RockRaines

ok ladies, take it outside.

Plumlee is just flat out lazy. Watch how he gets up and down the court vs someone like Zeller. Night and day.

Ive seen two games where there were nothing but touch fouls. If OSU gets a crew like that we are toast.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 22, 2013 -> 12:24 PM) Not really. His shot selection is terrible.

CBS kind of s*** the bed on releasing their postseason awards. Kind of a whisper.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 11:04 PM) Really, twice off this board? Fascinating. Probably more than that. From my role in technology I've run into people that have Soxtalk favorited on their toolbar and I just laugh. Like, here we are , both sox nerds.

Nice to see that piece of trash get bounced.

So much talent, so badly coached.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 08:09 PM) Turns out I've met Rock Hilarious. Funny enough not the first time this has happened. Such a small world.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 01:38 PM) Yeah, Mike has always had a horrible sense of fashion, especially as he's gotten older, like he's trying too hard but at least he made his next wife sign a pre-nup. A dummy he ain't To be fair, Juanita was basically his employee for 15 or so years as he was out banging everything that moved.

I had oregon in my head, Ok St on my brackets. f***

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:42 PM) I don't think any laptop can run a VM farm effectively. But the hospital thing he was talking about can definitely work better with hybrids. I actually see much lighter weight machines in hospitals nowadays. The last 3 projects ive worked on in healthcare has been on using proximity cards to authenticate a user to a terminal and then single log off when they leave. Essentially deploying a moving desktop wherever they are so they dont have to touch anything really. Cool stuff.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:56 PM) Who do you guys use for Federation? We're currently looking at 2 vendors for it. I work for the most popular federation company on the market. I'll pm you. We have more customers than every other competitor combined. We are also very standards based which people especially techies love.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:35 PM) Damn it Marquette. Pretty sure I have them in the elite 8

