Second, a bit of prototype hardware, called a Reed-Solomon encoder, was installed but not activated at launch.
It was a place both familiar and foreign, a rearranged tableau that he found encouraging and discouraging and, for a second, a bit disorienting.
The second, a bit wider, reveals a protrusion on his shoulder: a flesh wound, it appears, but so jagged and bulbous that it takes the mind a few seconds to wrap around.
It has a lot of SUV styling, a beefy, bullish exterior, but is quite underpowered, whiny in first and second, a bit surprised to have anything asked of it in third and fourth, with no acceleration at all in fifth and sixth.
However, to assess performance for different scenarios, three kinds of bit sequences are implemented and tested: first, a bit transition is present at every bit; second, a bit transition is present every 2 bits; third, bit transitions occur randomly with a probability equal to 50%.
One was a bit lenient; the second, a bit less forgiving; and the third, strict -- it was programmed to learn from the rat and thwart its strategy. .
