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A misaligned drive head was rare usually fixing itself by smashing against the rail stops.
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Because of the operation of Commodore floppy drives, one write protection scheme would cause the floppy drive head to bang against the end of its rail, which could cause the drive head to become misaligned.
Magnetic fields could also cause the drive heads to become misaligned, as the drives were not internally shielded from external magnetic fields.
This is a particular problem on writes when the drive is forced to perform two read-modify-write operations to satisfy a single misaligned 4 KiB write operation.
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However, she could not help but get herself into a situation that was beyond her control ( like in the episode Heart of the Matter when she used a dating spell to attract boys, but the spell went wrong when Sabrina's head became misaligned as a result of her head and heart becoming conflicted.
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Compared to European prints, this original English-language edition was of a poor quality where on a number of pages the CMYK printing plates had been misaligned resulting in more than obvious color fringing.
Harmonics from badly designed or misaligned equipment could cause radio interference to legitimate services ; indeed, this was the main argument used by opponents of CB against the illegal users.
It was actually once believed that the dipole, which comprises much of the Earth's magnetic field and is misaligned along the rotation axis by 11. 3 degrees, was caused by permanent magnetization of the materials in the earth.
In 1955, one of the working obverse dies at the Philadelphia Mint was misaligned on the second blow from the working hub, thus resulting in a doubled image.
Pelton was watching a spinning water turbine when the key holding its wheel onto its shaft slipped, causing it to become misaligned.
A class 5 doubled die results when the die receives an additional hubbing that was misaligned via rotation with a pivot point near the rim.
Whoever was responsible misaligned the pieces and put them at an incorrect angle "; and, " The pelvis was smashed, destroying details that reveal body shape, gait and evolutionary history " and causing the discovery team leader Morwood to remark " It's sickening, Jacob was greedy and acted totally irresponsibly ".
His right rear tire began deflating on lap five, and when two replacements quickly did the same thing, the team realized that a misaligned suspension was the problem, and he retired.
Work in the tunnels to lengthen platforms for longer trains and to correct misaligned tunnel sections that slowed running speeds was also carried out.
The shoulder girdle was narrow ( often misaligned in skeletal mounts and drawings ), with the clavicles ( collar bones ) touching at the body's midline, as in other basal sauropodomorphs.
Indeed, Maimonides, one of the great Rabbis of the Middle Ages, wrote that if science and Torah were misaligned, it was either because science was not understood or the Torah was misinterpreted.
This was apparently the result of the collision occurring on a slight curve, causing the buffers to be slightly misaligned, and allowing the fourth carriage of the express to override the buffers of the third.
As the race entered the closing stages, Michael Schumacher closed in on Räikkönen, who was troubled by a misaligned steering wheel.
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The revolver's clockwork-like internal parts are relatively delicate and can become misaligned after a severe impact, and its revolving cylinder can become jammed by excessive dirt or debris.
The existence of guaranteed transitions allows the signal to be self-clocking, and also allows the receiver to align correctly ; the receiver can identify if it is misaligned by half a bit period, as there will no longer always be a transition during each bit period.
If you put the two scales together with zero points aligned then the first mark on the vernier scale will be one tenth short of the first main scale mark, the second two tenths short and so on up to the ninth mark which would be misaligned by nine tenths.
Now if you move the vernier by a small amount, say, one tenth of its fixed main scale, the only pair of marks which come into alignment will be the first pair since these were the only ones originally misaligned by one tenth.
If we had moved it 2 tenths then the second pair and only the second would be in alignment since these are the only ones which were originally misaligned by that amount.
Moreover, the fault could be largely ascribed to piloting error by Beregovoy: after a misaligned approach, Beregovoy's ineffective countermeasures burned up so much fuel that the mission simply could not be completed.
* archery, air rifles, and paint ball guns with sometimes misaligned sights ( or handled by someone who cannot shoot straight ), with targets ranging from bullseyes to playing cards.
The sights were often misaligned on the Gladiator-made guns, creating aiming problems that had to be corrected by the gunners.
Intel addressed the first problem by adding an instruction in SSE3 to reduce the overhead of accessing unaligned data and improving the overall performance of misaligned loads, and the last problem by widening the execution engine in their Core microarchitecture in Core 2 Duo and later products.
The visual distortion is produced by combining a regular line pattern ( the circles ) with misaligned parts ( the differently colored strands ).
Amblyopia can be caused by deprivation of vision early in life by vision-obstructing disorders such as congenital cataract, by strabismus ( misaligned eyes ), anisometropia ( different degrees of myopia or hypermetropia in each eye ), or by a significant amount of astigmatism in one or both eyes.
The GTIA also fixed an error in CTIA that caused graphics to be misaligned by " half a color clock ".
Opposite faces are misaligned by 1 / 10 of a turn, so to match them they must be rotated by 1 / 10, 3 / 10 or 5 / 10 turn ; a rotation of 3 / 10 gives the Seifert – Weber space.
Surgery is recommended if the bones are badly misaligned and the doctor is unable to correct the bones by pulling or pushing.
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Socrates outlines a problem about truth when it is misaligned from public opinion: " you don't compel me ; instead you produce many false witnesses against me and try to banish me from my property, the truth.
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* Dislocations are linear defects around which some of the atoms of the crystal lattice are misaligned.
If the excess hoof is not trimmed, the bones will become misaligned, which would place stress on the legs of the animal.
The rod ends allow the input and output cranks of the RSSR linkage to be misaligned to the point that they lie in different planes, which causes the coupler link to move in a general spatial movement.
The image most closely associated with the magazine is that of Alfred E. Neuman, the boy with misaligned eyes, a gap-toothed smile and the perennial motto " What, me worry?
Flexible couplings are used to transmit torque from one shaft to another when the two shafts are slightly misaligned.
They also show that when the narrative is incoherent or the components of the story are misaligned that these businesses tend to fail.
On a technical level, the rangefinder may become misaligned, leading to incorrect focusing, a problem absent from SLRs.
In most people, Vernier acuity is particularly high, allowing one to accurately differentiate between aligned and misaligned marks on a Vernier scale.
In fluid dynamics, the baroclinity ( sometimes called baroclinicity ) of a stratified fluid is a measure of how misaligned the gradient of pressure is from the gradient of density in a fluid.
His bizarre face ( mainly his misaligned eyes ) hints like he's a victim of recent brain aneurysm or acute squint.
This is a normal consequence of the eye's being briefly misaligned.
V. Strang, D. C., describes several hypotheses on how a misaligned vertebra may cause interference to the nervous system in his book, Essential Principles of Chiropractic:
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