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Crafting in The Elder Scrolls Online seems to be shaping up to be something very special and quite unique in the MMO space. In today's Elder Scrolls column, we take a look at a recent conversation with Creative Director Paul Sage and his thoughts about crafting and community. See what we gained from the discussion and then leave your thoughts in the comments.
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Good read, I love crafting and hope they do something great with it. I have a feeling they will probably go with something you talked about in the article about gathering pieces from other crafters to make the best item, its really the only way to go to make crafting a community type effort.
I like progression though, and the first part of your two-fold, three part theory I don't agree 100% with though. I don't see a problem with recipe, I really didnt think GW2 discovery system was that great and I hated the mystic forge stuff. I like combining different items to get a different result though, but after you do it once you know to do it with every other item out there. I don't see how you can remove levels and keep progression, I know you can say your increasing skills in your craft but it still leveling it. Someone just picking up blacksmithing tools should not be able to throw together a masterpiece armor set.
I really hope they put tags on your crafted items, that would require them to have different grades of quality in each item. You can have for example Copper Sword in maybe 5 different qualities, and being able to make the better quality items will come from having more experience in Blacksmithing/Swords. So if you were say an master in Swords and you try to make an Axe, it will be lower quality since you never have made an axe before. From what I can remember about the crafting in DAoC, its been years, it was along the lines of this style of crafting. I thought it was great, and people would seek out certain expert crafters to make a certain peice of armor or weapon and you knew you had the quality stuff when you seen the crafters name on the items.
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Just awful. Probably written by a person who never seriously played a crafter in any game.
The entire point of Themepark MMOs is that you do something and get a reward. Do a quest, get a reward. Run an instance, get a reward. In themepark MMOs, there is no point in doing any instance if the loot is not desirable. Be it a raid, or a full group instance, the content is totally abandoned.
Which is why these games generally turn into barter fests, where instead of getting a reward you get faction coins or marks or whatever....so the content becomes doable but the end rewards are the same.
The end result is the same. Item loot is always going to be better than crafted loot. That is the whole point of a themepark MMO.
What developers do not understand, and what they have NEVER understood, is that there are players (and quite a lot of them) who only want to play crafters. For them, crafting IS the fun part. They are making items people desire.
The only themepark MMO that has ever gotten that part right was Vanguard. Every other themepark crafting system is a total and utter wast of time and money to develop. Not because it is not used, but because it is not needed.
Crafters could not care less about removing crafting levels or the tedium involved. They are CRAFTERS....the work involved in making items is what appeals to them.
Make the players figure out the recipe for themselves....what exactly does that do? Just find a website with the recipe. The developers simply do not understand that the majority of people playing as crafters already HAVE their crafting website opened. EQ Traders anyone?
If you want to be serious about crafting and make it a core part of the game, just copy and paste one of the successful crafting systems. SWG had a great one for a sandbox type of game, Vanguard has a great one for a themepark. Eve has another one, Horizons also had a great system.
Don't pretend you want to put in the effort for a great system and then just half ass it like most of the games. All you are doing is insulting the players of the game.
Just come out and say the following. "Crafting in TESO is going to be like WOW" because we all know that is how it will probably turn out.
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Yeah but they've already made statements that it won't be like wow.
Such as "pve, pvp and crafted gear will be equal in quality"
If they were doing a wow it would be pve gear is better than pvp gear is better than craft gear.
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I really hope crafters get 1-3 gear slots that only crafters can fill, or at least best in a few slots is player made. Its about time that best in slot came from player made for at least some items
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I just hope crafting won't be what it was like in Skyrim. Not sure why they allowed items to be so overpowered.
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Tbh I would happy for all good gear to come from crafters, but have the best gear require materials from end game content, that way to get the best you either have to do everything, know people that do the things you dont or buy from strangers. It's a win for economy, social and progression imo
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i wish it will be a little bit like SWG which had the best crafting/trading imho
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" remove recipes and make players discover them on their own"
I'm not sure I understand that quote. Do you mean like Alchemy in WoW, where when you craft something you have a random chance of discovering another recipe? Or do you mean trial and error? I got the impression it was the later, but that would be pretty silly. Because trial and error in this day and age isn't really trial and error, it ends up being just look it up on the internet. And frankly that just breaks immersion and doesn't really add anything to the game.
Also boxing a player into only one type of crafting doesn't sound very Elder Scrollsy to me. Elder Scrolls games are all about flexibility and the fundamental idea that you can become proficient at just about anything given enough time.
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I'm only playing the role chosen for me. Who you supposed to be?
Some good ideas Bill. It would be nice if Crafting 'mattered' again. Most of the recent MMOs felt like it was a tacked on subsystem. I dont like to craft just to do it. I like to craft because I want to either create something USEFUL for myself to use or to sell to others.
If loot items are consistently better than player crafted ones how do you have a community?
I hope TESO takes this seriously. I would love for a developer to bring back the virtual world MMO.
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In SWG, in order to make the best specialty gear, you needed drops brought to you by grinders and raiders, or you needed to go get it yourself. Krayt membranes anyone?
I always had standing buy orders for krayt scales, because it was a cheap way to plug the kinetic hole in Maberi armor, which was great mid level-no buff needed- faction grinding.
