I will make my videos free to end users, so at this time I will not need to pay any fees. However, if I had planned on charging for access to the videos, I may have gotten into some trouble if I had not read your comment. Thank you.
Short subjects - 12 minutes or less - are royalty free.
You should seriously consider breaking up your instructional videos into smaller - more easily digestible - pieces.
The royalty on retail sales by title is 2% of sales or 2 cents a disk or download - whichever is lower. MPEG LA licensing is oriented toward very large scale commercial distribution - the premium cable channel with more 100,000 subscribers, the local broadcaster serving more than 500,000 households.
You really have little or nothing to offer them until you are seeeing sales of a quarter of million units with some regularity.
Working in the entertainment industry is stressful. Big budgets. Big egos. Tight deadlines. Unless you have the magic touch of a Pixar, most of your projects will crash and burn.
Since Windows 7 Home Premium retains for $199.99 it obviously has to run Linux otherwise it would be a $400 PC. It seems that thanks to falling hardware prices and rising prices from Microsoft we've now hit the point where the operating system can be 50% of the cost of the PC.
The AMD Acer Aspire notebook with 15" screen, Radeon 4250 graphics and 64 Bit Win 7 Home Premium is $300 at Walmart.com
Someday, the geek may fathom the mysteries of volume licensing, wholesale versus retail pricing, and the OEM system bundle.
The big, not-often-told truth is that IBM PCs sucked donkey ass, compared to the Amigas... The only thing the IBM PC had going for it were the three magic letters.
The IBM was a business machine with the best keyboard in the western world.
It was - as it was intended to be - the obvious choice if you were upgrading from CP/M or introducing the PC into your office for the very first time.
77% of iPhone users are fan boys/girls 80% of Android users value freedom of choice
and whenever the geek holds the short end of the stick he makes up the stats that will explain it all away.
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In the news this week:
MEASURED by profits, Microsoft trounces Apple and Google. In the most recent three months, Microsoft earned $4.52 billion, versus Apple's $3.25 billion and Google's $1.8 billion. But, dear investors, where is the love for this beaten-down company? Lost from view is what arguably is Microsoft's very best story -- its transformation into a powerhouse supplier of the specialized software that meets the complex needs of large corporations, what the trade calls selling to "the enterprise." Microsoft's enterprise software business alone is approaching the size of Oracle. But despite that astounding growth, Microsoft must accept that, fair or not, victories on the enterprise side draw about as much attention as being the No. 1 wholesale seller of plumbing supplies.Even With All Its Profits, Microsoft Has a Popularity Problem [July 24]
For one thing, some of us don't want to pay a Microsoft Tax.
Walmart carried the flag for Linux in big box retail for about ten years.
It sold carloads of overstock junk to geeks who thought they could spin straw into gold. What it could not do is explain Linux to its customers or deliver a genuinely market-worthy Linux product at a lower price than Windows.
Retailers need to see a big return from every inch of shelf space. Retailers do not like maintaining dual inventory and support structures. Retailers love after-market sales.
The Windows sale is the gravy. Grand Theft Auto is the steak.
You aren't paying "The Microsoft Tax."
You are paying the "Also-Ran" tax for the OS that is fragmented into hundreds of distros and holds - collectively - a bare 1% share of the market.
That is what I really want. I can buy a Dell without a monitor, so why not without an operating system?
Because bare bones doesn't sell worth shit.
The OEM system install is a balanced and tested configuration of hardware and software that is sold under warranty, works as advertised, or is returned to the vendor.
The gold standard in markets where the PC is sold as an appliance and not a hobby kit.
last I heard, there were rather high-profile examples of each indeed not having same.
Of course there are.
You owe MPEG LA nothing until you are distributing product on a commercial scale - and by commercial I mean the premium cable channel with a minimum of 100,000 paying subscribers. The broadcast station serving 500,000 households.
H.264 royalties on sales of your 30 minute Star Trek fan-flick max out at 2 cents a disk or download. Wake them when you have a check for $20,000 to deliver.
