Yet if the flop included a king and an ace--well, that would be ugly.
Research firm International Data said the flop contributed to a 14% decline in global PC sales this year.
He raises, you call and the flop comes 2-7-10 in three suits.
Josh Constine, writing at TechCrunch, blames the flop on the fact that Facebook Home development team were diehard iPhone users who failed to appreciate features that Android users take for granted, like the ability to organize apps into folders or put popular apps into a dock.
Players were given a warning for a first offense during the regular season but are fined for the first flop in the postseason.
But Mowrey concedes that Microsoft does have formidable threats on the horizon, including gains by Apple in its installed base of Macs, as well as Linux on the server and the apparent flop of the Zune player and platform.
But Mowrey concedes that Microsoft does have formidable threats on the horizon, including gains by Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) in its installed base of Macs, as well as Linux on the server and the apparent flop of the Zune player and platform.
Since the Chicago flop, however, the attacks have gathered pace again.
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People laughed and people mocked the Fosbury Flop and then he won the gold medal and they stopped laughing and now everyone uses his technique.
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Microsoft should forget the Kin flop, that was all about building the wrong product at the wrong time.
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Xanadu - based on the 1980 film flop of the same name starring Olivia Newton John - and Young Frankenstein beat A Catered Affair and Cry-Baby The Musical to take joint musical honours.
Even the unexpected flop, Last Action Hero, was sold purely on the alleged strength of Arnold Schwarzenegger post-T2.
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Schwartz's partners say all these distinctions matter plenty, but the Iridium flop has made them cautious about how fast they can sell the phones.
The Fosbury Flop is a high jump technique named after Dick Fosbury in the 1968 Olympics where most people were using a scissor technique or a straddle technique to get a high jump.
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However, the initial flop of Business ByDesign suggests that SAP could lose further ground in the highly competitive application software market.
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The world-famous high jumper Dick Fosbury, for instance, developed his revolutionary technique known as the Fosbury Flop in defiance of his coaches.
The story of the Fosbury Flop came to me by way of Vijay Govindarajan, Dartmouth professor and author of Reverse Innovation.
Andrew Mason, the young boss of Groupon, a firm that uses social media to sell coupons for real-world stores, will be the biggest flop of 2012.
In the 1968 Games, in Mexico City, the American high jumper Dick Fosbury won the gold medal by flipping himself over the bar head first and backward a technique now known as the Fosbury Flop.
One great historical example, the Fosbury Flop.
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But with the apparent CEO flop now hovering over that coronation, the state regulators are perplexed.
Ireland took advantage, working an overlap on the right touchline for Blanch to flop over the line after a clever miss-pass from Scott Grix.
But Giuliani aides reject the flip-flop label, and say any evolution in his thinking is the result of life experience and the very different policy calculations facing a president versus a mayor.
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And what about the other companies that have continued to flop in the mobile space, like Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ)?
What's more, the Patuxent River is only 75 yds. away, and the fish--with an air sac in its digestive system that allows it to absorb oxygen, and the ability to flop its way across small stretches of muddy land--could soon wriggle into the nation's waterways.
In the woods above Housesteads Fort, the butterflies come out and pheasants flop off into the bracken.
In fact, it already endured a major flop the day John Carter was released.
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One common culprit of America's foot pain, especially during the summer, is the flip-flop.
Mark Zuckerberg, the second-youngest, also saw his net worth drop off a cliff after the Facebook IPO flop.
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