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TiPb Answers: Why No Flash Video on the iPhone?
TiPb loves answering your emails, but we also love sharing our answers with the community in hopes that more people will benefit, and even better answers will present themselves (hey, that's why we have them forums!). For today's debut TiPb Answers, reader Michael asks:
I can't believe that my pet iPhone omission wasn't a choice in the poll of what we'd like to see in iPhone 2.2. Flash support! Maybe a system update isn't necessary to roll out Flash, but that has been my only gripe with my iPhone (other than having to deal with AT&T during purchase and setup). I can't watch Hulu, or other Flash based video on my phone without it. I've wondered if this isn't exactly Apple's intent - why permit Hulu to compete with the iTunes store? What do you think?
TiPb answers, after the jump!
Our understanding is a little different than the above, Michael, so please bear with us as we go back a bit and get into Flash a little more deeply.
First, video is only one of the things Flash does (and some would argue while Flash does make video ubiquitous, it wasn't until they jumped to the H.264 codec -- same as Apple uses in iTunes -- that they made it actually watchable!), it's not the only thing or even the main (technologically speaking) thing. What Flash does, in broad stroke, is make interactive animation on the internet, and this interactivity has grown over the years into a fairly sophisticated scripting language in its own right. Yet, despite what UK courts might think, it remains a proprietary third party add on, and regardless of its popularity, is not really part of the core internet (read: web, including HTML, CSS, and Javascript).
Currently, the major uses of Flash on the internet consist of:
- Video wrappers, like YouTube and similar sites.
- Multi-media websites, like movie studies often employ to present more dynamic, more *protected* content.
- Rich internet applications, such as Adobe's Photoshop express, which seeks to make Flash a/the standard for WebApps.
- Hyper-annoying "punch the monkey"-style adverts that enable user-tracking more secretly and robustly than regular web snooping.
While you asked about #1, we have to understand that a FULL Flash deployment on the iPhone would also bring the others as well, along with the historically bloated, buggy implementations Adobe has never seen fit to address on the desktop OS X, and the various security and privacy issues that go along with it. Bottom-line, full-on-Flash is basically a code interpreter like Java, which adds a far greater burden to resources while making the device far more vulnerable to hackers, and lets advertisers annoy and invade us to deal-breaking degree. Bottom-line? We'll probably not see desktop-class Flash support in near to far future, and while Flash-centric developers should lament that, users should probably be ecstatically happy about that.
Want to make your rich internet WebApp for the iPhone? Use AJAX. Want to make a Batman site that take 10 minutes to load, won't scale to the iPhone screen size and protects your valuable Hollywood content from -- gasp -- a fan downloading an image? Stick to HTML. Want to clutter out MobileSafari with Flash monkey nonsense while slipping insidious cookies onto our system? Don't let the lack of support hit you on the apps on the way out...
As to Flash-video in the specific -- this is far more likely. While politics between Apple and Adobe may be playing a part, it's not impossible to imagine either a simple Flash video plugin that passes the video off into an intermediary player similar to the existing Quicktime plugin.
For us, this would be the best solution as it would give the most popular aspect of Flash (ZOMG! Vidz!) to the masses, while sandboxing the security and privacy issues, and hopefully forcing Adobe to create a better, and more optimized OS X application (similar to how Apple streamlined Quicktime X for the iPhone).
With regards to Hulu, please first remember it's a US-only site, which while a huge percentage of the iPhone user-base, is basically dead to the 69+ other countries that will get the iPhone in 2008. However, before NBC patched things up with iTunes, they did flirt with providing a similar service directly to iPhone users anyway. So we imagine that Hulu could fairly easily add iPhone support if they wanted to, not to mention give a little love to those of us outside the US (understanding the complex rights messes they've gotten themselves into over the years...)
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TiPb Answers: Why No Flash Video on the iPhone?
Sadly, this is never going to happen. Apple wants to control the media distribution on the iPhone, and they want to support the application support on the iPhone. Apple will never support Flash for the same reason they will never support Java: They want to be the gatekeepers to any application you run on your iPhone. opening up to Flash (or Java) opens up the potential of a App Store competitor.
java opens up a mess of problems and non uniformity... Just confusing the user. It's a mac. Write code to thier standards to provide uniformity, or don't. Simply put.
There is a solution. It's already possible with PDANet and jailbreaking your iPhone. The options open up exponentially when you jailbreak.
I have video recording, picture messaging, copy and paste, phone search, different themes, different SMS sounds, finder, tethering and even the flashlight automatically brightens the screen brightness when I open up the application. :)
Some people don't want to risk jailbreaking but I say it's definitely worth it.
To think that Apple doesn't have Flash primarily to keep out Hulu is WAY too myopic. Sure, it's a competitor to iTunes, but only kind of. The reasons given in the article are most of the reason. Mainly, as Rene stated, remember that Adobe has to make a version of the Flash player for the iPhone. Until that happens, there's nothing you, nor I, nor Apple, nor anyone else can do about it. If and when it happens, then we might find out if Apple is opposed to Flash support or not, not before.