However, to make such a system viable, it means item decay that cannot be repaired beyond a certain point. Otherwise, less than max level gets flooded with everyone's old gear, or we are stuck with bound armor. Item decay gives a use to less than perfect weapons and armor, as they become the trash items you grind with, saving the best stuff for difficult content.
Why not have it be like skyrim you know that elder scrolls game we know and love. The daedric weapons and bone armor I crafted myself is better than anything I've been able to get to drop anywhere. I had to hunt down the materials for it after skilling up my crafts and picking the correct path to get the desired result. If it's not broke why fix it?
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Ok, I may be hopelessly dreaming here but bare with me and please i'd like to hear some constructive critisism on this outside the box idea:
Turn crafting into a sort of mini-game. I take blacksmithing as my example. Tired boring old way is you open up your blacksmithing window and choose the armor or weapon you wish to make in which case your character standing at the forge will simply hammer indescriminately on an anvil and WAHLA! Like magic, the space of nothingness you were hammering becomes your item in your bag slot. BLEH been done before, BUTTTTTT
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I liked how in skyrim the camera would pan out and show your character actually hammering an item or stoking the fire. Now lets take that alittle further and why not actually have the player enter a first person view mini-game state where you actually put the piece of armor or weapon in the fire and wait for the color to change within about 7 seconds from a red to orange until eventually a white hot spot forms on the piece in one of about 12 different pre-coded areas of the armor or weapon. Then you actually pull the armor out and try to hammer as dead-on to that spot as possible as you compress the metal as much as possible. Now this process is rinse and repeated about 5 times at 7 seconds roughly to have the color change take place and aobut another 5 seconds of hammering. Then dip in cold water and WAHLA! much better immersion and crafting actually can turn out to be quite fun. All the while the computer keeps track of how dead-on your aim was in hammering the white spots and averages out the fives times then depending on the accuracy their could be a slight difference in stats between the same crafted piece by two seperate different crafters.
Just something that popped in my head after reading all the posts above ^_^
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@ruku because once a couple thousand people get screwed by lag and/or a disconnect and their mini game gets their item fuxed theree will be mass rage
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Good Gravy!!
Maybe it will be more like you get items and things like you would in most games....but with high enough craftign skills you can improve the item a bit more.
Sort of like how it works in Hellgate Global.
Though i think maybe they should have a degradation thing happen...so that if you are not constantly crafting you could go down in values.....sort of like Ultima Online.
That way it will keep people crafting if they want to keep the high skills.
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2 koboldfodder :
Well, I guess you just not a big fan of crafting, because all your statements are more emotional then argumentative. Actually logic is broken, especially when you saying about collision between end-game and crafting. I think it will be solved easily with rare materials, that drop only from end-game bosses.
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Item decay or it's a worthless endeavor. All items even raid loot.
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Originally posted by Plageron
That's kinda how skyrim crafting works currently. I can find armor and weapons not in the tree I picked but because my smithing is 100 and I have gear enchantments that improve my smithing I can improve the weapons and gear I find significantly even if I can't craft them.
I'm not sure how I feel about item decay in all honesty though. I've played games with and games without and I've always found it more of nuissance than a benefit. Mainly because even though I always craft in games I don't level all the crafts so it becomes an issue for gear not in the craft I picked.
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Originally posted by koboldfodder
I would say that though I agree that there are people who don't find crafting tedious I think he has a point.
Sorry to say but crafters really aren't all "that". They collect items, have a recipe and if their level is sufficient they press a button. Repeating this raises their level. this is horrible. I do agree that Vanguard was a step on the right direction.
There should also be skill involved as well as actual creative input.
I personally despise crafting. Hate it. And then one day I was fooling around with a neverwinter nights character creator mod which allowed the player to create and color all sorts of gear based upon the parts that were available in the game. I found myself doing this for hours. Hours! I was actively creating and experimenting. And loving it.
My from the hip crafting system would allow for that to be the drivign thrust of the system. Part of what makes an artist an artist is experimenting with what he/she knows and growing as a creator.
I think players should discover recipes and should discover new ways of creating items from newly found parts. But just knowing the recipe isn't enough. Have it so they need to work and get proficient with materials and make it so that they need to, in real time, be an active part of the process as opposed to pressing a button.
Maybe create a mini game where various materials have differnet properties and it's up to the player to create and combine those materials based upon his knowledge and perhaps knowing when to change a factor or add a component.
Allow crafers to experiment with items and discover secret properties. Anyone who creates or builds will tell you that knowing what ingredients, parts, etc is only part of the equation There's actual skill and talent involved.
Otherwise I'd be a world class chef. And I'm not.
I guess what I'm saying is that ti's ok to remove tedium. Crafting shouldn't be about personalities that revel in tedium. It should be about creators and artisans.
Yeah crafting can be extremely tedious and boring at times. The only game that I've played with a mini game for crafting was FFXIV. Didn't play it much but gave the crafting a try just to see how it worked and for the little I did do it seemed to add new level of depth to it. I can imagine playing the same mini game over and over a couple thousand times can get tedious too though.
If i remember correctly based on how you performed in the mini game effected either overall completion rate, skill gain rate, or high quality rate. So you could aim for a specific goal instead of just put in recipe, hit enter, and hope for best. There were also various tools you could acquire to help as well. For example I think if you had a steel needle for cloth craft it would be better than an iron needle. Something similiar to that for skyrim would be cool with me.


