For even a standards war is a step forward, since it suggests that there will, someday, be a market worth fighting over.
This will provide a large installed base and make Hollywood studios, which are expected to determine the outcome of the standards war, keener to back Blu-ray.
Firms such as United got involved mainly because they did not want to get caught in another standards war that would force them to support competing technologies.
Not only is wireless charging here to stay, but the addition of wireless charging on the Nexus 4 conforming to the Qi standard means we have a winner in the standards war.
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ZigBee is good for low-speed, low-power transmissions (automated meter readings, for example), while ultrawideband is ideal for linking up home-entertainment devices, though it is currently mired in a standards war (see article).
That would make it one of the worse decades for living standards since World War II.
"The goal is to make all roles available so long as we can meet the standards of the war fighter, " said a defense official.
In a keynote speech a Microsoft executive warned against a war on standards and asked the e-book industry to join forces.
The model emerged during the post-war boom, when living standards soared across western Europe.
Similarly, we were also sure that sentences of the right quality could end this hideous endless war, if only certain standards were adopted at the higher levels.
It has been hard to judge the merits of war or tax cuts by the standards of what the administration said about them at the time.
"I expect ... a whole set of standards (last) used during the Gulf War, " says David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association, an organization representing airline passengers.
" Lilyea, who fought in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, said he believes physical standards will be relaxed "in order to force the acceptance of women in the combat arms specialties.
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Creating atomic-time standards became a priority in both America and Britain after the second world war.
Big increases in government spending associated with the Great Society programs, the war on poverty, the Vietnam War, and the Space Race, resulted in large deficits (by 1971 standards of course).
Post war, they fell out of fashion with the arrival of convenience foods and improved living standards.
There is much that Japan can be proud of since 1945 -- rapid recovery from war devastation, adopting a pacifist Constitution, the economic miracle, achieving the best living standards in the region, creating a robust democracy in a relatively egalitarian society, and promoting regional economic development through massive aid and technical cooperation.
During the War, as productive output was diverted to the front, consumer goods were rationed back home and living standards fell.
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