However, even the Vatican doesn't say that evolution is wrong or that the creation happened exactly as described in the Bible. They're running this business for long enough to know that the bible has to be taken as a metaphor for the largest part.
Besides, an all-knowing and all-powerful creator god would have been able to impart that knowledge if it had wanted to do so.
Perhaps he just got fed up playing tech support for all the millions of users of his product that won't even RTFM. "No ma'am, that is not a pizza you're standing on, no, it's not edible and no, throwing yourself off a cliff won't put you into cotton candy land."
That just makes no sense, impulsive buyers don't place backorders, and most likely won't come back every week until they're in stock, they'll go buy an Xbox or PS3 to satisfy their urge to buy.
Not many people have a spare 350€ they can just throw out on a whim. Most don't buy a 250+€ device on impulse, that kind of money usually gets careful consideration.
You sound like you're the AC troll who always tells people they don't know how to code just because they disagree that the PS3 is the second coming of Christ.
Nintendo is sitting at less than half the marketshare? The last numbers I saw had the Wii outselling the other consoles and thus taking the lead marketshare wise. Market share is the percentage of the sales during a time period, not the total sales.
Wiis go for little over retail on Ebay, the 360 just got a pricedrop to 300€ and the 500€ PS3 wasn't released. You can buy a "Wii60" instead of a PS3 and have 50€ left over to spend on some games.
Seriously though, if I'd just bought an Xbox 360, I'd be *very* pissed off right now.
I'd be more pissed about the 100€ pricedrop for the Premium. Unless I bought it after the price drop in which case I wouldn't be annoyed since I just paid 180€ less and only miss out on 100GB harddrive space.
Widescreen TVs are 16:9. Cinema movies are much wider (something like 2:1). Unless you cut parts of the picture off you have black bars even on a widescreen TV. 16:9 may have been the cinema format in the 70s or so but these days not a single movie is made in 16:9.
I'll never understand why they decided to make TVs an annoying widescreen format and use neither the aspect ratio nor the framerate used in a cinema... I mean, why change the wreaking TV format when you still have black bars with cinema movies and have to add black bars for TV programmes?
The labels aren't stupid, they aren't aiming only at pop culture but they do their damnedest to make it look like that. That's because the "counter-culture" has many people that feel more important by having non-mainstream tastes and would drop any band that "makes it big". The labels still take those counter-culture bands, prop them up, etc but they make sure they don't run on the pop radio so the people don't think they sold out. Look how many big label bands there are that never get played on the radio (hell, even Metallica doesn't get radio play outside of the odd Nothing Else Matters run). The radio is aimed at only one demographic and most bands don't fit that.
Nobody cares 300€ worth about the extra features of the PS3. BluRay is nice but by the time it's actually useful (as in, most people have the matching TV and enough movies are available in the format) it won't be worth more than 30€ for a cheap chinese player. WiFi bridges are dirt cheap. What the PS3 is bought to do is play PS3 games, same as how the 360 is bought to play 360 games. The 300€ you pay more for the PS3 before you can even start thinking about games would buy you about 5 games for the 360, perhaps more considering the system has been out for a while and there are games in the bargain bin by now. Going by those tie-in ratios (for previous gen consoles) listed in sales numbers those 5 games are over half the games the average buyer will buy over the course of the console's life.
So, do you want a console or a console with 5 games for the same price? Or maybe two consoles and a game for those 600€?
Personally I'm hoping more for a 50-50 split between Nintendo and MS with Sony being a mere fringe presence. Mostly because that means I can get all of the games without having to drop 600€ on a PS3. Also I'd be horrified if a 600€ console with no defining features (other than the stuff they stole from the competition) and a lack of games could do just as well as the other two consoles because it'd tell console makers that they can safely fuck up badly without being thrown out of the market.
A gas mask might be more impressive than a motorcycle helmet. Doesn't hide as much but makes people uneasy. Though maybe one of those Intel cleanroom suits would work, too.
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However, even the Vatican doesn't say that evolution is wrong or that the creation happened exactly as described in the Bible. They're running this business for long enough to know that the bible has to be taken as a metaphor for the largest part.
Besides, an all-knowing and all-powerful creator god would have been able to impart that knowledge if it had wanted to do so.
Perhaps he just got fed up playing tech support for all the millions of users of his product that won't even RTFM. "No ma'am, that is not a pizza you're standing on, no, it's not edible and no, throwing yourself off a cliff won't put you into cotton candy land."
