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QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:38 PM) Pretty sure I have them in the elite 8 I had them in the Sweet 16, I think just about everyone did.

Damn it Marquette.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:09 PM) 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. I see, so it'll require internet access.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 04:04 PM) 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. But you have to communicate with the car somehow, what did you guys do for that?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 03:52 PM) 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. 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. I have a keychain with a tag that toggles WiFi when I'm around campus (too many wireless spots = lots of connecting/disconnecting) and it can also toggle airplane mode when I find out I'm in a area without any signal (having your phone search for signal wastes a lot of battery). Plus, you can pay with your phone using Google Wallet, which is also kinda cool.

Save it for the season.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 02:18 PM) Every post on SoxTalk is grammatically perfect. You dadgum right they are.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 03:34 PM) Keppinger on in 8 straight AB's 4 hits 4 walks. DeAza and Rios contributing. Nice to see walks converted in runs. New look Sox at the top.If the bottom of the order can improve .OBP we may have something. I just hope Keppinger's shoulder is healthy. We need him playing full-time at 3B.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 03:33 PM) 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. 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.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 03:11 PM) 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. 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.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 11:27 AM) Dump all points into 3 point shooting and some basic low post skills. Use a lot of picks. I had a streak of like, 45, 59, 67, 75, 80, 104 in my rookie season and my player only had one elite skill, the threes, with a decent post game. Picking a good shooting motion is important too. I'm really good with Durant and Nash. I've played about a bit more than one season in myPlayer and my guy can score at will in almost every way.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Mar 21, 2013 -> 12:17 PM) http://mlb.mlb.com/fancave/cave_dwellers.j...bid=bticCrA8024 I'd like to announce that I made the MLB Fan Cave! Thank you all for your support & helping this thing actually happen. WOOOOO! Don't forget the people who voted you in! Congrats dude, have the best year of your life.

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. What's the benefit of only being able to sync metadata? And Microsoft didn't get all of it, Windows RT tablets are yuck.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 08:56 PM) The PCL injury 2 seasons ago really robbed him of the mobility he used to have. That injury is devastating to anyone who has to explosively pivot and run. And it's mostly Lovie's fault for having him play in that meaningless game against the Vikings.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 08:16 PM) Instead of Axelrod, why don't the sox make a minor deal with KC and acquire Chen or Hochevar? You could get Hochevar for scraps and Chen for not much more than scraps IMO. Maybe they'll be no better than Axe. It's just something that popped in my head living in KC. Because Axelrod will give you similar numbers for no extra cost.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 09:48 PM) I store mine on box.net. Where do you? It gives people plenty of choice. Choice enough for most. And the endpoint of cable is a device. THE most locked down device there is. But that's a huge tangent. Read his post a few pages back where he talks about a DJ app that couldn't pull files off Dropbox. Edit:

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 07:01 PM) It's different for people who care about making it work for them. Some people think having apps from an endless catalog is freedom. Look at our tv providers, how many people really care about customizing that experience? And It's not about being harder to hack its about a consistent delivery model. Oauth tokens behave much better in iOS and mdm solutions generally require something standard. TV is different since it's a service. Cell phones and tablets (basically computers) aren't services. They're hardware that you own. You're not renting the hardware from Apple or Samsung. If we're talking about session and presentation layer technologies, there is no question that iOS and BlackBerry are superior to Android. My Android phone has issues re-connecting to UIUC WiFi automatically because of token issues. I haven't had that happen on my iPad yet.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 03:59 PM) I mean, freedom to one person means being able to choose what apps you use, to another its building widgets and the entire experience. Apple's whole mantra was more along the lines of being different, which is has been from the 800 lb gorilla on the marketplace in microsoft (when it was pc vs mac). With the iphone, freedom became being able to do more than just dial and text with your phone as well as integration into your music, preferences etc. Even in the corp world its easier to authenticate over standards with IOS right now than android. So lack of freedom is not being able to use the apps you want? That's a very pessimistic and conservative way of looking at freedom in the sense of technology. Technology works for you, why should you not have a choice of what you want or don't want? I don't think that's a freedom when it comes to technology, that should be a given. And closed operating systems like BlackBerry and iOS will always be better in the eyes of corporations and government. It's harder to hack due to it being 100% proprietary and they include more security measures. If you're a corporation or government agency, Android isn't where you should be looking.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 03:10 PM) "advanced" users or users who want those features are a subset which is why they are so popular. Even other OS users dont always become users of the "advanced" features. I made that point. Apple's model is better for the majority of users, but that doesn't mean their model is correct.

