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Sometimes, there are a lot of things that you are expected to do and you just don't know where to begin.
You feel like you are being overwhelmed with a lot of tasks and deadlines.
How should one prevent this feeling?
Sometimes, there are a lot of things that you are expected to do and you just don't know where to begin.
You feel like you are being overwhelmed with a lot of tasks and deadlines.
How should one prevent this feeling?
Standard time management:
This site is devoted to practical, tangible steps and systems that can increase personal productivity, but perhaps the most important insight is that all systems have their limits and that it's important to be able to realize if and when you've reached a point where your commitments exceed your ability to meet them.
Only then can you make the transition from trying to figure out how to frantically manage an impossible set of tasks and change your focus to the larger negotiation with yourself about what's really important and deserves your time and attention, and what are the little lies you keep saying you're going to get to, but never will.
Luckily, just like tasks can spiral out of control--as busyness leads to swirl and lack of focus--so can they quickly become manageable again. A mind that has re-negotiated it's deals and consciously decided what is no longer on the table is a stress free mind that will be all that more effective at the remaining tasks.
I deal with this issue a lot and I have taken a more "bottom-up" posture on it. The following is not from any system, but is provided as a real-world, functioning answer to this issue:
Above all else, work to keep your emotional fear of the consequences of being overwhelmed separate from an objective assessment of what you can do. That will help you to keep from experiencing a snowball effect resulting from the feeling.
Take a look at David Allen's Getting Things Done. It's a well-known book/system that approaches this exactly, and it does work.
The gist of it is:
You should allocate about a weekend to sorting things out and put about an hour a week to maintaining it. I'd recommend reading the book itself as it goes into a lot of detail and gives examples of what works and what doesn't.
Try to keep it loose and informal. One problem I had with setting up my own system was that I'd schedule everything for the day. A soft "things I have to do" list will be much easier to stick to.
When you say "preventing the feeling" I will assume you mean, how to remove the feeling that decreases your level of productivity. That feeling usually being panic or anxiety about having too much to do.
My methods are:
Over years I discovered that the best way to handle lots of tasks is to split them into several groups such as:
This simple system helps you to a) not get overwhelm with so many tasks and b) postpone unimportant tasks for the future. When you return to work on future tasks you discover some of them don't need to be completed any more or lost they relevance.
Keep the first group of tasks fairly small and if it keeps growing, just move less important tasks into other groups.
Find out what productivity tools have a proven success rate with others. While this does not guarantee it will be the right fit for you, it at least narrows down the search. Here are some great productivity tools that seemed to streamline business productivity for myself and my team. Two great ones to start with:
Employee (and Personal) Time Tracking Tool (TSheets)
Taking, Distributing, and Following Up with Meeting Minutes (Minutes.io)
I feel like this quite often. And this leads to situation when you are just stuck and do nothing. Here is a technique that always helps me:
Take a 2-minutes rush
Using the technique, in 1 hour you can virtually touch 30 different tasks. Of course, you can switch back to a task you already did (e.g. switching back and forth among 5 tasks). After doing this you will be feeling more in control than before, because you will be closer to finishing every task you have.
Just don't think negative thoughts about your tasks! Do other activities as well; something that makes you happy! Find a person you can count on, perhaps if you have a sister, a brother, or maybe a best friend that will help you organize your tasks!
an awesome book about this topic is : Dale Carnegies "Stop Worrying and start living" ... http://aqilkhans.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/dale-carnegie-how-to-stop-worrying-and-start-living.pdf


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When using trekking poles with a twist-and-lock locking mechanism, I've experienced slipping (the poles will slightly collapse during use, making you frequently extend and re-lock it). Is there something maintenance-wise that helps avoid this, or is it simply a sign of poorly-made poles?
It does not necessarily reflect poorly made poles. If you have used the poles for a while without problems and you're just recently having problems, they likely need to be cleaned. I would start by checking to see if your poles have maintenance instructions specific to your model. You should always follow the manufacturers advice if possible. If they do not have cleaning instructions, than it's still fairly easy to clean most twist style locks on hiking poles.
Cleaning the poles
Start by pulling the poles apart. At the end of each section, there is a screw with a cap on it. This cap expands as the screw tightens into it causing it to put pressure on the walls of the outside tube preventing it from moving. Clean off the cap if it is dirty, and while you're at it, remove the cap and clean and lubricate the screw as well.
After the screw and cap are clean, use a brush of the correct diameter to clean inside the poles themselves. Make sure there the cap is gripping a clean surface and not just slipping on gunk built up inside the poles. Re-assemble the poles and see if they now support weight when locked.

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I'm trying to understand this proof that every origin-preserving rigid motion can be represented as left-multiplication by a matrix. The proof is given in Artin's "Algebra", pp 127-128. I've posted an image of the relevant text here:
The paragraph with the blue line proves that "if m is a map that (1) preserves dot product and (2) fixes the basis vectors, then m is the identity map". That's fine.
In the next paragraph, he assumes that m preserves dot product, builds the matrix A, and asks us to consider the composite map A-1m. It's clear to me that this composite map preserves dot products. But then he declares without justification (underlined in red) that it also fixes the basis vectors. I can't see why.
Since A is orthogonal, A-1 is just AT, right? But even using that, I can't seem to prove that A-1m applied to ei is ei.
What am I missing? Thanks.


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When using the arsonist against the Hedge Tavern, where does the Hedge Tavern card go? Does it go to the bottom of an "Era of Turmoil" stack or does it go back to its original starting position face up?
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I would play as per the wording on the Arsonist card. Just because the Hedge Tavern has an unusual starting placement, in a face-up stack, doesn't mean it should be exempted from subsequent effects.
Given that there is an stack available with the same back as the Hedge Tavern, I see no reason why you shouldn't follow the course of action prescribed by the Arsonist card, and put the Hedge Tavern to the bottom of such a stack of the opponent's choice.


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Assassin's Creed? Lizard? I'm calling it Lizard's Creed. Awesome!
I really like the general design, and the shading/texture is pretty awesome, too. I really like how you handled the cloth, especially his cowl.
I'm in a hurry, so I'm going to be pretty to-the-point with my critiques. The anatomy looks pretty spot-on, but there's something funky going on with the foreshortening with the legs, especially his right leg. Also, I have no idea how the bow and/or quiver is attached to him or sitting on him. They look pretty floaty.
Originally posted by rawismojo:I really like the general design, and the shading/texture is pretty awesome, too. I really like how you handled the cloth, especially his cowl.
I'm in a hurry, so I'm going to be pretty to-the-point with my critiques. The anatomy looks pretty spot-on, but there's something funky going on with the foreshortening with the legs, especially his right leg. Also, I have no idea how the bow and/or quiver is attached to him or sitting on him. They look pretty floaty.
That awkward moment when you just realized you erased how it straps onto him, thinking they were floating pencil marks. ffffffff— Yeah, I see that. I know exactly how that happened. . . Had it sketched, but when I went to clean around/inside of him, yyyeah. I erased them without thinking. Blargh. I can't believe I didn't see that. That's. . . A bit of a let-down on my part, honestly. Damn.
I see what you mean about that leg, looking at it again. I think the problem is in the lower half of it — it's a bit too short, maybe? That's what stands out to me, but maybe I'm looking at it wrong. The right width and everything, but just needs more length, I mean. Train of thought, the foot maybe could have been scaled down on that leg a tiny bit more, too?
Thanks. :)
(Fun fact: Both of my drawing classes this semester are about human anatomy and how to draw textures/surfaces as realistically as possible. Maybe they'll get better-er. :o?)
