Last May, in a fit of bleary-eyed jet-lag, I made the mistake of checking into a hotel without running through the standard list of questions I normally ask at the front desk to ensure I get a good room.
Clocking in at 16.32 sustained petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second), Sequoia earned the number one ranking on the industry standard Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday, June 18, at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC12) in Hamburg, Germany.
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Barack Obama's health reform requires hospitals to list standard prices each year, and more than 30 states have either proposed or passed laws to promote price transparency, according to the GAO.
ECONOMIST: Companies try to make health-care costs transparent
These days there is a gold-standard tick-list: a house behind a gate (Belgravia for Italians, Chelsea for Russians), a Gerhard Richter for the wall, the kids in one of a handful of schools, the right portfolio of charities, a place in the country not too far from London.
The only two stocks on his buy list are Standard Pacific and Hovnanian Enterprises.
It is in this context that, during this fourth session, states parties to the Convention will be invited to revise again, the "Prohibited List - International Standard" (Annex I of the Convention), thereby ensuring that governments and the sporting movement apply the same list of prohibited substances and methods in 2014.
The "Prohibited List - International Standard" (Annex I of the Convention), thereby ensuring that governments and the sporting movement apply the same list of prohibited substances and methods in 2014, will be publicly released by the WADA on 1st October 2013 and follow the process of consultation of States Parties under the provisions of the Convention.
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Items at the bottom of the list include improving the standard of living in poor countries, helping to spread democracy and protecting weak nations against foreign aggression.
The law requires restaurants with 20 or more locations to list calorie content information for standard menu items on menus and drive-through menus.
Myriad features come standard, with even more on the options list, including a first-class Meridian audio system and all the latest high-tech safety systems.
Another reason the U.S. ranks high on the fraud list: It is not on the EMV standard.
Certainly if someone is on the terrorist watch list, requiring a WBI screening should be standard procedure.
One interesting feature that Garmin added to the standard Palm application set is a connection between the contact list and GPS mapping.
It's the first carrier anywhere to launch the Rich Communication Services standard on LTE, which provides a perpetually synced contact list that serves as the launching pad for everything else.
Nine World Series champions--the first nine clubs on our list--have registered less than a full standard deviation above the mean in the year they won.
More than 20 panels of ordinary citizens were asked to put together a list of items they considered essential for an acceptable standard of living and the choices were very close to what their predecessors had selected four years earlier.
For example, decisions could be taken to put someone on a no-fly list or a watch list based on one credible source, instead of the previous standard of using multiple sources.
One day, I sat down with a paper tablet and made a list of every single thing I dislike, disdain or discard about standard conferences.
Thus, effective January 1, 2005, and insofar as FedEx is concerned, the list of designated private delivery services was as follows: FedEx Priority Overnight, FedEx Standard Overnight, FedEx 2 Day, FedEx International Priority, and FedEx International First.
FORBES: Tax Court Denies Late Petition Sent FedEx Express Saver
So, here's a perfectly good wireless HDMI option based on a standard that everyone and their grandmother has already adapted too -- too bad there's not a laundry list of companies already signed on to integrate it.
ENGADGET: Celeno and Cavium team up for WiFi-based wireless HDMI solution
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