Ubuntu is uniquely designed to scale smoothly across all form factors.

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As the Facebook era pushes the limits of scale into the billions of consumers, other factors seem to be less important.

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Brilliantly managed by Chairman and Chief Executive Lorenzo Zambrano, 54, its success stems from several interrelated factors: acquisitions, economies of scale, pricing power, ruthless cost-cutting -- all of which have been made possible by large and intelligent investment in communications technology.

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Two key factors come into play regarding enterprise-scale Big Data management and analytics.

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In other words, although the scale of losses varies depending on a range of factors, the U.S. uses only 2% of the power produced and delivered via the conventional electricity grid.

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Also, note that the median minutes played term has been divided by 100 to put it on the same scale as the number of games played and goal differential factors.

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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has just released a large-scale report reviewing the evidence for the role of certain lifestyle variables and environmental factors in breast cancer risk.

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All these factors expose us to culture and voices on a national rather than local scale.

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