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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 26, 2013 -> 01:52 PM) The bolded makes no sense. Deng + Boozer = nearly $30 million next year, Aldridge = $13 million. Deng or Boozer straight up would match the salaries. Portland doesn't want Boozer. I honestly don't think they want Deng either given that they have a better player in Batum. So having Boozer + Aldridge on the same team makes no sense. They'd have to trade Boozer too (or amnesty).

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/2013062...orts/706259711/ Aldridge wants out of Portland and wants in on the Bulls. I don't see how we can pull it off. We'd have to trade Deng + Boozer. The thing is, why would Portland want Deng and maybe a 20 in this year's pick for Aldridge if they're rebuilding. You'd think they'd rather get a much higher pick and a good young player that isn't expiring. I really like Aldridge, but is he THAT big of an upgrade over Boozer? I don't like Boozer much, but let's be realistic here. Booz was putting up .550 TS% and plays a similar type of game to Aldridge before this year. The only reason we hated Boozer was for his defense and his playoff disappearances. The problem is that Aldridge isn't much more efficient than Boozer on offense, probably won't play much better defense, and doesn't have a great playoff resume himself. He is 4 years younger, so there's that. But I don't know if I'd empty the bank for Aldridge with Mirotic on the way. And we sure as hell shouldn't be even thinking of giving up Joakim for him.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 26, 2013 -> 01:39 PM) KC Johnson says that the Bulls have stated they are not trading Deng. Because, you know, stuff The Bulls front office is so f***ing boring and conservative. They're like the NBA version of a prude.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 26, 2013 -> 12:37 PM) Why not just use the mail app? And I am guessing user error. Because the Gmail app on iOS looks way better. You can't even attach anything outside of photos onto your emails in iOS anyways. Everything's sandboxed. There isn't a system app that handles things that aren't photos, so you just don't have the option to attach them. More like developer error if you ask me. I seriously have to think of a way to reach a file I downloaded off a email that isn't a photo. First you need to have an app that can open the file format (whether it be PDF or something else) and then you need to hope to god that the app's developer put in an option to allow you to email documents within the app. Otherwise, you'd be completely out of luck if you aren't jailbroken and don't have access to the file system. Even if you do have access to the file system, you have to find where the app stored the saved PDF and then hope your file system browser (I use iFile) allows you to email or Dropbox the file. If they don't, well too damn bad. You're not attaching any files to your emails. This is by far the biggest issue I have with iOS. Sure, security is one thing, but security shouldn't come at the cost of usability and a major use case at that. The thing is, Apple can have security and still allow users to attach other files as well. Just build a system application that handles documents like they did with the camera roll. Then all these problems go away and nobody will have to depend on an app dev or having to jailbreak just to attach a PDF to an email.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 26, 2013 -> 12:30 PM) For their mobility division - which has struggled greatly. Motorola Solutions (government contracts still making bank) seems to be the same still http://www.motorolasolutions.com/US-EN/Hom...rc=Georedirects Yeah they're two completely separate entities now and have been since late 2011. Google wouldn't know what to do with Motorola Solutions anyhow. They usually make radios for the government.

So Motorola changed their logo today. Looks like Google's going to start putting Moto to use.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Jun 25, 2013 -> 11:04 PM) Bulls are apparently interested in Thomas Robinson with speculation that it could be a large deal. http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterockets/2013...homas-robinson/ I'd assume the large deal would also have to include Carlos or Taj. Thibs gets the best out of his players and Robinson has a ton of talent. How would they get the salaries to match?

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 25, 2013 -> 10:18 PM) Upon further review, the refs picked up the flag as Beckham did not interfere with Gillaspie on the pass. Reed should have tackled Beckham's dumb ass.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jun 25, 2013 -> 02:02 PM) They certainly are a creative group. Why they would do that is beyond me. Deng's a nice complimentary piece, but he's not the piece the Bulls need to get to the next level.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 25, 2013 -> 10:07 PM) I'm on a roll with my predictions. You mind predicting a 20 game winning streak so I can start really caring again?

