Sentences with phrase «model lost points»

However, this model lost points because the reviewers found the connector doesn't last and it's slow to heat up.

Not exact matches

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Skeptics of Facebook's business model have long pointed to anecdotal evidence that the social network is losing its luster with teens as evidence that the firm will ultimately be unable to justify its $ 140 billion valuation.

Once we begin to think of our faith in terms of largeness instead of largess or in terms of measurable success or significant achievements or community stature or statistically significant gains or business models or congregational models or appropriate budget processes or cash flow direction or generally accepted accounting practices or independent audits or administrative requirements or managerial transparency or proper leadership roles and boundaries or membership trends or effective organizational structures or a current and accurate vision statement — at that point, we have become the money changers — we have lost our faith and deserve to be driven away for we are neither living nor sharing the Good News.

The model only gives A&M a win expectancy (derived based on in - game stats) of 5 % and thinks we should have lost by 14 or 15 points.

Our financial situation is much better but the top four business model is so engrained in the club that we can not fight for the top spot, At critical points we bottle it and lose matches we should win, it is not the occasional match which can and does happen to any team but a number of matches.

They could then plug that information into models to see how much ice Greenland lost over the 20th century, as well as how that loss varied over time and at different points around the ice sheet.

The LeBaron models had a flatter snout, and lost the slightly pointed prow like bumper and grill.

At the point when RWA's behavior crosses over from the mere setting of standards for individual authors» benefit, into trying to force Harlequin to adopt a business model that pays all its authors a minimum advance of $ 1000, you cross from rule - of - reason antitrust territory (translation: plaintiff loses) into per - se illegality (translation: plaintiff wins), at which point all questions about market effect go out the window.

Obviously, the publishers are not happy with the sweeping changes in what has proven to be the largest retail book outlet for consumers in Canada, but supporters of the stores and its new model are quick to point out that the bookseller is simply trying to survive in the digital era; of course, the publishers themselves are also trying to survive the ebook revolution, and losing some of their allies won't help.

When Apple allegedly approached the publishers about switching to an agency model in order to prevent Amazon from selling ebooks at what was often below cost in order to encourage the sale of Kindle readers, Amazon lost the option to sell ebooks at its previously advertised $ 9.99 price point.

Not only is the Agency Model losing we are also losing the $ 9.99 price point.

Amazon, by its own admission, was previously losing $ 3 to $ 5 per e-book when it sold e-books at the $ 9.99 price point before the Department of Justice stepped in to force publishers to adhere to a wholesale model.

According to the premier scoring model, FICO, when a person with a Credit Score of 680 files for bankruptcy he could lose anywhere between 130 and 150 points.

This year, people sort of reached a tipping point with regard to lockboxes and cash shops, which is likely why GW2 lost out to the 2 sub model games for the Business Model amodel games for the Business Model aModel award.

In the Wall Street Journal, Eric Gibson quickly pined for «The Lost Art of Writing About Art,» pointing to such models as Erwin Panofsky, the great historian of the Northern Renaissance.

Thus, even though models are thought to not lose ice fast enough, every one of the old CCSM3 runs had a «RILE» (rapid ice loss event) at some point in the 21st century that beat the current streak.

And, in spite of all its complexity and uncertainties, we should not lose track of the simple fact that theory, actual observations of the planet, and complex models - however imperfect each is in isolation - all point to ongoing, potentially dangerous human alteration of climate.

But it could also point to a far more transparent modelling process where GCMs lose some complexity in return for much more openness, where everyone interested can reproduce results on an affordable machine.

As James Hadley pointed out here, a DICE model that assumes we'd only lose half our global GDP with an 18C temp increase; (4) discount rates are too high.

Somehow this got lost along the way, but its good to see real world observations (not models) proving the point.

Similarly other Zwally detractors pointed to papers such as Harig 2015 that claimed Antarctica was losing ice, but Harig 2015 used GIA models that were well known to over-estimate glacial rebound.

Regarding recent observational evidence, Amman makes the point that some model studies show that» the current moderate warming rate is a bit of an aberration, and so a substantial acceleration in the warming rate can be expected to occur in the near future, sufficient not only to match the modelled warming rate, but even to catch up the recent lost ground.»

If there was no hindcast, then I could follow the point that with 2000 forcings low ice models might lose their sea ice and become unstable and get rejected for being unstable.

Beyond that point I get lost, although Didactylos does end repeating Gavin's point that «even a naïve model needs justification».