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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 30, 2013 -> 11:13 AM) Just pledged to the Pressy kickstarter. Pretty neat little invention. Makes my decision to get the HTC One over the Moto X more tolerable as I really liked the double twist camera trick on the X. This seems even easier and I won't risk flinging my phone across the room. LINK (It's worth checking out the video) You guys do know that in Android 4.2, all it takes to get to the camera is to unlock the phone and swipe to the left on the lockscreen, right? That Moto X double twist thing might work half the time and you risk flinging your phone. The camera thing is cool with Pressy, but for a lot of the other stuff, you can just use Tasker.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Aug 29, 2013 -> 10:05 PM) Exactly what I was about to say. The size of your device you are streaming it from has 0 impact on the resolution on your TV. My dad got his in yesterday or today, and I will come home from school tomorrow so I'll get to try it out. I've been calling Best Buy every couple days but they have yet to get any in. I've heard some random Best Buys across the country are getting a handful in at a time. Just order online, they come back in stock every few hours. I've ordered all of mine that way.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 29, 2013 -> 01:39 PM) So my chromecast order finally came in last night. Pretty sleek device with some potential, especially for $35. At this point it's basically a more convenient (i.e., wireless) way to play netflix or youtube on my bedroom TV, not a full-fledged phone/tablet-with-all-the apps-on-TV device. I got a 2nd one for travel purposes. It'd be great if they eventually get HBO GO, Sunday Ticket, and the DirecTV app on there. They also need to add support for casting mobile chrome content, not just desktop chrome content. Koushik Dutta found a way to pretty much stream anything to the Chromecast via an app called AllCast. Google's latest update to Chromecast broke it. Google will be releasing an SDK just for the Chromecast later this year. The platform is young ATM, but when it fully develops, it's gonna be great. I've bought two for myself and one for my parents.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Aug 29, 2013 -> 12:03 PM) I had an HTC for two years that I dropped plenty of times and it was fine, no case either. Bought a Samsung "Rugby" because it was supposed to be "tougher" than any other AT& T phone it fell about three feet and the screen shattered. Salesperson sold me on the idea that I did not need a case for it, bulls***. Shoulda gotten a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active instead.

I only bought this year's Madden for the Sunday Ticket promo. I'd much rather pay $100 for a mediocre game (I actually paid $90) and get to watch the Bears than watch the Bears for $300.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Aug 28, 2013 -> 09:32 AM) Just a mini question, why are people going RB first? The only RB worthwhile is Adrian Peterson when he's healthy. In normal scoring leagues, especially ESPN ones, the QB is always the better pick since RBs these days work as tandems for the most part and they are so inconsistent year to year. AP has been the only one who if healthy, is a top 5 RB every year. The rest fluctuate wayyyyyyyyyyyy too much. Also as draft strategies, I also suggest picking QBs who are in tough divisions as they won't be resting come playoff time for you. Matt Ryan, Drew Brees > Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning. I think it has more to do with how deep QB is ATM. If you're in a 10 or 12 team league with only 1 starting QB, you can wait until the 6th or 7th round and you'll still get a pretty good QB (Luck, Romo both fall that far usually). If you look at it, the dropoff in QB production between #1 and #12 is only around 20%. And even if you go above the 20% threshold, you can still get production out of QBs like Eli Manning or Ben Roethlisberger. Go to RBs and it's a completely different situation. After about the 15th RB in the draft, those RBs are iffy. Go beyond top 20 and you don't know what the hell you'll get. At least with QBs, they have stable jobs. It's purely based on the volatility and strength of the positions. Wide receiver is another position that isn't as valuable as RB since there are so many more good wideouts than RBs in the league. I made this chart a week ago for my draft. Each tier represents a 10% dropoff from the #1 performer at the position. These are based on a set of projections I chose from FantasyPros.com and the scoring is skewed towards my PPR league, so you can keep that in mind. Note that for RBs and WR all have about the same amount of tier 1 performers, but after tier 3, the amount of productive WRs far outnumbers that of RBs. Also note that the amount of QBs from the 10 to 20% range is 8. After the top 4 QBs, you're not losing out on much.

QUOTE (Jake @ Aug 28, 2013 -> 09:38 AM) Also, despite my experience with the broken SLVR, the RZR and related phone line was f***ing awesome. Nobody thinks about them anymore (and for good reason) but the design on those things was baller. I think most of them still look sweet. They were definitely the best dumbphones ever made.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Aug 27, 2013 -> 09:12 PM) I just randomly did one of the yahoo $20 leagues where youre playing vs all strangers. No flex players or PPR or anything. Had the 6th pick and ended up with: Stafford McCoy, Chris Johnson, Matthews, DMC, Ingram Marshall, Fitzgerald, T. Smith, Jennings, Stevie Johnson Daniels, Bennett Janikowski Pats D How many teams? I can't imagine it's more than 10.

