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Food writer T. Susan Chang once embraced the digital age. She even met her husband and bought a house on the Internet. Now, though, she believes in the benefits of an analog, lower-tech lifestyle. I believe in mystery. I believe in family. I believe

SSS 2011-05-23

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute? Whether it's for streaming Netflix or sharing files, we're gobbling up more and more dataand we want it faster. But even shooting data with lasers over fiber-o

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Starting in February 2009, broadcasts of all TV signals will be digital, replacing current analog signals. For people who have cable or satellite TV, this is a non-issue, because their reception will not be affected. But people who use rabbit ears or

电信专业英英词典C-8

Codec Codec is a contraction of coder and decoder; a device that encodes analog signals into digital signals, for transmission through a network in digital format, and decodes received digital signals

电信专业英汉词典d1

digital revolution 数 字 革 命 digit 数 字 (码 位 )， 数 位 digital economy 数 字 经 济 digital earth 数 字 地 球 digital subsistene 数 字 化 生 存 digital museum 数 字 博 物

电信专业英英词典P-2

PPSN public packet switched network Premises Distribution System (PDS) PDS is the transmission network inside a building or among a group of buildings, for example an office park or a campus. PDS is u

电信专业英英词典I-1

I-MAC isonchronous media access controller IDN integrated digital network IEC International Electrotechnical Commission Impairments Impairments is the (e.g., transmission channel and signal impairment

电信专业英英词典D-4

D type Channel Bank A D type channel bank is channel termination equipment used for combining (multiplexing) individual analog channel signals on a time division basis. D type channel banks provide in

电信专业英英词典A-2

Analog - Transmitting information that is characterized by continuously variable quantities (such as with AM or FM). This is different from digital transmission, which is characterized by discrete bit

2006年VOA标准英语-Television Technology Enters New Era

By Craig McCulloch Vancouver 13 May 2006 In February of 2009 all television stations in the United States are required to convert to digital transmission. This move will bring an end to traditional an

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Hi, Im Becky Worley and this is Good Stuff. Its flu season and were more vigilant than ever about all the flues that are making around, when your kids are sick, you take their temperature, but thats easier said than done. The words Rattle thermometer

VOA标准英语2010年-Technology Keeps Astounding and Amazin

But what's new and hot today will be antiquated before you know it Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 23 June 2010 Millions of American adults might recall phonograph records, cameras with flashbulbs and telephones with rotary dials, but their children w

VOA标准英语2011--2nd Digital Revolution is Potential Bona

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购物英语口语一本通 Unit23:买手表(2)

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2018年CRI China's digital television service promotes connectivity in Africa

Promoting connectivity and cooperation in informational communication between China and Africa is high on the agenda of this year's FOCAC Beijing Summit. The collaboration is being pushed greatly by a free digital television project of China in rural

2007年VOA标准英语-New Technologies, Trends Discussed at Annual NA

By Craig McCulloch Las Vegas 18 April 2007 Leaders in the U.S. broadcast industry are discussing new technologies and trends at the annual meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas,Nevada. As Craig McCulloch reports, HD Radio,

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Estonian Government Aims to End Paperwork Three-day-old Oskar Lunde sleeps in a small bed at an Estonian hospital. Across the room, his father turns on a laptop computer. Now we will register our child, Andrejs Lunde says, as he lifts his identificat

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In Nigeria, 在尼日利亚 open-source, open-source SMS tools are being used by the Red Cross community workers 红十字会的工作人员也在使用开放的短信工具 to gather information from the local community 他们从当地社区里收集资