Because of
the huge scale of the world's need for energy, solutions are not easy — they will take time, investment in R&D, and thoughtful public policies.
Not exact matches
Financially wrecked following the First
World War, Weimar Germany printed
huge volumes
of marks to cover its expenses, resulting in hyperinflation on a massive
scale.
«Today, we can see that some
of the biggest companies in America — some
of the most important companies in the
world — are doing that, at
huge scale.»
Given that operational costs
of Aramco are one
of the lowest in the
world, it is not impossible to see them reporting the bottom line or earnings on a
huge scale —
of $ 100 billion a year and above.»
The funding is
of course the best in the
world, the
scale of the whole scientific business is
huge.
This means that many official statistics do not account for a
huge amount
of the
world's fisheries catch, such as that by small -
scale and subsistence fisheries or fish thrown back as «discards» — species other than those being hunted.
«It shows on a grand
scale that the replacement
of foraging by farming has a
huge impact on who we are and what the
world was like,» says human behavioral ecologist Eric Smith
of the University
of Washington, Seattle.
The characters» actions seem realistic and believable in this
world and I loved how the filmmakers played with a sense
of scale, where even a flower is a
huge in their
world.
It feels constricted to the mobile
world, without the sense
of epic
scale you get zooming out on your
huge empires in the PC games.
While the open -
world idea first hinted at in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and then Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns
of the Patriots is finally realized, with the game
worlds boasting
huge scale but incredible detail, too.
The storytelling
world is tough, and the mainstream media almost only ever highlights two opposite ends
of the
scale: 1) How most people fail, and 2) The examples
of those who have made it
huge, who are —
of course — few and far between and a million - to - one shot.
Also, the unprecedented
scale of fiscal & monetary stimulus in the developed
world may ultimately have a
huge potential impact.
The size and
scale of the
world has never been so
huge and changes to the formula make this traditional franchise feel like a fresh experience.
While large -
scale single - player games like Skyrim and Fallout boast about their
huge game
worlds and dozens
of hours
of content, MMOs are sitting in the background like, «That's cute.»
Previous trailers for Xenoblade Chronicles X have already shown just how big the
world is, but clearly we don't know the exact
scale, the developers
of the game have said the
world is
huge with...
It's great to not have to ride your horse across
huge, empty areas just to get to where you're going, but fast traveling from the realm's shopkeeper to the dungeon you're currently fighting through and back again robs the
world of its sense
of scale.
We're excited by their vision for this new game: the survival genre is seeing a
huge amount
of attention and excitement, and we're excited to see what this talented team can do with the massive
scale, persistent
world and rich systems made possible by SpatialOS.»
Rather than spend years and a small fortune to make one
huge game to begin with (like many indie studios do), we've slowly been
scaling up the size & quality
of our games — first Breath
of Death VII (let's make an 8 - bit RPG), then Cthulhu Saves the
World (let's make an early 16 - bit RPG), then Precipice
of Darkness 3 (let's make a mid-gen 16 - bit RPG), and now with Precipice
of Darkness 4 (let's make a late - gen 16 - bit RPG).
Grand Theft Auto 5 will be a
huge open -
world game, and the game's environment is so impressive that it made legendary developer and Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima depressed over the
scale of the
world and the details within the imaginary Blaine County.
When it comes to large -
scale artistic interventions into the natural
world, the movement that usually leaps to mind is Land Art —
huge, muscular sculptures carved or pulled from the earth by heavy machinery at the command
of men like Robert Smithson and Walter De Maria, self - styled «gruff individualists» who claimed the studio and gallery were simply too small to contain their big ideas.
Influenced by the likes
of Louise Bourgeois's giant spider or the massive minimalist sculptures
of Richard Serra, the
huge installation was designed on a
scale that would make it worth taking to the galleries
of the
world, spreading the information that the Arabic
world does, indeed, have a contemporary art scene.
The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University
of Hawaii at Manoa, one
of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists
of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka
World's Fair, a new version
of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a
huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components
of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «
Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.
In much
of the 3rd
world, Andy's example
of girls gathering firewood and water is typically a situation where a culture that used to live somewhat comfortably and with stability, through a combination
of foraging, pastoralism, and small -
scale agriculture or horticulture, is now seriously out
of balance because unplanned modernization prompted
huge population increases at the same time that resources were taken away by competing cultures.
In view
of the monumental
scale of the
world's need for energy, solutions are not easy — they will require time,
huge investments, and thoughtful policies.
In the following Figure, from her entertaining TEDxManchester talk The fascinating physics
of everyday life, she shows how the physics
of the every day applies over a
huge range
of scales (in time and space); bracketed between the exotic
worlds of the extremely small (quantum mechanics) and extremely large (general relativity) which tend to dominate our cultural perceptions
of physics today.
As the
world economy heads towards the large -
scale adoption
of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) / drones for commercial purposes, the drone industry is grappling with
huge challenges.
Dragon Age: Inquisition places you in the heart
of a
huge, vibrant
world on a far greater
scale than its predecessors, and it does an excellent job
of making you feel in command.
Since our first arrival in the professional
world, we have a unique track record
of serving both small -
scale and
huge enterprises in the public domain.