Dell seems to have discovered what Walmart discovered after a decade of trying to make a mass market success of OEM Linux:
1 There are about 1 to 1.2 billion PC users world-wide.
Call it 900 to 1 billion Windows users - 1 in 4 who will likely have migrated to Windows 7 by the end of summer. It could take a little longer - but it will happen.
There are enormous economies of scale in the production - and marketing - of the Windows PC.
Talk of "The Microsoft Tax" is witless.
2 Linux has 200 distros and a penguin and what the hell does that mean?
Apple sells an upscale, urban sophisticate, life-style. Microsoft, solid middle class values. Both have had thirty years and billions of dollars to define and perfect their corporate identities.
The task for the seller is to explain Linux to the newcomer is less than 30 seconds. Half of which must be given over to a warning that it won't run his Windows software.
Walmart learned that lesson the hard way.
3 The PC is quintessentially middle class. Rate the buyer zero for his geekiness, ideological purity and political correctness. He tends to chose the first tier app even when it sells at a premium. But that does not mean he is paying retail list.
This leads directly to problem No 4:
4 Linux runs a sub-set of the software available for Windows.
Everything of interest in FOSS to the non-technical end user is ported to Windows or begins as a native Windows app.
The forces that drive the port are compelling:
Close to 90% of funding for The Mozilla Foundation comes from Google's AdSense From the Firefox browser on the Windows PC.
It is much harder to justify the port of the commercial/closed source/proprietary app to Linux.
OSX has five times the market.
Mac users are generally unafraid to crack open their wallets - and you'll be spared dealing with the griefers among the Free and Open Source zealots.
The first term of the License runs through 2010, but the License will be renewable for successive five-year periods for the life of any Portfolio patent on reasonable terms and conditions...but for the protection of licensees, royalty rates applicable to specific license grants or specific licensed products will not increase by more than ten percent (10%) at each renewal.SUMMARY OF AVC/H.264 LICENSE TERMS
The H.264 licensors fall into three basic categories: R&D [Fraunhofer,] Operating Systems [Apple and Microsoft,] and Manufacturing [Mitsubishi, Philips, Samsung and all the rest]. These companies - among the largest and richest in the world - make their living by providing the infrastructure on which others will build.
There is no intelligible reason for the manufacturer of 3D television technologies to up the cost of 3D production and distribution. The pennies he makes on licensing isn't worth the dollars he loses on sales.
You can't identify the contribution due to hybrids by looking at the total. So if pedestrian kills by the other 99% of vehicles drop by 1%, hybrids could be 99 times more deadly than them and you wouldn't notice from this guy's analysis.
He hasn't asked why there have been fewer pedestrian deaths:
For example, van services for the elderly and disabled may be taking more of the most vulnerable pedestrians off the road.
Thus, one could reasonably argue that stigmatizing child porn in the way our society does is, in and of itself, a national security risk. Indeed, paranoia in any form is a security risk, whether it's fear of the kiddie porn boogeyman
There was a front page story on Slashdot this past week on what it is like to monitor the hard-core porn traffic online. To sum it up, quickly, child pornography is not what the geek in his sexual innocence imagines it to be.
In local prosecutions there have three distinct and memorable themes: recklessness, arrogance and obsession. The tenured grade school teacher with a wife and kids who routes his porn through the district's network.
It is never a single image - more like tens of thousands.
Your state or county's registry of sex offenders can be an instructive read: Who they are and why you do not want them in a position of trust.
Giving people the ability to use their videos commercially without paying off the MPEG-LA yet another time just might be a competitive advantage.
H.264 licensing is dirt cheap.
Shorts 12 minutes and under are free.
Retail sales by title - disk or download - is the lessor of 2% of sales or 2 cents each. They don't give a damn about your hometown wedding videos. What they want to see is a check for $20 grand.
Subscription sales - you owe nothing unless your cable channel or DVD of the month has 100,000 subscribers. It doesn't matter whether they are paying $15 for an hour of Penthouse or 5 cents a week for Miniature Golf.
