The problem for e-commerce players comes in how users are dividing up that time they spend within smartphone apps.
Fashion week and the deluge of runway presentations and parties that come with it can be divided up into three clear sections: crap that's easy to get into, crap that's impossible to get into, and those truly amazing moments you'll be bragging about to your grandkids.
"For a subscription service, there is a collective pot of money that can be divided up among record companies based on their market share," said Beggars Group's Mills.
Family lawyers - who are locked in a seemingly intractable dispute with the government over fees - dispute strongly, however, whether publicly funded law can be divided up this way into areas that help vulnerable people and those that do not.
But, in actuality, Nevada was so thinly populated when the river was divided up that its allotment is very small just two per cent of the total and it actually takes less than that, primarily because Las Vegas has some of most stringent water-conservation regulations in the country.
News coverage provides more or less continuous content that is divided up into sections that often have little or no connection.
The spoils of battle, including the enslaved women and children of the tribe, were divided up among the Muslims that had participated in the siege and among the emigrees from Mecca (who had hitherto depended on the help of the Muslims native to Medina.
Circumstances in battle allowed the Romans to win, because it put a premium on the great advantage that the legion had over the phalanx; namely, that it was divided up into smaller fighting units that could adjust and move about the field much more freely than the fighters in the phalanx of the Macedonians.
Sixteen players progress to Saturday's knockout phase from the 64-strong field that was divided up into four-man groups for a round-robin format that began on Wednesday.
New software technologies are allowing almost any job to be divided up into discrete tasks that can be parceled out to workers when they're needed, with pay determined by demand for that particular job at that particular moment.
