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IGN Posts First Sins Preview

IGN takes their first look at Sins of a Solar Empire

http://pc.ign.com/articles/817/817282p1.html
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IGN.com has posted their first initial preview of Sins of a Solar Empire. Check it out for new details on the game and a number of new screenshots.
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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top
10 Mb DSL is capable of transferring 10,000,000 bits (or 1,250,000 bytes because there are 8 bits to a byte) from one network station to another in a one-second period of time. Note that 10 Mb does not translate into a 10-megabyte (MB) transfer rate but rather 1.25 megabytes per second (MBps)

/runs away to hide...


But of course there's a not-insignificant portion of banwidth lost to overhead, errors, dropped packets, etc. So usually it's realistic enough to just estimate actual speeds in bytes as 1/10 of the bit value.
Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top

LOL @ lordkosc


(Multi made me do it)




FOREVER YOU SHALL BE MY ENEMY .....
SoundPackager - Customize the Windows sound scheme
Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top


LOL @ lordkosc


(Multi made me do it)




FOREVER YOU SHALL BE MY ENEMY .....

Then 1/3 of the forum seems to be your enemy
Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top
Great men have many.....
Reply #30 from Sins Forums Top
So its the same... One is a unit of storage , the other a unit of information.

...
they are both units of information, bits come in 2 forms, 1 and 0, bytes come in 256 forms (2^8)


guess what a byte looks like?

yeah, something like this
11101001
Great men have many.....

pff, I've mustered nearly 3/4.
Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top

Great men have many.....

pff, I've mustered nearly 3/4.


LOL and growing
Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top
At it's most conservative mabye.

But who care about your silly obsolere coper wires? Fiber finally gives you a reason to complain about slow servers, and be sure it's not you. (48Mbit bwahaha)
Reply #33 from Sins Forums Top
Great men have many.....

ah but simple men have none
Reply #34 from Sins Forums Top

At it's most conservative mabye.

But who care about your silly obsolere coper wires? Fiber finally gives you a reason to complain about slow servers, and be sure it's not you. (48Mbit bwahaha)


A danish ISP called TDC is going to try some new technology that could give 50Mbit on cobber
Reply #35 from Sins Forums Top
A danish ISP called TDC is going to try some new technology that could give 50Mbit on cobber


O.o...
Reply #36 from Sins Forums Top
The technology is called VDSL2 can be read here: VDSL2 wiki

so acourding to wiki, ill be able to have a max of 100Mbit with VDSL2 technology
Reply #37 from Sins Forums Top
....what have I done...
Reply #38 from Sins Forums Top
did you just cite wiki as a reliable source?
Reply #39 from Sins Forums Top


At it's most conservative mabye.

But who care about your silly obsolere coper wires? Fiber finally gives you a reason to complain about slow servers, and be sure it's not you. (48Mbit bwahaha)


A danish ISP called TDC is going to try some new technology that could give 50Mbit on cobber


whats cobber?
Reply #40 from Sins Forums Top

did you just cite wiki as a reliable source?


Only informative

That said, in a recent scientific survey, wiki was found to have less errors on average than the Encyclopedia Britannica!
Reply #41 from Sins Forums Top
whats cobber?


It's a new communication technology based on corncobs.
Reply #42 from Sins Forums Top
Cobber is the anti-proton variant of copper. if ever the two meet, they'll blow a hole in the space time continuum so big, the multiverse will shift on it's axis.
Reply #43 from Sins Forums Top
soo which image is the cannon in?
Reply #44 from Sins Forums Top
The seventh one down in Multi's post, its the installation with the big green spire...I think...
Reply #45 from Sins Forums Top
The seventh is the pirate base
Reply #46 from Sins Forums Top
counting is hard for mangeese, give him a break
Reply #47 from Sins Forums Top
counting is hard for mangeese, give him a break


Spelling is hard for people who eet sqrls...  

The seventh is the pirate base


Ah, then um, which *is* the novalith cannon...
Reply #48 from Sins Forums Top
I dont believe it is in the pics.
Reply #49 from Sins Forums Top
Ah, then um, which *is* the novalith cannon...

its not in any of those screeny's. Think it was in a magasin called PC gamer
Reply #50 from Sins Forums Top
8 bits = 1 byte.

A 100Mbit (per second) connection roughly transfers at 12.5Mbytes per second. Although the numbers might be visually equivalent, the units are not. They are both measurements of storage. Since we are used to base 10 figures, we usually deal with bytes instead of bits (which is base 2). The machine handles everything in binary (base 2) and therefore does it all in bits (not bytes).


I like the 5th (from top) image of the bow of that cruiser and the 3rd (from last) image of the TEC Akkan (or is it a Dunov) class battlecruiser.