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WVU Investing in its Athletic Future
In the not-to-distant future, you are going to be seeing a lot more construction going on around campus.
Evansdale is currently being transformed into a small city with a half dozen new buildings either under construction or about to be constructed. And the small city we already have downtown is also experiencing a revival with such noteworthy projects underway as the University Place and College Park redevelopment.
Now, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics is planning to add to the local economy with several public and private construction projects on tap in the coming years. The total scope is still in the planning stages, but it will amount to approximately $106 million when all of the various funding sources are combined, not including the new ballpark currently under construction at the University Town Centre.
Making this all possible is West Virginia's recent move to the Big 12 Conference and the additional revenue the athletic department will be receiving when its full conference share goes into effect.
"The real impetus came when we joined the Big 12 and we began realizing that, though we had nice facilities - and we still do in many cases - we are now competing against the very best in the country," said West Virginia University Director of Athletics Oliver Luck.
The guaranteed dollars West Virginia receives from the Big 12 Conference, as well as its multimedia rights deal with IMG College, enable the athletic department to today consider projects that were once unattainable.
"The guaranteed part is the important thing," Luck explained. "(Media rights and conference revenue sharing) are the two areas that we can control, to a certain degree, for the next 10-12 years."
Site work has already begun on the new $21 million ballpark at the University Town Centre in Granville, making it just the third competition venue the athletic department has constructed since 1981 when Luck was still quarterbacking the Mountaineers (the other two are the Mountaineer Tennis Courts and Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium).
The majority of the funding for the baseball project is coming from the ballpark TIF, and when completed, it has the potential to completely transform that part of Monongalia County.
Over at the Milan Puskar Center, the Mountaineer Athletic Club is finalizing the private funding needed to build a sorely needed new team room facility for the Mountaineer football players and staff. That project is expected to get underway in the near future.
With the exception of Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium (constructed in 2004) and the Mountaineer Tennis Courts (moved to the back side of the Shell Building in the late 1990s) all of West Virginia's competition venues are at least 30 years old, which is considered ancient in this day and age of collegiate competition.
WVU is surrounded by impressive new facilities at Ohio State, Penn State, Maryland, Virginia, Louisville, and, yes, even Pitt, not to mention what the rest of the Big 12 is doing these days.
Baylor will open brand new $260 million McClane Stadium on its campus this fall to replace 64-year-old Floyd Casey Stadium.
Iowa State recently completed $21 million in renovations to its football stadium with an additional $25 million now in place to enclose the south end zone.
Kansas State last year wrapped up $75 million worth of improvements to Bill Snyder Family Stadium and $125 million in total athletic facility improvements to date (with $50 million in additional improvements to the football stadium just recently announced), while Oklahoma State has spent several hundred million on its athletic facilities through the generosity of billionaire benefactor T. Boone Pickens, including a recent $55 million upgrade to Gallagher-Iba Arena.
Texas has started a feasibility study to enclose the south end of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium – this in response to Texas A&M's planned renovation of Kyle Field that will increase its seating capacity to 102,500, or 2,500 more than the current capacity of Texas Memorial Stadium.
Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said last summer that more improvements are on the way for 82,000-seat Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Texas Tech recently completed major facility renovations to its football-training complex, located next to Jones AT&T Stadium, and Kansas is also contemplating improvements to Memorial Stadium.
Even TCU, which has yet to receive a full share of Big 12 revenue like West Virginia, recently finished $164 million worth of improvements to football's Amon G. Carter Stadium through private funding sources. TCU has now started on significant improvements to basketball's Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.
West Virginia University athletics is in a tenuous position because of the advanced age of its two most prominent athletic facilities - 44-year-old WVU Coliseum and 34-year-old Milan Puskar Stadium - and how those two venues stack up against the other nine facilities in the Big 12 these days.
When West Virginia was in the Big East, the Coliseum and Milan Puskar Stadium were considered among the best on-campus facilities in the conference, but now in the Big 12, they rank anywhere from the middle to the bottom in amenities and overall fan experience.
"I think our coaches, student-athletes and fans who travel to different places go 'wow.' You take Gallagher-Iba Arena (Oklahoma State's men's and women's basketball facility), it's a historical venue but they've updated it beautifully," said Luck. "You look at Texas football or Baylor football. Baylor's new football stadium will be the next big thing everyone will be talking about."
The concourses at Milan Puskar Stadium and the Coliseum are woefully inadequate and are in need of immediate attention, according to Luck, who saw firsthand what Iowa State was able to do with Jack Trice Stadium, a facility very similar to Milan Puskar Stadium.
"We went out there two years ago and I thought to myself 'this is exactly what we need to do with Milan Puskar Stadium,'" said Luck. The athletic director has been down in the stadium concourse many times during home football games and he understands how tight it can become on both sides, especially at halftime. "You can barely walk with a soda pop without spilling it on someone."
Luck also sees a dire need for improvements at the WVU Coliseum, particularly on its main concourse where fans congregate in narrow hallways and share bathroom stalls that were built for the early-1970s sports fan. The Coliseum is presently 102 units short of restroom requirements for a building of its capacity.
"We need more restrooms and we need to improve the concession areas," Luck noted.
There are also issues that must be dealt with at the Shell Building (used by women's track and rifle for competition), the 39-year-old WVU Natatorium used for men's and women's swimming, the outdoor track and tennis courts, and even 10-year-old Dick Dlesk Stadium, which presently does not have a visiting locker room.
