We performed a time series analysis, modelling a sequence of data points (dependent variable) measured at successive time instants, spaced at uniform time intervals.
Regardless of their influence, Yahoo!, AT&T and the other companies may have a difficult time overpowering AOL's dominance in the instant messaging space, even after the planned standards are in place.
Seeing it was one thing, but hearing it was another: in an instant the space reverberated with the restorative peal of bells.
For a wave moving across the surface of a sea, the equation relates how fast a tiny piece of water is physically deforming, at any particular instant, in space (on the left) and time (on the right).
There can be a deadening sameness to such projects: take a vacant shopfront, slap up a few MDF partitions, stencil a quirky logo on the front window and voilà, instant innovation space.
Spotting historical dislocations becomes one of the book's pleasures – it gives the feeling that, as a lizard from the far-future at one point observes, "all time was one instant, all space one point".
I'd call both instant office space and remote workers a win for the virtual startup.
Entanglement arises naturally when two particles are created at the same point and instant in space, for example.
[Openwave just] did a 3 million share, $100 million deal in instant messaging space because we viewed it as crucial to our business and so independent of the Wall Street view that it's not prudent to do acquisitions right now.
We are very concerned that a problem like that could easily develop in the instant messaging space," she says, defending AOL's pace in working toward a single standard.
