Most reviewers, unless they work for a publication that has to review the recording, are going to toss the NDA and the CD player in the nearest trash can.
Reviewers get far more material than they can ever hope to review in print. If they don't review the <foo> CD, there are plenty of other good CDs to write about, from record companies that don't make inane demands on reviewers.
Military pilots have to pass a strict physical examination and graduate from a training program that includes testing in a G force simulator and training in how to resist G forces. They also have airplanes and equipment that are scientifically designed to deal with high G forces.
By the time you add up the markups of the various stages in the manufacturing/distribution/retail chain, a few dollars in parts cost can translate into a substantial change in the retail price.
Ballot boxes can be stuffed. Ballot boxes from precincts that tend to strongly favor the opposition can "fall off the back of the truck" on the way to the counting center. Ballots that vote for the wrong person can be invalidated for "errors" in completing the ballot.
These sorts of things used to be common in certain parts of the United States that were run by political machines. Whenever a corrupt political organization runs an election, you can expect them to try to manipulate the results, no matter what technology is used for voting.
Today, there are widespread problems with felons and non-citizens voting, non-residents voting, and people casting multiple ballots. Absentee ballots have been abused by people who request them on behalf of the voter, who may be incompetant or dead, and then "help" the voter fill out the ballot.
ATSC HDTV, if it ever gets rolled out completely, will allow the reclaimation of a large chunk of UHF spectrum for other uses. Each station still uses 6 MHz of bandwidth, but they can be packed more tightly together than with analog NTSC television.
There is nothing wrong with the navigation and landing systems. Aircraft electronics equipment (avonics) is designed and built to a much higher standard than most electronics equipment. The problem is basic physics. An unintentional emitter that is a stone's throw away from the navigation and communication antennas can easily jam a 500-watt ground based transmitter that is 50 miles away. Before the age of microprocessors, there were problems with the unintentional radiation from the local oscillators in passenger-carried FM broadcast receivers jamming the radio equipment on aircraft.
Just about every consumer electronics device with any sort of digital logic will radiate EM interference. One solution would be to design them with proper shielding and bypass capacitors on all connectors. That costs money, which the manufacturers will never spend unless they are forced to.
Early bayonets (socket bayonets) were made from a section of tubing that fit over the outside of the rifle barrel. The blade or spike was attached to the outside of the tube. There was a slot cut in the tubing that corresponded to a protruding stud on the outside of the rifle barrel. The bayonet was slid over the muzzle end of the rifle barrel and twisted to lock it in place. If you look at a BNC connector, you can see a similar mechanism. A short history of bayonet design can be found here.
You will never see them on consumer grade electronics equipment, but they are widely used on military electronics equipment and commercial equipment that has to survive in a hostile environment. They are weatherproof cylindrical multi-pin connectors with a twist-lock collar. They come in a wide variety of sizes and configurations.
Years ago, I saw a connector that used small metal brushes instead of pins and sockets. Each connector had a set of brushes, which would mate with the brushes in the other connector.
RS-232 was invented when communications devices used discrete transistors and SSI ICs. 25-pin connectors were the standard for many years. The planned replacement for RS-232 used a 37-pin connector.
In-band signalling introduces latency and complexity. It is simpler and more reliable to use dedicated wires. RS-232 also has to support synchronous communications, although you are not likely to see that on low-end equipment. It is also not limited to the ASCII character code.
PCs use a very limited subset of the features of RS-232.
If you want to watch football, watch football. Don't screw up baseball in a misguided attempt to make it attractive to people with short attention spans and no regard for tradition.
From what I've read, it is common for developers to rig the association rules so that they have control over the association. Then you have the prospect of the association awarding contracts to the developer's brother-in-law or whoever can give the developer the largest kickback.
Management has to realize that their employees have lives and responsibilities outside the workplace. A 15-hour work day is insane. Even 12-hour work days will rapidly lead to poor productivity and burnout. It can also cause serious damage to your health. No job is worth that.
On the last DVD I tried it on, the play button didn't do anything. You had to select the "play movie" entry on the main menu. I assume that this was caused by poorly written UI software on the DVD. You should be able to play a movie without a remote, just using the buttons on the front of the DVD player.
They are not going to spend a gazillion dollars on a radio telescope array for the dubious pursuit of SETI. There is plenty of real science that can be done with the array.
Oh yes, the "good old days" of paper ballots. When seals on ballot boxes would be "accidentally" broken, ballot boxes would "accidentally" fall off the back of a truck into a swamp, and the county courthouse would "accidentally" burn down after the ballots had been counted and reported.
The Washington Times is a "real newspaper". Many people dismiss it because of its owner/publisher. It's funny that they don't apply the same standard to other newspapers that are owned or founded by eccentric people with political agendas. That would disqualify many of today's "respectable" newspapers.
There are big flame pits and channels under the launch platform that allow the hot exhaust gases from the main engines and solid rocket boosters to escape the immediate area of the launch platform. The Florida coast is not a good place to dig big holes in the ground, unless you are trying to create a swamp.