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It looks like chaos, but it's actually the product of young minds at work for the FloridaLearns STEM Scholars.
"It's really cool," said Ashley Ellis, freshman at
The activity at hand was to construct a roller coaster model using only pipe insulation, masking tape and a meter stick in two hours. Students from
"We kind of toss them together so they can socialize with students from other schools," says Brenda Crouch, a consultant with the Florida Learns Academy.
There's five minutes on the clock and most students are rushing to finish their projects. However, one group is starting all over. They quickly flip over chairs to help accommodate a jump in the roller coaster track model. Using a glass marble, they test the coaster to make sure the car will make the jump. It works.
"I'm not going to look at chairs the same way again," says Crouch.
When time was called, each of the six groups presented their final project. There are no real grades given, but Crouch and fellow FloridaLearns instructors keep tabs on requirements such as design, height, time and coaster name. Bonus points are given for loops, 90-degree turns and corkscrews.
After points were tallied it was Group 2, and their coaster named The Devil's Drop, that came out winning.
"We kind of designed the roller coaster on the fly," said South Walton High School Sophomore, Logan Daniel.
"We finished with like 26 minutes left," added Paxton High School Sophomore Krysten Pazik.
The program behind the non-traditional classroom activity is
As students downstairs build roller coasters, another group of
Britt started the seminar by making students dance into the room while Pharrell's "Happy" played in the background.
"The whole focus is self-esteem," explained Britt. "The number one factor in life is self-image and 70 percent of people have a low-self image."
Britt helped illustrate her points sharing YouTube videos featuring internationally known speakers such as Les Brown and Nick Vujicic.
"I want students to realize not to let other people validate them," Britt explained.
The goal of the day, said Crouch, is to encourage students to consider a career in these fields.
"These jobs are high-paying and in high demand," she said. "So much of the innovation in this country lies on the shoulders of STEM professionals. And innovation drives the economy."


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Time for a math lesson, kids:
Cinco de Mayo + this awesome and long-awaited weather x one of the most robust weeknights of live music I can remember around here = downtown Bend is gonna be bananas tonight.
Here's a quick roundup of what's happening:
–The biggest party appears to be Amalia's Cinco de Mayo celebration, which will shut down part of Wall Street and feature music by the kaleidoscopic pop band Rubblebucket (4:30 p.m.), Bend's own Todd Haaby & Sola Via (6:30 p.m.) and Latin/hip-hop/rock giants Ozomatli (8:30 p.m.). There'll also be Mexican food, dancing, a low-rider demo and other fun stuff, all for free. Here's my story on Ozomatli plus all the details on the event. Listen:
–While the party swirls outside, Seattle-based singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile will be wowing a packed house inside the Tower Theatre. Carlile is a terrific performer, which is why this show (like her previous three appearances in Bend) is sold out. If you've already got your ticket, enjoy!
Brandi Carlile
–Just down the breezeway and a little later into the night, MadHappy Lounge will celebrate Cinco de Mayo electronically with NorCal techno kingpin DJ G.A.M.M.A., plus DJs Rada and Huff. That one will get going around 9 p.m. and is free.
–Meanwhile, up on Greenwood Avenue, the astoundingly authentic Johnny Cash tribute band Cash'd Out will transform the Domino Room into a big ol' time machine to the 1950s and '60s. The San Diego quartet has the look and sound of early Cash (and his band, the Tennessee Three) down pat. More info is here, and for this one, you need visuals.
–Finally, if you'd prefer your Cinco de Mayo tunes to have a little more local flavor, considering hitting The Summit Saloon & Stage around 9 p.m. for one of Bend's most popular party bands, the Moon Mountain Ramblers. Or shimmy up to McMenamins Old St. Francis School at 7 p.m. for Brothers in Achord, a new bluesy/folksy collaboration between local singer-songwriters Josh Hart and Leif James.
Have fun out there, folks, and be safe.


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3 Lin CC, Ng LT, Hsu FF, et al. Cytotoxic effects of Coptis chinensis and Epimedium sagittatum extracts and their major constituents (berberine, coptisine and icariin) on hepatoma and leukaemia cell growth. Clin ExpPharmacol Physiol . 2004;31:65-69.
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Steve Jobs didn't care for the Siri name but couldn't think of something better
Dag Kittlaus, creator of Siri, recently gave a keynote at Technori Pitch and talked about how much Steve Jobs disliked the name Siri. Only after he couldn't think of a better alternative did he finally succumb to using the name.
Dag insisted the name was great and continued to explain the meaning to Jobs. For those that don't know, Siri actually translates in Norwegian to "beautiful woman who leads you to victory". Kittlaus had previously worked with a woman named Siri when he first learned of the name and the origin. He was particularly fond of the name and even contemplated naming his first daughter Siri. When his first child ended up being a boy, the name didn't quite work out the way he pictured. It did, however, find its way into a product we all know and love today.
Kittlaus had worked with Jobs for about a year before he became sick after Apple decided to purchase Siri.
"...he talked about why Apple was going to win, and we talked about how Siri was doing. And he was very excited about the fact that.. you know, he was very interested in this area in general but, you know, they're patient, they don't jump on anything until they feel they can go after something new and he felt that we cracked it. So that was his attraction.
I ended up very lucky, timing wise. I got to work with him for a year before he got real sick. And he's pretty incredible. The stories are true. All of the stories."
