Benchmarks

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• Metaphor of metrics: thermometer or thermostat

  
  Law Department Management — Authority: 438
  The metaphorical difference between a thermometer, which gives you a figure but doesn’t tell you what to do about it, and a thermostat, which gives you a figure and then adjusts the heating or cooling appropriately, applies to benchmark figures....
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• Public disclosure of spending, firms, cases, etc: where’s the harm? Mostly internal knives!

  
  Law Department Management — Authority: 438
  Some general counsel hold their cards close to their vests; they hide their staff numbers, how much they spend on outside counsel, the litigation load they face, locations of lawyers, everything. Yet mighty United Technologies didn’t mind sharing detailed benchmark...
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• Ratio of US to non-US law firms, law firms per billion, and concentration at UTC

  
  Law Department Management — Authority: 438
  A chart in a presentation recently about the legal function at United Technologies gives the numbers of firms the manufacturing giant retains in the US and outside the US. If we take the most recent year’s total (418 firms in...
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• benchmark E7500

  
  The UNIX and Linux Forums — Authority: 170
  CPU/Speed: E7500 2.93Ghz Ram: 4Gb, 800MHz Motherboard Asus P5K-SE Disco MAxtor 300 Gb Load 1 user Kernel 2.6.30 benchmark precompilted Debian System: monos: GNU /Linux OS: GNU /Linux -- 2.6.30.8 -- #0 SMP Thu Dec 17 23:30:20 CET 2009 Machine: i686 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 ...
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• SPARKLE Computer Introduces GeForce GT240 And GT220 Graphics Cards!

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 140
  One of the biggest professional VGA card manufacturers and suppliers SPARKLE Computer has launched its latest SPARKLE GeForce GT240/GT220 low profile graphics cards. They are the world first and lowest profile graphic cards based on GeForce graphical chips. They are GT240 and GT220. The both of the SPARKLE GeForce ...
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• Ratios of three common types of civil litigation for a manufacturing – 30% each?

  
  Law Department Management — Authority: 438
  A fascinating conference presentation on outside counsel costs, by AGCl Chester Paul Beach at United Technologies, suggests a possible benchmark. The potential metric derives from a chart of Beach’s that shows the distribution of civil litigation involving UTC by seven...
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• Sustainable Sites gets coverage in Biocycle

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 130
  The Sustainable Sites Initiative launched the  Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks 2009 in November 2009 has received more recent press coverage from the December issue of Biocycle magazine . The article looks at the history of the Initiative and explores the Ecosystem as a Baseline . The article also looks ...
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• Benchmark: Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) vs. Firefox 3.7, 3.6, 3.5 vs. Chrome 4, 3, 2 vs. Opera 10.5, 10.1 vs. Safari 4

  
  Web Browsers News and Reviews — Authority: 429
  Yet again, it’s time to test latest web browser releases, including Opera 10.50. Tested browsers: Internet Explorer 8 Firefox 3.5.6 Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 Firefox 3.7 Pre-Alpha 1 Google Chrome 2.0.172.43 Google Chrome 3.0.197.11 Beta Google Chrome 4.0.266.0 Beta Opera 10.10 Opera 10.50 Pre-Alpha 1 Safari 4.0.4 ...
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• Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 benchmarked and shows multitouch on video

  
  SlashGear — Authority: 768
  Of all the Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 details still to come clear, its performance and the responsiveness of its multitouch display were top of the list.  UMPC Fever have delivered on both counts, putting the UH900 through its paces in CrystalMark 2004 together with sharing a video of the 5.6-inch touchscreen in ...
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• Intel’s new Pinetrail Atom platform processors tested and benchmarked

  
  Eee PC - Blog — Authority: 549
  Wondering whether it’s worth jumping on netbooks and nettops featuring Intel’s new Pinetrail Atom processors once they become available early next year? Two hardware sites have run down the numbers, comparing performance of the new Atom processors to the old ones, and are letting you, the reader decide for ...
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• Offices and countries of dispersed legal departments – UTC’s metrics

  
  Law Department Management — Authority: 438
  A wonderful picture of many of the lawyers in the legal department of United Technologies says above it: “248 lawyers – 21 countries.” That photo, in a presentation by Associate General Counsel Chester Paul Beach at a conference in early...
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• Intel Atom dual core D510 benchmarked on a no-name nettop

  
  Liliputing — Authority: 639
  PC Magazine Intel’s new Pine Trail chips aren’t designed to be significantly faster than the Atom Diamondville chips we’ve been using for the last 18 months. They’re designed to be more energy efficient. As such, Intel has chosen not to launch a dual core version for notebooks. But as with the early Atom ...
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• Hide N Seek sets different benchmarks -Purab Kohli

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Apoorva Lakhia’s “Hide N Seek’ though doesn’t have real big names to boast off, but, VJ and budding actor Purab Kohli says there is more to vouch for in the film than the big names, which today become the unique selling point for any film.Purab claims the film to be a refreshing treat and [...]
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• ATi Mobile HD 5650 DirectX 11 Gpu tested

  
  Tech Mania — Authority: 132
  Not much importance is given to the laptop gaming sector.The graphic cards embedded aren’t suitable to play high end games at max settings.Both ATi and Nvidia need to find a amicable solution regarding this to boost the laptop sales too.One of Fudzilla’s forum members managed to spot that Notebookjournal.de ...
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• Surge In Retail Start Ups Get Help

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 165
  Seattle, Washington (PRESS RELEASE – December 18, 2009) – www.RetailStartup.com is now available. One stop; everything that’s needed. Finally! 2009 may result in the highest number of store closures in history. There’s been a blood-bath of retail failures, bankruptcies and downsizing. But, you know what, ...
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• ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 benchmarks | towards the optimal laptop

  
  Computer and Technoloy News — Authority: 159
  I was not aware that any laptop sporting an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series was available, but I have found some benchmarks of the Mobility HD 5650 at. Read more from the original source: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 benchmarks | towards the optimal laptop
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• Digital Storm’s gaming rig shows that Core i5 can trump i7

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 162
  Since the dawn of computing, gamers on a budget have been flaunting their ability to best higher-spec’d systems courtesy of a little extra cooling and a lot of time fiddling with BIOS settings. So, no real surprise here that an Intel Core i5 processor can keep up with a Core i7 when properly configured. What is ...
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• The risk of misunderstanding conditional probabilities – an example from legal departments

  
  Law Department Management — Authority: 438
  Let’s suppose that five law departments lauded everywhere boast total legal spending in terms of revenue less than the median for their respective industries and each of them uses electronic billing software. In other words, 100 percent of those fiscal...
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• Metcalf’s Law and the increasing value of benchmark studies with more participants

  
  Law Department Management — Authority: 438
  The more members there are in a network, the greater its value. Think of Facebook and LinkedIn. This intuitive appreciation of why more participants in a benchmark study means more reliable and valued results was recognized and quantified by Robert...
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• Hp Probook 4310s Review

  
  InterWeb — Authority: 167
  The HP ProBook 4310s is a 13-inch budget valued business notebook. It has more or less the similar model as the ProBook 4510s and 4710s. Review Unit Configuration Display: 13.3-inch LED-backlit anti-glare HD display (1366 x 768) Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD Memory: 2GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM ...
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