Well, maybe it's time for the FCC to "re-allocate" the FM spectrum like it's used in Europe. In North America, FM channels are 0.2 MHz apart (i.e. 99.7, 99.9, 100.1, 100.3, etc.) In Europe, they're 0.1 MHz apart. Now, to avoid interference, neighbor cities don't have stations on the same frequency. For example, Chicago has a 94.7MHz station while Milwaukee has a 94.5MHz station and the cities are ~80 miles apart (straight-line). So, if these two stations were 0.1 MHz apart, they still shouldn't interfere... Once the analysis is done and the politics of switching systems are done (not every station would need to change frequencies), we'd have MANY more potential FM stations...
The only negative would be for those with digital radios hard-coded to the US FM system... Dial FM tuners would have no problems while many radios do have a switch to support "European" FM frequencies...
Umm, there are better options. Get a line-in adapter that plugs into your car's CD-changer port for like $130 installed. Fools your car's head unit into thinking there's a factory CD-changer connected but gives you a way to connect your MP3 player, hands-free phone, etc. Almost every car manufactured since '95 has a CD-changer port, since dealers would like to sell you the $500 trunk-mounted CD-changer as an option... CD-quality sound as opposed to FM Stereo that could still get interference. (Pie and Blitzsafe are two such manufacturers).
And yes, with your swtichy-thingy, you still can get interference. Think about it--you can still make out a picture from a strong analog TV channel even if the TV doesn't have an antenna plugged-in... Same concept.
Would it be WordPerfect Random House dictionary? I still use that today as it's all of 10MB installed, is blazingly fast, super compressed (today's processors make it instantaneous), and has every cuss word and jargon (that was in use in 1994)...
Ever reused your own paper??? (i.e. picked a topic that you've written a paper on before...) By definition, that's not plagiarism because you own said work and you did all of that work... But what happens if the same student submits similar papers to two different teachers that use Turnitin? I can't even remember a policy at my high school or college forbidding reusing one's own work (appropriately modified)...
Another question is what happens if someone appends an EULA to a paper??? Shrink-wrap the thing or even just append it to the end... Wouldn't that beat any such "contract under duress"?
And why haven't there been any class-actions against school districts filed by some parents over the forced nature of giving up one's own copyrights? It's difficult for one student to be a martyr, but if all of them in a district are pulled into a class-action, wouldn't that make the case easier???
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Yeah, but it's interfering with a Canadian radio station, so that doesn't count...
Well, maybe it's time for the FCC to "re-allocate" the FM spectrum like it's used in Europe. In North America, FM channels are 0.2 MHz apart (i.e. 99.7, 99.9, 100.1, 100.3, etc.) In Europe, they're 0.1 MHz apart. Now, to avoid interference, neighbor cities don't have stations on the same frequency. For example, Chicago has a 94.7MHz station while Milwaukee has a 94.5MHz station and the cities are ~80 miles apart (straight-line). So, if these two stations were 0.1 MHz apart, they still shouldn't interfere... Once the analysis is done and the politics of switching systems are done (not every station would need to change frequencies), we'd have MANY more potential FM stations...
The only negative would be for those with digital radios hard-coded to the US FM system... Dial FM tuners would have no problems while many radios do have a switch to support "European" FM frequencies...
Umm, Chicago has 93.1 WXRT...
Umm, there are better options. Get a line-in adapter that plugs into your car's CD-changer port for like $130 installed. Fools your car's head unit into thinking there's a factory CD-changer connected but gives you a way to connect your MP3 player, hands-free phone, etc. Almost every car manufactured since '95 has a CD-changer port, since dealers would like to sell you the $500 trunk-mounted CD-changer as an option... CD-quality sound as opposed to FM Stereo that could still get interference. (Pie and Blitzsafe are two such manufacturers).
And yes, with your swtichy-thingy, you still can get interference. Think about it--you can still make out a picture from a strong analog TV channel even if the TV doesn't have an antenna plugged-in... Same concept.
Would it be WordPerfect Random House dictionary? I still use that today as it's all of 10MB installed, is blazingly fast, super compressed (today's processors make it instantaneous), and has every cuss word and jargon (that was in use in 1994)...
Another question is what happens if someone appends an EULA to a paper??? Shrink-wrap the thing or even just append it to the end... Wouldn't that beat any such "contract under duress"?
And why haven't there been any class-actions against school districts filed by some parents over the forced nature of giving up one's own copyrights? It's difficult for one student to be a martyr, but if all of them in a district are pulled into a class-action, wouldn't that make the case easier???