We've got an old LJ4000 here in the office that is nearing 800K prints. Of course there have been some part replacements and 'maintenance kits' thrown at it, but nothing major that justified replacing it, yet.
HP, indeed.
Seeing as no party independent of NASA has ever documented evidence of the Apollo moon landings (at least publicly), I see this as a simple ploy to continue this legacy.
But hey, I'm one of those whackos who doubts we actually walked on the moon and to me, this just adds weight to that possibility since it seems to be further obfuscation./back to ATS I go!
The really lame thing about this is they've told us they will not be continuing to patch Crysis because of this game being their new priority. In fact they canceled the continued development of the much anticipated 1.3 patch for Crysis. (http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=29356)
This is a big slap in the face to everyone who bought Crysis with high hopes for it's multiplayer aspect and especially those of us working on multiplayer-focused mods for it. Even those who were just hoping to get more improved performance from a future patch - not yours.
EA seemed to pull the same shit with DICE and the Battlefield series, before this. BF2 expansions and then BF2142 were out before major issues with BF2 were ever resolved. Some of the same old BF2 bugs still exist in all of the games on that engine, today. We've once again been sold on continuing support that ended up amounting to nothing but too-few-patches and hosted community forums. At least DICE continued patching BF2. Crytek seemingly wants us to buy Warhead if we want the 'optimized' and presumably less-buggy CryEngine2. Still, given their track record thus far, I imagine many of the issues that plague Crysis will remain in Warhead. Then you can expect the next installment to end support of Warhead, just the same.
The sad thing is that this should, by most PC gaming standards, be an expansion pack, with the core game being updated with the revamped code and assets. The single player campaign is going to be parallel to the Crysis one, you just play a different character. Yet it sounds like it's going to be a full-priced title.
Personally I've despised EA for years and hate supporting them. I bought Crysis with a frown because of this. Now this. At least I know I wasn't delusional when I flamingly urged the Crytek people to sever ties with EA, once Steam went to free e-publishing.
I for one will not support this sort of bullshit. Boycott EA. Everything they touch turns to fail and AIDS!
This is somewhat in line with what Zecharia Sitchen has been translating from Sumerian tablets for decades (but a bit off, surprise surprise). Check out his first major book in a series on the subject - 'The Twelfth Planet' - http://www.amazon.com/Twelfth-Planet-Book-Earth-Chronicles/dp/0061379131
The books read a bit like scripture, so it's not exactly an easy read but it is fascinating nonetheless. I stumbled onto them as reference in another book called 'Everything You Know is Wrong' by Lloyd Pye. If this stuff interests you I highly recommend you see what both of these guys have to say about it all. It all ties into Intervention Theory, as I understand and accept it, based loosely on what Pye has summarized, much of that basis being on what Sitchen has translated. His site - www.lloydpye.com - is very informative. There are all kinds of easily accessible slide shows presenting the information in an easy to understand way. I'd say his writings are a lot more accessible, I'm not great at finishing books and that's one I couldn't put down.
I've heard before that our moon seems to be of a more ancient origin than our planet. According to the Sumerian tablets, and this was the first civilization on Earth we are aware of that had a written language - cuneiform, and via Sitchen's translations of their tablets and cylinder seals: a rogue planet, which they called Nibiru, came into our system billions of years ago ago and it's moon collided with what they called Tiamat, our planet's predecessor. Nibiru was pulled into the orbit of our sun and has remained on a large elliptical orbit of it, ever since. There were subsequent collisions, that I can't recall the order of exactly, and Tiamat was broken when Nibiru, itself, eventually collided with it. The fractured pieces resulted in comets and an asteroid belt and the remaining part of the planet, still solidifying, became Earth and ended up with an alien moon. Our planet is truely an anomaly in it's geological form (as far as we know), it shows the scars of that ancient collision. Another interesting tidbit, the Sumerians also accurately described Uranus and Neptune as gassy and blue, and as twins. We discovered them in the 20th century and some people have realized they were right about them (this has some implications) but the Sumerian writings still reside inthe myth pile, if you will, as far as mainstream science goes.
If you you've read up on some of the ideas as to what the pending end of this age really means, physically, to the planet, you'll find one of the larger schools of thought on it involves the so-called Planet-X and the possible effects on Earth that a large planet passing nearby it could have. Sitchen says the Sumerians estimated Nibiru's orbit to be about 3,600 of our years. That is all pretty controversial stuff, it's certainly nicer to think we'll just be seeing the stars' constellations will simply be in a different place. Regardless of whether the end of age should be suspected as catastrophic, there is evidence that suggests there is a cycle of catastrophic events on this planet. I do not desire to be the bearer of bad news or thought to be a doomsayer, I just find it relevant, worth discussing, and worth pointing at for other people who might be interested. If you read up on the Sumerian 'Mythology' per Mr. Sitchen, you'll see no shortage of similarities to what it says and what the bible says, and it may help you understand better how things have come to be as they are, with our current dogma of science and religion (not to say that they say the same thing exactly, they just both seem to speak of the same events and some of the same characters, be it with different, yet often similar names). You can get a good and brief summary on Mr. Pye's site, though it will no doubt be a lot to process and that's always hard when it's hard to believe what you're trying to process in the first place. I learned about it all the slow and easy way and
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We've got an old LJ4000 here in the office that is nearing 800K prints. Of course there have been some part replacements and 'maintenance kits' thrown at it, but nothing major that justified replacing it, yet. HP, indeed.