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Reviewers get far more material than they can ever hope to review in print. If they don't review the <foo> CD, there are plenty of other good CDs to write about, from record companies that don't make inane demands on reviewers.
Military pilots have to pass a strict physical examination and graduate from a training program that includes testing in a G force simulator and training in how to resist G forces. They also have airplanes and equipment that are scientifically designed to deal with high G forces.
By the time you add up the markups of the various stages in the manufacturing/distribution/retail chain, a few dollars in parts cost can translate into a substantial change in the retail price.
These sorts of things used to be common in certain parts of the United States that were run by political machines. Whenever a corrupt political organization runs an election, you can expect them to try to manipulate the results, no matter what technology is used for voting.
Today, there are widespread problems with felons and non-citizens voting, non-residents voting, and people casting multiple ballots. Absentee ballots have been abused by people who request them on behalf of the voter, who may be incompetant or dead, and then "help" the voter fill out the ballot.
ATSC HDTV, if it ever gets rolled out completely, will allow the reclaimation of a large chunk of UHF spectrum for other uses. Each station still uses 6 MHz of bandwidth, but they can be packed more tightly together than with analog NTSC television.
Nipkow, a German physicist, invented and patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884. That beats Baird by 42 years.
There is nothing wrong with the navigation and landing systems. Aircraft electronics equipment (avonics) is designed and built to a much higher standard than most electronics equipment. The problem is basic physics. An unintentional emitter that is a stone's throw away from the navigation and communication antennas can easily jam a 500-watt ground based transmitter that is 50 miles away. Before the age of microprocessors, there were problems with the unintentional radiation from the local oscillators in passenger-carried FM broadcast receivers jamming the radio equipment on aircraft.
Just about every consumer electronics device with any sort of digital logic will radiate EM interference. One solution would be to design them with proper shielding and bypass capacitors on all connectors. That costs money, which the manufacturers will never spend unless they are forced to.
Early bayonets (socket bayonets) were made from a section of tubing that fit over the outside of the rifle barrel. The blade or spike was attached to the outside of the tube. There was a slot cut in the tubing that corresponded to a protruding stud on the outside of the rifle barrel. The bayonet was slid over the muzzle end of the rifle barrel and twisted to lock it in place. If you look at a BNC connector, you can see a similar mechanism. A short history of bayonet design can be found here.
You will never see them on consumer grade electronics equipment, but they are widely used on military electronics equipment and commercial equipment that has to survive in a hostile environment. They are weatherproof cylindrical multi-pin connectors with a twist-lock collar. They come in a wide variety of sizes and configurations.
Years ago, I saw a connector that used small metal brushes instead of pins and sockets. Each connector had a set of brushes, which would mate with the brushes in the other connector.
In-band signalling introduces latency and complexity. It is simpler and more reliable to use dedicated wires. RS-232 also has to support synchronous communications, although you are not likely to see that on low-end equipment. It is also not limited to the ASCII character code.
PCs use a very limited subset of the features of RS-232.
If you want to watch football, watch football. Don't screw up baseball in a misguided attempt to make it attractive to people with short attention spans and no regard for tradition.
From what I've read, it is common for developers to rig the association rules so that they have control over the association. Then you have the prospect of the association awarding contracts to the developer's brother-in-law or whoever can give the developer the largest kickback.
Management has to realize that their employees have lives and responsibilities outside the workplace. A 15-hour work day is insane. Even 12-hour work days will rapidly lead to poor productivity and burnout. It can also cause serious damage to your health. No job is worth that.
Uncompressed HDTV runs at approximately 1.5 gbps. That will fill up a disk pretty quickly.
On the last DVD I tried it on, the play button didn't do anything. You had to select the "play movie" entry on the main menu. I assume that this was caused by poorly written UI software on the DVD. You should be able to play a movie without a remote, just using the buttons on the front of the DVD player.
They are not going to spend a gazillion dollars on a radio telescope array for the dubious pursuit of SETI. There is plenty of real science that can be done with the array.
Moore's Law is about the density of transistors in integrated circuits, not their speed or cost.
Oh yes, the "good old days" of paper ballots. When seals on ballot boxes would be "accidentally" broken, ballot boxes would "accidentally" fall off the back of a truck into a swamp, and the county courthouse would "accidentally" burn down after the ballots had been counted and reported.
Read How to Read the Times in the Columbia Journalism Review.
The Washington Times is a "real newspaper". Many people dismiss it because of its owner/publisher. It's funny that they don't apply the same standard to other newspapers that are owned or founded by eccentric people with political agendas. That would disqualify many of today's "respectable" newspapers.
cello!
Leland Stanford bought himself a whole university.
There are big flame pits and channels under the launch platform that allow the hot exhaust gases from the main engines and solid rocket boosters to escape the immediate area of the launch platform. The Florida coast is not a good place to dig big holes in the ground, unless you are trying to create a swamp.