Originally posted by TheWhiteAngel:Assassin's Creed? Lizard? I'm calling it Lizard's Creed. Awesome!
Skyrim! The game that made me go, "Oh man, Dark Souls!" And then never. . . Actually finish Skyrim. Cough. I, uh, yeah. I'll do that, at some point. Just gotta, you know. . .
Beat Dark Souls 6 more times. NG+++++++! (That's my goal, no lie. That's apparently the max difficulty of the game. I'm gonna go for it!)
And then maybe Witcher 2, because I forgot about that one. . .
Bethesda loses my attention span really quickly. Too open-ended. :S
Thanks. :D Glad you like.
Hey Deriaz, I've been watching your thread for a while now, since your style has such official strength and such exciting balance. I'm always hoping to see more pieces popping up and keep patiently checking in… I have no inclination to stop, haha, so, please, know that I'm one more who's watching! :o)))
You show not just motivation, but great talent and appreciation for form and volume. It's just hard for me to figure out the degree of independence in your works, to figure out what really is Your style in all of this, you know. I don't mean to make this sound harsh or accusing, but rather worrying, because you are clearly hammered with inspiration and may have to wriggle your way out of all this to explore who you truly are. Pick a subject you care about outside of the entertainment industry or create your personal future show, if that's more exciting, but to me I'd just like to get to know you as the artist you are and are becoming.
Anyway, forgive me, if this sounds a little off there, because I'm sure it's all genuine stuff, but I know a lot of contemporary designs out there due to my position in the industry for such a long time and it does somehow feel a bit more like fan art than a relaxed and sincere self-expression, even if its completely involuntary. All the more for me a reason to wanting to push you into revealing your true powers, you know. 8)
What ever it all is, it shows your talent and is a blast to look at! Thanks for sharing it all.
Nah, not harsh or accusing at all. I know what you mean, and it's pretty obvious when you skim this thread or my stuff on other sites — I do do a lot of fanart. It's what I started with, as well as free-hand copying other artists that I found (I'll admit it, but I don't show it anymore. Had to start somewhere!), but I think I fell into a trend of doing it. I can see if I can break out of it. I did want to do a few backgrounds for that Kong+ thing, some fantasy-esque backgrounds, like a desert or something. Maybe I can start there? I do like stories and thinking of characters/situations — that might also be a good place for me to start breaking away from the fanart. Combine the two, perhaps, people in backgrounds/situations. (There are remnants of ideas floating around that I never went through with. Maybe I can tie them together somehow. That might be fun.)
I guess my biggest struggle is what you said, relaxed and sincere self-expression. It's a bit voluntary that I scale it back, and maybe that's why I'm stuck in fanart. I always start a doodle or a drawing, and then throw it away because something didn't come out right, rather than let it happen or fix it. I just toss it. I need to unlearn habits to do that, I think. But my New Years' Resolution is to fill a sketchbook or two with finished drawings on every page, so. . . Maybe I can start there.
Anyways, I'm rambling, and it's terribly obvious I'm doing so. 5 in the morning, told myself to sleep and respond to you tomorrow, but I couldn't. Heh. Thank you for the comments — I will see what I can do about getting away from the fanart in the future, and doing my own, unique stuff! Thanks again. Much appreciated. :)
I think the most important thing is to find out what you really want, what you really find fascinating and what tingles your fingers to do something. Is there something you want to see, something you might even be missing in all that you've seen so far, or do you just to want to have something explored from a different perspective or the likes.
But at the end non of this matters. You can do what ever you want to do and that way you will find your calling. You still have time to play and play you shall. Think of it like the cat and mouse training of us humans. You sense that you're really interested in a field and just start going there, not really knowing what or how just yet. But at some point you will come across the magic beacon, the spark that illuminates where you want to go. And off you go… :o} …just consider that there is no haste and all just a wonderful privilege.
I miss this thread. So much. Keep up the goods, mate.
Originally posted by Taronium:I think the most important thing is to find out what you really want, what you really find fascinating and what tingles your fingers to do something. Is there something you want to see, something you might even be missing in all that you've seen so far, or do you just to want to have something explored from a different perspective or the likes.
I think the most important thing is to find out what you really want, what you really find fascinating and what tingles your fingers to do something. Is there something you want to see, something you might even be missing in all that you've seen so far, or do you just to want to have something explored from a different perspective or the likes.
I guess what I want to do the most is just tell stories through art, either as the starting point for a movie or a game. That's why I have such an interest in the entertainment field, and a bit of why I like fanart — you can take a simple image, and if you play with it enough or show emotion on a character or whatever, you can tell a lot more than words can. Or at least, that's the goal for me, to work with a team to bring a story to life. I just need to figure out how to do that with my own stuff, not stuff that's already established.
I do feel bad that I struggle to draw without references. If nothing else, that's where I want to jump to next, of all the choices. But that takes years of cataloging (sp?), something I'm pretty far behind on compared to most of my peers at NSCAD. :S
Originally posted by UnitedRebellion:I miss this thread. So much. Keep up the goods, mate.
Hopefully I can keep it up, with the New Year resolution. I may end up disappearing for a bit in the summer, though, depending on if my plans work out or not. Not that I don't like sharing here, but if my internship is approved, well. . . I have no choice but to jump ship for a while. D:
Hi guys. Sorry it's been so long since my last update. I've been extremely busy with schoolwork and portfolio stuff. Still working on it, too, but I just wanted to duck in and say hello, and share at least one thing so far, since I haven't been able to scan too many things recently.
The portfolio I sent to Blizzard seems to have gone nowhere. A bit depressing, but that's okay. I knew that was heavy competition, and I still have miles of stuff I need to learn to even try to compete. So I'm not upset. Working on a portfolio for an animation studio right now, so that might be more up my alley, since I can demonstrate a variety of things rather than "here's how good I am at drawing pretty things!" They let us submit photography, illustration, sculpture, even sewing projects if you do those. So that's cool.
As for what I'm doing, I'm trying to branch out a bit. Been sketching a few ideas of stuff, getting away from the fan art stuff slowly. I still kind of use it as a base for a design, like below, but I'm starting to get some ideas going.
Practicing new ways of shading, trying to bring back in a bit of my linework without destroying any tone. I think it turned out a bit better than other attempts. The anatomy is pretty messed up, since the eyes are too high. But maybe that's okay. I might revisit this guy, do a full body, just to see how he might look.
The idea was a Dragonborn, but, like, made of stone rather than scale? I don't know. He ended up looking pretty strange, but I like it, I think. Maybe. I don't know.
Now if we pay you to do some concept art for us, are we free to paint over it, possibly just use it as a concept (The general pose and what-not) would we have to credit you? Or are we receiving all royalties upon purchase of said sketch?
Originally posted by GraphicDesignC:Now if we pay you to do some concept art for us, are we free to paint over it, possibly just use it as a concept (The general pose and what-not) would we have to credit you? Or are we receiving all royalties upon purchase of said sketch?
If you wanted something, I would end up completing it as best I can from what you describe, as well as some edits (not an excessive amount, but I'm obviously not going to say "No, this is what it looks like, deal."). I give you the digital version, and it's yours to do what you want with. If you post just what I made, I'd like to be credited. If you paint over it, it'd be nice to see some tidbit saying "Lines by Deriaz" or something, nothing huge. If you take it, distort it, completely tear it apart and re-assemble it, and it doesn't really resemble what I did anymore (so, a "concept"), then nah, you don't need to credit me, I'd say. It'd be cool, but I'm not going to freak out over it if you don't in that instance.
