The primary disadvantage of analog signaling is that any system has noise – i. e., random unwanted variation.

Perhaps AMOS BASIC's biggest disadvantage, stemming from it Atari ST lineage, was its incompatibility with the Amiga's operating system functions and interfaces.

A big disadvantage of complex biological sewage treatment systems is that if the house is empty, the sewage system biota may starve to death.

The disadvantage is the greater weight and clumsiness compared to a bow, as well as the slower rate of fire and the lower efficiency of the acceleration system, but there would be reduced elastic hysteresis, making the crossbow a more accurate weapon.

However, this approach has been only somewhat more effective than the harmonization approach: while states are not as concerned about having foreign traditions of corporate governance imposed on their companies, which the harmonization approach could well entail ; they also wish to ensure that the EU-wide system would be palatable to the traditions of their national companies, so that they will not be put at a disadvantage compared to the other member states.

Analysts also note, however, that Honduras is at a distinct disadvantage relative to its Central American neighbors because of its poor transportation system.

A disadvantage of this system was that because Easter was a movable feast the same date could occur twice in a year ; the two occurrences were distinguished as " before Easter " and " after Easter ".

One disadvantage of this round-robin system is that medal winners could be determined before the end of the games, making the audience lose interest in the outcome of the remaining matches.

The circulation of a standardized currency provides the method of overcoming the major disadvantage to commerce through use of a barter system, the " double coincidence of wants " necessary for barter trades to occur.

Capacitive coupling has the disadvantage of degrading the low frequency performance of a system containing capacitively coupled units.

A disadvantage of the M61 is that the bulk of the weapon, its feed system, and ammunition drum makes it difficult to fit it into a densely packed airframe.

The disadvantage to preemptive multithreading is that the system may make a context switch at an inappropriate time, causing lock convoy, priority inversion or other negative effects which may be avoided by cooperative multithreading.

This was no disadvantage to a clan with large landholdings since it could always rent out farms in a sharecropping system.

Foreigners who visited the missions remarked at how the priests ' control over the Indians appeared excessive, but necessary given the white men's isolation and numeric disadvantage .< ref > Bennett 1897b, p. 158: " In 1825 Governor Argüello wrote that the slavery of the Indians at the missions was bestial ... Governor Figueroa declared that the missions were < nowiki >'</ nowiki > entrenchments of monastic despotism < nowiki >'</ nowiki >..."</ ref > Indians were not paid wages as they were not considered free laborers and, as a result, the missions were able to profit from the goods produced by the Mission Indians to the detriment of the other Spanish and Mexican settlers of the time who could not compete economically with the advantage of the mission system.

One disadvantage of this system was that special nickel-leaded components had to be used to allow the interconnecting welds to be made.

In general, a system that contains 2 ^ N processors with each processor directly connected to N other processors, the diameter of the system is N. One disadvantage of a hypercube system is that it must be configured in powers of two, so a machine must be built that could potentially have many more processors than is really needed for the application.

The disadvantage with this system was that if one wanted to learn about a kriti composed, for example, by Purandara Dasa, it involved the difficult task of finding a person from Purandara Dasa's lineage of students.

The only slight disadvantage of the system was that it removed the ' fluid ' look of interlaced video and ' filmized ' the picture, but this would generally not have made a great deal of difference to the viewing audiences.

The main disadvantage of the system is type does not scale the same way ; therefore, when a page is resized, the type set on it loses legibility as the proportion between the type's x-height, page margins, and leading are distorted.

However, the college system is generally a disadvantage for Quebec students wishing to enter an undergraduate program outside the province.

The disadvantage for the buyer is that they usually have to bear the cost of the survey for unsuccessful bids, though trials have been made of a system where the seller arranges for one survey available to all bidders.

A potential disadvantage of AGC is that when recording something like music with quiet and loud passages such as classical music, the AGC will tend to make the quiet passages louder and the loud passages quieter, compressing the dynamic range ; the result can be a reduced musical quality if the signal is not re-expanded when playing, as in a companding system.

Radiation, therefore, is at an initial cost disadvantage even though only 1 to 10 per cent as much radiation energy as heat energy is required for radiopasteurization or radiosterilization.

The disadvantage of using deadweight anchors in conditions where a mushroom anchor could be used is that it needs to be around ten times the weight of the equivalent mushroom anchor.

The disadvantage of computer anagram solvers, especially when applied to multi-word anagrams, is their poor understanding of the meaning of the words they are manipulating.

A disadvantage of most adhesives is that most do not form an instantaneous joint, unlike many other joining processes, because the adhesive needs time to cure.

The advantage of this technique is that only a medium-resolution monochromator is necessary for measuring AAS ; however, it has the disadvantage that usually a separate lamp is required for each element that has to be determined.

The advantage of this technique is that total and background absorption are measured with the same emission profile of the same lamp, so that any kind of background, including background with fine structure can be corrected accurately, unless the molecule responsible for the background is also affected by the magnetic field ; the disadvantage is the increased complexity of the spectrometer.

The main disadvantage of abstraction is that highly abstract concepts are more difficult to learn, and require a degree of mathematical maturity and experience before they can be assimilated.

Their main disadvantage is the distortion of the flow itself by the structure supporting the transducers, which requires a correction based upon wind tunnel measurements to minimize the effect.

