So as we talk about apples and oranges, that's the apples-to-apples comparison I'll leave you with.
But I would throw out the challenge that, do what we did and we'll compare apples to apples.
This calculation is not a perfect apples to apples comparison using the same data source for both sales periods.
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But articles like this position Flash as an apples-to-apples direct competitor to HTML5, when in fact, they are complementary.
Amazon, Google Compute, Rackspace and Logicworks offer transparent subscription services that allow users to compare apples to apples across providers.
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And that is just a false moving of the chains here when we -- you got to compare apples to apples.
But this is not a valid comparison because it would not be comparing apples to apples given the changing household composition.
Even after the new standard is implemented, investors will need to convert operating leases into capital leases for all prior years to perform apples-to-apples historical comparisons.
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Leslie Tobakos, mother of two college-aged kids, compared apples to apples on tuition, room and board and fees by making a spreadsheet to track the bottom line for each school.
In other words, California wasn't comparing apples to apples.
Contract subsidies and upgrade offers will affect the prices that U.S. consumers actually pay, but apples to apples, so to speak, it would seem that Samsung will be pricing the S4 aggressively.
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And the only way to compare apples-to-apples is to normalize the number of jobs to the amount of energy produced by those jobs, and see which are local and which are not.
Also, while the numbers may not allow for a perfect apples to apples comparison, they do reflect what each school chooses to show the federal government for purposes of proving their compliance with Title IX.
Some support an effort under way by the American Society for Pension Professionals and Actuaries and the National Education Association, among others, to create a model disclosure form to allow apples-to-apples comparisons of products' costs and benefits.
But in the Galaxy S III, the fragmented field of phones running on Google's Android operating system found a champion: a single gadget to put forward for an apples to apples (if you will) comparison to the iconic iPhone.
As I calculated in my earlier Forbes article, one needs to multiply the EPA MPGe by .365 to get a number that truly compares fossil fuel use of an electric car with a traditional gasoline engine car on an apples to apples basis.
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It is a fallacy to say there is an apples-to-apples comparison between the ISM manufacturing survey and the ISM business services survey.
While this is a significant sum, to be sure, if an apples- to-apples comparison were made, the price of purchasing and operating modern fighter aircraft wings or a class of surface ships or submarines would significantly exceed that associated with a ground-based NMD system.
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To be sure, this is hardly an apples-to-apples comparison, but the basic problem with a stock like Facebook is that the New Economy is a greasy pole and few players remain dominant for long.
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The Harvard study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at what Medicare Advantage plans would cost on an apples-to-apples basis, if their benefits were of equivalent financial value to those of government-run Medicare.
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All this money makes apples-to-apples comparisons between traditional public schools and charter schools very difficult.
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Sam calculated performance since 1945, so the periods are not exactly apples-to-apples, but they are close enough.
When measured over 323 games that means that an additional 1, 065, 000 spectators watched MLS on an apples-to-apples basis.
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Using a standardized measure, the model spits out a numerical ranking of volatility so investors can make apples-to-apples comparisons.
Generating apples-to-apples comparisons among so many components and systems is tedious work.
This can be devilishly difficult when so much corporate energy is invested in endowing every operating unit with apples-to-apples comparability.
The more accurate, apples-to-apples, growth results are 27% overall revenue growth, 38% iPhone revenue growth, and 31% iPad revenue growth.
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