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davepage

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    Comment #47063954

    Could obtain better quality at the higher channel counts by phase shifting the audio for each channel such that the modulation peaks do not exactly align for each (as they do now).…

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    Comment #40850430

    Location: Baltimore, Maryland, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Hardware: Instrumentation & conditioning, filtering, ADC/DAC, RF Applications (IEEE 802.15.4), …

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    Comment #19577897

    The Boeing/Ethiopian ETH-2 bulletin quoted in the above linked AAIB preliminary report on page 33 says "Initially, higher control forces may be needed to overcome any stabilizer no…

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    Comment #19575551

    It does not appear to be "precisely" the procedure, in that sufficient nose up trim was not selected by the yoke manual trim switch prior to pulling the trim cutouts. And then they…

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    Comment #16867360

    After the scandal, they added an opt-out setting (but on the privacy policy page, where the nominal user will not think to look for it).

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    Comment #16800903

    It did not

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    Comment #16793040

    FWIW, I set an ATM PIN for a US issued CC and found the PIN worked for retail terminals in NZ. YMMV

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    Comment #16421260

    The hardware looks quite good, but do I want to give Xiaomi (an entity controlled by the PRC) access to my web browsing history, identity, contacts, calendar, files, location, call…

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    Comment #16265110

    Keeping things simple, if the input data SNR is, say, 16 bits, and the PID coefficients are 16 bits, then there is 32 bits of significand at the output of the control gain multipli…

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    Comment #16140515

    Most modern FPGAs have a PLL (or DLL) implementation [0] which can multiply the external clock by some rational number. e.g. 50MHz external crystal clock is multiplied by 5/2 to ob…

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    Comment #15364822

    Possible in a G650ER http://australianaviation.com.au/2014/05/gulfstream-offers-l...

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    Comment #9757034

    Of course I am a hypocrite. My partner wants to visit the US; I would prefer to live elsewhere. But, sometimes compromise is needed in relationships. 'failed state' is certainly hy…

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    Comment #9756406

    Took 14 months with Congressional intervention just to get my partner a immigrant visa -- which is presumably the easiest. America has been so obsessed with thinking of itself as t…

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    Comment #9756380

    Well, maybe. From a regulatory perspective, the radio users have more FCC clout than insouciant interference sources like Comcast and TW, neglecting whatever regulatory capture may…

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    Comment #9754786

    Shortwave listeners and amateur radio folks were upset about powerline internet: http://www.arrl.org/broadband-over-powerline-bpl From an engineering standpoint, sending broadband …

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    Comment #9713027

    Sure... the Russians and Chinese (not the same people) just happened to simultaneously break some strong encryption, and the UK just happened to discover this somehow, before anyth…

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    Comment #9676868

    I agree. More layers of complexity than short term memory slots is a mandatory property of belief systems -- as more effort will be required to find the contradictions then is like…

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    Comment #9657999

    In terms of moral introspection, I perceive a continuum of information quality from vague suspicion to almost complete certainty. Morally, I would have a very, very difficult time …

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    Comment #9656952

    "Illegal" and "wrong" are not in any way related. All spy agencies conduct activities which are clearly illegal under the laws of their target countries. But are these activities a…

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    Comment #9542547

    Essentially the American state religion to which your refer is largely predicated on the concept that any law may be ignored by those in power so long as the intent is to produce "…