Sentences with phrase «less useful»

That makes the oxygen isotopes less useful in those locations.

They clearly don't know if the source of «attack» Came from inside or out — and their «screening» was weird But they planned here for diligence practice did lack The result is less useful than it first appeared

Instead, EPA is being used by the Obama Administration to coerce states and utilities to adopt higher cost, less useful, and less reliable «renewable» power sources.

A doctor, for instance, may know that the competent answer to the question of «how much longer do I have» could be less useful to his client than a warm but less competent non-answer.

They are more or less useful depending on your purpose»

There are neither perfect nor wrong.They are more or less useful depending on your purpose

I think left / right is becoming less useful as a label.

For these areas that have experienced more degradation and are more vulnerable to climate change, the researchers suggest that «attempting historical restoration may be less useful because the future climate is expected to be very different than the past.»

Spencer has shown, and this part is not controversial, that the presence of any radiative forcing decorrelates the flux response to temperature; more specifically any radiative forcing would make Dessler's 2010 zero - lag flux - temperature regression less useful than a bag of horse manure.

An energy storage system that can provide peak power for only a few seconds is less useful than one that can provide peak power for a few minutes which is less useful than one that can provide peak power for a few hours which is less usefull than one that can provide peak power for a few days.

The optimal solution from a free - market perspective is to either privatize the resource (practical in the case of a field or a forest, less so as regards the oceans or the atmosphere) or mimic «ownership» by imposing a cost (like a rent) on those whose use damages the resource or make it less useful to others.

This section contains a good chronology of international efforts (which may be too detailed for younger readers) but is already out of date (written before the 2009 Copenhagen summit) and therefore may become less useful with time.

A common criticism of calculations of fiscal imbalances in perpetuity is that high uncertainty associated with very long - term projections renders such calculations less useful.

I consider it less useful to look at mixed ocean and land signals.

It's obvious that the more successful a site is in regularly attracting large numbers of commenters then the less useful they are.

These approaches have coarse resolution which is less useful for planning on the regional or local level.

FFT's are useful to more precisely measure certain types of cyclical signal characteristics of signals you know are already there, less useful for finding them.

That hasn't worked so far, and if anything that will probably become less useful as things (by things I mostly mean the oceans) get further and further out of thermodynamic equilibrium.

As intriguing a concept as it is, a «tipping point» is less useful if poorly defined quantitatively or largely unknown, as apparently is the case with two key examples that you cite: thermohaline circulation and substantial melting of ice sheets leading to «dangerous» sea level rise.

Debating someone who will not read and can not count is less useful than debating the inverse square law with a cat.

Wouldn't increased weather activity suppress surface temperatures, making temperature a less useful measure of total change?

As Isaac says, global mean precipitation is a less useful summary statistic than global mean temperature, if you are interested in what life will be like in a doubled CO2 world.

Other methods are more tolerant of ignorance, but the results tend to be less useful (too much area under the curve).

Even on a military base, the extra effort needed to protect the reactor may well make it less useful than, say, a diesel generator.

Revkin When you have endpoints that you don't know how to reach, chanting numbers like [four degrees, or] two degrees, or 350, or 80 by 2050, is less useful than saying, what are the traits in societies and individuals that I can work on that give us the best chance of bending curves in directions that are «good»?

Simply defining them away as «unscientific» doesn't make them any less useful.

Expressing climate change in terms of sigmas, and particularly exceedance of three sigmas, is less useful than other approaches, and potentially highly deceptive.

That kind of approach tends to give large Regions of Probable Equivalence (ROPEs) which, of course, are less useful that otherwise.

The counter resets back to 0 after each use, and while these skills are initially powerful, they become less useful when you eventually get stronger skills at your disposal.

Some are more useful than others, the «Protoplasmic Blunderbus» through to the less useful «Ion Pitchfork».

Currently it's less useful than even what a 7 year old Samsung TV offers.

The PS4 camera is even less useful, unless you have children at home that want to kick those little robots around.

Upgrade it again to The Pixelator and it becomes less useful.

This meant that if my favorite character died but I was still able to complete the objectives, they would fall behind my other teammates in terms of leveling up, making them less useful in combat.

More difficult means more ghosts, more difficult types of ghosts and less useful items, like in Dark Moon.

You can use a single Joycon but we have been told that would be less useful than using the motion controls.

That's less useful for the players, especially in today's world of social network and mass friend adding.

In this form it's sadly even less useful since it's only capable of driving on the surface of water.

ome of the purchasable upgrades in the game are less useful than others.

To make it less useful, the laptop does not have a battery and requires mains power supply.

Defending is difficult, making shields less useful.

Above: The Boomerang Flower / Suit is a nice power when you have it, but a bit limited and less useful in platforming heavy stages.

Not only is low rank armor going to get replaced, it's objectively less useful than their high rank counterparts.

What doesn't is that the game still insists on locking off weapon attachments until you've earned a certain amount of kills with said weapon, a really pointless decision that just means the shiny new gun you spent cash on feels far less useful than other items in your armory for a little while.

Your magic is so much less useful and powerful as your gun is due to how slow and clumsy it is, and even when you get the hang of quickly flicking to the spell you need the results tend to anti-climatic.

The stronger weapons have the orbs arranged in a (generally) less useful defensive way.

Should you ever run out of tokens your character has gone insane and their card must be flipped over to reveal the black and white reverse side, which degrades their abilities, making them less useful, except in the case of the Journalist whose insane power to snag a clue card from the discard pile seems oddly powerful.

Heavily fatigued characters receive hefty penalties to their stats making them far less useful in a fight, and they can only regain strength by either stopping at an inn or setting up camp.

The UNSC get the less useful titanium armor, which can get rendered useless if the enemy manages to pierce the first layer.

Additionally, even if your goal happens to be short flights on American Airlines within the U.S., AA has sharply reduced their saver award space (which is the space open to partners such as British Airways) so Avios are less useful for those awards.