'm wondering if it would make more sense to sell both the desktop and the laptop, assuming I can get something like the value I paid for them (bear in mind I got good deals on both and therefore selling at these prices is potentially doable). I could then buy a better laptop that can handle a heavy graphics load and dock it at my desk along w/ external monitor when I need it while also having a great laptop I can use when I am away or just don't want to be at my desk. Is this docking-a-laptop solution something legitimate, that people do, seems possible without losing a bunch of money? Am I overlooking something? I would have to buy a good monitor and possibly a USB docking station. Would having my laptop sitting there and plugged in for extended periods toast its battery in short order? For the most part you don't actually need a docking station. While they make things a bit more convenient for an additional cost, they're not necessary. All you really need to do is take your laptop and plug it into your monitor/keyboard/mouse. The only thing the docking station does is allow you to plug those things into it, and then put your laptop into the dock, so you don't have to repeat the steps of plugging those devices in over and over...but other than that it doesn't do anything. If you are interested in anything highly graphically intensive, such as video, I'd recommend a desktop for serious work, and a combination of your tablet/phone to synch any necessary items on the go. Laptops always use mobile versions of their desktop counterparts, such as a mobile-gfxcard, a mobile-processor, which are always slower, and tend to run a LOT hotter. A laptop is fine for photo work, however, so long as it's color calibrated properly, and out of the box, almost no LCD is.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 09:34 PM) Is there a way to sync up my email so when I delete on off my phone, it'll delete on my ipad as well? I always have to delete an email twice. That depends on how you have your email service configured -- from the sound of it, you are using POP for email. Use IMAP instead, as it solves this issue. iOS will do this for you if your email provider exists on their config screen, such as gmail, outlook.com, yahoo!, etc...if you are using an unknown party, configure it as IMAP instead of POP (if they support it).

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 07:10 PM) I'm not an accountant, but couldn't they offset some of their own liabilities with Motorola's losses? There is a limit as to how much you can do that with per year -- but you can continue doing it year after year so long as you own the entity in question. Just like an individual, when you declare a loss (to a maximum of a set amount), all it does is subtract your taxable income...it's not like you're getting a refund on that amount. Yes, it can save you some money in losses, but it won't make you money.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 04:54 PM) http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-may...-badly-it-seems Google buys Motorola for $12.5 billion Google values Moto patents at $5.5 billion, which are retained and licensed to Lenovo Google transfers $2.9 billion in cash from Motorola to Google Google sells set-top division to Arris Group for $2.35 billion Moto racks up nearly $2 billion in operating losses during Google ownership At this point, things don't look so bad, though they clearly seem to have taken a loss. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/01/go..._with_mobility/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/20...le-1-5-billion/ They've made a buttload of money on tax losses, which many speculate is the only reason they really wanted Moto in the first place. I haven't seen anyone speak authoritatively on this, but some seem to think that keeping those patents will give them the right to continue benefiting from those losses until 2019 You don't make money on tax losses, that's a complete bastardiization of reality. If that was the case, company goals would be to lose money and declare losses, OR keep companies like Motorola around so they could keep doing it...which obviously isn't the case. Not to mention, those tax losses are gone as of now, since you only get to write down so much per year while you own the company, and the patents alone don't give them that right, the corporate umbrella of Motorola did. A tax loss doesn't really net you a gain, it simply offsets what you made, so less of your profits are taxable. A lot of these spinsters are glossing over quite a few things with this garbage reporting. Yes, Google inherited their cash, but they also inherited Motorola's massive debt, which exceeded their cash at the time, but let's call it a wash anyway. Then they ignore that Motorola hemmoraged billions over the years google owned them. Let's keep in mind Google had an effective tax rate of about 3% if I'm not mistaken...it's not like they needed tax write offs since they hardly paid any taxes in the first place. Google took a hit here, but they knew they could afford it, and that's all there is too it. They don't need spinsters defending what clearly ended up being a terrible purchase. Google also expected more out to those patents, as their sole patent win requested billions from Microsoft and were awarded just 1.5 million, while a mass of other cases were outright dismissed because it's a portfolio of frand patents. Google decided to cut its losses and retain as many sep's as they could in doing so, to protect the future of Android, which at this point in this debacle, was a no brainer. Unload what you can while you can, accept the loss while you have 50 billion dollars in the bank and move on with some patents that could potentially help in the future.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 10:06 AM) I have a $20 dollar Honeywell programmable thermostat that works just fine. /drops mic /me hits Jenks over the head with a steel chair after he drops the mic. If you're gonna be busting out mic dropping promos, I have to take you out.