Since 9th Style, the game has featured integration with Konami's e-Amusement platform, which uses a card inserted at the beginning of the game to save stats, scores, allow customization, and track scores in comparison to previous plays and against others over the internet.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

However, an initial perusal and comparison of some of the famous passages with the same parts of other versions seems to speak well of the efforts of the British Biblical scholars.

A survey of practices and/or policies in other states concerning assignment and use of state automobiles reveals several points for comparison with Rhode Island's practices.

Look at the physical features of the land to determine how desirable it is for use, what can be done to correct the faults, and what it will cost to make the area meet your needs in comparison to other sites.

Two of the fluids showed a high-positive normal pressure when undergoing shear, and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in comparison with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two.

Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.

However, this theory is undermined by the disproportional fear of spiders in comparison to other, potentially dangerous creatures that were present during Homo sapiens environment of evolutionary adaptiveness.

By comparison Whorf's other work in linguistics, the development of such concepts as the allophone and the cryptotype, and the formulation of " Whorf's law " in Uto-Aztecan historical linguistics, have met with broad acceptance.

From a philosophical point of view, what makes the brain special in comparison to other organs is that it forms the physical structure that generates the mind.

GM maize-fed rats were compared first to their respective isogenic or parental non-GM equivalent control groups, followed by comparison to six reference groups, which had consumed various other non-GM maize varieties.

The blue whale has a long tapering body that appears stretched in comparison with the stockier build of other whales.

For the Bandanese, on the other hand, although they welcomed another competitor purchaser for their spices, the items of trade offered by the Dutch — heavy woollens, and damasks, unwanted manufactured goods, for example — were usually unsuitable in comparison to traditional trade products.

The President of Costa Rica has limited powers, particularly in comparison to other Latin American Presidents.

By comparison, estimates of the population density per square kilometer of the Indian Ocean's other island microstates ranged from 241 ( Seychelles ) to 690 ( Maldives ) in 1993.

CRTs, despite recent advances, have remained relatively heavy and bulky and take up a lot of space in comparison to other display technologies.

For this reason, the history of Cairo during Ottoman times is often described as inconsequential, especially in comparison to other time periods.

* Visualisation of human chromosomes and comparison to other species

Studies suggest that knowledge of its existence and anatomy is scant in comparison to that of other sexual organs, and that more education about it could help alleviate social stigmas associated with the female body and female sexual pleasure ; for example, that the clitoris – and the vulva in general – are visually unappealing ; that female masturbation is taboo ; or that women's orgasms are something that " men are expected to master and control ".

No one can make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

In many collation algorithms, the comparison is based not on the numerical codes of the characters, but with reference to the collating sequence – a sequence in which the characters are assumed to come for the purpose of collation – as well as other ordering rules appropriate to the given application.

A comparison between the methods employed in the USA and other nations discloses some similarities in emphasis, but also other nuances in emphasis.

Third, the information is useless to other individuals if it is not in a form that allows for meaningful comparisons of value ( i. e. money prices as a common basis for comparison ).

His does not produce norms from aborted specimens, but rather visualizes the embryos in order to make them comparable and specifically subjects his embryo specimens to criticism and comparison with other cases.

By 1994, arcade games in the United States were generating revenues of $ 7 billion in quarters ( equivalent to $ 11 billion in 2011 ), in comparison to home console game sales of $ 6 billion, with many of the best-selling home video games in the early 1990s often being arcade ports.

In comparison, the best-selling arcade games of the golden age, Space Invaders and Pac-Man, had each sold over 360, 000 and 400, 000 cabinets, respectively, with each machine costing between $ 2000 and $ 3000 ( specifically $ 2400 in Pac-Man's case ).

The Columbus location was primarily the Grand Prix track, and had a relatively small arcade in comparison to other locations.

A 2010 International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) study qualified as " delayed and weak " the economic recovery of Venezuela in comparison with other countries of the region that had emerged from the world economic crisis " comparatively well " and were now recovering to a " strong rhythm ".

In comparison with hymns, which are generally of a statelier measure, the gospel song is expected to have a refrain and often a more syncopated rhythm.

The parallel rhythm and grammar of these lines highlights the comparison Donne sets up between what God does to him " as yet " (" knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend "), and what he asks God to do (" break, blow, burn and make me new ").

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

Some live action role-playing games use rock-paper-scissors or comparison of attributes to resolve conflicts symbolically, while other LARPs use physical combat with simulated arms such as airsoft guns or foam weapons.

As such, boxing games and wrestling games are often described as distinct genres, without comparison to fighting games.

However, on the West Coast ( and all of the Mountain time zone ), because the actual end of the live games is much earlier in the afternoon in comparison to the Eastern and Central time zones, 60 Minutes is always able to start at its normal start time of 7 pm Pacific Time ( 6 pm Mountain Time ), leaving affiliates free to broadcast local news, the CBS Evening News, and other local or syndicated programming leading up to 60 Minutes.

By comparison, in the 188 games Carey played against all other opponents in the same period, he averaged 7 marks, 18 disposals and 3. 0 goals per game.

One could calculate relatively easily, from tables, how many games a player is expected to win based on a comparison of his rating to the ratings of his opponents.

Despite a lopsided comparison in terms of the two teams ' win-loss records, three of the four Pacers losses were close, losing games 1 – 3 by an average of just 5 points.

In comparison with many board games, Halma has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

This game has the following 2 downsides in comparison with the rest of the Darius games: The first one is that there are not power up bars.

Super Smash Bros. s play controls are greatly simplified in comparison to other fighting games.

The ECA was formed, in part, in response to the seemingly imbalanced representation of the games industry ( e. g., the ESA, IGDA and others ) in comparison to game consumers in the United States Congress.

By comparison, the 75 points scored by the Reds and Gunners in 21 games over two seasons only exceed by two the 73 points scored by the Chicago Bears in the 1940 NFL Championship Game and by three the 72 points scored by the Washington Redskins on November 27, 1966, the record for points scored by a team in a Regular Season game.

" His speed made him particularly adept in international competition, as games were played on a larger ice surface in comparison to the NHL.

These were possible before emulation on PCs became popular ( or even adequate enough to play games ) because the games were on floppy disks, and were therefore easier to distribute to the users, in comparison to ROM cartridges used by video game consoles ( the MSX also used cartridges, but methods were discovered to copy the content onto floppy disks and other media too ).

However, many of their games, despite wide critical acclaim, sold poorly in comparison to contemporary rivals.

These were described at the time as " innocent and lawful ", certainly in comparison with the rougher rural games.

The game was based heavily, and unofficially, on the Alien films, specificially Aliens, and also on the 8-bit-era games Laser Squad and Paradroid ( although the game bears some gameplay similarities with Gauntlet, with which it has been compared, as well an obvious comparison with Sega's Alien Syndrome ).

The games I wrote prior to that were primitive in comparison — sometimes hilariously, awfully so — but they abound with nostalgia and the charm of innocence.

Modern blockbuster games play it painfully safe by comparison.

He considers it to be his " vocation ", and contrasts it with designing and creating video games, which he calls his " wish " and finds to be very difficult to do in comparison to composition.