Montgomery has thrown Xiph.Org support behind WebM, because Google's financial muscle (not to mention their free license) will have a real chance to break the hold MPEG-LA has on the market.
H.264 licensees include the manufacturers of damn near every piece of video hardware sold on this planet.
The full spectrum of product from theatrical production, cable, satellite and broadcast distribution. Security and Industrial video. Military applications. Home video. The video card. The video game console.
If I have focused on the Asian here - there is a reason: Of the 857 AVC/H.264 licenses most are Asian - with a domestic market in the billions - and export markets on the same scale.
They are - collectively - far bigger than Google and no strangers to flexing their own muscles.
The enterprise cap for H.264 licensing is $5 million a year.
Given WebM's resemblance to H.264, the sensible thing to do - from the mega-corp's point of view, at least - would be to throw WebM into the H.264 pool and let it sink or swim as best it can.
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Why do people support companies that treat you like a criminal? We all know Apple is a fascist company...and know to expect this shit from them, but I thought Android was about openness?
1 Most folks set out to buy a telephone - and not a hobby kit. The same folks who for 100 years paid AT&T for the certainty of a dial tone come hell or high water.
2 The app store inspires confidence in the appropriateness, quality and compatibility of an app. The terms and conditions for the developer and the price of the SDK is not their problem.
3 Apple cultivates an image that is upscale, urban and sophisticate. It's an image many of Apple's customers have found bankable - and nerd rage is not a credible substitute:
I was watching the testimony and he stated that it was a Windows NT system and was constantly giving a BSOD. They had replaced and reimaged the HDD over and over but it still kept happening.
Then maybe the problem wasn't with NT or the hard drive - but with other aging hardware in a marine environment.
It's why COBOL was invented, with syntax like. SUBTRACT DEBIT FROM BALANCE GIVING NEWBALANCE. I kid you not, Adm Hopper actually thought that would make programming easier, and she was no moron.
COBOL was designed like this so it could be read and understood by corporate auditors and accountants - and for the recruitment and training of accountants as COBOL programmers.
It makes perfect sense when you remember that modern bookkeeping rules are the product of hundreds of years of law and practical experience which the neolithic geek did not have.
Microsoft just wants a relation$hip with ARM so they can influence them before a huge wave of low cost, linux friendly PC's, netbooks, you name it hits the market.
----- and sink like a rock when they hit the shelves at Walmart.
Apple has re-discovered an old truth about the high-tech gadget - it sell best to folks with serious money to spend - so you might as well take them for whatever they are worth.
Who cares. By the time this technology goes commercial, optical discs will be dead as far as selling movies, music and such goes. Maybe they'll have some other more limited uses.
When Netflix can mail you 50 feature length HD videos for the price of a single first class postage stamp will you be singing the same tune?
Just ask hundreds of thousands of people who died while the drugs that could have saved them were waiting for the FDA approval.
What is your source for these numbers?
I think you'll find that the experimental protocol at best simply extends the life of the terminally ill patient for some few weeks or months. It is not a miracle cure - it is an investment in the future.
39% of lung cancer cases are diagnosed after the cancer has already metastasized (distant stage). The corresponding 5-year relative lung cancer survival rate [is] 2.15%Lung Cancer Survival Rate Based on Stage
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I will make my videos free to end users, so at this time I will not need to pay any fees. However, if I had planned on charging for access to the videos, I may have gotten into some trouble if I had not read your comment. Thank you.
Short subjects - 12 minutes or less - are royalty free.
You should seriously consider breaking up your instructional videos into smaller - more easily digestible - pieces.
The royalty on retail sales by title is 2% of sales or 2 cents a disk or download - whichever is lower.
MPEG LA licensing is oriented toward very large scale commercial distribution - the premium cable channel with more 100,000 subscribers, the local broadcaster serving more than 500,000 households.
You really have little or nothing to offer them until you are seeeing sales of a quarter of million units with some regularity.
