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watching PR and DR play basketball in the Pan Am games. This is like the 5th time they're played each other in 2 months and yeah..NBA players are on both teams.
 
Stuff in new CBA:


¶ Luxury-tax rate: Teams will be charged $1.50 per $1 spent beyond a threshold, replacing the previous dollar-for-dollar tax, according to people who have seen the plan.

To further discourage spending, the tax will increase for every $5 million spent beyond the threshold: to $1.75 after $5 million, $2.50 after $10 million and $3.25 after $15 million.

Under this system, the Los Angeles Lakers would have paid $45 million in taxes last season, compared with $20 million under the old formula. (The rates could still change based on other tradeoffs.)

¶ Contract lengths: Players with “Bird” rights will be eligible for five-year deals, while others will be limited to four. The previous C.B.A. allowed for six-year (Bird) and five-year deals. The 1999 C.B.A. allowed for seven-year (Bird) and six-year deals.

¶ Raises: Annual raises will be reduced by several percentage points, possibly as low as 5.5 percent for Bird players and 3.5 percent for non-Bird players. The prior deal allowed raises as high as 10.5 percent (Bird) and 8 percent.

¶ Midlevel exception: It will start at $5 million, a decrease of $800,000. The contract length and annual raises attached to the exception remain under discussion.

¶ Amnesty clause: Each team will be permitted to waive one player, with pay — anytime during the life of the C.B.A. — and have his salary be exempt from the cap and the luxury tax. Its use will be limited to players already under contract as of July 1, 2011.

¶ Stretch exception: Teams will be permitted to stretch out payments to waived players, spreading out the cap hit, over several seasons. The payment schedule will be set by doubling the years left on the contract and adding one. (Thus a team waiving a player with two years left could pay him over five years.)

There are a few critical issues still under debate. The N.B.A. wants to further punish tax-paying teams by denying them use of the midlevel exception and sign-and-trade deals, and wants additional penalties for “repeat offenders.” The union opposes those measures.

Nearly all of the new provisions will benefit the owners. In return, the players will gain an easing of trade rules and relaxed regulations on restricted free agents.
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All of it looks fine, not sure about the relaxed regulations on restricted free agents though, hope it doesn't hurt the Jazz in a few years when Kanter and Burks are done on their rookie deals...


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/s...but-last-hurdle-is-a-big-one.html?_r=1&src=tp
 
ph33nix said:
I don't feel like reading all that

Can someone just explain if we can get rid of Mike Millller? lol
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Yes, but the Heat would have to pay him to go away and it wouldn't net much cap flexibility to the team whenever free agency Could benefit the team in the free agency afterwards since the Heat would be over the tax in 2012 if they keep Miller and sign an MLE player and they'll have the option of cutting him Summer 2012. So, one more season of Jesus!
 
Ice Raven said:
welcome to the master race chump. now get on bf3.
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The damn thing won't post :(

I'm fearing either my CPU or Mobo is not doing it's thing. My bet is on the CPU.
 
reilo said:
The damn thing won't post :(

I'm fearing either my CPU or Mobo is not doing it's thing. My bet is on the CPU.
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Is it hanging on the mobo bios screen?
 
Last time I built a computer all three of the ASUS motherboards I got were DOA and wouldn't POST (well, the second one did POST once before immediately dying), bought a Gigabyte one and the entire system worked instantly.
 
Blackace said:
Is it hanging on the mobo bios screen?
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It doesn't even get that far. No beeps, no POST, nothing.

Although I am curious that my PSU only has two sets of 4-pin EATXV12 plugins, but only one will fit into the mobos 8-pin EATXV12. The manual says that it accepts a 4-pin though so ugh yeah :-\

The CPU LED did come on the motherboard, but I can't find out in the manual if that's a good or bad thing.
 
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
Yes, but the Heat would have to pay him to go away and it wouldn't net much cap flexibility to the team whenever free agency Could benefit the team in the free agency afterwards since the Heat would be over the tax in 2012 if they keep Miller and sign an MLE player and they'll have the option of cutting him Summer 2012. So, one more season of Jesus!
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:(
 
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I hope you get it up and running, reilo.
 
reilo said:
It boots up, then restarts and sits there with all the fans spinning.
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That's exactly the problem I had, all the boards were just dead for some reason. ASUS seems to be having this problem ever since they changed where they manufacture the motherboards. Entire series will have like 50+% failure rates like this.
 
dIEHARD said:
the pins are on the motherboard, they are pressure pins that "bend" down when pressure is applied, but they can get misaligned sometimes.
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Oh gotcha.

I just want to know that that CPU LED means. Does that mean everything is a-okay or something is wrong?
 
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
Stuff in new CBA:





All of it looks fine, not sure about the relaxed regulations on restricted free agents though, hope it doesn't hurt the Jazz in a few years when Kanter and Burks are done on their rookie deals...


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/s...but-last-hurdle-is-a-big-one.html?_r=1&src=tp
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Still subject to change I know, but this really isn't going to impact the big market teams that will simply continue to pay, or the player that will take less money to be on a contender.

This and other reasons why I think the competitive balance excuse is a joke.
 
Ice Raven said:
I had the same issues a few days ago. I would power on and shut down after a few seconds. I bought a Asus p8p67 board. I went through the manual and realized there was a second power connector on the mobo. Solved my issue.
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I'll try checking those again.
 
Ice Raven said:
Im coping like any other normal drug addict. But I learned from the best, ain't that right zep?
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Zep gave it to you?
 
dIEHARD said:
the pins are on the motherboard, they are pressure pins that "bend" down when pressure is applied, but they can get misaligned sometimes.
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Damn, you were right. Some of them are bent. Fuuu
 
dIEHARD said:
try using a pin or something to push them back.
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I tried, but they are too FUBAR :(

I'll go to Fry's tomorrow and pickup another P8Z68 and see if I can get a refund on this one. /shrug
 
And RedBlaster, Yakuza 3 is pretty damn awesome. Maybe its because I'm new to the series but I don't see the complaints so far. Music is awesome too.
 
:-\

Went and got the motherboard replaced, still nothing. The CPU is seated properly, no CPU LED is on, no other LEDs, but nothing ever comes on the screen.

Also, my case didn't come with a speaker, is that maybe why I don't hear any POST beeps?

EDIT: Holy balls, talk about lucky. I found a beeper attachment from an old computer.
 
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