Thanks for the great answer TiPB! As you probably surmised, it's only the video element of Flash that I miss particularly. I would be content with your solution using a player that permitted or interpreted Flash video without the other elements of Flash as a compromise.
Jason - Note that my original question included Hulu "or other Flash based video." I did not intend to suggest that Hulu alone was Apple's intended exclusion, but rather other video formats/portals in general (although Hulu has gotten a lot of attention in the market where most iPhones are sold. And their parent company - NBC - has had a high-profile squabble with Apple over the iTunes store). Moreover, I did not state this as a certainty - "I've wondered if this isn't exactly Apple's intent..." I've wondered. Thus the submission as a question. Big difference between curiosity and myopia. In fact, to confuse the two probably requires a little of the latter.
Either way, it wouldn't be the first sign of myopia that I've displayed. But Apple is hardly immune to wanting their own standards, services, hardware, and applications to prevail. You may be aware of the hubbub regarding the ongoing App Store App rejections based on "competing services" such as Podcaster and MailWrangler. In fact that is just the way large companies that have revenue dependent on their software/formats/portals tend to operate.
Also note the TiPB response acknowledges that "politics between Apple and Adobe may be playing a part" in the lack of Flash video for the iPhone. Politics based on what, do you think? Apple and Adobe have certainly pushed competing applications and formats in the past, and have had plenty of "politics" between them over the years. Surely it's not a stretch to assume Adobe would like Flash to be an unparalleled standard, NBC would like Hulu to be the dominant video portal (at least in the US) and Apple would like iTunes to be the dominant video portal (and would like Quicktime to replace Flash video where it is used).
Keep in mind I'm not blaming Apple. I bought my first Mac in 1991 (could have been 92?) - after years of empty-pocketed lust. I'm a fan. I'm not chastising Apple. I don't consider them evil. I don't particularly care about competing Apps in the App Store (although, I'm not a developer with a competing App). I prefer Apple to come out on top in any disputes with Adobe or any other major corporation.
Nevertheless, the bottom line is that I don't want to pay to watch a television program on iTunes that I can watch for free on Hulu, or other service. One of the great things about the iPhone is video capability. For what I'm paying every month for my iPhone (not to mention the initial $299), I don't want to go to a site and not be able to view the contents because of the limitations of my iPhone's software. Particularly if it is a very common format.
I'm sure that security is an issue with Flash - and I don't want that compromised either. If that's the sole issue, and their is no way around it that will allow Flash video on the iPhone without a serious decline in security, then so be it. Question answered. Perhaps the video-only workaround TiPB suggested is what Adobe and Apple are working on. I suppose in the long run that you are right - we'll just have to wait and see. Meanwhile, I don't see any harm in speculation.
As an end user here in the US, I bought the iphone assuming I would be able to ditch my ipod with its huge hard drive and just stream everything I wanted. Sadly, since most developers out there are using Flash and not QuickTime, I am pretty much screwed. Hulu.com is a great, but only one of many, examples of this. It would be well worth the commercials to be able to stream their content rather than have to convert the video and transfer it to my ipod. As someone who travels a lot, and spends lots of times waiting for airplanes, I am sorely disapointed not to have Flash on my iPhone. FanCast.com, CBS.com, and just about all the other free and paid streaming TV and Movie sites are off limits to my iPhone, so I am still stuck lugging around a laptop everywhere I go!
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Berkeley County School Board voted 6-1 Tuesday for the first of two readings to a policy addition concerning parent volunteer coaches in the district.
School board member Phillip Obie dissented in the vote.
After the reading, the policy addition was made publicly available. The policy would make the high school principal responsible for coordinating volunteers to support programs. The policy says that principals should not assign volunteer parents of student athletes to coaching responsibilities at the varsity or junior varsity level within the program in which their son or daughter is participating. The principal can request an exemption, however, if the parent coach is determined to be vital to the existence of the program.
According to board member Doug Cooper, the policy would affect about 26 parent volunteer coaches and, of those, about eight that would likely qualify for the exemption.
About two-dozen concerned citizens showed up at the meeting, which became raucous at times as audience members interrupted board member discussion on the policy.
Board members like Jim Hayes and Cooper said a lot of the dissent against the policy is due to misinformation.
The problem I had was the amount of misinformation people were spreading in the community. There was never any intent to do away with the volunteers. I coached in this district for 12-to-15 years. Volunteers are a part of my program and the school programs. Its been very upsetting to me that so much information was put out there and some people would spread it the way it was spread, Hayes said.
Board Chair Kent Murray said the issue with parent volunteers is a district problem and a school problem, where principals have neglected to fill vacant coaching positions with staff.
We want an employee-based coaching system, and we have to look at ourselves on what are we not doing to fill these vacancies, Murray said.
A person in the crowd responded: You cant buy books, how are you going to pay coaches?
It was one of several times Murray had to ask the audience to allow the school board to continue discussing the matter.
Sir, youve had your opportunity to speak. Now allow us to make this decision in front of you, Murray said.
The tension between the board and the audience bled into tension between board members as Obie asked to see all the documents that led to the committees decision to recommend approval of the policy.
