Apple reports sales after their opening weekend like they've always done, however, it is in a manner DIFFERENT from everyone else. Everyone else indeed counts total shipped, whereas Apple has always reported total sold. Apple's largest retailer happens to be... Apple. I think they have a very good handle of what they sold themselves.
They'll come mug you for money at that point and it's NOT cheap.
It's dirt cheap.
Retail sale, disks or downloads:
Where an end user pays directly for video services on a title-by-title basis...royalties for video greater than 12 minutes (there is no royalty for a title 12 minutes or less) are...the lower of 2% of the price paid to the Licensee (on first arms length sale of the video) or $0.02 per title
Paid subscription services:
Where an end user pays directly for video services on a subscription-basis (not ordered or limited title-by-title), the applicable royalties per legal entity payable by the service or content provider are:
100,000 or fewer subscribers per year. No royalty.
100,000 to 250,000. $25,000
250,000-500,000. $50,000.
500,000 to 1 million $75,000.
Over $1 Million. $100,000.
Broadcast, Cable and Satellite:
where remuneration is from other sources, in the case of free television...satellite and/or cable Transmission, and which is not paid for by an End User), the licensee (the broadcaster) may pay...according to one of two royalty options:
(i) a one-time payment of $2,500 per AVC transmission encoder
or (ii) annual fee per Broadcast Market
starting at $2,500 per calendar year per Broadcast Markets of at least 100,000
but no more than 499,999 television households
$5,000 per calendar year per Broadcast
Market which includes at least 500,000 but no more than 999,999 television households
and $10,000 per calendar year per Broadcast Market which includes 1,000,000 or more television households.
Free distribution over the Internet:
In the case of Internet broadcast for which the End User does not pay remuneration for the right to receive or view, i.e., neither title-by-title nor subscription), there will be no royalty during the first term of the License (ending December 31, 2010), and after the first term the royalty shall be no more than the economic equivalent of royalties payable during the same time for free television.
The Cap
In the case of the sublicenses for video content or service providers, the maximum annual royalty ("cap") for an enterprise (commonly controlled legal entities) is... $5 million per year in 2010.
$5 million a year for as many free H.264 video downloads (over 12 minutes) as Google has the capacity to host.
Exactly. But Diablo II's normal mode was a huge step back from Diablo I, where you had to recover items from your dead body, or they were lost forever. While not quite as painful as the death of a character, there was enough incentive to try to retrieve some nicer items. Ironically, all those "unique" items in Diablo II that were so overpowered when compared to regular magic items made re-acquiring them a non-issue as they were readily available.
Why is this modded insightful and not informative? It's a fact that the reporting prior to Nevada would typically report the top 5 candidates after each primary, but when Rob Paul came in 2nd in Nevada, it wasn't mentioned - ANYWHERE.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but isn't it obvious that Apple has to try to do at least this to build a history to support any case against patent trolls?
Simply create content that either:
A) Is worth keeping beyond the initial period it takes to complete your game,
B) Is an evolving product which gets updates to retain your customers.
C) Is geared toward online/interactive use with multiple users, so that the gameplay itself is ever-changing (think RTS)
I *still* have my original copies of Starcraft, Diablo, and Warcraft, with all their sequels as well. Even without the CD-key requirements to play Ladder games on Battle.net, I'd still keep the original discs around.
If you truly believe that google, red hat, or "many other's" sales, marketing, and accounting departments don't find themselves using or opening word and excel attachments, you're either woefully misinformed, or simply delusional.
I was just thinking that - it's 2009. Who is still opening DOC or XLS attachments?
Umm... practically any company that does business with any municipal or state governmental agencies, law firms, accounting firms, etc etc. The question is who isn't opening DOC or XLS attachments from their clients, and how do they plan to stay in business?
And yet, these "worst drivers in the world" happen to be right there in Baltimore, just as the previous poster suggested. He never said from where the worst drivers hail, only that they would magically appear wherever you happen to be.
Actually, there are way too FEW banks today, as is evidenced by the rhetoric that they are all "too big to fail." Between 1929 and 1923, *thousands* of banks failed. We've had less than 30 banks fail this year.
Banks in operation in 1929 - 25,568
Banks in operation in 1933 - 14,771
We're being told that any single one of the big banks failing will plunge us into a similar depression.
>>I have one thing to say for microsoft selling 40 million vista licences in a week :
No one said anything about selling 40 million licenses in a week. Stop starting idiotic rumors. The 40 million number is total number of licenses "sold" since they started last year, including all the free upgrades. The truth is that Vista is a flop, and no amount of spin will change that fact.
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Apple reports sales after their opening weekend like they've always done, however, it is in a manner DIFFERENT from everyone else. Everyone else indeed counts total shipped, whereas Apple has always reported total sold. Apple's largest retailer happens to be... Apple. I think they have a very good handle of what they sold themselves.
This needs to be modded up.
And this is different from Goldman's flash trading program in that these crooks don't wear suits?
So you lock your car after parking it in your garage? Do you also lock yourself in your bedroom when retiring at night after locking the front door?
