Probably because Microsoft's developed expensive products but after that they just have to pay people to stick CDs in boxes and direct the incoming dump trucks full of gold coins. I'm not surprised to see such a high margin if they're in the "sit on our successful product and let it sell for awhile" phase of its operations.
I bet any sales of product based business model will generally have a higher margin than continuous providing a servic
You use a wikipedia reference when wikipedia would answer you? Just go to the AT&T article and look at the little numbers on the right. Looks like $119 billion in revenue and $10 billion in net income so it's so about 1/12 it's in the ballpark.
Sometimes I wonder how you spend $100 billion in one year. Where can you go and say "I have $100 billion to spend"? Delay upgrading your corporate phones one 6-month cycle, that's what an odd billion? That will feed me for 500,000 years. Fire all the sites' maintenance guys who work on the southwest middle lawn. Get the other guys at each site to cover for him. In return, 500,000 years of the warm fuzzy feeling commoners get knowing that while they starve their taxes are making their adored queen comfortable and happy.
What is this "spirit of the law" "even if they were to lose" "minor issue merits the hassle of a lawsuit" nonsense. Google is too big to open itself to legal liability and cross its fingers.
a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Library by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you
But in the link, dannyb@google.com says
I doubt its worth asking the fsf, since at least in the US, only the ffmpeg folks would have standing to enforce, so its their view that really matters.
He should definitely look at the terms of his patent license instead of deciding whether it's worth asking permission. Also his comment is just stupid because any contributor to ffmpeg has "standing to enforce" and sue google.
I'd like to see the press try to publish analyses of the data. Admitting you have a copy of it is probably about as good as burning down your server farm because you'll never see any of your computers again.
Well for one thing they have to actually use a lot of this data on a day-to-day basis. And if hundreds of call operators have to know to what address to dispatch repair crews et al, there's really no securing it.
I'm not surprised by breaches like this at all. So many people have access to this data it's unreasonable to assume it's secure. I just huddle in the herd of helpless millions and hope that sheer numbers protect me. Oh, and it helps to live the student lifestyle with only a few transactions a month on my bank account.
I think that at a certain point "intelligent" (adaptable) species just learn and develop so fast that "dumb" (complex-instinct driven) species can't keep up.
If the insects of alien insect planet were bathed in radiation for a billion years and finally gained the ability to give birth to microwave telescopes for finding alien prey, the humans of Earth planet could spend 250 pretty normal years on a scientific revolution and end up with flight control computers and a rocket-based nuke delivery system for annihilating alien insect planet.
If you're going to look at it functionally like that then you also have to look at the effectiveness and cost of publishers to alternative solutions. It's pretty bleak.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106(3), the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord....
That section also specifically exempts console games from the law prohibiting the rental of phonorecords without the copyright holder's permission:
blah blah rental blah
This section does not apply to a computer program embodied in or used in conjunction with a limited purpose computer that is designed for playing video games and may be designed for other purposes.
No, publishers exist to separate the profitable from the merely beautiful. Reviewers exist to separate the wheat from the chaff. The game's metacritic score (and link) is visible in big green numbers on every steam store page and next to every search result and index entry. That's how you separate wheat from chaff.
The point was model how water makes sounds when it hits itself - it's through microscopic turbulence around bubbles. Water streaming past a solid surface has been done before.
I don't think you understand the word simulation. It's all computer-modelled; you can't take a picture of some plasma and expect the computer to simulate it.
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Probably because Microsoft's developed expensive products but after that they just have to pay people to stick CDs in boxes and direct the incoming dump trucks full of gold coins. I'm not surprised to see such a high margin if they're in the "sit on our successful product and let it sell for awhile" phase of its operations.
I bet any sales of product based business model will generally have a higher margin than continuous providing a servic
You use a wikipedia reference when wikipedia would answer you? Just go to the AT&T article and look at the little numbers on the right. Looks like $119 billion in revenue and $10 billion in net income so it's so about 1/12 it's in the ballpark.
Sometimes I wonder how you spend $100 billion in one year. Where can you go and say "I have $100 billion to spend"? Delay upgrading your corporate phones one 6-month cycle, that's what an odd billion? That will feed me for 500,000 years. Fire all the sites' maintenance guys who work on the southwest middle lawn. Get the other guys at each site to cover for him. In return, 500,000 years of the warm fuzzy feeling commoners get knowing that while they starve their taxes are making their adored queen comfortable and happy.
I think everyone's talking hypothetically in defense of the poor helpless sheeps.
If you own a phone that has backup capabilities, you payed too much.
Yeah that's what I meant to say. Graham crackers, CHOCOLATE, and marshmallows.
How long have you been waiting to use that? An entire post about graham crackers?
What is this "spirit of the law" "even if they were to lose" "minor issue merits the hassle of a lawsuit" nonsense. Google is too big to open itself to legal liability and cross its fingers.
But in the link, dannyb@google.com says
He should definitely look at the terms of his patent license instead of deciding whether it's worth asking permission. Also his comment is just stupid because any contributor to ffmpeg has "standing to enforce" and sue google.
I'd like to see the press try to publish analyses of the data. Admitting you have a copy of it is probably about as good as burning down your server farm because you'll never see any of your computers again.
Certainly not legally...
Seems a little far-fetched to me too, but I suppose they would know better than me.
Well for one thing they have to actually use a lot of this data on a day-to-day basis. And if hundreds of call operators have to know to what address to dispatch repair crews et al, there's really no securing it.
I'm not surprised by breaches like this at all. So many people have access to this data it's unreasonable to assume it's secure. I just huddle in the herd of helpless millions and hope that sheer numbers protect me. Oh, and it helps to live the student lifestyle with only a few transactions a month on my bank account.
Even if we can't really communicate with them we can observe them. Lexical analysis alone would keep scientists busy for decades.
I think that at a certain point "intelligent" (adaptable) species just learn and develop so fast that "dumb" (complex-instinct driven) species can't keep up.
If the insects of alien insect planet were bathed in radiation for a billion years and finally gained the ability to give birth to microwave telescopes for finding alien prey, the humans of Earth planet could spend 250 pretty normal years on a scientific revolution and end up with flight control computers and a rocket-based nuke delivery system for annihilating alien insect planet.
Guys I'm not sure we should let China fire a rocket after all what if it's secretly a weapon? They have no right to fire rockets while we're around!
And the blackjack.
If you're going to look at it functionally like that then you also have to look at the effectiveness and cost of publishers to alternative solutions. It's pretty bleak.
That section also specifically exempts console games from the law prohibiting the rental of phonorecords without the copyright holder's permission:
Well the original owners love that idea. And so do game publishers.
No, publishers exist to separate the profitable from the merely beautiful. Reviewers exist to separate the wheat from the chaff. The game's metacritic score (and link) is visible in big green numbers on every steam store page and next to every search result and index entry. That's how you separate wheat from chaff.
GameStop will give you..... is $20 for the ten of them OK?
The point was model how water makes sounds when it hits itself - it's through microscopic turbulence around bubbles. Water streaming past a solid surface has been done before.
From TFA, three single drops of water took one and a half hours to simulate. The babbling water simulation took over 12 hours.
I think that human hearing is very subjective and modelling sound accurately is more important than making flashy videos that sound perfect to you.
I don't think you understand the word simulation. It's all computer-modelled; you can't take a picture of some plasma and expect the computer to simulate it.