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This year's E3 is on the horizon, and the buzz of what may and may not be displayed continues to push the rumor mill into overdrive. Could there be a PSP2 announcement, or will the Natal steal the show? What new games are going to blow us away, and who's technology will we be telling our friends about? We will know soon enough, but for now, it is never too early to begin speculating about the future of gaming. The PlayStation 3 has only recently begun to turn a profit on each unit sold, and with the console seemingly just beginning to hit its stride (and new hardware like the Move on the way), any discussion of the next generation of consoles is purely speculation. Awesome, sweet speculation.
Let's be clear: Sony hasn't let a word slip about any game system to follow the PlayStation 3. They are surely working on one, as are Microsoft and Nintendo, but it is likely years before we will hear anything about them. But as learned observers of the industry, we're willing to make some educated guesses about just what the next generation of Sony's gaming will be. Will all of them come true? Almost certainly not. But it's fun to play along, so close your eyes, put on your imagination cap and come along with us. OK, don't close your eyes. You need them to read.
Goodbye, Discs
The current generation of Internet-connected consoles has already dipped a toe in the realm of digital distribution for games, but the next crop, including the PS4, will go even further. The PS4 will have no disc drive, depending entirely on an Internet connection for browsing and accessing games. Games may not be instantly playable, but development will likely change to quicken download times significantly. For instance, you might be able to begin playing the first level of a game while the rest is still downloading, making them almost "streamable" in the same way that movies now are. The concept of downloadable content (DLC) will no longer be thought of as an add-on for existing games, but the game itself. We have already seen this with current-gen "classic" titles, especially on Xbox Live that offers dozen of current titles, and the trend is likely to grow.
As hard as it might sound to completely break our tether with physical media, neither the PSPGo and later versions of the PSP2 accept physical disks. XBox Live and the PlayStation Network both offer full current-gen games for download, and the Wii has a vast library of older hits for download only. Changing to digital media would also undercut the massive used gaming market that has seemingly become the bane of video game producers. EA recently announced that it would charge $10 for users that purchased a used EA title to connect online, so there is industry support for a medium that would extinguish the used games market.
On the PC, networks like Valve's Steam have already gained acceptance from most gamers and developers for distributing games digitally, and many gamers now skip the lines at malls for new releases to wait on download bars at home. The monthly subscription service, OnLive, is set to debut on June 17, and its success or failure will be a huge gage for the future of how games are distributed.
The flipside of that argument is that digital games would lead to increased digital piracy, something Sony blames for lower than expected games sales for the PSPGo, plus it would also anger retailers that Sony needs to appease in order to move its TVs, computers, etc. Still, the trend continues to move towards digital downloads, and once more intensive piracy guards are in place, and deals are struck with retailers to sell games on their websites, there will be nothing to stop it.
Lower Price, Fewer Features
Sony must have learned its lesson on this one, by now. The PlayStation 3 launched at $600, and though it stood head and shoulders above every other console on the market as the most powerful console, sales tanked on its price tag alone. But it wasn't that bad a deal. The PS3 came with many features out of the box, like an high-def drive, wireless controller, and a hard drive, that drove the Xbox 360 to a comparable price if you included them all as accessories. But consumers favored the lower entry price.
Sony Computer Entertainment's CEO Ken Kuaragi once said that the "[PS3 is] for consumers to think to themselves 'I will work more hours to buy one'. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else." Gamers disagreed, and many labelled Sony as being arrogant and out of touch, especially as they pushed an incredibly expensive piece of hardware during an economic recession. Sony has recently admitted to that it was arrogant, and claims to have learned from it.
Last year, when Sony lowered the price for the PS3 to $300, the sales saw an immediate boost and the PS3 is now consistently outselling the Xbox 360 across the globe, boosting its market share to 31 percent, a jump from 18 percent at the same time last year. A handful of exclusive titles helped, but it was the price cut that had people willing to bring the PS3 home.
Next time around, Sony will probably copy's Microsoft's routine, stripping the PS4 of all the non-essentials to get the base price down as low as possible. For instance, it may lack a disc drive, but that doesn't mean you won't be able to get one – it will just come as an accessory that costs extra. How low will it go? It's almost impossible to tell, but $300 wouldn't be a bad starting point.