"Unfortunately, there are more projects than we have money for at this point," Luck admitted.
But the plan is to begin chipping away at them through the facility construction bond that was recently approved by the West Virginia University Board of Governors. It is Luck's hope that some of the most pressing needs can be addressed "in the next three-to-four years."
With conference monies and a media rights agreement now in place, Luck says the athletic department can begin allocating more of its resources to ticket sales and fundraising.
Today, the athletic department's yearly budget is roughly $75 million, with that figure expected to swell to approximately $100 million by 2021 when the Big 12 pays out as much as $34 million in yearly revenue to its member institutions. Compare that to the summer of 2010 when West Virginia's athletic budget was in the mid-50s when Luck began his tenure at WVU.
What is being contemplated today in terms of facility improvements is not really new to athletics, the department once using some of the extra money it received when it joined the Big East to improve its practice venues in the late 1990s, although not quite to the scale being considered today.
And what is taking place these days in college athletics is a fact of life – competing schools are constantly seeking bigger and better venues to attract the best student-athletes in the country. West Virginia University must do what it can to keep pace, and Luck believes his department is now in a position to put forth a fiscally responsible plan that will place WVU on much firmer ground in the coming years.
"There will be a lot of construction work going on between our two locations at football and the Coliseum complex in the coming years," he predicted.
That's welcome news for Mountaineer fans everywhere.
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Debuting at the 2012 VGAs, the mysterious trailer for 'The Phantom Pain' is almost certainly a teaser for Metal Gear Solid V.
The mysterious Phantom Pain trailer that debuted at the 2012 VGAs by the equally mysterious Moby Dick Studios is almost certainly a Metal Gear Solid game, and more than likely Metal Gear Solid V.
I know this has been widely speculated already, and pretty solid evidence has been gathered, but it's fun to speculate so I'm jumping on the bandwagon.
So let's take a look at some of the evidence pointing to The Phantom Pain actually being Metal Gear Solid V.
1. Metal Gear Teaser Image: "From Fox Two Phantoms Were Born"
Okay, so this image was released on Konami's MGS 25th anniversary site earlier this year:
It's an image for the upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. But it could be an image teasing more than one game . Two phantoms? Phantom Pain? That's no accident.
2. The bandaged protagonist could easily be Big Boss
Here's the picture of a graying Big Boss from Ground Zeroes:
Note the patch. Now here's the figure from Phantom Pain:
This looks like the same man to me, only before he had the patch, and just after he lost his eye. Same basic facial hair, though brown intsead of gray, same haircut, same face, though it's hard to make out due to the bandage. Heck, there's even the same scars.
(P.S. This means he could be a clone of Big Boss as well, or that this could be a dream sequence or a flashback of some sort.)
You'll note in Part 1 the image is of a man with similarly brown hair rather than gray.
There's also a burned man in both the trailer for Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain.
3. Moby Dick Studios is obviously a fake studio
If I'm wrong about this, then Moby Dick Studios is the most brilliant viral marketing developer ever.
The strange company with its week-old website is headed by CEO Joakim Mogren, who has posted just one video on YouTube—the trailer for this game.
There is no information about Mr. Mogren, other than the fact that his first name is likely just a scrambled up version of Kojima, as in Hideo Kojima the creator of Metal Gear, and his last name contains the word "ogre" as in Kojima's Project Ogre.
Mr. Mogren not only posted just one video on YouTube (on the official Moby Dick Studios YouTube page) he only joined YouTube on December 4th of this year, just prior to the VGAs. There's no way this no-name developer gets a spot at the VGAs with no website; likewise, I simply can't imagine a fledgling studio coming out with a trailer that looks this good.
I suspect the fake studio was given its name thanks to the giant, burning whale we see leap into the air and eat a helicopter toward the end of the trailer.
That doesn't sound very Metal Gear Solid to me, to be quite honest, but I wonder if it isn't actually part of a hallucination. This would make sense since phantom eye syndrome is something that occurs after losing an eye, which the protagonist in the trailer appears to have just lost. Phantom eye syndrome can result in hallucinations. So can whatever drugs he might be on in that hospital.
Kojima was spotted wearing a Moby Dick Studios shirt at the VGAs apparently, so we can pretty much put this one to rest.
That being said, there may be hints to the real game in both the title and location of the studio, though I can't say what those might be as of now.
4. The Logo
Perhaps most telling are the hidden words buried inside the game's logo itself. Here's the logo:
And here's the logo filled in with the words Metal Gear Solid V (originally discovered by sleuths at NeoGaf):
5. The trailer itself
Here's the trailer:
Note all the moments of text. "What happened?" "Am I in a dream?" "Is this real?"
Question after question about the reality of what's going on. This could allude to the hallucinations I mentioned earlier, but it could also be referring to the reality of the game itself. Sort of a meta-commentary on what we're experiencing while watching the trailer.
Then it says, Open your eyes.
Here's the trailer for Ground Zeroes also. Note the bandaged man in the hospital in Phantom Pain, and the burned man boarding the helicopter in Ground Zeroes.
Both these games look to have been made with the same engine (the FOX engine to be precise) and so far as I know, the FOX engine hasn't been licensed out to any brand new devs in Sweden.
I'm not sure what the woman at the end of the trailer says, but it sounds a bit like "V has come to(o)" though who knows? I'd say this is pretty obviously Metal Gear Solid V either way.
