The equivalent products (in terms of their basic function, not their quality) would have required 4.64 weeks of work in 1958.
From that basic function, I started to see other things popping up.
This is akin to the most basic function of Novation's Launchpad, whereby the 8 x 8 grid represents a corresponding section of your project.
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After all, anyone who travels internationally knows that there are dozens of plug designs that accomplish the same basic function: delivery of electricity to a power cord.
But both parties have an interest in supporting the basic function of the CBO, in order to buttress their own credibility, and to get some empirically-generated sense of what the future might look like.
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It may improve or even transform customer service or remote plant management, but it does not disrupt the basic function of providing water to people, nor will it transform customer needs such as drinking, showering or washing their SUVs.
All three perform the same basic function -- they let you stream TV from your cable box (digital or analog), satellite receiver, or DVR to a computer or mobile device -- it's just that each is aimed at different segments of the market.
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"Immigration reform will strengthen our nation's security by helping us identify exactly who has entered our country and who has left -- a basic function of government that our broken immigration system is incapable of accomplishing today, " said South Carolina's Lindsey Graham and Arizona's John McCain.
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It figures that using less water and energy to execute a basic household function, while looking cool doing it, works pretty well for consumers.
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I'm also going to just be talking about some more mundane matters, things like making sure that we have our government personnel in place on critical positions -- in critical positions that involve our basic government function and seeing if we can accelerate that and try to find some agreement in those areas.
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Still, caught in the middle are thousands of U.S. military members, teachers and federal workers who are at the backbone of government's basic ability to function.
There is a clear difference between companies gravitating towards basic features that reflect function and consumer demand, and intentionally infringing on a unique patented invention.
The shift in mindset is surely in part a function of basic human nature: our remarkable ability for good or ill to adapt ourselves to new realities.
According to Ben, only Atari 2600 and Colecovision games are supported for the time being, although emulation of other systems will apparently be possible through software upgrades (it'll also function as a basic PMP).
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It gave me the basic things that I needed to function in life.
In Japan people wear the boots for fashion, not function, and tweak the basic styles.
The UN has had to provide basic desks and computers to help the government function again.
Monetarists ignore the most basic of economic truths that all demand is a function of supply first.
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Greenwald: There are in the world two basic ways you control human behavior and have societies function.
Codiqa, the app builder, helped with the basic HTML5 code for the app's layout and general function, he says.
Advocates argue that in order to truly understand how basic biological processes work, they'll need to compare and contrast how different stem cell lines function.
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Anyone can issue instructions to the basic building blocks of the Internet, the backbone routers, that, if accepted, will seriously disrupt the function of the Internet.
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