Taking your numbers:
100 * 8 Euro = 800 as the cost of the game
100 * 20 Euro - 800 Euro = 1200 Euro of total profit
300 * 10 Euro - 800 Euro = 2200 Euro of total profit
Now suppose 25% of licensing fees and managing for each sold copy
20 Euro case:
Licensing fee: 20 Euro * 25% = 5 Euro
100 * (20 Euro - 5 Euro) - 800 Euro = 700 Euro of total profit for the producer
100 * 5 Euro = 500 Euro of total profit for the licensor
10 Euro Case:
Licensing fee: 10 Euro * 25% = 2,5 Euro
300 * (10 Euro - 2.5 Euro) - 800 Euro = 1450 Euro of total profit for the producer
300 * 2.5 Euro = 750 Euro of total profit for the licensor
For a lot of cases selling for less to more people mean making more money...
He is half kidding. Paper company plant quick growing trees and not these pesky maple tree, oak or any slow growing trees. And not only because they are quick to grow, but because they are quick to grow they are also of lesser density thus they are more easy to reduce to pulp to make paper.
I prefer the PDF AND the paper version. The PDF to read it and search it when I don't play the game. The paper version next to my keyboard when I play the game and I have no way of reading the PDF at the same time. The kind of game a play tend to have lot of keys to use and need some background information (RPG).
The thing for me between continue to play with my 'evaluation' version (ie: TPB version) and the 'real' thing is:
1) If I like it and play it more than 15min
2) Or there is a nice shiny box. Not the DVD sized ones but the big/unconventional ones (eg: the last Anno in the coffer)
3) Added bonus if there is some gadgets packed in (Maps of the world, figurine,...) but that generally come with some nice packaging too...
I have bought the last Anno. I don't really play it because I prefer the previous one but I bought it because of the box it is in...
Sorry, but at the time he bought his console, he had access to the Sony network, can plays all of its bought games and OtherOS. Patching it's console mean that he keep access to the network but lose the OtherOS, not patching mean that he lose access to the Sony Network and some of it's games (how insist to access the network), but keep the OtherOS. In the 2 case he lose something that he had pay for.
CD = 68,90 Euro / 100*0.8 GB = 0.86 Euro/GB DVD = 49.99 Euro / 25*4.7 GB = 0.43 Euro/GB BD = 16.14 Euro / 3*25 GB = 0.22 Euro/GB HDD = 86.89 Euro / 1500 GB = 0.06 Euro/GB
I can make 3 copy of my data on HDD for the price of saving it 1 time on a BD disk. Personally I keep my photos and source code files 3 times, the.dv files of my camera 2 times and all the rest 1 time or 2 times depending of their availability on internet and my mood.
Yes NeHe tutorials are out of date on the last OpenGL specifications. But we don't ask tutorials to be on par with the last specifications. Tutorials like the NeHe ones must be simple and progressive in complexity to make them very good for someone who doesn't know anything about OpenGL.
Do you remember when at school you first learned to divide and the teacher learn you the 4, 6 and 50 where divisible by 2 but not 5? And then later when you have mastered these kind of division, he learned you the notion of decimals and made 5 divisible by 2? Why learning programmable pipeline before learning what is the OpenGL pipeline and mastering the non programmable one?
You need to learn to walk, the run and perhaps at the end learn to fly. It must be done in this order. Programmable pipeline, shaders & al are for those who can already run and what to learn to fly.
As a side note: Learning OpenGL is not a requirement to use a 3D engine. But, I think you are better armed to use a 3D engine when you know at least a little bit of OpenGL and make you in a better position to grasp the use of these kind of tools.
I started with the Sinclair ZX-81 Basic. Quickly followed with the Z80 Assembler on the same machine due to memory constrains (1KB and 16KB later). Years later I got my first 8086 PC (Tandy 1000 SX) with QBasic. I moved quickly to Turbo Pascal and then again Assembler due to the easy in-lining in Turbo Pascal. Got to program in Assembler for the 286, 386, 486 and it was easy, fun to extract the last drop of power of these chips. I have learn some other assembly languages 6502, 68000, IBM360. Assembly language make me learn how computers work, Make me go deeper in the rabbit hole and learned how a processor worked and communicated with the memory / other chips letting me add a 2nd KB of memory to my ZX-81 with a cutter, some wires and an bunch of chips. All of this make me more conscious of how a program really worked and how high level construct were really executed on the processor level making greatly more easier to learn new languages.
Now I barely touch assembly for processors like the Core I7, Athlon X2 64 & al. Not due to the complexity of the assembly language who keep being 'easy', but due to the extreme complexity of these processors. When you put together the number of instructions executed in the same cycle, the deep of the instruction pipeline, the heuristic branch prediction, some out of order execution,.. all the tricks a modern processor use make it very very hard to beat for example the intel C compiler with your own hand crafted assembly.
As for your C++ programmers: Learning assembly is NOT stupid but it is true that recent / last generation processors are too complicated to write efficient assembly.