So yeah, nothing too original here (sorry) except maybe the phantom eye syndrome observation which I don't think anyone has made yet (though I could be wrong.)
Use this as an open thread. What do you think? Is there any doubt at this point that this game is Metal Gear Solid V?
So, I realize now that Big Boss isn't graying in the above trailer/photo. That is some pretty absurd lighting if it makes him look that silvery. My mistake.
Second, I also realize that Big Boss's eye was damaged while imprisoned in MGS3. I thought there might still be room to work this scene into that plot somehow, but I think it's probably more likely that this is a clone, a dream sequence, or a hallucination. I haven't played a Metal Gear game since the PS2 days, so my memory of the games is a bit foggy (and yes, this means I've only played a small part of MGS4 so far.)
Last, some people are saying this might be a Vita game. I don't think so. Moby Dick Studios may be fake, but they very clearly have the PS3 and Xbox 360 logos at the bottom of the page.

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If we're talking final episodes, Colbert's was perfect.
And it's not because he had so many celebrity guests (Cookie Monster was the best, obviously). You know what I appreciate about Stephen Colbert? Or at the least the version of Colbert that was presented on The Colbert Report, who's now achieved immortality alongside Santa, Unicorn Lincoln, and Alex Trebek (HAHAHAHA)?
It's that he was ALWAYS Colbert.
There was no crying. There's no crying in baseball, and there's no f-cking crying in satire!
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Grant of Rights Major Deal for WVU
For many, many years, the West Virginia University department of intercollegiate athletics was in search of two things - access and financial security. On Friday it got both when the Big 12 formally announced its landmark $2.6 billion deal with ESPN and Fox that will give those two networks the league's television rights for the next 13 years.
"I want to thank Chuck Neinas and current commissioner Bob Bowlsby for their work and effort in getting the Big 12 television agreement done," said West Virginia University director of athletics Oliver Luck. "This is a strong television package and brings great exposure and financial rewards to the Big 12 and its members."
"The distributable revenue to the 10 members of our league is going to be consistent with the very highest in all of collegiate athletics," added Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby earlier today on Big12Sports.com.
The Big 12's board of directors approved the agreement during a teleconference earlier this morning.
"I think stability is the biggest significance of it," said Bowlsby. "And it's also the appearance of stability. We have been very pleased with the mutual commitment our members have made to one another over the last six months, but I don't think that's the public perception. This helps to substantiate the public perception."
Luck concurred.
"The joint television agreement with two highly acclaimed national media partners speaks to the strength, success and stability of the Big 12 Conference," Luck said. "This TV package places the Big 12 among the highest, in per-member revenue, and West Virginia looks forward to being a proud member of the league, not only in our inaugural season but for years to come."
According to Bowlsby, this finalized agreement will provide the most exposure in conference history, benefitting all sports across the board.
"Big 12 exposure will be better than ever before and it will be better for every institution in our league," he said. "We are a vibrant organization, we are moving forward together, and in the process we are going to have some unprecedented exposure.
"It is important to note that our basketball products for both women and men, and our Olympic sports, will be tremendously more exposed than they've been in the past," Bowlsby added. "This will allow our institutions to have a much broader national profile than they were afforded before."
The process to finalize the agreement took about six months since word first came out last spring that a new TV contract was in the works, and Bowlsby said the time it took to reach this day was simply a matter of crossing all of the Ts and dotting all of the Is.
"There are issues of substance and there are issues of form and we've had to work our way through all of those things. Now we can look forward to some additional opportunities," he concluded.
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Johnny Hendricks was an unknown fighter back in 2008 in WEC, making $8k+$8k, fighting in prelims. NOw he is fighting for the title in UFC 5 years later, and should he win, he may see a significant raise in salary.
However, I believe the lower card fighters should def get a pay bump, seeing as how much the sport has grown in the last 10 years. If GSP was making $3k+$3 back in 2004, and now the lowest is like $6k+$6k in 2013, that's not proportional to the growth of the UFC. Then again, the UFC does provide health insurance now, OTN bonuses, performance bonuses, etc.
(more overtime, higher pay raises etc..)
Many police initiatives are sponsored by local businessesCops do not work in a place that receives sponsorships.
Yes and they chose to be cops at least partly because they know its a stable well paying job that they wanted to do... Would it not be safe to assume most fighters know they aren't going to fight for 30 years and they at some point especially early on in their careers are gonna have an understanding of the pay scale they are going to be paid.Cops have a career that likely spans 30 years.
Not entirely but they do have restrictions placed on them as to how they can earn income outside of the job. A good portion of the jobs out there have some manner of limitations on what you can do in terms of how it relates to the business you are in.Cops don't sign over their likeness for marketing.
as a business owner i see nothing wrong with what Chuck has said.
I worked my way up and opened a business cause i was better than the guys that were still at the bottom.
EVERY BUSINESS is PERFORMANCE BASED. I have guys in my company making double and triple other employees and they earn every penny. I dont pay 2 guys in the same job cause they they have the same job title. If one guy makes me a million dollars a month and the other guy 100,000 a month who do you think gets the better pay???
Welcome to Sunnyvale.
No, wait..Fuck you!
In all honesty, I believe people just need something to complain about. People complain about "over paid athletes" and they complain about "under paid athletes".
Don't like your job. Quit.
I have to agree with Chuck. Don't like it, leave. Nobody is forcing anyone to fight. Walk away, go work at McDonalds. But just like Nick Diaz, they bitch and they always come back.
