The practice is alive and well in corporate America today, with many executives and team members alike more concerned about who takes the fall for a bad decision or a mistake than in correcting the error.
Unlike the repeater towers that are sometimes used in western states (AKA translators), SFNs aren?t simply receiving the signal, error-correcting, and retransmitting on a different frequency.
The improved audio and video playback performance is due to IBM researchers having found a way to partially disengage the error-correcting feature that most hard drives use to regulate the transfer of text-based files, which can interfere with video downloading, the company said.