Multimedia Machine
Expect to see the PlayStation 4 marketed as much as a home media server as a game console, because it will pretty much replace your cable box, video library, laptop, and the rental store down the block. You can already pull many of these tasks off with existing set-top boxes and consoles- like downloading 1080p movies, and streaming online video from sites like YouTube and Netflix. But you'll also watch new shows live when they first air, as many people now rely on cable TV for.
We're already seeing this happen. Recently, Xbox Live announced that it was considering launching a channel on the Xbox Live network. The channel would be helmed by former News Corp. President Peter Chernin, and at one point, the fledgling channel was a possible destination for Conan O'Brien before he settled on TBS. The channel would cost an extra buck or a two a month, and offer original programming supplemented by reruns of old movies and TV shows. We suspect more and more channels will choose this type of digital distribution in the future, since they'll be able to command higher per-channel prices from individuals than they currently get from cable operators. That will finally give consumers a shot at the "ala carte" programming they've been clamoring for, paring out cable operators altogether and allowing individuals to pay only for the channels they watch.
Further Shrinkage
While the clutter of A/V boxes used to sit nicely in the deep cabinets under most CRT televisions, today's flat screens don't leave much room for junk. Fortunately, miniaturization has never let up its breakneck pace (as netbooks are a testament), and the next-gen hardware that ends up in the PS4 should be able to fit in a box much smaller than the existing console – maybe even one small enough to hang from a bracket on the back of your TV, removing it from sight entirely. That might be an issue with a disc-based machine, or one with wired controllers, but the PS4 won't require either.
More Power
This one has to be a given for any generation of game console: Power ratchets up a notch, making graphics look even closer to life. While the existing PlayStation 3 already does pretty well in this arena, with visuals that stand out as the best on any existing console, you can expect the PS4 to generate the kind of graphics than have hitherto only been available in the very highest echelon of gaming PCs. Think one shade away from cinematic, along the lines of the infamously graphic heavy Crysis running on one of today's $8,000 rigs with every setting turned to high. To generate that type of realism, Sony will of course need to aim for higher clock speeds (or more cores) on its main central and graphics processors, but the PS4 will also likely include a devoted physics card for the heavy lifting behind the most engrossing effects: everything from trees realistically toppling in the right direction to realistic rain spatter and waves.
Motion Controller
Nintendo got the ball started with the Wii, but as last year's E3 proved that everybody's looking at new ways to control video games. Sony's own attempt, the Move, combines the accelerometers of a remote with the video capture of Microsoft's Project Natal. By tracking a bright red ball atop the remote, the console can digitally insert objects into the hands of gamers or track movement with extreme precision, allowing it to act as a sword one moment and a handgun another.
Although the new controller will likely open up all sorts of opportunities for unique games – as it did with the Wii – Sony will likely also see it as a way to broaden the PS4's appeal to non-gamers. Sony has already begun to debut the Move in small demos, but they plan to make a splash at this year's E3. We had a chance to run the Move through its paces and found it to be superior to the Wii's nunchucks. If that superiority equates to sales, and if the Natal can pry open Xbox users' wallets, we suspect an intuitive motion controller will be used a primary selling point to put the PlayStation 4 into the hands of Ma and Pa.
Lean and Green
Ten years ago, even discussing the electricity demands or noise from a console seemed silly, and no one even considered the materials used to build electronics. Raw power was paramount. But with increasing environmental concerns, people don't just want a machine that will produce movie-quality graphic experiences, they want a refined box that runs as cool, quiet and efficient as possible, and if possible is eco-friendly. Fortunately, smaller chip manufacturing processes make all of that possible without significant sacrifice, and recycled materials are becoming easier to refine and use. And PC manufacturers are leading the way. Look, for instance, at HP's tiny, water-cooled Firebird, or the latest generation of inexpensive-but-powerful ATI Radeon cards; Lenovo recently released the L Series ThinkPads, laptops designed entirely with green in mind. The demand for fast, efficient, green computing is there, and it is growing.
Not only do these technologies go easier on power bills while keeping the eco-minded happy, they keep things whisper-quiet, too, which will be absolutely critical if the system will have any credibility as a home media server. You can't have whirring fans ruining the quiet scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey, after all.