I forgot to update it, though — since I'm in finals right now, and will be for the next month (massive projects in 2 classes: a series of drawings, and both of them are taking up a whole wall of my room, plus research projects in the other 2 classes), I can't do anything too huge for anyone. Rough lines are okay because I can get you those pretty quickly, but anything more than that and I would need to consider it first. I don't want to take on something and make someone wait around forever. But I'm always open to a PM if you still have an idea, I just might not be as available right now. :<
I'm just talking about some basic concept art. Sometimes I find it hard to draw up my own concepts, that's probably the laziest thing ever said by an artist. But I may in the near future purchase a basic sketch from you. I like to think of it as having another set of eyes really, you write down your formula, and have a colleague look over it.
Oh, yeah, in that case, it depends on how far you run with it. If you keep the design pretty close to what I come up with, I'd say credit me with at least the basic concept. And if you springboard off of it in a completely different direction, some sort of mention of me would be cool, but yeah, I'm not going to complain if you don't, because all I wound up being was a springboard for you. Hopefully that makes sense — if it doesn't, uh, you can credit me and that's probably the easiest route. Heh.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, all I ask for in return is to post the artwork on my own pages. I give credit to who purchased it, but I still need to upload/share it for portfolio and record-keeping reasons.
EDIT: I know one or two people I talk to from around here say they're on Tumblr more often now, too? So I finally went and set one up real fast, just with a few recent things. http://deriaz.tumblr.com/ I will still be posting stuff here too! I just figure if there's anyone that goes there more often than here, maybe that's easier for you. Dunno what I'm doing! :V
ohhi~ I should be doing homework right now, but I'm so burnt out with these classes at this point that. . . Well, I want to draw something for myself. So I did over the past two nights. I think it's a cumulative hour and a half of work here. Originally based on the Dragonborn from D&D, he eventually mutated into my own little creation. Like I said, I'm getting there. It's not exactly fanart, but it's not an exact copy. We're making progress, right?
Tentative name is Gol'iare. A character concept, I guess, that I'll be taking further into either actual shading or full color, since I'd like to use him as a test for Photoshop. A continuation of the last upload, the portrait. I like the idea behind the character.
Using him in an upcoming NaNoWriMo, or at least, I'll be writing a story with him in it, even if I don't win.
I think his torso is a bit too squat, but that's okay, since I wanted the majority of him to be leg length. I'm just hoping it doesn't make the anatomy look too wonky. And I hope the lines are interesting — I'm starting to get the hang of Photoshop a bit, though my lines are a bit shaky still.
Using him in an upcoming NaNoWriMo
Using him in an upcoming NaNoWriMo
Have you tried writing comics or doing some graphic work in that manner? Just a thought. Would be interesting to see a story or something unfold not only through pure words but through pictures as well.
I've been tempted to, and I've done one or two things, but they came out pretty laughably bad. Since I'm focusing on school right now, I haven't given them another shot, so I've been reading up on how I'm supposed to place speech bubbles, pace shots, etc. so it isn't as much of a train wreck.
In the future I'd love to do it. But at the moment, I don't have the skill to really do much in that regard. :(
Just putting a quick update here on the Gol'iare guy. Been toying with some colors, and I think this is the basic layout I want to go with, but that could change. Next is actually putting some shading to the color, as well as the beginnings of a background, but that will all happen alongside other doodles and stuff, like a Turian that I'm in the middle of drawing if THE MOUTH WOULD JUST— UGGGGH. THOSE FFFFFFFFFFF THE LIPS. JUST. . .
Anyways. Ahem. Gol'iare.
Been swamped with college work recently, so no progress on anything complete. HOWEVER, I've decided to start up speed sketching when I get small breaks, and I'm doing these primarily in Photoshop as I'd like to break into the digital medium, but feel I'm terribly weak there and can't do a full piece. Which is also why Gol'iare has been put on pause for now, amongst other reasons.
First one was from Off Topic, in a topic where people sketched other people's usernames. Someone was named Army__Of__One, so in 15 minutes, I came up with this:
Second was after a Mass Effect 2 high, and moving into Mass Effect 3. A Turian. A reference was used at the beginning, but once his fringe and his eyes were placed, it wasn't needed as much. Another 15 minutes here:
Third was tonight, taking a break from a research paper to do yet another 15 minutes. Still addicted to Mass Effect's universe again, so tonight, I wanted to do a Krogan with the goal of color that shows a bit of depth and maybe some skin tone/pattern. Not sure if succeeded, but I like the result for what it's worth:
All 3, again, were done in 15 minutes. Lumping them together because they're horribly messy and not really that great, but I feel like I'm making some progress. Just looking from #1 to #3 makes me feel like I'm beginning to get somewhat of a grasp on Photoshop. I think the next speed sketch will be about an hour, to really let myself explore the program and some techniques/settings I discovered with the Krogan. Feedback is appreciated all the same, however — I may like where I'm headed, but I'm more than open to the suggestion of trying another route.
I really like these, especially the Gol'aire sketch/color. I'd really love to see that piece finalized. For the speed sketches, I really love the direction, but you might get something a little more organic/natural/something if you tried to do more long broad strokes instead of short scratchy ones. It's a classic technique taught in drawing courses, and it's harder to translate to using a drawing tablet, but I think you'll like the difference it makes once you get used to it.
Oh yeah, Gol'iare will definitely be finished. I just need to build up a bit more skill before I move further, because I don't want it to be a complete travesty. But he WILL be finished. I like him too much.
I've been doing the small, scratchy bits because my current Figure Drawing prof likes the energy that I have (going to be getting shots of them and putting them up within the next week or two, once finals are out of the way) in gestures and in longer poses. Been trying to get that moved over to here. I start with scratchy, then eventually get to something smoother in traditional, but the timed digital sketches doesn't seem to let me get as far quite yet. But for the next one, if I squeeze one or two in before I do a longer one, I'll try the longer, broader lines. See what I can do. Thanks. :D
So, I was tempted to begin work on Gol'iare, but I realized that I didn't really know how best to approach the style of color that I wanted to get. Luckily, a speed sketch went way beyond being just a sketch, and I'm getting some much needed practice for that. On the flip side, I've got a bunch of little projects going, and someone asked for a request of his own Turian, so I'm also now playing the balancing game on what to work on when. Not that I mind.
Few things:
1) I think I'm doing okay with variation in skin tone and blending the colors pretty well, though I know I could probably take it further. I have not gotten work done on his head nor the detail of his face yet. The arm is also only very basic — no variations there. But for the first time I've really giving my best effort at blending/color. . . I think this is a good foundation for not really having a reference or process thing or anything.
2) "Why is there a floating face?" someone asked me. Answer: Because I didn't leave enough room to do detail for his synthetic eyes in the original sketch. Floating face, go!
Hopefully I will have more to show during these next few weeks I have off, like this guy being finished, as my semester ended just two days ago. Feels like I'm getting a lot of stuff done and learning a lot in these past few nights, though.
Hot spit, that looks really awesome. I love the shading that borders on line-drawing in the face and would really love to see it in the rest of the illustration. It still feels pretty flat to me and lacking secondary shadows (the horn-things, arm tubes, and chest-thing aren't casting shadows, even soft ones, and probably should be), but I assume that's just due to it being unfinished. I really love where the face is going, and can't wait to see some highlights thrown up there.
