This time line is inherent to fundamental innovation, even when done optimally, for the process is not linear from research to development to product in the market.
The path to purchase is no longer linear from search to transaction.
At IBM's research lab in Yorktown Heights, New York, computer scientist Baruch Schieber is using linear programming to help an IBM client schedule hours for 250 workers at a call center.
The design here is impeccable, a truly ambitious and exciting and gorgeous display of building a linear game that is not linear, an open world that is not open, filled to the brim with secrets and wonder.
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He makes the point that the Fed response to inflation is linear, but inflation is a non-linear event.
The significance of the linear law is discussed here to introduce the property called the entropy S possessed by our system of billionaires.
The Welsh exam board WJEC, whose exams are taken by students in England and Wales, is to produce both linear and modular GCSEs.
As such, I try to explain, this means it is wrong to assume a simplistic linear relationship between tax rates and tax revenue.
The Davy Jones discovery off the coast of Louisiana is believed to contain more than 200 linear feet of net pay in multiple zones.
Human fallacy, then, is to see the future as linear extrapolations.
Even the larger of the new areas serves mainly to hold one or two quests rather than a host of smaller ones, and so they feel linear even as the player is free to turn right or left.
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The result is a book that bears important witness to the way in which narrative history with its stale linear plots is in the process of being broken down and remade in richer, more variegated ways.
Through this space is a more linear path where particular puzzles need to be solved to progress to the next area.
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But a linear perspective is not correct when it comes to information technology, and information technology is not only influencing, but encompassing, one area after another.
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This non-linear tendency is why complex systems are more likely to follow a power-law probability distribution than the more familiar bell-curve distribution.
Kurzweil : Because if I looked at the current situation, and then applied a linear expectation to it, and that is our intuition.
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Even their personal style is quite similar to his: they are both linear, logical thinkers, emotionally reserved and more focused on task than relationship.
Non-linear gameplay allowing the character to influence events is an improvement.
Unlike many DLC packs out there, this is not confined to a few new maps or an entirely linear story tacked on to the middle of the game.
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In food distribution it is waiting on CIOs to reinvent their industries away from the linear to multipoint distribution, embracing end-users as consumers and producers alongside the food industry pros.
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In this case, however, the light is polarised in a different linear direction for each eye, so as to match the polarisation of the two side-by-side projectors used to show the film.
It is not likely to occur in the safe, predictable, ordered and linear world we tend to put students in.
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Fortunately, I have created a system that will allow these logical, rational, linear thinkers to turn any message point into a sound bite that is irresistible to even the most hard-bitten journalist.
The rain seemed to melt off the bike, which is sealed with epoxy and finished with linear polyurethane.
But this approach is rooted in what we think of as predictive logic- planning in a linear fashion, and trying to account for all the possible contingencies.
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We also shared an interest in the "cradle-to-cradle" concept developed by Bill McDonough and Michael Braungart that proposes a way in which we can shift from a linear way of using resources to one that keeps all resources in closed cycles so nothing is wasted and no pollution is emitted.
The simplest is an extension of an idea that Isaac Newton himself had, which uses approximations to the non-linear equations to find their solutions.
The corporate world is a linear world, which frowns on off-ramping and makes it extremely hard for the on-ramper to come back again at a level or compensation comparable to the one they left.
If you accept that the Internet is the place you go to see music videos, what can you do to make them more than just a linear sequence of images playing 24 frames per second with music underneath?
In addition, to show how local TV broadcasters can now offer more than just linear TV channels, LG Electronics is showing its first Android-enabled smartphone prototype equipped with Mobile Digital TV (MDTV) reception, which offers conditional access functionality for future subscription broadcasts and the capability of receiving "non-real time" data such as electronic coupons.
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