Another disadvantage is lower accuracy due to precipitation, where rain drops may vary the speed of sound.

Another hypothesis is that some Mexican tetra randomly don't develop eyes ( which is represented by broken genes in the fish's genome ), and this lack of eyes spreads to the rest of the population despite having no advantage or disadvantage.

If the first theory is correct ( see above ), then the absence of cavalry removed the main Athenian tactical disadvantage, and the threat of being outflanked made it imperative to attack.

While it is possible through skillful play to minimize the house advantage, it is extremely rare that a player has sufficient skill to completely eliminate his inherent long-term disadvantage ( the house edge ( HE ) or house vigorish ) in a casino game.

The player's disadvantage is a result of the casino not paying winning wagers according to the game's " true odds ", which are the payouts that would be expected considering the odds of a wager either winning or losing.

The disadvantage is that working out when a particular date would occur is difficult.

The disadvantage of employing the medieval dagger in this manner was that it could easily be blocked by a variety of techniques, most notably by a block with the weaponless arm while simultaneously attacking with a weapon held in the right hand.

Those religious groups most favoured by the 1943 formula sought to preserve it, while those who saw themselves at a disadvantage sought either to revise it after updating key demographic data or to abolish it entirely.

The Wave Cannon is a powerful weapon, but has the disadvantage that the player cannot fire while charging the cannon.

For example, De Leonists and some other Industrial Unionists advocate parallel organisation both politically and industrially, while recognising that trade unions are at a comparable disadvantage due to the lobby of business groups on political leaders.

Nonetheless, a disadvantage of the knight ( compared to the other pieces ) is that by itself it cannot lose a move to put the opponent in zugzwang ( see triangulation and tempo ), while a bishop can.

Another suggestion was that York and his opponents had agreed a day for battle ( 6 January, the Feast of Epiphany ) after a Christmas truce, but when York moved into the open the Lancastrians treacherously attacked earlier than had been agreed, catching York at a disadvantage while many of his men were absent foraging for supplies.

IGN called Charmander a " great choice " for a player to choose ; IGN editor " Pokémon of the Day Chick " in particular commented that while Charmander is at a disadvantage initially, it becomes great with patience.

If parasitic effects are significant, point-to-point wiring has the disadvantage compared to a PCB of indeterminate parasitic components ; while the inductance and capacitance due to a PCB are the same for all samples, values may vary between point-to-point wired units, changing circuit operation.

Its main disadvantage is the need to be connected to the internet while using it ( Gmail offers offline use of its webmail client through the installation of Gears .).

Canada had long been held at a disadvantage in international tournaments as its best players were professionals in the NHL and therefore ineligible to play at the World Championship and Olympic Games while European teams masked the status of their best players.

ARCNET had the disadvantage of requiring either an active or passive hub between nodes if there were more than two nodes in the network, while thin Ethernet allowed nodes to be spaced anywhere along the linear coax cable.

If the same percentage of people like green as those who like red and blue, that is to say if 33 percent of the voters like green, then each green marble will only get eleven percent of the vote, while the red and blue marbles will each get 33 percent, putting the green marbles at a serious disadvantage.

It was clearly impossible for the Royalists to withdraw to their original position without being attacked by the Parliamentarian cavalry while on the line of march and therefore at a disadvantage.

Some people have reported accidentally dialing 112 by loop-disconnect for various technical reasons, including while working on extension telephone wiring, and point to this as a disadvantage of the 112 emergency number, which takes only four loop disconnects to activate.

This generally prevents injury and discord at recreational games, however it is seldom used in tournaments as it confers a real disadvantage to the attacking player ; he must hesitate while his opponent is free to shoot immediately.

Mechanically driven supercharging has the disadvantage that some of the output power is used to drive the supercharger, while power is wasted in the high pressure exhaust, as the air has been compressed twice and then gains more potential volume in the combustion but it is only expanded in one stage.

The disadvantage of the pike came to be widely recognised: at the Battle of Fleurus ( 1690 ) German battalions armed only with the musket repulsed French cavalry attacks more effectively than units conventionally armed with the pike, while Catinat had abandoned his pikes altogether before undertaking his Alpine campaign against Savoy.

The primary disadvantage of a spinlock is that it wastes time while waiting to acquire the lock that might be productively spent elsewhere.

According to this theory, groups that engaged in exogamy would flourish, while those that did not would all die, either literally or because they lacked ties for cultural and economic exchange, leaving them at a disadvantage.

The disadvantage is that while most mortar bombs have a streamlined shape towards the back that fits a spigot mortar application well, using that space for the spigot mortar tube takes volume and mass away from the payload of the projectile.

Superiority in a dog fight can depend on a pilot's experience and skill, and the agility of his fighter when flown at minimum air speeds approaching loss of control ( causing a danger of stalling ); the winner typically plays to the strengths of his own aircraft while forcing his adversary to fly at a design disadvantage.

* The City rates 3rd on SEIFA index of disadvantage ( after Greater Dandenong and Brimbank )-Braybrook is most disadvantaged while Maribyrnong is most advantaged.

In such engagements the tank is usually at a further disadvantage because the defender will often be camouflaged while the attacking tank will be silhouetted against the sky, giving the defender an easier shot.