Originally posted by rawismojo:Hot spit, that looks really awesome. I love the shading that borders on line-drawing in the face and would really love to see it in the rest of the illustration. It still feels pretty flat to me and lacking secondary shadows (the horn-things, arm tubes, and chest-thing aren't casting shadows, even soft ones, and probably should be), but I assume that's just due to it being unfinished. I really love where the face is going, and can't wait to see some highlights thrown up there.
They're casting some pretty weak shadows, yeah. I was just noticing them last night around 5 in the morning (discovered I do good work like this when I'm about ready to pass out from fatigue), so they're barely noticeable unless at, like, the 400% zoom or something I'm sitting at when I'm blending. I'm trying to figure out exactly how to approach them.
The goal tonight is a bit more work on the face and, more importantly, the arm. I want to focus on the face last since that's the most important point, I feel. So. . . Yeah. I'm still pretty happy with it, despite not really having any guide or anything. That's been general opinion on other sites too, so I know I'm doing at least something right. I'm hoping, some day in the future, to get this blending stuff down well enough that I can start bordering on a bit of realism. But for now, baby steps with tiny baby leaps of self-guided learning it is!
Thanks! :D
(Hopefully none of this comes off as bragging or anything. Genuinely am happy with it, so the tone to take away is newbie happiness.)
So, I got some secondary shadows going, I think. At least, I feel like there's depth. I don't know if I got rid of the "flat" feeling very well, in the parts where I felt it was having that problem the most, but. . . That might be my slight hesitation with color, since I'm pretty bad at actually entering into the color world. I feel a bit lost amongst it all.
But that said, given my pretty limited skillset in this area of work. . . I'm pretty happy with the final result. Though I'm still okay with hearing what is wrong for future reference, as I did get requested to draw someone's Turian character as well. So I'll end up doing something similar here shortly.
I really dig it. Some parts do feel a bit flat, as you mentioned, but I think that could be cured by being a bit more bold with your highlights. Some crisp highlights and secondary/diffused light sources can really help make it pop out. I really hate to admit, though, that I rather prefer the face on the WIP to the finished face. Your blending looks good, but I love the blotches of solid color in the WIP. It gives it a really awesome painterly quality that I really dig. I know it's working away from realism, but it's a quality I see in a lot of concept art that I wish I could replicate better. That said, I really like it.
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湯 in Japanese refers to "hot water." In Chinese, it means "soup." How common are kanji with different meanings in Chinese? Also, why do differences occur in the first place? Were the meanings in both languages originally the same and gradually diverged over time?
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When the Chinese writing system was introduced to Japan, the Japanese people tried to incorporate the Chinese characters, or Kanji, to the words that means the closest thing in the Japanese language. For example, the word たべる, which is a word that probably existed before monks from China introduced Kanji to the Japanese people. When Kanji is finally introduced, the Japanese people find that the the kanji 食 has the closest meaning to たべる, hence how 食べる is now written with the kanji 食. Inevitably, some meanings did not translate exactly the same when it was introduced to the Japanese language and some differences did arise. Now how exactly did this difference arise, it's open for debate.
Notable differences you will see are examples like 勉強 which means "to study" in Japanese, but it means "reluctance" in Chinese. 大丈夫 which means "Are you alright?" in Japanese and "Grown-up man" in Chinese. 手紙 which means "letter" in Japanese, and in Chinese it means "toilet paper" (I just learned that recently too). 高等学校 which means "high school" in Japanese and "college" in Chinese. As for words with individual Kanji, I can't think of many right now, but I suspect they exist as well, but majority of them I believe are compound Kanji words.
There is another more obvious cases of difference in Japanese kanji and Chinese kanji, and these are known as 和製漢字 (wasei-kanji, not to be confused with 和製英語 wasei-eigo), which means Japanese created kanji. 峠 is one such example. However in this case the Kanji itself does not exist in the Chinese language.
Now, if your goal is to communicate effectively in both languages, it's important to know that majority of the time Kanji in Japanese and Chinese does actually means, or almost means the same thing, what you do need to know is that Kanji will not be used in the same context to say the same thing in Chinese and Japanese. For example, 食 does mean food in both Chinese and Japanese, but you will probably not see Chinese people use the word 食 to mean "to eat" like how the Japanese do. But in the ancient Chinese,食 also means "to eat".For example 食之无味 。And in Cantonese 食 still means "to eat" today.For example 食饭。These are differences in usage, not necessarily differences in meaning.
湯 does mean hot/boiling water in Classical Chinese (but not in modern varieties like Mandarin or Cantonese or Min where it means "soup"). The Classical Chinese reading is preserved in the saying 赴湯蹈火 "to step through hot water [and] tread on fire".
A nice list can be found in sci.lang.japan FAQ (which is itself worth reading to people learning Japanese).
I know that 鮪 (まぐろ, tuna) means "蝶鮫" (ちょうざめ, sturgeon), and that 鮭 (さけ, salmon) means 鰒 (ふぐ,fugu) in Chinese.
It seems that the mistakes comes from reading the descriptions of the fish without seeing actually what the writer meant. Then, interpretation errors let to putting a fish name on another fish.
Source: 日本人の知らない日本語, volume 1.
I know this was asked a long time ago, but i will answer in case someone else wants this info.I'm more of a Chinese learner looking to also learn Japanese. So if anyone can correct me, feel free to. Here are some words I've seen that have the same or almost the same character and the same meanings. Sorry I didn't include tones for all of them, I got lazy.
歌, means song, is Gē in Mandarin, uta in Japanese
Here are some that are really similar but not quite the same: 学习 Learning/Xuexi vs. 学ぶ Learning/Manabu. The first character is the same, second is not
透明 Transparent/Tou ming vs. 透明な Transparent/ to mei ha (Jap. has one more character)
黑 Black/Hei1 vs. 黒 Black/Kuro (The box in Chinese is different, but otherwise the character looks similar.


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I have a lot of maps (over 600) to create. They all contain the same column titles and the layouts will be the same. I don't want to have to go through and repeat the same process everytime, I would like to just have to open the file and have it map on its own. I have created a workspace to open the other tables I need for every map, but I need to know if it is possible to write a program or code with mapbasic to ask the user to specify what table to open, then using that finish the program by joining the tables and mapping. The first and last parts I can do. I just need to know how to create a dialog box to have the user select the table, or if it is even possible.
Yes it is indeed possible to create a dialog box to have the user select a table. Here's a link to the mapbasic 11 reference manual. Page 93 contains the information you require.
There are two solutions in MapBasic to let the user select the table. I wrote down the related code samples. In the first way, the user can cancel the operation. In that case mypath will be an empty string. However, in the second way, MapInfo gives you an error when the user cancel the operation.
First way:
Second way:
If you want to customize your dialog box you can use the .NET-platform, there is a good sample of how to make the connection at {yourMapInfoInstallationFolder}\MapInfo\MapBasic\Samples\DOTNET\HelloWorld.


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RICHMOND - The Edison football team tallied 35 unanswered points en route to a 41-20 victory over Weir Friday night at Cartwright Memorial Field.
"I am proud of our kids," Edison head coach Mike McKenzie said. "I was disappointed in the first quarter and in the first half. They built a 20-6 lead.
"It would have been easy for our kids to start questioning everything we have done, but they rallied. Hopefully, this is a turning point for us."
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HOME OPENER — Edison's Chris Graziani ran for 151 yards and four touchdowns in?Friday's 41-20 victory over visiting Weir.
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BARKING SIGNALS — Weir middle linebacker Daren Baldwin shouts out defensive signals during Friday's 41-20 loss at Edison.
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"We played well in the first half. They played well in the second half," Weir head coach Tony Filberto said. "We looked like an offensive team. We looked like a defensive team. In the second half, we didn't get stops, and they did. That was the difference in the football game.