Up until this past October, Kittlaus worked with Apple on Siri in Cupertino. He recently has moved back to Chicago to be a part of other opportunities and be closer to his family. Hit the link below to read more.
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Steve Jobs didn't care for the Siri name but couldn't think of something better
yea really Siri I dont find it too useful. I tried using it but I just have no use for it. I dont like it connects to a server
Yeah the only "woman" you iNerds can flirt with and feel like a player lol
This coming from the guy that nothing better to do than troll a Apple site.
Arguing on the Internet is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.
KidCanada......stick to what Canadians know best....beer, Tim Hortons, Hockey, spelling the word "colour" with the letter U, and that's it.
Those clowns at RIM don't represent your country very well, and neither do you with your stupid toolbag comments.
C'mon dude...that comment wasnt nessesary. Seriously.
First off I hate this toolbag kid from the great white north, second herpis comment is highly offensive and uncalled for ( feel free to delete that comment please) and lastly I too have issue with Siri... Great idea but the server connection just to playy
iPod playlist is crazy.. I live in the woods and have good service at my house and work but the 30 min commute is rough, service fades in and out so I can't use voice command to do anything useful in the car. Which is disappointing because I enjoyed voice operated iPod controls with my iPhone 4 in the past
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Chattanooga Lady Mocs Basketball Postgame QuotesChattanooga vs. Appalachian StateChattanooga, Tenn.Saturday - Jan. 26, 2013
Chattanooga Head Coach Wes MooreThoughts on game"First of all, what a great crowd. It was a fun atmosphere and I appreciate everyone that came out. I don't know if everyone appreciates it the way I do, but we go to a lot of SEC schools where there's 500 people there. We know how fortunate we are to have the fans and people of Chattanooga supporting us. I thought it was a team win. A gutsy win. It wasn't always pretty. We struggled offensively in the second half, and it's going to be good to have a couple of days of practice this week where we aren't preparing for an opponent. We can focus on what we do and get better. So many people contributed and made big plays. I thought Ashlen Dewart did her best job on the boards all season by getting 12 of them, and five offensively. Kavonn Towns went in there and got a few, and she had a big steal down there in the corner in the last five seconds or so. Then we had balanced scoring. We had four people in double figures. Taylor Hall got the big offensive rebound off the missed free throw and made her two free throws which pretty much iced the game. A lot of people contributed. Kayla Christopher and Ashlen had a good game."
Thoughts on the rest of the season"This is the first chapter. I wish this was the end of the book, and we can say great year and move on, but it's the first chapter. We're going to see them again at their place. That will be a big challenge, and we could see them in the post-season. It's a big win. You need to protect your home court, but it's early. We're halfway through the conference and we have a long way to go."
Thoughts on offensive struggles"We struggled offensively some, and I have to take the blame for that. We turned it over too much. We have work to do, and we have five weeks to finish the season at their place. We have to be a better team in five weeks and in March. You have to keep improving and keep working or we're going to fall behind. You can see there's not a whole lot of margin for error just by looking at this game. We have to keep getting better."
Thoughts on Anna Freeman"Our kids did a great job. She probably missed a couple that she would normally make. Kylie and Tatianna did a very good job. She's a tough person to defend. Again, I mentioned the word with Kylie, but with Freeman's versatility and her scoring, she post you up, take you off the bounce, knock down the three, and then she's big on the offensive boards. She's a tough matchup. You got to give Kylie and Tatianna a lot of credit for the job they did."
Thoughts on rebounding"We won the rebound battle by two and got 16 offensive boards. We knew coming in that their transition and offensive rebounding was great. So we knew had to try take away the easy buckets, and I thought we did a pretty good job of that."
Ashlen Dewart, forward, juniorThoughts on the game"It was really fun and gave me a pretty good feeling. I feel this win is a bit more special, but in the conference every game is big. There isn't a team that you can take it easy on, but tonight was definitely a good win for us."
Thoughts on the game's physicality "Our bodies are worn out, but that is just a part of the game. We just have to be ready and we have methods to help us recovery, but this week will definitely be great to recover and work on ourselves a little bit. I knew this would be a physical game and how they play. They play hard and rough, but that's how it usually is in the post. That's one thing we knew coming into the game. We knew it was going to be a battle and I thought we handled it pretty well."
Thoughts on scoring drought"As Taylor mentioned, Appalachian State throws a lot of different defenses at you in one game and it can be hard to adjust sometimes. A lot of us weren't looking to score in the second half, but I think we kept ourselves very composed. I thought we fought hard and I'm proud of this team."
Taylor Hall, forward, juniorThoughts on coming away with the close win"It feel really good, we knew someone had to hit a shot. The free throws at the end also gave us a bit of a comfort zone and we were able to knock them down. That didn't allow us to relax on defense, but took a little of the pressure off."
On the team's performance"We know we can beat them and it should not have happened. We didn't play our game, rebound well, or do the little things it takes to win in the tournament. At the same time, this is just a regular season game and when it comes tournament time we have to show what we can do."
Thoughts on the team's efforts"I thought we did a pretty good job. They're very scrappy with the various defenses, presses and zones. So I thought we hung right with them and crashed the offensive boards pretty well."