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So, we've been catching up with Brad Gushue this week, chatting about family, his new business venture (frozen yogurt anyone?) and, oh yes, that little Brier thing.
This is Gushue's ninth ride to the Canadian senior men's championship, and he's still only 31. Funny, seems like he's been around since curlers needed ashtrays on the ice.
But it will be different this year, watching Gushue at the Brier. And, some might argue, just not that darn appealing anymore.
There's a couple of new, young whippersnappers on the front end, chap named Geoff Walker from Alberta throwing leads stones, and P.E.I.'s Adam Casey.
They're living in town now, crashing at third Ryan Fry's house. Fry is from Winnipeg, though he, too, hangs his hat in St. John's, working the past few years at Bally Haly.
Six years is only six years, but it might as well be a lifetime since Gushue shook the curling world off its axis, first by winning the Olympic Trials, and later the whole shebang in Torino, Italy.
It's different now. Mike Adam's not sweeping up anymore. No, he's managing an ice rink these days. Jamie Korab? Got rid of the red shoes for the more conservative coaching duds. Russ Howard? Skipper's still calling the games, only in the broadcast booth. Mark Nichols? The quiet, unheralded third, the yin to Gushue's yang? On the sidelines, the first winter in years - decades? - he hasn't thrown rocks.
And Gushue? Still out there every other weekend, mapping strategy, calling line in some curling outpost somewhere, dragging himself back across the country to kick-off a new work week.
And the question remains: why?
"I love the game, I love playing," he was saying this week. "When I was a teenager, I set some pretty high goals for myself and getting a Brier would be the last goal, and I want to do that.
"I have the full support of (wife) Christa and the rest of my family, and I'll keep playing until I don't enjoy it anymore. I still have a passion for it, and that's what keeps me going.
"Next to coming home to my family, the best part of my day is going down to the rink and throwing rocks and having that time to myself and playing the game I love."
By now, everyone knows about the list of goals and dreams Gushue had etched on his bedroom door ... the provincial junior, world junior and all-Newfoundland men's championships, the Brier wins, the Olympic gold medals.
Got it all, except the Brier win, which he's still chasing. But if there's any chance it will morph into reality, it will be in this 83rd championship in Saskatoon, that has only a shot glass full of contenders, among them Ontario legend Glenn Howard, Alberta's Kevin Koe and maybe upstart Brad Jacobs from Northern Ontario.
But the always-confident Gushue says he's not going to Saskatchewan with "extremely high expectations." For starters, there are the two rookies, albeit newbies with dandy junior credentials. And the foursome sputtered early in the World Curling Tour season.
"With the two new guys, we made some technical changes and it took some time getting used to them, and just getting used to each other's personalities and gelling as a team.
"It probably took a little longer than I had anticipated but once we turned the corner, we reached the semifinals in three of the last four events. So we're starting to come around."
Newfoundland, of course, has only one Brier championship, by Jack MacDuff back in 1976. Toby McDonald, Gushue's coach in Torino, curled on that MacDuff team, by the way, and is Gushue's fifth at this year's Brier.
It would be nice, frankly, to cease and desist the chatter about MacDuff, finally. But if Gushue is the one to end that ridiculous losing skid at the Canadian men's championship - he came close in 2007, finishing second - he will have to do it minus Nichols.
In Nichols, whose association with Gushue dates back before the two won a world junior championship together, Newfoundland had an all-world third to go with its all-world skip, a heavy hitter who was considered among the best in the game at his position.
"It's been different (not having Nichols around)," Gushue said. "Early on in the year, it was definitely different.
"I played 13 years with Mark, and you knew what to expect. All of a sudden, we have a brand new team and all the routines change, expectations change and it was a challenge.
"I think that may have played a factor in our slow start. But these guys now are committed 110 per cent. They work hard, they're fun to be around, and I'm enjoying it as much as I ever have."
Part of that enjoyment may stem from the fact Gushue might be a little less intense these days. McDonald even suggests the skip might be a tad "mellower".
But the desire to win is still there, and it's that desire that had Gushue look outside the province again when it became evident Nichols and Jamie Danbrook weren't returning this season.
But aren't there any curlers around here to fill the void?
"No, there isn't. Straight answer," he says. "I'm not going to bullshit around it.
