Sentences with phrase «purpose device which»

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In his written judgement Ouseley concluded that, «A taximeter, for the purposes of Section 11 of the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998, is not a device which receives GPS signals in the course of a journey, and forwards GPS data to a server located outside of the vehicle, which calculates a fare that is partially or wholly determined by reference to distance travelled and time taken, and sends the fare information back to the device.»

Milk Bands incorporate many unique features such as a side indicator, which lets the mother know which breast should be used when starting a breast feeding session by simply flipping the Milk Band inside - out once during every nursing session, as well as a time tracking device which can be used for many different purposes including:

While our previous manuscript (Gilja et al., 2015) showed improved continuous control performance over earlier approaches, as the reviewer points out, the current study adds a parallel decoding method to enable discrete selection (the HMM), which is a critical step in developing point - and - click interfaces that would be suitable to control a general purpose computing device.

One in colour which can be used for presentation purposes by the teacher or on students devices such as notebook computers or iPads.

The production stage aids in the development of digital literacy skills — which includes knowledge, skills, and behaviors involving the effective use of digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop PCs for purposes of communication, expression, collaboration, and advocacy.

By having multiple devices available, users are challenged to determine which device best suits their learning purpose, and teachers are also challenged to rethink how they are using technology.

Despite 1:1 tablet rollouts, bring - your - own - device (BYOD) programs, and maker space initiatives we've all seen in the last few years, the nation's school systems still vary widely when it comes to which digital tools students have at hand, how often they have access to them, and for what purpose.

Brightspace is the mobile - first LMS that combines responsive design with purpose - built native apps to provide a great mobile experience to learners and instructors, regardless of which devices they use.

I really do prefer to have reading be a function of a device which I can do other things on, but none of the current of general - purpose gizmos are anywhere near the battery life of th

The purpose of a device which serves up content in color is, by definition, to look at pictures which, by equal definition, does NOT involve focus on a page because the eye is constantly moving.

The display has the same resolution as previously, and at 6 inches you get an 800x600 panel, which is big enough for the core purpose of this device, that of reading books.

It gives a lot more purpose to the whole note - taking aspect of ebooks when your able to easily access the notes outside of your device and book, which is surprisingly uncommon.

For purposes of this Final Judgment, the term E-book does not include (1) an audio book, even if delivered and stored digitally; (2) a standalone specialized software application or «app» sold through an «app store» rather than through an e-book store (e.g., through Apple's «App Store» rather than through its «iBookstore» or «iTunes») and not designed to be executed or read by or through a dedicated E-book reading device; or (3) a media file containing an electronically formatted book for which most of the value to consumers is derived from audio or video content contained in the file that is not included in the print version of the book.

The device comes with Wi - Fi capability, which makes downloading ebooks from the Internet right onto the e-reader a breeze for accomplishing its main purpose of reading.

Coming to the tablets themselves, both the Galapagos seems to be made more for e-book reading than anything else, which is in contrast to the iPad that it intends to rival and which is more of a general purpose mobile computing device.

But the 2009 release of the Kindle 2 made the device's keyboard more conventional, ditched the SD card slot (which was mostly there for the extraneous purpose of playing MP3s), and offered a slimmer, lighter footprint.

The context in which we received the device must be considered — it was given to thousands of developers for the purpose of pushing Honeycomb application development along.

An internet tablet, which this is more akin to, is much more practical and will have a wider reach that the single purpose devices.

With so much government attention and funding going towards creating the so - called 21st Century Learners and with the nearly 100 % widespread adoption of the Common Core in the US which requires focused technology instruction, high school students are now using those same devices for academic purposes in greater numbers than before.

There will be plenty to sort out in the realms of device and content pricing, features, definition of purpose, and openness to content, which are not -LSB-...]

In an interview at Consumer Reports» offices, Bezos also signaled that any such device, should it come, is more likely to supplement than to supplant the Kindle, which he calls Amazon's «purpose - built e-reading device.»

I am a Blackberry user and just purchased a 9900, which is a great device, especially for my purposes.

We've now gotten some additional clarification from trusted sources on what Google considers an «Android device» for the purposes of counting activations (which would presumably apply to every activation count Google has released in the past).

Kindle is a multi-functioning device, which not only opens the EBooks but also serves as a home for thousands of apps which are meant for different purposes.

The stylus transmits its movements to the tablet using ultrasonic sound, which the device picks up with five microphones it has dedicated for that purpose.

Mr. Bezos also said in the interview that if a full - fledged Kindle tablet were to arrive on digital shelves, it would most likely supplement the existing line of Kindle e-readers, which are intended as «purpose - built e-reading devices.»

Media tablets support multiple connectivity technologies and a broad range of applications, which differentiates them from single purpose — focused devices such as eReaders.

With this approach to powering on and off the PlayBook, the only purpose of the power button now is to fully Turn Off or Restart the device, which are the options presented when you hold down on the power button for 2 seconds, or to hard reboot the device (if it should ever freeze up on you - which hasn't happened yet) by holding down on it for ~ 10 seconds.

Interesting point in a story in today's NY Times about «purpose built devices» which seem to have the upper hand but become irrelevant much more quickly.

>> «purpose built devices» which seem to have the upper hand but become irrelevant much more quickly.

This is for dedicated eBook Readers, not for general purpose devices, which is in the more general category Hardware.

