One can argue that not only is the quantity of time spent on mobile bypassing desktop, but so is the quality of time.
Today our Brand Impact Evaluator and Commercial Value Calculator are far more robust, taking into account not only the quantity, but also the quality of time the brand is in the mind of the consumer (not just on the air), as well as the subtle, and not so subtle, ways true marketers squeeze value out of every dollar they spend.
But what many people fail to consider is that the dog might transform the quality of their time.
The folks over at Hot Hardware were able to spend a bit of quality time with this beast, but unlike many of Lenovo's machines, this one wasn't exactly an easy sell.
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Because the flavor and quality of different types varies depending on the time of year, quality of season and grower, it helps if you can taste before you buy.
Other possible causes include hitters muscling themselves up as never before during the off-season, the creation of smaller baseball parks and a general decline in the quality of pitching (every time there is an expansion of the leagues, the theory goes, the pitching talent pool is stretched thin, and batters have a field day, so to speak).
Facebook has been spending lots of quality time with federal regulators this year.
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By having consumers take the initial actions to obtain health assessment data, the use and the quality of physicians' time is improved.
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If you are married, consider adding another type of quality time together.
Limit screen time for older children to no more than 30 minutes per week during child care, and ensure children have no more than one to two hours of quality screen time per day overall.
We did not find anything which specifically added further to that intriguing guest post, but did discover that Mr. Wozniak is continuing a fairly deep fascination with Foursquare ( 43 badges since 2010) and apparently spending a lot of quality time with friends and family.
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The ancient Greeks had two different words for time: chronos for ordinary time and kairos for time of special quality -- a particularly propitious time for which our "right time" is a rather weak translation.
He was on antibiotics a lot of the time, and his quality of life was decreasing.
The act of collective worship provided by form teachers in the classroom is of inconsistent quality, while neither the time nor the place of the smaller assemblies is conducive to the purpose of collective worship.
Full-time employees have a vested interest in your company, both in terms of the time they devote and the quality of their work because they share in the success and failure of the company.
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And the striker was denied again deep into injury-time when he looked certain to score from Bale's low cross, but could only divert his finish against the legs of James, condemning a game low on real quality to 30 minutes of extra-time.
"A lot of games are finishing early, but I think the quality of cricket we put out in that period of time is much better than five dull boring days, " he said.
Last week, David Cameron, UK prime minister, and James Murdoch, chief operating officer of News Corporation and former head of News International, both used spending quality time with their children to counter criticism of their efforts at work.
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"The Dreamcast is fondly remembered by a large community of dedicated fans as a console that was ahead of its time in terms of graphics, quality and online gaming" commented Haruki Satomi, VP of Digital Business at SEGA of America and SEGA Europe.
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Or conversely, perhaps the length of time on court, regardless of the quality of play, gives a match added reverence.
My husband has actually contributed a great deal more of his personal time and increased both the quality and quantity of his work.
That is how you ensure better services for less money - helping improve people's quality of life at the same time as helping strengthen our economy by keeping public spending down.
Additionally, Harmonic provides software products that allow customers to control and visually monitor their digital video infrastructure at an aggregate level, as well as solutions for high-quality digital storage of real-time broadcasts for on-demand services.
There is nothing to suggest that the problems at these companies wouldn't have happened if these directors had been less busy, but it raises the question of how much quality time a director can spend working on company business.
The confederation asked a number of questions - you can read them all here - and concluded that overall, "while concerns remain over the centralisation of specialist services, people still overwhelmingly prioritise the quality of hospital care over the time it takes to get there".
"It is of the highest quality, way above that of other artists at the time, " she said.
This process may take quite a bit of time and disk space depending on the quality and length of the video.
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There's no need to worry about running out of power as the high quality lithium battery allows for over 100 hours of playing time with a rumble-disabled sleep mode to extend battery life, meaning gamers can battle until they are the last man standing.
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It is just a matter of time before more quality apps are developed for Android to tip the network effects advantage.
But guess what Ms. Journalist, Demand Media is getting smarter every day, and the quality of their content WILL improve over time.
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