Why would the parent company sell when it knows it's close to being winning the case and possibly being awarded $1.6B while still retaining the rights to the name? Apple will have to both pay them for the rights moving forward, as well as pay whatever the court judgement awards. There's no way I'd sell to Apple for less than $2B. They're in a very strong position if the Chinese courts decide in their favor.
If they're doing all the porting, then I'd guess the payouts to the studios would be even less. Do you have more insight as to how the payment model works for the studios who develop the games and have them included in the bundles?
It should be noted that the percentage of Linux users is quite small; somewhere around 20-25%.
Even if we assume it reaches $2M, that would only leave ~$400k-500k in Linux sales. I don't know what the development time is for the games in the bundle, but I'll assume it's 3-6 months. If we have 5 studios with games in the bundle (and everything is evenly split), you're only looking at a maximum of $100k in 3-6 months, per studio, being generated from Linux sales. That'd be great for a couple of guys in an apartment, but for a 5+ member team, I don't see how they could be very successful with Linux-only games. (at least not where I live near Seattle, and definitely not in the bay area where I recently moved from)
In all 3 of my last visits to a doctor (two in the hospital, one in a medical group office) the doctors dictated their notes about my visit after we were finished.
Actually, I've only ever seen one doctor type their report, and I found it to be very unpleasant. As we were talking, he would type his notes along with my answers into the computer station that was in the examination room. The whole process felt very impersonal and definitely slowed the process. It seemed much more akin to a conversation I'd have with my tax professional where I'm giving him answers and he's filling in forms.
N-Control did end up firing this guy.
I also would highly recommend Child's Play.
After essentially living at Children's as a teenager while spending time with my cousin who eventually succumbed to leukemia, I have a very very special place in my heart for the incredible amounts of good being done at these hospitals.
Sure, that worked really good for the industrial revolution. Welcome to your 112 hour work week, don't like it? Fuck off, there's a line of people behind you waiting for a job.
The 19th Century thinking here is remarkable. It makes me wonder who are the conservatives.
Really? What happened to so much of US manufacturing? I'm pretty sure it went overseas to those sweatshops you're calling '19th century thinking'.
I don't think Qantas can't implement any of your suggestions as they all sound like government decisions.
You grossly underestimate the infrastructure requirements to provide a service like netflix across the world. It's far easier, and more profitable, licensing to many companies (netflix, itunes, blockbuster, hulu, amazon, etc.) and sit back collecting royalties while focusing on their primary business, which is creating content.
If I deposit $100 into an FDIC insured bank account, in all but the most ridiculous extreme cases, I'll be able to withdraw $100 whenever I'd like. Whether or not the bank is speculating with my money doesn't particularly concern me as long as I have access to the funds I deposited. With Bitcoin, this is must less likely to happen as the value fluctuates wildly in very short amounts of time.
Exactly. Just look at the bottom of the device and if you see a single button, it's the iPad. Lawyers who have been fighting over this for this long should be able to at least distinguish that.
I just did this two weeks ago on a Dell laptop. From start to fully functional OS, starting with a non-dell windows xp CD, including sound, network (both wireless and ethernet), and graphics drivers totaled about 2 hours. The total time is misleading as well because more than an hour of that was formatting and waiting for the installer to copy the files over.
Dell's site was easy to navigate for my old laptop (Dell D620) and had all the drivers broken down by category. It was a complete no-brainer, and I'm quite certain my mom could've done it without issue.
Amazon already has a CDN; it's called cloudfront. Since Amazon is already in the CDN business, I can't see how your question makes any sense. Are you suggesting people will flock away from limelight and akamai just because they want to serve some kindles faster? lol....
Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work.