"There is talent (in Newfoundland), don't get me wrong, but you have to combine that talent with the work ethic, with the life situation to be able to do what we do.
"You can have all the talent and drive in the world, but if you can't get away for 10-12 weekends a year to go compete, to throw rocks every day, it's not going to work.
"There are a lot of factors, and unfortunately there isn't anybody in Newfoundland who is willing to do that. I'm not saying there aren't talented curlers. I'm just saying they can't make the commitment to do what we do."
Whether the commitment from Gushue, Fry, Casey and Walker can lead to a Brier crown is anyone's guess. We won't know until next Sunday, when the event wraps up.
We do know, however, Gushue is still driving the bus, and apparently there's a lot of miles left in him yet.
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Rory Maher of Hillside Partners today offers up some tidbits on Twitter (TWTR) and Facebook (FB), writing that Facebook is "growing fans faster than Twitter," based on data his firm has compiled using its own software program.
Overall, writes Maher, social networking saw a quarter-over-quarter decline in " haring" in February, on all services, by which he means the recirculation of content on these networks from a variety of sources including Huffington Post and Endgadget:
In February '14 social media usage saw its first sequential decrease after 3 consecutive months of growth, indicating social net sharing took an inevitable breather following a period of growth. Facebook and Google+ were the biggest gainers, with 21% and 50% M/M growth respectively. Linkedin decreased – 35% during the month and Twitter was flat. Facebook Likes in our first month of officially tracking increased 10% M/M during January. We believe Facebook continued to benefit from newsfeed quality changes that drove more sharing and Google+ continued to benefit from YouTube integration (where users must log into Google+ accounts in order to make comments on YouTube).
In particular, though, Twitter seemed to be weaker in terms of sharing activity:
We compared sharing data from 1Q14 to 1Q13 and believe Twitter shares are pacing down slightly versus last year while Facebook and Google+ saw the largest increases in shares. Specifically, Facebook Likes grew 31% Y/Y thus far in 1Q14, Facebook Shares 14%, Linkedin 1%, Google+ 20% and Twitter -5% [...] Our Facebook data appears in-line with recent management commentary on Y/Y engagement growth, but Twitter sharing declines data is counter to management's statements that timeline views are increasing Y/Y (despite a sequential decrease in 4Q13) and that usage increased in 4Q13. We believe this is likely due to the fact that users may be "viewing" more timelines than a year ago, but appear to be engaging less with the platform and the Company's "timeline views" calculation may be skewing usage results. In addition, management stated interactions like favorites and retweets were up 35% Q/Q in 4Q13, but this does not appear to incorporate content sharing.
Twitter, he writes, seems to be gaining in activity from fans of TV shows, but losing to Facebook when it comes to things such as sports-related activity:
February continued January's trend of slower fan growth for Twitter versus Facebook in 1Q14 following what we believe to be a slower 4Q13 as well. For example, we estimate same-station total Facebook followers we track grew 3.5% during January 2014 versus 1.9% for Twitter. Brand and TV show fans both grew at either a comparable or greater rate for Twitter during February 2014 as Facebook while sports teams and celebrities trailed in terms of M/M growth. We believe this could be driven by increased monetization efforts by Twitter given that the Company has been increasingly courting brands and TV shows to buy advertising on the site. However, we believe the slower sports and celebrities growth indicates organic usage on Twitter continues to lag Facebook.
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I'm a fan of both Gonegold and Consolegold. However, as we all know, console discussion was in the beginning of gonegold the 'bastard child' that didn't get a lot of attention. Gongold was primarily a PC-gaming site.
Now, if I'm correct, Consolegold 1.0 was created by a group of console-loving gonegold members to boost the console presence of gonegold, and to act as a sister site. It was cool.
I guess what bugs me now, and I'm not really looking for an answer or a solution, is the fact that there's parallel discussion at the two sites. With the advent of Consolegold 2.0, there was quite a break from the original gonegold site.
For one, I would like to see the users of both (that is, the Console gaming forum on gonegold and Consolegold 2.0) move most of their console discussion over to this site. Are the sites so uninvolved with each other now that Gonegold can't point people with console interests over to this site and forum? While there seemed to be an initial burst of people from GG posting information here right when CG 2.0 opened, many of them seem to have given up and just moved back to GG.
