Unlike conventional auctions, bids are non-refundable ; if one player bids 65 for psyche and another wins with a bid of 66, then the character with 66 is " superior " to the character with 65 even though there is only one bid difference.

Unlike a conventional tank water heater, the tank is filled only when there is sunlight.

Unlike conventional therapies, Hubbard said, Dianetics would work every time if applied properly and " will invariably cure all psychosomatic ills and human aberrations.

Unlike conventional tray distillation in which every tray represents a separate point of vapor-liquid equilibrium, the vapor-liquid equilibrium curve in a packed column is continuous.

Unlike conventional backlit flat panel displays which emit light, electronic paper displays reflect light like ordinary paper, making it more comfortable to read, and the surface has a wider viewing angle than conventional displays.

Unlike conventional microscopes, where the spatial resolution is limited by the wavelength of the particles which are used for imaging, the FIM is a projection type microscope with atomic resolution and an approximate magnification of a few million times.

Unlike conventional harmonicas, blowing and drawing produce the same notes because its tuning is closer to the note layout of a typical Asian tremolo harmonica or the Polyphonias.

Unlike its neighbouring city of Dresden this was largely conventional bombing, with high explosives rather than incendiaries.

Unlike in a conventional resistive electric circuit, where currents are best thought of as arising as a response to an applied voltage, currents in the magnetosphere are better seen as caused by the structure and motion of the plasma in its associated magnetic field.

Unlike conventional weapons of defense, the Bydo were conceived as limited range weapons with the purpose of destroying every ecological form in their path.

Unlike the rotary engine, however, radial engines use a conventional rotating crankshaft in a fixed engine block.

Unlike a conventional land mine, the Claymore is command-detonated and directional, meaning it is fired by remote-control, shooting a pattern of metal balls into the kill zone like a shotgun.

Unlike the conventional warfare methods of firing artillery into a coordinate location, the SEALs operated within inches of their targets.

Unlike many conventional telephone technologies, this does not provide power for premises equipment, nor is it suitable for direct connection to customer equipment.

Unlike the conventional cassette, a recorded song does not need to be stored as one piece on the disk, it can be stored in several fragments, similar to a hard drive.

Unlike semantics, which examines meaning that is conventional or " coded " in a given language, pragmatics studies how the transmission of meaning depends not only on structural and linguistic knowledge ( e. g., grammar, lexicon, etc.

Unlike the KMT troops, CPC shunned conventional warfare and instead engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Japanese.

Unlike other forms of conventional financed mortgage insurance, the UFMIP on an FHA loan is prorated over a three year period, meaning should the homeowner refinance or sell during the first three years of the loan, they are entitled to a partial refund of the UFMIP paid at loan inception.

Unlike conventional ovens, microwave ovens usually do not directly brown or caramelize food, since they rarely attain the necessary temperatures to do so.

Unlike conventional skin expansion techniques, however, the process of nonsurgical foreskin restoration may take several years to complete.

Unlike conventional logic gate diagrams in which inputs and outputs hold the binary values of TRUE ( 1 ) or FALSE ( 0 ), the gates in a fault tree output probabilities related to the set operations of Boolean logic.

Unlike a conventional wide bottom dinghy it is dangerous to sit or stand in the extreme ends due to the minimal displacement.

Unlike a conventional software distribution, the user compiles the source code locally according to their chosen configuration.

Unlike conventional membership recruiting / acceptance methods, the department recruits and restricts new member acceptance to bi-annual " recruit classes " in tandem with the academic semesters.

Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per bullet fired, a machine gun is designed to fire as long as the trigger is held down.

Unlike in the West where Medieval and Renaissance combative and self-defense blade arts have gone extinct ( having devolved into sport fencing with the advent of firearms ), blade fighting in the Philippines is a living art.

( Unlike other indigenous peoples, the Beothuk appeared to have had no interest in adopting firearms.

Unlike police in other developed countries, the vast majority of British police officers do not carry firearms on standard patrol ; they do however carry Extendable " Asp " or fixed Monadnock PR-24 batons and CS / PAVA spray.

Unlike the Song and Ming, however, the Qing armies had a strange neglect for firearms, and did not develop them in any significant way.

