Sentences with phrase «first big scale»

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Getting an assistant is the first step in scaling because it frees you up to focus on growth, to go out there and get the big fish.

The Flow Cannabis Institute is the first of its kind in California, and it enables small and independent farmers to scale and compete with Big Marijuana brands.

Nevertheless, Stripe has something of a first - mover advantage, Peterson says, and its deals with big Silicon Valley companies will give it scale.

The Austin Energy contract opened a market for big solar in sunny Southeastern states, Jim Hughes, chief executive of utility - scale solar developer First Solar told investors in April.

He was very early into the Internet, saying the opportunity was too big to worry about profits, that instead they have to worry about scale first, and profits will come.

«With a stellar team of big data and open source veterans from companies including Hortonworks, MongoDB and MapR, Dremio is the first company to solve this challenge by empowering data consumers — business analysts and data scientists — to be independent and self - directed in their use of data, from any source and at any scale, using their favorite tools.

The bigger challenge appears to be finding enough money to reach scale, with our fintech roundtable reporting that it is more difficult to find second - round funding than it is first.

Efforts to reform the house of lords have foundered on disagreement on questions of scale - how big, what proportion should be elected and on what basis - first past the post, single transferable vote, alternative vote... a fresh start would make almost anything possible.

«This is the first work putting together a physics - based estimate on the scale of one of these big rivers, looking at the net effect of nitrate removal in big river systems.»

This sounds reasonable at first, but host galaxies are 10 billion times bigger than the central black holes; it should be difficult for two objects of such vastly different scales to directly affect each other.

To get to that place, we might first wonder if nature is, in fact, schizophrenic: Should we accept that there are two kinds of forces that operate over two different scales — gravity for big scales like galaxies, the other three forces for the tiny world of atoms?

Examples of science projects enabled by the data in the High - Latitude Survey include: mapping the formation of cosmic structure in the first billion years after the Big Bang via the detection and characterization of over 10,000 galaxies at z > 8; finding over 2,000 QSOs at z > 7; quantifying the distribution of dark matter on intermediate and large scales through lensing in clusters and in the field; identifying the most extreme star - forming galaxies and shock - dominated systems at 1 < z < 2; carrying out a complete census of star - forming galaxies and the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z ~ 2, including their contribution to the ionizing radiation; and determining the kinematics of stellar streams in the Local Group through proper motions.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

«The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales» «Birdboy: The Forgotten Children» «The Boss Baby» «The Breadwinner» «Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie» «Cars 3» «Cinderella the Cat» «Coco» «Despicable Me 3» «The Emoji Movie» «Ethel & Ernest» «Ferdinand» «The Girl without Hands» «In This Corner of the World» «The Lego Batman Movie» «The Lego Ninjago Movie» «Loving Vincent» «Mary and the Witch's Flower» «Moomins and the Winter Wonderland» «My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea» «Napping Princess» «A Silent Voice» «Smurfs: The Lost Village» «The Star» «Sword Art Online: The Movie — Ordinal Scale» «Window Horses The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming»

Most recently Rønning and Sandberg served as executive producers and directed the first two episodes of Netflix's big - scale mini-series «Marco Polo,» which they filmed on exotic locations in Malaysia, Kazakhstan and Venice.

We've already seen the smaller - scale Ratchet & Clank (which didn't do very well) and The Angry Birds Movie (which did a lot better), but how will Duncan Jones» Warcraft: The Beginning — the first big blockbuster — do?

After Universal Studios reduced their big budget for Ouija and brought in horror producer Jason Blum to finish the scaled - back project, light bulbs seem to be the first item to get axed.

An amazing counterpart to the big budget epic Everest is the true story of a small group of adventure - seekers who looked to be the first to scale one of the massive mountain's more difficult peaks.

Judi Dench, Emma Watson and Zoe Kazan («The Big Sick») all have shots at those final two spots, and the ability to salute an icon and give another nomination to a true musical may tip the scales in favor of the first two, though it's a close call.

«You'll see that the scale is much bigger, and that's because the first movie had a small $ 58 million budget.

For the first time, Hansen - Love is working partly in English, with American indie stars Greta Gerwig and Brady Corbet turning up for NYC - set scenes, but it's relative newcomer Felix De Givry who takes the lead for a film that seems to be the director's biggest in scope and scale yet.

Partly because it marks the return of the great Taiwanese helmer Hou Hsiao - Hsien for the first time in seven years, and partly because it sees him working on a bigger scope and scale than ever before: the film's a big - budget (relatively speaking) wuxia picture.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

And by doing so, Apple is clearly betting on scale — 15 million iPads sold in the first nine months — as a bigger platform for its software than its own MacOS has been able to provide over the years.