This is in no way a criticism of either site, other than, perhaps, the fact that they don't seem to be collaborating anymore. I guess I'm just interested in what can be done to make this a more vibrant community.
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First off, there is no collaboration between the sites at this point. As far as I know, we have no contact with Gone Gold and they have no contact with us.
When we decided to make a new forum, Gone Gold's forum was having a myriad of problems and we wanted more diversity in our discussions outside of just the "Console Forum", therefore we started plans on a forum of our own when the new site began.
An offer was made to have "Console Forum" in GG be linked to this forum with a PC forum(s) here that would connect to the appropriate forums over on GG, creating a more cohesive forum experience between both sides. Granted, there are problems with this because people would have to sign up over here as the usernames wouldn't transfer over more than likely (they might now if Gone Gold moves to the forum software they've been talking a long time about). I'm not privvy to whether Ron Burke (who runs this site) ever heard back from anyone on the offer or not, but we were going to push the new site out hell or high water in early May.
I could sit here and expound about GG, Rich and their situation, but I won't. Needless to say the Console Forum continues on over at GG and there are many people on both forums. GG as a forum is a totally different beast than the main GG site. The forum goers are extremely loyal at GG and I think the forum will live on whether the main site dies or not.
We basically had no choice but to draw a line in the sand in the context of the forum. Whether GG said "no" to our offer or didn't say anything I'm not privvy to. Basically, from my vantage point, Console Gold and Gone Gold are two separate sites that happened to at one point be sister sites. We had hoped more people would come over to this forum, but I personally am not going to push them to do so.
If some user that is also a Gone Gold member would like to see Console talk over here, you should put it in the Console Forum over there about how much you like this forum and how you'd wish more GG people came over here. The staffpeople here can't do it, we've been chided in the past when we were using GG's forums and the sites were sisterly.
I have no bad blood with GG, I just wish we could have come to an accord in a timely manner on the forum side of things.
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July 15, 2004, 04:21:40 PM »
The only 'collaboration,' I think, is the link to Console Gold in the Console forum over there.
All of the history aside, I guess the focus issue for me, then, is what can we do, as Console Gold readers and posters, to build up this community? I just saw your post in another forum regarding your want for a forum with more detailed PC game discussion... I guess I feel a little bit the same way about Console Gold. I love the site, but I wish that the discussion were a little more fleshed-out.
Just some thoughts. I have no ill feelings towards Gonegold at all; in fact, I enjoy a lot of their discussion, though I'm sad that the main site has become, well, nothing worth visiting.
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Well, we did in fact discuss at great length possibly having the forums lead to eachother in the manner that Loren stated. Unfortunately it never felt like it was 'supported' by the mods at GG and my attempts to talk to Rich about it never worked out.
Beyond that, some of the features we have planned for the forum wouldn't have worked out as we have absolutely 0 control over GG's forums. Frankly, the 'conversion' process has taken more than 9 months and was causing us to crash every time the forum software burped. I can't expect my readers to put up with that level of instability.
We also wanted to change some of the rules that were in place at Gone Gold. I have seen 0 negative backlash to having pricing in our trade forums. Granted, they aren't as active as I'd like but we just have a different look on things here than over at GG. We also wanted to expand our boards into several boards that would allow us to branch out a bit. We have grown pretty dramatically in just a few months, and continue to grow.
To answer your question, the best way to get things fired up in here is to start engaging conversations and tell your friends. I try to toss out whatever is on my mind on these boards to get things going. Any suggestions are more than welcome though.
One last thing, Tom tried out a 60 minute mini-review thing for Tales of Symponia. I think that worked out well, so I'm thinking we might be doing more of that in the future, but again, any suggestions are welcome.
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Well, the way to build the community is to get the word out. Like I said, if you're interested in other GG members that aren't over here, you users need to start something in the GG forum about the issues you bring up (like the cross-posting and stuff).
There are 6844 registered users on GG, although I doubt even half of that (and maybe even less) are still posters on that forum. Just getting the word out about this forum at other message boards and stuff will hopefully infuse users and discussion into this forum. We think of this forum much like GG thinks of theirs. We want this to be a place you can sit down with friends and discuss things with, set up multiplayer sessions with, etc. We want it to be a friendly atmosphere, but we'd also like the family to grow.