Unlike European wolf hunts which were usually reserved for the nobility, North American wolf hunts were partaken by ordinary citizens, nearly all of them possessing firearms, thus the extermination of wolves in the lower 48 states was carried out in far less time than in Europe.

Unlike many other games from a first-person perspective, though, firearms are especially deadly, often killing enemies with a single shot.

Unlike the colorful designs of many of the simple hand powered pump water guns of that time, most of the Entertech water guns were manufactured from black plastics with a matte finish to resemble actual firearms.

Unlike their Dragon ancestors, they do not scorn the use of firearms ; instead they have learned to employ its use in many of their fighting arts.

Unlike most Tatars, they had the right to use firearms and some of them became officers in the Russian Army.

Unlike bony fish, there is no direct control of the pigment cells by the nervous system, and this results in the colour change taking place more slowly than happens in fish.

Unlike cyanine, phthalocyanine is less resistant to UV rays and CD-Rs based on this dye show signs of degradation only after two weeks of direct sunlight exposure.

Unlike other leftist punk bands who use more direct sloganeering, Dead Kennedys ' lyrics were often snide.

Unlike retrograde amnesia ( which is popularly referred to simply as " amnesia ", the state where someone forgets events before brain damage ), dissociative amnesia is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance ( e. g., a drug of abuse, a medication, DSM-IV Codes 291. 1 & 292. 83 ) or a neurological or other general medical condition ( e. g., Amnestic Disorder due to a head trauma, DSM-IV Codes 294. 0 ).

Unlike the other new communist states in east-central Europe, Yugoslavia liberated itself from Axis domination with limited direct support from the Red Army.

Unlike the Greek libraries, readers had direct access to the scrolls, which were kept on shelves built into the walls of a large room.

Unlike Yosemite, there was no state government that could assume stewardship of the land, so the federal government took on direct responsibility for the park, the official first national park of the United States.

Unlike most other direct French taxes, nobles and clergy were not exempted from capitation taxes.

* Unlike the Macintosh, PARC's prototype was incapable of any direct manipulation of widgets.

Unlike direct conversion receivers of the more distant past, the mixer technologies used are based on the quadrature sampling detector and the quadrature sampling exciter.

Unlike the comparable Becontree development, Harold Hill was built without direct connection to the London Underground or National Rail services.

Unlike the Portuguese, the Indonesians favoured strong, direct rule, which was never accepted by the Timorese people who were determined to preserve their culture and national identity.

Unlike most modern ISPs, free-nets originally provided direct terminal-based dialup instead of PPP.

Unlike the soundtracks to other blaxploitation films ( most notably Isaac Hayes ' score for Shaft ), which glorified the ghetto excesses of the characters, Mayfield's lyrics consisted of hard-hitting commentary on the state of affairs in black, urban ghettos at the time, as well as direct criticisms of several characters in the film.

Unlike the 1970s version of Treasure Hunt, Barris did not have direct involvement with the production of the show itself.

Unlike classical railways or other infrastructure networks ( as jointly administrated by the Bundesnetzagentur in Germany ) a Transrapid system does not allow any direct competition.

Unlike the RDF, the ADF operates without direct intervention, and continuously displays the direction of the tuned beacon.

Unlike for algebraic objects, the direct limit may not exist in an arbitrary category.

Unlike Alzheimer's Disease, which merely weakens the victim to the point where he succumbs to bacterial infections like pneumonia, vascular dementia is a direct cause of death due to the possibility of a fatal interruption in the brain's blood supply.

Unlike a specialist, however, a corporal is a non-commissioned officer and may direct the activities of other soldiers.

Unlike some earlier programming languages, C has no direct support for random-access data files ; to read from a record in the middle of a file, the programmer must create a stream, seek to the middle of the file, and then read bytes in sequence from the stream.

Unlike the paper bills and the copper coins, the silver dollars had no communist symbols and instead, they were the direct copy of other silver dollars produced by other mints in China, including the most popular Chinese silver dollar with Yuan Shikai's head engraved, and the eagle silver dollar of the Mexican peso.

Unlike the HD system iBiquity calls " hybrid digital " the CAM-D system truly is a direct hybrid of both analog and digital.

Unlike the family and the school, the peer group lets children escape the direct supervision of adults.