Goodbye Mr. Burton
All in the reflexes
Anderson Silva 5: TRT USERS 0 Hendo - Forrest - Nate - Chael... twice
Further, a sponsored police event is hardly a cop being sponsored himself for his likeness by a company. Get a grip.
And limitations on outside jobs vs signing away exclusive rights to your own name are absolutely different.
You say shark I say hey man, Jaws was never my scene and I don't like Star Wars
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I merely said there is sponsorships being giving to police forces you claimed otherwise no grip neededFurther, a sponsored police event is hardly a cop being sponsored himself for his likeness by a company. Get a grip.!
Many police officers have lost their jobs because of outside conduct. Besides that you have the option to not sign away your rights.And limitations on outside jobs vs signing away exclusive rights to your own name are absolutely different.
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Friday, September 27, 2013
An enthusiastic crowd came out to witness the debut of Charleston Animal Society's 2014 Firefighter Calendar. Sponsored by Little Black Dress and Icebox, the debut party at Woolfe St. Playhouse, 34 Woolfe St. was the public's first chance to procure the much-anticipated calendar. With comedian Travis Howze serving as emcee, audience members were treated to a runway show featuring calendar models and an auction to bid on dates with "eligible" local heroes. Lucky VIP ticketholders had their pictures taken with calendar models were provided the opportunity to have their calendars autographed by the firefighters and mingled with them at a pre-party.
All proceeds from the party and subsequent calendar sales go to "Toby's Fund," Charleston Animal Society's Medical Fund, which treats the community's injured, abused and abandoned animals. Launched in October 2012, Charleston Animal Society Toby's Fund was inspired by a severely injured dog named Toby who came to the shelter's clinic badly burned and in desperate need of medical attention. After extensive medical attention and love given him by Charleston Animal Society staff, he was able to leave the shelter happy and whole.
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"If we are able to sell all 5,000 of our available calendars, the Firefighter Calendar Project will net over $100,000 for Toby's Fund," adds Eller. "Not only was the party a fun time for all and a great success, but, most of all, it was a shining example of the entire community coming together to help the Charleston area's neediest animals. On behalf of Charleston Animal Society, I would like to thank the firefighters, their chiefs, and everyone who came out tonight to support our cause."
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Friday, August 15, 2014
The Carolina Chargers have made the playoffs.
The Chargers lost their first four games in their debut season with the Gridiron Developmental Football League but finished strong to earn a playoff berth. The Summerville-based team had a five-game winning streak to finish with a 5-6 record and qualify for the playoffs.
The Chargers will hit the road to face the Georgia Crush in the first round Aug. 23. If they notch the first playoff victory in program history they will travel to Alabama for the second round needing only four more wins to advance to the league championship.
We are looking at it as if it is a whole new season, Chargers Offensive Coordinator Shawn Harris said. As far as we are concerned we are 0-0 right now so we plan to go all out. We had a rocky start, but we have good athletes and they are learning how to finish games.
The team formed just this year so most of its athletes had never played together before.
When we got started we had players from all over the place, Harris said. We had everything from guys who hadnt played since they graduated high school to guys who had just finished up their fourth season with a college team to guys who had already been on a semi-pro roster. We have a lot of talent, but everyone has to work together at this level. There is no room for a player who is just worried about himself because the competition is too good.
The Chargers were competitive in games this season against the No. 3 and No. 5 ranked teams in the league so Chargers coaches are optimistic about their chances in the playoffs. In one of those games they beat us with a Hail Mary pass at the very end, Harris said. We took a lead into the second half of a lot of those games we lost so it was a matter of the guys pulling together and learning how to finish and learning how to be disciplined. I think we are improving with that.
Some of the players on the Chargers team have aspirations to play in the NFL. For them, the playoffs represent a bigger stage where someone might notice their skills.
I think we have several players who if they keep working and things go their way could play on Sunday, Harris said. Guys such as Francis Lloyd, Jamie Fordham, Demetrias Sherman and Brian Williams have shown us a lot this season and we enjoy having the chance to work with guys like them.
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That's how I felt.
TiPb asks: What did you think of the iPad 2 event?
So after all the build up, the leaks, the anticipation, and the rumors Apple finally held their iPad 2 event today... and what did you think?
Were you overwhelmed, underwhelmed, or... just whelmed? Are the iPad 2 specs enough? Do you like the HDMI out and Smart Covers? Are iMovie and GarageBand must-have apps? Was it great to see Steve Jobs on stage?
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TiPb asks: What did you think of the iPad 2 event?
Great update for new buyers, not enough for current owners to upgrade in my opinion.
Is the iPad 2 sweet? Definitely! But I just didn't see enough to make me throw my now iPad obsolete on eBay and take a loss to upgrade. The current iPad does everything I want it to. And as far as a camera, sure, its cool but I have a camera on my MBP and I barely use that. I have a camera on my iPhone and the size is a whole lot more convenient to use. Can you imagine holding up a 10" tablet for photo's? I guess some would say yes, I think thats just dumb. Facetime really isn't all that big of a deal to me but I can see how it is on a mobile phone instead of a tablet. My fear though is that better games are going to be developed and I am going to get jacked because of speed and graphics, but again to be expected when technology advances. I'll wait for the iPhone 5 and I think that will appease my tech needs for now.
I thought it was excellent. I was not expecting too much but it surprised me.
