And I think we would find, if we measured it, that the half life of a technology company is shorter than that.
But if Valve wants to launch Steam Box with an initially exclusive title to draw users to the platform, the Half Life games are the biggest guns in their closet.
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References to the year "1880" dropped by half in the 32 years after that date, while the half-life of "1973" was a mere decade.
Because of the short half life of radioactive iodine (8 days), in a month or so the water should be fine again.
Once read they will self-destruct in your brain faster than the half-life of radioactive cobalt.
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Working in the computer industry, my work is focused on technology that has the half-life of sushi.
One of the first things that Physics students learn when they study radioactivity is the idea of the half-life.
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Careers are more volatile, too, as the half-life of marketable knowledge shrinks.
Because of this, it seems to me that in the past decade or so, the half-life of our memories has become artificially extended.
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The half-life of a specialty is short, continually disintegrating into subspecialties, and sub-subspecialties, to the point where some doctors devote their whole career to one variant of one illness.
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But what about the half-life of his afterlife, as represented by all the gaudy bling and other paraphernalia from his tomb periodically trotted out to wow us hoi polloi?
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Scientists have determined that the half-life of DNA is 521 years, effectively ruling out any hopes of creating a clone army of pretty much anything beyond 6.8 million years ago.
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Withdrawal-type symptoms typically resolve in a week or two depending on the half-life of the specific benzodiazepine involved, which suggests that at a gross level, the brain returns to normal fairly quickly.
Valve, best known for the Half-Life, Left4Dead and the Steam online game store has long been known to be working on a console or set-top box that puts PC-based titles onto a TV.
Palaeogeneticists at the University of Copenhagen and Michael Bunce at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia determined the half-life after studying a set of 158 DNA-containing bones from an extinct species of bird called "moa" (a feat in and of itself).
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Let me just assure you that first of all I have spent half of my adult life in the public sector in government in the United States and politics and the other half of my adult life in academe in the United States as a professor.
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In my standard battery test, where I play videos back to back with the screen at 75% brightness and both Wi-Fi and cellular connections turned on, the Tablet P lasted just 5 hours and 16 minutes, about half the battery life of an iPad.
The second half burst into life in the 54th minute when Yeovil, who were unbeaten at home going into the game, extended their advantage.
Few games carve out a space the way Half-Life 2 or BioShock did, or inspire me to actually finish playing the way the first Halo inspired.
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Ashton, so quiet in the first half, soon sprang into life four minutes into the second half when he finished a superb move crafted by the ingenuity and fleet-footed skills of Foden.
The percentage remaining (50% of the remaining) to the responding to the number of half-lives elapsed contradicts the phrase, the heavier something is the shorter its half-life, as stated above.
"Caring for Mike had been our life... and half the kids' life, " says Karen in an email.
Whereas the Candide-like picaresque of the first half persuasively evokes life under brutal totalitarianism, the identity-switching and intrigue of the second part seem to originate in little more than the need to spin a yarn.
Will Dr. Horrible become the next always-promised, never-delivered project that tantalizes fans for years, like the videogame Half-Life 3?
Portal is a game from 2007, its cutting edge somewhat dulled technologically, and the original Half-Life was first published in 1998.
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The motivation: For the most part, financial security in the second half of life and a bridge to tapping into Social Security.
Makes you wonder what the literal half-life of afterlife kitsch is and what future archaeologists will make of it when they excavate a landfill in A.D. 5010.
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