Sentences with phrase «huge advances»

Only optimal wave and wind conditions according to your level of surfing lets you make huge advances in learning to surf.

Even without trillion - dollar funding, you are all making huge advances in our understanding of planets around other stars.

In other words, if publishers realize they are spending more money by paying huge advances, as opposed to raising the royalty rate, they could have a change of heart.

If someone never earns out and gets any royalties, does that mean their books don't sell, or does it mean they got huge advances?

The financial technology sector is one where huge advances have been made in the science of prediction.

How many times have publishers given huge advances to some politician or celebrity only to have the book tank?

Most books today — even those which receive huge advances of money — have a bookstore shelf - life of only eight months.

The hardware, however, keeps evolving, and there have been huge advances in the technology to realize these worlds.

Pay - per - click advertising has made huge advances with a number of different targeting options available.

To justify paying huge advances to politicians and others in power.

The games represent huge advances in the action and sport genres, and celebrate their world premieres at gamescom in Cologne as they are shown in playable form to a public audience for the very...

For all the complaining about the XB1's compulsory Kinect inclusion it's undeniable that forcing developers to make some use of it means we'll see huge advances in terms of responsiveness and precision, much like we have seen with touchscreen tech in the past few years.

Between the Vegas - style gambles with huge advances, the insane retail model, and overhead costs, how anyone could think it has a sound future is beyond me.

Science made huge advance long before evolution became an accepted view.

There were huge advances there and then in engineering, biology, medicine, math, and celestial navigation.

This new generation of telescopes will allow huge advances in studies of the early universe, of Earth - like planets around other stars, and of the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that influence the structure and expansion of the universe.

Return of the Electric Car The new electric cars reflect huge advances in concept and technology.

Steamy bestseller's fans drive huge advance sales for adaptation starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson

To wit: overpaying huge advances for worthless books written by celebrities.

As I said in Why Ebooks Must Fail and Advances Must Align to Risks, ebooks are currently sold with no advance cash payments and have the same discounts as print, leaving publishers with the onus of huge advance costs and only a trickle of income from individual sales.

Stinson's ability to help publishers understand the potential in her clients» work enabled her to win huge advances and advantageous contracts for her clients.

But, in their greed for more, they kept paying their best sellers more and more — and often these books didn't earn out — and then they would throw huge advances at new authors who were supposed to be the next best thing.

This is where indie superstars Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath are now, having accepted reputedly huge advances and impressive royalties.

The probe is organized with the purpose to find out whether burdensome conditions, huge advance payments, extremely overvalued interest rates and the huge amount of regular payments are knowingly set.

A far better near - term choice is wind power, but both wind and solar begin to have another problem at scales at or above that which Clinton is discussing: Since solar panels and wind turbines can't currently work at full capacity 24 hours a day, they require huge advances in energy storage and grid capacity, as well.

Mechanizing certain aspects of industry has brought huge advances in productivity and cost reductions, such as the assembly line for automobiles, or the tractor and harvesting machines for farming, but DroneSeed's challenge is to apply similar automation to a decidedly different space - not acres of flat farmland, or the carefully engineered factory floor, but the hills, mountains, and valleys of the natural world.

The Linux desktop has enjoyed some other huge advances this year — such as amassing a growing game library from Steam — but the systemd arguments have sucked a lot of air out of the room.

Civic, which surprised by posting sudden huge advances from $ 0.70 to as high as $ 1.68 in the past 24 hours, has now deflated to around $ 0.87.

What I don't understand is why they continue to pay huge advances for them when most of them undersell?

You can find cats mentioned in Sufi tales from the Islamic Golden Age that saw huge advances in mathematics, philosophy, and physics, and European monks in the Middle Ages employed them to keep rodents away.

«One reason why we are no happier than we were in the 1950s is that despite huge advances in education, health and living standards, we have neglected the deep personal problems that hold so many people back,» he will say.

But I don't want people to think that I consider this just my invention as it were, my tool, because Martin Evans was there and Mario Capecchi, who's being recognized, he made huge advances in making it much easier to do this than my methods have been.

The movie starts off set in the middle of the 21st century, where huge advances have taken place in the field of artificial intelligence, so much so that it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between the man - made people (dubbed «Mecha» for mechanical people) from their real - life counterparts.

While the Orange Bookers made huge advances in terms of both policy and power, it's pretty clear that they have not yet won the debate from within the Lib Dem Party.

That doesn't seem like a huge technological advance, but from a process perspective, that is a huge advance for our industry.

«If you look at the hepatitis space, the cancer space, diabetes — there are huge advances in recent years... I've never been as optimistic about our chance to make a difference.»

I realize that simply shutting down the spam - spewing email systems of the world would be a huge advance in making us all more effective, but I don't see that happening.

In 2017 the most striking shift is undoubtedly the huge advances made in taking smart production from concept to reality.

There are huge advances being made in school food that carry over to food outside school.

Sinn Féin's stunning victory in the Donegal South West parliamentary by - election on 25 November represents a huge advance in what was the first electoral test for the Dublin government since the sharp deepening of the state's economic crisis.

«Although Prof Travers was right to establish the scale of the task we made huge advances in the local elections in May of this year winning control in Blackpool, East Yorkshire and Chester.

«A huge advance,» Bottke said.

Instead of light, computers run on electrons moving through silicon - based chips — which, despite huge advances, are still less efficient than photonics.

But that will still represent a huge advance, since scientists currently have no global brain map at all.

Given that 20 percent of people currently diagnosed with Alzheimer's turn out to be suffering from something else — notably depression, B12 deficiency, Parkinson's dementia, or vascular disease characterized by miniature strokes — this is a huge advance.