"We are making strides."
The Red Riders scored the first 14 points of the game before Edison got on the scoreboard in the second quarter. Weir regained a double-digit lead with its third score of the game, but the rest of the game belonged to the Wildcats.
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Edison 41, Weir 20
Weir 8 12 0 0 - 20
Edison 0 13 14 14 - 41
W: Larch 1 run (DiGiorlamo run)
W: Larch 3 run (run failed)
E: Graziani 23 run (run failed)
W: Larch 50 run (run failed)
E: Graziani 4 run (Marcus kick)
E: Springer 33 pass from Marcus (Marcus kick)
E: Graziani 30 run (Marcus kick)
E: Graziani 1 run (Marcus kick)
E: Springer 23 pass from Marcus (Marcus kick)
RUSHING: Weir 41-214-3 (Larch 29-164-3, DiGiroloamo 6-22, Bennett 5-30, Rice 1-(-2). Edison: 39-376-4 (Graziani 23-151-4, Marcus 11-94, Shannon 5-31).
PASSINNG: Weir 6-14-111-0-0 (all by Larch). Edison 7-10-172-2-0 (all by Marcus)
RECEIVING: Weir Barnes 2-83, Rice 1-20, Bennett 1-3, Davis 2-5. Edison: Springer 3-78-2, Shannon 2-54, Ross 2-30
FIRST DOWNS: Weir 13, Edison 16.
FUMBLES: Weir 0-0, Edison 2-1.
PENALTIES: Weir 2-6, Edison 5-28.
Edison ended up scoring two touchdowns in each of the final three quarters to pull away for the big victory.
Offensively, the Wildcats were led by the dynamic duo of quarterback Nolan Marcus and running back Chris Graziani. Marcus accounted for 264 yards of offense, while Graziani gained 151 yards.
Marcus seven of 10 passes for 174 and two touchdowns, and the first-year starter ran for 90 yards on 14 carries. Marcus also converted six extra points.
"We have big expectations," McKenzie said about Marcus. "He can run. He can throw well. At times, he plays a little too fast. He needs to slow down. Tonight, the game slowed down for him, and that made him comfortable."
Graziani rushed for 151 yards and four touchdowns on 25 carries.
Richie Springer recorded 88 yards and two touchdowns on three receptions. Ethan Shannon netted 83 yards of offense.
William Larch contributed 276 yards of total offense to lead the way for the Red Riders.
"He's very good," Filberto said.
Larch completed six of 14 passes for 110 yards. He also amassed 166 yards on the ground on 29 carries.
"Those all weren't designed runs," Filberto said.
Matt Barnes snagged two passes for 83 yards to lead the way. A 72-yard catch and run by Barnes set up the first score of the game.
Weir opened the scoring on a 1-yard run by Larch. Phil DiGirolamo ran in for the 2-point conversion making the score 8-0 with 8:50 left to play in the first quarter.
The Red Riders added to their lead early in the second stanza.
Larch scored his second touchdown of the game to make the score 14-0. His second-scoring run covered 3 yards. The 2-point conversion run failed keeping the score at 14-0 with 11:58 left to play before halftime.
The Wildcats got on the board on a 23-yard run by Graziani. The 2-point conversion pass failed keeping the score 14-6 with 4:45 left to play before halftime.
Edison attempted an onside kick, but Weir was able to recover the ball at midfield. On the next play, Larch scampered 50 yards for a touchdown making the score 20-6. The conversion run failed again keeping the score 20-6 with 4:34 remaining in the first half.
After the touchdown, the Red Riders also attempted an onside kick, but the Wildcats were able to recover the ball. Edison drove down the field, and Graziani capped the march with a 4-yard run. The extra point by Marcus made the score 20-13 with 2:15 to play before halftime.
"We started tackling better in the second half," McKenzie said. "It was a tale of two halves."
The Wildcats tied the score at 20 on the first drive of the second half. Marcus hooked up with Springer for a 33-yard score, and the PAT tied the score with 10:55 to play in the third quarter.
Graziani gave the Wildcats a 26-20 lead on a 30-yard run with 5:04 showing on the clock. The extra point made it 27-20.
In the fourth quarter, Graziani scored from the 1, and Marcus' extra point made the score 34-20 with 11:55 left to play in the game. Later, Springer hauled in a 23-yard pass from Marcus, and the conversion kick made it 41-20 with 5:51 left to play in the game.
"This kind of got the monkey off of our back," McKenzie said. "It was a taking a physical toll. I was physically sick. I could feel the pressure on my chest. Hopefully, we can build on that."
Weir plays Friday night at Grafton, while Edison travels south to play Union Local.
"Four out of first five games are on the road," McKenzie said. "Our first game was a home game, but this was the first time we got to play here. We are going to be the road warriors again."


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I am aware the Emperor Meiji abolished the Samurai class during the reformation. Why did he do so? How was it enforced?
The Charter Oath promulgated at the enthronement of Emperor Meiji of Japan on 7 April 1868 includes several parts that identify the reasons for the radical social restructure that followed the Meiji restoration and an indication of the motivations for the dissolution of the warrior class that had been a defining characteristic of Japanese society.
The determination to remove the "base customs" of the past drove the new government to dismantle the old Confucian based social order. This included the removal of the restrictions and privileges that had defined the samurai, peasant, artisan and merchant classes.
During the summer of 1869 Tokyo formally reclassified the population as nobles, former samurai and commoners.
In 1871 the Tokyo government assumed the responsibility for paying stipends to the former samurai. This immediately accounted for almost one-third of the government's expenditure. This massive financial obligation created pressure to abolish the subsidies entirely.
Despite less than universal support amongst the new leaders, in 1873 the Daijō-kan (department of state) offered interest-bearing goverment bonds to former samurai who surrendered their stipends. Three years later it made that exchange obligatory.
In 1876 ex-warriors were deprived the right to carry swords.
These steps to dissolve the military estate coincided with the establishment of a conscript army based on the Prussian and French models. Vice minister of military affairs Yamagata had seen the efficacy of these armies first hand in Europe and in 1873 enacted a Conscription Ordinance:
This landmark measure was a major step in the disfranchising of the samurai estate and vastly strengthened the regime's authority by creating a force capable of dealing with countercoups and providing internal security.
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James L. McClain. Japan, a modern history W.W. Norton & Co, 2002
... and as Steven I think implies, the power of the samurai continued in the Japanese Army. This was one reason why the army had no problem doing all their evil in the name of the 'Emperor', while actually doing everything they could to ensure his opinion was never allowed to interfere. This reflected previous Japanese history when Emperors were puppets of the shogun.
This appears to have happened roughly around 1873, when Emperor Meiji decided to change his military structure to use a conscripted army. He was attempting to modernize Japan by following the examples he had seen from England and Germany. Most of the Samurai volunteered to become soldiers and many eventually became officers in the new modernized Japanese army. By eliminating the Samurai, the emperor was also attempting to eliminate the feudal domains that had separated the country into different political domains, thereby reinforcing support for his centralized government.


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The 5 Most Pointless Ways Big Budget Movies Blew Millions
#2. Superman Returns
Bryan Singer spent a lot of money (somewhere around $175-200 million) on his mopey love-letter to Richard Donner's 1978 classic. Some of it went to creating digital Supermen to throw around Space Shuttles and stalk Kate Bosworth. Some of it went towards making dingy swimsuits with mankini underwear made out of recycled basketballs. But for all the money spent on Emoman Lifts Successively Heavier Things: The Vague Sequel, two of the biggest effects expenditures saw little to no screentime at all.