On how the Lady Mocs came away with the win"I think of the way have been playing is because we are veteran team. Were used to pressure situations and know to overcome them. We have done a great job handling these situations, not stressing over it and keeping our composure."


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Well, how nice it is to receive TWO blog nominations for awards from fellow Bloggers in one week!
The charming Joy from The Memories Project has nominated me for a Sunshine Award. This is a 'tip of the hat' from a fellow Blogger, intended to recognise "bloggers who positively and creatively inspire others in the blogosphere" and it means the world to me!
Joy writes about her father, Patrick, who passed away from dementia in December last year. She records those memories which have stayed with her in her Blog, in tribute to her father.
In spite of the fact that we are separated by several thousand miles and a large ocean, Joy and I have much in common. It was the loss of my Mother which inspired the creation of this Blog and the SaveEveryStep website ( a place where families can preserve their memories, past, present or future, for the next generation).
As Joy so articulately puts it: "I hope The Memories Project serves as inspiration for others to gather and preserve memories and stories of their loved ones now, because you never know when it will be too late." Hear, hear.
I also received a nomination for the Versatile Blogger Award from MirrorWithAMemory, who writes a lovely Antiques Blog. featuring old postcards, furnishings, odds and ends, in fact anything that takes her fancy from the world of Antiques.
Here are the people I am passing these nominations on to, in a kind of 'Pay it Forward' way (officially the first 'chain letter' to which I have responded in 45 years)….. Check some of them out for a great new read!
In recognition that the Sunshine Award came from someone within the Alzheimers community, with which I am personally involved in the UK , I'd like to recognise Two Socks On One Foot where this tricky subject matter is handled with great humour and great writing; also Living in the Shadow of Alzheimers, where author Sheri writes about life with Bob (her husband) and 'Al' (Alzheimers), from which he suffers. These are not difficult or heavy reading, but witty and inciteful.
On an entirely different subject matter, Photography, I am nominating Nicky from Awesomeville, mainly for her beautiful filtered photos, and (although I am sure she doesn't need it) Alicia from Project Alicia, because every time I look at her Blog I want to melt – gorgeous pictures and inspiring quotes.
If you are a parent and like a Family Blog with a difference, check out Dear Beautiful Boy. It's the cleanest, prettiest Blog written by Lucy, who has spent a year since the birth of her first son writing to him and photographing his progress for posterity. That's all it is, pure and simple. And that's exactly why I am a fan.
If you like to draw, take photographs or explore other crafty pursuits, then Josie at Sleep is for the Weak may be able to inspire you. A lovely mix of her work from her art degree, stories of life as a young single mum and other stuff.
And finally, because I love all things Retro, nostalgia and family history, here are three of the best from those genres..
Retronaut – vintage pictures, stories and other stuff.
Geneabloggers, where the lovely Thomas MacEntee tirelessly provides us with fuel for our family history passions, including new blogs every week and quirky memes to join in with.
Skooldays, a collection of lists of toys, TV shows, and other retro trivia, that will bring back memories you'd lost in the depths of your handbag, from the 40s to the now.
And here are a few things about me (not my questions) that are a mandatory accompaniment to this Post!
Favorite Color – Beige. Much maligned and underrated.
Favorite Animal – Finger Monkeys (they're real. Fact. Check 'em out).
Favorite Number – 4. It's even, divisible and satisfies my slight OCD tendencies.
Favorite Drink – Champagne. Why want what you can actually have?
Facebook or Twitter – Twacebook. Like being asked to choose your favourite child….
Your Passion – Encouraging families to preserve their collective memories as a legacy for their children.
Giving or Getting Presents – Giving. Especially when it's really a present for you, addressed to him.
Favorite Day – Friday. Crack open a cold one.
Favorite Flowers – Agapanthus, Freesias, Peonies. Blousy and show-offish.
The 'rules' for these Awards
1. Thank the person who gave you this award and write a post about it with a link to their Blog
2. Answer the questions above (or just tell them a few things about you for the Versatile Blogger Award)
3. Pass on the award to several fabulous bloggers, link their blogs and let them know you awarded them.
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What others should know:Heavey and well built.Bad trigger but one of the best values in pyramids line up of fine springers air rifles
Things I liked:like everone elese the craftsmanship is like most other air rifles from Eroupe.It is a long handsome drink of water that has good deal of hidden aggresivness waiting to be unleashed on your next target.
Things I would have changed:Probrobaley not many sold and so they sit around on shelves and suffer from neglect.The one I recived was in need of some tlc and quickley has become a center part of my collection.This rifle has power to spare and like other rifles of its qulailty should last long after My collection gets left to another air gun addict
What others should know:Well I am starting to rambble on a bit,and it is true that there are not too many air rifles out there I dont find something to like and this is no diffrent.The gun is way long and has a fair amount of heft about it,but this aside this rifle will make any airgunners collection have alittle more class and is well worth getting to know.
Things I liked:Other reviewers have praised the overall quality and accuracy of the Norica Tribal, and I find nothing in that regard to disagree with; it is well made and accurate. Another big plus is the well thought out scope stop, which is a small steel plate held in place with a screw. The open sights are also done well, with, makes sense, adjustments with numbers on the adjustment knobs. The weak point seems to be the stiff pulling trigger, and at first it can be quite daunting to shoot accurately with it. A little dab of moly paste, or white lithium grease on the underside of the hooked sear makes a welcome, and remarkable difference in the operation of the trigger. The price of these rifles, and the high quality of fit and finish helps make them a best buy. I liked the Tribal so much that I bought a model 56.