Board member Kathy Schwalbe said they only reviewed the draft of the policy. Obie again asked to see all of the information that went into the decision, and Murray responded:
Pick up a newspaper.
Obie was the only board member to publicly side with the audience.
Were trying to fix something that seems to have worked for a hundred years, he said. Obie earned applause and a standing ovation from the crowd after saying: Nothings gone wrong.
Cooper said he would like to have some of the language clarified to allay any concerns. Members reminded the audience that a second reading will be needed, and that will take place likely in July.
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After years of big, local events and making this community his second home, the general manager of the USC Aiken Convocation Center is moving on.
Matt Herpich, who has held the position since 2010, will be moving to Ohio to take a job as the general manager of a 13,000-seat arena and joining convocation center at Cleveland State University.
Originally from Rochester, N.Y., Herpich came to South Carolina to attend the University of South Carolina to pursue a degree in sports and entertainment management. During his senior year in 2007, Herpich started working at USC Aiken part time as the box office manager. In 2008, he became the full-time event manager and took his current position in 2010 over the Convocation Center, which is a Global Spectrum-managed facility.
Herpich said one aspect of his job that he will miss is the staff he has worked with over the years.
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Herpich said he plans to come back to visit the area when he can.
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At 25 years of age, right fielder Justin Upton would seemingly make the perfect cornerstone for the Arizona Diamondbacks to build around in the coming years.
In five full seasons, the former No. 1 overall pick has already made two All-Star Game appearances, while also hitting over 100 home runs and 350 RBI.
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While Upton has survived yet another tumultuous winter of rumors so far, one ESPN MLB insider believes his value might be diminished because of Towers' inconsistent behavior.
"Everyone thinks he is going to be traded," Keith Law told Arizona Sports 620's Doug and Wolf Wednesday. "The conversation I had the other day with a pretty high-ranking scout was that [the D-backs] put out feelers enough and have given out signs that they are interested in trading him to other clubs, that they're running the risk of devaluing him at this point."
Although Upton has remained quiet in regards to the latest round of trade talks, Law can't see a situation where the right fielder would want to be in a D-backs uniform moving forward.
"They've created an environment where it's going to be very uncomfortable if Upton is still a Diamondback when spring training starts," said Law. "Other clubs are coming to Arizona and saying 'Why should we give you 100 cents on the dollar, when you've made it clear you don't really want this guy anymore?'"
Last month's signing of free agent Cody Ross gives Arizona an excess number of outfielders, but Law doesn't believe Upton, who is due to make $9.75 million next season, will be the fall guy simply based on payroll concerns.
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Outside of the meeting itself, there was time for retirees to interact with representatives from SRS management and operation's contractor Savannah River Nuclear Solutions – which administers health care for retirees and My Medicare Advocates and Wage Works.
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But am not going to reciprocate on the same line.
Btw, request you to answer my query whether The team that pipped past Australia during WC qualifiers had less wins than Aus?
But am not going to reciprocate on the same line.
Btw, request you to answer my query whether The team that pipped past Australia during WC qualifiers had less wins than Aus?
Just like, hang on, Pakistan, who have worse results than India, but being from a different pool, have snuck through.
Fair dinkum, starting to hope they win this now. Absolute comedy gold on here if they do.
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#408. Sixty three not out forever.
This is the third tournament with the same format, isn't it?
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My position has been transparent on this issue from the outset. It has got nothing to do with your perceptions not being the reality.
Said in the other thread, heaps of sides who got to the 98 WC did so with more losses, but they, like Pakistan here, qualified via different pools.
Like Sinatra said mate..
That's life.. That's what all the people say,
You're riding high in April
At the bottom of a bucket of **** in May..
Or something like that.
And yeah, Pak have gone through on the basis of winning one game now.. And India can go through too, winning just one game!!! And don't blame Pakistan if we can't win our game tomorrow. Us losing and Pak winning does not make the format a bad one!!!
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I'd imagine Iran had more losses than Australia, given that Australia's path to qualification pre 2010 involved thrashing a bunch of islands and New Zealand before inevitably losing to the 4th placed South American side.
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Bordeaux: 8 wins, 1 draw, 1 defeat. Eliminated at the quarter finals.
Inter Milan: 7 wins, 3 draws, 2 defeats. Finalists.
Bayern Munich: 7 wins, 1 draw, 4 defeats. Finalists.
Not fair.
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We had a thread like this waa-a-ay back.....
We had a thread like this waa-a-ay back.....probably buried deep by now......anyway, I thought since my surname is so rare on a worldwide basis, when I came on the net, I was so unoriginal I decided to just use it, figuring no one would think it was my name. They didn't; but on the first forum I was on, they thought I was a Catholic Cardinal, roflol.......didn't see THAT one coming..... Tried to change it once, but my writing style of comparing Tabernacle truths to scripture, "gave me away", so I just gave up and left it, as is.
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Imma go against the grain and say Meisha wins via rnc rd 2. Ronda gives her back easy. She's done it twice and I think if she does it again it might over.
For someone who lost and got finished but still got a title shot because her opponent blew out her knee....she sure does have some lofty expectations. Rhonda is like Paul Harris with Armbars.....except she does let go...