But they left in all the lifting.
Singer set about five minutes of his two- and a half-hour movie in Smallville, Kansas. Being that he was filming in Australia, there weren't that many cornfields on which to build the Kent homestead. Instead of studying his script, realizing that almost every scene in Smallville was completely unnecessary, and cutting the location out completely, Singer built a four-mile road outside of Tamworth, Australia, and grew a cornfield for four months to shoot on. He then deleted two-thirds of the sequences he shot with the cornfield, because after first viewing he realized his movie was really fucking boring and nothing happens.
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Another sequence he lost was a scene where Superman, in a spaceship (even though they show him meditating in space later in the movie) examines the shattered remains of Krypton. Shots of it could be seen in the trailers, and word was it lent the film a creepy, otherworldly vibe. Since Singer had creepy and otherworldly covered with the introduction of Superbastard, the Dead-Eyed Piano Slinging Asthmatic to the story, on top of the fact everyone knows Krypton exploded, he cut the sequence. He replaced it with white text on black background, which just as effectively brought the audience up to speed on why Supes left, and where he went. Cost of replacement? Maybe five bucks. Cost of deleted Krypton scene? $10 million.
#1. Independence Day
There's usually a couple observances a moviegoers make upon experiencing the orgy of 'splosion and flame that is ID4: 1) There's no way the fucking dog should have lived, and 2) That was some pretty good CGI, wasn't it?
While there were a few instances of computer generated airplanes, and laser beams, most of the $75 million budget went towards building models and miniatures, then blowing them all up with the sort of glee backwoods rednecks take in shoving firecrackers up some poor roadkill's pucker. And why not spend it on the 'splodies? Like they're going to spend it on the script? You only need one line, and it's "Welcome to Earf," which very well may have been ad-libbed since that's just how Will Smith says hello to everybody.
"I think I broke my hand on your exoskeleton."
Basically, if it got blown up onscreen, it actually got built and blown up. The most well-known example is the White House explosion. It cost well over $2 million alone once you factor in the construction of the 1/12th scale model, the nine cameras shooting the explosion in slo-mo, and the footage being turned into a Super Bowl commercial. They blew up so much balsa wood and plastic on set that even the deleted scenes were rigged with explosives, including a sequence where a replica of the bus from Speed crashes through a billboard for Stargate. This scene exemplified Roland Emmerich's concept of "subtlety," which is why it was cut from the final film.
Scene from Emmerich's unreleased remake of Grapes of Wrath.
This seems like a pretty inefficient method of wrecking the world, until you realize that the cost-cutting nature of CGI is largely a myth. Sure, movies like District 9 manage impressive visuals with a budget of $40 million or less, but look at something like Spider-Man 3: They spent about $300 million making Lowell from Wings into talking cat litter, and transforming Eric Foreman into the creamy nougat filling at the center of Venom. Suddenly $70 million worth of cherry bombs and models sounds (and looks) pretty damned good.
Check out Bobby's pop-culture mashups and remixes over at the Geek Remixed page one his site. For more cinematic WTF-ery, check out 20 Baffling Foreign Movie Posters and 7 Horrifying Moments from Classic Kids Movies.
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24 Apr 2012 4:47 AM #1
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was just asking myself he same question.
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Anyone else disappointed with what woot! has become?
When I first started coming here it was woot, shirt., and wine.. With the more sites woot! adds the quality of the deals goes does dramatically. I know that the mentality changed when Amazon bought the company. Bags of Crap were there actually worth waiting up for. You could get 8 sansa (2 working), a roomba, a pallet of buckets, or if you were really lucky a brown zune. Now everyone gets the same foot flush, puppy calendar, and reusable grocery bag. I used to love to check what the woot was, everyday at 1 a.m. (east coast) because the deal may have been too good. Now I barely even check it.
Anyway, is anyone else disappointed with what woot! has become?
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Oh dear. This is a common theme in several threads already.
I think we need to agree to disagree with Woot's new methods. They are not the woot we started with and they will continue to change to meet their business needs.
Four months ago, I said this:
... with every subsection.woot, it's becoming less "woot" and more "just another e-commerce site" ...
I had zero excitement that earlier in the week, we had a Woot-off, knowing that anything I missed will probably show up in one of the Woot plus sales at some point.
Yesterday was random shirts on shirt.woot, and I didn't care. OTOH, random shirts at @ramyb's TeeTurtle excites me and I'm downright ecstatic over the mystery shirts at GoodJoe.
There are still good aspects here at Woot, and I still hang around for the community, both here and at shirt (now that cake is back for good). And if it wasn't for shirt.woot, I would have never met someone as special as @neuropsychosocial. But with the one day, one deal site that I used to know gone, Woot just isn't Woot anymore.
Quite. With the Amazon change they are just another mini-Amazon. In the past Woot-off's were something to look forward to for a good deal and interesting new items. Now they are just recycling the same stuff we see every day. Oft times the prices they are offering are the same as other sites.
Agreed, Woot is just not Woot anymore. Do I see a Netflix boondoggle in the offing?
Woot has become that indie band that used to be cool but found mainstream success and abandoned or alienated its original fan base in favor striking it rich.
Woot is just Amazon's overstock liquidation department now. Most of the Woots are in the hundreds of dollars and the same crap TVs, cameras ands laptops over and over. Gone are the days of leak frogs, light up toilet handles, woot lights, and monkeys. I used to buy lots of inexpensive stuff during woot offs. And have a massive monkey collection. I hardly pay attention to the woot offs anymore. I'm not afraid to miss anything any more because there is so rarely anything really worth it.
@cengland0: Indeed. It seems (bag of) crapping on Woot is the fad of the moment. Like many fads, it has already gotten old.
EDIT: To stave off the flood of downvotes, I want to make it clear I'm not disagreeing with the thought itself, just agreeing with cengland0 that the thought has already been expressed before, and now seems to be expressed daily.
I'm more disappointed with what a community of whiners deals.woot has become.
The new "Cash Grab" thing (when something sells out they're going to put up a new item) pretty much kills what Woot? was: Great Deal, Buy it NOW, when it's Gone it's GONE BABY.
"Cash Grab" is essentially a constant Woot Off.
Screaming Woot Monkeys soon to be replaced by Jumping Sharks.
Alas dear Woot...I knew you well...
Its been crap ever since Amazon bough them. I used to buy multiple items every woot off and now there is hardly anything good out there.
Woot has become too main stream.
When I joined it was one deal, one day.
Now its lots of deals for various lengths of time, like every other website.
Also, wIth no BOC during Woot-Offs I have no motivation to stick around.
@stile99: as a community driven site (deals.woot) isn't it our job to express how we feel till the point is driven home?
@philosopherott: I guess I don't see deals.woot as being a stage for the woot as a whole. deals.woot is a deal aggregation site for posting and talking about deals. woot has it's own forum where you all can go to complain about how you feel woot has sold out and how terrible it has become. The daily deals suck? Post about it at woot. The shirts suck? Post about it at shirt.woot. Someone over in those forums might even care how you feel. The staff that control the deals.woot forums probably care more about the postings at deals.woot. There is some crossover with the staff, but they're just as likely to see your posts there as they are here and then we don't have to see your daily complaint posts.
@philosopherott: That is one way of looking at it, yes. But since we all know it is not going to change, at what point does 'constructive criticism' become 'incessant whining'?
@superloud: YES! WHINERS!