What others should know:Owners new to spring piston rifles should know to experiment with different pellets in order to find those that work best, and provide the greatest degree of accuracy. Also, a break-in period should be expected.
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There were stories today that Apple slashed Retina iPad screen orders from Sharp. There was little context or analysis, and little attempt to tell the reader what it may and may not mean, simply citing one or two anonymous sources. It follows a similar story from the Wall Street Journal last week about iPhone 5 screen orders being cut, suffering from similarly poor context and analysis, citing similar sources.
There hasn't been a single Apple keynote yet this year. Tim Cook, Phil Schiller, Craig Federghi, Eddy Cue and Jony Ive haven't taken a single step onto a single stage, or shown off one atom of new hardware or one bit of new software or services. Yet Apple has taken a huge hit on the market and in mind share, areas that, until very recently, they dominated.
If you wanted to plan an assault on Apple, you couldn't do a much better job.
You take a company at the height of their powers and value, manufacturing the largest amount of the best hardware ever released, and you write articles calling it boring and claiming it lacks innovation. You make them the headline in a series of articles in a major newspaper, casting them as the big bad in everything from Chinese factories to local retail outlets. You use them to jumpstart your own manufacturing processes, you clone their product lines, and then you run adds making fun of the people who buy their products, painting them as brainwashed and bamboozled, as hopelessly uncool and cluelessly unhip. You dump product at cost or just above it, commoditizing and undermining the hardware that makes them money. You frighten their shareholders with rumors of low demand, and spread false expectation that new products and new products alone, endless, impossible streams of them, are the only way to ensure the company's very survival.
You attack their brand perception and market valuation at every level, and in ways very difficult for a highly focused, highly secretive public company to respond.
Yet, whether you believe it's by coordinated intention, consequential destiny, or simply a confluence of events, none of this is new. Traders talked about attacking the stock as far back as the iPhone's Macworld launch. BlackBerry, Microsoft, and Palm all tried attacking the iPhone's usability and feature sets. And dumb click-bait articles were dished out and devoured long before Apple even shipped their products.
But Apple was the underdog then, the rebel, the disruptor, the shiny new thing, and none of it mattered very much. No longer. Now they're the establishment, the mainstream, the status quo, the iteration, and cliched as it sounds, there's only one way left to go.
Daring Fireball's John Gruber has pointed out several times that this is something that has plagued Apple from the beginning. It's a cycle based on much older perceptions. That Apple is inherently flawed, and any success it has is a fluke. That Apple has bright, brief moments of Apple II and Mac and iPod, built up each time only to come tumbling back down again. Now it's the iPhone and iPads turn.
Yes, Apple has new leadership. It's Tim Cook now, and not Steve Jobs at the helm. Yes, Google and Samsung, once close partners, are now fierce competition. Yes, Apple has new competition, competition that use to be close partners. It's the services expertise of Google and manufacturing muscle of Samsung, and no longer the software of Microsoft or the devices of BlackBerry and Nokia. Yes, when BlackBerry 10 launches in a few weeks, iOS will be the oldest major operating system in mobile, and not the newest. And yes, Apple's stock, once absurdly low, currently getting kicked in the gut, has made them among the most highly valued -- and targeted -- in the world.
But it's impossible to point to anything delivered by Apple in the 2012 and say it's substantively different than what was delivered by them two years ago or four years ago when they were riding high in minds and markets, or different on average than what's being delivered by their competition today.
It's perception. It's psychology. It's how the unbeatable fighter, once scratched, is suddenly seen as beatable. It's how the only cool product option, once questioned, is suddenly just one among many options.
This, as much as software and services is the challenge Apple faces this year -- that the invincible and infallible titan that could do no wrong, has now lost that luster, and has become quite vincible. That where once bullets bounced off their chest, and they leapt whole markets in a single bound, now their enemies have found their kryptonite.
It's why we're being inundated with blogger ennui and pundit apathy. It's why we're being subjected to endless opinion pieces saying Apple needs a TV, or a watch, or an espresso maker, and bigger, cheaper, more colorful versions of all of it, and faster.
But here's the thing -- Apple has been here before. They've been to the very bottom, and they came back. Apple knows they're beatable -- that everyone is beatable -- and they know how to fight their way back. It's part of them now. It's why they make less expensive products rather than cheap ones, and why, up-cycle or down-, they'll stay profitable and stay in the fight. They'll keep making the best products they can, which may cost them in trends but keep them in business.
That experience, that understanding, is what makes Apple so interesting to watch not only month to month, but year to year and cycle to cycle.
Crazy stories will continue. Competition will increase. Click-bait will thrive. Pressure will only increase. And Apple will have to address it, on stage, on shelves, and online.
And it's what's going to make 2013 so interesting.
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I completely agree with you. I thought the Samsung commercials were funny and struck a chord of a long time apple stereotype. I know some found them insulting, but personally, I found them clever and funny. The comparison to the early Mac commercial is spot on.
People like to be offended by the Samsung ads and claim that it is really bold to attack the competition like that. Those same people are the ones that blatantly ignore when Apple does it. Did we all forget about the "I'm a PC and I'm a Mac" ads? Not to mention the 1984 Macintosh ad you are referring to.