Seeing as no party independent of NASA has ever documented evidence of the Apollo moon landings (at least publicly), I see this as a simple ploy to continue this legacy.
But hey, I'm one of those whackos who doubts we actually walked on the moon and to me, this just adds weight to that possibility since it seems to be further obfuscation. /back to ATS I go!
The really lame thing about this is they've told us they will not be continuing to patch Crysis because of this game being their new priority. In fact they canceled the continued development of the much anticipated 1.3 patch for Crysis.
(http://www.crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=29356)
This is a big slap in the face to everyone who bought Crysis with high hopes for it's multiplayer aspect and especially those of us working on multiplayer-focused mods for it. Even those who were just hoping to get more improved performance from a future patch - not yours.
EA seemed to pull the same shit with DICE and the Battlefield series, before this. BF2 expansions and then BF2142 were out before major issues with BF2 were ever resolved. Some of the same old BF2 bugs still exist in all of the games on that engine, today. We've once again been sold on continuing support that ended up amounting to nothing but too-few-patches and hosted community forums. At least DICE continued patching BF2. Crytek seemingly wants us to buy Warhead if we want the 'optimized' and presumably less-buggy CryEngine2. Still, given their track record thus far, I imagine many of the issues that plague Crysis will remain in Warhead. Then you can expect the next installment to end support of Warhead, just the same.
The sad thing is that this should, by most PC gaming standards, be an expansion pack, with the core game being updated with the revamped code and assets. The single player campaign is going to be parallel to the Crysis one, you just play a different character. Yet it sounds like it's going to be a full-priced title.
Personally I've despised EA for years and hate supporting them. I bought Crysis with a frown because of this. Now this. At least I know I wasn't delusional when I flamingly urged the Crytek people to sever ties with EA, once Steam went to free e-publishing.
I for one will not support this sort of bullshit. Boycott EA. Everything they touch turns to fail and AIDS!
This is somewhat in line with what Zecharia Sitchen has been translating from Sumerian tablets for decades (but a bit off, surprise surprise). Check out his first major book in a series on the subject - 'The Twelfth Planet' - http://www.amazon.com/Twelfth-Planet-Book-Earth-Chronicles/dp/0061379131
The books read a bit like scripture, so it's not exactly an easy read but it is fascinating nonetheless. I stumbled onto them as reference in another book called 'Everything You Know is Wrong' by Lloyd Pye. If this stuff interests you I highly recommend you see what both of these guys have to say about it all. It all ties into Intervention Theory, as I understand and accept it, based loosely on what Pye has summarized, much of that basis being on what Sitchen has translated. His site - www.lloydpye.com - is very informative. There are all kinds of easily accessible slide shows presenting the information in an easy to understand way. I'd say his writings are a lot more accessible, I'm not great at finishing books and that's one I couldn't put down.
I've heard before that our moon seems to be of a more ancient origin than our planet. According to the Sumerian tablets, and this was the first civilization on Earth we are aware of that had a written language - cuneiform, and via Sitchen's translations of their tablets and cylinder seals: a rogue planet, which they called Nibiru, came into our system billions of years ago ago and it's moon collided with what they called Tiamat, our planet's predecessor. Nibiru was pulled into the orbit of our sun and has remained on a large elliptical orbit of it, ever since. There were subsequent collisions, that I can't recall the order of exactly, and Tiamat was broken when Nibiru, itself, eventually collided with it. The fractured pieces resulted in comets and an asteroid belt and the remaining part of the planet, still solidifying, became Earth and ended up with an alien moon. Our planet is truely an anomaly in it's geological form (as far as we know), it shows the scars of that ancient collision. Another interesting tidbit, the Sumerians also accurately described Uranus and Neptune as gassy and blue, and as twins. We discovered them in the 20th century and some people have realized they were right about them (this has some implications) but the Sumerian writings still reside inthe myth pile, if you will, as far as mainstream science goes.
If you you've read up on some of the ideas as to what the pending end of this age really means, physically, to the planet, you'll find one of the larger schools of thought on it involves the so-called Planet-X and the possible effects on Earth that a large planet passing nearby it could have. Sitchen says the Sumerians estimated Nibiru's orbit to be about 3,600 of our years. That is all pretty controversial stuff, it's certainly nicer to think we'll just be seeing the stars' constellations will simply be in a different place. Regardless of whether the end of age should be suspected as catastrophic, there is evidence that suggests there is a cycle of catastrophic events on this planet. I do not desire to be the bearer of bad news or thought to be a doomsayer, I just find it relevant, worth discussing, and worth pointing at for other people who might be interested. If you read up on the Sumerian 'Mythology' per Mr. Sitchen, you'll see no shortage of similarities to what it says and what the bible says, and it may help you understand better how things have come to be as they are, with our current dogma of science and religion (not to say that they say the same thing exactly, they just both seem to speak of the same events and some of the same characters, be it with different, yet often similar names). You can get a good and brief summary on Mr. Pye's site, though it will no doubt be a lot to process and that's always hard when it's hard to believe what you're trying to process in the first place. I learned about it all the slow and easy way and