The deals aren't 'good' or 'unique' enough for you? APPLY TO BE A BUYER FOR WOOT! Otherwise, shut your pie hole. Guess what, THE ECONOMY ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH NEITHER IS THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE!
If they sold $5 64GB iPads everyone would still complain about 'what amazon has done to woot' and how 'it used to be all just fun and now its blah blah blah'
It's enough to make a grown man cry. SHUT UP!
@superloud: aren't the other sites part of that aggrigation? i aggree that you should keep a site specific topic there usually but if there is a woot issue you want to talk about isn't this the palce to di it because it is more community driven and an aggrigation.
@stile99: IMHO I thnk that it becomes incessant when there has been an answer to a complaint or question, but if tihere is no responce from those in charge I say keep asking or suggesting til they say something. Honestly idk where the line is but for me I believe if someoen would just say something to address the community issues, questions, and concerns we would all feel a little better.
IDK if we just got spoiled because of how great a community this is and the great customer service that is offered here. I feel that this is not just a store or a site it is a community of people be we chatters, purchasers or staff. IDK I guess i felt that we as a community where being listened to in the past. i just don't know...
@philosopherott: I don't know, I guess the community is whatever the people in it want it to be. woot is going to continue to evolve in a way that makes it more money, as it would regardless of whether or not amazon bought it out. It's what businesses do. It sure looks like it must be working, they aren't showing any signs of turning back. If the deals.woot community wants this forum to become an endless discussion of how terrible they think woot is becoming and pointless questions in search of worthless internet points I guess that's what it will be.
@cengland0: multiple threads mean multiple people are sick and tired with what has been going on around here
well, i'm going to say some stuff that you prolly won't like, but in the spirit of pragmatism, here goes:
consider that A) people tend to be resistant to change - particularly when they are not the ones in control of said changes, and B) happy people rarely take the time to write a post.
i'm not saying it's all super, and i'm not saying certain concerns aren't unfounded.
i love you all, and hope you have a happy african-american friday.
Yes, because growing a company and adapting it to meet the changes in the retail world and increased competition should not be allowed! Things should stay the same always until they are antiquated and the company has no recourse but to declare bankruptcy!
Creating new jobs to support this growing business is just downright pathetic. What were we thinking?
//now, how do I get off this soapbox? Over there? Got it. Thanks. Here, have a Twinkie.
Nothing will ever make everyone happy, this is true.
Companies must change and adapt to survive, also true.
When a company abandons its base completely, it can do wonders for them, still true.
Perhaps these changes are what is best for the company and wanting woot to stay what it was 6 years ago is selfish of old-school members. Change sucks most of the time.
However; alienating a core of vocal supporters, who's input and support was absolutely necessary to get woot to this point, then sarcastically (in a way that insinuates that they are just to dense to understand business) snarking at them to shut up so you feel better about it is just, rude.
But hey, change right? Pardon me while I wait for this answer and any questions or comments on site crashes/failures get deleted.
@thumperchick: I'm sure most - or at least I hope most - understand the business side of our changes. However, it's rarely brought up in the discussion. The constant theme is the desire for us to go back to selling one thing a day on one site. For thwt to happen, I would lose my job as would many other faithful staffers.
My intent wasn't to alienate but to to play the devil's advocate to stir conversation and debate on BOTH sides of the discussion.
It got you to post, right?
@thunderthighs: That it did. Though I wouldn't say for the betterment of the conversation. o.O
@thumperchick: It absolutely is. Stirring up debate is always good.
My poor little black triangle may not appreciate all the down votes though. Heh.
@thumperchick: Loud applause! Very well said!!
I wish to add a personal note: I'm a happy person who often takes time to post. Some of those posts apparently seem negative to TPTB. I wonder why? <---rhetorical question. Or maybe I'm seen as an unhappy person. :-/ Whatever the rationale (read: implied view of mods, etc.), it's becoming less & less welcoming to say anything here.
Odd, how I view my questions/posts as constructive criticism. Also have made many positive suggestions for changes. Most have been ignored.
@gmwhit: Sorry you are feeling unwelcome to post. What is causing that? I hope it's not because some of the staffers respond now and then. I always skim the posts on suggestions and complaints. Many are repeat discussions so there's really not much to add. Today, I decided to stir the debate a bit.
I know many don't believe this but every bit of that Beta feedback was read, compiled, and discussed. We've already implemented many improvements based on those (oh, please don't ask me to list them. I couldn't.). There are others that won't be implemented because they don't sync up with our business goals and directions. That doesn't mean we ignored them though.
@thunderthighs: You said, "... The constant theme is the desire for us to go back to selling one thing a day on one site." Maybe there are some die-hards out there that continue to be delusional and want a complete reversal. I am not one of those. I understand that will never happen.
I believe that much of the discontent is the lack of response from "those who MAKE changes." Whomever they might be at this point. Re: The new (still Beta) site: I immediately said I loved the tabs. Easier to navigate, etc.
Re: The long gone, "One Deal a Day" brand: The site has now become a colossal joke of 2 bajillion deals a day. Difficult to FIND anything. Not customer friendly. Too many new SITES and plus deals. It's difficult, if not impossible to shop here.
Why not just admit that you're now a storefront site? AND make it such. With categories of items where you can easily find what you're looking for. Put a CART system in, so you can shop like you can on any other storefront type sites.
The "deal a day" business model isn't a scalable one. I understand needing to sell more than 1 item per day to allow the company to grow and that is why we have 8-10 different woot sites. This website format, however, is also not scalable. A site with 10 tabs to check and then 5-10 pages for each of those tabs is not a friendly format for the consumer. You can't just keep adding site after site so you can sell more stuff. Lose the 1 item per day pretense and you can list a BUNCH of stuff every day in one place like Amazon does. I really don't understand the "Cash Grab" thing... If you have stuff to sell why not list it all at one time? Why do we have to wait 6 hours and/or keep checking back to buy a new item?
Woot doesn't sell 1 item per day anymore so they can grow and not fire the staff...that's fine, but why not just list your full catalog of items like you've done for shirt.woot? If profit is the concern, I think that would help.
@thunderthighs: My unease is not caused by staff responses. Though, those that are blatantly sarcastic, demeaning or dismissive are not welcome. Most of the bad taste in my mouth is caused by LACK of responses from those who make the decisions.
Not that a high-level manager should respond to lowly me...BUT, it would be nice if his/her delegate acknowledged suggestions/questions. And....ACTION was taken. Long before lichme submitted his FAQs, I made a suggestion that they would be helpful. Naive me. Had no idea that the same suggestion had been repeated years before. Nothing done. Lichme's FAQs flounder...it's been around 6 months now. You're "still working on them." HUH?????
Will add once again: My overall dismay is not directed to you, or any other mod. I know you're in a very difficult position. And, I've heard you all say you've bumped up the questions/suggestions.
Long ago I said that if I was no longer happy here, I would leave. Still here w/a thin thread of hope left.
Would it kill the person in charge of Woot! to put out a Christmas letter with an update of Woot and where they want to go in the future? The issue is that, in the original orgins of Woot, we are not just customers but also family. Why else would there be a way to ask questions on deals.woot and the ability to post comments and reviews and have them stay up there on all other woot sites? Woot may not be our baby but we are the community that helped raise it and there is a vested interest.
I do not want to go into great detail, but it seems like the shirt.woot issue all over again. Changes were already decided upon a year earlier, changes were made to "keep things the way they were" and then the masive change came. Keep the community involved and these changes might go a little easier.
We care about Woot and want what is best for it. That is all.
@gmwhit: CART! YES!! CART!!
