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Saturday, April 10, 2010
Also thought of buying a PS3 but that can wait--input on that appreciated too...
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Friday, April 9, 2010
The droid os is in full swing, people are starting to understand the capabilities of it and apps are coming for it be the thousands per a month. For years Iphone was king. But came last fall the Droid came out and punched it right in the mouth.
Then came February and the Nexus one from T-mobile came out, featuring the latest version of the droid OS, 2.1. Not only did it feature it, but it came out with the fastest cpu ever in a cell phone, a 1ghz cpu. This allowed webpages and programs to load super fast. Live wall paper that moved, 7 home screens.
However the Nexus One reign was very short, because in March T-mobile released another beast, the HTC HD2, sporting a 4.3 inch screen, the biggest screen to date. The only downside to this super phone was the Windows 6.5 operating system on it. Which in itself has it own drawbacks here and there.
Yesterday Apple announced their 4.0 OS will be coming out this summer, which will allow a lot of things, with multi-tasking being the main important one. However they didn't say if they are coming out with a new design for their Iphone, which by now, compared to other phones looks very plain and dated.
This summer Sprint is coming out with the HTC Evo 4g, which is basically the HTC HD2 running android 2.1. However this will be the 1st 4g phone and it will have built in Wimax. Being this is new frontiers here for cell phones, we shall see how this goes.
Verizon suppose to be coming out with their new toys this summer too. That being the Motorola Shadow, which is rumoured to be really the Nexus 2 or Droid 2. Suppose to have either a 4.3 screen or a 4.1 screen.
But anyway, as you can see, the trend for this summer is big screens. Everybody is jumping on the big screen bandwagon along with 1ghz processors. Mainly because cell phone companies have realized how much media people actually watch on their cell phones nowadays. That really stems from the fact people have to travel much further to work now then they did just 5 years ago.
With all this you might say well which cell phone should I get ?
That really depends on what you need it for. If you just a light cell phone user, then a smart phone isn't for you. If you like tons of apps and don't mind paying for them or don't mind you can't customize your phone, then the Iphone is for you.If you crave customization, I recommend getting a Droid phone. There are about a dozen or so Droid phones now on all carriers. However the Nexus One on T-mobile and the Motorola Droid on Verizon currently is the most powerful of the Droid phones.
Another thing to consider is what carrier you currently have a contract with. Not all phones are on all carriers. However more then likely the carrierr you have with a similiar like phone that is only on another carrier. Kind of like how Sprint is coming out with their own version of T-mobile HTC HD2. Or how T-mobile came out with the Nexus One which is similiar to the Motorola Droid from Verizon.
Breaking contracts is costly....So I wouldn't recommend doing that. However you can have 2 contracts from 2 carriers at the same time. Lot of my co workers do. You can have the least amount of minutes on one phone that you barely going to use and have the most amount on your main phone.
What ever you do choose, do your resource on the phone YOURSELF. Don't go by word of mouth. Just go to what ever carrier that phone is comig out for CORPORATE store and ask to see the phone. They always have it there on display somewhere or some worker have it on them already. The reason I said corporate store is because most of the tme Walmart or Best Buy , won't have the phone on display yet if it is a new product, might take them a few weeks or so to get it.
Like currently where I live the only place to see the HTC HD2 in person is at a T-mobile store, neither Walmart or Best Buy sell them yet here.
Happy cell phone hunting !