It is all just business strategy and it shouldn't affect your life in the least bit.
Amazing article, great job Rene!
This article explains apple's current situation. IOS is great, there is no denying it, but apple is no longer the underdog. They do not have to fight for their survival and in some cases this has turned out to be devastating.(Blackberry)This year will be the real test for Apple... The test to determine if it will keep innovating (By innovating I mean basically redesigning IOS from the ground up, not simply putting a new look to it) or like others (Blackberry) simply fall from heaven.
Anyhow, BB10 rocks! (and so does IOS :)
Very well done. You have hit the nail on the head.
It's not ironic. I chose Rickson particularly because of his reputation, and because of the crazy stories that swirled around him. (I must have watched Choke dozens of times over the years.)
Rene this is the best article you've written that I can remember. Sometimes I want to rule the world just to get rid of the mean spirited people who play games of influence for a price. Having writers admit that they put out stories just to affect Apple's stock price should be grounds for inprisonment. But we know that white collar crime here pays. People can bring down the economy and not suffer any consequences. So I'm not surprised that there are a_____es that want to prop up Google, Samsung and Microsoft or whoever hash't the integrity to create their own wealth. Thanks for a great article. I support Apple and have done so since the late seventies. I buy Apple and there isn't one Samsung or Microsoft or…benefitting from my money Google is harder to do away with but I try to use DuckDuckGo when I can. Don't be evil is long gone and now evil is under the floorboards everywhere you turn...
Please. Save your butthurt and visions of black helicopters for the Loop. Do you honestly believe that there are no tech "journalists" or bloggers firmly entrenched in the Apple camp. Look up "MG Siegler", read a few of his articles and get back to me. The days of "Apple against the world" are long gone.
Excellent article/writing Rene. Probably the best I've read from you. You hit the nail on the head. Keep it up.
Rene....Excellent job! This is EXACTLY what I needed! I keep reading these articles and stories. I've was wondering what the heck is going on with Apple and these reports!!! Didn't know where to look for some sense until I read your article. Now my feelings ;-)
First Sam(e)sung is hitting Apple hard and I mean, I really don't care about Android because it just looks toyish to me (green army robots, I mean really? as well as the whole look of it and performance is just not great to me and moreso confusing). And now BB is coming back, and by the looks of it (I owned a BB Storm) they are gonna come back and they are going to get back most of the old true BB lovers because that is one heck of an awesome and powerful OS running for them. I mean it may not be as easy as iOS, but it looks much more polished than Android by far. If I were to get a new phone if Apple really got to me, I'd go back to BB, if they were a hit, ha. If Apple cannot come back with powerful hits this year (these baby upgrades are just sad to be quite honest) to make people say 'WOW they are serious still', then I am gonna be really afraid for Apple. Yes what you have written makes sense and is beautiful, but I think that because it's in the MOBILE world, Apple would have to seriously wake up and smell the worm because they are just being pecked at and bruising. Their iPhone is really what brought them back. Let's be honest.
People have a hard time as it is dealing with the ridiculous Carriers pricing and they just want a phone with tons of working features that deliver a fast and powerful and unique experience and does over the top over another OS that will draw them into the OS. The metal and glass and the beautiful construction and precision that Apple uses in their devices and arguments is not going to matter to consumers much longer. It will all come down to price and function. If it's plastic and 199.99 or lower, offer SD slot (or whatever else interests people), great OS, bumped up Security (especially with BB in the house soon again), those phones will sell. People see Apple and think wow too expensive maybe we should consider something else for now (see, time is the enemy in Mobile world). And they will see another device and just compare the two and just stick to what works for them, and once they get used to it, the avg consumer is just going to stick to the brand, just as long as it works for them through the years and keeps them happy and trustworthy.
I think it's going to be a war on Quality OS over Quality device. New chip speeds and OS functions is the main drive of a Mobile phone, I'm pretty sure they know how to make a device and not fall apart be it plastic or metal--so what lol. If you drop your phone, hope your have insurance, if you take a chance well maybe you have some $ saved up. Matter of Choice here. People today have so much to do and only so much more every day, that they will see through Apple and say 'wow honey that other device does this this and that' and the men(or women) will say 'yeah babe we can't spend much on a mobile device if we want that hot tub', and Apple just does that, 'oh wow sweetie they just added it in the new OS, but it's old news now'.
The whole bring it to you now thing is old for Apple. Congratulations you perfected it over the years, SEE SIRI BETA, stutter. Yes they may go down for now, but if they do not UP the ante with iOS 7 and give much more function and a drastic improvement in many areas (device and OS but especially OS), they are just going to get slammed in the corner by the others and just maybe people will realize 'ok I really can't be without that one more thing that other guy has'. See what I did there? ;-)
As for I, I would just like to see different ways of opening things, rotations, easier way to change my ringtones within my friggin OS such as saving it to my ringtone files and deleting easily as I use my device, not make the notification at the top flip onto my current app OYE and probably a who buncha new additions to surprise me, yeah!. Yes this may not be what Apple wants, but in order to keep your people you must listen to them hellooooo what BB never did until now. The reason I left BB and wanted an iPhone oh so bad, was because the smoothness, and apps (which are eh now), the cool OS design, but now I am looking at BB and thinking wow cool OS different functions (just ooooh and ahhhhing me) which is what iOS 7 needs to do for people! If I am not mistaken, I just recently saw a BB 10 video of when you take a picture, you just tap anywhere on the screen? Uh hello, I've been wanting that feature for so long. Why is it that hard to implement in an OS? You can add Passbook but not something that's going to be used much more often?? I rather have a ton of features NOW rather than in another year, because you can always perfect it, as well as add something better in the following years. This new Apple team should come up with something drastic . Basically this is the Mobile world. If you are not going to play hard these days, then you mind as well go home or they will take you home. It's called business. Come on Apple, surprise us!!