Working in the entertainment industry is stressful. Big budgets. Big egos. Tight deadlines. Unless you have the magic touch of a Pixar, most of your projects will crash and burn.
Since Windows 7 Home Premium retains for $199.99 it obviously has to run Linux otherwise it would be a $400 PC. It seems that thanks to falling hardware prices and rising prices from Microsoft we've now hit the point where the operating system can be 50% of the cost of the PC.
The AMD Acer Aspire notebook with 15" screen, Radeon 4250 graphics and 64 Bit Win 7 Home Premium is $300 at Walmart.com
Someday, the geek may fathom the mysteries of volume licensing, wholesale versus retail pricing, and the OEM system bundle.
That day can't come too soon, IMHO.
Had you thought that this might be the point of naming it so ?
Yeah.
But remember the price when you name your app "The GIMP?"
Not every idea is a good idea.
"sexparty.org." As in orgy? This has the feel of what passes for geek humor - not serious discussion.
The big, not-often-told truth is that IBM PCs sucked donkey ass, compared to the Amigas... The only thing the IBM PC had going for it were the three magic letters.
The IBM was a business machine with the best keyboard in the western world.
It was - as it was intended to be - the obvious choice if you were upgrading from CP/M or introducing the PC into your office for the very first time.
Developers followed the same path.
I sell machines with Ubuntu on them. To yoga instructors and flight attendants and 85 year old women.
How many of them do you sell a week - a month - a year? I promise I won't ask how much you pay for rent.
77% of iPhone users are fan boys/girls
80% of Android users value freedom of choice
and whenever the geek holds the short end of the stick he makes up the stats that will explain it all away.
_____
In the news this week:
MEASURED by profits, Microsoft trounces Apple and Google. In the most recent three months, Microsoft earned $4.52 billion, versus Apple's $3.25 billion and Google's $1.8 billion. But, dear investors, where is the love for this beaten-down company?
Lost from view is what arguably is Microsoft's very best story -- its transformation into a powerhouse supplier of the specialized software that meets the complex needs of large corporations, what the trade calls selling to "the enterprise."
Microsoft's enterprise software business alone is approaching the size of Oracle. But despite that astounding growth, Microsoft must accept that, fair or not, victories on the enterprise side draw about as much attention as being the No. 1 wholesale seller of plumbing supplies. Even With All Its Profits, Microsoft Has a Popularity Problem [July 24]
For one thing, some of us don't want to pay a Microsoft Tax.
Walmart carried the flag for Linux in big box retail for about ten years.
It sold carloads of overstock junk to geeks who thought they could spin straw into gold. What it could not do is explain Linux to its customers or deliver a genuinely market-worthy Linux product at a lower price than Windows.
Retailers need to see a big return from every inch of shelf space. Retailers do not like maintaining dual inventory and support structures. Retailers love after-market sales.
The Windows sale is the gravy. Grand Theft Auto is the steak.
You aren't paying "The Microsoft Tax."
You are paying the "Also-Ran" tax for the OS that is fragmented into hundreds of distros and holds - collectively - a bare 1% share of the market.
That is what I really want. I can buy a Dell without a monitor, so why not without an operating system?
Because bare bones doesn't sell worth shit.
The OEM system install is a balanced and tested configuration of hardware and software that is sold under warranty, works as advertised, or is returned to the vendor.
The gold standard in markets where the PC is sold as an appliance and not a hobby kit.
Why don't ISPs bill home users by the amount of bandwidth used so the users don't pay for the bandwidth they don't use?
Because users like simplified billing and a flat monthly rate - with no surprises on next month's bill.
last I heard, there were rather high-profile examples of each indeed not having same.
Of course there are.
You owe MPEG LA nothing until you are distributing product on a commercial scale - and by commercial I mean the premium cable channel with a minimum of 100,000 paying subscribers. The broadcast station serving 500,000 households.
H.264 royalties on sales of your 30 minute Star Trek fan-flick max out at 2 cents a disk or download. Wake them when you have a check for $20,000 to deliver.
