Her modish collaborators, including electro-duo Matmos and harpist Zeena Parkins, confect a world of crunches, crackles and celestial choirs, through which Björk flutters, unconstrained as ever by rhythm.
It introduced something new to the world of crunching, Black Sabbath-esque riffs when he wore a prom dress to MTV's "Headbangers Ball" — after all, he winningly explained, it was a ball.
Lazar went on to make some of his biggest and juiciest deals in the brave new world of austerity and number-crunching — selling Cher's book for an enormous sum, for example, and coming close to making six-million-dollar deals for Madonna and Barbra Streisand.
This extends the rapid development nature of the.NET environment to the world of large scale data crunching and enables.NET developers to easily leverage their skill set to write MapReduce functions.
From what we understand, part of it is down to another, more frustrating, but no less persistent trend in the world of tech — the Series A crunch.
Recognizing earlier than most that in a connected world, through the crunching of big data and constant optimization of its services, GE can move to providing solutions as opposed to products (e.g. selling energy savings vs. wind turbines).
"The basic assumption was that the tide would not go out," says John Lanchester, "and the thing that astonished the world of money and caused the credit crunch - in fact it was the credit crunch - was the fact that the tide went out everywhere simultaneously".
Still, Goldman Sachs — which has invested in D-Wave Systems — and CME Group, the largest futures exchange, are considering purchasing the $10 million quantum computers to get a leg up in the competitive world of Wall Street, where number-crunching computers are already a crucial to business, Bloomberg reports.
The modular development approach also chimes with Jacquey's desire to bring modern, enlightened working practices to the world of development – a world epitomised by "crunch" periods in the final stages of a game's creation when, so the cliche goes, developers work all hours, sleep under their desks and exist on a diet of pizza and Coke.
Others were hit much harder, falling off the list entirely, including Lehman Brothers chief Richard Fuld and Bear Stearns ex-chief James Cayne (he was sacked), both victims of the world's credit crunch, and Pulte Homes ' William Pulte, whose stock collapsed along with the housing market.