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Ronda is still very green when it comes to MMA she has less than 13 min fighting as a pro never been in the 2nd round.
Tate has about 2 hours of fight time as pro she won she lost she been in some wars she fought in to the 4th round. Tate has all the tools really hurt Ronda.
I see this as a fight that if Tate's game plan is right she should win. Fight from outside run if she has to in the first round because if she can beat up Ronda or win the first round clearly. I can see Ronda wilting from the pressure as well as gassing out.
The UFC could have edited TUF to where Ronda does not look like such a cunty bitch but have chose not to so I don't think she will be the poster girl for to long
Well if Tate does shoot herself in the face I hope it is with a squirtgun or something...dead people are unpleasant.
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Gotta agree with you here. She seems like a spoiled little brat on TUF.
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Four envelopes. One prize. Who will win? Well, that's easy- you're the magician! Of course it will be you!
The idea is simple. You have four envelopes. Three of the envelopes are empty, and one contains the prize. The envelopes are turned over and mixed up, then laid out side by side. Each card is seen to have a different color dot on it.
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This past week brought an end to the Highlanders' undefeated streak but has brought a new sense of what it takes to be a "great team." After 10 games now, the girls' record stands at 8-2.
After a convincing win over St. Johnsbury on September 20, the girls had one day off and had to travel to Morrisville to take on People's Academy on Monday, September 29. Despite starting slow and not playing well, the scored was tied 0-0 at halftime. HU picked up its level of play and dominated possession and balls in the air and, with just 15 minutes remaining, freshman Liza Mackey scored a hard fought goal to go ahead.
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jesus christ, enough with the bull$#@! already.
You brought nothing to the conference and take nothing with you as you leave. You kicked off this whole $#@!ing realignment debacle by flashing your skirt to the Big 10. Then your president acted in bad faith as he led the conference's realignment committee. You tried to $#@! everyone over and kill the conference. Kansas will hurt you traitors far worse by not playing you in anything ever again. And why would we? It's not like you are or have ever been nationally relevant in anything.
Zero Big 12 championships.
Zero BCS bowls.
Zero Final Fours.
Zero class.
Zero history outside of losing the Border War.
Zero possibility of success in the SEC.
He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
33 to 18 free throws for KU, and Mizzou committed 22 fouls to KU's 16. Also, the foul disparity was Mizzou 12 fouls, to KU 6 in the second half, the other two were even.
That said, the same thing happened in Columbia when MU won earlier. KU had twice the fouls and Mizzou had 11 more free throw attempts.
I think all we know at this point is that either team is capable of winning on the other guy's floor...both road teams showed very well in the two games.
I'd love to see a third round at the Sprint in about two weeks.
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Just as I'm glad Nebraska failed to win a Big 12 title in their final year I am happy that aggy and Missourah are heading down the same path.
I used to not care about Missouri. But the way their fans have gone on about how much the Big 12 sucks this year is amazing. You never $#@!ing won anything in the Big 12. If it sucks so much, why couldn't you manage that?
what a crock of $#@! move by robinson tryin to stomp on the okie state dude. and the two old $#@!ers calling it are too blind/biased to call it out.
evidently tech left it all on the floor in their upset bid of ut on saturday. they are getting rolled in waco in a manner unfit for minor viewing
I find myself not caring at all about whatever good or bad might befall Missouri in the SEC. In any sport, in any year, for any reason. I always looked at them as one of the more inert ingredients in the B12. The fact they've had some success against us in recent years says more about us than them, I believe.
KU's run of conference titles and overall success in basketball is impressive. And it frustrates me that Self can seem to overcome defections, head cases, one-and-dones, etc., while Barnes apparently can't. I don't think rampant student support or a "culture of winning" can fully explain how Self manages to get it done so consistently, while we somehow find ways to not quite measure up.
How mad are Mizzou fans that KU just won another Big 12 championship with arguably the worst team Bill Self has had since he has been at Kansas, while Mizzou couldn't do it with one of the best teams they have ever had?
It was quite the classy couple of days for ku hoops between Thomas Robinson kicking guys in the face, Marcus Morris getting arrested for battery, and Tyshawn Taylor's mom doing this:
do we want aggy to beat k-state tonight to move us up in the standings or do we want k-state to win and make our win over them better?
K St up 11 at the half in Collieville.
K St up 59-54, 7+ left.
66-61 K St, under 4-TO.
This one's over, K St up 6 going to the line for 2, :32.2 left.
Another strong effort, Aggy.
ISU @ Mizzou on YES Network or DirecTV channel 682.
ISU up 40-36 at the half.
Mizzou up 6 at the line for 2, :33 left.
$#@! mizzou.
Indeed. $#@! Mizzou. ISU has now wasted 2 games where they out played Mizzou for 35 minutes.
I'd trade you those two games for the one Mizzou just gave away in Lawrence. Deal? Great.
Great article on Baylor's PJ3, especially for anyone that's hated on him, his suspension, or him being soft this year.
