This cheapness is owed to what I call the flip side of Moore's Law, the side that predicts dropping costs at a constant rate of performance.
Most recently, US Education Secretary Margaret Spellings unveiled a new way to rate the performance of schools.
In 1996 researchers at the University of Texas announced a new battery design offering high performance and a fast rate of charge.
Both Essex trusts have coveted foundation status, supposedly a marker of first-rate performance, which gives them greater freedom over how to manage finances.
In addition to on-time performance, the joint project looks at three other categories: rate of consumer complaints, mishandled bags and denied boarding performance.
The update itself looks to be fairly large, improving some of the major issues we've had with the e-reader -- like page refresh rate and a lot of other little performance issues.
ENGADGET: Barnes & Noble Nook to get an update this week? Sure sounds like it
The region's economy is growing at 3%, not a spectacular rate but higher than the dismal performance of the 1980s.
The federal government is keen to capitalise on what it calls the "feel-good factor", arising from a robust growth rate of more than 8% and a strong performance over the past six months.
For 2008, the UNWTO expects demand for international tourism to grow at a rate of two to three percent, but most of that growth is expected to come from the solid performance at the start of the year.
Mr King concludes that the biggest problem for China's current exchange-rate policy is not the yuan itself but the performance of the dollar.
Although financial performance increased dramatically in 2010, there is little evidence that the social and environmental performance of organizations improved at the same rate or at all.
FORBES: Executive Compensation's New Normal: A Missed Opportunity
Fido can pick up the smell of TNTvapor at concentrations of just a few parts per trillion, and it was the first sensor to find buried mines at a level comparable to dog performance, with a false-alarm rate of less than 5%.
The low power-consumption and high transmission rate can better suit the users' goals for upgrade of system performance.
ENGADGET: Plextor M5S SSD coming mid-July: healthy speeds starting at $99 for 64GB
We have defined acceptable lead performance as a lead that has a failure rate of 0.5% per year over 10 years.
FORBES: Robert Hauser, ICD Watchdog, Offers Viewpoint On Riata Controversy At HRS
When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates.
FORBES: 5 Gamification Rules from the Grandfather of Gamification
The brand sponsored Wi-Fi access program delivers an average mobile engagement rate of over 40 percent, a 60-fold lift in performance over standard mobile banners.
ENGADGET: JiWire, AWG use location-based ads to spread free airport WiFi in the US
The absence of conversion of a promising STEM education into employment opportunities and high-growth entrepreneurship contributes to an astonishingly low rate of job-creating, high-growth businesses and overall performance in the innovation ecosystem.
FORBES: Local Leadership Key in Inclusive Economic Competitiveness
Sageworks collects financial statements for private companies from accounting firms, banks and credit unions through its cooperative data model, aggregating the data at an approximate rate of 1, 000 statements a day, and analyzing the performance.
FORBES: Private-company credit risk shows signs of improving
Much like Manhattan apartment brokers who resist putting their best properties on a central listing service, PE firms use performance measurements like multiple of investment or internal rate of return that make it virtually impossible to compare one fund against another unless they started the same time and have had similar cash inflows and outflows.
The Huskies earlier had been ordered to sit out the 2013 NCAA tournament, because of its past players' sub-par academic performance rate.
As video resolution and frame rate increase and stereoscopic projects multiply, the storage capacity and bandwidth performance of these devices and systems becomes staggering.
It's probably no coincidence that Hawaiian Airlines and Aloha Airlines rate as two of the best carriers in the country in on-time performance and efficient baggage handling, while incurring few cancellations.
It's probably no coincidence that Hawaiian Airlines (amex: HA - news - people ) and Aloha Airlines rate as two of the best carriers in the country in on-time performance and efficient baggage handling, while incurring few cancellations.
ECB's responsibility to contribute to the macroeconomic performance of the euro area economy, which suffers from an unemployment rate of almost 9%.
" Based on the total rate of incidents and their severity, "we recorded the best year in safety performance in our company's history.
The official said these also showed the performance by girls was almost a tenth higher than boys, although the rate of increase for boys was quicker.
He cites the Historic Automobile Group International index that measures the performance of 50 popular classic cars and shows a 12% annual growth rate over the past 30 years.
It boasts the industry's highest density as well as the highest performance level of 400 megabits-per-second (mbps) data transfer rate based on the toggle DDR 2.0 interface.
The fund charges an annual management fee of 1.25% plus a performance fee of 20% on returns exceeding the U.S. Treasury bill rate.
应用推荐