Somes love to memorise thousands of digits of PI. Why it could not be conceivable to memorise only 256 bits or 64 Hex digits or 50 [A-Z0-9] chars or 43 [A-Za-z0-9] chars... I know i could not memorise something like that, but some people can.
Yeah, lucky you. My ISP reset my IP every 36h and they make sure it is another one. A bitch in online games in a middle of a fight were it is a garanted death:-(
I vagely remember that there is another sign who mean slow to a crawl and take turns passing. But I am pretty sure it is not the stop sign but the second one in this picture: http://www.karnal.gov.in/Road-Sign-complete.jpg
you can see them implementing some HTML 5 functionality as a contest of whom piss the further. But I prefer to see it as a testbed of HTML 5, seeing what work and what doesn't to improve the actual draft of the HTML 5 spec. A lot of the spec in HTML 5 are in because of the implementation done by Mozilla, Opera and Chrome of these specs.
Cameroon is actually trying to rebuild it's chicken production. This production was destroyed after european countries send all the wings and other less appealing part of the chicken there to be sell for pennies. Cameroon who is not poor and unstable is actually trying to rebuild its chicken production. But poorer countries could be easily destroyed without any way of rebuilding themselves.
My source: A nephew working for an organisation linked to the Cameroon agricultural ministry promoting chicken production.
I am sure there is a lot of other similar stories in other countries and for other products...
Yes. Unfortunatly it is more easy to track P2P users than FTP users. Now what I don't understand is that they don't seed the tracked with some false IPs like the one of the Queen and some institutions for letting them receive these letters too.
Until the next sentence of the same type for a similar case. Now that all the bullyed italian who the video is posted on internet know that they can win €300.000 at the court lottery, why will they do no do so?
I beg to differ. Access have a viable solution if you care about your datas: Use access as a front-end to a MsSQL back-end. You have then all the power of Access as a RAD tool with the integrity of a real database.
Actually I LOVE the multi-window layout on a multiscreen setup (image on one screen, tools on the other). But love to HATE it on a single screen setup.
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Hum. FastTracker memories come back :) weekends and nights composing with a friend with FT :-)
Taking your numbers:
100 * 8 Euro = 800 as the cost of the game
100 * 20 Euro - 800 Euro = 1200 Euro of total profit
300 * 10 Euro - 800 Euro = 2200 Euro of total profit
Now suppose 25% of licensing fees and managing for each sold copy
20 Euro case:
Licensing fee: 20 Euro * 25% = 5 Euro
100 * (20 Euro - 5 Euro) - 800 Euro = 700 Euro of total profit for the producer
100 * 5 Euro = 500 Euro of total profit for the licensor
10 Euro Case:
Licensing fee: 10 Euro * 25% = 2,5 Euro
300 * (10 Euro - 2.5 Euro) - 800 Euro = 1450 Euro of total profit for the producer
300 * 2.5 Euro = 750 Euro of total profit for the licensor
For a lot of cases selling for less to more people mean making more money...
He is half kidding. Paper company plant quick growing trees and not these pesky maple tree, oak or any slow growing trees. And not only because they are quick to grow, but because they are quick to grow they are also of lesser density thus they are more easy to reduce to pulp to make paper.
I prefer the PDF AND the paper version. The PDF to read it and search it when I don't play the game. The paper version next to my keyboard when I play the game and I have no way of reading the PDF at the same time. The kind of game a play tend to have lot of keys to use and need some background information (RPG).
The thing for me between continue to play with my 'evaluation' version (ie: TPB version) and the 'real' thing is: ...) but that generally come with some nice packaging too...
1) If I like it and play it more than 15min
2) Or there is a nice shiny box. Not the DVD sized ones but the big/unconventional ones (eg: the last Anno in the coffer)
3) Added bonus if there is some gadgets packed in (Maps of the world, figurine,
I have bought the last Anno. I don't really play it because I prefer the previous one but I bought it because of the box it is in...
Sorry, but at the time he bought his console, he had access to the Sony network, can plays all of its bought games and OtherOS. Patching it's console mean that he keep access to the network but lose the OtherOS, not patching mean that he lose access to the Sony Network and some of it's games (how insist to access the network), but keep the OtherOS. In the 2 case he lose something that he had pay for.
In Belgium with the taxes on blank medias:
CD = 68,90 Euro / 100*0.8 GB = 0.86 Euro/GB
DVD = 49.99 Euro / 25*4.7 GB = 0.43 Euro/GB
BD = 16.14 Euro / 3*25 GB = 0.22 Euro/GB
HDD = 86.89 Euro / 1500 GB = 0.06 Euro/GB
I can make 3 copy of my data on HDD for the price of saving it 1 time on a BD disk. .dv files of my camera 2 times and all the rest 1 time or 2 times depending of their availability on internet and my mood.
