Industry executives continued to scoff at the idea of Apple being considered a serious games company.
That is certainly nothing to scoff at, but it is only a fraction of Mr Moore's law.
Breaking a record for an event that has been around for more than 60 years is nothing to scoff at.
Processing power is the main thing, but the added space at the top of the screen is nothing to scoff at, either.
Sure, saving 10% on a thousand-dollar computer is nothing to scoff at.
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In public, co-operative bankers and insurers continue to scoff at the idea that they would betray their local roots by going public or selling out to shareholder-owned companies.
Sure, Qwest is going to get humiliated in the MCI deal, but the company was already so poorly regarded that a month's worth of headlines putting it in the same context as Verizon and MCI is nothing to scoff at.
They might use a natural scent as the basis for a perfume, but then they typically add to this by using synthetic compounds produced in a laboratory. (Synthetics also make it possible to affordably mass-produce perfumes.) Both Mr. Ellena and Ms. Beaulieu scoff at amateurs who want to hear that perfumes are all natural.
On Sermo.com, an online "virtual lounge" only open to physicians, many doctors scoff at the notion of negotiating prices with patients.
And while professional investors might scoff at using it to decide when to buy and sell, the breaking of an old record can be psychologically important.
Some Windows users will scoff at the attempts to liven up the old system as pandering to more casual computer users, or as somehow making the system less capable of serious work.
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It's just that photography purists (and just people who expect 8 megapixels to mean 8 megapixels) will scoff at the idea that full-size quality should be sacrified for improvements at lower resolution.
Microsoft does, of course, have considerable detractors who scoff at its seeming inability to excel in anything outside of its monopoly operating system and suite of Office products.
Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) does, of course, have considerable detractors who scoff at its seeming inability to excel in anything outside of its monopoly operating system and suite of Office products.
Joe Bakaj, an engineer at Ford, says that even American buyers of the company's F-150 pickups, who would normally scoff at anything with less than a V8 engine, are switching to a new V6 version that performs at least as well but drinks less fuel.
We scoff at education and critical thinking, preferring to solve our problems with handguns and partisanship.
Still, we wouldn't scoff at a smartphone with a build quality to match the Surface -- though it might rub some of Redmond's hardware partners the wrong way.
Both Kurdish factions now scoff at the thought of any non-Kurdish opposition returning to the area.
But Americans and Paraguayans alike scoff at claims of a base at Mariscal Estigarribia, close to the Bolivian border (the scene of a 1932-35 war).
Murray pushed Federer around and caused him to scoff and swear several times during the match, including one outburst directed at Murray (both players brushed it off after the match).
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Many of the people who scoff at religion are sublimely confident that, by using science, humanity can march onwards to a better world.
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Those million-zaire notes they scoff at trade in Lubumbashi, the capital of Shaba province, at only 300, 000 to the dollar.
Lest you scoff at my predilection for elementary-level reading (the book is rated for ages four to eight), I beg you to look past the pastel illustrations and sing-songy cadence of the writing and see this book for what it is: a beautiful script about parenthood, a poignant parable about life and death, a testimony to when the roles of child and parent become blurry.
Some old school jazz musicians will probably scoff at the way Floratone was made, but it's some of the most riveting instrumental music to emerge this year.
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