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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 #51 from Sins Forums Top
ohh kk thats a shame you could always scan it and put the image up for me   
Reply #52 from Sins Forums Top
The machine handles everything in binary (base 2) and therefore does it all in bits (not bytes).

well it would be more accurate to say the system handles bites within bytes, because while the base 2 system is what the system works in, the larger base 8 is how the information is input and output, and so the computer has to process with that base 8 as a reference.
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #53 from Sins Forums Top
as we humans use a base 10 system and a base 12 measurement system in America and two other countries
Reply #54 from Sins Forums Top
base 12 measurement system

its not a base 12 measurement system... its only inches to feet that does that.

speaking of which I damn well wish we would switch to fricking METRIC.
Reply #55 from Sins Forums Top
eh, nobody other than architects talk in anything bigger than feet anyways... and we generally use feet instead of yards anyways.

PS, miles are just stupid
Reply #56 from Sins Forums Top

speaking of which I damn well wish we would switch to fricking METRIC.


Agreed!
Reply #57 from Sins Forums Top
eh, nobody other than architects talk in anything bigger than feet anyways... and we generally use feet instead of yards anyways.

yeah, astrophyscisists are all about those super small dimensions...
Agreed!

if I ever get elected to office I swear...
Reply #58 from Sins Forums Top
The people in the article are such noobs
Reply #59 from Sins Forums Top
I'm going to be El Presidente por vida de Terra (President for life of Earth), and when I achieve said power...EVERYTHING WILL BE METRIC. Tweleve inches per foot, three feet per yard, 5280 feet per mile?! And then there is volumetric measuring! 8 ounces (which is abreviated oz?!) per cup, 2 cups per pint, 2 pints per quart, 4 quarts per gallon?! Whoever invented that system was sadistic towards the poor students who would have to learn this crap. My second act as El Presidente por vida de Terra...Star Wars will be rewritten...SO THAT THE EMPIRE WINS!!! BWHAHAHA!       
Reply #60 from Sins Forums Top
SO THAT THE EMPIRE WINS!!! BWHAHAHA!


You've got my support   

Reply #61 from Sins Forums Top
astrophyscisists are all about those super small dimensions...


basically all scientists use metric
Reply #62 from Sins Forums Top
well most scientists...

but either way, your point didnt qualify for only in standard.
Reply #63 from Sins Forums Top
your point didnt qualify for only in standard.


qualifying is for people who arent fat and dont sit in a chair all day. I see no reason why i should be forced to qualify
Reply #64 from Sins Forums Top
well most scientists...


You're joking, right? Are there any (respectable) scientists who work in anything else?

And before you bring up the Mars Orbiter, engineers don't count. (The first Mars orbiter failed because the contractor used English units and never bothered to label. So NASA (like any intelligent being a metric user ) assumed they were metric units.
Reply #65 from Sins Forums Top
You're joking, right? Are there any (respectable) scientists who work in anything else?

its a matter of preference, its really rare but its not completely unheard of.
Reply #66 from Sins Forums Top
its a matter of preference, its really rare but its not completely unheard of.


Its very rare, because publishing research in anything but metric means that the research will not be read.
Reply #67 from Sins Forums Top

well most scientists...


And before you bring up the Mars Orbiter, engineers don't count. (The first Mars orbiter failed because the contractor used English units and never bothered to label.


Ohh you don't have to be rocket scientist to do that. I remember seeing concrete foundations for a house in perfect 1:3.28 scale because the enginer drew up the plans in feet and inch. They only noticed once they figured out that 1.8m + 1.9m was not 3.5m.