Compared to other " visions of the future ," Bel Geddes ' was rather achievable — the most advanced technology posited was the automated highway system, of which General Motors built a working prototype by 1960.

Compared to standard positional numeral systems, the unary system is inconvenient and is not used in practice for large calculations.

Compared to armor systems, they are very light weight, can be fitted to almost any vehicle with the internal space for the control system and could, in the future, be a near-perfect defense against any missiles.

Compared to the Macintosh, AES provided a rather spartan look and the system shipped with a single monospaced font.

Compared to the European standards, the CRC system was faster, bi-directional, and offered real graphics as opposed to simple character graphics.

Compared to birds in general there is a large number of species that do not engage in monogamy ( the typical breeding system of most birds ).

Compared to systems in German cities, the Helsinki system is a combination of S-Bahn and " Regionalverkehr " systems — which means it's not up to S-Bahn standard.

Compared to the earlier SCP protocol, which allows only file transfers, the SFTP protocol allows for a range of operations on remote files – it is more like a remote file system protocol.

Compared to the new Mercedes-Benz system, Citroën's was belt-driven, exactly like a conventional power steering pump ; failure of the Citroën system thus might result in loss of suspension.

Compared to other vertebrates, where a species usually has a single mating system, human display great variety.

Compared with the previous system where the workers were permanent residents of the town the chain system lead to increasing numbers of seasonal workers who lived in the town only during the killing season

Compared to the existing Pinetree radars, Lewis ' system would require much smaller sites and less power.

Compared to Space Telescopes like the 2. 4 m Hubble, the system still has some drawbacks including narrow field of view for crisp images ( typically 10 " to 20 "), airglow, and electromagnetic frequencies blocked by the atmosphere ( see Extinction ( astronomy )).

Compared to feudalism however, the system gave greater independence to the subordinate states ; it emphasised personal rather than official or territorial relationships ; and it was often non-exclusive.

Compared to OHV pushrod ( or I-Head in American parlance ) systems with the same number of valves, the reciprocating components of the OHC system are fewer and have a lower overall mass.

Compared with Icon, many of the new features of Unicon are extensions to the I / O and system interface, to complement Icon's core control and data structures.

Compared to the current Necromunda, Confrontation had a more complex system for resolving combat, particularly firing — portions of which were similar in style to Laserburn, a miniatures game which had influenced Warhammer 40, 000.

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

Compared to other crimes, court sentences for insurance fraud can be lenient, so scammers may try to take advantage of the system.

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.

Compared to a knockout tournament the Swiss system has the inherent advantage of not eliminating anyone.

Compared to the SC's standard high-output, 180-horsepower LGO Quad 4, the W41 version of the LGO Quad 4 was fitted with different camshafts, a low restriction exhaust system with dual mufflers and a special engine computer calibration for the ignition and fuel systems that also raised the engine's redline to 7200 rpm.

Reduction modulo p ( which is needed for addition and multiplication ) can be executed much faster if the prime p is a pseudo-Mersenne prime that is, for example, or Compared to Barrett reduction there can be an order of magnitude speedup.

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 with many of cricket's greatest players, most of whom were specialists, Botham's averages seem fairly ordinary but this overlooks Botham's all-rounder status, which is rarely achieved at world-class level.

Compared to the Barents Sea, which receives relatively warm currents from the Atlantic, the Kara Sea is much colder, remaining frozen for over nine months a year.

Compared to RT-PCR, northern blotting has a low sensitivity, but it also has a high specificity which is important to reduce false positive results.

Compared to P. longiceps, which was a very common species, Nyctosaurus was rare, making up only 3 % of pterosaur fossils from the formation.

The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca ( CRIC ) issued a statement concerning the release of two hostages taken by FARC in 2011: " Compared to past statements made by the national government, it is important to reiterate that the presence of armed groups in our territories is a fact that has been imposed by force of arms, against which our communities and their leaders have remained in peaceful resistance.

Compared to patents, the advantages of trade secrets are that a trade secret is not limited in time ( it " continues indefinitely as long as the secret is not revealed to the public ", whereas a patent is only in force for a specified time, after which others may freely copy the invention ), a trade secret does not imply any registration costs, has an immediate effect, does not require compliance with any formalities, and does not imply any disclosure of the invention to the public.

Compared to other books of the time, they treated the subject more in the way in which it was thought about by physicists.

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 to other parts of Latin America, slavery played a much lesser role in the development of the Argentine economy, mostly because of the absence of gold mines and sugar plantations, which would have demanded huge numbers of slave workers.

Compared to touch-sensitive touchscreens, a graphics tablet generally offers much higher precision, the ability to track an object which is not touching the tablet, and can gather much more information about the stylus, but is typically more expensive, and can only be used with the special stylus or other accessories.

Compared to S. officinale, S. × uplandicum is generally more bristly and has flowers which tend to be more blue or violet.

Compared with Anomalocaris species, Peytoia species lacked tail structures and had a considerably larger head with the eyes placed behind instead of in front of the mouth, which would have been disadvantagous for active hunting.

Compared to the 2000 Census, the town experienced over a 10 % decrease in the proportion of African Americans ( which was nearly a third of the population in 2000 ), while the Asian population more than quadruped as a proportion of the population, and the Hispanic population tripled as a share of population.

Compared to many other countries, penalties for drunk driving in the United States are light, unless alcohol is involved in an incident causing injury or death of others, in which case they are very heavy compared to other nations.

Compared to link-state protocols, which require a router to inform all the nodes in a network of topology changes, distance-vector routing protocols have less computational complexity and message overhead.

Compared to many advertising-funded Independent Local Radio ( ILR ) stations, which often broadcast contemporary popular music, BBC nations ' radio stations offer a more " serious " alternative.

Compared to other seed oils which lack the hydroxyl group, castor oil commands a higher price.

Compared to pure research, which is largely academic in origin, applied research is usually carried out in the pharmaceutical industry, or by universities in commercial partnerships.

Compared to placebo ( which also is associated with symptom improvement ), they have a number needed to treat ( NNT ) of eight ( 8 ).

Compared to the inner membranes of mitochondria, which have a significantly higher membrane potential due to charge separation, thylakoid membranes lack a charge gradient.

It has been proposed that human genes " evolved with the expectation of requiring a certain threshold of physical activity " and that sedentary lifestyle results in abnormal gene expression .< ref name =" Cordain1998 "> Compared to ancestral humans, modern humans often have substantially less lean muscle, which is a risk factor for insulin resistance .< ref > Human metabolic processes were evolved in the presence of physical activity-rest cycles, which regularly depleted skeletal muscles of their glycogen stores .< ref > S. Boyd Eaton estimated that ancestral humans spent one-third of their caloric intake on physical activity ( 1000 kcal / day out of the total caloric intake of 3000 kcal / day ), and that the paleolithic lifestyle was well approximated by the WHO recommendation of the physical activity level of 1. 75, or 60 minutes / day of moderate-intensity exercise.