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Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:29
The HDD is required for FFXI demo to install the PlayOnline browser and the game, both of which will hopefully run off the DVD on the final release. I have it.
Of course some games will need a HDD. The sort of games that will are for the sort of people who'll have one anyhow! Besides, backwards compatability already did this rift.
Of course some games will need a HDD. The sort of games that will are for the sort of people who'll have one anyhow! Besides, backwards compatability already did this rift.
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:41
Seriously, what retard actually believed (besides my best friend) Sony when it said " PS3 in March!!!!1111!!!! ".
Microsoft has a lot of variables against it
1) developers are lazy... you give them any kind of medium they'll put it full of crap and do absolutelty no effort of keeping their code clean... data is like gas in that matter, it will fill up the entire space regardless. However Blizzard, Nintendo and few others have proven that with some effort you can fit any game on a couple of cd's.
2) add-ons, always a bad thing, they spilt up your user-base eventually or you have to go restrict developers and they hate that too.
Sony is a lying hypebitch, we all know that from the PS2 and PSP...and now it becomes clear MS is one too...right, where are the negativity columns now? I know Nintendo receiving a lot of them before it became clear the DS is actually the saviour of gaming innovation (UK:R reference) for far less.
Microsoft has a lot of variables against it
1) developers are lazy... you give them any kind of medium they'll put it full of crap and do absolutelty no effort of keeping their code clean... data is like gas in that matter, it will fill up the entire space regardless. However Blizzard, Nintendo and few others have proven that with some effort you can fit any game on a couple of cd's.
2) add-ons, always a bad thing, they spilt up your user-base eventually or you have to go restrict developers and they hate that too.
Sony is a lying hypebitch, we all know that from the PS2 and PSP...and now it becomes clear MS is one too...right, where are the negativity columns now? I know Nintendo receiving a lot of them before it became clear the DS is actually the saviour of gaming innovation (UK:R reference) for far less.
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:08
OptimusP wrote:
Seriously, what retard actually believed (besides my best friend) Sony when it said " PS3 in March!!!!1111!!!! ".
I thought Sony said "Spring 2006"? I'd consider up until the end of May to be Spring.
If Sony launch in Japan at the end of May, they'll have done exactly what they said they would.
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:21
tyrion wrote:
I thought Sony said "Spring 2006"? I'd consider up until the end of May to be Spring.
june 21st actually no?
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Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:33
Yep, end of June's the start of summer. So they still have a while to get it out in Japanaland.
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:18
Bitterman wrote:
And yet, just the other day when the suggestions crops up that Sony's PS3 might release in the US at the end of this year (no mention of Europe), you called it "good news" - despite Sony's promises of releasing in Spring 2006!
I don't remember Sony ever mentioning Spring 2006 for US or Europe. Ergo, Spring 2006 for Japan. Which, as has been said before, if Sony does release the PS3 by the end of June, then they'll be doing as they say they would be doing.
Bitterman wrote:
Can't you please lay off the fanboyism long enough to just, y'know, report the news?
And here's SPOnG doing the same thing to Sony. Can hardly be called fanboys if they pull Sony up on the same s**t that Microsoft's to blame for.
OSNAPZ!
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:46
fluffstardx wrote:
Yep, end of June's the start of summer.
In which hemisphere?
The summer solstice is June 21st. Summer is halfway over by that date.
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:33
DoctorDee wrote:
In which hemisphere?
The summer solstice is June 21st. Summer is halfway over by that date.
The summer solstice is June 21st. Summer is halfway over by that date.
i know your several years out of high school but this is seriously disapointing me doc!
(or coudl be a regional difference)
3 months = 1 season
december 21st (winter solstice, shortest day of the year) is the first day of winter
march21 (vernal equinox, is same time day and night) and is the start of spring
june21st (summer solstice, longest day of the year) is the first day of summer
september 21st (autumnal equinox, day/night) first day of fall
although the date do vary due to closes to leap years if you wana be specific... but thats how it breaks down. least over here in M'ERCA!
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Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:16
LUPOS wrote:
i know your several years out of high school but this is seriously disapointing me doc!
Since Druidic times (that's approximately thousands of years before the pasty man went to Merka), Midsummer's day has been celebrated at the summer solstice.
Taking your three month seasons, that makes 21st December Midwinter. And start of Spring/Autumn around Early February, Late August.
Thing is seasons are not really three months long - they differ greatly depending on lattitude. And we experience thermal lag, that means that all the hottest days of summer are after 21st June.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:32
Okay, here's how the researchers at Auntie suggest the seasons work...