That just makes no sense, impulsive buyers don't place backorders, and most likely won't come back every week until they're in stock, they'll go buy an Xbox or PS3 to satisfy their urge to buy.
Not many people have a spare 350€ they can just throw out on a whim. Most don't buy a 250+€ device on impulse, that kind of money usually gets careful consideration.
To be fair, in American English EVERYTHING is a colloquial term for penis.
To be fair there's already a game where Simon Belmont, Solid Snake, Bomberman and a Moai from Gradius fight each other...
Or a spiky, blue shell...
You sound like you're the AC troll who always tells people they don't know how to code just because they disagree that the PS3 is the second coming of Christ.
Nintendo is sitting at less than half the marketshare? The last numbers I saw had the Wii outselling the other consoles and thus taking the lead marketshare wise. Market share is the percentage of the sales during a time period, not the total sales.
Wiis go for little over retail on Ebay, the 360 just got a pricedrop to 300€ and the 500€ PS3 wasn't released. You can buy a "Wii60" instead of a PS3 and have 50€ left over to spend on some games.
Don't forget that player prices are only going down so by the time there's enough of a library to warrant buying a BRD player you can get one for 50$.
Seriously though, if I'd just bought an Xbox 360, I'd be *very* pissed off right now.
I'd be more pissed about the 100€ pricedrop for the Premium. Unless I bought it after the price drop in which case I wouldn't be annoyed since I just paid 180€ less and only miss out on 100GB harddrive space.
What you mean to say is: The PS3 has a lower TCO than the 360!
Widescreen TVs are 16:9. Cinema movies are much wider (something like 2:1). Unless you cut parts of the picture off you have black bars even on a widescreen TV. 16:9 may have been the cinema format in the 70s or so but these days not a single movie is made in 16:9.
I'll never understand why they decided to make TVs an annoying widescreen format and use neither the aspect ratio nor the framerate used in a cinema... I mean, why change the wreaking TV format when you still have black bars with cinema movies and have to add black bars for TV programmes?
That's what the showers are for.
Or just grab your laptop and play Counterstrike next to one of these.
The labels aren't stupid, they aren't aiming only at pop culture but they do their damnedest to make it look like that. That's because the "counter-culture" has many people that feel more important by having non-mainstream tastes and would drop any band that "makes it big". The labels still take those counter-culture bands, prop them up, etc but they make sure they don't run on the pop radio so the people don't think they sold out. Look how many big label bands there are that never get played on the radio (hell, even Metallica doesn't get radio play outside of the odd Nothing Else Matters run). The radio is aimed at only one demographic and most bands don't fit that.
Nobody cares 300€ worth about the extra features of the PS3. BluRay is nice but by the time it's actually useful (as in, most people have the matching TV and enough movies are available in the format) it won't be worth more than 30€ for a cheap chinese player. WiFi bridges are dirt cheap. What the PS3 is bought to do is play PS3 games, same as how the 360 is bought to play 360 games. The 300€ you pay more for the PS3 before you can even start thinking about games would buy you about 5 games for the 360, perhaps more considering the system has been out for a while and there are games in the bargain bin by now. Going by those tie-in ratios (for previous gen consoles) listed in sales numbers those 5 games are over half the games the average buyer will buy over the course of the console's life.
So, do you want a console or a console with 5 games for the same price? Or maybe two consoles and a game for those 600€?
Personally I'm hoping more for a 50-50 split between Nintendo and MS with Sony being a mere fringe presence. Mostly because that means I can get all of the games without having to drop 600€ on a PS3. Also I'd be horrified if a 600€ console with no defining features (other than the stuff they stole from the competition) and a lack of games could do just as well as the other two consoles because it'd tell console makers that they can safely fuck up badly without being thrown out of the market.
Little more? Here in Germany the 360 Premium got a price drop to 300€ so you can get a Wii and a 360 Premium for 550€ or a PS3 for 600€.
If Spain is anythig like Germany a blanket discount on videogames means they're desperate. Videogames are usually exempt from all rebate actions.
Unless there are major game releases, that is. Those tend to bump the demand up.
So if they got MasterCard they're screwed?
A gas mask might be more impressive than a motorcycle helmet. Doesn't hide as much but makes people uneasy. Though maybe one of those Intel cleanroom suits would work, too.
In other words, you welcome our future robotic overlords?