First, the 1929 crash is on a different scale to any other crash, dwarfing even the second biggest crash, which was the most recent one beginning in 2007.

If you can accept it as a much smaller scale puzzle game then Big Pharma is actually really good, and while you might find yourself tiring of it quite quickly the hours you do spend spinning machines around and planning out new production lines are satisfying, especially when you first begin putting together the vast collection of equipment and belts required to create the most powerful drugs, such as a cancer vaccine.

Yabuki: This is also my first GDC — the scale of the conference is very big, and it almost feels like a fun festival of sorts.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

In receiving the Micro Studio accolade, Hello Games is the first company ever to stake a claim to this newly created award, which recognises the talent of small scale studios making big waves in the development sector.

Prior to working on CHRONO TRIGGER / CHRONO CROSS, his first large scale orchestral arrangement for the Game Concerts series, Roger Wanamo was not familiar with these games or their music: «I was told that they are quite a big deal to the fans, especially to the music fans.

I think exploring Union in first - person makes the scale feel even bigger than it does when you're in third - person.

It's certainly not as advanced and flexible as learning a new programming language, but it's the first step towards segueing to the likes of a Raspberry Pi and undertaking projects on a much bigger scale.

Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds on view at the Menil Collection through May 11th, is the first drawing retrospective for the artist who when «rediscovered» for big museum shows a decade ago was rediscovered for her meaty, muscular work: large - scale sculpture that the artist largely concentrated on between 1958 and 1967 before having a child sidelined the sculptural practice.

23 February — 13 March: Calder's first large - scale bolted stabiles, Devil Fish and Big Bird, are on view in «Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles» at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

The four larger scale sculptures being exhibited here for the first time, Vincent Fecteau's biggest sculptures to date, are once again made out of papier - mâché but this time built around a core of insulating foam as their base material.

On view will be contact sheet of details for Big Nude, 1967, the inspiration for Close's first large - scale painting based on a photograph.

«Damaged,» is the artist's first big show in his hometown for almost 10 years and will include over 200 works including paintings, large - scale sculptures, interactive installations, stencils, limited editions on wood and metal — and there's even an accompanying newspaper called «The Damaged Times.»

They feel bigger and certainly more indecorous than any collage made by Robert Motherwell, who was the first to break the mold in terms of scale.

The scale of his work has also played a part; the reputation of Abstract Expressionism was tied to that great American value that bigger is better — in terms both of scale of works and gesture, yet until his last decade (with a group of large paintings exhibited here for the first time) Lewis primarily produced easel paintings created with small marks.

Although Murphy has been showing regularly in New York since the early»70s, this is the first time that she has had a space big enough to comfortably display her work, a multi-panel work like «Knots» (2009), a suite of 15 modestly scaled paintings, along with more than a dozen paintings and drawings, with the largest painting ranging six feet in height or width.

Two California companies said Thursday that they would each build solar power plants that were 10 times bigger than the largest now in service, creating the first true utility - scale use of a technology now mostly confined to rooftop supplements to conventional power supplies.

New York City's East River may become the site of the nation's first full - scale tidal power plant - a potentially big step for other coastal cities looking for locally - generated renewable energy that's fish - friendly, too.

One of the first utility - scale wind power systems to incorporate short - term, grid - scale battery storage, the GE Brilliant 1.6 - 100 addresses one of the criticisms (if not the biggest and most frequently cited criticism) of wind energy: its intermittent nature.

Big things first: focusing on the scale imperative with the ecological footprint.

First Solar's recent ownership - scale investment in community solar developer Clean Energy Collective and SolarCity's recent commitment of $ 200 million to community solar projects in Minnesota suggest big things coming for the emerging sector.

Brattle's study, entitled «Comparative Generation Costs of UtilityScale and Residential - Scale PV in Xcel Energy Colorado's Service Area» was commissioned by First Solar, the world's biggest utility - scale solar developer, with support from the Edison Electric Institute, the trade group for American investor owned utiliScale PV in Xcel Energy Colorado's Service Area» was commissioned by First Solar, the world's biggest utility - scale solar developer, with support from the Edison Electric Institute, the trade group for American investor owned utiliscale solar developer, with support from the Edison Electric Institute, the trade group for American investor owned utilities.

Part of the reason behind this reversal, says Elon Musk, is that at first Tesla was worried that if they didn't protect their technology, big car manufacturers would copy it and then use their massive scale advantage in manufacturing, sales, marketing, etc, to crush them.

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/19/narendra-modi-big-fan-solar-coal/ Narendra Modi, the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party who is currently leading in the polls in the lead - up to the general election in May, is in fact a big fan of solar — and pioneered the first incentives for large - scale solar power in 2009.

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The first big change underway is the scale of the outsourcing.