Yes, the entire world, every company on the face on the Earth is involved in the giant conspiracy against Apple.
Or the simpler answer: they really have lost their touch, the OS really is stale, and people really will take their money elsewhere when they find out something is better.
What they don't understand that there is NO revolutionary product that can Disrupt the status quo. The status quo is SOCIAL and INTERNET, in these areas Apple is quite good. Sure the future maybe the wearable devices or something else, however, now is NOT the time for these devices. Just look at Sony's smart watch or "futuristic google glasses". They are simply irrelevant at the moment, and Google doesn't even know what is it going to do with these glasses.
Re: "There was little context or analysis, and little attempt to tell the reader what it may and may not mean, simply citing one or two anonymous sources."
True or not, the "story" served its purpose. Tons of hits on the web page, tons of links to the page from other sites, and it helped keep AAPL down for all those institutional hedgers.
There are still a few more days until the Apple earnings call, so we can expect more unsubstantiated sensational rumors about Apple until then.
"But it's impossible to point to anything delivered by Apple in the 2012 and say it's substantively different than what was delivered by them two years ago or four years ago when they were riding high in minds and markets, or different on average than what's being delivered by their competition today." Apple maps would disagree with you (while delivering you to the wrong address).
For me crack berry was never even an option coming from the Palm world of devices the offerings of RIM were just some corporatist Widbloze wannabes just waiting to screw you over and sell you out with back orafice type bullshit and their bloatware in cahoots to rip off dumbass companies by forcing them to be tied to an upgrade cycle of hardware. Now where the Apple is losing its shine is where they too with the governance of Cooke and the waves of sicophants that have invaded the overly tempting fruit and its stockpile of monies to slowly turn Apple into something more akin to the unpalatable Microsoft and Blackberry and their model of profit over style and innovation rather than style and innovation that permits you to generate better profit margins with your products. A model more in line with the neocon stink tanks marching orders for corperate governance. It is ripenfornthe picking and it will be drawn and quartered just like everybody now that its guardian and protector Steve Jobs is gone apple fandom be damded. In my opinion the iPhone 5 is what it is because it is more the creation of bean counters then artists and engineers. I for one prefer by far the feel and styling of my iPhone 4 and I have waited for the 5S perhaps even the 6. It is for me a step back from the wow of the original iPone and its successors style and form factor that knocked my socks off the 4 family the rest of them including samdung just wholesaledly ripped Apple off no matter what Lawyer driven Courtgames say. Lawyers and Beancouters and their overlords the Banksters, look no further for Apples downward spiral, look no further for our whole economic systems demise.
Sorry for the spelling and yes the iPhones screwed up words. I guess they slipped in.
A). So who is behind this "conspiracy to crush Apple", then? Samsung? Google? Microsoft?
B) What "less expensive" product is being referred to here? The iPad Mini? Less expensive than what? The "new iPad" or the "iPad 4"?
Are there any grains of truth in any of the stories surrounding the reduction in manufacturing of parts used by Apple? Are there any facts at all that we can substantiate, or is it that any complaint about Apple "must be wrong" for, what reason, exactly?
Not everyone was "overwhelmed" by the iPhone 5, iPad mini, "new iPad" or "iPad 4". Apple is a very different company under Cook. While there may be logical explanations for reductions in capacity, the silence company from Cupertino on those comments, isn't helping Apple at all and yes, their stock is being hammered. Why exactly is that again?


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There is also a chapter about how early gifted and talented tests do not predict who is actually gifted and talented. Basically, the brain is not finished developing so it is impossible to accurately pinpoint the smartest kids so early.
A more food related chapter is how lack of sleep (not TV watching) leads to obesity and ADHD. I have simplified these ideas too much but it really is not to be missed book. And on that note, I am going to make this post short in the interest of getting more sleep. Goodnight.
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Sophomore Luke Saunders (Halifax, Nova Scotia) had a gritty battle in his match against Kentucky's Alejandro Gomez. Gomez is the No. 7 seed in the tournament, but Saunders gave him a tough match before falling (6-4, 7-6).
Junior Pavels Grigorjevs (Riga, Latvia) scored the only win of the day. After losing in the main draw, he defeated Murray State's Max McLean (6-3, 6-2) in consolation action.
Sophomore John Peacey (Emerald, Australia) lost his first round match on Friday, but will be back in consolation action on Sunday. He and Grigorjevs hit the courts at 8:30 a.m. (E.D.T.).
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No. 9 Alejandro Gomez (Kentucky) def. Luke Saunders (UTC) – 6-4, 7-6
David O'Hare (Memphis) def. No. 17 Pavels Grigorjevs (UTC) – 6-2, 6-0
No. 17 Sean Karl (Tennessee) def. Jorge Varon (UTC) – 6-3, 6-2
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