Sentences with phrase «tipping point at»

From a timing perspective, this appeal to the Federal Circuit is most likely Microsoft's nearest - term opportunity to prove Android's infringement of more of its U.S. patents and to reach a tipping point at which Google, Motorola Mobility's owner, may agree that a royalty - bearing license deal is the commercially most intelligent choice.

The tipping point at which the profession as a whole is ready to grapple with this is probably a ways off yet, but this is a great sign.

Our home planet is dangerously near a tipping point at which human - made greenhouse gases reach a level where major climate changes can proceed mostly under their own momentum.

While the Earth seems to be managing the steady increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide relatively well so far (although the effects of this increase may not be felt for many decades to come), there are concerns that passing the 400 parts per million atmospheric carbon dioxide threshold will bring the Earth's atmosphere closer to a tipping point at which global warming accelerates rapidly with dire consequences for mankind and other creatures on Earth.

After a careful reassessment of climate sensitivity and climate history data, NASA climate science chief James Hansen and his colleagues concluded that the tipping point at which substantial ice - sheets on Earth will disappear is around 450ppm (+ / -100 ppm) of CO2.

Now, let's not mistake the tipping point at the end of these long struggles for an isolated moment of sudden change.

In December 2009 she participated in Tipping Point at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in New York as she continues collaborating with Klaus Lackner (Geophysicist and Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, Earth Institute, at Columbia)- the results of which are also included in her installation for The Golden Bough.

This has brought us closer to a tipping point at which charter schools are strongly supported by most New Yorkers and don't depend on a handful of forward - looking elected officials.

Is there a tipping point at which the demand for charters will force a reconstruction of the educational system more generally?

«So while it is possible that reduced accessibility of foraging habitat might cause loss of northern colonies in the future, there is no evidence that we have yet reached a tipping point at which this occurs.»

«But 2oC is a tipping point at which climate conditions will become largely or completely unsuitable for many species.

To keep the Amazon tipping point at bay, the researchers advocate not just strict control to prevent further deforestation but also the construction of a safety margin by reducing the deforested area to less than 20 %.

«Hopefully this will be the tipping point at which New York's political leadership will gets its heads out of the sand,» said Blair Horner, of the New York Public Research Group.

Matters came to a tipping point at around 14.50 this afternoon when it was feared that a police chopper might have to get involved.

«There's a tipping point at which a name can become so common or associated with a specific person that parents stop using it,» notes Murray.

It's hard to suggest that his retirement is bittersweet, considering he clearly wasn't a major - league talent anymore, but maybe we should have mourned that unquantifiable tipping point at the time.

Editor - in - chief Tina Brown had this to say, «In our judgment, we have reached a tipping point at which we can most efficiently and effectively reach our readers in all - digital format.

But with broad and efficiently concentrated giving, you reach (if you'll forgive another social science buzzphrase) a tipping point at which your reputation as a giver and your accumulation of grateful pals grows to the point that positive effects ensue.

But models used by scientists to predict the tipping points at which drought stress leads to ecosystem collapse have proven unreliable and too optimistic.

Second, they are associated with tipping points at the local scale.

trigger tipping points at ecosystem and biome scale, and that such non-linear dynamics at local to regional scale can add up to impacts at the Earth system scale.

There have been many tipping points at smaller scales, such as desertification or Mayan - era drought.)

The science says it's false, history says that it's false by showing no link between CO2 and temperature and no tipping points at high CO2 levels and what we are seeing in reality (no warming with increasing CO2) shows it to be false.

Not exact matches

The visible failure of the war on drugs, combined with a generational tipping point in attitudes, has poll after poll showing a majority of adults favouring the legalization or at least decriminalization of recreational cannabis use.

The state - owned oil firm is expected to list on the Saudi stock exchange in the second half of this year, but an international listing — which was at one point tipped to happen at the same time — is said to have been temporarily shelved.

But Susan Fowler's February blog post about harassment, discrimination and retaliation at Uber struck a nerve, ignited a wildfire, caused a tipping point... choose your metaphor.

This could be a tipping point for companies to do much better at securing their networks.

At one point in history the idea was to create tips and tricks and tools and technology to help us get our to - do list done faster so we'd have margin or space left over.

Lastly — at a panel in the afternoon Tristan Walker, Director of Business Development for FourSquare, Marci Weisler of Tipping Point Partners, Daniel Kim founder of Red Mango and Inc. blogger Howard Greenstein tackled the hotly controversial topic of leveraging daily deal sites and tapping into local marketing.

However, anonymous tips can put you at a severe informational disadvantage when starting your investigation, so you should also have a couple of point people for face - to - face complaints.

In the post, Schranz lays out the lessons he thinks the film offers for developers and product managers (hat tip to Om Malik for leading the way to Schranz's observations and pointing out that «these learnings actually are applicable across the board at startups»), suggesting five takeaways for those pursuing excellence in entrepreneurship.

Tipping the top or bottom of a market is never smart, especially at a time of volatile trading; but a series of recent events point to confidence growing in the start of a recovery in the Western Australian economy.

We may well be standing at a similar technological tipping point as researchers develop the vision and technologies that could launch humanity into the solar system.

«We are, with many other industries, at a tipping point of cybersecurity posture of products and connected services,» said Massimilla.

According to work by the British government's Behavioural Insights Team, Canada is at a tipping point; we're not yet stuck in the mire, but we aren't safely clear of it, either.

But if what the study says is true, we are at a tipping point.

The tipping point came in 1917, when President Wilson made the decision to enter World War I. Suffragettes argued that the effort to «make the world safe for democracy» (Wilson's words) ought to begin at home by extending the franchise.

I advised a lot of them and I look at that moment as a real tipping point.

Lately, there has been more than our fair share of news suggesting that the retail industry is at a tipping point.

The business was 17 years old at that point, and was somewhat limited by what Poon Tip could afford, from the tours they offered to how they ran the business.

«There will be a tipping point for Snapchat at some point,» Meeks, chief investment officer at Sloy, Dahl & Holst, told «Squawk Box.»

This weekend's Fortune / TIME Global Forum left me convinced that global business is at a tipping point.

Even so, there is reason to believe that we may not yet be at a tipping point.

The results revealed an asymmetry in the point at which they tipped: people required about four unethical actions to decide that Barbara had appreciably changed for the worse, but about six equivalently ethical actions to decide that Barbara appreciably changed for the better.

And the Surface Pro will now recognize when the Pen's tip is pointed at an angle on the screen, so you can shade with it like a pencil.

We are now at a tipping point where the power of computer chips, sensors, Internet broadband and cloud storage is creating a platform for powerful work technologies that will make the traditional office obsolete.

Uber, the ride - hailing giant valued at more than $ 50 billion, was known for its hard - charging stance into cities, bypassing local legislators until it reached a tipping point with consumers.

«Many retailers are at the tipping point of cutting too much labor,» said Craig Rowley, a senior partner in the retail division of Korn Ferry International, an executive search firm.

I am looking for economic tipping points ie points at which everyone knew the world of economics had changed.

We are at a classic tipping point when it comes to the secret squandering of Canadian tax dollars.