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  1. Joeboo

    NCAA Basketball 2013-14

    And he officially quit via text, lol. Quality guy NCAAM Frank Haith sends a break-up text - ESPN
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    Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

    You know, I don't think there's any more religious/creationist people now than there used to be. It's just that 100 years ago, all of those people lived in the bumfuck middle of nowhere on farms and in small towns with no real access to global communication and media of any kind. You just...
  3. Joeboo

    Smartphones

    No, I don't know the exact name for the technology behind it, but it's an upgrade to their LTE. Not every phone that is LTE compatible will be Spark compatible, it takes different hardware to run.
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    Torrents

    I downloaded it years ago, but the Rolling Stone top 100 albums of all time is great. Lot of awesome music I probably wouldn't have listened to otherwise. Ended up making me a big fan of David Bowie, Bob Dylan, and a few other "classic" artists that I might have known some of their hits, but...
  5. Joeboo

    The Fast Food Thread

    Yeah there's a ton of those make your own frozen yogurt places that charge you by weight. First time I went to one, filed my container with yogurts and toppings and they charged like $11. Fuuuuuuuuck.
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    NCAA Basketball 2013-14

    Reports are Mizzou's coach Frank Haith is going to Tulsa. So now Tennessee and Missouri are both looking for coaches.
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    Torrents

    Yeah I had a 10:1 ratio on the last game of thrones episode within 5 minutes of it showing up on IPT. Then reaped even more when the 720p version showed up 20 minutes or so later.
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    Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

    Have you read this?(it's a classic, but a short/quick read) The Last Question -- Isaac Asimov
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    Tool might eventually release a new album someday

    Happy Birthday Maynard. He turns 50 today. I feel old.
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    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Yeah, the story goes that his "roommate" went around town handing out flyers for their party at random bars, nightclubs, and other trendy gathering places. Hundreds and hundreds of strangers showed up for the party and it got out of hand quickly. Gang members ended up fighting and thats when...
  11. Joeboo

    HDTVs

    I'm a little hesitant to believe that you get true 4K quality at Netflix's recommended bandwidth of 15Mbps. That seems really low, that has to be a compressed quality of 4K at that kind of speed. We just all need some Google Fiber ASAP for glorious streaming, uncompressed 4K
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    HDTVs

    Most people are like my wife. She's happily watches standard-def channels on our 55" plasma, she claims she can't tell any difference between that and the HD version of the channel. /boggle I think 4K will be a format that only movie and possibly video game enthusiasts use for a while...
  13. Joeboo

    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Here's the lowdown on Smith: First offense - the gun charge. Story goes that his roommate threw a HUGE party at their home, hundreds of people. A fight broke out, I think someone got stabbed(not by Smith) so he went to his gun collection, got one out, and fired it into the air outside to...
  14. Joeboo

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Interesting read from Reddit What are some things about a woman that scream "Loser" ? : AskMen
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    Google Glass

    Bah, screw google glass, I'll just wait for one of these Google embeds camera in smart contact lens (Wired UK)
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    How do you archive your digital photo library?

    But does it have an auto-upload feature yet? I haven't used it in over a year, I'm sure it's had updates. I can't remember if it was google drive, or another cloud storage program I tried other than Dropbox, but one of them required you to take the picture from within the app to auto-upload...
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    Google Glass

    I don't know why, but ~$300 tends to be the limit of what I'll spend on something that is a totally unnecessary toy/gadget. Not sure these will ever get to that price point, but if that's the case then I guess I'll never own them. I think a lot of people probably think like that, that tends to...
  18. Joeboo

    Investing

    Ok, I hate to even admit this, but someone feel free to tell me how much of an idiot I am(or if I'm not, but I'm sure I am) I'm in my mid 30s, and I have no retirement whatsoever. No 401K, nothing. I really have no excuse as I've held down a full time job non-stop since the age of 20...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Unfortunately we eventually became Gamestop, everything started to suck, and I quit, and now they suck even more. Every friend I still had in upper management there has bailed in the last 12-18 months, that company is sinking fast. They're going to be Blockbuster in a couple more years. Kinda...
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    Smartphones

    New info on the Amazon Kindle phone http://bgr.com/2014/04/15/amazon-sma...ius+Report%29/
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    Google Glass

