Dropouts in magnetic tape recording and reproduction

Judicious selection and maintenance of tape and tape transports minimizes dropouts

Notes on a Bicentennial Constitution: Part I, Processes of Change

With the approach of the Bill of Rights bicentennial, this paper takes the cause for celebration as an equally important occasion for critique. This work argues that the most distinguishing aspects of our Constitution are not the Bill of Rights, federalism, and separation of powers, but rather the availability of judicial review, the political insulation of federal judges, and the limited mechanisms available for constitutional change

The ‘Competition of the Market’: “Enter the Elephant!” [A Restatement of a Most Perplexing First Amendment Conundrum]

This short essay revisits the enduring problem of “government propaganda” in the domestic marketplace of “competing ideas.” Drawing his argument from the suggestions and from strongly worded dicta by several famous twentieth century justices (most notably Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Louis Brandeis, Robert Jackson and Hugo Black), Van Alstyne suggests that the First Amendment invests every ordinary citizen with suitable standing (akin to that of a corporate shareholder) to call upon any judge bound by oath of office, as set forth in Article VI, and whose aid is thus appropriately invoked, to enjoin the government from acting as an ideological partisan). The essay provides examples of left and right-wing use of government propaganda to provoke the reader to share the author’s concern. Does it make any sense to say that the First Amendment may forbid the government to silence unpopular views but freely allow the government itself to weigh in through its own partisan propaganda? What happened in Germany when the courts of that sophisticated nation sedulously adopted that view

The alldifferent Constraint: A Survey

The constraint of difference is known to the constraint programming community since Lauriere introduced Alice in 1978. Since then, several solving strategies have been designed for this constraint. In this paper we give both a practical overview and an abstract comparison of these different strategies.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, paper accepted at the 6th Annual workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Constraint