NFL Draft

Discussion in 'On The Field' started by rick mueller, Apr 28, 2017.

  1. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    Decent coaches tend to remember the programs that administer a good beatdown ;)
     
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  2. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    Would not call it a FireFox issue since that is what I use and I see them fine. Video does not always play on the home computer, but that is more an OS issue than a browser issue since they play fine on the office computer (I still use XP at home since it does what I HAVE to be able to do at home, which is write).
     
  3. easy

    easy 2,500+ Posts

    I remember the littler fall out that happened when he took Earl Thomas over Taylor mays
     
  4. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    :yikes:

    That was a workhorse OS for quite a long time.
     
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  5. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    "quite a long time"...support ended for Windows XP April 8th, 2014.
     
  6. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    I think a big question is how likely a player's stock would be to rise given another year. One could argue that DeShon Elliott's stock was likely as high now as it ever would be. Not that he was flash in the pan, but what if he sticks around for another season and plays better overall but the whole defense gets better around him and other guys get more attention, plus he doesn't get as lucky and only ends up with 3 interceptions?

    Holton Hill on the other hand probably would have been benefited from having a full season of work rather than having not played for the last third of the season, and from the chance to prove his character and reliability to the NFL honchos.

    And although it doesn't apply to the NFL, other boss vs professor comparison appropriate in many cases are that the work you do for the boss ends when you leave the office and doesn't start up until you arrive again the next day. Plus all my bosses, even the bad ones, have been better at their jobs than the majority of my professors were.
     
  7. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    But in the meantime, it still does what I need and with a modicum of stability. I write with an older version of Word, so I don't need all this cloud-related crap that newer systems are trying to force us into...
     
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  8. Chinstrap

    Chinstrap 1,000+ Posts

    Smart guy. Microsoft gets it right about one out of every three times and they force feed the customers their crap in between a quality OS. 95 and 98 pretty good and then several s___ systems until XP and crap again until 7, etc. They force the big box stores to honor their latest crap on new computers and the customers get to pay for frustration.
    I too keep my XP plugged in for offline work.
     
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  9. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Agree; but Microsoft isn't the only one.
     
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  10. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    Microsoft’s business model seems to be driven by a basic contempt for the customer. They know they have a practical monopoly with hundreds of millions of PC users worldwide — most will never move away from Windows, so MS can do whatever they want without jeopardizing much of the user base.

    PC manufacturers are in a similar spot. They need an OS that people are familiar with, and that’s certainly a seller’s market.
     
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  11. El Sapo

    El Sapo Bevo's BFF

    So. Much. Truth. The first sentence really sums it up. If Macs weren't so overpriced and the customer service experience so pretentious, I'd have stayed switched over a decade ago.

    Currently investigating touch-screen laptops running Linux.... so I can better follow the NFL draft, coverage, and Hornfans threads :hookem:
     
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  12. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    A gazillion likes or this! :hookem2:
     
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  13. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    Maybe not if you consider the useful life of a Mac can easily go six years or more, with relatively few problems compared to a similarly-spec’d Windows machine. My primary Mac now is a 2013 MacBook Pro that I use heavily and it still runs like the day I bought it.

    Plus, I rebuilt this website on it 3 years ago so I’m a little partial to it. :smile1:
     
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  14. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Yes but some of us have to have real computers! :smokin:
     
  15. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    My Dell is 8 years old. I bought a new Dell, kept it about a week, before getting a refund.

    I just bought a new Dell the first week of April. What a piece of crap. I got a total runaround from Dell (including them wanting me to send it to them, give them 3-4 weeks to repair and send it back) until I gave them Michael Dell's home address and asked if they it would be considered "bad faith" if I put a 357 wadcutter through it before sending it to his home by Lone Star Overnight.

    Suddenly, refund, new better laptop being built and shipped to me. I get daily calls and email updates on my new laptop. :hookem2:
     
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  16. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    Platform smack!
    Say, don’t you have some virus removal and disk defragging to do?
     
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  17. moondog_LFZ

    moondog_LFZ 5,000+ Posts

    Off season sucks!!
     
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  18. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    I didn't fall for the Beta Max either.
     
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  19. El Sapo

    El Sapo Bevo's BFF

    Unfortunately, RSI now necessitates a touchscreen for me... so I'd have had to switch from Mac anyways since they refuse to make touchscreen laptops. Interestingly enough, it was a hardware problem on a relatively new Mac combined with a horrible Apple store experience that made me an ex-customer. If they made touchscreen laptops, my hatred of Windows 10 would probably compel me to give them another chance. Instead I'm navigating the murky world of touch-screen Linux laptops... and so far not finding what I want.

    Random prediction : Bryce Love taken among the first 3 picks of next year's NFL draft.
     
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  20. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    PCs can easily last that long, but are often easier to do hardware upgrades for along the way (although that's changing b/c the manufacturers all hate their customers also).
     
  21. Dionysus

    Dionysus Idoit Admin

    Michael Dickson discusses being drafted in the fifth round by the Seattle Seahawks.

     
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  22. Mr. Fiesta

    Mr. Fiesta 1,000+ Posts

    Hey, don't change subjects! Isn't this a PC/Microsoft/Dell/Linux computer geek forum?
     
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  23. RainH2burntO

    RainH2burntO 2,500+ Posts

    Yeah I just got sick of it all. If it isn't Microsoft it's Google or someone else trying to control my life...
    ...So I've recently gone back to Commodore 64 and now I'm back in charge.
     
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  24. X Misn Tx

    X Misn Tx 2,500+ Posts

    and how about that Trump! which OS do you think he uses?
     
  25. 4th_floor

    4th_floor Dude, where's my laptop?

    The Seahawks are lucky to get Dickson in the fifth round. If the Seahawks D is as good as a couple of years ago, they may shut out everyone with Dickson punting.
     
  26. easy

    easy 2,500+ Posts

    Some stuff from 247 about hill andChris warren said to be headed to raiders camp

    Two sources close to the situation, including an NFL source, told Horns247 Hill had a “diluted” drug test at the NFL combine. One NFL source said Hill showed up “sick as a dog” to the combine and doctors gave him meds and told him to drink as much Gatorade as possible. And while a diluted test is not considered a positive test, it raised enough of a red flag with teams, some of whom had as high as a second-round grade on Hill, after they dug into Hill’s background and learned Hill had previous suspensions at UT for failed drug tests.
     
  27. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts


    ' ..... Hill was one of the three players who failed the mandatory drug test at the Combine...."​

    One of the other three was also a one-time Longhorn -- Desmond Harrison who also went undrafted.

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-how-the-draft-really-went-down-what-it-means
     
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  28. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

  29. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    See #206 above. Technically he didn't fail the drug test, but given his history, everyone knows the score.
     
  30. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

     
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