Compared to ethnography, the study of single groups through direct contact with the culture, ethnology takes the research that ethnographers have compiled and then compares and contrasts different cultures.

Compared with standard SNES games, the additional microprocessor allows higher clock speeds ; faster access to the random-access memory ( RAM ); greater memory mapping capabilities, data storage, and compression ; new direct memory access ( DMA ) modes, such as bitmap to bit plane transfer ; and built-in CIC lockout for piracy protection and regional marketing control.

Compared to the Torsen, the Haldex can direct torque more unequally to the front wheels ( from 100: 0 to 50: 50 front-to-rear bias ), thus providing a wider bias range than the 75: 25 to 25: 75 of the B5 Passat.

Compared to authoritarian systems of government which restrict access to the means of communication, the airwaves of the USA are relatively free from direct government censorship.

Compared to the newer concept of mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras this mirror / prism system is the characteristic difference providing direct, accurate optical preview with separate autofocus and exposure metering sensors.

The principal source for the story is Plutarch's " Life of Mark Antony " from Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579.

The source for the Roman history plays is Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579.

Compared to other similar protocols its distinguishing feature is that it is able to perform its function even from behind network address translation ( NAT ) devices such as home routers.

Compared to climate change for the past millennium, even the smallest exchange modeled would plunge the planet into temperatures colder than the Little Ice Age ( the period of history between approximately A. D. 1600 and A. D. 1850 ).

Compared to those conceived naturally, babies that resulted from simple IVF, or in vitro fertilization — mixing eggs and sperm in a lab dish — had no greater risk of birth defects once factors such as the mother's age and smoking were taken into account.

" Compared to his peers, Kaplicky was the avant-garde incarnate, relentlessly pursuing the new new thing, refusing to settle into some predictable, and comfortable, architectural niche.

Compared to previous mobilizations, ANG units and individuals were much better prepared to perform their missions upon entry into federal service.

Compared to similarly sized saturniids, sphingids eat soft young leaves of host plants with small toxic molecules, and chew and mash the food into very small bits.

Compared with the military success of his father's reign, Petar has been traditionally considered a weak ruler, who lost lands and prestige, allowed his military forces to decline while his country was ravaged by foreign invaders, and turned Bulgaria into a Byzantine satellite governed by Byzantine agents in the persons of his empress and her retinue.

Compared to rival automakers in Japan, and also Europe and North America, Kia's main competitive advantage was its lower-paid South Korean workforce — which translated into lower-priced cars.

Compared with the Eastern Gray Squirrel S. carolinensis or the Eastern Fox Squirrel ( which have been introduced into its native range ), these squirrels are shy, and will generally run up a tree and give a hoarse barking call when disturbed.

Compared with UHCI, it moves more intelligence into the controller, and thus is accordingly much more efficient ; this was part of the motivation for defining it.

Compared to the true cranes, genus Grus, which were always common in the Holarctic and adjacent regions, the present genus appears to have had a more Atlantic distribution, ranging into Europe and North America ; it is not known from the fossil record of Asia.

Compared to the equilibrated, geometric, and self-assured Florentine style, the Sienese style of painting edges into a more irrational and emotionally-unbalanced world.

Compared to his earlier work, the canvas is divided into a much larger number of squares.

Compared to the NHTSA test rig, which simulates the impact from the front end of a passenger car, the taller IIHS test rig simulates the impact of an sport utility vehicle or Pickup truck ( approximately a quarter of all new cars sold ) into the side of the vehicle being tested.

Compared to conventional buildings, earth houses fit perfectly into their surroundings.

Compared to regular ice cream, it can be kept at room temperature without melting and is more brittle and rigid but still soft when bitten into.

Compared to previous administrations, Napoleon III was far more sympathetic to the native Algerians.

Compared to large Sundanese Muslims, the numbers of christian Sundanese is scarce, today the christian in West Java are mostly Chinese Indonesian resided in West Java with only small numbers of native Sundanese.

Compared to modern machine guns, the Maxim was heavy, bulky, and awkward.

" Compared with the typical drab typewriters of the day, the Valentine was more of a design statement item than an office machine.

Compared to other machine guns, its rating of 26, 000 Mean Rounds Between Failure ( MRBF ) is quite high for its weight — in the 1970s when it was first adopted it achieved about 7, 000 MRBF.

Compared to steel, Monel is very difficult to machine as it work-hardens very quickly.

Compared to paper banknotes, banknotes made using BOPP are more durable, harder to tear, more resistant to folding, more resistant to soil, waterproof ( and washing machine proof ), easier to machine process, and are shreddable and recyclable at the end of their lives.

Compared to bulk vending machines, full line vending machines take a long time to service – as much as an hour for a soda machine that is low on inventory.

Compared with the British original, the hull was larger, the running gear was improved and the weapon mount was modified to take a Soviet-built 7. 62 mm DT machine gun.

Compared to earlier telegraph codes, the proposed Bell code and ASCII were both ordered for more convenient sorting ( i. e., alphabetization ) of lists and added features for devices other than teleprinters.

Compared to a C floating-point library, Horner's method sacrifices some accuracy, however it is nominally 13 times faster ( 16 times faster when the " canonical signed digit " ( CSD ) form is used ), and uses only 20 % of the code space.

Compared to voice, Morse code is less sensitive to poor signal conditions, yet still comprehensible to humans without a decoding device.

Compared to a 5-repetition code, the error correcting properties of this Hadamard code are much better, yet its rate is comparable.

Compared to traditional techniques of exchange between an object-oriented language and a relational database, ORM often reduces the amount of code that needs to be written.

Compared to the Java SE environment, several APIs are absent entirely, and some APIs are altered such that code requires explicit changes to support CLDC.

Compared to the dress code of many blue-collar and service workers, business casual dress is not a uniform.

Compared to the detailed sequential actions of the proairetic code, the hermeneutic code encompasses the entire narrative, or at least large parts of it.

Compared to Z, B is slightly more low-level and more focused on refinement to code rather than just formal specification — hence it is easier to correctly implement a specification written in B than one in Z.