Sentences with phrase «open standards such»

I am an active evangelist for open standards such as Epub 3, OPDS and Edupub, constantly recruiting new adopters.

It is important for libraries to embrace open standards such as EPUB 3, and more generally, for the field to be active in discussions regarding international technology standards, English said.

But unlike Stanza, for instance, it doesn't support open standards such as ePub.

«As a device - neutral platform, eBooks purchased through Kobo's eReading service can be read on various eReaders, which is a level of flexibility that benefits our authors as they seek to grow their audiences of readers,» went on Mr. Gutch, expounding the virtues the company's decision to embrace open standards such PDF and EPUB.

Steve Jobs has been maintaining a safe distance from the Flash technology on the ground that the Flash has been at the center of many an application crashes on Mac PCs and has also been championing the cause of open standards such as the HTML 5 and H. 264.

Not exact matches

On the corporate side, Facebook, which is not known for being an open platform, has developed such a reputation for privacy violations that the launch of its Messenger app was met with a huge wave of revulsion, even though the permissions being requested were really pretty standard.

Fadell, whose vision of the smart home was all about how intuitive such automation should be, doesn't seem to have accepted the fact that any kind of intuitive home would require open standards or sharing data among participants.

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As such, support for open source standards like STIX and TAXII need to sit at the core of the fight for true threat intelligence.

Also, I am not surprised; I guess because CNN has such poor standards, that they just let you go on and on with irrelevant points that completely contradict your own opening statement.

So Stenson, with the first major win of his career at age 40, did not set any age records the way he set scoring marks such as his 20 - under, which is now the Open standard by one stroke over Tiger Woods» 19 - under at St. Andrews in 2000.

To most drivers with a backgroundin open - wheel racing — such as Montoya, who won the Indy 500 with Ganassi in2000 — F / 1 is the gold standard of motor sports.

In addition to providing standard features such as opening lines, current lines, team match ups, weather and injury reports; Sports Insights is able to shows the public, through an exclusive agreement with Oasis Casino, how an individual game is being bet.

Right now there are some early enrollment specials, such as half off the first month's membership and unlimited open play sessions for a year, instead of the standard five per month.

Have a standard reply for when an issue can not be debated, such as, «This is not open for discussion.»

@Barmar the weasel word opens up the possibility of a reasonable person standard, meaning that jurors wouldn't have to determine whether they actually think the accused had such an intention, but only whether a «reasonable person» might make such a determination.

Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Twigg added such schools opened in England would be brought into line with the teaching standards of conventional education.

A cost - effective solution for all standard behavioral tests such as the Morris water maze and open field testing.

Various on - line dating sites claim that their methods for pairing individuals produce more frequent, higher quality, or longer lasting marriages, but the evidence underlying the claims to date has not met conventional standards of scientific evidence including: (i) sufficient methodological details to permit independent replication; (ii) open and shared data to permit a verification of analyses; (iii) the presentation of evidence through peer - reviewed journals rather than through Internet postings and blogs; (iv) data collection free of artifacts, such as expectancy effects, placebo effects, and confirmatory biases by investigators; and (v) randomized clinical trials (3, 9).

Emmanuelle Bercot's Standing Tall was a fairly well - executed account of a troubled youth's journey through France's judicial and social - services system and as such was hardly standard opening - gala fare, but in the end it did provide an improbably feel - good, literally paternalistic resolution.

«New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices»: Steve Jobs has foreseen it and we can not stop wondering whether he will be proven right at the end of the day.

«I submit to you that in a system of education that serves such a highly diverse and transitory culture,... shared standards aren't simply an option, but a mandatory conversation,» the Council of Chief State School Officers» executive director, Gene Wilhoit, said in a speech at the conference's opening session.

The development of academic standards, an important step toward raising student achievement, could open up states to lawsuits from groups of students struggling to meet the standards or from districts with large numbers of such students.

The Finnish «description of good performance at the end of second grade» (there are no kindergarten or first - grade standards) can best be described as topical, open - ended and descriptive, thus allowing teachers to differentiate while working with tasks such as geometry or measurement.

Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Twigg added such schools opened in England would be brought into line with the teaching standards of conventional education.

Charter school researcher Alison Consoletti (2011) reports that 1,036 charter schools (15 percent of the total number opened since the first school in 1992) have been closed for cause, including 42 percent for financial deficiencies often related to low student enrollment, 24 percent for mismanagement such as administrators» misuse of funds, and 19 percent for failure to meet student academic performance standards.

The inventory of these open resources is exploding, and advocates such as the OER Commons and Achieve are providing districts and teachers with tools for determining the degree of standards alignment of these materials.

But while I think an argument could be made for such a system (so long as it included the other caveats in my previous comment about educational standards, religious and other bias, and open enrollment), it still wouldn't be charter schools.

Thanks to extensive aerodynamic improvements (such as air inlet openings in front, modified door mirror caps, new wheel spoiler), tyres optimised for low rolling resistance and standard 8 - speed automatic gearbox optimised for low friction, Volkswagen was able to improve the fuel efficiency of the Touareg by up to six per cent (V6 TDI with 150 kW).

Thus, the ILX opens at $ 27,990 and furnishes standard equipment such as an eight - speed dual - clutch transmission, heated front sport seats with leatherette trim, an eight - way power - adjustable driver's seat, GPS - linked Dual - zone automatic climate control, a multi-view rear camera, and LED daytime running lights.

Standard equipment designed to meet the challenges of everyday life, such as the 40:20:40 split / folding rear seat bench, the automatic tailgate with separate rear window opening, the stainless steel protective strip on the comfortably low loading sill (62 centimetres from the ground), the separate partition net and a luggage compartment cover that stows away neatly into an underfloor compartment highlight the ability of the new BMW 3 Series Touring to adapt as required to the situation at hand.

