The idea is to finish a job in a shorter time as measured by an external clock, even if at the cost of more hardware and programming complexity.

其思想是按照外部时钟的步调在更短的时间内完成一项工作，即便要以更复杂的硬件和编程为代价也在所不惜。

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Lower your development time and cost by taking advantage of the simplified business rules programming model.

通过利用简化的业务规则编程模型，可以减少您的开发时间和成本。

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What you gain for that cost in time is a far better understood and more robust programming model.

时间上的花费所带来的回报是理解得更深刻的并且更健壮的编程模型。

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The report also predicts that to offset the rights cost increases MSOs will attempt to pass on the costs of carrying NFL programming to the consumer and if there is a subsequent consumer backlash the operators may end up absorbing some of the programming cost increases themselves.

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Time Warner Cable hinted during their earnings that they will be introducing low-cost programming packages to address lower end of the market.

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Inspired by the Arduino, the brain trust behind the Pinoccio decided to take the stuff they liked about the popular platform -- ease of programming and low cost -- and add some features to make it even better.

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