Unlike cismontain chaparral, which forms dense, impenatrable stands of plants, desert chaparral is open, with only about 50 % of the ground covered.

Unlike other, more traditional forms of higher education, open education generally does not offer recognized degrees.

Unlike Napster, where the entire network relied on the central server, gnutella cannot be shut down by shutting down any one node and it is impossible for any company to control the contents of the network, which is also due to the many free and open source gnutella clients which share the network.

Unlike Europe, where the royal court, aristocratic families and the established church were in control, the American political culture was open to merchants, landlords, petty farmers, artisans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Germans, Scotch Irish, Yankees, Yorkers, and many other identifiable groups.

Unlike the arthropods, the velvet worms are unable to control the openings of their tracheae ; the tracheae are always open, entailing considerable water loss in arid conditions.

File: Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad open observation car 1917. JPG | Unlike other lines with open observation cars for non first class passengers, the D & RGW operated theirs for an additional 25 cent charge.

A window that cannot be opened, whose function is limited to allowing light to enter ( Unlike an unfixed window, which can open and close ).

Unlike other Masonic bodies which only require a belief in a Supreme Being regardless of religion, membership in the Knights Templar is open only to Christian Masons who have completed their Royal Arch and in some jurisdictions their Cryptic Degrees.

Unlike the mainland, these glaciers calves directly in the open ocean.

Unlike non-criminal cases, criminal proceedings in state courts are primarily conducted orally, in person, in open court.

: Unlike Shining Path, and like other armed Latin American organizations with which it maintained ties, the MRTA claimed responsibility for its actions, its members used uniforms or other identifiers to differentiate themselves from the civilian population, it abstained from attacking the unarmed population and at some points showed signs of being open to peace negotiations.

Unlike a home dishwasher, commercial dishwashers do not utilize a drying cycle ( commercial drying is achieved by heated ware meeting open air once the wash / rinse / sanitation cycles have been completed ) and thus are significantly faster than their residential counterparts.

Unlike other elite leaders who had relationships with slaves but never talked about them, Johnson was open and treated Chinn as his common law wife.

Unlike MS-DOS, it is composed of free and open source software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License ( GPL ).

Unlike the exclusivity of krewe parades in New Orleans and elsewhere, New Roads ' parades are civic events, open to public participation.

Unlike seed libraries or seed swaps that encourage frequent reuse and sharing of seeds, seedbanks are not typically open to the public.

Unlike the other therapists, Sean pushes back at Will and overcomes his defense mechanisms, and after a few unproductive sessions Will begins to open up.

Unlike Varro, he was prudent and cautious, and he believed it was foolish to fight on open ground, despite the Romans ' numerical strength.

Unlike most college libraries, it is open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

Unlike the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was open to both sexes, and treated both as equal.

Unlike public religion, or the private religious practices of a household, the mysteries were open only to initiates, and were thus " secret ".

Unlike The TV IV, it is open to anyone without registration.

Unlike Cygwin which requires " You rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows ", the full Wine product supports executing unmodified Windows binaries.

Unlike the ETL-based data warehouse, the integrated source data systems and the data warehouse are all integrated since there is no transformation of dimensional or reference data.

Unlike the related battles over operating systems, programming languages, and even source code indent style, choice of editor usually only affects oneself.

Unlike with Windows 3. 1, IBM did not have access to the source code for Windows 95 and was unwilling to commit the time and resources to emulate the moving target of the Win32 API.

Unlike later writers, no near contemporary source remarks on Macbeth as a tyrant.

Unlike Monte Carlo algorithms ( such as path tracing ) which handle all types of light paths, typical radiosity methods only account for paths which leave a light source and are reflected diffusely some number of times ( possibly zero ) before hitting the eye.

Unlike the version used for the DVD, Sony Pictures cropped out the top and bottom parts of the frame, while restoring previously cropped images on the sides, from the 35 mm film source, to use the entire 16: 9 frame.

Unlike IGFETs, the JFET gate forms a p-n diode with the channel which lies between the source and drain.

Unlike Thucydides, however, these historians all continued to view history as a source of moral lessons.

Unlike natural fibers, their source is not renewable and they are not biodegradable.

Unlike the period prior to the war, immigration was now directed at Europe and more specifically to the United Kingdom and Ireland, not from the United States, which was the largest source of immigration before the war.

Unlike function generators, which are limited to a simple set of waveforms ; an AWG allows the user to specify a source waveform in a variety of different ways.

Unlike the Aristotelian Xenarchus and Tyrannion that preceded him in teaching Strabo, Athenodorus was Stoic in mindset, almost certainly the source of Strabo's diversion from the philosophy of his former mentors.

Unlike the United States Lanham Act, 1946 the English Trade Marks Act, 1994 and the Indian Act, 1999 do not have provisions like section 43 ( a ) ( of Lanham Act ) to protect un-registered trade dress or allow registration of trade dress which qualifies the tests of distinctiveness and source identifier.

Unlike in previous campaigns in which they penetrated deeply in a single strike, this time the KMT troops patiently built blockhouses, each separated by five or so miles to surround the Communist areas and cut off their supplies and food source.

Unlike the Induction and the main plot however, there is a recognised source for Shakespeare's sub-plot, first suggested by Alfred Tolman in 1890 ; Ludovico Ariosto's I Suppositi ( 1551 ), which Shakespeare used either directly or through George Gascoigne's English prose translation Supposes ( performed in 1566, printed in 1573 ).

Unlike context-based access control ( CBAC ), RBAC does not look at the message context ( such as a connection's source ).

Unlike other people who think the Number One Dime to be a lucky charm, Magica doesn't believe it to be the source of Scrooge's wealth, but Scrooge's wealth to be the source of the dime's powers, as she only tries to steal it because it's the first coin ever earned by the richest duck ( or man ) on Earth.

Unlike human-readable source code, bytecodes are compact numeric codes, constants, and references ( normally numeric addresses ) which encode the result of parsing and semantic analysis of things like type, scope, and nesting depths of program objects.

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

Unlike his compatriots, the musical form always came first for Balakirev, not the extramusical source, and his technique continued to reflect the Germanic symphonic approach.