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:29 PM) You just made a great argument for a hybrid. Docking stations wouldn't need to be proprietary. That's coming from an Apple perspective. The majority of people are app-centric, but the idea with Windows 8 is that it should offer the best of both worlds in one unit. Both tablet and desktop style apps in one unit. The top of of the line Yoga is capable of handling anything you can throw at it, while being small enough to be mobile, and the ability to plug in to a monitor or sound card or whatever. The only reason to carry an iPad and MBP is that Apple wants you to. Not really. You are thinking too much Apple vs everyone else. Many of my architects run VM farms on their machines for development and testing. I dont think you will ever see a tablet or even hybrid be able to do that locally. At least not anytime soon. For me personally I need several machines for my work. And I connect all the data over the internet so I have access to data even if I am stepping down in form factor or computing power.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:19 PM) I see, so it'll require internet access. That one right now can cache the profile info for a certain period of time but updates over the air since its a phone. Their "every car" strategy requires you "check out" a car on the mobile app which authenticates you to have access to open the door and start the car. It essentially takes the "smart key" that we have today and makes it smarter. An American auto manufacturer in detroit is rolling out phase 1 of something like this in 2014. It will just have registration, unlock and remote start at first.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:07 PM) But you have to communicate with the car somehow, what did you guys do for that? They enabled it to read OAuth tokens which is a pretty standard protocol for mobile apps these days. Theirs is a little ahead of the curve so its a bit rudimentary in the back end but its essentially a mobile app that stores your preferences as attributes and then relays them back to an identity store for replication.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:02 PM) Why would docking stations even be a big issue though? Proprietary charging and docking ports shouldn't be that big of an issue. Apple uses them. Lenovo uses them. Samsung uses them. If a company keeps to one brand of devices that wouldn't be an issue at all. What you just said in your example is exactly why a hybrid can work. You have one centralized application on the device that can allow for touch/pen input as well as input through mouse and keyboard. Why buy a tablet + desktop/laptop when you can have one device? Why setup several devices when you can just setup one? And that last point you made sound an awful lot like NFC or technologies like it. I just recently bought some NFC tags and they're actually pretty damn useful. I have a tag by my door that sets a profile when I head out the door. I also have one on my desk that sets a profile when I'm back home. Plus, you can pay with your phone using Google Wallet, which is also kinda cool. I added to my post with an example. We enabled this company to do that with encrypted tokens that can be revoked immediately upon loss of the device.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 03:39 PM) How will hardware manufacturers make it proprietary? It'll be running Windows 8 or later iterations of Windows. The problem with Windows 8 sales is that building an x86-based computer with a touchscreen is expensive, far more expensive than building an ARM-based tablet. Once the price settles, the difference won't be as great and there will be a larger market for hybrid computers. And when I mean hybrid, I mean laptops that can transform into tablets, not just laptops without touchscreens. I meant the "plug and play" capability. Lets say they have docking stations or something of the like. Dell will want all the components to be Dell, same with Lenovo, and others like Apple. They've tried the laptop converted to a tablet before and those were some of the obstacles. Personally I think there will always be two classes of users and not a whole lot of blending in the middle. I've helped Pharma companies deploy thousands of ipads to end users so they can securely access information and applications, but surprisingly there was still a HUGE need for laptops and PC's or enabling them to use they applications on a personal computer. IMO, data and computing power will move more to applications and the "cloud" then on the actual device. The need for an internet connection is the only downside of that model which i think will go away in the next 5 years. I believe you will be able to get wireless anywhere. Smartphones will become the identity store for most people as well as vendors, cars, etc begin to have the ability to read your identity off of the device. I've seen this in action and its incredible. With that technology I honestly believe that you will be able to walk up to a kiosk of sorts ANYWHERE in the world and it will authenticate you to your "desktop" and you can work just like you were at home or on the road. So the example that I've seen is in a german auto manufacturer. Essentially you open the door of any 2014 (example) and beyond model car of theirs and it knows exactly who you are and what you want. It adjusts the seats, temp, radio, pandora, email, texts, transmission mirrors etc. I think that will be adopted by PC's or computers in the near future. Even at stores where they know who you are, what you order and will take payment without you doing much of anything.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 03:26 PM) Maybe people don't want a laptop and a tablet? Maybe they want one? I know I don't like carrying my laptop and tablet around everywhere. I travel every day and I carry my ipad. All of my company's applications are SaaS-based so I log onto my cloud desktop and work from there. However if I am typing up a contract, support doc, doing development or a presentation I am using my macbook air or imac. My architects would never be able to get rid of their laptops and even servers or VM's like alot of sales people can. From a personal standpoint, I have 3 26in+ LCD's at home and over 5TB of storage. I could never package that onto a tablet regardless of operating system. I can see a usecase for the "hybrid" where you can unplug a lightweight version of your desktop and take it places, however I dont think it will take off because every hardware manufacturer will try to make it proprietary which will kill the market. I also think they will then begin to price themselves too far from the tablets to make it worth people's while.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 12:35 PM) The developer planned on having Dropbox/Wi Drive integration until Apple nixed it themselves. That's why I brought up the VLC app. Apple was fine with it until they found out that users had the audacity to play videos other than mp4. Nonetheless, it's a fantastic app with tremendous value. You can still use Dropbox, but only to sync metadata between tablet and laptop. As far as DJs using laptops, we are entering an era where tablets simply aren't browsers and media machines. People will be able to use them for productivity as well. This is where Windows really gets it IMO by allowing a real OS to run on a tablet, hence the Surface and Yoga. Hybrids are the future. Hybrids are the future for what? For your use case, sure. But for most of the tablet-population, I disagree. They are mostly application centric users that are browsing and watching videos. Even corporations are moving away from "robust" OS's into application-heavy deployments hosted elsewhere. Bloated operating systems make a subset of the population happy.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 03:03 PM) YEah I just checked and thankfully in my real pools I went with Gonzaga. In my fake bracket (Wisconsin champ!) I went with Pitt. I have wisconsin eliminating that part of the bracket in all of them thankfully.

I have Pitt taking out Gonzaga in two of my pools, the money ones.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 01:28 PM) Besides, you have this going for you... David Kaplan Butler is in big trouble. When they cannot make shots from perimeter u pack it in on Andrew Smith and it spells BUCKNELL WINS. We'll see. LOL. Butler is just too experienced.

s***, I picked Butler to go a few rounds in my money pool.