They'll come mug you for money at that point and it's NOT cheap.
It's dirt cheap.
Retail sale, disks or downloads:
Where an end user pays directly for video services on a title-by-title basis ...royalties for video greater than 12 minutes (there is no royalty for a title 12 minutes or less) are...the lower of 2% of the price paid to the Licensee (on first arms length sale of the video) or $0.02 per title
Paid subscription services:
Where an end user pays directly for video services on a subscription-basis (not ordered or limited title-by-title), the applicable royalties per legal entity payable by the service or content provider are:
100,000 or fewer subscribers per year. No royalty. 100,000 to 250,000. $25,000 250,000-500,000. $50,000. 500,000 to 1 million $75,000. Over $1 Million. $100,000.
Broadcast, Cable and Satellite:
where remuneration is from other sources, in the case of free television...satellite and/or cable Transmission, and which is not paid for by an End User), the licensee (the broadcaster) may pay...according to one of two royalty options:
(i) a one-time payment of $2,500 per AVC transmission encoder
or (ii) annual fee per Broadcast Market
starting at $2,500 per calendar year per Broadcast Markets of at least 100,000 but no more than 499,999 television households $5,000 per calendar year per Broadcast Market which includes at least 500,000 but no more than 999,999 television households and $10,000 per calendar year per Broadcast Market which includes 1,000,000 or more television households.
Free distribution over the Internet:
In the case of Internet broadcast for which the End User does not pay remuneration for the right to receive or view, i.e., neither title-by-title nor subscription), there will be no royalty during the first term of the License (ending December 31, 2010), and after the first term the royalty shall be no more than the economic equivalent of royalties payable during the same time for free television.
The Cap
In the case of the sublicenses for video content or service providers, the maximum annual royalty ("cap") for an enterprise (commonly controlled legal entities) is... $5 million per year in 2010.
$5 million a year for as many free H.264 video downloads (over 12 minutes) as Google has the capacity to host.
License terms.
Five years. 10% increase cap on renewals.
SUMMARY OF AVC/H.264 LICENSE TERMS
Why is this buried and being ignored?! This should be modded +5 informative. Get your facts straight before your start your incessant whining...
Yes, when I'm soldering, that hot iron REALLY singes my fingers when I'm not careful!
Exactly. But Diablo II's normal mode was a huge step back from Diablo I, where you had to recover items from your dead body, or they were lost forever. While not quite as painful as the death of a character, there was enough incentive to try to retrieve some nicer items. Ironically, all those "unique" items in Diablo II that were so overpowered when compared to regular magic items made re-acquiring them a non-issue as they were readily available.
Why is this modded insightful and not informative? It's a fact that the reporting prior to Nevada would typically report the top 5 candidates after each primary, but when Rob Paul came in 2nd in Nevada, it wasn't mentioned - ANYWHERE.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but isn't it obvious that Apple has to try to do at least this to build a history to support any case against patent trolls?
Simply create content that either: A) Is worth keeping beyond the initial period it takes to complete your game, B) Is an evolving product which gets updates to retain your customers. C) Is geared toward online/interactive use with multiple users, so that the gameplay itself is ever-changing (think RTS) I *still* have my original copies of Starcraft, Diablo, and Warcraft, with all their sequels as well. Even without the CD-key requirements to play Ladder games on Battle.net, I'd still keep the original discs around.
This madness must stop and stop now! I will not pay one red cent in new taxes anywhere!
The people with the guns and jails think otherwise...
If you truly believe that google, red hat, or "many other's" sales, marketing, and accounting departments don't find themselves using or opening word and excel attachments, you're either woefully misinformed, or simply delusional.
I was just thinking that - it's 2009. Who is still opening DOC or XLS attachments?
Umm... practically any company that does business with any municipal or state governmental agencies, law firms, accounting firms, etc etc. The question is who isn't opening DOC or XLS attachments from their clients, and how do they plan to stay in business?
...against the theory that jerking off causes blindness.
How is this off topic? That's exactly the same logic that these numbskull parents are using to argue their case.
And yet, these "worst drivers in the world" happen to be right there in Baltimore, just as the previous poster suggested. He never said from where the worst drivers hail, only that they would magically appear wherever you happen to be.
Actually, there are way too FEW banks today, as is evidenced by the rhetoric that they are all "too big to fail." Between 1929 and 1923, *thousands* of banks failed. We've had less than 30 banks fail this year. Banks in operation in 1929 - 25,568 Banks in operation in 1933 - 14,771 We're being told that any single one of the big banks failing will plunge us into a similar depression.
You forgot to disable broadcasting of your SSID.
>>I have one thing to say for microsoft selling 40 million vista licences in a week : No one said anything about selling 40 million licenses in a week. Stop starting idiotic rumors. The 40 million number is total number of licenses "sold" since they started last year, including all the free upgrades. The truth is that Vista is a flop, and no amount of spin will change that fact.
Sounds like Gal Force...
Hi, this is the RIAA calling; thanks very much for your confession! We'll have our lawyers contact you with a bill.