On your next trip, trade a standard room for something a bit more unique.
Would you rather pay the same for a standard room as for a suite?
In Hollywood's ever-escalating luxury hotel arms race, guests no longer have to settle for standard room service, unceremoniously prepared by hotel staff from a boilerplate menu.
Standard screening room accoutrements are stadium-style seating, cutting-edge acoustics, ergonomic couches and automated shade coverings as well as fancy candy offerings.
Who wouldn't want to stay in a beautiful home, with charming hosts and a proper breakfast, for half the price of a bog-standard hotel room?
As you might expect, however, that's not quite as simple as a firmware upgrade, and currently requires a 34-node network to keep watch on a standard living room, which is apparently enough to pin down moving objects within a meter or so.
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Some of her tips include making sure that you aren't being billed separately both for a room and for all the standard amenities in a room like sheets and a toothbrush.
Sometimes controls are overlooked or data is mishandled or you simply get freak results (95% confidence is standard, which leaves ample room for error).
To reach the standard of "one person, one room, " he says, there's still a long way to go.
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Suicidal patients end up in the emergency room, where there is no clear standard besides hospitalization.
Emboldened by habaneros and firewater, head to the Standard Hotel's (848 Washington Street, www.standardhotels.com) late-night club of the moment, Top of the Standard (although everyone still calls it the Boom Boom Room).
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Streaming has officially made the jump from a lonely obsession carried out with a laptop and headphones to the standard alternative to cable TV, viewed on the living room TV like everything else.
We need to make certain we leave room for the basic research that drives our high standard of living.
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While Buckhead hotel newcomers such as the Mansion or the St Regis have tried, they have not been able to wrestle away the crown of the 224-room Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta, which sets the standard for five-star hotels in this city.
In addition to volume and equalizer control, this application allows the user to browse the audio sources connected to the speaker or to adjust the Zikmu Solo's audio settings according to the size of the room ('Room Size Compensation') and the position of the speaker in the room ('Room Positioning'), that is to say 'standard' position, in a corner or against a wall.
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Using either a smartphone or tablet, players end up shooting aliens around their living room, or fighting off a zombie apocalypse - all apparently standard activities for any modern day playtime.
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Acts change weekly, but standard installations include karaoke, dance tournaments, a silent disco (a room where participants wear headphones to connect through music), and a walking Muttaburrasaurus named Winnysaur, the interactive dinosaur who steals hearts in the atrium.
While the goal of the initiative is to move PC gaming from the desk to the living room, that doesn't necessarily involve a single hardware standard or minimum spec, Valve hardware engineer Jeff Keyzer told Engadget in an interview this morning at CES 2013.
There is a relaxed, nonhierarchical atmosphere as the seven young managers of the "WebDVD" group, all in the standard winter uniform of khakis and flannel shirts, gather in a windowless conference room near Gates' office.
Moreover, the drug also prevented emergency room visits, and reduced hospitalizations by more than 90% as compared with standard therapy.
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.
So when a highly prized teenager without enough money to pay for expenses beyond tuition, room and board and books, he and his parents cannot rely on a uniform standard across the 120 Division 1 FBS schools to determine which school offers enough to cover the full cost of attendance.
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In a demo room and my living room, this digital projector produced stunning results from HDTV and DVD, and surprisingly good pictures from standard TV, thanks to an excellent lens and advanced signal processing.
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