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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 0:15:03
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| @Hans
Not trying to argue here, but don't forget that all international travel, transport, aviation, shipping, communications, etc uses UTC exclusively. Even around our side of the world.
IIRC it was the Americans who coined the "UTC" name back in the IGY of 1958. It was just too much to keep calling it "GMT".
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 3:26:05
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Crikey do we amigans have to argue about everything?
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If something is stated as being released at 00:00:01 on 1/1/2010
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Where on that ingenious website does it say that?
All it gives is a date. A day has 24 hours whichever timezone your in.
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 5:12:52
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| Yellow and Black.. X11, XWindows..? What are linux colours? Could it be something linux-like? A similar journey from MacOS9 to OSX? It's the 1st here, 6pm.. the website isnt updated yet. It had a puzzle piece on the website.. So I'm doubting the full info will come out on the 1st. Or the 2nd if you're in New Zealand. Also interesting to note is that the word "projects" was used earlier in this thread. More than one? Veeeeery interesting.
I'm hoping theres a laptop somewhere.. that'd be cool. I can never show friends and family my creations unless I show them still images on my website, or drag them back to my cave (the Jahc Cave). Mobile jahc demonstrations would be cool. I would dock it at home with a 24" monitor and seperate keyboard and mouse most of the time.. but the ability to go walk abouts would be cool.
Or.. a multicore something would be cool. Just in case Hyperion have solved the seemingly impossible.
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 5:13:54
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| @Seiya
>Amiga OSX like MacOSX
Hi Seiya, that's what I was thinkin 5 minutes before waking up !!!!, let's hope it's that and with new hardware !!!! hehhehe _________________ PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25 Dual MorphOS 3,5 Demo (for a while) Amiga 1200 030 AGA Pegasos 2 G4 (wrecked) |
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 5:38:18
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| @jahc
Stop saying "would be cool".
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 6:41:05
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| @jahc
I think I get it.. according to the website, one piece of the puzzle is Amiga.. the boing ball... theres another component? more pieces to the puzzle?
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 7:56:11
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| @arsipaani
Amiga Forever on OS4.x that was my first idea of the MAP.
I think that the puzzle pieces match that till now. _________________ A1G3-SE + OS4.1 u1 iso (x2) |
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 8:25:44
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| They also wanna beat up OSX _________________ On Planet Boing Trevor is God |
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 8:44:32
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From what you are assuming this?
And btw, I do not think that it is hard to make AF running under OS4.x using e-uae! _________________
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 9:06:18
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 9:45:08
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| This seem a old Page.
http://www.whois.net/whois/a-eon.com
when you look at whois and read the data you find as owner Ben Hermans.And as far i know Ben Hermans is since long time not involved in Hyperion or OS4 activity.
Or have here something change ?
Also you can see only Thomas Frieden is Admin/technical/Zone Contact of this Page and that seem have nothing to do with Hyperion.
Also this text below seem show that this page end on 25.10.2010.I dont know when register a Page new on what time the expire is set.
""" Record expires on: 2010-12-25 15:35:03 """"
The ..... in the copy below mean, that i remove their Living adresses and Phone numbers.
but when you click on the link you can see their adresses complette
"""""" [Querying whois.internic.net] [Redirected to whois.tmagnic.net] [Querying whois.tmagnic.net] [whois.tmagnic.net] Whois Server Version 2.1 at whois.tmagnic.net
Database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .TV, .CC domains.
Owner Contact: Ben Hermans ......
Punycode Name: a-eon.com Unicode Name: a-eon.com
Admin Contact Thomas Frieden ........
Technical Contact Thomas Frieden ..... Zone Contact Thomas Frieden ......
Record expires on: 2010-12-25 15:35:03
Domain servers in listed order:
ns1.first-ns.de robotns3.second-ns.com 193.47.99.3 robotns2.second-ns.de
Happy new year Last edited by bernd_afa on 01-Jan-2010 at 09:47 AM. Last edited by bernd_afa on 01-Jan-2010 at 09:46 AM. Last edited by bernd_afa on 01-Jan-2010 at 09:45 AM.
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 10:27:36
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| @bernd_afa
If you had paid attention you would have known it has been confimed that this is a NEW page RELATED to Hyperion set to be updated sometime later TODAY.