I think that for serious readers, there will always be a place for a purpose - built reading device, because I think you'll be able to build a device which is lighter, which matters a lot to people, has better readability if what you're doing is reading is text.

A device — half of the purpose of which is browse the web — can't render web pages clearly, and it barely gets noted in the review?

(c) Any device used to copy or reproduce documents and records shall be one which correctly and accurately reproduces the original document or record in all details and any disk or film used for this purpose shall be of durable material.

You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities: (i) copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Service in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated «scraping»; (ii) using any automated system, including without limitation «robots,» «spiders,» «offline readers,» etc., to access the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the Company servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional on - line web browser (except that Humble Bundle grants the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy materials from Humble Bundle for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials); (iii) transmitting spam, chain letters, or other unsolicited email; (iv) attempting to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Service; (v) taking any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole judgment an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (vi) uploading invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents through the Service; (vii) collecting or harvesting any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service; (viii) using the Service for any commercial solicitation purposes; (ix) impersonating another person or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity, conducting fraud, hiding or attempting to hide your identity; (x) interfering with the proper working of the Service; (xi) accessing any content on the Service through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Service; (xii) bypassing the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service, including without limitation features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Service or the content therein; (xiii) sell, assign, rent, lease, act as a service bureau, or grant rights in the Products, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other entity without the prior written consent of such Products» (defined below) licensors; (xiv) circumventing Service limitations on the number of Products you may purchase, including, without limitation, creating multiple accounts and purchasing a total number of Products through such multiple accounts which exceed the per - user limitations; or (xv) except as otherwise specifically set forth in a licensor's end user license agreement, as otherwise agreed upon by a licensor in writing or as otherwise allowed under applicable law, distributing, transmitting, copying (other than re-installing software or files previously purchased by you through the Service on computers, mobile or tablet devices owned by you, or creating backup copies of such software or files for your own personal use) or otherwise exploiting the Products (defined below) in any manner other than for your own private, non-commercial, personal use.

In 2003 when offered the opportunity of Tate Britain's Art Now space concurrent to Riley's retrospective (which took place in the adjacent galleries) I developed a work called Be angry but don't stop breathing; for all intents and purposes a group primal scream device.

Attached to the wall, hand - sanitiser dispensers of the type you find in hospitals reinforce the impression of arbitrary rules being enforced (speaking on the opening day, Sworn cites Eula Biss's On Immunity (2014), which suggests that these devices serve no purpose beyond reassurance).

What contemporary photography has amply discredited — and which, in fact, applies retroactively to the entire history of photography — is the narrow view that the camera is a recording device only, not a creative tool, and that its purpose is strictly representational.

In fact, the functional purpose of a jig for any craftsman is such that it operates most distinctly at the level of a translation device between the raw material and tool through which it is transformed.

As amended, OCSLA applies federal laws, including the Jones Act, to «the subsoil and seabed of the outer continental shelf and to all artificial islands, and all installations and other devices permanently or temporarily attached to the seabed, which may be erected thereon for the purpose of exploring for, developing, or producing resources therefrom.»

There are two models we are considering: the Green Slim Projector, which is available in anywhere from 2000 - 3000 lumens (more than adequate for Graham's purposes) and the XJ - M255 ($ 1400) which can link up to Android devices and is 3D ready.

«The term «restricted electronic waste» shall not apply to covered electronic equipment or parts which are tested prior to export, and are found to be functional for the purpose for which the equipment or parts were designed, or in the case of «multi-function devices,» fully functional for at least one of the primary purposes for which the equipment or parts were designed and appropriately packaged and labeled for shipment»

For the purposes of 417 PC, a firearm is defined as «any device designed to be used as a weapon, from which a projectile is discharged or expelled through a barrel by the force of an explosion or other form of combustion.»

Because of the concerns about the frequently tragic results of impaired driving shared throughout Canadian society, Parliament has decreed that failing to provide a breath sample as demanded either at the roadside and / or for the purposes of the Intoxilyzer device, is also a criminal offence, to be punished in the same way as blowing a sample which is «over 80».

See McDonnell Douglas, 411 U.S. at 800 (stating that the purpose of Title VII was «to eliminate those discriminatory practices and devices which have fostered racially stratified job environments to the disadvantage of minority citizens»).

In practice, this will mean that, generally, even when a cell phone search is permitted because it is truly incidental to the arrest, only recently sent or drafted emails, texts, photos and the call log may be examined as in most cases only those sorts of items will have the necessary link to the purposes for which prompt examination of the device is permitted.

«Overseeing the health care system,» which is included in the definition of health oversight, encompasses activities such as: oversight of health care plans; oversight of health benefit plans; oversight of health care providers; oversight of health care and health care delivery; oversight activities that involve resolution of consumer complaints; oversight of pharmaceuticals, medical products and devices, and dietary supplements; and a health oversight agency's analysis of trends in health care costs, quality, health care delivery, access to care, and health insurance coverage for health oversight purposes.

For some, a «phablet» can be a dual - purpose device, which could also hurt pure tablet sales.

But beyond the cosmetics of looking cool and new, thinner borders also serve a functional purpose: You can fit more screen real estate — and, therefore, more space for apps, photos or videos — in a similar - sized device, which is a good thing.

Of course, since you have Alexa at your disposal, you'll likely use your voice to control your smarthome a lot of the time, but for those moments where you want to control devices from your phone, you would have to rely on the Smart Home section of the Alexa app, which just feels half - baked for this purpose.