StrangeSox

Don't know if it's been said in this thread yet but the new QOTSA album owns

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 15, 2013 -> 12:03 AM) Just when the xbox one could not be a bigger trainwreck, Microsoft announced that if you get banned from Live, you lise access to all of your games. hahahahahaha

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 14, 2013 -> 07:53 PM) Not paying the subscription buys me the top-of-the-line Roku in 18 months. Don't pretend that it isn't a huge knock on the XBOX that I have to pay for services that every other device like it doesn't charge for. I just bought a Roku LT for my downstairs TV because my cheap bluray player took a crap. Depending on how I like it, I might be getting a Roku 2 or 3 for the living room and dumping XBL in the near future. I haven't played a game online in probably over a year. Yes, yes it is. The new Samsung Galaxy that knows when you look away from the screen is creepy too.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 14, 2013 -> 11:17 AM) And the Tribune should be ashamed for "taking back" their tribute.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 14, 2013 -> 09:12 AM) Am I wrong or did I read somewhere that the rebels back or support Al Qaeda? One group did or does. There's multiple forces fighting together against the Syrian government.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jun 14, 2013 -> 02:19 AM) Chrome Incognito! The porn browser! It's also a convenient way to get around paywalls for news sites that let you look at X number of articles a month before having to pay.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 13, 2013 -> 06:26 PM) What rebels though, everyone there sucks what could possibly go wrong with arming revolutionary islamic militants?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 13, 2013 -> 02:19 PM) From what I heard they split the decision...that the company could patent their process for identifying the gene but couldn't patent the code of the gene itself. What that means in terms of another company actually being able to develop a test for the gene in this case, for example, I'm just not sure. Myriad's patent was over a genetic marker, BRCA, that's an indicator for breast cancer. Their patent was so broad that they held the rights to any possible test that identified a BRCA mutation, essentially to BRCA1 or BRCA 2 themselves. It was absurd because it's simply a naturally occurring gene mutation. They didn't apply for a patent for their process because it was not at all novel. cDNA is still patent-able because it's not naturally occurring.

There's dozens of rulings all the time nobody but lawyers pay attention to. I'm kinda surprised this one came back 9-0, though. I'll have to read it later.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/us/supre...ented.html?_r=0 These tests can be run for a few dollars each, but the patent protection allowed Myriad to charge thousands of dollars for each test. I think this ruling is going to be extremely important for decades to come.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Jun 13, 2013 -> 09:02 AM) And nothing is stopping you from paying Reuters for that info. Again what was illegal here? Nobody said anything illegal happened. Balta explicitly said legalized theft.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 07:58 PM) We just got dominated at the end of the period. Not good. offense completely disappeared

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 07:28 PM) That may be true...the question is can most humans even detect a lot of these subtleties? Yeah I'm referring to basic stuff like frequency response curves, what frequencies a given speaker can reproduce and with what accuracy. Any whether it can be detected in a double-blind test is crucial. The believers in the voodoo bulls*** hate actual tests and just swear that they can totally hear the difference in their $100/ft cables, man! And then there's plenty of purely subjective but definitely real differences. In-ear versus over-the-ear headphones sound different, tube amps and solid-state amps sound different, speakers from one company may sound different from another because they aren't designed on the same principles. One isn't better than the other, just different. Can "most people" detect them? Maybe, maybe not. Not if you're used to listening to 96khz mp3's on your standard ipod earphones. No different than someone who only ever drinks Miller Lite not being able to taste the differences between three different craft brew ales. I really hope I'm not sounding like a snob here. I've got a cheap Pioneer receiver, some okay Polk Audio floor speakers and some decent Sennheiser headphones. I hate the idiot audiophile world ($1000 speaker cables!! $500 solid copper power cables!) more than anything. But I really hate Bose (fantastic marketing, s*** product) and see some of the same from Beats (fantastic marketing, okay product).

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 06:30 PM) This right here, audiophiles annoy me to no end, because I'm convinced they're talking out of their ass and 99% of them couldn't pass a blind test if their lives depended on it. I can hear a difference in the cheap to expensive ones, but I can't hear much of a difference between one cheap pair and another cheap pair, or an expensive to expensive comparison...any difference, I'm convinced, is in my head because I happen to know the brand name and may like one brand over another. But blind, where I have to wear 10 high quality sets, I couldn't tell the difference. A lot of the high-end audio and video world is voodoo bulls*** without a doubt. But there are measurable and audible differences between different components, speakers, and overall systems. Different speakers, amps, crossovers, etc. are designed with different philosophies and construction techniques and are going to have different sounds. It comes down to personal preference at that point. But Bose is still garbage. Beats less so, but still really overpriced.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 04:05 PM) Beats headphones aren't awful, but it's not the headphones themselves that really make a difference. The Beats EQ is what makes a difference. HTC and HP purposefully program their devices with bad-sounding EQs. Then when you switch the Beats switch on, it gives you a much more rich-sounding EQ. Making you feel like there's some kind of magic going on. An EQ is nothing special, though. I use PowerAmp on my Android phone.

this thunder is already ridiculous

They're the same as Bose in that they're overpriced and mostly marketing but are better than the bottom-shelf speakers/headphones most people have ever heard. You can get far, far better equipment for the same price and equivalent equipment for a lot less. Listen to a pair of even low-end Grado's or Sennheisers and then tell me Beats aren't overpriced. edit: this is a classic Bose review http://nyet.org/bose/

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 02:14 PM) Grainger.com Grainger's website needs to be more like McMaster's

several thousand? I think you're off by an order of magnitude there

Aw f***.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 12, 2013 -> 10:21 AM) ZOMG WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE DISH WHO WONT BE ABLE TO WATCH THIS GAME. THE NHL IS SO STUPID FOR SCHEDULING GAMES ON PLANET EARTH WHERE IT RAINS. Seriously, how can they be expected to see games if their satellites go out? There's no way they can come up with an alternative like all of those crafty people who don't get NBCS fed to their homes on their dirt cheap cable deals. man you sure are upset over some people saying "wish it was on NBC, I don't get NBCS" still

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jun 11, 2013 -> 03:07 PM) Mario Kart 64 is the best in the series. End of Discussion. QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 11, 2013 -> 03:07 PM) +infinity

I'm mostly looking forward to the inevitable PS3 price drop so I can pick one up this winter/fall.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 11, 2013 -> 08:52 AM) I promise you that SS gets taxes in Chicago. He is a Democrat and from the area. He is all about taxes. I've never lived in Chicago! And haven't lived in Cook since I was about 8. Also not exactly a Democrat!

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jun 11, 2013 -> 08:49 AM) That's the thing, in addition to any excuses, refinery issues or supply issues they can come up with, which add 50-60 cents per gallon, in Chicago, add another 60 cents per gallon in taxes, that's easily over a dollar. I wasn't even talking about Chicago's ridiculous prices. Gas is 4.39 out in the non-Cook suburbs as well. It was 3.29 in Florence, S.C. and 3.89 in Key West last week. Listing federal taxes is pretty silly since that's obviously uniform. You'll also have to show me other states' (specifically, SC and FL) taxes if you want to attribute any of the difference to taxation.