You know, Kansas could chop up eighteen Big 12 basketball trophies and still have more than the Mizzouchebags.
does ksu have the tiebreaker over texas for the #5 spot? they are always listed ahead in the big 12 standings, but a lot of the time those are just done alphabetically. obviously don't expect texas to beat kansas, but if ksu loses to okie state (only up a point as i type this), both teams should finish 9-9.
finishing 5th instead of 6th is the difference in playing iowa state instead of baylor next thursday.
Can't have Murray St. lose this game. Would be very damaging for us.
Aggy's farewell tour sure ain't going well. Down 1, :16.5 left.
Clang! Aggy loses again, 65-62.
aggy on texags saying "no more big 12 refs, no more hearing the ou song, no more bull$#@!". little do they know they play oklahoma in the first round of the tourney.
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#Fitness#Weght Loss and Body Image
I started this post a while back, before Christmas, when I was beginning to analyze the correlation to my heavier times and having the "winter blues". I wanted to have a nice sit-down with myself and really talk about how and why my body isn't changing and why I'm unable to do the things I used to or look the way I think I do. All of this occurred before these ladies started discussing things like being plus-size vs working hard at fitness. It's ironic, in a very real ten-thousand-spoons sort of way, a touch serendipitous, and more than a bit refreshing to realize while I was here having a smack-down, drag-out discussion with myself, the internet was discussing it, too.
I've struggled with body image issues since I was old enough to realize I should. In sixth grade my best friend went on her first diet. I soon followed eating frozen grapes and doing Jane Fonda "No Pain No Gain" type workouts. I idolized Mary Lou Retton and her Saturday morning fitness show.
While other girls went different directions with their eating and exercise, I stayed focused. I dieted, read nutrition books, even planned on being a dietitian to the point I got my undergraduate degree in Exercise and Sport Science. But knowing about what to do and doing it are two very different things.
Never having a small frame, I was always the largest girl in gymnastics, the heaviest runner, the round girl that lifts weights. I described myself as "thick" because much of it was muscle. I grew muscles quickly, big guns, strong calves. I still have this ability when I utilize it.
What I do not have, is a petite self, a body that can weigh less than about 140 without looking ill, or lovely pale skin and eyes that offset each other in a perfect symmetric circle. Starving myself, working out, every diet in the world will not change that fact.
And yet, I tried.
And then I stopped trying.
Somewhere along the way I gave up. I still work out. I still eat fairly healthy. But I stopped giving it my best. In my head, I was still working out like a younger version of me, but the truth is, I've been in denial for a very long time. Pictures. Mirrors. My own image that stares back is colored with a vision that isn't real.
I want to be real.
For as long as I remember, I've been on a path to perfecting my health. A path where I obsess too much, count too little, workout with mediocracy and end up in the same place, a circle of self loathing and denial.
The buck stops here, sister.
I've said this before, and I will say it again, and again, and again, I will train for my 5K, I will go to the gym, I will maintain what I've worked for but I will do so much more. It's not a resolution so much as it is a promise to myself: Before I turn 35, I will, abso-fucking-lutely will, be in the best shape of my life.
I know what to do. Now it's time to start doing it.
I promise to bore the hell out of you with details along the way. And maybe even a before photo or two. If there's enough whisky in me first.
*These series of images have nothing to do with this post to you, but serve as a reminder to me about the day my children went to the park and let me chase them up the hill and down. I never want to miss out on these opportunities. Ever.
Aaaand, this post is EXACTLY why I will be with you, every step of the way, cheering you on from the virtual cheap seats - I *heart* you!
By Liz@thisfullhouse on 2009 12 31
Great post. Quite a motivation. I agree about self image and seeing yourself as you really are. At the moment, I'd rather not look in the mirror. Maybe that's something I too can change this year. Thanks for getting me thinking.
By Luschka on 2009 12 31
*Applause* and *Cheering* !!
By amy2boys on 2009 12 31
This is beautiful, Leslie. You know that we are similar in this, and I hope you know that I'll be here cheering you along. xoxo
By Angella on 2009 12 31
Argh. For a long time I DIDN'T have body issues. At least, not until I started having kids. Although I may not be RUNNING the 5k with you, I will be TRAINING like I will be. So good luck, and I will certainly be around to cheer you on.
By Lynette on 2009 12 31
You go girl! Just a word from an "older" mama. Uh once you hit 35 your metabolism starts to go down and then when you're 40 like me it is practically gone so just DO IT.
By Jamie on 2009 12 31
You can do it. I hope to get on track with my body image too.
By ElfTea on 2009 12 31
Great post Les… and one I can really identify with, as you know. I'm so sick of "planning" on living a healthier life, and fooling myself in the process that I'm actually doing something about it. (I'm good at planning, it's just the executing that's an issue.)
By Paige on 2009 12 31
You know we are behind you 110% - encouraging you- loving you for the beautiful woman that you are RIGHT NOW, but supporting you in YOUR ultimate goal for yourself. Your enthusiasm is contagious and your dedication to being healthier is inspiring. Love ya.
By Michelle M on 2009 12 31
Yay, I hope you really enjoy the journey to better health! I found this blog after also being involved in the great Internet fitness debate. Happy to have found it!
