Unlike most vacuum tubes, they are not obsolete.

Unlike vacuum tubes, it could run with only a flashlight or car battery and had an indefinite lifetime.

Unlike the previous era of glass cockpits — where designers merely copied the look and feel of conventional electromechanical instruments onto cathode ray tubes — the new displays represent a true departure.

Unlike the orange-glowing cathodes of traditional vacuum tubes, VFD cathodes are efficient emitters at much lower temperatures, and are therefore essentially invisible.

Unlike most other gas switch tubes, the krytron uses arc discharge to handle very high voltages and currents ( several kV and several kA peak ), rather than the usual low-current glow discharge.

Unlike Black Rock's rectangular solid composition, 60 State Street was given eleven sides and a two-part scheme so that it has the appearance of side-by-side octagonal tubes from a distance.

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 office holders ( magistrates ) who could be impeached and prosecuted for misconduct, the jurors could not be censured, for they, in effect, were the people and no authority could be higher than that.

Unlike officeholders, the citizen initiator was not vetted before taking up office or automatically reviewed after stepping down — it had after all no set tenure and might be an action lasting only a moment.

Unlike France or Germany, there are no special administrative courts of first instance in the Netherlands, but regular courts have an administrative " chamber " which specializes in administrative appeals.

Unlike the other commercial states of the 7th and 6th centuries BC, such as Corinth, Chalcis, Eretria and Miletus, Aegina founded no colonies.

Unlike lawn bowls, bocce balls are spherical and have no inbuilt bias.

Unlike his sources, Shakespeare gives Banquo no role in the King's murder, making it a deed committed solely by Macbeth and his wife.

Unlike other eastern Indonesian islands, such as Ambon, Solor, Ternate and Morotai, the Bandanese displayed no enthusiasm for Christianity or the Europeans who brought it in the sixteenth century, and no serious attempt was made to Christianise the Bandanese.

Unlike with geographical maps, where many famous projections are known ( such as the Mercator projection ), the calendar projection is a matter of such triviality that no names for these exist in common circulation.

Unlike storage in oil fields or coal beds, no side product will offset the storage cost.

Unlike Association Croquet, there are no additional turns for hitting other balls.

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Unlike in many other European countries, the general image of Święty Mikołaj in Poland is basically no different to the one of the Anglo-Saxon Santa Claus ( he is said to live in the North Pole, wear red clothes and a white beard, use reindeers to pull his sleigh, or enter houses via the chimney ).

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 turbomolecular pumps and cryopumps, diffusion pumps have no moving parts and as a result are quite durable and reliable.

Unlike other heliozoans, the microtubules are not in any regular geometric array, there does not appear to be a microtubule organizing center, and there is no distinction between the outer and inner cytoplasm.

Unlike the VOC, the WIC had no right to deploy military troops.

Unlike his father, Feodor had no enthusiasm in maintaining exclusive trading rights with England.

Unlike Maroni, there is no curfew on the Oyapock.

Unlike the feel of pain, which can be fully absent in some human conditions, there is no such condition as congenital absence of fear ( although psychopaths are known to have a much lessened feeling of fear ).

Unlike file sharing systems, there is no need for the uploader to remain on the network after uploading a file or group of files.

Unlike the losses that had been suffered by Minucius, a major loss by Varro had the potential to kill so many soldiers that Rome might have had no further resources with which to continue the war.

Unlike faith healing, advocates of spiritual healing make no attempt to seek divine intervention, instead believing in divine energy.

Unlike Denmark proper, Greenland is no longer part of the European Union.

Unlike simple radio communication, which only needs to make transmitted signals audible, direction-finders measure the received signal strength, which necessitates linear amplification of the actual carrier wave.

Unlike the EDFA and SOA the amplification effect is achieved by a nonlinear interaction between the signal and a pump laser within an optical fiber.

Unlike the Audion, the vacuum triode could not demodulate radio signals directly ( although Langmuir and other researchers soon found alternative ways to do this ), but it was capable of linear ( i. e. undistorted ) amplification, which turned out to be a vastly more useful feature.