All of the things discussed were exactly what was expected, and frankly needed. Personally I am looking forward to the new unit being available, especially facetime. For those who are badmouthing the event, I have to ask what more do you want? Dual Core processors, dual cameras, slimmer, same battery life, same price? Oh, and that price is cheaper than the xoom or any other real rival out there (without a two year contract). I think they did a great job.
The multitaking is amazing there is no need for a revamp, and also the mutitouch gestures in iOS 5 will be amazing. Only thing I Agree on are notifcations.
I hate having to wait t until ifixit gets ahold of one to find out if its 512 or 1 gig of ram. Its definitely an iterative upgrade but a good one. I don't have an ipad 1 buy the 2 is looking very tempting to as a 10 inch tablet to go with my 7 inch Nook Color. Now to convince the lovely wife. Any ideas on that?
Great Job apple. But I think ill wait. Then again the white iPad........
I own the Xoom and gave my iPad to my daughter,it was a good move.
The iPad is "The" tablet, the others are knockoffs of it.
Nah, no need for an iPad. I don't think I'll ever get one. Funny how they never mentioned the RAM.
Learn English plz. :)
It was ok, but nothing that made me jump onto my desk. The biggest things missing are in the OS now, IMHO:
- Flash: Still a handicapped "cellphony" web browser without it.
- File system: With more use cases, the disconnected, inconsistent, and inaccessible file systems for pictures, music, books, contacts, app data, etc become more annoying. I have to download pictures to the PC to move them into a folder? Come on...
- Printing: Haven't heard a thing about Air Print in half a year. Same printers support it as during the announcement. Dead?
- PC ITunes dependency: Moving stuff from IPhone to IPad will become more common. Hooking the devices up to the PC is sooo IPod...
I wondered how long it would take for some moron to cite Flash. No one cares. Developers have moved on from Flash and are pushing HTML5 and JS for video delivery. The only people that still complain about lack of Flash support are porn fiends. Admit it.
So matt, in other words you're a porn fiend?
So email the website. There's no excuse for a website to still rely on a proprietary plugin to deliver content.
Flash will never happen, but everything else you mentioned could very well be adressed in iOS 5. Since hardware between the major tablet manufacturers is now on a fairly level playing field, I'm guessing Apple knows the OS feature set and "experience" will be the thing that makes one tablet or the other stand out.
As far as the device is concerned, no big surprises. Nice improvements, especially in speed and this new cover. It was definitely worth waiting for the second edition. Timing and roll-out are surprising- cool new device on the website, while still trying to sell an old ipad?? WHo in his right mind will buy the ipad1 now, especially since they come at the same price point. If I waited this long, I can wit another 10 or 20 days depending on my location. Great device, poor timing from a sales perspective.
When will Apple start taking online orders? I've got my card out and am ready to go. I waited long enough to buy one last year that it just made sense to wait for this 2nd gen model.
I have an Ipad 32gb 3g and I'm on the fence. We don't KNOW that there's a newer/bigger/smaller/better version coming in the fall and this is a significant spec bump. One thing not mentioned was memory size. Same as original? I might get it just so I can up my capacity. 32gb isn't quite enough. Stays full.
You're pretty stupid, there will be a lot the currant iPhone won't be able to do, the processor alone is enough, the GarageBand, photobooth, form factor, the new cases, and everything makes it an amazing device, Which will stay above the competition, then iOS 5 will breath new life.
I mean iPad.
Gotta see the video presentation first to get the full effect of the announcement.
Man. That's a smoking update. And just because it was pretty much what we expected doesn't make it any less remarkable. Apple could probably have been much more conservative at pushing hardware forward. Only concerns: rigidity/durability of rear, battery stamina (my guess is marginally less, in practice than iPad1), RAM. Only disappointment: convinced handling is less comfortable, just like with Touch 4 (edges are just too thin for my taste). I'm really impressed with the covers. Will be interesting to see what 3rd party rear cases will play nice.
I think everyone already knew that the significant OS revision would come with iPhone 5 in the summer. Hardware is always going to be incremental. There is nothing that you can do in terms of hardware to blow anyone away anymore - save holograms or something truly space-age. The real excitement is on the OS side of things, and obviously that will come with the iPhone 5 and then find its way to this awesome new hardware set in due course. The point is that this new iPad has a lot of horsepower - so you know that somewhere down the pipe there will be a new iOS version that is going to exploit it. 4.3 is just that - an incremental revision - the real change will come with iOS 5.
No Flash, no USB, no SD, no thanks.
It's basically just an update that copies in some of the feature of current competitors.
Yes it seemingly "copies" the other devices, but that's just because Apple does one product release per cycle (read year). Thus, it's safe to assume that Apple even had this concept in mind last year BEFORE the iPad was even released. And also, these other tablets that the iPad "mimics" are not even out yet (with exception of the poorly selling Samsung Galaxy Tab and maybe one or two others).
which is lame. apple is so behind with times. like iphone. mms was avail long before they put in on their phone. they take what is already available and just called it revolutionary. the only thing they are good at is make it look pretty for the simple minded. i am sucker for pretty. they are just slow to make it pretty. iphone 4 features should have came with iphone 1. but arrogant to call the year of ipad.
Yea it looks nice I have the xoom and I think I'm sticking with it I think both of them are very good products different animals but the same' in a way,
I'm keeping my original 64gb iPad WIFI/3G model... If I didn't have my original iPad I would've definitely gotten an iPad now. The only reason to upgrade IMO would be for a better screen, FaceTime just isnt enough...
