And Microsoft is indeed widely expected to do far better in the next console cycle, for a number of reasons.
Moving to a year round product release cycle should deliver Apple a number of benefits.
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Over the last 25 years an increasing number of dedicated cycle tracks and parks have sprung up in both town and country, many developed by bike clubs and other community groups.
There might however be a margin impact this quarter due to the high component costs at the start of any product cycle, exacerbated by the number of new products Apple has launched this holiday season.
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The defining metric of this economic cycle is cheap money for an extended number of years.
If you have a conflict or another event, you may only be able to bid for a certain number of years during the cycle. 2013 is the 75th celebration of March Madness.
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What really matters is how much work a chip can accomplish, a figure measured by the number of instructions executed per clock cycle.
Things like the number of computer instructions per clock cycle, the bandwidth of the RAM bus, and the overall efficiency of the architecture are at least as important as the raw clock speed at which a processor runs.
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Almost one school-age child in four (23%) has never been to school, or dropped out of school before finishing the primary cycle in this region, where the absolute number of children denied access to school has climbed from 29 million in 2008 to 31 million in 2010.
To begin with, the Chinese calendar does not traditionally number years continuously, but instead employs the cycle of 12 animals, (Year of the Rat, Year of the Ox, and so on).
This survey (which the Pew people have conducted in each presidential cycle since 1996) has provided the premise for a number of news stories raising concerns about the younger generation's information diet: by getting information directly from topical comics, the metaphorical argument goes, they are skipping their spinach and going straight for the pumpkin pie.
The comparable number for the same period in the 1996 election cycle was 4.30%.
One way of doing this would be to score every campaign ad that runs in a cycle for deception, and then weight the ads by the number of people who see them.
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The number of requests has risen over every half-year cycle since Google started publishing details three years ago.
The number of sunspots declined substantially in the last 11 year cycle, after flattening out over the previous 20 years.
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The Symposium, which is part of a cycle of conferences on the history of UNESCO, will address a number of issues, such as the influence of the Cold War on UNESCO, and the role the Organization was able to play in easing tensions between the two opposing blocs.
Bike-sharing increases the number of trips by bicycle in a city and improves the cycle culture.
The news cycle has been 24-hour since the early 1980s, but the number of updates within each of those hours has steadily grown.
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However a number of high-profile initiatives, including a London-wide public cycle hire scheme and a plan for a new railway link across the city, soon won him praise.
This reduces the number of different types of aircraft operated by the Defense Department and their associated life-cycle costs.
The happy outcome: a number of excitingly fresh and yet feasible ideas for the core team to build into their planning cycle.
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