Dell seems to have discovered what Walmart discovered after a decade of trying to make a mass market success of OEM Linux:
1 There are about 1 to 1.2 billion PC users world-wide.
Call it 900 to 1 billion Windows users - 1 in 4 who will likely have migrated to Windows 7 by the end of summer. It could take a little longer - but it will happen.
There are enormous economies of scale in the production - and marketing - of the Windows PC.
Talk of "The Microsoft Tax" is witless.
2 Linux has 200 distros and a penguin and what the hell does that mean?
Apple sells an upscale, urban sophisticate, life-style. Microsoft, solid middle class values. Both have had thirty years and billions of dollars to define and perfect their corporate identities.
The task for the seller is to explain Linux to the newcomer is less than 30 seconds. Half of which must be given over to a warning that it won't run his Windows software.
Walmart learned that lesson the hard way.
3 The PC is quintessentially middle class. Rate the buyer zero for his geekiness, ideological purity and political correctness. He tends to chose the first tier app even when it sells at a premium. But that does not mean he is paying retail list.
This leads directly to problem No 4:
4 Linux runs a sub-set of the software available for Windows.
Everything of interest in FOSS to the non-technical end user is ported to Windows or begins as a native Windows app.
The forces that drive the port are compelling:
Close to 90% of funding for The Mozilla Foundation comes from Google's AdSense From the Firefox browser on the Windows PC.
It is much harder to justify the port of the commercial/closed source/proprietary app to Linux.
OSX has five times the market.
Mac users are generally unafraid to crack open their wallets - and you'll be spared dealing with the griefers among the Free and Open Source zealots.
Fixed those for you.
Thanks for the sour persimmons, Buster.
The first term of the License runs through 2010, but the License will be renewable for successive five-year periods for the life of any Portfolio patent on reasonable terms and conditions...but for the protection of licensees, royalty rates applicable to specific license grants or specific licensed products will not increase by more than ten percent (10%) at each renewal. SUMMARY OF AVC/H.264 LICENSE TERMS
The H.264 licensors fall into three basic categories: R&D [Fraunhofer,] Operating Systems [Apple and Microsoft,] and Manufacturing [Mitsubishi, Philips, Samsung and all the rest]. These companies - among the largest and richest in the world - make their living by providing the infrastructure on which others will build.
There is no intelligible reason for the manufacturer of 3D television technologies to up the cost of 3D production and distribution. The pennies he makes on licensing isn't worth the dollars he loses on sales.
You can't identify the contribution due to hybrids by looking at the total. So if pedestrian kills by the other 99% of vehicles drop by 1%, hybrids could be 99 times more deadly than them and you wouldn't notice from this guy's analysis.
He hasn't asked why there have been fewer pedestrian deaths:
For example, van services for the elderly and disabled may be taking more of the most vulnerable pedestrians off the road.
Thus, one could reasonably argue that stigmatizing child porn in the way our society does is, in and of itself, a national security risk. Indeed, paranoia in any form is a security risk, whether it's fear of the kiddie porn boogeyman
There was a front page story on Slashdot this past week on what it is like to monitor the hard-core porn traffic online. To sum it up, quickly, child pornography is not what the geek in his sexual innocence imagines it to be.
In local prosecutions there have three distinct and memorable themes: recklessness, arrogance and obsession. The tenured grade school teacher with a wife and kids who routes his porn through the district's network.
It is never a single image - more like tens of thousands.
Your state or county's registry of sex offenders can be an instructive read: Who they are and why you do not want them in a position of trust.
H.264 licensing is dirt cheap.
Shorts 12 minutes and under are free.
Retail sales by title - disk or download - is the lessor of 2% of sales or 2 cents each. They don't give a damn about your hometown wedding videos. What they want to see is a check for $20 grand.
Subscription sales - you owe nothing unless your cable channel or DVD of the month has 100,000 subscribers. It doesn't matter whether they are paying $15 for an hour of Penthouse or 5 cents a week for Miniature Golf.
Montgomery has thrown Xiph.Org support behind WebM, because Google's financial muscle (not to mention their free license) will have a real chance to break the hold MPEG-LA has on the market.