"That's a smoking update" - to paraphrase a really lame MS ad, 'Really!?!!?!'
That's a lame-ass update. Megayawnarama, dood.
Apple did what they needed to do. This is a solid update, but not overwhelming, with the cameras really the only exciting new feature. (Annual bumps in size/speed/weight are nice, but expected in any new tech release.) It is not nearly enough to get me to trade in my first-gen iPad, but it is more than enough to keep the competition at bay for a while.
This comment concerns me and makes me not only question the original poster about his financial priorities, since he himself admitted he doesn't have the money to buy it, yet, but will when he does, it makes me question America as a "gotta-have-it-now" consumer nation.No wonder our economy is in such turmoil as we don't seem to have much self-control when it comes to curbing our desires for things we can truly do without, as it can cause a noticable strain on our finances. Instead of thinking of more ways we can save money, we're usually lured by eye-catching advertisements of products we rarely have a real need for like this one. We should instead be asking ourselves if this device can truly enhance the quality of our lives with its usefulness beyond the the sheer whimsy of our fleeting desires. To the poster above, I beg you really take this advice to heart and consider more pressing finances in your life that beg your attention than the iPad 2, which is merely a distraction for the financially stable and well off, meaning those who're not in debt.
The most interesting part to me was when Steve said the iPad is not a computer but a post-PC device. Further cementing my opinion that it's just a jumbo-iPhone that I won't be buying.
I think this is going to be the stumbling block for all the copy cats who cram their tablets with SD slots, ports, Flash, and junk that will just slow it down and try to being the PC experience to a device that is not a PC.
However those things don't make the desktop experience. Flash is a major part of the web. SD cards make for portable memory when you can't be connected. Ports are something that are looked at on a universal need.
Bring the PC experience would be bringing a full desktop support and all that entails and a lot of what that entails is legacy support. None of the from-the-future-copycats have been providing legacy support in their tablets or trying for the PC experience. They have only been improving on the mobile experience and making it better.
This is just the first piece of the puzzle for 2011. I think its a good update, the only thing that could of made it great would be a higher resolution display, but we might see that by the end of the year. The next piece of the puzzle will be ios 5. We should know all about that within a month from now. Thats when things should get really exciting. The final piece of of the puzzle will be what 5.1, 5.2 & 5.3 add on to ios 5 as well as if they upgrade the ipad 2 with a retnia display.
This announcement was ok but not mind blowing. It is was what everyone expected the next generation ipad to be. It is actually falling in line with the ipods and ipod touch. What I mean by that is the next gen is better but not enough to buy the new one if you have the old one. For example I have a second gen ipod touch and even though the next gens are better, I could not justify buying the new one.
The best part was the device will be released 10 days after the announcement so they are striking while the iron is hot. Hint hint HP, Android, Blackberry, etc...
It was nice to see Steve. I hope his recovery is going as well as it seems.
On the announcement side, the hardware was expected. The lack of an iOS update or something to do with the cloud disappointed. The two apps were nice as was FaceTime.
Overall, a nice refresh but about as much of an advance as there was between the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS.
3GS did not get a whole new body, a 9 times video speed bump, a 2 times speed bump to the processor. It did not get a thinner lighter size. This is much more that a 3GS style upgrade.
The whole tablet experience is the software anyway. The other brands have specs but they do not have the software. The real upgrade to iPad 2 will come with iOS 5.
iPad 3 will see another spec bump next year but the real upgrade will be in iOS not in a spec bump.
If they do release another iPad this fall it will still have an A5 so if it has a High Res display then iPad 2 will be faster at graphics with that same processor. If they release an iPad this fall it will probably be a second model iPad Pro and not a replacement for the iPad 2, by fall this one will not even be rolled out to the whole world yet.
I was very underwhelmed by apple! First off, a VGA Camera! WTF! that's soo 2000 and Late! both camera's should be HD! the blackbery playbook has 2 HD cameras that do 1080P. the Xoom can do 1080p. for the same price as the Ipad. Skype is poised to beat out Facetime for video chat as an open standard not to mention Google is working on video chat openness as well! second! no iOS 5 preview with Iphone 5 in 3-4 months! a lot of people i talk to think apple may be hitting a wall now. Android is poised to overtake iOS in a couple of years. Underwhelmed is an understatement! Iphone 5 had better be more of an improvement to iphone 4 or Apple could be in trouble!
Some people would be underwhelmed at anything Apple could do because they don't like Apple. This iPad could have had a retina display, 1Gb RAM, Quad core processor, HD Front Camera, 5Mp Rear Camera, iOS5 relaased alongside it with Air Sync, Air iTunes, Air Disk, Air Streaming, and 4 finger swipe between open apps and you would still be underwhelmed. All of those things will come but you can't get everything all at once, there just is not time to do it all at once.
Worthless event, no live video feed? and the iPad 2 is just a facetime version.. Worthless upgrade for anyone with an iPad already, and side by side visually it doesn't hold up to the competition. They needed a major overhaul of iOS to really sell this 2nd generation one.. Hold out for iPad 3 or go honeycomb. I'll be going honeycomb and selling the ipads in our house as soon as one I like hits. The iPad 3 is going to be rushed to compete with he onslaught of new devices coming - so expect more issues there. Bottom line - I think apple has been caught with their pants down by the speed at which Android has caught up and now taken the lead in visual and advanced features. It's not going to get any better for apple this year, look at the ipad apps that came within a year.. the same is going to happen w/ android - and w/ more hardware to play with.