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One last thing, Tom tried out a 60 minute mini-review thing for Tales of Symponia. I think that worked out well, so I'm thinking we might be doing more of that in the future, but again, any suggestions are welcome.
I have to say that I thought that was a wonderful idea. I get so sick of the 'impressions' thread that never have any worthwhile content in them. The 60 minute review is a great idea because frankly, it's frequently the first 60 minutes of a game that determine whether you will play through the whole thing.
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For what it's worth, we did talk about linking the user database and such between the two sites, and having a shared member list so folks could sign up on one site or the other, and the login would work on both sites.
The research I did into it indicated that it was possible, but it didn't prove to be feasible in the long run for the following reasons:
1) CG would've need to wait until GG's conversion was finished.
2) The user database would've needed to reside on either GG's or CG's server. The natural place for it to reside would've been GG's server, however the issue there was that GG's server was crashing and bogging down a lot, and that would've caused problems with CG's forums.
3) Having a shared user database might've prevented the CG staff from implementing some of the stuff they wanted to do on the forums and with the site (like mods/hacks or tying it in with the main site functionality).
In the end, I don't think the idea died because of any reluctance on the part of GG's staff, but rather because of the host of technical issues that made it less than desireable.
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I still enjoy the GG forums but I mainly browse through EBG with a little stopover in PC Games. The past couple years, my PC gaming has drastically declined while my console gaming has gone way up. I probably spend about half my time here and half on GG. I think I've been posting more here though.
I'll read the GG Console posts but if I post something it'll be here on Console Gold where I feel it belongs.
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I'd have to say that GG has been, as a site, very hard to support as a reader; but easy to like for it's active forums.
The only thing CG is missing is an active forum, and a fuzzy mascot. I can't come up with a fuzzy mascot (Rare stole my swearing, defacating, bastard squirrel idea) so all I can do is post here.
Who knows; maybe we'll get enough interest in the forums that it too will be the main reason to visit.
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While reading the Journal, I found a letterwritten by Col. William Hill running down Obama and the Left Wing for the way they're handling the debt crisis.
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Hey everybody!! Hope everyone is enjoying their Fall weather! We just had a great weekend and it was made all the better with the warm weather. Saturday night we did a ghost walk through a town not too far from here and Sunday we met some friends and went to Sesame Place. So our weekend was pretty packed and between that and some added car work, we didn't do any more work on our garage shoe rack. Whomp Whomp.
Last week we did manage to squeeze in some light yard work. I don't think we're going to be doing much of anything out there until Spring. We will be taking some photos though of the leaves changing though!
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The other thing you may have noticed is I didn't follow my own advice I dispensed in our Lesson's Learned post for better looking flower beds. All of the shed flower beds are straight rows with sharp corners. That's normally not too big of a deal, but having sharp corners makes it difficult to cut it easily in the riding mower. Every time I cut the grass, I have to go back around the ramp with a weed wacker. In the spring we'll be curving and expanding this whole flower bed to both improve its looks and its maintenance ease.
In our garage side flower bed, we're going to be rearranging and cleaning this mess up.
Yikes, right? It used to be so nice!! When we planted everything, it looked much more tame. Like this…
Most of these plants just grew wildly bigger than we expected and started to overcrowd the bed in a bad way. Dense flower beds can be nice or a hot mess. This one is a hot mess. We're going to have to figure out what to do with this bed. More than a couple of these guys will probably be transplanted. I think we'll probably reshape the flower bed as well.
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We love these tall grasses, especially when the extend those tall seedy things.. whatever they're called. Paging Mike McGrath, there's a blogger than doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Go be a Bama fan/recruiter if you want to make their case for them.
quote:That would be annoying as frick IMO.
sending him literature non stop, along with text messages between each class
I really hope LSUs lack of putting OL into the NFL isn't gonna come back and hurt us with Cam Robinson. We have been terrible at getting OL drafted since Miles got here, espescially compared to bama. I have to think that will weigh heavily on Cam and his dad when he makes his decision.
That would be annoying as frick IMO.
quote:Information we're all very well aware of, without your reminder.
stop being so defensive. It's pretty pertinent information IMO.