Unlike most African countries, Burkina Faso has not yet had a popular national style, and the most popular recordings are imported from Europe, the United States, Democratic Republic of the Congo to invest, large-scale concerts, advanced recording studios, electric instruments and amplification and widespread distribution are difficult.

Unlike most jazz guitarists, Towner eschews amplification, using only 6-string nylon-string and 12-string steel-string guitars.

Unlike typical interband semiconductor lasers that emit electromagnetic radiation through the recombination of electron – hole pairs across the material band gap, QCLs are unipolar and laser emission is achieved through the use of intersubband transitions in a repeated stack of semiconductor multiple quantum well heterostructures, an idea first proposed in the paper " Possibility of amplification of electromagnetic waves in a semiconductor with a superlattice " by R. F.

Unlike many other succulents, the stem is the only part of most cacti where this vital process takes place.

Unlike other surgical specialties, it currently has its own independent training pathway which takes around fourteen year ( ST1-8 ) before being able to sit consultant exams.

Unlike an inelastic chain, a freely hanging spring of zero unstressed length takes the shape of a parabola.

Unlike the Michelin guide which takes the restaurant décor and service into consideration with its rating, Gault Millau only judges the quality of the food.

Unlike the appellate court which only examines the issues raised in the original trial, in a trial de novo a brand new trial takes place.

Unlike the rest of his crew, Hook is still competent enough to do something right, and takes Jane captive ( after she and Tinker Bell manage to free Peter and the Lost Boys ) in the final battle.

Unlike the other treasures, bombastium is worth more than just money, as Gyro Gearloose can use it to build a matter transporter which takes away the risk of flying from place to place while having the possible downside of sending the player to a location they hadn't intended to go.

Unlike in lead climbing, the belayer takes in rope as the climber advances and slack is practically eliminated from the rope, minimizing the both the drop and shock load on the rope and protection system should the climber fall.

Unlike manas, which is a composite of mind and ego deriving from an aggrandized " I-sense " that takes pleasure in pursuing worldly aims and sense pleasures, buddhi is that faculty that makes wisdom possible.

Unlike the other helpers he takes no further part in the action, suggesting he was added to the romance later under the influence of the Welsh versions of Geoffrey's Historia.

Unlike the New Right, one nation conservatism takes a pragmatic and non-ideological approach to politics and accepts the need for flexible policies ; one nation conservatives have often sought compromise with their ideological opponents for the sake of social stability.

Unlike most other Swedish film it takes place in a larger community at the northern peak of Sweden, being filmed in Kalix and Kiruna.

Unlike many other arachnids, ricinuleids have no book lungs, and gas exchange takes place through trachea.

Unlike most other Blyton series, this one takes place during the school term time because the characters go to day schools.

Unlike the previous games in the Zork franchise, which were text adventures, Return to Zork takes place from a first-person perspective and makes use of video-captured actors as well as detailed graphics ; a point-and-click interface replaced the text parser for the first time in a Zork game.

Unlike the original, in which the player's objective was to find ways to clear each level of all panels, Wrecking Crew ' 98 takes a more competitive approach, where two opponents are given their own sides to clean up.

Unlike eminent domain or laws regulating the foreign investment, expropriation takes place outside the common law and may be used to denote an armed robbery by revolutionaries.

Unlike in Deus Ex, where the amount of inventory space used by an item varied, a single item in Invisible War takes up a single inventory slot.

Unlike Sandman's fast transformation from sand to glass, his transformation from glass to sand takes time.

Unlike what is regularly seen in other societies, it takes a far more subdued and indirect approach.

Unlike the Caxton edition, the Winchester MS is not divided into books and chapters, which Caxton takes credit for devising, in his preface.

Unlike the more physical form of school bullying, workplace bullying often takes place within the established rules and policies of the organization and society.

" Unlike canonical criticism, rhetorical criticism ( at least as defined by Muilenberg ) takes a special interest in the relationship between the biblical text and its intended audience within the context of the communal life setting.

Unlike the gerund, the present participle takes the-s ending for agreement in the plural.

Unlike many of King's stories which take place in fictional places like Castle Rock, Maine, " Ten O ' Clock People " takes place in the distinctly recognizable Boston, Massachusetts.