He goes on further to explain that the cost of winning these contracts away are dependent on Netflix's ability to grow the subscriber base.
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Injuries from a crash in May cost him the chance of winning a third world title last season, but he signed off for Repsol Honda with a win in front of his home fans at Philip Island in November.
The cost of tickets for Olympic medal-winning sessions in athletics, track cycling and swimming have been criticised by the London Assembly.
Taken to the extreme, owners of clubs like Chelsea and Manchester City can attempt to overwhelm the opposition by assembling never-before-seen squads of immense cost (see first graph below) which results in unprecedented odds in their favor of winning the league title if they can get more of that talent on the pitch than the competition (see second graph below).
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Adding insult, bureaucrats have forked over tens of millions of dollars more to winning bidders for cost overruns on most major projects.
Moreover, CMS chooses as the final price the median among the winning bids, instead of marginal cost, which would drive pricing in a competitive market.
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"You can see essentially a very high performance cluster the size of a desktop, at the cost of a desktop, " says Nvidia board member Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Migrant workers in the Gulf states and elsewhere use this trust-based system to send billions of dollars back home, winning on both efficiency and cost.
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The winning configuration presumably decided on the basis of cost would then begin the long process towards operational capability.
They are understood to be drawing up creative plans ranging from cheap and basic warehouses for low-cost carriers such as easyJet to luxurious lounges aimed at winning the hearts of frequent-flying businessmen.
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Leicester's mayor recently attacked the "ludicrous" cost of building and running the venue, but it may be starting to pay off after winning over Weinstein.
McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh said in Australia that focusing on winning last year's championship had cost his team some competitiveness at the start of this season.
In short compass, calls that ranged from merely bad to utterly indefensible cost the Washington Redskins, New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers, respectively, a possibility of winning, a strong likelihood of winning and a game that was actually won.
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These companies realize that when fuel is the centerpiece of financial viability, their ability to buy fuel at the lowest cost possible is imperative to a winning strategy.
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