QuakeCon Schedule

(Joe999) #1

if someone’s interested, here’s the schedule of this years quakecon:

http://www.quakecon.org/schedule.php

the SD parts:

3rd August:
07:00 PM-08:00 PM “An Inside Look at Enemy Territory: Quake Wars” / Main Stage

4th August:
02:00 PM-03:00 PM Splash Damage - “Modding ETQW - What to Expect” / Main Stage

5th August:
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Splash Damage – “From Mods to Mission Pack - Becoming Professionals Using id Technology” / Main Stage

does anyone know if these workshops are filmed and put on the web?

(mortis) #2

Somebody get some video, dammit!

(carnage) #3

yeah defiantly the 4th… then again the 5th looks intersting to… but so does the 3rd!!!

VIDEO!!! SD!!! VIDEO!!!

(jimb0) #4

they’ll also have workshops with two modding teams (deltactf and q4f), congratulations to the teams.

(Rhoades) #5

So help me God there better be a video.

(Hakuryu) #6

I’d love to see video’s of the mod related stuff also.

That last one would be kinda huge eh? 11AM to 12PM = 13 hours of presentation :slight_smile:

(Wils) #7

12pm is noon, not midnight.

(Shanks) #8

I don’t know about you but I’d hate to have to sit and listen to a story we all know for 13 hours. Also they’d have to dig up every little detail and go off on many tangents!

(Hakuryu) #9

12 pm is listed as noon at many sites, but the National Institute of Standards and Technology says different :

http://tf.nist.gov/general/misc.htm

I know what you mean though :wink:

(Wils) #10

the NIST (which is a US site, I might add - the US wasn’t even colonised when people started using am and pm) recommends not using either and isn’t advocating 12am as the noon time. The reason people use 12pm is that if you didn’t, you go from 12:00:00am to 12:00:01pm, which is a little silly.

(Sauron|EFG) #11

Military time for the win!

(Nail) #12

24 hour clocks are actually railroad time

(Sauron|EFG) #13

Gawd.

ISO 8601 time for the win! :slight_smile:

(nUllSkillZ) #14

126,- CHF for 293KB
:eek2:
Damn I should do something else.

The problem is still present in “24 hour systems”.
There the problem is shifted towards midnight.
Is it 24 o’clock date X?
Or is it 0 o’clock date X+1?

Just came to my mind that this problem appears two times in the am/pm system.

Edit:

From Quakecon to time problems.
Another :eek2:

(The Birdman) #15

hmm 24 hour clock.

I’ve often heard the expression in movies or whatever “the mission starts at 24 hundred hours” but how can that be, once the clock reachs 23:59:59 it then goes to 00:00:00 so actually never reachs 24 :eek2:

thats like saying i’ll do it tomorrow, but when you sleep and wake up its today or even if you stay up all night it’s still today, so you didn’t wake up or stay up to be in tomorrow because it’s today and tomorrow is tomorrow lol.

But this is getting way off topic, hmm what was the topic again oh yeah QuakeCons schedule lol.

(Etnies) #16

lol Birdman, I must remember that one!

(EB) #17

:: brain shortcircuits ::

…but it is nice to see some excitement over this.

(GlobalWar) #18

AM = ante meridiem and means BEFORE NOON (before 12:00), PM = post meridiem and means AFTER NOON (after 12:00). So infact 12:00 should NOT be PM or AM but just 12:00 :slight_smile:
In more simple symbols AM < 12:00 and PM > 12:00.

(Joe999) #19

as the thread has already gone offtopic, here’s another question related to date/time: ytf do the americans write month/day/year? where’s the sense in that?

(nUllSkillZ) #20

Aren’t there countries that use inches, feet and miles?
And countries where one drive on the left side of the street?

I guess the answer to all these questions is 42.