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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 10:05 PM) A lot of people at my work have laptops with docking stations. It works well for them. I love the Thinkpad dock I have at work, wish I can get one to use at home too.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 10:07 PM) His choke signal was his horrendously poor decision to throw that ball. Yeah, that throw didn't make a ton of sense. They had time to run at least 4-5 more plays. They could have played it much more conservatively.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 02:12 PM) So Kapernick comes off as much more of an idiot than Sherman did. Much, much more. ?

The stat lines didn't indicate that KD outplayed LeBron last night, but holy s*** did his highlights look good. I only watched ESPN's highlights, so take that for what it's worth, but it looked like Durant was shooting (and making) 3s at will. Just taking it up the court and shooting it in LeBron's face.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 30, 2014 -> 08:52 AM) A lot of those managers were replaced by high ranking Google execs and managers -- who they lost in this sale. Those former Google employees are now Lenovo's. Google laid off THOUSANDS of Motorola employees as part of their house cleaning to get their own people in there. They laid off about 75% of Motorola's workforce (22,000 down to around 5,000 now). Motorola's easily been the most innovative Android OEM for the last year and Google had a lot to do with that. Hell, before Google bought Motorola, most of their phones were junk and never got any updates that were promised. Now, all of Motorola's phones released in the past year are on the latest version of Android (even the Verizon Droid phones).

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 07:27 PM) I think that a lot of it has to do with Nexus pricing also. It seemed like plenty of people were expecting similar pricing and were hugely turned off when it was that much more, particularly for lesser specs. Now that people know that it performs well, there seems to be better interest, especially at the nexus-like price point. If it gets to $300 including the wood backs, I'd get one even though I have a nexus 5. I got a coupon code that gets it down to $300 and I seriously thought about buying it (I also have a Nexus 5). The Nexus 5 is easily the best phone I've owned, but I would love to have Touchless Control and Moto Assist that are on the Moto X. Motorola's approach to software works. Add features that are useful, but don't fill the phone with bloat, change the entire look of the Android UI, and throw in a bunch of redundant services Google already provides (*cough* Samsung). The thing with the Moto X is that it wasn't really a $500 phone to begin with. The specs aren't great, but it performs well enough to the point where you barely notice and it has cool and useful features that other phones don't have. But Samsung and Apple have the market right now, so it's hard for anyone to break-in and have their phone sell like hotcakes, even with a $500 million ad campaign pushing it. If the Moto X was selling like it was supposed to, there'd be no reason for Motorola to offer it for $200 less than it's initial MSRP just 4 months after its release.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 07:06 PM) I'm really surprised about them selling it like that. On one hand, I'm not surprised that Google didn't really want to have a fully-fledged hardware company. That's not really their deal. Margins are not high enough. But why take what looks like a loss, even with them keeping some patents and selling the set-top box separately? Most analysts saw Motorola as a company that was really on the rise and I agree. Moto X is a good phone that had a really right-headed development philosophy, focusing on end user-oriented software improvements over benchmarking. The Moto G has to be a contender to completely dominate the low end market. Why sell now? The Moto X wasn't doing great on sales (why do you think the phone's been discounted to $329 after initially selling at $500?) and Moto's margins are probably pretty bad ATM. Moto does have great potential though. Hopefully Lenovo leaves it alone and lets it develop like it has been for the past year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 04:05 PM) Although it's hard to figure out how the tax setups work outside of the company, the list price on buying Motorola was $12.5 billion. Yeah, but that included the set top box portion of Motorola, which Google sold for $2.35 billion. Still, it looks like Google's going to take a big loss with the Motorola acquisition. They did make Motorola somewhat respectable again with the phones they've released in the past year. It's a shame.

Google's going to sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2-3 billion. Unfortunately, this probably means Moto will stop producing affordable and functional devices like the Moto X and Moto G.

