Twitter Stream with updates from Japan

[Avina]

Reading over it now, here's a kinda speedy translation (don't quote me on accuracy, I'm just eyeballing it)

Basically sounds like they met today to discuss the situation, and were working to totaling up the power-saving effects of the group. They are going to continue with their analysis and determine what kind of result will be possible considering the current power situation in Japan. Finally he requests a little bit more time before a formal announcement will be made, and thanks us.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Reading over it now, here's a kinda speedy translation (don't quote me on accuracy, I'm just eyeballing it)

Basically sounds like they met today to discuss the situation, and were working to totaling up the power-saving effects of the group. They are going to continue with their analysis and determine what kind of result will be possible considering the current power situation in Japan. Finally he requests a little bit more time before a formal announcement will be made, and thanks us.

Still would be something nice to state to all countries.

[Avina]

Still would be something nice to state to all countries.

I think it's more the issue that the translators on this side of the world are asleep at the moment. I mean I see where you are coming from, but seeing as there wasn't a decision made I don't think anyone had time over here to translate the message.

[annewandering]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromichi_Tanaka
This is the source apparently so sounds like its pretty much a solid one.

Here is the translation from google translate of the above japanese post.


Hello! Today morning, a meeting was held to consider the resumption by the people concerned.
Aggregate data is in earnest or how much power savings were now a group company.
The result, we have continued to discuss what further support the possibility that in consideration of the current power situation.
Please give us more time to determine the official measures. Thank you.

[Avina]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromichi_Tanaka
This is the source apparently so sounds like its pretty much a solid one.

Yeah he's big.

[Alhanelem]

Still would be something nice to state to all countries.

They will be saying it to all countries. The JP staff aren't english experts, and they have to pass this along to the english team to translate. I don't like what I think you're implying here.

[annewandering]

Basically it sounds like they are trying to determine if the power is good enough to power up and asking for more time to decide.
I guess it is probably smart to figure they need to spend more time doing that than posting. ^^
With the tokyo power not knowing if they had enough power from what we have all read today it makes sense that SE would have a hard time knowing as well.
Tomorrow is another day and hopefully full of promise

[annewandering]

lol kinda sideways on topic but someone said they ought to be using cloud, which i am not quite sure what that is, and when i look at the bottom left side of the screen what do i see? tags for this thread none view tag cloud. sounds like SE is on the ball more than that poster thought anyway.

[Deadlyscorpion]

lol kinda sideways on topic but someone said they ought to be using cloud, which i am not quite sure what that is, and when i look at the bottom left side of the screen what do i see? tags for this thread none view tag cloud. sounds like SE is on the ball more than that poster thought anyway.

Cloud is basically Virtual services. It would mean that instead of running the servers from Japan only you could put the information on a virtual server which can be run from anywhere in the world. For example. Let's say that it takes 30 servers to run FFXI, they would hire someone like Amazon.com, which runs tons of Cloud services, and Amazon would provide the same hardware that SE has for running FFXi on a virtual machine. What that allows SE to do is to run their services from anywhere in the world, and should one virtual server go down, the information is spread around the cloud, so another server in a different location would still have the information, so it's always live.

Sony is already working on this for the Playstation 3, where your save files will be saved on a Cloud, so no matter which PS3 you're playing on, as long as you log in with your account, your save file will be accessible. This is way more complicated in terms of MMO, but you could essentially have an in-house Cloud network between all the POL offices around the world, and should anything happen at one particular location, all the data would still be available from any of the other locations.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Cloud is basically Virtual services. It would mean that instead of running the servers from Japan only you could put the information on a virtual server which can be run from anywhere in the world. For example. Let's say that it takes 30 servers to run FFXI, they would hire someone like Amazon.com, which runs tons of Cloud services, and Amazon would provide the same hardware that SE has for running FFXi on a virtual machine. What that allows SE to do is to run their services from anywhere in the world, and should one virtual server go down, the information is spread around the cloud, so another server in a different location would still have the information, so it's always live.

Sony is already working on this for the Playstation 3, where your save files will be saved on a Cloud, so no matter which PS3 you're playing on, as long as you log in with your account, your save file will be accessible. This is way more complicated in terms of MMO, but you could essentially have an in-house Cloud network between all the POL offices around the world, and should anything happen at one particular location, all the data would still be available from any of the other locations.

Which is all wonderful. I don't understand people's anti-cloud propoganda.