In October 1994, Dr. Nicely contacted Intel support to report the flaw found within their Pentium chip. Due to Intel’s lack of responsibility into addressing and correcting the flaw, Dr. Nicely decided to send an email to several people addressing his discovery of the Pentium “bug”. The email spreads quickly among the computer/ Internet community, one of those who received it was Richard Smith, president of Phar Lap software in Cambridge, MA (Emery, 1996). Phar Lap’s programmers test the error and verified the flaw. This causes Smith to forward Dr. Nicely’s email to Microsoft,
This caused IBM to immediately stop all sales of their computers that featured the Pentium chip, forcing Intel to agree to replace all flawed microprocessors with the new unflawed version, but only upon request. Intel was aware of the flaw long before it was noticed and surfaced in the press. They had already fixed the problem and created an updated
Communication Process Model Dean Myers XBCOM/275 November 30, 2014 Andrew Trippi Communication Process Model The worst communication error I have experienced was a special project for a distribution center I was put in charge of at a last minute detail. Before reading and understanding the project I was designated too doing I was instructed by the GM (general manager) on Thursday to order several hundred corrugated boxes to tear down several item numbers of Crayola crayons to combine them in a different custom package making a special variety package for a specific customer and was a weekend project consisting of 25 employees. I had Saturday and Sunday eight hours each day to complete the full truckload and have it delivered on Monday. The request
A solution to the Amex problem would be to temporarily shut down their company since they can’t handle being truthful to consumers based on their false advertising about the Blue Sky program. Temporarily shutting down the company would address the problem by making Amex realize what they are doing to consumers isn’t okay. The government has a federal agency called the Division of Advertising Practices that need to monitor advertisements more carefully because the government needs to stop these crimes immediately.The government should step up solving these crimes faster because Georgia Peanuts was selling salmonella-infested peanut butter to the public for MONTHS before the government did anything. Amex was scamming people for 9 YEARS before the government found
Forty years have passed and there are still all kinds of injustices similar to discrimination, but we are no longer doing things like we did in 1965. Not only will the “robotic moment” change the way we fight for just causes, it will both improve and diminish our capacity to do so. Just like Orr joined the Civil Rights movement for selfish reasons, people today find themselves turning to technology for the same reasons. At a young age, Orr found himself buried in the guilt that came from accidentally killing his brother at age twelve. This guilt later on acted as the fuel for his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
The Pentium Flaw was originally a problem with the Pentiums microprocessor’s math coprocessor, or floating-point unit (FPU). The Pentium Flaw was discovered at Lynchburg College in 1994 when a math professor, by the name of Thomas Nicely, was calculating sum of reciprocals, using his Pentium computer and noticed that the Pentium calculations were slightly off from the theoretical aspects. He tried another computer and ended up with the correct results and then based the source of the problem on the Pentium itself. He sent an inquiry to Intel about their Pentium flaw, when he received no response he politely posted a notice on the internet if others have confirmed his suspicions. Intel’s response to the flaw was "An error is only likely to occur [about] once in nine billion random floating point divides", and that "an average spreadsheet user could encounter this subtle flaw once in every 27,000 years of use."
Eventually, he got frustrated with Jobs’s management with the Macintosh division because of the sluggish sales. Scully and Apple’s board stripped Jobs of all power in May of 1985. In September of that year, Jobs resigned (Isaacson 41). While he was gone, Jobs founded a new computer company, NeXT, and it was very Jobs-like. It was a sleek black cube packed with innovations.
While the accounting was marked to market, it wasn’t being handle the traditional fashion way with trading prices dictating its value. Instead Enron used its own projections to account in the first year anticipated income from contracts that were a decade or more long. This caused the increase of the stock price without a solid base to justify its true value. This action set up the course for them to lie on every subsequent year to cover up the lies from the prior year. It became such a big snow ball of lies that it took down one of the biggest corporations in American history.
The first conflict is between the parents and the children. George Hadley, the father, says: “I've taken a few machines from the house and threatened [the children], a month ago, with closing up the nursery unless they did their homework. I did close it for a few days to show I meant business”(109). Although this may not seem to be a major issue to the parents, the children end up killing their parents, because of their over reliance on technology. The author is trying to issue a warning that one can become too reliant on technology, and if it is taken away, one might over-react to the situation.
Why the concern? Demand for work forces people to go into the industry of e-waste. Workers smash and burn old electronics to gain access to the metals inside, which they recover for money. Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a term used for electronic products that have become unwanted, non working or obsolete (Heimbuch). Because technology advances at such a high rate, many electronic devices become “trash” after a few short years of use.