So it appears that Motorola's game-changing new lineup of phones will allow you to customize it when you order it? Like I said before, I'm not sure how they will meet the demand. http://www.droid-life.com/2013/03/20/motor...sche-exclusive/

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 01:14 PM) It's just absurd and I can't believe people stand for it. You can't just drag a drop a file onto the drive? It has to be synced to iTunes and be app specific? wtf? Just a little background... I discovered this the hard way. I know, my fault. A new app came on the market for dj'ing. It's called Traktor DJ. This app is advertised as being sync'd to Dropbox. To play a song on a club system, it will sound awful if its not at least a 320k mp3. So, people take gigs and gigs of files. So, everyone buys the app and finds out you can't load from Dropbox or a Wi Drive. The file has to be on the drive itself. You also can't transfer the file onto the iPad via Dropbox or Wi Drive because the app doesn't register from either. People go to the developer for an explanation. The developer says this comes straight from Apple. They wouldn't allow the developer to write the software so that its compatible. Dropbox can only be used to sync Metadata. They did this to force consumers to buy iPads with more storage. Apple also removed The VLC app from the marketplace so that users are forced to use mp4 and not AVI. I just find it ridiculous that they force people to go about tasks their way. Something like this would never happen in the Android/Windows world. /rant It's the cost of open vs. closed. Closed systems are great for the average person who doesn't understand technology. They don't really need the functionality and they won't bother to look into it. More advanced users get screwed by closed systems like iOS though. It's just the way it is. Apple decided on the one size fits all model for their software and hardware and it has its pros, especially for everyday users, but iOS just doesn't fit the bill when you want to do some more advanced tasks on it. Jailbreaking does help, but it's still harder to get some more advanced stuff done on iOS compared to Android.

QUOTE (Jake @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 07:24 AM) Android 5.0...sounds like it could be great, but I feel like I should know better at this point. The 4.1 to 4.2 jump alone was pretty damn good for me. Google could have made Android 4.1+4.2 Android 5.0 and nobody would have really said anything bad. But Google's better than that and I think Android 5.0 should have some significant changes. One thing that is rumored to happen is a unified messaging system that combines Google+ chat, Google Talk, and Google Voice (and maybe even Facebook and some other social networks) into one service that will compete against the likes of BBM and iMessage. I use Google Voice and the client sucks, but free texting + re-routing calls to my # on any phone for free is too good to pass up. So the new unified messaging system has me pretty excited.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 09:31 AM) My HTC One X got water damage and is fried. I got a deal on an iPhone 4 that was too good to pass up. I know it's a couple years old, but wow, what a POS. It's slow, small and the touchscreen is slow to respond. The keyboard is slow. iOS is just ridiculous. You control my files for me? You choose the app that I can use them in? I have no freedom to choose? I have to jailbreak it to actually have control over my own data? Thanks, iOS. It's hard to go back to iOS once you've been on Android for a long time. Jailbreaking does alleviate that a bit though. I don't think I can use a non-jailbroken iOS device full-time.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 20, 2013 -> 08:48 AM) I've had an HTC for the past 2+ years. I'm interested in going to Samsung and love my Tab2. That said, the S4 specifications are just f***ing nutty. An 8-core processor? Sheeeeit. You're not getting an 8 core processor in the United States. You're getting a quad core Snapdragon 600, which is more than good enough and is more efficient at handling LTE. The 8 core processor isn't really an 8 core processor. It's a processor with 8 cores on it, but those 8 cores will never be used at the same time and they are not identical. When the phone is in low use, it switches to a power-efficient ARM Cortex A7 quad core processor, but when you need extra computing power, the 4 A-15 cores (the best mobile architecture ARM has to offer right now) will take over and do its job. The issue with a design like this is that the switching needs to be done conservatively and it needs to take care of numerous use-cases correctly, otherwise you're not really saving anymore power than an ordinary quad core processor.

QUOTE (Jake @ Mar 19, 2013 -> 10:35 PM) I'm really pretty torn about HTC One vs Samsung S4 at this point, but I'm going to bide my time at this point. Maybe more end users b****ing and moaning about this and that will make things more obvious. And apparently we may hear about a new Nexus in May? I am 95% sure Android 5.0 will be announced at Google I/O. As for a new Nexus, that might be towards the end of the year. But a new Motorola Nexus-esque phone may be announced at Google I/O. No promises though. A new Motorola phone did get leaked by some Vietnamese site and it is sexy as hell. If the X Phone is anything like that, damn. The bezel on the phone is super thin and it's got softkey navigation. It looks about as close to stock Android as you can get. http://androidcommunity.com/motorola-devic...uatch-20130318/