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| MLB Scoreboard | Milwaukee Brewers (11-16) at Los Angeles Dodgers (14-13) | |||||||||||||
| May 6, 2010 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
| Milwaukee Brewers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 | |
| Los Angeles Dodgers | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | |
| WIN: Randy Wolf (2-2) LOSS: Noah Lowry (1-1) SAVE: Trevor Hoffman (8) | |||||||||||||
| Scoring Summary | ||||
| MIL | LAD | |||
| LAD | 1st | James Loney Singles to Center, Russell Martin and Matt Kemp Score | 0 | 2 |
| MIL | 4th | Rickie Weeks Singles to Right, Prince Fielder Scores | 1 | 2 |
| MIL | 4th | Jody Gerut Sacrafice Fly to Right, Ryan Braun Scores | 2 | 2 |
| MIL | 5th | Prince Fielder Singles to Right, Alcides Escobar Scores | 3 | 2 |
| Milwaukee Brewers | |||||||
| HITTERS | AB | R | H | BI | BB | SO | AVG |
| Alcides Escobar, SS | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .292 |
| Casey McGehee, 3B | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .265 |
| Prince Fielder, 1B | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .240 |
| Ryan Braun, LF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | .272 |
| Corey Hart, RF | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .202 |
| Rickie Weeks, 2B | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .220 |
| Jody Gerut, CF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .205 |
| Greg Zaun, C | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .230 |
| Randy Wolf, SP | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 |
| Joe Inglett, PH | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .308 |
| TOTALS | 36 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 11 | .278 |
| BATTING RBI: Rickie Weeks (5), Prince Fielder (13), Jody Gerut (5) HBP: Casey McGehee SAC: Jody Gerut | |||||||
| Milwaukee Brewers | |||||||
| PITCHERS | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | AVG |
| Randy Wolf (W, 2-2) | 6.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3.32 |
| Todd Coffey (H, 1) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.71 |
| Scott Schoeneweiss (H, 3) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.80 |
| Trevor Hoffman (S, 8) | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 |
| Totals | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2.00 |
| Los Angeles Dodgers | |||||||
| HITTERS | AB | R | H | BI | BB | SO | AVG |
| Rafael Furcal, SS | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .275 |
| Russell Martin, C | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .295 |
| Matt Kemp, CF | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .229 |
| Manny Ramirez, LF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .320 |
| Mike Lowell, 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .294 |
| James Loney, 1B | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .286 |
| Andre Ethier, RF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .296 |
| Ronnie Belliard, 2B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .273 |
| Noah Lowry, SP | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 |
| Casey Blake, PH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .286 |
| Doug Mientkiewicz, PH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .238 |
| TOTALS | 32 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 6 | .188 |
| BATTING 2B: Noah Lowry (1), Ronnie Belliard (3) RBI: James Loney 2 (13) HBP: Mike Lowell | |||||||
| Los Angeles Dodgers | |||||||
| PITCHERS | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | AVG |
| Noah Lowry (L, 1-1) | 6.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3.79 |
| Justin Miller | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3.31 |
| Hong-Chi Kuo | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3.00 |
| Totals | 9.0 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 3.00 |
Thursday, April 8, 2010
At. 
4 Game Series
"Seattle Mariners" (0-0) - 0.00 ERA - .000 BA - Ranked #1
At.
"Oakland Athletics" (0-0) - 0.00 ERA - .000 BA - Ranked #1
"Projected Starting Line Ups"
"Projected Pitching Match Ups"
"Game #1"
(SEA) Cole Hamels (0-0) - 0.00 ERA - 0 K's - 0 BB's - 0.0 INN - 0 Starts
Vs.
(OAK) Felix Hernandez (0-0) - 0.00 ERA - 0 K's - 0 BB's - 0.0 INN - 0 Starts
"Game #2"
(SEA) Max Scherzer (0-0) - 0.00 ERA - 0 K's - 0 BB's - 0.0 INN - 0 Starts
Vs.
(OAK) Clayton Kershaw (0-0) - 0.00 ERA - 0 K's - 0 BB's - 0.0 INN - 0 Starts
"Game #3"
(SEA) Noah Lowry (0-0) - 0.00 ERA - 0 K's - 0 BB's - 0.0 INN - 0 Starts
Vs.
(OAK) Brandon Morrow (0-0) - 0.00 ERA - 0 K's - 0 BB's - 0.0 INN - 0 Starts
"Game #4"
(SEA) Ross Ohlendorf (0-0) - 0.00 ERA - 0 K's - 0 BB's - 0.0 INN - 0 Starts
Vs.
