In 1994 the public began to notice a flaw. Flaws are not uncommon in complicated integrated circuits, and most of them go unnoticed by the user, however, the Pentium flaw was very different. The nature of the flaw was in the floating point math subsection of the Pentium microprocessor, it caused incorrect answers when preforming double-precision arithmetic. In October of 1994 a man named Thomas Nicely, a mathematics professor at Lynchburg collage in Virginia was the first to notice this flaw. He found that the results of some of his calculations were incorrect.
He got correct results from running the same program on a computer with the 486 CPU, and finally tracked the problem to the Pentium itself. Intel immediately halted shipment on Pentium based computers and announced that “Common spreadsheet program, recalculating for fifteen minutes per day, could produce Pentium-related errors as often as once every 24 days.” Intel’s initial policy when the problem was first publically announced was to replace the chips for only customers who could explain their need for high accuracy in complex calculations. After a great public out-cry and Intel becoming the butt of many jokes, Intel finally announced a free replacement Pentium for any customer who asked for one. But this did not occur until late December of 1994. I do not feel that Intel’s initial response to the issue was handled correctly.
Attorneys for the family against the machine manufacturer (AECL) The Therac-25 design eliminated many of the hardware safety features that been built into previous designs, assuming the software was functioning correctly and eliminated the need for safety features. Prior machines had been known to have software issues that would frequently shut down the machine. No overdoses were given because the hardware intervened. These features were eliminated in the Therac-25, an obvious example of poor judgment on the part of the manufacturer. The manufacturer of the machine responded irresponsibly in investigating incidents and in failing to make changes immediately after the very first incident.
Sanderson stated that their reason for terminating Mr. Reeves was due to inaccurate record keeping. Mr. Chestnut ordered an audit of the Hinge Room’s timesheet and found numerous errors and he recommended that Mr. Reeves be terminated. Mr. Reeves and Mr. Oswalt testified that the automated timeclock often failed to scan employee’s timecards and they would visually check the workstations and recorded the employees as present. Mr.
The participants were told to type characters into the computer and not to touch the ‘SHIFT’ key as it would cause a computer crash, they were paid for their participation. Part way through the study the computer was made to crash and the experimenter accused the participant of touching the ‘SHIFT’ key and gave false incriminating evidence, that she ‘had seen it with her own eyes’. The experimenter then asked for a hand written confession stating it was their fault and would forfeit 80% of their promised fee, a negative consequence. 80% of participants signed the confession, whilst over 50% gave confabulated details (gave false evidence to fill in the gaps) and personality showed no impact on the signing of a false confession. The research showed just how easy it to elicit a false confession from someone and these are more likely to be a result of situation rather than personality.
The CNN article of the same day is concerned more about getting the facts across then actually stoping to realize the emotional toll it has taken on the British. The author of the CNN article includes one or two quotes that mention the accident being shocking, none that talk about the mourners all across the world and the tributes which were sent to the princess' family like the BBC article had done. Another very important and comparable address to the british public about Diana's death was the Queen's Speech on September 5th. Queen Elizabeth did not mention the facts of the accident because by that time all of Britain already knew, what she did mention was the toll it has taken on her family, not her, and the public. She also mentioned some of the Princess' personality traits which neither BBC nor CNN mentioned.
General Motors knew that this mandate would not last long, and they were more interested in selling gasoline cars. When the mandate ended, General Motors leased all the cars back. Instead of allowing the public to still own the electric cars that were left, they destroyed all the cars by crushing them. The last killer of the electric car was the federal government. If anyone, they should be supporters of the
I could see I there were scientific facts or data that would confirm that statement to be true and that by running the water it prevented germs but nothing has been issued to the media outlets such as the TV news stations with this type of comment to my knowledge. If this was so all companies in the fast food industry, hospitality and more would have adopted that way of preventing germs. Starbucks defended themselves by saying, the running taps were needed to meet health standards. I would say they were just wasting water and had not clear understanding of what the consequences would be once the news got out into the public. This is very unfortunate when most countries in Africa do not have clean running water and here Starbucks is washing it down the drain without thought.
I could not agree with that statement any more. We must look at what we’ve done in the past to better understand why we do the things we do today and how we even got to the position we’re in today. While I was reading this article I highlighted all the things that I disagreed with and all the things that I strongly agreed with. When I finished I went back to review the points and found that I had only highlighted one thing that I had disagreed with. Professor Kagan stated that “People seem to think that only nuclear weapons can thoroughly destroy a civilization, but when the Athenians got through with Melos, they killed all the men and sold all the women and children into slavery.
To cover up the issue, Ranbaxy accused Thakur of visiting graphic websites using his office computer, and forced him to resign in 2005. Kumar left the company voluntarily before the incident occurred. Thakur a naturalized, US citizen moved back to the USA and contacted the Food and Drug Administration which started investigating his claims. As a result, on 16 September 2008, the Food and Drug Administration issued two warning letters to Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. and announced a U.S. ban on more than 30 Ranbaxy generic drugs and stopped approval of new drugs. The decision has been made based on the FDA’s concern about manufacturing “lapses” at two plants in India.