For the love of customer satisfaction, Woot, if you're going to give us these multiple woot sites from which to select all these questionable bargains, PLEASE give us a cart to load and a single check out.
Ok, so maybe it would not be a feasible option during a woot-off, but you could disable the cart system during that special time of the month, couldn't you?
A cart. My Screaming Woot Monkeys for a multi-site cart!
@thunderthighs: you have Twinkies to give away...I will take one please :)
@gmwhit: You have stated what's on many minds.....again. Not that any of this thread will matter to TPTB.
Great comments and discussion. It's true that we are no longer a one deal, one day site. We do still operate differently than a typical retail site though because we don't maintain an inventory from which you can order at any time. We sell each item until sold out and it's gone either for good or until we decide to get more in to sell again.
It's this model that keeps us from moving to a cart check out. In a cart shopping model, you can put something in the cart and check out later that day or even the next day. For a fast selling item, this means that either you are holding one that someone who is ready can't purchase, or it will be sold out when you decide to finalize your purchase. When you finalize your purchase, you are reserving that item for you. That's why we do an authorization charge to ensure the the purchase will go through - if not approved, the item is released for sale to the next individual.
Hopefully that all made sense.
@thunderthighs: Okay. I understand that you don't maintain an inventory, per se. Other retail sites (storefronts w/CARTS) are the same. Aren't they? They have X amount of items in stock. They fill those orders, & when they sell out, they decide to reorder. Or not. Amazon is an excellent example of this. No comparison intended. ;-) I could just have easily mentioned K-Mart, Sears, Overstock, etc.
The huge difference is you can SHOP on these sites. It's nearly impossible to shop on woot. It is burdensome & cumbersome to go to each mini-site and plow through all the deals. And the Plus deals.
Re: Cart shopping. The retail sites I go to have the same caveat - If you don't check out, you might lose the item. That's the norm as I see it.
From my perspective you've changed...but only 1/2 way. You're still trying to operate in the old - here's "1 deal. Buy it mode." That's not working very well now from a customer's perspective. You have MANY, MANY deals & they're not searchable.
No comment about the positives or negatives about the woot changes, but I find it interesting that so many people are so upset about the sarcasm showed by the staff while you cry for old woot. That IS old woot!
@gmwhit: that's a really good point (not searchable). Our Google search is pretty useless. I just wrote a long email explaining the suggestion and sent it off. Thanks for that viewpoint. Just remember that things move slowly so don't look for anything on Monday. =P
@gmwhit: now on to inventory.... I believe we are quite different than the mainstream retail store and site.
Amazon has multiple huge warehouses across the country as does every other large retailer. Their goal is to be your one stop shopping place so they need to have the items in stock or you will go someplace else. They keep inventory on hand in multiple warehouses to make sure it's where it's needed and can be restocked quickly.
Our goal is to get it in the front door and out the back door as fast as possible. We keep very little inventory on hand. We very much a "just in time" operation. We get the stuff shortly before we sell it and move it as quickly as possible.
PS: if some sentences don't make sense, it might be my iPad being mischievous. Just ask.
@thunderthighs: Laughing hysterically about your comment, "Just remember that things move slowly so don't look for anything on Monday." :-D Monday of what month? Scratch that - what year?
If I haven't told you lately how much I appreciate you - please know that I have great respect for you & the job you're doing. I do know you're held back by the short hairs. (Oh, crap! I don't know if I can say that! If it's not allowed, please delete that part, and put in...'I do know that you're doing the best job you can given the parameters & limitations of your job.)
@thunderthighs: Re: Inventory, etc. Yes, I know you're not enormous like Amazon. And yet, they, too, started out being 'little.' (I think they started out w/Pez's..as their only offering. Could be wrong, though.)
Anyway, they've grown and become quite efficient. What I'm trying to impart is, woot is growing, too. But you're NOT efficient. If you want repeat customers, I believe you will have to lose the 1 deal a day - we're just a little old home-grown local thing business image.
It was your choice to add SO many different sites. And SO many Plus deals. Now you need to make it an easy & a pleasant experience for customers to shop those deals. And put them in a cart. IMO, this 'business model' isn't working.
@thunderthighs: Lately I've been trying to stay out of trouble, but I feel the need to point out something in respect to the comparison with Amazon, in the points and counterpoints about the shopping cart. You can simply follow the position that Amazon takes on lightening deals.
User puts something in a cart. User doesn't buy it in X time. Cart loses that item. Sure, it's a little more complexity on your side, but certainly doable. Yes, it is too (I say to those hidden naysayers). Amazon's site is one of the most complex in the industry. If they can handle this one-off event, I have to believe that Woot can also.
As a side point, in product descriptions, sarcasm cracks me up. In responses to genuine questions, it doesn't.
You know I've always liked you (no, really, I mean it). Dallas people will always be my favorites. I can't help it.
I hope I don't come off as a pissy whiner all the time upinheeyah, because on this end of the keyboard, I'm not. I do call what I see, though.
In response to the original post; yes I am disappointed in what Woot has become, but not because of Woot changes per se.
Woot is Woot.
I buy stuff or I don't, I don't really care about how it's delivered. I've been here since '05 and haven't cracked 100 purchase, what does that say?
Back on topic; I am disappointed because many of the cool kids have left and the place has lost its "community" charm.
I don't think it will get it back, because the Woot demographic is now, by necessity, the casual shopper, and they don't stop to chat, only complain when something goes wrong.
If woot! was not a big success and making barrels of money when Amazon bought it,
they would not have. In my opinion after that purchase they then did like most internet related companies do and totally destroyed what was once innovating. Almost as if they were wiping out a competitor.
You can measure how woot! has been slipping in popularity by the comments on items sold during the woot! off's. Where a year or more ago, there would be hundreds of comments for each item, now there are less than a hundred. Most times less than two dozen. You can lie and say I am wrong and woot!'s popularity is not slipping, but that would be like Microsoft's claim that Windows 8 is selling waay better than Windows 7.
The cluttered page really turned me off from woot!. It looks like my desk, nothing in a proper place, and hard to find anything. I know I quit looking at ten PM Pacific to see the new item, and watching a woot! off is but a fading memory.
@shrdlu: I'm snickering about "...been trying to stay out of trouble." You are aware that your input is so needed here aren't you? Trouble? What can they do to you..that would be of consequence?
Instead of the Lightening deals, I would relate the cart issue more to Amazon's Gold Box Deals - they're 1 day deals like woot's. The Lightening deals are 1 hr. +- deals that end then, or when sold out. Gold Box deals = 1 day. When it's sold out, it's gone. You know, like the original woot deals were. And, like any of the other woot site's deals. (Not the Plus deals, those can last ad infinitum in some cases.)
A cart, a way of finding deals. My suggestion is a drop down menu of categories. Like store-front sites have. An aside: Improving the Google search, to me, is NOTt an improvement. Most customers don't want to have to 'think' about the exact or correct wording to search/find something. Categories, such as Home, Wine, Kids, T's, Electronics, etc. would be an excellent beginning.
@gmwhit: Interesting. That's pretty much what I described in my email.
@thunderthighs: Sputter! Gasp! You mentioned short hairs in your email? ::innocent look::
When I started, Woot was just woot. There was not any subsites yet. As they started getting added, I really didn't have any issues. I've bought quite a few shirts, and use the snot out of deals.woot. My big gripe is now with the Woot Plus crap, and how sometimes they'll replace a thing when it sells out, instead of the whole 1 thing for 24 hours.
@gmwhit: Started out selling Pez dispensers was eBay...and it is an urban legend. B-)


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