Sentences with phrase «wildly optimistic»

They have been talking about selling a million phones a year, I think that is wildly optimistic.

As a blog post by Raymond Chen points out, early versions of this message stated that «It may be possible to continue normally,» a line later that was later removed for being wildly optimistic.

Wealth is a factor of value; if you're not making your firm enough money for them to afford your wildly optimistic bonus, don't complain when you don't get it.

During the election, the Liberals» pledge to legalize and regulate marijuana «right away «seems to be wildly optimistic.

Combining opposites (such as the wildly optimistic with those who prefer a slow and measured approach) may result in creative synergy or unwanted volatility.

According to Heinberg, this wildly optimistic prediction was calculated by extrapolating the best production rates of the best fracking sites over the 20,000 or so existing rigs.

Now, taking even the most wildly optimistic statement of certainty of AGW — the «very likely (> 90 % probability) stated by IPCC in AR4, this hardy makes AGW a «fact» such as gravity, and thus subject to the pejorative denialist label (Catastrophic AGW and effectiveness of mitigations would have certainty far far below this 90 %).

You need to rethink your sensitivity and the effects of your wildly optimistic 550 ppm BAU scenario.

Why do they present plans that contain wildly optimistic assumptions about the peak in global emissions and yet a high probability of overshooting the 2 degrees C target?

Both of these reports offer forecasts that are wildly optimistic relative to the mainstream modeling community, but it's not because they predict wind and solar are going to have some unprecedented explosion.

No offense, but your response strikes me as wildly optimistic.

Battery life could also be a major issue; many complained that Nintendo's suggestion that the controller should stay charged for 3 - 5 hours of gameplay is wildly optimistic, with actual usage routinely falling at the low end of that estimate (or, for more than one reviewer, well below the 3 - hour mark).

Wildly optimistic.

And if you go back and look at the analyst reports and comments from the experts in the industry, they framed that as wildly optimistic.

Now, I'd like to argue that we can't come even remotely close to that 12.9 %... In my opinion, you have to be wildly optimistic to believe that corporate profits as a percent of GDP can, for any sustained period, hold much above 6 %.

It calculates the RMDs for any starting sum at an assumed rate of return out to a wildly optimistic age 115.

In fact, planning your retirement with the expectation of 8 % returns is wildly optimistic.

Management is now anticipating net proceeds to unit holders of between $ 0.04 and $ 0.10 per security, suggesting the previous estimates were wildly optimistic.

I have my own writeup here: http://glennchan.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/sanofi-genzyme-contingent-value-rights-gcvrz/ I'm not wildly optimistic about these rights because somebody died in phase II, so you will have a situation similar to Tysabri (it took several years for Tysabri to become a blockbuster drug).

In my opinion, you have to be wildly optimistic to believe that corporate profits as a percent of GDP can, for any sustained period, hold much above 6 %.

The estimates of the percentage of foreclosures this program will prevent seem wildly optimistic, but even helping a couple hundred thousand homeowners is still positive.

Your forecast of growth in book value is wildly optimistic.

There's another wildly optimistic estimate that we see very often — That every iPhone owner reads X books a year.

Pew's study suggests that as many as 25 million Americans own eReading devices — that seems wildly optimistic to me.

Now I know I'm being wildly optimistic here, assuming that I will be able to find at least some success with self - publishing, and that I will be one of the lucky few to hook an agent and then a publisher, and even that I will somehow magically get my butt in gear and suddenly become prolific.

Even the most downtrodden corporate drones will believe that they have the ability to turn their unknown assets into limitless prosperity after reading the wildly optimistic and inspiring Cracking the Millionaire Code: Your Key to Enlightened Wealth.

If one knows the industry solely from popular online discussions, that estimate sounds wildly optimistic.

Unfortunately, all of those figures are wildly optimistic in most real - world conditions unless you manage to keep the battery charged and exploit EV range — or live in a city and use your luxury SUV for short commutes.

In our experience, those figures are wildly optimistic, but what the TwinAir lacks in real - world fuel economy it makes up in exuberance and character.

We're going come hell or high water, and at the moment it looks like we might be dealing with both — we're certainly being wildly optimistic getting there in time for «sunrise».

The computer, which is super nicely integrated, predicted a range that was wildly optimistic saying I could make the full round trip with 49 miles to spare.

One thing Fiat managers are less keen to talk about is projected sales, having been caught out so badly when the company's initial prognostications for the 500 proved wildly optimistic (the car is currently selling at a rate of just under 30,000 units per year).

EdSource reported one particularly problematic part of the law that could lead to abuse (Given the state board's disinclination so far to address the issue, I admit the headline, which I wrote, may prove to be wildly optimistic).

Even on the basis of wildly optimistic assumptions about improvement in the quality of teachers, the quality - based wage declined by 6 percent for women and 3 percent for men.

Battery life could also be a major issue; many complained that Nintendo's suggestion that the controller should stay charged for 3 - 5 hours of gameplay is wildly optimistic, with actual usage routinely falling at the low end of that estimate (or, for more than one reviewer, well below the 3 - hour mark).

If you are willing to do that as well as to eat well, there's every reason to be wildly optimistic about your chances of achieving lasting weight loss!

That, of course is wildly optimistic.

But even on the government's figures it is only due to raise # 2.5 bn of the # 700bn required — and those estimates may be wildly optimistic.

Not content with deliberately raining on the Chancellor's parade (which was nowhere near as wildly optimistic as Vince suggests), he would only say that Ed Balls was wrong on «much» of his critique - and that as a reluctant response.

Mr McWilliams argued: «A more credible plan to cut public spending in the medium term than simply relying on wildly optimistic forecasts - as seen in the last Budget - is absolutely necessary.»

The first thing to note was that so far as the Labour Party was concerned, despite wildly optimistic predictions from the ideological Left and others, like Sadiq Khan, Labour only did well in areas where there was either a preponderance...

The ANC have made wildly optimistic promises to redistribute 15 % of land to blacks by 2013 and to halve soaring unemployment by 2014.

Unfortunately this is wildly optimistic, and it is usual for filters to both over-block (filter out material that wouldn't fall under the defined category of content) and under - block (miss instances of material supposed to be filtered).

Fellow gamers, let us all put forth our (wildly optimistic) predictions for Jazz player ratings in this season's NBA 2k game.

The fact that Huizenga owned the stadium and the television channel broadcasting the games helped buff that quite a bit, but the attendance was disappointing when compared to the wildly optimistic projections of an owner who thought that fans would immediately flood the gates for a contending team.

Don't need to annoint anyone to be wildly optimistic.

Also puts our wildly optimistic hopes of winning all our remaining games in to sharp focus — 14 wins in a row, really??

It's certainly possible that I'm wildly optimistic (it would not be the first time), but I am inclined to disagree with the recent suggestions of Joseph Knippenberg and Matthew Franck, based on recent (possible) changes in policy on sexual orientation, that the Boy Scouts of America....

Like many of their contemporaries, they became wildly optimistic about secularization in the early 1960s, and then in the early 1970s deeply involved in protests against the Vietnam War and in fighting for various social causes.

If we became wildly optimistic, and estimated that 75 percent would opt for over a year's treatment, then at a two - third success rate, 50 percent would still be addicted.