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LENORE - An open house to welcome veterans to the new Veteran's Affairs outreach clinic in Lenore was held Wednesday.
The Community-Based Outpatient Clinic, that was located on Fourth Avenue in Williamson, was closed Aug. 4. Since that time, patients have been seen at the Robert C. Byrd Center for Rural Health in Chapmanville.
The new location is a 2,220 square foot facility is a new building, located in the Lenore Business Center.
"We have a nice facility," Dr. Manolo Tampoya said. "I was impressed when I first saw the clinic."
John Klim is the chief engineer with VA hospitals.
"When I first came to look at this space, it was two separate offices," Klim said. "We looked at about seven sites, and this one was centrally located, and the owners worked with staff engineers to remodel it perfectly to fit our needs."
Debbie Brammer, spokesperson for the VA, said the clinic is within a 45 minute drive of 2,600 veterans.
The Lenore VA Outreach Clinic is open four days a week, Monday through Thursday, from 8 a.m,. to 4:30 p.m.
Services that are provided at the clinic include the usual outpatient visits as well as health maintenance services, such as flu shots and lab work. Leisha Roberts said the clinic has resources to treat mental health issues, diabetes and weight loss problems, and plans are in place to include other medical specialties in the future.
Another feature of the new clinic is Telehealth, a internet based system that will allow patients to interact face-to-face with specialists in the Huntington VA Hospital.
The new clinic also provides internet access to enable veterans to access their medical records online through My HealtheVet, a web-based personal health records.
To schedule an appointment, veterans may contact the VA Medical Center toll-free at 800 827-8244, extension 7121 or call the Lenore clinic at 304-475-3000.


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Step 1: Steady camera, long exposure, no flash
I used a Canon PowerShot A70 to take all the pumpkin pictures. It has some manual settings modes were you can adjust the exposure time and F-stops. I actually used the "Tv" setting which allows me to set the exposure time and the camera automatically adjusts the F-stop.
If your camera doesn't have any manual modes, turn the flash off and see if it can compensate enough. The answer is it probably isn't enough. If you're really into taking pictures of pumpkins, like me, make sure your next camera has a manual exposure mode (my other criteria was a water proof case...).
Step 2: Tripod or tripod-like thing
The mini tripods are ok and I keep one in my camera case for when I don't have my tripod.
If you're just setting the camera on something, use the delayed shutter function. With it, you can press the button, take your hand off the camera, and know it'll stop wiggling before the picture is taken.
Step 3: Background
Here, I just have the pumpkins sitting on the dining room table. Behind them is a wall with no windows. I should have removed that flower vase as you'll see in the external lighting step.
Regarding jack-o-lanterns, to extend their lifespan, wash the pumpkin thoroughly with a mild soap solution to get rid of any dirt, etc from the outside, rinse and then dry with paper towel. Make a bleach solution (1 tbsp bleach to 1 qt water) and put in a spray bottle. Now clean out your pumpkin, removing seeds, pulp etc. and then carve your design. As soon as your pumpkin is carved, spray the inside and outside thoroughly with your bleach solution. Let it penetrate and dry for about 30 mins. After that you can pat any wet areas dry. Finally, use some paper towel and petroleum jelly and give Jack a good thin coat on the inside and outside.
Store your pumpkin out of direct sunlight and keep it as cool as possible without allowing it to freeze. With this method, we have been able to keep our jack-o-lanterns looking good for well over a week (one year it lasted 2 weeks!)
The bleach keeps bacteria and mold in check, and the petroleum jelly keeps the pumpkin from becoming dehydrated.
My phone is a Nokia 5800. It has a high-resolution Carl Zeiss 3.2 megapixel lens with built in flash. I opted for this phone because I could not afford both a new cellphone and camera. It takes amazing photos, but I haven't found any great user information that would allow me to learn how to take photos at night. What happens is the flash goes on and lights up everything as though it were daytime... without the flash the image is black.
I know my question is a long shot at best, but if you have any advice I would appreciate it.


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Originally posted by Horusra
More like 90%, but yeah.
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The Critical Hit Pretzel!
Fair PvP. Thats all. In terms of how much 'skill' and all that takes place, that can be very subjective. I personally do support it to a degree... though at the same times its not exactly something that can be balanced out very well without harming the ability for classes to feel unique.
I don't really feel it feeling 'dumbed down' or 'unimerssive' really. I'm the type though that finds ganking quite silly to find enjoyable, killing people who aren't ready/stand a chance to me is quite a pathetic calling and yet some people enjoy that, perhaps being able to hide the fact they suck at fair fights.
Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with it, its hilarious to see terrible players fail against me in a fight they should win, but at the same time I don't know why that type of pvp to them is 'fine' but having a scenario or actual organization is stupid. More seen as a type of way to 'grief' players, not really showing much class or for the purpose of 'fighting the other faction' in those types of games.
Again just me, maybe I'm just weird for prefering a fair fight (if I EVER pvp) over killing people with no chance to fight back.