H.264 licensees include the manufacturers of damn near every piece of video hardware sold on this planet.
The full spectrum of product from theatrical production, cable, satellite and broadcast distribution. Security and Industrial video. Military applications. Home video. The video card. The video game console.
The web is only one small piece of the puzzle.
We are talking companies the size of Mitsubishi.
Philips. Samsung. Fuji. Hitachi. NTT. Panasonic. Pioneer. Sony. Sanyo. Thomson. Toshiba. Yamaha.
If I have focused on the Asian here - there is a reason: Of the 857 AVC/H.264 licenses most are Asian - with a domestic market in the billions - and export markets on the same scale.
They are - collectively - far bigger than Google and no strangers to flexing their own muscles.
The enterprise cap for H.264 licensing is $5 million a year.
Given WebM's resemblance to H.264, the sensible thing to do - from the mega-corp's point of view, at least - would be to throw WebM into the H.264 pool and let it sink or swim as best it can.
Why do people support companies that treat you like a criminal? We all know Apple is a fascist company...and know to expect this shit from them, but I thought Android was about openness?
1 Most folks set out to buy a telephone - and not a hobby kit. The same folks who for 100 years paid AT&T for the certainty of a dial tone come hell or high water.
2 The app store inspires confidence in the appropriateness, quality and compatibility of an app. The terms and conditions for the developer and the price of the SDK is not their problem.
3 Apple cultivates an image that is upscale, urban and sophisticate. It's an image many of Apple's customers have found bankable - and nerd rage is not a credible substitute:
criminal...fascist...shit
I was watching the testimony and he stated that it was a Windows NT system and was constantly giving a BSOD. They had replaced and reimaged the HDD over and over but it still kept happening.
Then maybe the problem wasn't with NT or the hard drive - but with other aging hardware in a marine environment.
It's why COBOL was invented, with syntax like.
SUBTRACT DEBIT FROM BALANCE GIVING NEWBALANCE.
I kid you not, Adm Hopper actually thought that would make programming easier, and she was no moron.
COBOL was designed like this so it could be read and understood by corporate auditors and accountants - and for the recruitment and training of accountants as COBOL programmers.
It makes perfect sense when you remember that modern bookkeeping rules are the product of hundreds of years of law and practical experience which the neolithic geek did not have.
Microsoft just wants a relation$hip with ARM so they can influence them before a huge wave of low cost, linux friendly PC's, netbooks, you name it hits the market.
----- and sink like a rock when they hit the shelves at Walmart.
Apple has re-discovered an old truth about the high-tech gadget - it sell best to folks with serious money to spend - so you might as well take them for whatever they are worth.
Who cares. By the time this technology goes commercial, optical discs will be dead as far as selling movies, music and such goes. Maybe they'll have some other more limited uses.
When Netflix can mail you 50 feature length HD videos for the price of a single first class postage stamp will you be singing the same tune?
The reason HD-DVD didn't take off was because they didn't allow porn.
HD-DVD was supported by Warner Brothers and Universal.
Blu-Ray had Disney.
In home video, that is all you need to know to predict a winner.
Disney was the rocket that launched the ABC television network into orbit in the mid 1950s.
When Disney moved to NBC and all-color programming, the big screen B&W set was on the fast track to oblivion.
The big screen HDTV is family entertainment -
and Disney has 87 years of product to meet that demand.
Just ask hundreds of thousands of people who died while the drugs that could have saved them were waiting for the FDA approval.
What is your source for these numbers?
I think you'll find that the experimental protocol at best simply extends the life of the terminally ill patient for some few weeks or months. It is not a miracle cure - it is an investment in the future.
39% of lung cancer cases are diagnosed after the cancer has already metastasized (distant stage). The corresponding 5-year relative lung cancer survival rate [is] 2.15% Lung Cancer Survival Rate Based on Stage
I am tempted to suggest that this is not the right approach to take as an adviser to someone as amoral and profligate as Nero.