SamNMax Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 My birthday's in a few weeks. Here's what you all can get me. Gabriel Knight Mysteries Limited Edition Gabriel Knight III Space Quest Collection Simon The Sorcerer Collection Broken Sword II Quest for Glory Collection Quest for Glory V King's Quest Collection King's Quest 8 Mysterious Journey II Omega Stone Atlantis II Atlantis III You all really should get more for me. Don't forget all I've done for you; invented Tetris, landed on the moon, signed the Constution, ect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JofaGuht Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 What is the CRAZINESS? A collection that doesn't involve the eighth in its series? Has the world gone MAD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickmagnet2888 Posted July 6, 2004 Share Posted July 6, 2004 i am going to bye you kabooki warriors for Xbox and halo for Mac which is the best advetner game of all time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natty Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 I'll probably forget so happy birthday for then. My birthday was on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinkie Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 My birthday is Friday. Everyone get ready to party! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoLuigi... Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 my birthday is... ...in eleven months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 my birthday was.. 3/4 of a year ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivy Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 my birthday is in 1 month and 18 days *butters himself up and gets ready to party* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 7, 2004 Share Posted July 7, 2004 *readies the zucchini* .. errr *readies two zucchinis* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamNMax Posted July 7, 2004 Author Share Posted July 7, 2004 My birthday's August 8th to be excact. Delicious sweet treats for everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoLuigi... Posted July 8, 2004 Share Posted July 8, 2004 hm. that's weird. that's my dad's birthday too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMcCoy Posted July 9, 2004 Share Posted July 9, 2004 my birthday is in 28 days! (august 5th...) (or is it "august the 5th"? i never understood these strange english date notation... in germany it's plain "5. August" and "DD.MM.YYYY" (this is different in the US and UK, too, right?)) ... whatever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoLuigi... Posted July 9, 2004 Share Posted July 9, 2004 you'd just say "august 5th". or, if you wanted, you could say "the 5th of august" or, i guess you could say "august the 5th", but that sounds too formal, at least, i think so. and, if you wrote the date, you could write: 1. 8/5/04 2. august 5, 2004 that's pretty much it. or 3. 8-5-04 sometimes people put the day first, then the month, then the year. i find that to be extremely confusing, though (what a surprise). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinkie Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 Whew! Technically its my birthday now. Although it only has been for like an hour, and I'm still on yesterday time. Now I'm old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien426 Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 Originally posted by DrMcCoy in germany it's plain "5. August" and "DD.MM.YYYY" Bzzzz, wrong! The norm DIN 5008 says that today is 2004-07-09 (like the column type Date in MySQL). I like that best, because it makes the most sense. Not only on computers where texts are sorted from left to right. In that way if you name a series of files "file YYYY-MM-DD.txt" they will be ordered by year, then month, then day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 i agree with you here, alien, this is also analogue to the (common) time format the "biggest" value to the "smallest". although i prefer to leave the "-" away. anyways. let's kill the doctor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivy Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 in the UK it's DD/MM/YY it makes sense when you it that way... the something day of the something month of the something year oh and happy birthday Skinkie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 err.. yesyes. heavy breastday, skinkierillus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 10, 2004 Share Posted July 10, 2004 Originally posted by Alien426 I like that best, because it makes the most sense. Not only on computers where texts are sorted from left to right. In that way if you name a series of files "file YYYY-MM-DD.txt" they will be ordered by year, then month, then day. It only makes sense from a computer standpoint and shouldn't be applied to real life because it's stupid. Think about it, what's the first piece of information you want when asking for that date, you want what is going to change more frequently. You spend a minumum of 28 days in a month, enough time to adapt to the thinking that this is the ** month in the year. And you spend roughly 365 days in a year, by now I don't have to think that hard at all to clearly state that today, I am living in 2004. But as the day changes every day, this is what we should know first, and then we can either guess the rest, or read it, but from left to right so we actually get it. This is why DD/MM/YYYY is best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMcCoy Posted July 11, 2004 Share Posted July 11, 2004 Originally posted by RayJones anyways. let's kill the doctor. well... i'm against that... ... happy birthday skinkie... (although i'm a bit late...) ... alien: if i want to have files and dirs with date-names sorted, i name them "YYYY.MM.DD"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoLuigi... Posted July 11, 2004 Share Posted July 11, 2004 seriously, i don't think it matters. as long as the day is in there somewhere, who cares? i doubt anybody doesn't know what month or year it is...that's why when you talk to someone, you say: "what's the date?" "the 10th." or whatever. think about it, when you talk to someone out loud and you say "what's the date?" and they say the month and the day, they don't say "the 10th of july", they say "july 10th". or, if they said the year they'd say "july 10th, 2004". so why should it be any different in writing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjølen Posted July 11, 2004 Share Posted July 11, 2004 My birthday is October 17th and it's coming THIS YEAR, too. Prepare yourself. and HATHY BIRD-HEY to everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 11, 2004 Share Posted July 11, 2004 Originally posted by Das Mole seriously, i don't think it matters. as long as the day is in there somewhere, who cares? i doubt anybody doesn't know what month or year it is...that's why when you talk to someone, you say: "what's the date?" "the 10th." or whatever. think about it, when you talk to someone out loud and you say "what's the date?" and they say the month and the day, they don't say "the 10th of july", they say "july 10th". or, if they said the year they'd say "july 10th, 2004". so why should it be any different in writing? cuz it's stupid, what's the point in jumping all over the place, you need to go from smallest to bigger to biggest, not from bigger to smallest to biggest, it doesn't make sense. And plus, english people put it DD/MM/YYYY and have done for a while now, soto see the american version, it confuses us into thinking were in the 20th month! And we don't need that, we have enough problems, look at the arse we've got as a prime minister! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoLuigi... Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 it confuses us into thinking were in the 20th month! but, isn't it just common sense that you're on the twentieth day of the month instead of the twentieth month of the year? plus, you're not really jumping all over the place, you're saying the month, then the subdivision, which is the day, then the least important piece of information, which is the year. the year is moved out of the way, so you're really going down in order...but the non-important stuff goes to the end of the line. plus, it's just awkward seeing the day first. "10-7-2004". it looks like it's october 7th, doesn't it? i think it's just goofy. and either way, it's not like it's really a task to find out what the day is, use your brain. i doubt you haven't known the day for the past six months. if you see "7-10-04", if you think about it, it's not october, it's july. it's july 10th, not october 7th. and, if you don't know what the date is...you need to get off the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted July 13, 2004 Share Posted July 13, 2004 Originally posted by Das Mole plus, it's just awkward seeing the day first. "10-7-2004". it looks like it's october 7th, doesn't it? i think it's just goofy. That's because it's been programmed into your brain to think this way. People in britain all think that it should be DD/MM/YYYY. And what about when we're not looking up todays date. We want to find out when something happened and it comes up with 03/12/1986, is that the 3rd of december or the 12th of march. People in britain, and most of the world, would say it's the first rather than the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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