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Originally posted by tazarconan
Your friend sums up the #1 reason World PVP is a casual niche: what's the fun in slaughtering outnumbered people?
I wouldn't say DAOC is the "only working formula". If anything, EVE is the "only working" world PVP formula, and is relegated to an appropriately niche level of success. Impressive longevity, but way less popular than mainstream PVP titles.
Dauz's comment that instanced PVP is dev laziness conveniently ignores the history of every PVP game ever, from Go to Chess to Soccer to TF2 to LoL to Arenas, where you see a consistent pattern of 99% of those games being controlled arenas where skill decides the victor. It's not dev laziness. It's pure competition, pure PVP, unmarred by non-skill factors.
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Originally posted by Axehilt
No, the more skill characters win every time. It just happens that we measure this in different ways.
I never said anything about bringing guild mates. My comment was about time translating to skill.
How is "non-casual" pvp not meaningless? It means absolutely nothing. It has no value outside of a single game that you are good at. There is no benefit to real life that is greater for "competitive" pvp vs "casual."
Just because you PERSONALLY enjoy it doesn't make it objectively more meaningful.
I was once a top tier player of a competitive battle chess game. I prefer PvE and "casual" PvP because its less repetitive and more interesting. Not because I am "bad." There are WAY more shitty players of competitive PvP than FFA MMOs. LoL alone has 35million registered accounts and 99% of them are terrible players. The reason they prefer LoL has nothing to do with their skill at it. Your obnoxious insistence on making value judgements over decisions primarily mediated by random and relative cultural influence is so annoying.
You are basically just a cleverer version of NariusSeldon. The amount of dogwhistle based trolling you do is pretty much on par with his.
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I do get instanced PVP appeal. RTS and FPS non-mmo mulitplayer games are using exactly same fundamental concept and I do actually like playing multiplayer rts & fps arena games from time to time.
It's not something what I look for in mmorpg's though. It's odd for me. It's like putting hardcore turn-based strategy in middle of action packed fast First Person Shooter.
What's interesting though - it's an emerging genre of arena 3rd person Arena PVP games, like Forged or Panzar. They still are work in progress and there was already first failure (War), but number of that games will grow.
It's much cheaper and faster to develop a game that is basically Arena PVP taken out from mmorpg and made as a standalone lobby game. Additional benefit is that it will allow to make better mechanics - not constrained by PVE & open world mechanics. Imho when we talk about perspective counted in years - then games like that will start stealing those players that currently play mmopprg's mainly or only for Arenas and Battlegrounds.
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It really comes down to 1 word: Modularity. Modularity (for what we are discussing) is creating a reusable object, zone, arena, dungeon or any number of other things that take user input or users into a controlled situation where no external factors aside from what the users have on them and with them can be introduced.
If you can modularize content, you can reuse it virtually limitlessly without introducing any outside factors. Instanced areas are also a product of modular design. It's the same level, the same monsters, all with consistent factors and behaviors. It makes the game cooperate in any circumstances and eliminates external factors like Quests, guards or other monsters, and seals off a controlled environment where the players have no reason to do anything but kill eachother.
It's like if you put two people on the earth and said, "Live your lives, there's a whole world of things to do, and try to progress, and watch out for the other guy cause he wants to kill you" versus "Your in a room and neither of you can escape, and the other guy wants to kill you." The first statement gives you the option of not even making contact with the killer, while the other one is similar to a situation taken from one of the Saw movies. Think of it as an old Roman Arena, you can control the players in the main area and force them to kill, where as if you got 2 random people from the rest of the world and told them to kill eachother, they'd most likely think you were mentally insane.
That being said, the upside to arenas are the fact that both parties of players have singular goals that conflict and give them a specific reason to kill eachother without any ulterior motives. The parties have prepared themselves to enter into combat with another player and are mentally in the mindset to do so. The downside to arenas is that open world PvP has no meaning to these players and they have little to no respect for rules and regulations that are put in place to give them other things to accomplish. The players that use the arenas have no sense of meaningful open world PvP and most of the time force PvP upon unwilling players for no reason aside from personal gain. This is where ganking comes into play, because 90% of the time this is what open world PvP amounts to in games that provide the feature.
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Originally posted by Cuathon
Pure nonsense.
Are you going to argue that he won because he was more skilled? Pure nonsense.
He won because the game's mechanics arbitrarily reward playtime by providing nearly-insurmountable progression advantages. He had more practice time than I , but was clearly a less skilled player.
The same thing happens to lesser degrees in other games (any game where non-skill factors have a significant influence on combat.)
Personal preference or not, non-skill factors cause skill to be objectively less meaningful.
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Originally posted by Sulaa
That is innovation .. providing something new.
Though not all new ideas are good .. without trying, you never know. Look at Borderlands .. .putting RPG into FPS .. works perfectly. MMORPGs can use a lot of ideas from other genre.