    I'm a huge dork, and there's no chance you could get me to wear those in public. They honestly are pretty hideous. Then again, I also feel the same way about bluetooth earpieces.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    The entire Software Etc store that I managed circa 99-2000 was all in the same EQ guild. Fucking sucked for raids and everyone wanting the same evenings off work. I can't tell you how many times I had employees call in sick, so I'd log onto EQ and there they would be. I'd see them log off...
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    Google Glass

    I'd buy a google glass for oh, maybe $300. Definitely not anywhere close to $1500.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    She's just a woman who can't be alone. She'll jump ship as soon as a better prospect comes along, and then backpedal and beg and offer crazy sexual favors in order to fall back to a safety net if/when that new fling doesn't work out. Like others have said, just be ready for her to up and...
  25. Joeboo

    Google Glass

    Aavailable now. $1500 Google Glass
  26. Joeboo

    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Ah damn, totally forgot about that
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    NCAA Basketball 2013-14

    Cuonzo Martin has left Tennessee to coach at Cal Twitter / GoodmanESPN: Tennessees Cuonzo Martin has ... Seems like a lateral move, not quite sure I understand it.
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    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    That would actually be a good place for Aldon Smith to land, Jared Allen could mentor him for a little bit before he retires. Jared got into some legal trouble early in his career(DUIs) and could offer some sage advice on straighting out your personal life for the sake of your career if Aldon...
  29. Joeboo

    Home buying thread

    I probably wouldn't buy if I was in your situation unless I wanted to keep the house as a rental property, or there's any chance that your employer would purchase your house if they transferred you(doubt it since it's the government). Between paying closing costs for the initial loan, and a...
  30. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    I feel like you and I are a broken record mkopec, I think we make this case on roughly every other page of this thread, lol.
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    Laptop Computers

    This looks pretty nice Toshiba's first 4K laptop arrives next week for $1,500
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    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Hell, the Raiders have been the shit team of the AFC West for most of the past decade, yet they went undefeated in the division in 2010(yet still didn't make the playoffs). Divisional games are weird, it's almost like college rivalry games, throw out the record when the games are played, that...
  33. Joeboo

    Smartphones

    That I definitely agree with, MicroUSB won't have enough bandwidth(in its current form) to do what I was theorizing.
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    Desktop Computers

    There's nothing a 770 can't play on ultra at 1080p right now. Yeah, maybe you occasionally dip down into the 50s or high 40s for FPS in a game before you bounce back up into the 60+ range. Not a big deal. I can deal with spending a small % of my time slightly under 60FPS and spend $300 on a...
  35. Joeboo

    Smartphones

    No, but mobile power is catching up quickly. The new Nvidia Tegra K1 is right about on par with a mobile i5 + integrated Intel HD4400 graphics. Solid power for a phone, tablet, or laptop. A little lacking for a desktop but that's why you could easily have desktop solutions with their own...
  36. Joeboo

    Desktop Computers

    This is a futile goal, you can't buy a video card today that will still be good, by itself, in 4-5 years. Not unless you are ok playing games on bare minimum settings with everything turned off at that point in time, or if you play the same MMO for 5 years that never upgrades its engine, and...
  37. Joeboo

    Smartphones

    Looks like Windows is getting us 1 step closer to where I see mobile computing going in the future. I still think we'll eventually get to the point where you just purchase 1 "master" device, a phone that houses whatever CPU/GPU/RAM that you choose. Then at that point, you can use your phone to...
  38. Joeboo

    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Yeah you could go back a few more years and the Chiefs would still be at zero as well. We haven't won a playoff game since Joe Montana and Marcus Allen were on the team. Over 20 years ago now. Jan 1994.
  39. Joeboo

    What are you listening to at the moment?

    It's pure hipster music. If your beer of choice isn't PBR and if you don't wear wool stocking caps in the dead of summer you wouldn't understand.
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    NFL 2014 Off-Season Thread

    Mizzou keeping it real. kicking their star player off the team this week for a domestic assault, star alum Aldon Smith going shitsnacks crazy at an airport and getting arrested, and also this week one of our basketball players tried to run over a teammate with a car, the teammate had to get a...