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Offtopic, but: About the Major hockey site, what is it? I'm a fan of NHL games. I generally craft my franchise teams of all former Gopher and UMD players. Many can be found in the minor rosters that the newer games now include. I grew up with and even played (sat the bench) on teams with many of them. (Adam Hauser, Gino Guyer, Andy Sertich, Adam Johnson, Beau Geisler, Josh Miskovich, Marco Peluso)

http://cbs.sportsline.com/games/story/9342046

exclusively on Xbox 360.

Being a pro tennis player has way better fringe benefits than being a pro video game player.

I reiterate: can you point me to 2-3 applets available on the web that you consider valuable, useful and maybe even cool?

Take a look at some of the stuff that Yahoo is putting out. Almost all of the games at their games site are implemented as applets. You won't be able to look at it, but their StatTracker application for their fantasy sports leagues (I've only used the classic fantasy baseball one) is nice too. You can also take a look at some of the scoreboard pages at SportsLine (which use applets to update scores without a browser refresh)

All of these applets load almost instantaneously on my computer (applet initialization only...they then pull their resources from the net which takes time).

Troll. Do your own research, google is avalible to you, do a search on "Richard Roby"

Ok... let's see: http://cbs.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/player s/playerpage/525076

Whoa! I hope this incident doesn't intefere with his NBA draft!

I may just do that, but for the meantime if you are curious, try out this (its more exciting while games are being played):

http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/scoreboard

That is their MLB scoreboard, and I've found it pretty much unmatched in terms of functionality, though I am open to suggestions, sports fans. Every time I've tried to run it on a Mozilla browser, it can no longer do the live scoring updates.

Mind you, CBS has handled it somewhat gracefully and detects this and reverts it to a more old fashioned "Auto-Refresh every 15-30-60 seconds" sort of thing. But that is offensive to the eyes when you are used to watching individual numbers flip and not the whole page refresh. It may be a minor nitpick, but I use their scoreboards for all the major sports.. have them open all year round, so it matters to me.

They even have a test page to test for browser functionality

Try it.. i've yet to be able to get 2 "yes" responses on the "Live Scoring Tests" segment with anything other than IE. Its been a few months since I've tried it with Mozilla, but if it works now I'd gladly switch. Its literally the only site holding me back.

Thanks,
-FSB

I may just do that, but for the meantime if you are curious, try out this (its more exciting while games are being played):

http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/scoreboard

That is their MLB scoreboard, and I've found it pretty much unmatched in terms of functionality, though I am open to suggestions, sports fans. Every time I've tried to run it on a Mozilla browser, it can no longer do the live scoring updates.

Mind you, CBS has handled it somewhat gracefully and detects this and reverts it to a more old fashioned "Auto-Refresh every 15-30-60 seconds" sort of thing. But that is offensive to the eyes when you are used to watching individual numbers flip and not the whole page refresh. It may be a minor nitpick, but I use their scoreboards for all the major sports.. have them open all year round, so it matters to me.

They even have a test page to test for browser functionality

Try it.. i've yet to be able to get 2 "yes" responses on the "Live Scoring Tests" segment with anything other than IE. Its been a few months since I've tried it with Mozilla, but if it works now I'd gladly switch. Its literally the only site holding me back.

Thanks,
-FSB

Their main focus is apparently basketball research.

That research is obviously bearing fruit

Take a real good look at AMD's roadmaps:

Dual Cla-whammers are GONE.

AMD evidently decided to force the enthusiast/mini-server market to choose to buy-up ( dual sledge-hammers, and at the prices involved .. NBL ), or

buy-down ( Dual Athlons

Mean ( well, not really mean, but .. wahh!! . . ), but effective ( for their bottom-line ).

Mind you, there are 2 other significant concerns in replacing my system ( I'm in the segment they .. decided to ignore ):

1. Silent System: .. those Cla-whammer HSFs look huge/possibly-noisy, or, if the chips really are low-wattage, then they'll be really silent under a copper HS with a Verax.de fan on it, and

2. as someone else mentioned, HD CPU usage, but the solution for that ( waitaminit, we dissolve stuff to fix our PC's? ) is to use Serial-ATA ( non-blocking, and non-redundancy-of-commands ).
And with Linux, the Silicon Image chip based S-ATA controllers are supported in 2.6, so grab these, then, rather than the non-open-source HighPoint, or the outright opposed-to-open-source Promise.