Specs are meaningless, if you have to have expertise to use the device.
Specs are also meaningless if there aren't compelling applications and media for the device.
Android and device manufacturers are nipping at the heels of Apple, which is good. In such a close race, though, I'd certainly not bet on the competition, not yet.
I'd certainly not even get rid of an original iPad for a Xoom. There's no compelling reason, yet. And as was pointed out earlier, how many people really use facetime enough to need the extra ability? The old one is good enough. The new one is better. Keep your original iPads; your family might give you grief if you get rid of theirs!
Incremental. It leaves me pretty much just whelmed. Selling the original for $399 on top of it is a good idea. Considering that need to get a contract to use the Xoom, and the other competitors being pretty much no-show at this time, I think Apple will keep the crown for now. User experience is the selling point here with the equipment solid though not mindblowing. Lots of games, books, music, video - and as easy to use as sitting behind the wheel of a car. The combination will bring in the customers. The also-runs (better specs or not) will sell, too, but few will be considered even slightly successful compared to Apple's volume.
I was a first gen iPad hold out and this one hits everything I was looking for, so I am pleased. If I have to nitpik (and what fun would the internet be if we didn't), I really hope the rear camera is better than the one found in the iTouch 4. I was really hoping for just a port of the iPhone 4's 5mp camera, but I'm guessing that didn't happen or they would have mentioned it. Fingers crossed whatever camera they did incorporate is better than the iTouch's, especially with all of the cool stuff iMovie is capable of. Either way it's not a deal breaker - the black iPad 2 will be mine!
I don't know about the need for a high MP rear camera on something like this but it definitely should have an auto-focus since a lot of people are probably going to want to use this for document scanning if they are considering it.
I loved it, never thought of buying an iPad until This event and the new update is going to be great for my iPhone 4. I'm happy the a5 is a dual core, it's going to be a beast, I'm a gamer on my iPhone and could use all the power.
I find it hilarious that we speculate and gossip for months and months, most of what was already rumored is announced today and now people are mad about what Apple didn't do. This was obviously going to be an incremental update, not something of the iPhone 4 caliber or anything. We won't see a complete redesign or anything like that until at least next release.
On a side note, I think that iOS 5 deserves it's own keynote address, not tacked on to the iPad 2 event. We'll see it between now and April.
Yes it's faster and thinner and all that good stuff but meh not overly excited. I'll pass on this one.
It will still cost you to turn your iPhone into a hotspot. Currently, I'm on AT&T's $30/mo unlimited data plan, and would have to go to $45/mo with 4GB data limit for the hotspot feature. If I decide I need the 3G for my iPad, I will still probably go with the iPhone hotspot feature; that will only cost me $15 extra (so long as I keep it under 4GB), whereas a 3G iPad monthly data is $15 for only 250MB. I have never used over 2GB on my iPhone, so the 4GB hotspot plan should give me enough for 2GB on my iPhone and 2GB on my iPad. To get that much with a 3G iPad, it would cost me an extra $25/mo (for the 2GB iPad 3G plan).
I'd look into it, but, I'm fairly certain that if you want to use the tethering/hotspot feature in the first place (from Att), you must switch to the 2gb data plan on the phone. I don't believe you can go from the $30 unlimited to the the 4gb $45 tethering without switching to the 2gb in the first place, they force it on you when you switch to tethering.
Nothing special for me. I dont care much about the cameras, I am not a gamer, so the speed/graphics are fine for me. Nothing made me say wow.
Would have been nice to see an SD card and more memory! Common Apple, how about something ridiculous like 500GB or 1TB. Enough of the 32gb and 64gb.
It's flash memory. Putting in à HDD, would just make to much noise. Inserting a SSD, would be way too expensive.
The camera is a nice addition for video conferencing, and the lighter weight and smaller form factor are also nice. However, it doesn't really seem like a major improvement to me.
I think the real improvement is probably one that won't be noticeable for a while ... the improvement in CPU and graphics. 6-12 months from now, amazing apps are going to start showing up that won't really run on the old iPad, and at that point I'll be wanting a new one (and hopefully by that time, the iPad 3 will be out :-) Hopefully with LTE support as well!
I held off for the iPad 2. I have an iPod Touch 2 gen, and 4.3 will not be supported by the 2 gen. The iPad 2 will work well for me. I think it looked like a basic update. Was wanting more "wow" I really want more specs on it. I know it's not Apple's only product, but after a year, seems there should have been more.
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I like the cameras, would have disappointed not to see them. How useful they are will depend on apps - takeing regular photos will be easier on something smaller, but for apps I that incorporate photos like evernote or a photo mark-up app called My Measures the camera will be great.
Hoepfully the weight reduction is noticible as well.
BUT, if you have the the grandfathered unlimited plan as I do, can that be transferred to a new ipad? If not, that alone may keep me in the 1st gen ipad for a long while.
im gonna wait also, simply because of the fact that when im able to afford this on a verizon contract, itll be already on the market for a few months. i dont want to be behind lol. because i got the verizon iphone knowing that theres a verizon iphone 5 coming out this summer. a mistake that ill keep kicking myself for until my upgrade in two years. basically, i want an ipad, when it comes out
Pretty much what I expected in terms of hardware improvements. The initial hands-on videos make the thing look ridiculously fast. "Disgustingly fast," as Topolsky put it.