This includes program areas such as: highway - rail grade crossing safety, pedestrian / bicycle safety, run - off - the - road crashes and guardrail safety, roadway hazard elimination, work zone safety, speed management, aggressive driving and red light running prevention, minimum drinking age, seat belt usage, drunk driving and standard blood alcohol levels enforcement, repeat offenders» penalties, open containers laws, and drug offender's license suspension.

For those of you who don't know, the IDPF ePub format is an open standard eBook format that is fast being adopted by many big name publishers including Penguin UK and O'Reilly as well as projects such as Feedbooks.com.

IDPF is responsible for EPUB, the open standard digital publication format based on XML and Web technology, and organizes industry events such as Digital Book 2011 at BookExpo.

Finally, consider the statement, «The trouble with being too open - minded is that your brains may fall out:» Such a proposition, startling and incongruous as it may seem, fits this assignment; it implies a causal relationship as part of an argument against the generally accepted positive standard of open - mindedness and tolerance.

This is another point to the open - web team of Berners - Lee and Co because — unlike the Kindle, which keeps its books prisoner behind a proprietary Amazonian fence — Kobo employs the open Electronic Book Publication Standard (EPUB) used on other readers, such as the Barnes & Noble Nook and Sony's Reader.

This is not to say that open standards, such as EPUB, are pointless gestures.

In February 2013 the W3C — the web standards organization — held a two - day summit in New York in concert with the Book Industry Study Group and the International Digital Publishing Forum entitled «Ebooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards,» intended to discuss how open web standards such as HTML5, CSS3, SVG, XML, and RDF could be further integrated into ebook production.

which is not quite true... both are markup languages, but ePub is a much more modern filetype, and is a combination of open standards (XHMTL for content, XML for structured metadata and such).

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Please keep in mind when judging this breed, that color patterns occurring in breeds outside the Sporting group, such as brindle or sable, etc., are not described in the English Cocker Spaniel Breed Standard as they are neither parti - color (ticked, roaned, or open marked, with or without tan points) nor solid color (with or without tan points).

Villa Danny services and facilities includes: â $ cents A full compliment of staff (1 cook, 3 butlers / maids, 1 gardener / housekeeper, 1 driver) plus 24 hour security â $ cents American breakfasts are included, and the cook will shop for guests at local market rates and prepare other required meals â $ cents Car and driver available for rental â $ cents Fresh daily fruit and flowers â $ cents Garden candlelit dinner service â $ cents Air conditioning in the main lounge area and all 4 bedrooms â $ cents Open living area / balcony with impressive sea views â $ cents Quality Balinese decorations, such as intricately carved wooded swing doors throughout â $ cents Western standard kitchen â $ cents Baby sitting service can be arranged â $ cents A full range of cultural, shopping, sporting and recreational tours (pick up from your door) can be arranged â $ cents IDD telephones, lap top hook up and fast Internet connection available â $ cents Marble floors throughout.

«While we're not driven by such honors, we're grateful for them because they remind us that we're upholding the high standards we set from the day we opened.

The villas at The Decks Bali are of a very high standard, there is the choice of the one bedroom, two bedroom villa and four bedrooms villas, all of which are large and spacious and featuring all kinds of luxury facilities and grand features such as the large luxury beds, the stylish sitting and living areas, the open back wall that leads onto the pool area and private garden and the outdoor seating and relaxing arrangements are all of a very high standard.

Meritus Pelangi Beach Resort & Spa Langkawi sits along Jalan Pantai Tengah, spanning across 35acres and offering 51 exclusive single and double - storey timber chalets on stilts.The resort is designed to resemble a traditional Malay village and in keeping with this theme each chalet has an open - air veranda and sloping roof with exposed roof tiles and trusses, while the interior is decorated with sisal carpet panels and nyatoh flower motifs.There are nine room types available at this five - star beachfront property, with the smallest chalet (the Garden Terrace) sized at 46.5 sqm: in - room amenities include standard hotel offerings such as free coffee - and tea - making facilities, a colour TV with cable programming, hairdryer and more.

Search match mode provides a quick and efficient way of searching for the online lobby that best matches your preferred settings or you can alternatively utilise the create match mode to implement your preferences including the length of the game mode such as a Grand Prix, MXoN race or Championship with the additional options of the category of event comprising of MX1 and MX2 bikes; the physics from a free choice for each player to a set standard, semi pro or pro physics; the race length from 3, 5, 10, 15 or 20 laps and the number of races within a Championship from 3 to 18 races; the option of a qualifying session; track and weather selection policies for random selection or voting; the difficulty of A.I. controlled opponents or no A.I.; collisions; privacy settings for having an open or private lobby; and the inclusion of downloadable content tracks.

The only open world activities are stock standard challenges such as speed traps, jumps, and drift zones; and collection items such as smashable billboards and poker chips that pad your bank account.

There's a bog - standard, deliberately enigmatic bad guy dreaming of world annihilation, a ship to eventually enable traveling across vast seas, and an airship that opens up exploration even further but on whole, everything pivotal is such an overly familiar bowl of clichés that it's really hard to get genuinely excited about any of it.

You have the standard open - world game features such as creating a unique character (as you can see, mine is of the avian race), and you can join your friends online to share in the adventure and exploration.

Rauschenberg's exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery opened on May 14, 1951, and, as was standard for the time, remained on view for just three short weeks.36 The presentation consisted of thirteen easel - size oils in the smaller gallery while the larger main room featured works by Walter Tandy Murch, an artist known for his realistic depictions of mechanical objects and illustrations for such magazines as Forbes and Scientific American.