Old method: Apple $.34 / $.55 Label
= Apple's profit as a percentage of Label: 61.8%
New method: Apple $.02 / $.03 Label:
= Apple's profit as a precentage of Label: 66.6%
Now for the artist:
Old method: Artist $.10 / $.55 Label
= Artist's profit as a percentage of Label: 18.1%
New method: Artist $.01 / $.03 Label:
= Artist's profit as a precentage of Label: 33.3%
This means that the parent's proposed numbers are an increase in profits for Apple and the Artists of 4.3% and 15.2% respectively. This is exactly the sort of thing we need to be encouraging, not discouraging!
Repeat, for any point of sale price per song, under the above model, Apple and the Artists would make more money on every song sold. That means if the same $.99 cents was spent on the new model vs the old, the artist would see an increase of ($.99 /.05) -rounded down- *.01 = $.19 instead of $.10 in the current model.
This also means that 10 songs must be sold for the artist to make the same $.10 they make in the old method. However, that only constitues $.50 of customer purchases!
I expect more from Slashdot!
I know no one will read this anyway.
I am the owner of a Phonelabs Dock N' Talk, and I must say, it is feature packed, 100% reliable, and otherwise indistinguishable form a regular landline phone. Being a heavy cellphone user, I don't have any number memorized with the exception of my own, opting to select them from my Sony Ericsson T616 phonebook. I was pleased to find that holding the pound key activates the built-in voice dial feature of the teleophone. In addition, I have not had a single problem with the phone being buggy or otherwise malfunctioning while interfaced with the device. It's an excellent product and I can see no aspect in which a competing product could improve on its design.
note: I have absolutely no affiliation with Phone Labs, other than being a customer of theirs.
Parent needs to be modded up. I'd do it myself but I made a bad joke the same day I put the freemac link in my signature and the slashdot deathstar launched on my proverbial alderaan.
What about Instant messaging? Does the firewall block any ports related to personal chatting? You could just have a friend tell you the news, or even transfer you a localized version. It's not exactly circumventing the firewall if someone just describes the gist of a few news stories to you over IM.
is that the world's most powerful computer is now located in Minnesota, Y'know!
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Wow, the fact that someone would do a google search and post the first thing that pops up as evidence of someone they've never seen really surprises me. Actually it doesn't. Here are some other photographs of him.
Blundetto " People would get too confused. They would think that this is 'Smallville - The Movie', similar to X-Files-film. And if Smallville continued after this film, regular viewers wouldn't understand why Welling is just Clark Kent again after being Superman in the film. I don't think that Singer and WB would like to explain this in every possible interview. "Yeah, we cast this kid from Smallville, but this isn't Smallville, this is Superman. These stories happen in different universes, you see. Yes, we know that all the characters have same names as in Smallville, and they are indeed THE SAME characters in a way, but still theses stories are totally different. Tom Welling playing Clark Kent here is totally different from Tom Welling playing Clark Kent in TV." Why is this so hard to understand? "
How many l33t preteens is it going to take to ruin a virtual service? They're going to have to implement chat restrictions over the course of the main 'worship', and even then, all it would take to ruin the after-chat is one kid.
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This reply got a five? On Slashdot of all places?
.05) -rounded down- * .01 = $.19 instead of $.10 in the current model.
Do some quick math (using Parent's values):
Old method: Apple $.34 / $.55 Label
= Apple's profit as a percentage of Label: 61.8%
New method: Apple $.02 / $.03 Label:
= Apple's profit as a precentage of Label: 66.6%
Now for the artist:
Old method: Artist $.10 / $.55 Label
= Artist's profit as a percentage of Label: 18.1%
New method: Artist $.01 / $.03 Label:
= Artist's profit as a precentage of Label: 33.3%
This means that the parent's proposed numbers are an increase in profits for Apple and the Artists of 4.3% and 15.2% respectively. This is exactly the sort of thing we need to be encouraging, not discouraging!
Repeat, for any point of sale price per song, under the above model, Apple and the Artists would make more money on every song sold. That means if the same $.99 cents was spent on the new model vs the old, the artist would see an increase of ($.99 /
This also means that 10 songs must be sold for the artist to make the same $.10 they make in the old method. However, that only constitues $.50 of customer purchases!
I expect more from Slashdot!
I know no one will read this anyway.
I am the owner of a Phonelabs Dock N' Talk, and I must say, it is feature packed, 100% reliable, and otherwise indistinguishable form a regular landline phone. Being a heavy cellphone user, I don't have any number memorized with the exception of my own, opting to select them from my Sony Ericsson T616 phonebook. I was pleased to find that holding the pound key activates the built-in voice dial feature of the teleophone. In addition, I have not had a single problem with the phone being buggy or otherwise malfunctioning while interfaced with the device. It's an excellent product and I can see no aspect in which a competing product could improve on its design. note: I have absolutely no affiliation with Phone Labs, other than being a customer of theirs.
Yes but what exactly does it plan to incite ?
Slashdot posts the original story the same day that FARK runs the retraction. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1463867, 00.html
Parent needs to be modded up. I'd do it myself but I made a bad joke the same day I put the freemac link in my signature and the slashdot deathstar launched on my proverbial alderaan.
What about Instant messaging? Does the firewall block any ports related to personal chatting? You could just have a friend tell you the news, or even transfer you a localized version. It's not exactly circumventing the firewall if someone just describes the gist of a few news stories to you over IM.
I demand open wifi goggles.
... and no mention of the obligatory Beowulf Cluster! You could carry it around in a backback.
Why not make the icon 7.6 Gigs?
is that the world's most powerful computer is now located in Minnesota, Y'know!
Wow, the fact that someone would do a google search and post the first thing that pops up as evidence of someone they've never seen really surprises me. Actually it doesn't. Here are some other photographs of him.
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http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/9779/pubg
http://www.superman-v.com/news/images/brandonrout
http://soaphunks.net/routhb01.jpg
http://soaphunks.net/routhb02.jpg
Maybe Slashdot needs to leave the movie news to the movie sites?
To quote a post on AICN:
Blundetto
" People would get too confused. They would think that this is 'Smallville - The Movie', similar to X-Files-film. And if Smallville continued after this film, regular viewers wouldn't understand why Welling is just Clark Kent again after being Superman in the film. I don't think that Singer and WB would like to explain this in every possible interview. "Yeah, we cast this kid from Smallville, but this isn't Smallville, this is Superman. These stories happen in different universes, you see. Yes, we know that all the characters have same names as in Smallville, and they are indeed THE SAME characters in a way, but still theses stories are totally different. Tom Welling playing Clark Kent here is totally different from Tom Welling playing Clark Kent in TV." Why is this so hard to understand? "
How many l33t preteens is it going to take to ruin a virtual service? They're going to have to implement chat restrictions over the course of the main 'worship', and even then, all it would take to ruin the after-chat is one kid.