His is a success story for the streaming-music age, fuelled by listeners who have discovered his tracks and playlists through online music services: in December, Spotify announced that his tracks had been streamed a billion times, a milestone that he reached faster than any other artist.
By year-end, Microsoft had 5,000 apps in its store, a milestone reached three times as fast as Google's Android, says Al Hilwa, an IDC analyst.
In all, their wedding was postponed five times, because important milestones in their lives kept popping up and they kept encouraging one another to reach for their dreams.
"It is a milestone," Rabbi Metzger, now 43, said of the occasion, which occurs maybe three times in a lifetime.
Like the Google Lunar X Prize, the prizes would be awarded by milestones: (1) First milestone, three $2.5 million prizes for the first proof of concepts that (desk top?) propellantless acceleration is achievable, and repeated three times, each on different days.
Normally an album would go platinum via a combination of streamed songs and paid downloads – so the album wouldn't actually have to be streamed 1.5 billion times before reaching the milestone.
Plus, you can celebrate every time you reach a milestone (that's four times the cupcakes, happy hours, Anthropologie candles -- whatever your poison).
Another milestone will be the launch next month of the XO1's successor, the OLPC 1.5, with double the speed and four times more memory.
He scored four times in March 2013, subsequently taking his tally for the season to over 20 goals – the first time May had reached this milestone in his career.
To assess the relationship between disease progression and the phenotype at multiple sclerosis clinical onset, we separately examined relapsing onset and progressive onset multiple sclerosis with respect to the time to reach the two disability milestones (DSS 3 and DSS 6) from multiple sclerosis clinical onset (i.e. disease duration) or from birth (i.e. age).
