Doesn't every YouTube video that is entirely quiet violate copyrights on 4'33"? If so, then the copyright holder of that 'song' could dispute many videos, and potentially open the path to new revenue by getting all those copyright pirates to buy a license for the use of silence.
As seen Apr. 9, 2009, 6:30 AM on http://www.businessinsider.com/is-youtube-doomed-2009-4
According to a report by Credit Suisse, YouTube is on track to lose roughly $470 million in 2009. No matter Google's $116 billion market cap: a half-billion dollar loss on a single property, even one as large as YouTube, is a bitter pill to swallow...
Since the majority of Google's costs for the service are pure variable costs of bandwidth and storage, and since they've already reached the point at which no greater economies of scale remain, the costs of the business will continue to grow on a linear basis. Unfortunately, far more user-generated content than professional content makes its way onto the site, which means that while costs grow linearly, non-monetizable content is growing geometrically as compared against the monetizable content that YouTube really wants and needs to survive. This means less and less of YouTube's library will be revenue-contributing, while the costs of delivering that library will continue to grow.
If you really want to hurt Google, then post more and raise their costs. A boycott right now would actually help them balance the books and make it easier for them to justify continuing the service.
If it costs $100 million to make the first game on a console, then it should cost less than half of that to make the second and even less to make the third. Publishers should look at themselves as manufacturers. If they take the time to produce a good factory, including tools and entire game engines, then they can reuse mechanics from their initial development to speed-up and reduce costs each time they develop a game.
For that matter, I bet there is still good money is producing game engines and then licensing. Wasn't Id following this model for a while? I thought they made Doom 3 as a demonstration of a game engine they planned to license like crazy. Licensing a code base that handles the physics, graphics, controls, and would mechanics must be cheaper than crafting one from scratch each game.
I think the $100 million production cost is too high for some games that are routinely block busters. Considering that each new Madden football game is marketed based on one or two little tweaks to game play, they must be reusing most of the code from the previous game.
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
-- Dick Cavett, mocking the TV-violence debate
Bicorns do exist. Napoleon's hat was a bicorn.
Sci-Tech Dictionary: bicorn (bkörn)
(mathematics) A plane curve whose equation in cartesian coordinates x and y is (x2 + 2ay - a2)2 = y2(a2 - x2), where a is a constant.
WordNet: bicorn
The noun has one meaning: a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points
Synonym: bicorne
The adjective bicorn has one meaning: having two horns or horn-shaped parts
Do. Not. Talk. To. Cops.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE
This takes an hour to watch, but well worth your time. In these videos a lawyer and then a cop explain very clearly why talking to cops never works in your favor. Watch it. Learn it. Live it.
As far as the article is concerned: He is bringing up old news that being put through the legal wringer will cost you time, money, and reputation in the community that you can not get back - even if you are innocent and/or found innocent. The best bet is to not do the crime (though if you watch the videos you will see that it is just about impossible to avoid breaking all laws).
Good luck.
I agree. Bump this post up.
Let churches do church stuff. Let the state do state stuff. The two rarely need to meet, and definitely do not need to meet on this topic. Marriage is a religious pact between two people and their beliefs. Civil-union is a legal provided by the state to give any consenting adults right of attorney, inheritance, and other legal protections.
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