I'm pretty sure Thome's clean. If Frank got in, he should get in. There's no reason 600+ home runs and a 147 wRC+ doesn't get into the HOF.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 03:27 PM) My bad didn't realize I-5 was shut down. Also didn't check your award winning blog pathethic-loser-truckdriver.tumbler.com to know that Oregon and California are not on your next route.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 29, 2014 -> 03:22 PM) Insane how many people think you can trade draft picks. These aren't even baseball fans, lol. I haven't met a single baseball fan in real life that's as intelligent about baseball as some of ones I've come across online. A lot of them don't know a lot about sabermetrics (expected) and some even tell me anecdotes that aren't even remotely true. I guess it's a lot easier to sound smarter when you can Google before you post. However, I've caught quite a few errors when talking to baseball fans in real life. It's not that they're not fans, they probably just don't pay as much attention to the game as some of us do.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 28, 2014 -> 03:07 PM) Always fun when some s***brain tells me what is and what isn't good music. I listen to music for entertainment and background noise when I workout and code. I know some others (like the guy who wrote that article) are paid to critique it for content and meaning, but I can care less. It comes off as extremely high brow to me.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 26, 2014 -> 11:08 AM) I'm surprisingly fond of the Google Experience Launcher The left swipe for Google Now is nice, but I can't live without the customization on Nova. I get the transparent status bar and navigation bar with Nova, that's enough for me to not use GEL.

Wow, the Clippers just put up 41 on the Bulls in the first quarter.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jan 24, 2014 -> 01:18 PM) GMAILS DOWN GMAILS DOWN AHHHHH Google going down is like major news.

I bought league pass and I've watched maybe 2 games on it. I probably won't watch many more. The Bulls just aren't interesting, even if they get in as a 4 or 5 seed. There's literally nothing to actually look forward to with this team this season.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 11:26 PM) Of course he sounds like it, he is an expert in s*** talking. It was barely 5 seconds after Crabtree's dreams were crushed, that's not the time to go show respect. The two guys obviously dislike each other and talked s*** all game, Sherman made sure he got the final jab in. It's a smart move. You really can't prove he was being sarcastic and he can make a case he was just trying to shake Crabtree's hand.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 09:38 PM) Fantasy question. I'm in 1st place (w/Durant) and lost my 2nd point guard (1st rose, then Jrue) but have Isiah whose been good. Considering a Rubio/Love for Lee/Dirk deal. I'd be getting Rubio and Love. Does that make sense? Yeah, it makes a ton of sense for you. Love is a tier above Dirk and Lee and Rubio will get you the assists you're going to need with Holiday out.

So it appears that Sherman actually did want to shake Crabtree's hand after the interception: http://deadspin.com/sherman-crabtree-watch...p-hi-1507040069

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 02:08 PM) Prince Fielder was making $4M/year with the Tigers according to him. Also, the Cubs have the best minor league system and are thus setup because they're all sure fire hits. Abreu, Garcia, EJ, Semien, Webb, Davidson, and Eaton are all likely to fail. And he would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for that meddling internet. Seriously, can you imagine the days before the internet where you can say s*** like that and people will believe you since they can't easily fact-check?

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 03:49 PM) I remember getting into an argument with a Cubs fan teammate back in high school. I asked him what he has to say about the Sox winning a World Series in 2005 while it's been almost 100 years longer since the Cubs did. "Wins don't matter, bro" Spoken like a true Cubs fan.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 01:04 PM) Just had a Cubs fan tell me Sox were never in on Tanaka, Sox have the worst front office in baseball, have done nothing to improve their MLB team or farm system the past five years, Sale's contract is worthless if they don't trade him. Cubs were a playoff team with Tanaka and Tigers signed Joba for the same amount they used to pay Fielder. f***ing idiot. Wut.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 03:52 PM) Sherman touched on the "thug = n*****" correlation. I agree with him. I still think he's a douche, but there are some people criticizing him unfairly which is making me sympathetic towards him which I hate. I also think it's weird that people keep using the word "thug", it's not like what Sherman did was considered criminal or violent. If you go look up what the word thug means on a dictionary.com, you get definitions like "a vicious criminal or ruffian" and "a tough and violent man, esp a criminal". I don't think that describes Sherman's actions as a poor sportsman.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 22, 2014 -> 09:20 AM) As awful as the Pro Bowl is, I believe last year's game had higher ratings than Game 1 of the 2012 World Series. Wow, that's just sad.