He slept on a mattress with a plywood board underneath it so his spine wouldn't curve.
The demonstration projector wasn't configured to compensate for the curve, which theoretically makes it subject to warping, though we didn't notice any issues at the show.
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Fortunately, that learning curve isn't as drastic as it might seem.
Its best hope is that the solar cell industry doesn't follow the curve of the dram market it is often compared with--a once high-margin technology that turned suddenly, brutally, into a low-profit commodity market.
Meanwhile, Morningstar doesn't use a bell curve for its qualitative analyst ratings, which it launched more than a year ago.
Arcane language such as "steepness of the yield curve" won't come into play, according to the show's anchor Neal Cavuto.
But there is a general awareness that Android is advancing, and anyone looking for the latest smartphone is going to be aware that the Xperia T is behind the curve.
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Isn't that a better learning curve than just learning how to extricate themselves from their successive trophy wives?
It's been behind the curve before, and doesn't want to be there again.
The Wi-Fi standard is itself technically still a draft, so manufacturers could find their cutting-edge products too ahead of the curve if their hardware doesn't conform to the industry standard.
ETFs may offer tax benefits and some have lower costs than traditional index funds, Mr. Ferri says, but "there's a learning curve" for investors who aren't used to them.
Strasburg, expected to be the Nationals' opening day starter, already has an overpowering fastball, a wicked curve and a changeup that just doesn't seem fair.
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.
And the Church isn't the only institution to find itself routinely behind the communications curve.
Currently, the Treasury yield curve ranges from 0.11% for 3-month T-bills, to 2.85% for 30-year T-bonds.
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Institutions are also nervous, as very short-term T-bill rates have spiked, therefore causing the yield curve to flatten out.
At any rate, the long-awaited BlackBerry Curve 8520 (which may or may not go by Gemini on T-Mobile) has finally found a dedicated landing page on its maker's website, and while the list of specifications aren't a surprise, there is one thing that caught our eye.
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What's more, many consumers aren't familiar with mobile payments, meaning that there will be a long learning curve for the technology to take hold.
It was just very difficult getting into the swing of things, it was the first season in four or five years that I hadn't run a personal best, but it was a bit of a learning curve I guess.
So, when the interest rate on 90-day T-bills is below the IOR rate, for practical purposes we have an inverted yield curve.
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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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That concept isn't really compelling to the masses until one focuses on the "knee" of this exponential curve -- the point where the perpetual doubling of technological growth skyrockets and negates the linear models of progress that people like economists have relied on for so long.
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