As a seafaring nation, Britain depended on accurate navigation, and determining longitude on the open ocean depended on comparing local time to the time in a place where the longitude was known.
While the 2010 was bright and vivacious wine, the 2011 was a bit ponderous, lacking the charm of the previous vintage. (Mr. Mailvaganam was comparing the two at the time of my visit and offered me a taste.) We both agreed the 2010 was the much better wine.
In the mean time, comparing PCs and the PS4 is an exercise in futility, not only because nobody owns a PS4 yet but because their architecture is not the same and the way developers will program for each will be different.
By comparing the GPS and eLoran time signals with its internal clock, each probe can detect interference and determine whether it is natural or man-made.
Switching into a three-day format in 2010, and gobbling up a primetime position in the process, the popularity of the NFL draft has increased exponentially, comparing favorably with the vertical leap and 40-time of your average "Mike" linebacker.
Yet that study has come under fire from other economists, who argue that comparing different states over time shows that raising the minimum wage hurts job growth.
Although it now clearly looks like a bubble, at the time, there were many who justified the prices paid for tulips by comparing their relative value to other food and commodities such as wheat, rye, swine, and cheese.
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Comparing the coalition's performance to Fianna Fail's time in power, he said: "We knew that you couldn't just let the protagonists get on with it, the Irish government had a duty to lead".
Over the past few days, I've been comparing the stock and Signature versions, and testing how much time it takes to set them up, start them and restart them in daily use, resume them from sleep, and shut them down.
He took time out from electioneering to complete a doctoral thesis comparing the effects of development spending on rural and urban poverty.
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Comparing the grosses against those of other, similar pictures in the same time-span, the studio computers whirr all weekend to produce the best possible projection, come Monday morning, of the film's ultimate potential.
By comparing sales data to advertising spending over time, Nissan can plot a demand curve showing the points at which a campaign starts to gain and lose steam.
This becomes especially misleading when comparing the top income group to any lower income group, or to changes in their relative income shares over time, when those income shares are measured by average incomes rather than median incomes.
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