Since Ben Hermans is the owner of the site that probably means he is behind A-EON which is cooperating with Hyperion on the MAP. Or that he is just less disassociated with Hyperion than you seem to think 
I cannot believe how far fetched your conclusions are based on that whois response... _________________ This weeks pet peeve: Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean. |
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 10:40:02
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| Eon is the short for Endymion which is the the third book of the Hyperion Cantos (I have read them all). The name is hinting about something totally new, but also related to the previous projects? _________________ Games, programs, reviews |
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 10:50:42
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I guess thats the best guess so far.. Nice thinking.. _________________ Classic! |
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 10:51:26
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And no, I'm not wrong here; a lot of international websites really do choose PST without stating it, and no, they don't have to use UTC, nor would it make more sense to the rest of the world. |
UT has been a standard for several hundred years, why change it to something else ?
Everyone knows what their local timezone offset from UT is, so can easily recognise the time and know what that time is locally. Converting from some other arbitrary local time os less easy as you may not know what the offset is for elsewhere.
Stating a time on a website in a local time is nonesense as it will only apply to that country, the same applies to the UK in summer time too.
What time servers run is irrelevant, when an event happens you need to know the absolute time and using UT is the traditional and scientifically valid way to do it.
The deifinition of UT is shown below:
========================================================= Universal Time forms the basis for all civil timekeeping, and conforms closely to the motion of the Sun. However, since the Earth is gradually slowing down its rate of rotation, and doing so erratically, it differs from TDT by the factor:
Delta T = TDT - UT
This difference cannot be predicted by mathematical formulae, but must be determined by observation.
From observations of the diurnal motions of the stars, astronomers can determine the current universal time, uncorrected for the location on the Earth at which it was measured. This time is denoted UT0. The exact latitude and longitude of an observer depends upon the position of the poles of the Earth. It has been observed that the Earth's axis is not fixed in place, but moves around the axis of maximum moment of inertia in a phenomenon known as polar motion. It cannot be predicted accurately, but causes the position of the poles to shift by about 9 metres on the surface of the Earth over a period of roughly six years.
When corrections are made to UT0 for the effects of polar motion upon the observations, the resulting timescale is called UT1. It is influenced by the slightly variable rotation of the Earth.
UT1 can be defined in terms of the Universal Mean Sidereal Time as follows:
UMST of 0 hours UT1 = 24110.54841+8640184.812866*T+0.093104*T^2-6.2e-6*T^3 where: T=d/36525, d being the number of days of Universal Time elapsed since JD 2451545.0 and taking on values of +-0.5, +-1.5, +-2.5, etc. UMST is expressed in seconds.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) -------------------------------- Since January 1, 1972, most broadcast signals began to distribute the time based on UTC. This timescale differs from TAI by an integer number of seconds, and is kept to within 0.90 seconds of UT1 by the introduction of leap seconds when required to compensate for the Earth's erratic rotation. These are usually added or removed at the end of June or December.
Local Time (LT) --------------- Since most of the world does not live in Greenwich, a standard time is required which is practical for other locations on Earth. At one time, each community had its own local time, defined so that noon occurred when the Sun was roughly overhead. But when railroads were built, a mass of confusion arose in the resulting timetables. To overcome the difficulty, scientists conceived of a notion where the world would be divided into 24 "time zones", each spanning 15 degrees in longitude. Each time zone would be offset by an integer number of hours from UTC. All cities within a given time zone would keep their clocks set to the same time, and noon would occur within an hour of when the Sun was overhead.
In practice, political boundaries caused the time zone boundaries to be drawn rather irregularly instead of uniformly along lines of longitude. Some regions decided to keep their clocks set to a non-integral number of hours from UTC (being offset by an additional 15 or 30 minutes). Daylight Savings Time was introduced in many (but not all) areas where clocks were moved an hour (or two) ahead of their normal settings in the summer. Imperfect as it may be, it is the situation in which we currently find ourselves. ============================================================
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 11:07:39
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| @BillE & Hans
Please take this time discussion to a seperate thread, I hate all this tecnical mumbo jumbo in an exciting thread like this one
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 11:21:40
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| Well, it's past 3am PST and the site is still the same. I'm guessing that they'll get it updated sometime during business hours, assuming their web guy works on holidays (Jan 1 is a holiday in Germany and Belgium, right? it is in the USA). Otherwise we'll probably just have to wait until monday. Man, what a way to let the wind out of the sails...
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 11:23:54
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| If you look at the Guru Meditation number the letters E, D and F does have a different colour than the others. And EDF could be Earliest Deadline First which means a new scheduler for AmigaOS maybe with multi prozessor support. That would be my guess.
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 11:44:42
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Re: MAP == A-Eon.com? Posted on 1-Jan-2010 11:54:33
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