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QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 23, 2015 -> 11:14 AM) Loving this situation at work: business brought in a cloud app to handle email orders, they of course went with the cheapest option (to be fair it was WAY cheaper). They ask IT to expedite the integration, which according to the vendor is typically 18 weeks, we did it in 6. So of course it wasn't architected well or tested much, which lead to the inevitable complete breakage after like 2 weeks of being in production. The business then runs to us saying we need to fix it, but it's a cloud app so we have 0 control over it. On top of all of that, we turned out to be their biggest customer and are in unchartered territory, and since we are the largest they aren't hosting the service themselves, they are using a 3rd party provider for the hosted servers (and a s***ty cheap one from what we can tell). You get what you pay for that's for sure. Psh, O365 has some of the same issues, Cloud Services when architected poorly are worse than on-prem apps. I see it every day.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 09:47 AM) Last year all the favorites won the conference championship games. One year a few upsets will happen and that will really make interesting too. Wisconsin was favored over Ohio State

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 09:28 AM) No, I'm talking about 1-loss teams that either lose or aren't in conference title games, like possibly MSU, Iowa or LSU. You could have 0 or 1 loss champions in the ACC, BIG and SEC and 2 loss champions in the Big 12 and PAC 12. Then you have ND battling other 1-loss non champions for that 4th spot. At some point in the near future there will be one or two 1 loss teams and a host of 2 loss teams including conference champions and its going to get super messy

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 09:14 AM) If ND beats Stanford (which as of now I would not expect) and Stanford ends up the PAC-12 champ, then that does jump ND ahead of at least one conference champ. Big 12 champ could still have two losses so that gets ND ahead of a second conference champ. Then you would have ND battling 2nd place teams from the SEC and BIG for that 4th spot. ND deserves to beat out a 1-loss MSU or Iowa but probably not a 1-loss LSU. ND needs all SEC non-champions to have 2+ losses. It would be really sad if ND runs the table and misses out on the playoff because of a dumbass coach who sucks at math. ND at the same number of losses isnt going to jump a similar one loss team that wins a conference title game, the Big 12 doesnt have a conference title game so they are excluded.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 26, 2015 -> 08:25 AM) The USC and Georgia Tech wins helped ND's SOS. Now, they have to keep up their winning. Temple and Stanford would be excellent additions to the SOS if they take them both down easily. ND is going to be hurt by not being a conference champion regardless of their schedule so they cannot be the 5th one loss team or something like that.

Put away all the lawn stuff and bring out the snowblower. Store my harley and my wifes scooter as well as our bicycles. Took the boats and docks out in Michigan (worst part of the year) winterize that place. Thats about it.

QUOTE (Brian @ Oct 25, 2015 -> 09:44 AM) They have people on ESPN predicting the Final 4 and a lady this morning had both MSU and OSU in it. Is that even possible? I'm expecting OSU to run the table and roll over the overrated SPartans. Would MSU sneak in with 1 loss over other teams? ESPN has no idea what's going on in college football.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Oct 23, 2015 -> 10:25 AM) Also I still can't get over how the Chicago media is not grasping the concept that baseball across the board is getting younger. The story yesterday was how young he cubs are..is Houston, Mets, Cardinals and even Pittsburgh still considered young? They just dont know those teams exist.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 23, 2015 -> 08:13 AM) We're looking at a house on Sunday that would require something similar. We're bringing a contractor along to see how much some of the changes we have in mind are even feasible for our price range because this house is on am awesome piece of property. My house has been added onto twice and the rooflines dont match in the back and they could have done a better job matching the upstairs all together so we are making the master into a suite and some of that is raising the roofline and changing it as well as raising the roof of one of the additions. We will see what it costs, I can PM you some basic info once its scoped. The kicker is that in my area is we are on a historic district block so my contractor is one who specializes in making everything look like it wasnt touched, Im sure that adds cost. I always say, if you are moving into a long term place you cannot change the location or the lot, if you love both of those always see if you can make it work.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 23, 2015 -> 07:49 AM) I don't hate the Cubs. I strongly dislike their fans. Yep, and its not even all of their fans, its the ones that just came on the last month or so and think that the W flag was invented this year. The team itself was very exciting to watch this year.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 11:31 PM) More shocking event in Chicago, Jaromir Jagr scores a goal or Bartolo Colon wins a LCS clincher? It's like I'm a teenager again. Solid win today. The D men are still scary but the top two lines came to play. Kaner is a great match for the Russians and one of these days 19 and 81 will find a line mate to score a goal with, but they are playing well The second line is good but I sometimes wonder if you just have Kane on the top line and have the second line all Russian/Latvian. I also have really liked Garbutt more since he came over as it appears he's buying into his speed game instead of constant cheap shots. The defense is going to need to add a player at some point but I think we let them play to see who we can keep. Offensively I dont think we are going to have issues.

I think there are a few undergoing this right now, good start of a new thread. I am in the beginning stages of architectural drawings on changing my roofline as well as adding a closet, bathroom and bedroom on my second story in a house built in 1883.

Anisimov was a great pickup.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 04:31 PM) Thanks fellas! He responded with a "That's just the last 30 days" I hit him back with a "Well, don't Sox fans catch heat for talking about the past?". You can search back to 2000 I believe, the crime rate is much higher, especially violent crimes. PLus your friend probably couldnt afford a house in bridgeport.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 03:50 PM) Bears release Ratliff After getting into a verbal fight with Gase.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 03:24 PM) Last 30 days, see Bridgeport vs Lakeview - http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/community You can click on the neighborhoods as well and see the difference. Lakeview is super violent.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 01:39 PM) Yes. The Cubs turned into the 2015 White Sox. Poor offense. Poor defense. Runners getting thrown out, and falling behind in the first inning every game. To be fair, defense was never their strong suit and their offense is prone to high strikeout rates. Once the Mets started shutting them down they folded.

Dn Dakich thinks the reason the Cubs lost is their pitchers didnt hit enough Mets batters. Guy is a moron.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 12:32 PM) Actually his reputation is that he doesn't make the ones he is supposed to make because of focus issues. If he was such an above average defender, Maddon wouldn't have moved him to second And when the starting SS got hurt the Cubs moved another guy who should be a 2B to SS instead of Castro.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 12:18 PM) Is there a delay? The battery issue might be a pain after a while too. Wonder what the battery life is. Slight but not much, I use rechargeable batteries and they last about a month or so at a time.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 11:55 AM) I'd take Castro and/or Russell in an instant. The rest of them? Ehhhh no thanks I've seen enough guys with bad defense and serious contact issues ruin Sox seasons already. Yet you mention wanting Castro?

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 11:24 AM) Was a bit surprised that Maddon didn't get more criticism for that considering all the hell Baker took for how he handled Wood and Prior. It's not like the Cubs were in danger of not making the playoffs in September this year. He only took heat later on after the injuries, that 2003 team was relatively healthy even after they lost.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 11:25 AM) The original is actually closed now due to lease issues. They opened a temporary location on Armitage and they're supposedly renovating a new permanent location. Nice tangent! Damn that sucks. I loved going into that spot. Usually I was the only gringo in there just scarfing my face off.

Next they will deal him and everyone will be SHOCKED at how bad the return is. Rinse and repeat.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 22, 2015 -> 10:46 AM) I was also looking at the Nest Cams. I want one for the house and another for a baby monitor. But I was upset to learn there's a pretty massive 2-2.5 second delay in the video feed. Arlo rules