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open world pvp vs instanced pvp
open world: can be fun, for some players. the problem in ganking/griefing almost always gets out of hand. 13yo little boys (mentally at least) believe that it's "cool" and "fun" to repeatedly kill "noobs" who have little to no chance of defending themselves. such players (almost) never take on anything other than solo players and usually move on when a group of players appear. this results in a lower than should be player base because some players are driven away from what could be a good game by idiots whose idea of fun is pulling the wings off of flies. this is called Sadism. and i'm not a Masochist.
instanced pvp: allows for players who are within a certain level range to have a somewhat balanced fight where skill (button mashing), toon building (followed script on where best to put points) come more to the fore. surprise and tactics are still in play if the design of the instance was done well. while it is possible for a player of limited skill to "win", it's not something that will happen often enough to worry about. this type of game usually has a large player base because it allows both pve, pvp, and rpg players all to play the same game their own way without any one aspect of gameplay dominating (and thus ruining it for the others).
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Originally posted by ariasaitcho
That is the main point. Choices are good. Some pve players don't want pvp in their game, and vice versa.
Just one big world pvp mode .. is not conducive to accomodate many player preferences.
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Don't like arena at all.
Riding through the woods in open-world PVP when you could get ganked any time is a lot more exciting IMO.
Although Arena PVP could be great for practice.
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
3rd Person Arena / BG only specialized games will pull more and more players playing mostly for istanced PVP from mmorpg's anyway. By specializing they'll be able to offer better experience, sooner or later. Faster developer cycles and not being hold back by PVE mechanics will have it effect. It's only matter of time.
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Originally posted by Rossboss
Wait, what? The downside to arenas is that the players that enjoy arenas gank people in an open world? Ridiculous. Games with open world PvP, without arena options, are the worst offenders of unbalanced conflict. The players that DON'T use arenas are the ones interested in unbalanced conflict. If anything, players that prefer arena style combat prefer to be on even footing with their opponent.
How did you come to the conclusion that arena players force PvP onto unwilling players in the open world? How would the players in the open world even be unwilling in an open world PvP game?
Games with open world PvP make ganking popular. Adding an arena system to such a game does not increase ganking. If anything, it decreases it since not as many people are in the open world.
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Originally posted by klerken
That's about it where I agree... PvP arena's are all for the masses where mediacore gameplay has become the standard. Most playeds participating in arena PvP don't do any open-world PvP anymore because that's not 'balanced' (yet an other mediacore feature of most MMORPGs there).
I even dare say that these same players will never play a MMORPG line EVE online or Lineage II, where balancing has never really taken place and have obvious stronger and weaker classes/builds. These players lack the real challenge of PvP, showing that with an 'underdog' class/build you can actually PvP and win in the open-world.
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Originally posted by Reizla
I am playing EVE right now and love arenas. And arenas are more challenging by far than almost anything I do in EVE. In EVE, we make sure we're going to win before PvP ever starts. There are a lot more facets to the game, but in general, the fight is almost never fair. "Underdogs" almost never win.
And what about arenas makes you think that underdog comps and classes don't also outplay opponents and have incredible victories? It happens far more often in arenas than in EVE.
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Originally posted by klerken
Pretty much this.
It offers a semi-balanced environment where you wont get ganged up on. If you lose, its because you were outplayed, not outnumbered, outleveled or (sometimes) outgeared.
Open world PvP leads to zergs. Nothing can stop the zergs aside from limiting the number of participants - hence battlegrounds / arenas.
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I hated arena pvp. I liked the BG's and RBG's but I hated arena in wow. It became a cookie cutter build later on.
Originally posted by Quirhid
The main thing that irks me about open world PvP is the lack of any real point, other than being a douche. Most battlegrounds or arenas have objectives or reasoning behind the conflict, wheras open world PvP is just 'hey look at that noob over there, lets kill it'.
Why would that be the natural response to meeting someone new? Totally immersion breaking. In a game with harsh PK rules it might work, with the odd assassin or law breaker, but if everyone is just a murderous ahole... whats the point?
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Originally posted by Reizla
Nope. CCP is currently trying to rid their game of those obviously stronger and weaker builds. About time too. The game had been hugely imbalanced for years with tons of ships that were never used while others were basically the only viable choice in their size & role niche.
The talk about challenges of being an underdog is just idealistic nonsense. Makes me want to question have you ever properly played the game: Overwhelming majority of times, the underdog loses. Why? Because players will not engage unless they are sure to win. Usually, once a fight starts, the outcome is predetermined.
The real challenge comes from playing against a skilled opponent expecting a fight on a level playing field. Eve players themselves say "good fight" after any engagement. They have pretty low standards for a good fight, you see. But actual good fights in games like Eve Online are extremely rare.
Its not a good fight when your opponent just didn't think, wasn't prepared, made an error, isn't even looking for a fight or simply was unable to escape. Then you get these stare downs where players refuse to engage because they don't have an advantage or their advantage is not high enough. People are cowards in games like Eve.
I remember one 6 month stretch in nullsec where I wen't looking for fight almost daily and I can count the number of actual "good fights" with just one hand! Six months!
If I want challenge, I play competitive PvP.
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Originally posted by Dauzqul
in general i'd say you didn't play alot of FPS games online. that's the basic idea behind "instaced arena pvp". to mess vs people on a similiar skill lvl and see who will be the last man standing.
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