The famous German industrial designer Dieter Rams once said «Good design makes a product
less useful.»
A patent is
less useful if you can't enforce it or have the money to see it through.
You might find in Google Analytics
less useful KPIs.
Another issue is extreme volatility, which also makes
them less useful as currencies, he said.
Images that have vague descriptions are
less useful for the viewer than those that spell out the specifics.
We find historical comparisons
less useful in a world of structurally lower interest rates — and believe it's important to rethink returns.
And whatever your answer is, taking this test should clarify both what your own views are, and perhaps why the term «CSR» is far
less useful than it is popular.
This challenges previous research that assumed lenient categories were
less useful than constraining ones and therefore temporary, showing that these fuzzier categories have staying power.
However, experience - based assessment (i.e., assessing what they will do based on what they did) is
less useful when candidates draw from a more shallow well of experiences.
The price to earnings ratio of a drug company is going to be
less useful than the price to cash flow ratio as a result of these accounting rules.
OYAIB is an OK rule, but it's
less useful today with the significant shift we're seeing in the bond market.
The many models out there are much
less useful.
One of the selling points for users of Bitcoin cryptocurrency is the anonymity that the digital currency provides but that anonymity is
less useful on Amazon's platforms thanks to the technology described by U.S. Patent No. 9947033, titled Streaming Data Marketplace.
Announced at Token Summit II in San Francisco, the news was revealed onstage by Hoffman, who indicated that it represents a response to ongoing congestion on the bitcoin network that he said has made
it less useful for payments.
It is
less useful for mere mortals.
5) The more lines drawn on a chart,
the less useful the chart becomes.
Karlo said this has led to bitcoin becoming «
less useful for payments», incurring significantly high fees, rising transaction confirmation times and increasing failure rates for transactions denominated in fiat currencies.
The spirit is in fact the only thing that matters; the particular actions of the body and forms of worship are only more or
less useful tools to discover the true life of the spirit, and once that is found they can — and should — be cast aside.
That not only destroys their purpose and makes denominational and ecumenical resources
less useful, it also prevents opportunities for interaction in marriages and families whose members represent different traditions and attend different churches.)
Some of the points raised by the numbered critique are excellent, but true the tone becomes
less useful and condescending with some of the points (and I love that Hayward raises the point that this is no doubt the way the author feels he has been treated).
We know that Aristotelian physics, though a perfect example of «common sense,» is actually less accurate (and much
less useful or powerful) than Newtonian physics.
God is becoming
less useful as an explanation for anything, it seems.
This morning CNN's expert panel appeared to be unanimous that an academic discussion of religion was
less useful than belief in something that resulted in being kind to our fellow man.
Oh, and saying that the passage has been often cited on these boards, doesn't make
it less useful...
While such a suggestion may have theoretical value, it does not help much practically, since the word «god» continues to be widely used and to serve as more or
less useful means of communicating religious ideas.
But they are likely to be far
less useful than serious study initiated and carried through by laymen themselves.
Through some sorts of dyes cloth is rendered
less useful.
My conclusion is that Hartshorne's notion of God as dipolar is much
less useful than he thinks.
The more accommodating it would be, the vaguer it would have to be, and
the less useful it could be to the proper needs of the particular physical prehension.
In obedience to the great law which sooner or later makes one the image of one's enemy, we have theologized our own economic system, transforming it into something likewise rigid and tendentious and therefore always
less useful to us.
Even if such concepts, applied to nature, are in this sense conventional, they are no
less useful.
It is fun thou to make him appear as he is... dumb as wood — but
less useful!
But over the intervening years I've found them to be less and
less useful.
Definitions are not true and false but more or
less useful.
I suggest that in working out these approaches to theology proper, Whiteheadian categories will prove hardly
less useful than in the formulation of a natural theology.
It is said that models, too, are neither true nor false, but only more or
less useful mental devices.
Curiously, I found
it less useful than the one put out by the «other» restaurant, in particular for the said corn bread (p. 96): however I did it, it never came close to the very tasty one they actually served.
You might assume — as many do — that denaturing somehow makes the amino acids
less useful to your body.
Does that, however, make brown rice protein powder inferior or
any less useful?
Those amino acids are, in fact, the entire reason for taking protein supplement and anything that makes
them less useful to your body essentially devalues the protein powder.
With countless of more or
less useful grilling accessories on display at about a hundred or so booths, we sniffed out the newest trends over here and picked up a whole bunch of BBQ related products for our shop.
Putting him wide lessens our vulnerability, but he's is MUCH
less useful out there, and as a result he (at least for me) un-selects himself.
I'm sure there are plenty of other players a lot
less useful to us.
Power rankings are often inaccurate — they place as much weight on games played early in the season or on mismatches (which are
less useful for analysis) as more recent games against equal opponents.
However, his intervention in our penalty area proved
less useful moments after Sterling's goal, the forward clumsily bringing down Munoz with a flailing leg as the full - back got into the box.
Maybe it's
less useful to consider them as akin to academic skills that can be taught and measured and incentivized in predictable ways and more useful to think of them as being like psychological conditions — the product of a complex matrix of personal and environmental factors.
We've found bulkhead seats to be
less useful as they're older — busy families with little babies tend to be there, and need the bulkhead more anyway for the bassinet.
The end of daylight saving time seems
less useful to many people.
Some bath seats may have a low weight limit that makes
them less useful for cleaning those adorable fat rolls on your chunky baby.
The lack of attention to the diversity and particularity of thinkers in the republican tradition impoverishes it and so makes
it less useful and attractive to us as a source from which we can draw contemporary political inspiration.