We need to refocus our thinking and think, oh no, it's a hockey stick, it's a curve that really nothing much happens until we get to the very fringes and all of a sudden everything happens.
"It's a big resource, it's got a good cost curve, and it's not getting enough attention, " says Dan W. Reicher, Google.org's director of climate and energy initiatives.
That's a torque curve flatter than Ira Glass's delivery.
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Surgeons liken it to putting a tractor-trailer into reverse gear and swerving flawlessly through a wicked S-curve.
Occasional failure was not just inevitable in parenting - it was part of the child's learning curve.
The Mayor of Leicester has said the cost of building and running the city's Curve theatre had reached "ludicrous" levels.
Prior to Friedman's Philips Curve research, generally accepted wisdom held that an economy could essentially choose how to trade off inflation with unemployment.
But our passion goes beyond this and focuses on: how do you systematically help management and organizations get to a higher-place on this S-curve?
The first bent trumpets were in the shape of a flattened S-curve, but they were soon made obsolete by trumpets whose tubing was fashioned into an elongated oval coil.
Steve Greenberg, founder and CEO of S-Curve Records, was a disc jokey in Tel Aviv, Israel, when "Thriller" first dropped and witnessed first-hand how Jackson became an international icon.
Kent can look up actual crashes to plot the so-called crash pulse (the shape of a car's deceleration curve) and the places where a body made contact with the vehicle.
In the 16th-century "Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons" displayed across the room, on the other hand, a crane stands delicately on one leg, its long neck tracing a gentle S-curve.
The more likely scenario is that we are riding the steep part of the nearly saturated S curve, and just like every other exponentially growing process that humanity went through, saturation eventually takes over.
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In his book, Mr Sen raised the theoretical possibility that a pastoralist's supply curve might actually bend back on itself: as the relative price of livestock falls, a hungry pastoralist might supply more animals to the market, not fewer as elementary economic principles would imply.
That helps explain why Motorola's venerable RAZR series remains staggeringly high on Nielsen's latest US phone usage report -- third place, to be exact, at 2.3 percent of all subscribers behind the iPhone 3G at 4 percent and RIM's BlackBerry Curve line at 3.7 percent.
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But It could, at least, become part of the charismatic CEO's learning curve: "When I joined in 1980, we had about 30 employees, and we never dreamed, in our wildest imaginations, that we would eventually employ over 50, 000 people in more than 70 countries, " Microsoft's CEO was once quoted as writing in a company e-mail.
The use of pictures certainly seems the most intuitive method for navigating around videos -- there's a definite learning curve here, and it's hard enough to select pictures -- we couldn't really imagine toggling through small text.
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After the S-shape curve of the country from north to south, Artisans of Leisure's private, custom Vietnam for Foodies tours take in cultural and gustatory attractions along the way.
There's no reason in the world that MRI scanning technology can't ride the same Moore's Law cost curve, going down 50% every 18 months.
Like some of Microsoft's older keyboards, it makes use of the company's ergonomically friendly Comfort Curve layout.
But now a series of deals is finally allowing Microsoft to argue that it's ahead of the curve--with the entertaining upside of making some of the open-source community's truest believers even angrier.
When a communications medium is both riding the Moore's Law cost-capability curve and tapping into a deep need, it's no fad.
It's a learning curve for us, and we'll be back better and stronger next year for sure.
The concept (which other researchers proposed in the 1960s) holds that tumor growth generally follows an S-shape curve.
Now check out TVA's "fundability curve, " which illustrates how the startup stacked up relative to its age and market position.
Part of it, as I may have stated previously, is that there's a learning curve involved, and I was only there for one night.
Yes, it feels good in the hand, owed in part to that matte plastic back and subtle arc S-like curve, but the materials feel cheap.
"There's a learning curve for any new products, so our yield rates are increasing, " said Mr. Lin, although he declined to comment on any Apple products.
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