Lost Circuits Benchmarks ( stunning ), and CyberCPU.net ( it's the low-CPU, 8% vs 44%, that puts S-ATA into the phenomenosphere ), and .. I'd heard that Seagate is implementing out-of-order-execution for its upcoming S-ATA drives, which oughta make 'em punchier..

( for the TLA-challenged, the CLA in Cla-whammer, the new AMD desktop chip, stands for the Canadian Luge Association, and if these chips are able to flatten luge , they're damn capable, and..
the above usage of NBL stands for Not Bloody Likely, as rememberers of the film-version of Pygmalion may remember.. My Bloody Fair Lady, I think it were callethed.. hmmm.. )

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Having not watched the game (wo gives a shit about football?)

Well, according to this site about 43% of the people watching the superbowl are women and there will be about 40 million women watching. If we do some math that puts the total viewers to about 92 million people. Assuming that most of those people are US citizens and assuming a US population of about 270 million, I'd say about 1 out of every 3 americans that you know give a shit.

I can't comment on how they all appreared, but I can say this: it's not that Shania did and Sting didn't lip synced, it's just that they were better at it than Shania was.

You just said you didn't watch the game. Until you've watched a recording, you can't say shit. Sting and No Doubt weren't lip syncing. They were actually talking to the crowd a bit, their dynamics were influenced by how they held the mic, moved around, etc... In fact, they were both fairly mediocre performances. Message in a bottle felt particularly rough and under-rehearsed. Gwen Stefani and Sting weren't really working well together on harmonies and such. It was a tolerable performance but not pre-recorded.

Almost every time you have a performance at a live event like that it's lip synched, just to be sure that nothing goes wrong.

Not true. Real musicians don't lip sync. They don't need to. They know how to handle the little mistakes that happen when you perform live.

Well, this dude just retired. I'm sure he'll be looking for something to do.

30m? Try 10 platform

Can you imagine the size of the indoor swimming/diving venues if you had a 30m platform? yeesh

While going through college, one of my classmates had a friend who was a sport reporter for a major wire news service, and he (the reporter) had to write the news as it was happening from TWO different perspectives, and the one that got used would depend on which team won.

It's a common practice in sport websites that provide live coverage, like the one I frequent most, Sportsline.com that the lead story is often written and rewritten during the course of a live game, depending on how it progresses. That's sometimes the price you have for near-real-time news.

There are moments in history when a preposterous defense like, "there was too much pine tar on the bat" or "the rules were confusing" will be summoned. Martin's responsibility was to charge the excessive use of pine tar before Brett hit the ball. Rambus' responsibility was in clearing up and misunderstandings of rules and disclosing their own activities regarding patents.

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...and the Red Sox haven't won a World Series in over 80 years. And here's why...

It's not about racial groups, it's about animal abuse...human cruelty.

A number of years ago, Toronto really became a laughingstock when baseball player Dave Winfield, after accidentally killing a (which, by the way, is vermin - it's basically a rat with wings), was instantly arrested by the police and busted for cruelty to animals.

Excerpt from this website http://www.stanford.edu/~greggjp/EEEEEE/Notes00/Ma y00Notes1.html

If I remember right, Winfield was actually arrested, though the charges were dropped. Something about Billy Martin refuting the very idea that Winfield could've hit the bird on purpose, given that he hadn't hit a cutoff man all year. (In case you don't know what I'm talking about, Winfield was booed for years in Toronto after killing a seagull -- the national bird of Canada -- with a thrown baseball.)

Those people really have their priorities totally screwed-up as a society.

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Yeah, no wonder some of them have such s***-eating grins in their team photos even though they suck ass.

The Olympics this year are the Summer games which are being held in Sydney Australia. IBM are however also the official provider of internet solutions to them. The next Winter games are in SaltLake City Utah USA but not until 2002.