(OAK) Tommy Hanson (0-0) - 0.00 ERA - 0 K's - 0 BB's - 0.0 INN - 0 Starts
Felix Hernandez
Clayton Kershaw
Brandon Morrow
Tommy Hanson
Stephen Strasburg ®
"Bull Pen"
(LRP) James McDonald
(LRP) Jeff Suppan
(LS) Eric O'Flaherty
(MRP) Evan Meek
(MRP) Joel Hanrahan
(SU) Neftali Feliz ®
(CP) Trevor Hoffman
"Rest of the 40-Man Roster"
[C] Alex Avila
(1B) Renaldo Kruse
(2B) Tim Spillane
(3B) Mat Gamel
(3B) Joel Guzman
(LF) Michael Brantly
(CF) Lorenzo Cain
(RF) Jason Heyward
(SP) Dana Eveland
(SP) Jeff Karsteins
(SP) Mark Rogers
(RP) Jeff Samardzija
(RP) Luis Perdomo
(RP) Greg Burke
(RP) Yusmeiro Petit
"Other Notables (A-Potentials)"
[C] Jonathan Lucroy (Actually "B" Rated)
(2B) Brett Lawrie
(SS) Adeiny Hevhearria
(CF) Ryan Westmoreland
(SP) Aroldis Chapman
(SP) Jeremy Jeffress
(RP) Wily Peralta
(RP) Drew Storen
"Top 10 Draft Picks"
1. Felix Hernandez
2. David Wright
3. Clayton Kershaw
4. James Loney
5. Tommy Hanson
6. Neftali Feliz
7. Jay Bruce
8. Stephen Strasburg
9. Alcides Escobar
10. Jason Heyward
The Oakland Athletics went 8-18 during spring training. Not quite the way they wanted to play, but the games don't count and it's time to get on with the regular season starting with a 4 game series at home against division rival, Seattle Mariners.
"Notable Spring Training Stats"
8-18 Record
4.89 Team ERA
.239 Team Batting Average
Michael Brantley: .362 Avg. - 5 DBL's - 3 HR's - 8 RBI's
Jim Edmonds: .350 Avg. - 4 DBL's - 1 HR - 4 RBI's
Jason Heyward: .222 Avg. - 1 DBL - 1 TPL - 3 HR's - 7 RBI's
Felix Hernandez: (3-3) 4.63 ERA - 43 K's - 14 BB's - 35.0 INN - 6 Starts
Tommy Hanson: (0-1) 3.60 ERA - 23 K's - 6 BB's - 25.0 INN - 5 Starts
Fast forward ten years or so and the wonderful Sega Genesis. I remember playing the first LAKERS VS. CELTICS game. While certainly primitive, and repetitive, all I cared about was the fact that the cpu would actually double team you on certain spots on the floor. Again my imagination provided the gaps in realism.
To the here and now. We have games like Mlb the show series that provides so much realism and graphics, our imagination is nearly moot. Custom music, realistic players, and game play that mimics so very closely the real thing we are left with no such gaps to fill in with our minds. Now do not get me wrong I love the realism, the ability to reasonably sim actually seasons. I just don't want previous generations of games to be scoffed at. After all, in a few years today's games will be mocked for their weak graphics and poor game play.
Days later Madden announced they would be releasing a similar blog revealing that they too will be using the LocoMotion technology, the blog was more writing than video, even though they're blog had more videos to watch, they only ran on for short while. What Madden did do was break it down as how this new tech was going to work in Madden, they provided charts and graphs and really explained what LocoMotion would do for Madden.
My take: I wasn't in awe or flattered when I read the Madden blog compared to NCAA's, but I was informed, which what I want when I read a blog, now I'M that maybe a new tackle system is in the works.
07:19 AM - April 8, 2010. Written by adembroski
There are many who would argue that Madden 10 was not that much of a leap over Madden 09. To those people, I say: Shove it. Your animosity toward EA, Tiburon, or whoever else clearly has clouded your judgement. Madden 10 may not be everything we've ever wanted in a football game, but to say it wasn't a significant improvement is purposefully discounting facts.But the question remains; will the leap from '09 to '10 be matched again this year. Unfortunately, I am forced to say probably not.
Disclaimer: No, I haven't played Madden 11. I may or may not know a fact or two more about M11 than the average OS user, but I haven't touched the game. I'm not THAT much of an insider
The fact is that locomotion may be one of the biggest changes in Madden history. We tend to think of it as simply momentum based motion, but as we're often told by the devs- you change one thing, you break 10 others. Last year's community day had better locomotion than the final product, but it broke so many other aspects of play it was scrapped before release.
An example... a free safety in deep middle coverage must close on the ball in the air. With momentum based locmotion in effect, but no AI to support it (ie. still using the same AI as before) he will over run the spot he needs to be at by quite a ways, leaving him beaten deep by a post route. Not pretty, very exploitable.
What this means is that in order to impliment locomotion, a significant overhaul of individual player logic had to be done. A bigger task, I expect, than implimenting the movement system alone.
I don't expect major upgrades on the level of Pro-Tak outside of locomotion. However, if done correctly, Locomotion could be that feature that takes Madden 11 to where we've been begging it to be.
Still, the leap will not be as great.
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