Doesn't make any sense at all to increase screen size from 1024x768 to some intermediate size like 1280x960. That would be silly, since the actual end-user benefit would be near-zero. You don't notice much increase in sharpness until linear resolution reaches 2x that of the original.
The megapixel myth used to be a hot topic in digital photography. Kind of like the megahertz myth was big back when Intel, AMD, and IBM were one-upping each other's specs. Not any more. The megapixel myth is only now reaching the portable computing device market. Bumping the iPad 2's screen resolution just a little bit would have smelled of "press release engineering." Apple doesn't waste manpower on that. They don't care what the other guys are doing. They do their own thing, on their own schedule, and everyone else scrambles to catch up.
A minor screen resolution bump would have been just an interim step toward 1920x1440 (HDTV horizontal resolution) or 2048x1536 (2x linear resolution of iPad 1 and 2.) But it would still require iPad app developers to create all-new graphics. Which would immediately become obsolete the moment the full HD iPad is announced. And that may happen as early as this fall...
Lack luster , everything I expected that they should of done for the first iPad they did. The only thing I'm happy for is the HDMI/DisplayPort out because that will mean something for the iPhone iPod touches. I'm almost desperate for a HDMI out for the iPhone ... new HDTV doesn't do Component, only composite and HDMI...
Even though I have my iMac connected to my TV , I don't want to have my entire mac running , wasting energy.
edit: to clarify what I meant by ' have it running ' .. for example , if I want to watch a movie, theres no way I can turn the iMac display off while it streams to the TV..
Great that Steve was on stage.
I am happy the ipad takes another step forward on its way to become the device that fulfills all your childhood sci-fi fuelled imaginings. I am amazed that Apple shaved half a cm of the thickness but in itself, not reason enough to replace the "one". Personally, I believe I'll skip the "two" as the one I'm holding now continues to be awesome and is 92% of the two. It will easily satisfy me for another year and meantime the people who've been holding off have a few more reasons to get on the wagon and help fuel the ipad revolution.
I also love my Iphone 3GS and have given the Iphone 4 a miss as well. I wont upgrade just because there's a new model code in the stores but I'll be back for more the next time around. I'm by no means dissapointed in the "two"; it is a necessary iterative step towards a new, higher level of ipadding which will be apparrent in another year or so. I could easily have lived with no new model for another year and then have seen a true leap forward but Apple will understandably want to keep competition in the rearview mirror. Moreover developers can now prepare even sharper apps which my ipad three will benefit vastly from.
Keep up the good work Apple, you are on the right track and I will keep on buying every other generation of supercool devices you genesize.
Its incredible how people are, with the first ipad , everyone said, no market for that , it will never sell, its just a big iphone and Boomm millions sold. Even those people bought one, now the same, ill hold off for the ipad 3 and ill see each and everyone of them with one in their hands in just a few months!
My iPad original does just fine. Thin is nice but it's not a phone that needs to fit in my pocket. It just goes into my backpack. The camera... I have the iphone 4 and do skype all the time, but that is on the go. When I'm at home just as well will use my computer for skype.
Why does apple charge so much for cables?
He kind of sold it short; admitted the graphics on original iPad are already good, the battery life is the same, the cover -- aren't we going to want to protect the ports and the back, so we can resell our iPad 2 someday? So most people will still be buying a case, whether or not they also get that smart cover. It adds cameras, which is just keeping up with the competition. It adds dual-core CPU, which is just keeping up with the competition. I don't see anything groundbreaking here except how thin it is, it's not that much lighter, so I think I'd rather have the sturdier and better-protected old one. iMovie is cool, Garage Band is just a toy. iOS 4.3, just another upgrade. Whoopppee, wait for the iPad 3, and hope the iPhone 5 is more of an update than this.
P.S. He was having a hard time continuing at the end, he's sick.
I want one for my birthday. :)
Sold. Amazed at just how thin it is. Also surprised and wowed by iMovie and GarageBand apps. Can't wait!
I think I am satisfied with the release of the ipad 2, but I will refrain from my purchase until they come out with a higher res display, stereo speakers (equal to that of a laptop), SD slot, and usb port. I feel like these are all things that are going to destroy the ipad2 when competitors release them. We've seen it before every year with the iphone. Apple releases the latest hottest phone, then over the length of the year BB will release 3 new phones, with one of them kick ass. Then we all wait a year for the next iphone to clean up the mess, and they catch up.
So I'll wait for th iPad 3, and maybe in 3 months I'll pick up the original iPad on ebay for the reduced cost when people realize they can spend an extra 100$ and get the new one. You know, just to tide me over ;)
And as for the ios 4.3... I don't know what to say. It seems like a rather weak update considering it's a major update. airplay for safari and apps... wasn't that one of those things when we tried it the first time we thought something must be broken... "why isn't airplay working? Oh... cause apple doesn't let it..."
So that is them kissing ass hoping we overlook that they left it out in the original.
All in all, I feel like apple is just cleaning up the loose ends with this update. Things that the consumers felt they should have added in the first update (whichever update those features were first added).
So I'm hoping they are going to knock the competitors out of the water with the iphone5 in the summer and have some real kick ass features. Although, seeing as how the the iphone4 white wasn't discussed... makes me wonder if thats what will be released in the summer...


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