Alexei makes up for his f*** up on Sunday.

*Facepalm

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Jun 25, 2013 -> 10:02 PM) I hope these guys all have good golf games, otherwise I don't know what they did in spring training. Robin was probably too lazy and just let them do whatever the hell they wanted to do.

All De Aza needs to do is hit a fly ball deep enough.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ Jun 25, 2013 -> 09:59 PM) I don't know whether to be laughing or be pissed off, so I'm doing a little of both. I can't get mad anymore at this team. I have no emotional investment at this point. This is 2007 all over again.

Well, at least there's a good chance of winning this one now.

How does a team that was pretty good defensively last season turn into an utter piece of s*** in the field the next year with pretty much the same personnel?

I can't even attach a PDF to my emails on the iOS Gmail app? WTF?

WOOOOOOOOO

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 24, 2013 -> 11:53 AM) Time for the NBA2k trade machine hat... Bulls In: #1 Pick Cavs In: Deng, #20 Then... Bulls In: Kevin Garnett Nets In: Boozer Celtics In: Humphries, Brooks, Teague Bulls then buy a 2nd round pick to go along with their 2nd rounder. The Mizzou fan in me would love to see them draft Pressey and Oriakhi, but any PG and big will do. Sign Pierce Sign Marco and Nazr for the vet minimum. PG: Rose/Hinrich/2nd Rounder SG: Oladipo/Bellinelli SF: Butler/Pierce PF: Garnett/Taj/Thomas C : Noah/Nazr/2nd Rounder There is no way we sign Paul Pierce to play backup SF. No way he agrees to that. And Oladipo with the #1 pick?

I activated 4G LTE on my Nexus 4 yesterday, only to find that I don't get good LTE coverage area from T-Mobile. I got 1 bar. Ping was around 30-40 ms, but speeds were much slower than HSPA+ at 3-4 mbps. Back to HSPA+ for me.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 23, 2013 -> 11:10 PM) lulz Other than detracting from potentially good conversation, the thing that gets me is that you know somebody will read this rogue post about a product and then they will pull the trigger. I mean, what can you possibly argue about when talking about the S4 and HTC One? That the S4 is made of cheap plastic and that the HTC One has a gimmicky Ultrapixel camera? Who cares? I can understand discussing the advantages of different operating systems as they're all fairly different, but these are both Android phones. They more or less do the same stuff. The only thing that's different is that they look a bit different on the software side and very different from a physical standpoint. But that's supposed to be a good thing about Android.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 23, 2013 -> 10:46 PM) Deng for the #1 pick? Done in a heartbeat. Problem is it will never happen. Maybe a number 5 pick, but not #1, even in a mediocre draft class like this year's.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 23, 2013 -> 10:43 PM) I've been posting at some Android/tech forums and good lord are these people crazy. First there was Apple vs Android, now there is Samsung vs HTC. Christ, who gives a f***. People won't acknowledge the shortcomings of the product they purchased because they're crazy. I've noticed that buyers of the One/S4 are roughly equally defensive of their purchase on these forums, but Samsung people tend to be Samsung people while HTC One buyers are not loyal to HTC so much as they are to the One. Either way, I guess this just happens with all consumer products no matter how subtle the differences, etc. Dude, Nexus master race. Samsung is s*** and HTC is Hitler. And I'm pretty sure Apple were the original Nazis. Go read http://reddit.com/r/androidcirclejerk. It's the best subreddit ever (and most of it is sarcasm that mocks exactly what you said above).

AT&T has a loophole right now. You can get a phone for 50% off even if you do their month to month plans. So I just ordered an HTC One for $340 with overnight shipping. I'll just never activate my SIM and cancel the month-to-month (no ETF) after I get the phone. I'm just hoping AT&T doesn't notice and ships the phone.