Sentences with phrase «arbitrary period»

You put it in a steel tank, it sits there for arbitrary periods of time, you put it in a pipe, it goes down the pipe, it doesn't mess up the pipe at all.

We realized early on that the traditional reporting time frames (YTD, 1 -, 3 -, 5 - and 10 - year periods) were meaningless at best and seriously misleading at worst since they capture arbitrary periods unrelated to the rhythms of the market.

When I buy a stake in a firm, I have no idea — and neither does anyone else, no matter what they might tell you — whether the shares will be up or down 50 percent within the arbitrary period it takes this little rock upon which we live to orbit the nearest star (to borrow a phrase).

You ask a multitude more about my bank account, identity, and then, depending on the recipient, Mt. Gox in this case, you just hold on to the money for an arbitrary period of time.

There is absolutely no reason in the current economic circumstances to pursue deficit elimination over some arbitrary period.

Or you could find a computer in your cart that interprets the motion of the hailstorm over an arbitrary period of time as equivalent to the activity of the brain program over a period of time.

The difference between these temperatures and the average temperature over some arbitrary period AT THAT STATION is called a temperature anomoly.

Climate is defined as the average of weather over an arbitrary period.

In the images, the central figure seems to be at times hopelessly engulfed in an overwhelming amount of gadgetry — all thrown away after an arbitrary period of obsolescence.

January 1st of any year is an arbitrary period of time that happens to be the perfect chance to take a look backwards to see what you can do differently going forward.