The BBC wrote:
Summer
The day the north pole is nearest the Sun is called the 'summer solstice'. (You can see this from the picture on the right). Looking from Earth, the Sun reaches its highest point in the sky all year. This means it takes the most amount of time to cross the sky. So this is the longest day of the year. Its called the 'summer solstice' and happens around 21 June. Astronomers call this the start of summer and after this date, days start getting shorter.
Autumn
As we continue our journey around the Sun, the north pole moves away from the Sun. The Sun rises lower in the sky so the days continue getting shorter. When the Sun is at its mid-point in the sky, we reach the 'autumn equinox', around 22 September. Day and night are both 12 hours long and its the beginning of autumn.
Winter
The day when the north pole is furthest from the Sun is called the 'winter solstice'. The Sun crosses the sky at its lowest point all year. Therefore it crosses the sky in the quickest time so this is the shortest day of the year. Winter solstice happens around 22 December and marks the start of winter. From then on, the days start getting longer.
Spring
The Earth continues on its path, and our north pole starts moving towards the Sun again. The Sun moves upwards in our skies and the days continue getting longer. Again, we reach a midpoint when day and night are both 12 hours long. This is called the 'vernal (or spring) equinox' and happens around 21 March.
The day the north pole is nearest the Sun is called the 'summer solstice'. (You can see this from the picture on the right). Looking from Earth, the Sun reaches its highest point in the sky all year. This means it takes the most amount of time to cross the sky. So this is the longest day of the year. Its called the 'summer solstice' and happens around 21 June. Astronomers call this the start of summer and after this date, days start getting shorter.
Autumn
As we continue our journey around the Sun, the north pole moves away from the Sun. The Sun rises lower in the sky so the days continue getting shorter. When the Sun is at its mid-point in the sky, we reach the 'autumn equinox', around 22 September. Day and night are both 12 hours long and its the beginning of autumn.
Winter
The day when the north pole is furthest from the Sun is called the 'winter solstice'. The Sun crosses the sky at its lowest point all year. Therefore it crosses the sky in the quickest time so this is the shortest day of the year. Winter solstice happens around 22 December and marks the start of winter. From then on, the days start getting longer.
Spring
The Earth continues on its path, and our north pole starts moving towards the Sun again. The Sun moves upwards in our skies and the days continue getting longer. Again, we reach a midpoint when day and night are both 12 hours long. This is called the 'vernal (or spring) equinox' and happens around 21 March.
Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:36
DoctorDee wrote:
Since Druidic times (that's approximately thousands of years before the pasty man went to Merka)
not to rag on you druidic high school budies (sorry coudltn help myself ;P ) but i dont tend to take my "sceince" lessons from "thousands of years" ago.
understandably it does very greatly... as any autralian will tell you... december 21st sure as hell aint winter... but being as the good old US of A tends to be the trend setter for most standards, especially in relation to sciency type stuff... so there for... and im just assumign cause i dotn have any... if you check your uk calendars... it will probably tell you that what i/config says is the way it is... also as you pointed out... we have thermal lag... so most of the hotest days of the year do accour after june 21st... which to me, makes it a prime candidate for begining, rather than middle, of summer... logically.
also, just checked my "bleach" calendar, straigh from the similarlay temperate shores of japan, and the 21 of march is indeed peged as the first of spring.
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Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:56
I refute all previous posts and refer you to this. I win!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer
WIKI FOR LIFE!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer
WIKI FOR LIFE!!!
Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:58
vault 13 wrote:
I refute all previous posts and refer you to this. I win!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer
I hereby give notice that I am coining "Tyrion's Law" to be recognised throughout the Internet.
Tyrion's Law: The chances of any technical, scientific or fact-based argument on an Internet forum including a reference to the relevant Wikipedia page approaches certainty at a rate that is exponential to the number of posts in said argument.
That is all.
Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:02
My post was fundamentally flawed. I had rewritten the information on Midsummer from Wikipedia to something much more amusing. Melmacians, moogles, and Bill Cosby were all party to the history of MY Midsummer history. Even Pope Popeye was involved. Alas, it seems someone with far more time on his hands has put the Kaibosh! on my awesome link. Too bad I suppose. Now we're all just confused.
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"this news... is the first example of Microsoft's willingness to abandon promises it formally makes to the game-buying public"
Very negative tone, right? And yet, just the other day when the suggestions crops up that Sony's PS3 might release in the US at the end of this year (no mention of Europe), you called it "good news" - despite Sony's promises of releasing in Spring 2006!
Can't you please lay off the fanboyism long enough to just, y'know, report the news?