Sentences with phrase «far vaster resources»
He had written a top chess program but IBM was on the verge of pouring its far vaster resources into Deep Blue.
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Buoyed by the success of Sunraycer, Brooks began to wonder in early 1988 if there wasn't some way to convince GM to apply a tiny fraction of its vast resources toward a far more ambitious project than anything AeroVironment had ever tackled: a production electric car.
In the four decades that Jonathan Kozol, now 70, has been writing books — 11 so far — his message has hardly wavered: minority children are unsuccessful because rich, white Americans have little interest in using their vast resources to help them.
Nick Moran of The Millions had interesting prospective, mentioning «The emissions and e-waste for e-Readers could be stretched even further if I went down the resource rabbit hole to factor in: electricity needed at the Amazon and Apple data centers; communication infrastructure needed to transmit digital files across vast distances; the incessant need to recharge or replace the batteries of eReaders; the resources needed to recycle a digital device (compared to how easy it is to pulp or recycle a book); the packaging and physical mailing of digital devices; the need to replace a device when it breaks (instead of replacing a book when it's lost); the fact that every reader of eBooks requires his or her own eReading device (whereas print books can be loaned out as needed from a library); the fact that most digital devices are manufactured abroad and therefore transported across oceans.
Preludes also pointed out that with such a vast team at work communication was downright terrible, saying, «The coordination of resources between all of these teams separated by thousands of miles and differing time zones was a damn joke, and at the same time studio resources were constantly stolen for work on Watchdogs and Far Cry 3»
Travel, alone or with friends, to far off planets and conquer their resources all while collecting a vast variety of equipment, available for IOS and Android.
A significant part of his oeuvre to date has led him to scrutinize the actual and dominant demands for technological advances, most of which depend on further depleting the Earth's natural resources and have vast implications for the future of our ecological systems.
The USA has vast commercially exploitable wind, solar and geothermal energy resources, far more than enough to generate all the electricity we need to sustain a comfortable, technologically advanced civilization.
The issue goes far beyond architecture and raises questions about exactly why vast resources are thrown at demolishing buildings simply because they are seen to belong to the unfashionable ideology of a previous era.»
It is, however, a fact that coal is at least on a par with the oil sands resources as far as detriment to the CO2 environment, and there is vast and growing rate of usage of this.
So far the vast majority of first world populations (whose lifestyles depend on the constant looting, plundering, and pillaging of resources from other countries) have shown little to no concern over the barbaric behavior of their «governments».
And, it underscores how important it is to conserve the vast peat land resources of the far north - instead of mindlessly squandering them with oil extracting enterprises.
Even accounting for the fact that the vast majority of the world's population consumes far, far less than this, natural resources and ecosystem services equal to 1.3 planets are consumed by humans.
Floating wind power is fast taking shape as a mainstream energy source, with analysts upgrading their expectations of market - size — though still far short of Statoil's forecasts — from early estimates of 3.5 GW by 2030 to around 5GW, led by the geographic fact that 60 - 80 % of world's offshore wind resource is in water too deep for bottom - fixed turbines, and the societal reality that ever - vaster populations are going to be inhabiting coastal mega-cities.
Higher priced properties located in overall areas of disparate housing prices are more difficult to sell for one very economically relevant reason... there are far fewer buyers out there with the resources to be able to afford said higher priced properties than there are for the average / median priced home that falls within the affordable price range of the vast majority of buyers... economics 101.