That is not all. Facebook also makes a tidy sum from their Facebook "credits" by taking a 30% cut from app transactions on their platform.

Out of curiosity, what is the difference in the amount of money paid to Google for the software you want help with versus what has been paid to Microsoft?

try this

I don't like the realities of the situation either, but that's just how it is right now. Luckily I don't have to worry about that for quite some time.

In what world are you living in?

Stop being ridiculous. The argument of whether or not he needs a house is moot as he already has a house. If he walks away from it, we'll assume he can't pay for it, and now he's in financial ruin. His credit turns to garbage, so all sorts of things are more expensive now, and the real kicker is he has no money for his kids' tuition. (assuming he did in the first place)

Sure, you can get by on the regular day-to-day parenting stuff on minimal means. You can't, however, pay for a decent education and provide for your children while they're in school without significant amounts of money, either cash or credit. How do you propose he deals with his kids future, assuming they're less than 10 years away from college given the submitter's age.

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs

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.

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'.