Compared to metals, composites have relatively poor bearing strength.

Compared to other metals, gold is malleable, ductile, rare and it is the only solid metallic element with a yellow color ; it is easily melted, fused and cast without the problems of oxides and gas that are problematic with bronzes, for example.

Compared to numismatic coins, bullion bars or bullion coins can typically be purchased and traded at lower margins and their trading prices are closer to the values of the contained precious metals.

Compared to other grains, amaranth is unusually rich in the essential amino acid lysine Common grains such as wheat and corn are comparatively rich in amino acids that amaranth lacks ; thus, amaranth and other grains can complement each other.

Compared to " regular " carbines / rifles ( such as those in. 223 and 7. 62x39mm ), pistol-caliber carbines may suffer from a shorter effective range, more pronounced trajectory, less power, and less effectiveness against body armor.

Compared with earlier weapons such as the Mitrailleuse, which required manual reloading, the Gatling gun was more reliable and easier to operate, and had a lower but continuous rate of fire.

Compared to other companies acquired by EA, such as Origin Systems and Westwood Studios, the absorption of Maxis took a slower pace, and the company staff was lost only gradually.

Compared to microeconomic uses of demand and supply, different ( and more controversial ) theoretical considerations apply to such macroeconomic counterparts as aggregate demand and aggregate supply.

Compared to rotating wings, due to their high exhaust velocity, jets are comparatively inefficient in hover, but jet engines are compact and this gives advantages when much higher top speeds are needed, such as for fighters.

Compared to pre-modern accounts of causality, laws of nature fill the role played by divine causality on the one hand, and accounts such as Plato's theory of forms on the other.

Note 1: Compared to tactical communications, long-haul communications are characterized by ( a ) higher levels of users, such as the National Command Authority, ( b ) more stringent performance requirements, such as higher quality circuits, ( c ) longer distances between users, including world wide distances, ( d ) higher traffic volumes and densities, ( e ) larger switches and trunk cross sections, and ( f ) fixed and recoverable assets.

Compared to their forebears, the " skeptical generation " was much more capricious, willing to embrace more extreme socialist ideology ( such as Maoism ), and public heroes ( such as Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara ), while living a looser and more promiscuous lifestyle.

Compared to paramagnetic and ferromagnetic substances, diamagnetic substances, such as carbon, copper, water, and plastic, are even more weakly repelled by a magnet.

Compared to other families of seabirds, there are no genera with many species ( such as the 47 Larus gulls ).

Compared to other dense subsets of the real line, such as the rational numbers, the dyadic rationals are in some sense a relatively " small " dense set, which is why they sometimes occur in proofs.

Compared with other rendering techniques such as ray tracing, rasterization is extremely fast.

Compared to old-line competitors such as Muzak, satellite radio's significantly lower price, commercial-free channel variety, and more reliable technology make it a very attractive option.

Compared to other techniques often used in its basic forms by shredders, such as alternate picking, few strokes are required in sweep picking.

Compared to other word processors of the day such as Micropro WordStar 3. 3, WordPerfect 4. 2, and Microsoft Word 2. 0, Symphony's word processing environment was simple, but effective and uncomplicated.

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 previous high-end 3D game accelerators, such as 3dfx Voodoo3 3500 and Nvidia RIVA TNT2 Ultra, GeForce provided up to a 50 % or greater improvement in frame rate in some game titles ( ones specifically written to take advantage of the hardware T & L ) when coupled with a very slow budget CPU.

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 botulinum or anthrax as biological weapons or chemical weapons, the quantity of ricin required to achieve LD < sub > 50 </ sub > over a large geographic area is significantly more than an agent such as anthrax ( tons of ricin vs. only kilogram quantities of anthrax ).

Compared with other governmental newspapers, such as The People's Daily or The PLA Daily, The People ’ s Political Consultative Daily is not as hard line, but rather smooth in terms of wording.

" Compared to other eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, whereby people " focus on quantity of food ".

Compared to marble sculpture and other stonework the finished product is far lighter and may be further glazed to produce objects with color or durable simulations of metal patina.

Compared to a federation, a confederation's singular weakness is that it lacks judicial power.

Compared to QuickBASIC, QBasic is limited to an interpreter only, lacks a few functions, can only handle programs of a limited size, and lacks support for separate program modules.

Compared with Grote's history it lacks enthusiasm for a definite political ideal and is written entirely from the standpoint of a scholar.

The adult Blue-winged Kookaburra measures around 38 to 42 cm ( 15-17 in ) in length and weighs 260 to 330 g. Compared to the related Laughing Kookaburra, it is smaller, lacks a dark mask, has more blue in the wing, and striking white eye.

Compared to books of the same time period, it lacks the bucolic, platonic, and contemplative love commonly portrayed in the chivalric heroes.

Compared to Syrah, the wine is noticeably more dark and purplish in color, and typically rounder and fuller in the mouth, and offers a brightness that Syrah lacks.

Compared to the published source books for the Dungeons and Dragons game, the SRD provides the same basic rules but lacks " flavour " elements.

Compared with most of the other islands in the Izu archipelago, Kōzu-shima is relatively flat, with small eroded hills, and lacks the high coastal cliffs found on the other islands.

Compared to the previous DCOM implementation, the new one lacks several features like strong authentication ( the HTTPS implementation allows only for server authentication ), authorization, data integrity and encryption, which are built-in in the MS-RPC and DCOM layers used by the first Datasnap, and are not yet implemented in the new architecture.

Compared to most other manually operated firearm actions, it offers an excellent balance of strength ( allowing powerful chamberings ), ruggedness, reliability, and potential accuracy, all with light weight and low cost.

Compared to earthenware, stoneware has a higher density and a better mechanical strength.

Compared to the previous congress the numerical strength of the Fourth International had increased some tenfold.

Compared to GSM, PDC's weak broadcast strength allows small, portable phones with light batteries at the expense of substandard voice quality and problems maintaining the connection, particularly in enclosed spaces like elevators.

Compared to PET ( polyethylene terephthalate ), PBT has slightly lower strength and rigidity, slightly better impact resistance, and a slightly lower glass transition temperature.

Compared to earlier fighters, when the SPAD VII appeared in 1916 it seemed a heavy and unmanoeuvrable aircraft, but pilots soon learned to take advantage of its speed and strength.

Compared to Oshchepkov's judo-based system, then called " Freestyle Wrestling ", Spiridonov's style was softer and less strength dependent.

Compared to the water knot, it has the advantages of a higher strength

Compared to traditional manual strangulation, properly applied blood chokes require little physical strength, and can be applied successfully by a smaller person.

Compared to space elevators, no new high-tensile strength materials have to be developed, since the structure resists Earth's gravity by supporting its own weight with the kinetic energy of the moving loop, and not by tensile strength.