In real life there is no Rockford-like stand-alone trailer on a deserted parking lot in..
These programs would behave less like the interactive Web pages of today and more like stand-alone applications.
Younger people are attracted to apps, while older drivers like stand-alone devices with larger screens, according to Bill Strand, Magellan's senior product marketing manager.
Others, like the OstseeTherme, are like stand-alone hospitals, complete with thermal water pools and treatments designed to relieve allergies, respiratory ailments and skin problems.
Parts read like stand-alone articles, and Schmidle diverges into topics, like politics in Bangladesh, that stray from the narrative thrust about the long-term survival of Pakistan.
Around this one core insight, Rohde appends chapters that read like stand-alone magazine features: on Holbrooke's final stint in government, on the Obama administration's enthusiasm for drones, on the killing of American diplomats in Benghazi.
They are like stand-alone rooms with canvas walls and ceilings, hardwood floors and made-up beds with heated mattress pads ("So we can save energy by keeping the bungalow's heat lower," said Trevor Bridge, Costanoa's general manager).
Earlier this year, they said, Mr. Rivera let them know he was less interested in continuing with "Upfront Tonight" and would prefer to concentrate on his talk show and other projects for NBC, like stand-alone specials.
Like stand-alone Spotify Premium accounts, under the family plan each member can create and manage their own descrete playlists/music library and get personalized song recommendations.
The new version looks like stand-alone TiVo but lacks some of its features, such as the ability to download movies from Amazon and view photos stored on your home PC.
Parts of the book function like stand-alone novellas and short stories you could read without any kind of context, and there's a slow sense of things building toward a larger plot and then the book is over, because that's all he wrote, literally.