Hopefully he'll see that the changes CC makes and the return of Stud to his primary role will be the adjustments we've needed to make to start putting out OL talent in the league again?
lololol wut? besides the guys going to the draft this year, who has bama put into the nfl at o line?
Most Bama PLAYERS don't pan out. All this BS of Saban's players being NFL ready drives me nuts. How's Kirkpatrick doing? Ingram? McClain? Hightower looked slowwwwwww every time I saw him. Kareem Jackson gets picked on each week. If Saban's players are so NFL ready, how come he couldn't figure out a way to have his NFL Players NFL ready???
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The Program in Linguistics, while small, has experienced a dramatic increase in interest from students representing departments across campus. The field appeals to students who like unraveling language puzzles, including sophomore Adam Hesterberg (left) and freshman Anna Tchetchetkine, who have won competitions in the International Linguistics Olympiad.
Photos: Brian Wilson
A language puzzle
One way that students expand their understanding of linguistics is by solving language puzzles, such as the one here, which was written by John Blatz and Jason Eisner, scholars at Johns Hopkins University.
The following sentence, though bizarre and deliberately confusing, is actually grammatically correct: "The weasel that a boy that startles the cat thinks loves smiles eats."
Answer the following questions, keeping in mind that in some cases, the answer may be "nobody in this sentence" or "nothing in this sentence."
1. What is the subject of this sentence? (Give a single-word answer.)
2. How many verbs are in the sentence?
3. Who startles whom or what?
4. Who thinks what?
5. Who loves whom or what?
6. Who smiles?
7. Who eats whom or what?
1. "Weasel" is the subject.
2. Four: "startles," "thinks," "loves" and "eats." "Smiles" is a noun.
3. A boy startled a cat.
4. A boy thought that a weasel loved smiles.
5. A weasel loves smiles (at least in the mind of the boy).
6. Nobody in this sentence (explicitly) smiles; "smiles" is used as a noun.
7. A weasel eats something unspecified.
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Unraveling language puzzles
Posted August 27, 2009; 12:00 p.m.
From the June 1, 2009, Princeton Weekly Bulletin
At 4:30 on a Wednesday afternoon, students majoring in psychology, mathematics and classics came together in a classroom at Frist Campus Center. They spent an hour working on fractions written in Egyptian Arabic, translating sentences from the Agta language of the Philippines into Central Cagayan Agta and considering how the Proto-Indo-European "dh" sound vanished from certain English words.
The problems were not part of a course curriculum. Rather, they were a series of linguistic puzzles presented at a meeting of the Linguistics Club. As the students enthusiastically jumped into solving the problems — exclamations of "This is fun!" could be heard from the group — they demonstrated how Princeton's Program in Linguistics has blossomed.
The linguistics program is small, but these days it is home to a growing cohort of students drawn from departments all over campus who are inspired by examining human language -- in particular the properties all languages share and the ways that individual languages can differ.
"This group of students is the most linguistically committed bunch of undergraduates I've seen in my 11 years here," said Joshua Katz, director of the Program in Linguistics and a professor of classics. The field appeals to a broad range of students, especially those who like unraveling puzzles, he said.
"Linguistics is like the Rubik's Cube for your brain," said Katz. "Anyone can be good at it — the mathematically gifted certainly, but also those with entirely different skills."
More students are discovering that uncovering the delights of language appeals to them. The number of students enrolled in the program's introductory course has increased more than sixfold since 2000, and the total number of undergraduates taking linguistics courses has increased by almost 70 percent in the same period. The program is attracting some of the best high school linguists – a small group, as most high schools don't offer classes in the field – as well as engaging students who knew little about linguistics before coming to Princeton.
Senior Erica Wojcik is one such student. She didn't know much about linguistics before signing up for "Introduction to Language and Linguistics" in the fall of her sophomore year. By her junior year, Wojcik was so excited about the field that she set about reviving the dormant Linguistics Club, which now has 75 students signed up to receive notices about its activities. In May she was awarded Princeton's first Senior Linguistics Prize, which recognizes the student who has done the most to advance the cause of linguistics.
One way that students expand their understanding of linguistics is by solving language puzzles.
