Sentences with phrase «than experiment with»

An overwhelming majority of schools and administrators indicate a desire to build digital libraries rather than experiment with book rental and subscription models, but the market is still in its early stages.

This tendency to play it safe may lead managers to favor surefire cost reductions over risky growth, for instance, or to milk an existing business rather than experiment with a new business model.

«Chronos is an Oculus Rift exclusive that depends more on solid, traditional gameplay than experimenting with virtual reality to put new twists on an action RPG.

«I believe that a precautionary approach — one that does not change the law is better than experimenting with bike safety.»

Not exact matches

Alibaba is already collecting and analyzing shopping data to experiment with new retail concepts far more advanced than those in the West.

As Mitra got similar results again and again (to date, Hole In The Wall experiments have been conducted in more than a hundred communities in India, Southeast Asia and Africa), he began to wonder about what else kids with digital resources could teach themselves.

So far, the experiment has paid off, as more than 1,000 startups have graduated from the program, with many remaining in Santiago and many more going on to raise additional capitalfor growth.

Rather than quitting, many jobs can be reverse engineered to be more fulfilling, and even if a more radical change of course is required, chances are good that process will start with small experiments rather than one momentous, weighty decision.

So he experimented with inserting a layer of vinyl coated with QuietGlue into the panels — but the product was still more than an inch thick.

«In four separate experiments, participants more accurately guessed the pictured emotion based on body language — alone or combined with facial expressions — than on facial context alone.»

Rather than try to replicate the methods of the bulky eating contest champions, Kobayashi experimented with several different methods.

It also falls in line with local barista wisdom: The experiment was prompted by an off - the - cuff conversation with a barista who claimed that coffee consumed from a white mug tastes more bitter than when drunk from a clear, glass mug.

This is more biohacker than what most people might want to experiment with, but the focus on quantitative results is important.

Over the years, my company has experimented with various office designs, some more successful than others.

While Fredette's job isn't always glamorous (it involves frequent meetings with the company's marketing and consumer research departments), more than 50 % of his time is spent in the kitchen, where he experiments with flavor pairings, makes ingredients, develops recipes, mixes test batches, and yes — eats a lot of ice cream.

Bushnell, wrote Kent, «made sure that the men around him agreed with his philosophy» and «held meetings in hot tubs, drank heavily, experimented with drugs... Sometimes Atari board meetings seemed more like fraternity parties than business meetings.»

And so, in 1917, while working in the Friends» Ambulance Unit on the Western Front, Richardson decided to experiment with the idea of making a numerical forecast - one based on scientific laws rather than past trends.

Kolondra also said Opera is not talking with its mobile - operator partners about instituting the feature in its (far more widely used) mobile versions — many operators are controversially experimenting with blocking ads at the network level rather than in the browser, partly as a way of getting publishers and ad networks to give them a slice of their revenue.

So they pulled out all the stops by experimenting with an in - store cafe, free Wi - Fi, monthly book swaps, a children's play area, entertainment, more than 200 in - store author readings a year and community forums on topics of interest to customers.

Charged with testing the technology in the real world is none other than an Alberta company, Western Hydrogen of Calgary, which will experiment with it in using crude from the oil patch.

In one experiment, researchers gave participants memorable trivia, such as «an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain,» then showed them computer folders with mundane names where the trivia was stored.

For more than decade, she's experimented with creating meat - free alternatives to the animal protein - heavy foods she grew up eating in Guam.

Now that sites such as Facebook and Twitter have made it easier than ever to tap one's entire social circle, companies like Roku are experimenting with new tools and incentives to get customers chatting about their products.

Although some experts claim that shorter landing pages work better than longer ones, you may need to experiment with your page length to find that sweet spot between too little and too much content.

For example, Stanford conducted an experiment with Ctrip, a Chinese travel website company, and found that employees who worked from home were 13 percent more productive than employees who worked in the office.

