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Quote from: Tank on February 09, 2009, 04:21:30 PM

Quote from: Dave B on February 09, 2009, 04:04:18 PM
Better get your tickets now for that one-game Wild Card play-off between Philly and Atlanta.

Cubs get the winner.

Sure... As if the Mets aren't going to fold in the stretch run.

How can you argue with a computer so advanced it is capable of adding up the
batting averages for the Central from last year, dividing by 6 (.263) and giving every
team that number for next year, giving the cubs an extra 3% so it's not uniform?

Why even include that column?  Charging money to predict that, on average, teams
will hit average is one of the many reasons I hate Baseball Prospectus.

2008 Numbers for the fuck of it:

TEAM | Runs | RA  |   BA |  OBP |  SLG
Cubs | 855  | 671 | .278 | .354 | .443
Brew | 750  | 689 | .253 | .325 | .431
Card | 779  | 725 | .281 | .350 | .433
Reds | 704  | 800 | .247 | .321 | .408
Astr | 712  | 743 | .263 | .323 | .415 
Piss | 735  | 884 | .258 | .320 | .403


Quote from: RD on February 06, 2009, 06:48:21 PM
I have two suggestions.  1) Do you travel for work?  My wife said that at her old job, when people wanted a new laptop, they would drop it while handing it to the xray folks at the airport and then blame the xray dude to the company.

2) Block up the vents on the computer and set it to work on a cpu intensive task.  Maybe SuperPi to a ridiculous number of digits.  The cpu should be toast.  If you're not against cracking it open, pull off the cpu and scrape away the thermal paste, and stick the cpu back on.  That will really speed things up.

Also, I agree with ADC.  Replacing a motherboard on a laptop is normally something that is just not done.

I agree with 2, just wrap it in a blanket and run something crazy on intensive on it, then play dumb.  No way to identify the results from a fan failure or something

Quote from: 5laky on January 19, 2009, 09:25:34 AM
Every time there's a show at the Beat Kitchen that we want to see, we hit up Kuma's first. Looks like early April is going to be that time.

That place just rules. Tons of great beer and the best burger around. Just have to get there somewhat early or you'll wait forever. The place is tiny.

Their bartenders can actually serve a good cocktail too, which is true of a depressingly few places in the city.  Seriously, go there but go an
hour and a half before you plan on eating.  Also, full menu at the bar.

Quote from: Kermit, B. on January 28, 2009, 10:52:24 AM
I just thought it was interesting that the guy is clearly a good enough actor to play a very funny role without having any concept of what funny is.  They say Steve Martin is like that.

Steve Martin, recent terrible movie sell outs aside, is brilliant.  Comparing Rainn Wilson to him would be like comparing Weebs' analytical skills
to Roger Ebert's

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on January 29, 2009, 02:34:12 PM

Quote from: Pre on January 29, 2009, 10:26:33 AM

Quote from: Tank on January 29, 2009, 10:00:36 AM
I'm looking for a free FLV to MPEG converter for burning an internet video to DVD.

Any laptopsciencefags have any recommendations?

It should be pretty easy to do with SUPER which is a free badass media player/encoder/transcoder.

I've never used it specifically for that purpose, but it is probably your best shot.  If it doesn't work, let me know, and I can dig
up something else.

Does it work in reverse?  I have the full MPEG of Vin Scully from 1989 and would like to get in in FLV, but YouTube keeps deleting it for somethign silly like copywrite violations.

It should work fine.  Also, you should give me that MPEG.

Quote from: Tank on January 29, 2009, 10:00:36 AM
I'm looking for a free FLV to MPEG converter for burning an internet video to DVD.

Any laptopsciencefags have any recommendations?

It should be pretty easy to do with SUPER which is a free badass media player/encoder/transcoder.

I've never used it specifically for that purpose, but it is probably your best shot.  If it doesn't work, let me know, and I can dig
up something else.

Quote from: 5laky on January 28, 2009, 01:48:42 PM
So...lots of Whitesnake?

The Pixies and The Kinks come to mind from last time I was there, but it's been a while.

You bring the Foreigner albums, though, and I'll bring the turn table.

Quote from: Oleg on January 28, 2009, 12:15:02 PM
Diversey Bowl is awesome.  However, it's one drawback is that it's not really near any public transportation.  I'm just sayin'.

Only if you're afraid of buses.  I live right by it, so I like the idea.  Most nights the music is pretty good.

I've got a 15.4" MacBook Pro for my job (it's the last revision, not the new ones). 

Pros: light weight for a full featured 15.4, extremely well manufactured, good battery life, free for me

Cons: Low resolution for a 15.4 (1400x900), expensive compared to other options

I also consider OS X a con because there's simply not a lot of software for it, it crashed just as much
as vista, and it's equally accessible in my eyes.

If you have the money, it's a really nice piece of hardware.  But I have a hard time recommending
it on the basis of value.

Quote from: 5laky on January 23, 2009, 02:50:04 PM

I tenderly nestled up to a guy on the train today. Came into work and I got a fucking raise. Top that you stat-loving manpanzees.

I let him fuck my face.

Quote from: Oleg on January 23, 2009, 01:31:55 PM

Quote from: Pre on January 23, 2009, 12:25:29 PM
As a side note, I went to that game with BK and three high school aged female Brewers fans behind us bested him
in a taunting battle.  Later he tried to sex up an old man wearing socks and sandals.

Was he too drunk to recognize Fork?

Nah, this guy was funny.

Quote from: IrishYeti on January 22, 2009, 10:18:40 PM
I would have expected 12-15 million range at least

You have to balance out a lot of the the HRs with the SOs and the knocking out top pitching prospects with his fat.

As a side note, I went to that game with BK and three high school aged female Brewers fans behind us bested him
in a taunting battle.  Later he tried to sex up an old man wearing socks and sandals.

Quote from: 5laky on January 23, 2009, 11:55:23 AM
If there's one complaint about the current Cubs - it's that they don't spend enough money on scouting and player development.

Me ranting'd

I enjoy how some people are an amazing combination of fat, lazy, and self-entitled that they
think that they should be the fun police but also that they shouldn't be bothered to walk the
maximum of 15 feet to an usher.

Wrigley is over-policed as it is.  I have no problem kicking out drunken morans who've hit the
pass out level or fags fighting, because fuck them I'm trying to watch the game.  But I think
every fan has the right to chant/yell whatever they want that isn't all the way up to hate
crime level.

As full disclosure, I did once rat out a guy to an usher when he showed up in the 4th inning
with slicked back hair, a leather jacket, and sat in front of me and started smoking and blowing
smoke back into my face and was a cunt when I asked him to cut it out.  Fuck that guy and fuck
New York.

Quote from: *In a Nutsack on January 19, 2009, 08:45:31 AM
I don't know much about code and whatnot, but this shouldn't be very hard.  If they could do it before, they should damn well be able to do it now.

You'll be a lot less confused if you just ignore any comment that sounds authoritative from Weebs.  It's all straight crazy.