Wojcik, who is majoring in psychology and completing a certificate in linguistics, will continue her study of linguistics next year in a Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin. There she will study with Jenny Saffran, who is considered the leading expert in statistical word learning, according to Adele Goldberg, a professor of linguistics in the Council of the Humanities and Wojcik's senior thesis adviser.
Attracting top students
Among the top high school linguists who chose to attend Princeton are: sophomore Adam Hesterberg, who won the 2007 International Linguistics Olympiad with the highest score in individual competition; freshman Anna Tchetchetkine, who won the top prize in that Olympiad's team competition; and freshman Jae Kyu Lee, who was on the team that captured a gold at the Olympiad the following year. Now the three are ambassadors of sorts for linguistics on the Princeton campus.
Lila Gleitman, a psychology professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania who specializes in language acquisition, last year visited Princeton's campus to participate in an assessment of the linguistics program along with scholars from other institutions. She noted the program's "outstanding faculty (has) several important research and scholarly agendas. I could see that the on-campus educational program was thriving with wonderful undergraduates being turned on to linguistic studies — and this includes not only majors with professional aspirations in this field, but also those who 'just' drop in for a semester to find out about how the language they use every day really works."
Program director Joshua Katz (right), a professor of classics, talks with linguistics students Nabil Abdurehman (center), a sophomore, and Erica Wojcik, a senior. "This group of students is the most linguistically committed bunch of undergraduates I've seen in my 11 years here," Katz said.
Faculty on the program's executive committee include linguistics specialists from the Council of the Humanities as well as language departments, philosophy and psychology.
There is an inherent appeal to linguistics because it involves the study of a skill that everyone employs, said Christiane Fellbaum, a senior research scientist in the Department of Computer Science who teaches linguistics courses.
"Everyone is equipped to use language — it's a marvelously complex and wonderful activity," said Fellbaum, who has been awarded several National Science Foundation grants to study how linguistic theories can be modeled and tested computationally. "It's awesome to contemplate what we are doing with such ease. It gives you a lot of respect for the human mind."
Interest in linguistics courses at Princeton has surged in the last several years. The introductory course, "Introduction to Language and Linguistics," had 22 students in the fall semester of 2000, when it was offered once a year. This year the course, which is now offered in the fall and spring semesters, had a total of 146 students. The number of undergraduates in linguistics courses has gone from 158 in the 2000-01 academic year to 265 this year. There currently are 19 students pursuing a certificate in linguistics, up from 10 in 2000-01.
And the program's breadth is increasing. Three new linguistics courses are being introduced next year in advanced semantics, bilingualism and "African American English and Syntactic Variation." The bilingualism course already is fully enrolled with a waiting list.
Bringing different disciplines together
"Language serves as a link between humanities, social sciences and the hard sciences," Goldberg said. "And the field itself is at an exciting moment, as there have been important empirical breakthroughs in the past two decades that have changed much about our understanding of the nature of language, how it is learned and how languages change over time."
From left, sophomore Nabil Abdurehman, freshman Erik Zyman, senior Erica Wojcik and freshman Jae Kyu Lee work on a practice question.
Junior Kevin Moch, a classics major who is pursuing a certificate in linguistics, likes to promote the Linguistics Club at Princeton's Student Activities Fair. He wants other students to know that "you can really have fun with linguistics," said Moch, whose interest in language was sparked by his participation in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee, in which he placed third at the age of 13. The members of the Linguistics Club "all have a love of language and a passion for exploring and explaining it," he said. "It's so cool to have that shared enthusiasm."
Hesterberg, who recently won a Goldwater Scholarship for his achievements in mathematics, believes linguistics, though it can seem daunting to the uninitiated, is a very accessible field if students are introduced to it.
"A logic puzzle will be fun for almost anyone," said Hesterberg.
Having a growing number of students interested in linguistics has allowed for an intellectual salon of sorts to develop. Students in the Linguistics Club teach each other about the different fields within linguistics in which they specialize. Moch, who is interested in historical linguistics, recently gave a presentation on the subject to the group. Wojcik studies psycholinguistics — exploring psychological factors that enable humans to acquire and use language — and said talking to Hesterberg about his interest in phonology — studying the sound patterns of language — has enriched her understanding of the discipline.
"There are so many things you can do with linguistics," Wojcik said. "I wouldn't necessarily have known about them if I hadn't gotten to know these students."


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