Not only did the Zero Lower Bound turn out to be not so debilitating as all that — rather than work their will via interest rates, central banks took to injecting money directly into the economy via large - scale asset purchases — but it does not even seem to be the lower bound: central banks, notably in Europe, have successfully experimented with negative interest rates.

«We have experimented with our operating model and have serviced more than 2,300 vehicles at doorstep over past six months.

The hope was that I could squeeze a slightly better return than I've seen with my more traditional P2P... Read More Update: Distressed P2P Investing Experiment

Founders Block» Blog Archive» A Weekend Experiment with The Lean Startup — Part 2: «We did more of a jumpstep than a pivot»

General Electric engineer James Wright experimented until he came up with a combination of boric acid and silicone oil that resulted in a goo 25 percent bouncier than real rubber.

The Labour leader stated the OBR forecast showed Mr Osborne's to eradicate the deficit fully was nothing much more than an extremist ideological experiment that would demolish community solutions, insisting that borrowing was the only liable way to fund roadways and property developing schemes with no hitting the NHS.

Starting out as a personal project rather than an intentional marketing effort, I spent the greater part of those 2 years experimenting with what to write and what audience OMG serves.

Another experiment demonstrated a more direct form of price discrimination: Computers with addresses in greater Boston were shown lower prices than those in more - remote parts of Massachusetts on identical goods.

With current social networks, users do not control their data and can have their accounts removed without reason — The blockchain is more than an uncensorable way to send money, it's an uncensorable way to store data — Memo is an experiment leveraging the blockchain's data storing capabilities.

The probability of a randomly selected mutation in a randomly selected gene having precisely that effect is quite low, so just as with the stones in the field, a positive finding is more likely than not to be spurious — unless the experiment is unbelievably successful at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Sacha Baron Cohen raised more than a few eyebrows (and lawsuits) with his comedy / social experiment, Borat.

Two of the most vaunted physics results of the past few years — the announced discovery of both cosmic inflation and gravitational waves at the BICEP2 experiment in Antarctica, and the supposed discovery of superluminal neutrinos at the Swiss - Italian border — have now been retracted, with far less fanfare than when they were first published.

On the whole, Israel has proven to be a failed experiment, a country of oppressed people who turned into the oppressors, actually becoming worse than the Nazis with their treatment of the Palestinians.

«What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this, what greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self - critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals?»

Its members are concerned more with maintaining it as it is than with risking experiment or modification.

But some at least have begun to experiment with the logic of complementarity rather than of opposition.

It is much easier to experiment with delivery of basic social services by mediating groups than to discern what might be done to promote the health of such groups, or of smaller, primary groups that compose the «fine texture» of society.

But Friedersdorf's thought experiment emphasizes how we come to disagree, rather than our grounds for disagreement with one another.

The freedom from the burden of absolute knowledge is the freedom to play with theological ideas, to experiment, to test, to listen to differences with interest rather than a sense of threat.

«Millennials, more than any generation in the U.S. to date, are demonstrating excitement when it comes to experimenting with wine,» says Stephanie Gallo, E. & J. Gallo Winery vice president of marketing.

I bought a new Instant Pot — the Instant Pot Ultra 60 — last week so I can try some fun experiments with an Instant Pot that's a little fancier than the Duo 60 I've been using (and loving) for the last 2 + years.

I've not experimented with the oats in any way other than to make deliciously chewy, hearty oatmeal!

While fermentation is not a new process, and producing sweeteners by feeding microbes is arguably more sustainable than growing acres of stevia plants just to extract components from their leaves, it is unclear how the market will respond to EverSweet, given that the reason food and beverage manufacturers started experimenting with stevia in the first place was precisely due to its «natural» credentials (it's from a leaf).

It's so much richer and creamier than store bought, but you can also experiment with fun new flavours!

I eat more oatmeal than my old horse but have also been experimenting with a good mixed grain / seed porridge combination these past few months.