Personally I keep my photos and source code files 3 times, the
I always know that the Prius was in advance of its time :)
Yes NeHe tutorials are out of date on the last OpenGL specifications. But we don't ask tutorials to be on par with the last specifications. Tutorials like the NeHe ones must be simple and progressive in complexity to make them very good for someone who doesn't know anything about OpenGL.
Do you remember when at school you first learned to divide and the teacher learn you the 4, 6 and 50 where divisible by 2 but not 5? And then later when you have mastered these kind of division, he learned you the notion of decimals and made 5 divisible by 2? Why learning programmable pipeline before learning what is the OpenGL pipeline and mastering the non programmable one?
You need to learn to walk, the run and perhaps at the end learn to fly. It must be done in this order. Programmable pipeline, shaders & al are for those who can already run and what to learn to fly.
As a side note:
Learning OpenGL is not a requirement to use a 3D engine. But, I think you are better armed to use a 3D engine when you know at least a little bit of OpenGL and make you in a better position to grasp the use of these kind of tools.
OpenGL tutorial
I started with the Sinclair ZX-81 Basic. Quickly followed with the Z80 Assembler on the same machine due to memory constrains (1KB and 16KB later). Years later I got my first 8086 PC (Tandy 1000 SX) with QBasic. I moved quickly to Turbo Pascal and then again Assembler due to the easy in-lining in Turbo Pascal. Got to program in Assembler for the 286, 386, 486 and it was easy, fun to extract the last drop of power of these chips. I have learn some other assembly languages 6502, 68000, IBM360. Assembly language make me learn how computers work, Make me go deeper in the rabbit hole and learned how a processor worked and communicated with the memory / other chips letting me add a 2nd KB of memory to my ZX-81 with a cutter, some wires and an bunch of chips. All of this make me more conscious of how a program really worked and how high level construct were really executed on the processor level making greatly more easier to learn new languages.
Now I barely touch assembly for processors like the Core I7, Athlon X2 64 & al. Not due to the complexity of the assembly language who keep being 'easy', but due to the extreme complexity of these processors. When you put together the number of instructions executed in the same cycle, the deep of the instruction pipeline, the heuristic branch prediction, some out of order execution,.. all the tricks a modern processor use make it very very hard to beat for example the intel C compiler with your own hand crafted assembly.
As for your C++ programmers: Learning assembly is NOT stupid but it is true that recent / last generation processors are too complicated to write efficient assembly.
Somes love to memorise thousands of digits of PI. Why it could not be conceivable to memorise only 256 bits or 64 Hex digits or 50 [A-Z0-9] chars or 43 [A-Za-z0-9] chars... I know i could not memorise something like that, but some people can.
Yeah, lucky you. My ISP reset my IP every 36h and they make sure it is another one. A bitch in online games in a middle of a fight were it is a garanted death :-(
I vagely remember that there is another sign who mean slow to a crawl and take turns passing. But I am pretty sure it is not the stop sign but the second one in this picture: http://www.karnal.gov.in/Road-Sign-complete.jpg
you can see them implementing some HTML 5 functionality as a contest of whom piss the further. But I prefer to see it as a testbed of HTML 5, seeing what work and what doesn't to improve the actual draft of the HTML 5 spec. A lot of the spec in HTML 5 are in because of the implementation done by Mozilla, Opera and Chrome of these specs.
The simplest way to upgrade in ubuntu is to wait. Wait a long time. One day or another it will appear in your proposed upgrades.
If you are really paranoid, you will write yourself your own C compiler or else this could happen:
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/04/strange_loops_dennis_ritchie_a.php
CTRL-V
Recently in slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/24/1718256/Scientists-Say-a-Dirty-Child-Is-a-Healthy-Child?art_pos=1
But on the specific of allergies I don't remember where but I have read some articles saying what the GP said.
Not anymore since version 8 in my book. You must check and compare the last versions to make your mind again.
Cameroon is actually trying to rebuild it's chicken production. This production was destroyed after european countries send all the wings and other less appealing part of the chicken there to be sell for pennies. Cameroon who is not poor and unstable is actually trying to rebuild its chicken production. But poorer countries could be easily destroyed without any way of rebuilding themselves.
My source: A nephew working for an organisation linked to the Cameroon agricultural ministry promoting chicken production.
I am sure there is a lot of other similar stories in other countries and for other products...
Yes. Unfortunatly it is more easy to track P2P users than FTP users. Now what I don't understand is that they don't seed the tracked with some false IPs like the one of the Queen and some institutions for letting them receive these letters too.
Yes, Whack-A-Mole is fun. But as a user, where is the next mole?
Until the next sentence of the same type for a similar case. Now that all the bullyed italian who the video is posted on internet know that they can win €300.000 at the court lottery, why will they do no do so?
I beg to differ. Access have a viable solution if you care about your datas: Use access as a front-end to a MsSQL back-end. You have then all the power of Access as a RAD tool with the integrity of a real database.
Actually I LOVE the multi-window layout on a multiscreen setup (image on one screen, tools on the other). But love to HATE it on a single screen setup.