And the Nexus 4 is now...$200. https://play.google.com/store/devices/detai...4_8gb&hl=en That's got to be the best bargain in the mobile industry ATM.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 26, 2013 -> 11:25 AM) @freeptigers: Tigers could pursue Robinson Cano this off-season, ESPN's Buster Olney says http://goo.gl/fb/X2EU4 Just how much is Illitch willing to spend? He's already got two really bad contracts on his payroll.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Aug 26, 2013 -> 12:47 AM) Draft is over. Here's my team. Drew Brees - QB Victor Cruz - WR Andre Johnson - WR LeSean McCoy - RB Trent Richardson - RB Brandon Myers - TE Eddie Lacy - RB/FLX Dan Bailey - K NE Defense Bench Eric Decker - WR/FLX Matthew Stafford - QB Miles Austin - WR Daryl Richardson - RB Brandon Pettigrew - TE Denarius Moore - WR Couple guys I'll probably use in future trades, but I like my team. Why do you have Stafford and Brees...?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 24, 2013 -> 11:41 PM) Yes but that would be like KC trading Wil Myers. Oh wait, they did. No it isn't. Wil Myers is a much higher rated prospect than Garcia.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Aug 24, 2013 -> 09:46 PM) http://deadspin.com/chris-sale-goes-berser...ting-1194262002 I started reading the comments...on that article. Bad idea... Some guy said Chris Sale was having a disappointing year because he was 9-12...boy did he get called out on it.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 24, 2013 -> 08:43 PM) Wind generation is closer to taking a step back right now than forward. Solar generation may work for incredibly liberal states like California where the cost is overlooked,but it isn't close to feasible until some kind of efficient solar storage technology is developed. We haven't even touched on the grid issues yet. Btw, don't get me wrong, I love Tesla and I'm not commenting on their product, other than to say that from an environmental perspective, it's not much different than gasoline engines right now and in the foreseeable future. You never know what a 5 year time span can accomplish when it comes to technology.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 24, 2013 -> 07:01 PM) Do you think most of the folks buying those have a true understanding of the environmental impacts of the vehicle? Maybe not all, but a $120 increase in price per share says a lot. Wall Street may fall in love with certain things, but they're not totally oblivious.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 24, 2013 -> 06:28 PM) Enough time that I don't think it's clear that electric cars are the cars of the future, if you expect to see much of a difference from an environmental perspective. Although, who knows...maybe someone comes up with a solar electric charger or some s***. Tell that to the people who drove up Tesla's stock prices by $120 this year.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 24, 2013 -> 05:45 PM) This idea that electric vehicles are running off renewable energy is just a fantasy. Guess when most people currently charge their electric vehicles? Overnight. In fact, utility companies encourage this with special rates for overnight hours for users of electric vehicles. They do this because they need consumption during those hours to keep their base load generation online without incurring imbalance penalties from their control areas. Guess what's not running overnight? Solar plants. While wind tends to increase during the evening, utilities are currently required to carry adequate reserves (fossil fuels) in case the wind stops. Add to this equation cheap natural gas and government incentives in renewables dwindling, and you are looking at quite some time before electric cars are doing anything differently than gasoline powered vehicles. Define quite some time. Because I never said this was going to happen overnight.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Aug 24, 2013 -> 10:28 AM) Where do you think nearly all of our electricity comes from? Not all electricity comes from fossil fuels. With gasoline, it's a one way street. As solar panels get less expensive and the wind turbine technology gets better, there will be a lesser reliance on electricity from fossil fuels. It's the next logical step in energy.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 11:49 PM) With as much ganja as Ricky smokes, of course some balls will be misplayed. Who cares? Apparently, he's drug-free now. Williams actually played in the Phillies' farm system.

QUOTE (ron883 @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 10:49 PM) either that, or a troll If Greg was a troll, he'd be the greatest troll of all time. He's been doing this for years.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 11:30 PM) You should probably check out one of this guy's Friday night games.... lol he's not bulls***ting. Williams actually lives in Austin (he went to UT). He was talking about how Ricky's athletic as hell (obviously), but he misplays balls in the OF at times. I should go check it out though.

So a guy on my softball team said he plays on the same team as Ricky Williams on Fridays here in Austin. That seems pretty unfair.

The Raiders are awful.

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 04:23 PM) AJ Pierzynski is a LHH hitting .300 against LHP Geo Soto is a RHH hitting .143 against LHP Reverse platoon.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 04:40 PM) He is a good manager, but there are things about him that would drive a lot of us crazy too. Still, he is one of the few guys I'd be ok with. I don't see Ventura leaving though under any circumstance. He sure loves good defense catchers who can't hit .200.